david hunter is about to stand trial in cyprus, accused of murdering his terminally ill wife janice. are we facing a summer of disruption? bt workers will be asked today if they want to strike. commuters will find out about next week s railway walk out. i look at why more industrial action s on the cards. england s biggest home defeat in 94 years a 4 0 loss to hungary sparks a backlash from supporters, five months out from the world cup. the rising sea levels forcing people from their homes a new report puts 200,000 properties in england at risk. last year, there was eight metres of road between here and the end there. i measured it yesterday, and we re down to 3.4 metres. good and we re down to 3.4 metres. morning from stjai london, good morning from stjames park in london, the warmest part of the uk yesterday. today for england and wales it is going to be another sunny day and a very warm one. for scotland and northern ireland, more cloud with showers in the north and
julian responsible pleaded guilty to one charge under the sp on act julian assange. we will get reaction from the us. good evening. first the conservatives, now labour both main parties embroiled in the betting scandal. today, the tories withdrew support from two of their candidates, craig williams and laura saunders, who had bet on the timing of the election. both are on the ballot as conservatives, but will sit as independents if they are elected. and then tonight, labour suspending one of their candidates kevin craig, who reportedly had bet against himself. the party has returned £100,000 in donations the businessman had given them. there is a sense that we don t yet know the full extent of the investigation. the gambling commission says five more metropolitan police officers are alleged to have placed bets. 0ur political editor chris mason has more. this is craig williams, a friend and parliamentary aide to the prime minister. he turned down my request for an interv
the gambling commission over a bet about the timing of the election. russell george who is a member of the welsh parliament has stepped back from his party s shadow cabinet and says he will co operate fully . wikileaks founderjulian assange leaves prison in britain and flies to an american territory in the pacific after reaching a plea deal with the us. he will not face further prison time after pleading guilty, and he will be free to return to australia, his home country. at least five people are shot dead in kenya as police crack down on protests against tax increases. the kenyan government has announced that the military have now been deployed. and a former fujitsu engineer who helped design the horizon it system tells the post office inquiry that he thought the software worked well, most of the time. garethjenkin gave evidence in the pivotal 2010 trial of seema misra, who was jailed while pregnant. the wikileaks founderjulian assange will land this hour in the us t
pointing to the latest figures which suggest they are not waiting, they are crossing in record numbers. this morning those reports were put to home secretary james cleverley, during an immigration debate on lbc. so are voters really meant to believe that people living in camps and on sand dunes are looking at the polling of the next general election in the united kingdom? they absolutely do. the people, those people are doing that. mr cleverly. well, unless you re going to accuse the journalists that went over there and spoke to them of lying, which i think would be a bold call. we know that this is a digital, digitally enabled criminal enterprise. the people smugglers and the people that seek to be smuggled pay very, very close attention to a whole range of things. and it is clear from these quotes that there are there s a cohort of people currently in france who are waiting for rwanda to be taken off the table before coming over here. and these quotes in the telegraph make
we are going to start with kenya in this hour. police in the capital nairobi have shot dead at least five people taking part in huge demonstrations against planned tax increases. crowds broke through police cordons and entered the city s parliament buildings, setting part of the complex alight. for several hours, police fired tear gas and rubber bullets as thousands of protesters marched through the streets. about a0 people are being treated in hospital. our correspondent merchuma is following developments from nairobi and has the latest. this is the accident and emergency unit at the kenyatta national hospital here in nairobi, the biggest referral facility in the county and country. and the whole day, the medics here have been on standby to receive casualties from the protests that have been happening in town. initially, there were two other medical camps set closer to the central business district, with volunteer medical personnel taking care of the injured people, giving t