for rory burns, but england struggle in the 1st test against new zealand. good evening. the world s biggest economies have agreed what they re hailing as a historic deal, to create a global tax system, aimed at preventing huge multinational companies from avoiding tax. the agreement made in london today, by the g7 finance ministers, will include a global minimum corporate tax rate of 15%. the chancellor, rishi sunak, said that it will mean firms pay the right tax in the right places . google and facebook have welcomed the move. our economics editor faisal islam is in central london, where the deal was struck. faisal. now over decades the world s biggest multinationals have effectively been able to pick and choose the rate of tax they pay on hundreds of billions of pounds of global sales and that is even more the case in the past few years with the big digital tech giants. now as a result of this deal of the world s biggest democracies and their economies, they say that this
the it s looking good for most of us, mostly driver some brief showers and warm, sunny spells. on the satellite picture you can see a weather front across the south east and east anglia. that gave us a wet day in the south east. it wasn t very pleasant at all. you can see the rain still lingering across the south east, but for the vast majority of us, it is a clear evening and it is going to be a dry night. you can see clear skies across central areas, bar the odd shower in the western isles. overnight lows around six in the north east of england to around 9 13 in the south of the country. from the word go, sunshine for many major towns and cities across the uk. clouds will increase in the west of the uk in the afternoon so i would not rule out a shower in penzance, swansea, belfast, perhaps glasgow, but to the east of that, the sun will be joining the scattered, fair weather clouds, and temperatures easily in the low 20s. the forecast for sunday, the possibility of a shower
to quarantine for ten days. more than 600 people will get compensation over serious errors after the hillsborough disaster as two police forces agree to pay damages. facebook announces it has suspended donald trump or two years after he praised capitol hill rioters. and coventry gets set to launch itself as the uk city of culture. and coming up in sport on the bbc news channel. chasing a record equalling 24th grand slam title serena williams wins in straight sets to move into the fourth round of the french open. good evening. the number of people who had covid 19 in england went up by around three quarters in one week, new official figures suggest. the office for national statistics estimates that around one in 640 people in private households had the virus in the week to may 29th that s up from one in 1,120 the previous week. the north west of england had the highest proportion of positive cases and in terms of age group, numbers went up among the over 35s, and in se
the police watched on. richard tsoi is the only organiser of the vigil left. his fellow activists are all behind bars. translation: it hasn t been a year since the national - security law was imposed. over 100 people have been arrested, most are still in custody. it s had a big impact on freedom and human rights. when hong kong was returned to china in 1997, it was promised certain political freedoms. the mass commemoration ofjune 4th came to symbolise the right to criticise the party. onjune 11th 2021, many fear they no longer have the right to remember. danny vincent, bbc news, hong kong. a city wide celebration will be held in coventry tomorrow, to mark the launch of the uk s city of culture programme. there will be no mass gathering due to covid restrictions, but instead a spectacle of art and performance live streamed online throughout the day, as colleen harris reports. it s been a long wait. now coventry is ready. from street theatre to music, preparations are being fi
surge in crossings and administration under pressure joe biden appoints vice president come of the hearse to solve the migration crisis at the southern border. rebuilding from the ashes thousands of ridding the refugees are again homeless after a massive fire gutted their camp in cox s bazaar. israel s elections are too close to call by benjamin netanyahu as political future could rest in the hands of a small coniston israeli party. and in sport former head of world football sepp blatter has been given a 2nd banned by the organization he used to work for an investigation by cesar has found blatter guilty of multiple breaches of their ethics codes. the european union and the u.k. have agreed to work together to safeguard the supply of coronavirus fraxinus as the continent faces a 3rd wave of infections the compromise follows a bitter dispute over the supply of the astra zeneca vaccine which the u.k. prime minister warned could lead to long term damage earlier the european unio