challenges for customers to earn bonus points could be pushing people to spend more than they can afford. that s the warning from consumer groups. i ll be taking a look. in sport it s the start of a new adventure for emma hayes. we hear how she s settling in to her new manager role in the united states as she prepares to lead them into the olympics this summer. to lead them into the quite to lead them into the a cloudy start this morning. some quite a cloudy start this morning. some outbreaks of rain out there, but things should brighten up. a bit of sunshine developing in the afternoon. all of the details shortly. it s thursday 30th may. our main story. the conservatives and labour have both ruled out increasing vat if they are elected in five weeks time. the promises have raised questions about how the parties will fund their spending plans, and deliver on their commitments if they win the elction. our political correspondent damian grammaticas has this report. midnight
hello, i m rajini vaidyanathan. you re watching the context on bbc news. london s free newspaper, the evening standard, is to scrap its daily print edition and move to a weekly publication instead. let s return to that breaking news from new york and donald trump s hush money trial. we heard earlier that thejury we heard earlier that the jury had returned to ask further questions. they wanted to hear some of the evidence again as they continue their deliberations. our north america correspondent nada tawfikjoins us now. just bring us up to date on what s been happening where you are. yeah. been happening where you are. yeah, well, the jury been happening where you are. yeah, well. the jury has been happening where you are. yeah, well, the jury has been been happening where you are. yeah, well, the jury has been sent been happening where you are. ir u well, the jury has been sent home now. they have not reached a verdict yet. they are still about nearly five hours int
and after ten overs we will come back. but i think the way they finish game on the super overs and in the super overs, i think credit to the us team. well, in thursday s late match, scotland beat namibia by five wickets. brad wheal took three as the scots restricted the african side to 155 for nine. scotland knocked off the runs with nine balls to spare. captain richie berrington won the match with a six and finished unbeaten on a7. onto tennis now and it s familiar territory for french open defending champion iga swiatek, who is once again through to the women s final. she ll play jasmine paolini on saturday. swiatek beat coco gauff, despite the american saving three match points in the second set. the world number one eventually closed out the victory 6 2,6 4. she could join monica seles and justine henin as the only women to win three straight french open women s titles during the open era. i don t think there s like one specific thing, but i think i was, you know, prett
we are not worried about what people are saying. we know what we have worked and what capability we have and we just focus on the particular game and we don t want to keep our emotion too high or low. we ll make sure that whatever the win today is, we will enjoy it and make sure that next day we come fresh. lam upset. we are not playing good in all departments. we are better than that in the bowling. we are not in first 6 overs, you know, taking wickets. and the spinner is not taking wickets, then passing on us. and after ten overs we will come back. but i think the way they finish game on the super overs i think credit to the us team. well, in thursday s late match, scotland beat namibia by five wickets. brad wheal took three as the scots restricted the african side to 155 for nine. scotland knocked off the runs with nine balls to spare. captain richie berrington won the match with a six and finished unbeaten on a7. onto tennis now and it s familiar territory for french op
of the vote and 209 seats. the social democrats got 25.4%, just shy of labour, but only 23 seats. and he says that he has been told had they come second with closer to 30%, then scores of seats would have fallen their way. so here s the question he asks what vote share does reform need to get to for them to live up to nigel farage s earlier claim? his claim was about votes, not seats, his claim was about votes, not seats, remember? so it s very hard. i m still seats, remember? so it s very hard. i m stillthem seats, remember? so it s very hard. i m still them because i don t know the exact i m still them because i don t know the exact answer with the fact is it would the exact answer with the fact is it would have the exact answer with the fact is it would have to be a significantly higher would have to be a significantly higher voucher than the conservatives because the reform uk is enormously inefficient because it is enormously inefficient because it is spread