to meet the country s president after being freed by the islamist militant group, boko haram. also in the next hour. tom daley dives into married life. the british 0lympiam marries american film director dustin lance black in dartmoor national park in devon. and. click goes behind closed doors with the doctor as something goes bump in the night. that s in half an hour here on bbc news. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. labour is promising not to raise income tax for anyone earning less than £80,000 a year as part of an election pledge to low and middle earners. the shadow chancellor, john mcdonnell, said those earning over that amount would be asked to pay a bit more to help pay for public services. the conservatives say they have no plan to raise taxes but have so far refused to rule it out completely. here s our political correspondent, ellie price. a policy pledge to capture the imagination of low and middle income voters and the newspaper headlines. labour say
tom bailey has married his partner. he revealed in a you tube video posted on 2013 he had boyfriend and said his whole world changed when he fell in love with a man tom bailey. let s catch up with the weather forecast. west has been best for sunshine and north easterly winds have brought a lot of code further east. this is one of the scenes from a weather watcher in north east scotland. the cloud has been feeding its weight in here and in eastern parts of england this extra cloud will help to hold up the temperatures. it could also produce the odd spot of drizzle across the east of the country. further west, more clear spells and with those temperatures could drop low enough for touch of frost. into tomorrow, still cloud in eastern areas and still cloud in eastern areas and still the best of the sunshine in the west, particularly northern ireland, the west of scotland, west of england and the south west. further west, not as warm as today, but still fairly decent under sun
director dustin lance black. good evening from paris, where the polls will close within the next couple of hours, and the people of france will discover who their next president will be. tens of millions of voters have been visiting the polling stations today after a deeply divisive campaign, with emmanuel macron and marine le pen offering radically different visions of the future of this country. tonight s result will also have a direct impact on the future direction of the european union in the years ahead. as the brexit process unfolds, so the relevance of the outcome to france s neighbours is very clear. our paris correspondent hugh schofield has been to a voting station in the capital. you join me at a polling station in paris, at a school. you can see the table by people come to tick up their cards. and then they go to cast their ballot behind the curtains overhear. everywhere, a classic snapshot of the presidential election in france. but in some ways, it is different.
of an anti snp pact in scotland. individuals have to make their own choices and we are not in a case of being able to delegate or mandate anybody to vote in any particular direction. we are the one party standing for scotland in the uk and scotland in the eu that s a powerful message wherever it is that you live. earlier, mr farron visited east dumbartonshire. his core message may be universal in content, but it s carefully distilled across a strictly limited number of target seats in scotland. the bbc has unveiled details of its general election special tv programmes, which will enable the public to question politicians in the run up to the poll on the 8th ofjune. david dimbleby will host two question time specials in which leaders will face audience questions consecutively. our media and arts correspondent david sillito explains what s happening. these are the bbc‘s plans. a series of two question time specials, the first will feature theresa may and jeremy corbyn in th
world news, it is a newsday. glad you could join us. in washington, dc, just over an hour ago, the white house announced president donald trump has fired james comey. he was leaving the agency charged with investigating the white house s links with russia. jeff sessions and his deputy made the decision. president trump said the fbi director was not able to effectively lead the bureau. he went on to say he was here by it terminated and removed from office, effect if immediately and that it was essential to find new leadership. joining me for more detail is the north american editor. what more do we know why james comey was removed as fbi? well, it is hard to overstate the sense of drama, the sense of shock, almost the sense that we are in a tv show, with the firing of james comey, that we are in a tv show, with the firing ofjames comey, only the second time the head of the fbi has been removed in this particular way. it has been a remarkable evening that has unfolded in washin