I will be back. Now, it is time for wednesday and the parliament. Hello again, and welcome to wednesday in parliament. Why are so many rape victims failed by the system . To all the victims of rape and sexual violence, all the victims and survivors, of course i say sorry for the trauma that they have been through. Opposition mps demand a date for the governments long awaited Social Care plans. The time for excuses is over. When will the government deliver . Also in this programme soon, well be ship building. Its not a new royal yacht, l its a new national flagship. In my book, thats a. Laughter i think thats a very good thing. But first the Prime Minister has denied that Budget Cuts are to blame for a dramatic fall in Rape Prosecutions in england and wales. His denial comes only days after the Justice Secretary admitted cuts were self evidently a factor, as Robert Buckland announced plans for a System And Culture change. Borisjohnson did apologise to rape victims for the trauma and del
as they re overcrowded with no spare beds. almost 2a hours after surviving a mutiny by more than a third of her mps, theresa may is tonight in brussels to seek help in getting her brexit deal through parliament. on her way to the summit of eu leaders, mrs may said she didn t expect an immediate breakthrough but said she hoped work could begin as soon as possible on resolving the issues over the controversial northern ireland backstop. and tonight eu leaders are in brussels and working on their proposals to reassure mps about the backstop. ben brown is there. yes theresa may has has come here looking for concessions that will help sell her brexit deal back home but eu leaders have made it clear they won t renegotiate the deal itself. eu leaders here at the summit have made it clear that they are not going to renegotiate the deal itself is that the 585 withdrawal agreement is that the 585 withdrawal agreement is not going to be opened up, it is not up for renegotiation, b
and the hard yards that we need to undertake to get this right. hello and welcome to the programme. we will be live in ireland tonight, asjoe biden makes the journey south to his ancestral home. we will be finding what came of his brief visit to belfast today, and what unionists made of the speech he delivered. we ll bring you more of that extraordinary conversation between the bbc s james clayton and elon musk. plenty to disect in that, including musk s confession he only went through with a takeover at twitter, because the judge would have forced him to do it anyway. and who controls the distribution of the abortion pill in america? the us government is in court this next hour, to appeal a decision in texas to suspend the licence. we will get reaction. lets start first with president biden and the speech he gave today marking the 25th anniversary of the good and friday agreement. a speech in which the us president held out the promise of huge us investment if and when stabl
hello, there. on thursday we are electing a new parliament. voters here will choose 18 new mps. we are live from belfast debating the big talking points that matter to go. joining us. gavin robinson, the leader of the dup. we invited the leader of the dup. we invited the sinn fein leader and the party tonight is represented by chris hazzard. colum eastwood is a leader of the sdlp and the leader of the alliance party is naomi long. and we also invited the of the ulster unionists, the deputy leader, robbie butler, completes the line up. on the order they are positioned in was determined by the drawing of lots. the questions come from our studio audience. largely made up of grassroots party supporters from across all parties standing in northern ireland. we also have a number of undecided voters. at home, join the discussion on social media. a hashtag is #bbcnidebate. i should point out the team of bbc news correspondents are fact checking this debate on the news nite website. l
welcome to bbc news. sinn fein are celebrating their best ever showing in elections to the northern ireland assembly. with all the votes counted, they ve won 27 seats, just one behind the democratic unionists. sinn fein‘s president, gerry adams, has described the result as an end to the old status quo . the two parties now have three weeks to try to agree a new power sharing coalition. for the latest, annita mcveigh is in belfast. if walking out of government was a gamble for sinn fein, it s paid off. they increased their share of the vote and narrowed the gap between them and their own coalition partners, the dup. but the result leaves major questions about the future of power sharing in northern ireland. i said consistently throughout the campaign that sinn fein are not interested in going back to the status quo. that remains the position. the dup need to fundamentally change their ways and be true to the principles of power sharing if they want to go back into the insti