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chris froome toasts victory, as he wins the tour de france for the fourth time. good evening. the director general of the bbc, tony hall, says work is already under way, to tackle the gender pay gap at the corporation. his comments come after some of the bbc‘s best known female personalities signed an open letter calling for urgent action. the presenters claire balding, fiona bruce and jane garvey are among the more than a0 signatories. our media correspondent david sillito reports. alexjones of the one show, mishal husain and sue barker, more than a0 of the most famous female presenters at the bbc, calling on the corporation to act now to end its gender pay gap. good morning, friends, thanks for tuning in. that list was the trigger for the letter today, publishing the bbc‘s highest paid stars. in the top 20 names was only one woman. the best paid men were being paid more than twice what the top women were earning. this open letter to the papers said that this week ....
over a u turn on student debt. christopher nolan tells the story of the dunkirk evacuation, will take a look at that film in the film review. good evening and welcome to bbc news. the director general of the bbc, tony hall, says work is already underway to tackle the gender pay gap at the corporation. his comments come after some of the bbc‘s best known female personalities signed an open letter calling for urgent action. the presenters claire balding, fiona bruce and jane garvey, are among the more than a0 signatories. our media correspondent david sillito reports. alexjones of the one show. mishal hussein. sue barker. more than a0 of the most famous female presenters at the bbc are calling on the corporation to act now to end its gender pay gap. good morning, friends, and thanks for tuning in. the trigger for today s letter, that list published this week of the pay deals for the bbc‘s highest paid stars. in the top 20 names, there was only one woman. the best paid ....
he is expected to talk about the ongoing and controversial war on drugs, the conflict in marawi against islamist militants and economic policy. howard johnson has more from manila. this will be anya shrubsole second state of the nation address. it is a chance to him to set out his vision for the philippines in the years ahead. a spokesperson said he will be speaking about terrorism, he will be speaking about terrorism, he will be looking at the conflict in morale we, on the island of mindanao. marawi. there have been more than 570 deaths. his extension of martial law on minder now. minder now opposition groups will be speaking out as well, putting together an alternative state of the nation address and that is likely to heavily criticise rodrigo duterte for his record on human rights during his campaign on his war on drugs. howard johnson in manila, and we will have more analysis on that state of the nation address in the philippines very shortly. but first, let s ....
now it s time for hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk with me, zeinab badawi. few issues are as controversial as abortion when it comes to addressing women s rights. campaigners believe that women s right to control their fertility does not extend to abortion on demand. donald trump has ended funding for organisations that promote orfund funding for organisations that promote or fund abortions. funding for organisations that promote orfund abortions. one funding for organisations that promote or fund abortions. one such organisation is the ippf, the international planned parenthood federation. my guest is the outgoing director general, tewedros melesse, andi director general, tewedros melesse, and i ask if it is right that they should forfeit government funding. tewed ros tewedros melesse, welcome to hardtalk thank you. what is the loss ofa hardtalk thank you. what is the loss of a few us funding means you? one thing is that the us has been the greatest contributor to deve ....
the russian president, vladimir putin has said that he won t expel any us diplomats from the country, in a surprise response to president obama s decision to order russian diplomats out of the united states. mr obama, who s also imposing sanctions, had accused russia of interfering in the us presidential election. despite advice from his foreign minister, mr putin has decided not to retaliate for now. steve rosenberg reports from moscow. following accusations of cyber attacks on america, the us had expelled 35 russian diplomats. so, how would moscow respond? well, today, russia s foreign minister proposed tit for tat. he said he had asked president putin to expel 35 american diplomats. but the kremlin leader said no no americans would be expelled. he would wait to see what kind of policies donald trump pursued in the white house. that doesn t change what america s top intelligence agencies believe to be true; that state sponsored hackers, backed by the highest level ....