And whether its going to affect the way they vote in the general election in december. Also today, orkambi, a drug to treat Cystic Fibrosis, will now be available to patients in england, scotland and Northern Ireland. But what about wales . This is rebekah bow, mum of eight year old sofia. She lives in south wales and, as things stand, wont be able to get the drug. Well be speaking to them both. And Laura Huteson was killed with a knife wound to the neck while having sex with a man shed met in a bar. Campaigners are calling for deaths during consensual rough sex to be treated always as murder. What were really asking for is forjuries to be given the chance to opine on this and for prosecutors not to almost chicken out of prosecuting these as more serious charges. Hello. Welcome to the programme. Were live until 11 this morning. We are definitely going to talk later about donald trump because you might have seen that he tweeted this picture last night showing him giving a medal of honou
Rates for only the second time since the 2008 financial crisis. It warns of slowing global growth. Manchester city are up and running in the Champions League. They comfortably beat shakhtar donetsk in ukraine, whilst spurs are held to a draw by olympiakos. And more wardrobe dilemmas out there today. The chilly start to your thursday morning but with plenty of sunshine overhead it will feel pleasa ntly warm sunshine overhead it will feel pleasantly warm later. I will have the full forecast here on breakfast. It is thursday 19 september. Our top story the number of robberies in england and wales is increasing much faster than in other wealthy countries. A new report shows robberies with knives have risen by 45 between march 2014 and march 2018. The increase is being blamed on police cuts and the growth in smartphone use. Our Home Affairs Correspondent danny shaw reports. It isa it is a frightening crime. Every hour about ten people become victims of robbery, sometimes by thieves riding m
campaign here in the uk. all parties out again this weekend vying for support. rishi sunak has pledged to give 30 towns across the uk £20 million each if the conservatives are re elected. he says the money would go towards the long term regeneration of the areas, under the government s levelling up scheme. a topic labour leader kier starmer hasn t been able to escape is dianne abbott. there s been a lot of controversy over the terms of the re admittance of the veteran labour mp into the party. keir starmer has been tackling that issue as well this morning, denying that his party is blocking left wing candidates. 0n diane abbott you said last week you weren t going to get involved in her case. you said the days when the leader rolls up his sleeves and gets involved are well and truly over, that s what corbyn did and ended badly. you said it was a matter for the nec on candidate selection and you avoided having a view becausejeremy corbyn expressed a view and that leads to a
for this war to end hamas issued a statement saying it was ready to deal positively with any proposal offering a permanent ceasefire and a complete israeli withdrawal. the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu said the plan was in line with israel s demands that the war would not end until its hostages were released and hamas no longer ruled gaza or posed a military threat. vincent mcaviney reports. after almost eight months of israeli response to the 7th october attacks by hamas, gaza lays largely in ruins, with the lives of palestinians who call it home turned upside down. more than 36,000 have been killed across the region, according to the hamas run health ministry. hundreds of thousands are displaced and aid is struggling to reach them. the conflict has put the us israel relationship under immense pressure. but in a surprise move, president biden unveiled a new peace proposal and ceasefire offer from israel. i know there are those in israel who will not agree with t
forformer election for them? joining us today for former conservative cabinet minister, shadow business minister, liberal democrat and daily telegraph, columnist. this is politics live, election 202a. welcome to viewers on bbc two, bbc news and the iplayer. parliament has been dissolved which means politicians, are no longer mps but candidates. ordinary members of the public standing in their respectful constituents for their parties but they are welcome all the same. let s start for tax and spend and this headline on bbc news. labour rules out raising vat after was started by the chancellor, jeremy hunt writing today promising a conservative government you heard in the headlines, would not raise any headlines, would not raise any headline taxes. he claims that labour does have a plan to raise vat, this of course is a classic election strategy to try and expose hidden plans by your rivals during the campaign. but labour have quashed them and ruled out, as you also heard in th