a mutual security pact with sweden, pledging support should the military come under attack. more could be done to help you with long term chronic pain, specialists say, is a bbc survey suggests a quarter of uk adults live with the condition. doesn t matter how hard i tried, or how much i wait or how much i pray, it most likely isn t going to change. downing street says its target of building 300,000 new homes in england per year still stands after the housing secretary michael gove has said the government was no longer trying to meet it. mr gove said ministers were now focusing on building homes people can be proud of and said that people in england would be given the right to vote on proposed property extensions in their neighbourhood as part of its new levelling up and regeneration bill which has been introduced in parliament today after yesterday s queens speech. labour has said the queen s speech didn t contain enough measures to help people with the rising cost of living
the chancellor says we ve turned a corner, but is the uk now in a cul de sac? i now call the chancellor to make the autumn statement, jeremy hunt. jeremy hunt trumpets a two percentage point cut in national insurance, and an almost 2% rise in the living wage, but the uk tax burden is still the heaviest since world war ii, and growth forecasts are down, so will the cost of living crisis still be a cost of living crisis next year and the year after? nick s been out gauging reaction injeremy hunt s patch. ijust i just worry that this is a government that is running out of good ideas. government that is running out of good ideas- government that is running out of aood ideas. , ., ., , , good ideas. they are doing the best the can good ideas. they are doing the best they can under good ideas. they are doing the best they can under the good ideas. they are doing the best they can under the circumstances. l they can under the circumstances. they they can under the circumstanc
for talks on the sidelines. the leaders of the world s two biggest economies have a lot to discuss not least their ongoing disputes over trade, technology, taiwan and the drug fentanyl. the bbc s james clayton is in san francisco and sent us the latest. apac has started here and it is a huge apac has started here and it is a huge moment apac has started here and it is a huge moment for apac has started here and it is a huge moment for the apac has started here and it is a huge moment for the city apac has started here and it is a huge moment for the city of san francisco. it is summer to be held here since the united nations charter was signed here in 1945. nations charter was signed here in 1916. this is a huge economic summit. you are talking about more than 50% of the worlds trade belongs to the 21 nations who will be attending here this week. talking about 40% of the world s population. it is a big economic conference but by far the biggest ticket item here is the bigge
Or other asian muslim origin is well established. Today, ken macdonald, a former director of public prosecutions, said it is a disease of racism and sexism that will not abate until it is confronted. Labour mp Sarah Champion said that people are more afraid to be called a racist than they are afraid to be wrong about calling out child abuse, which has inhibited exposure of wrong doing. She asked, why are we not commissioning research to see what is going on and how we need to change what is going on, so that it never happens again . Theyre good questions, so we are going to ask them for the first part of the programme this evening. First, Rabiya Limbada reports from oxford. Some of the 18 men and one woman convicted of abusing girls in newcastle. The men convicted were mainly british born, and came from bangladeshi, pakistani, indian, iraqi, iranian and turkish communities. A report in 2011 by the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre identified over 2000 potential localised
And the feel good musical hit all the right notes, winning five baftas at tonights film awards. Good evening. America and japan have strongly condemned north korea for test firing a Ballistic Missile, the first such launch since donald trump entered the white house. Japans Prime Minister, shinzo abe, said it was intolerable, while mr trump said the us would back japan 100 . Tonight north korea claimed the missile, which travelled around 300 miles before falling into the sea of japan, had been successfully tested. This report from our tokyo correspondent Rupert Wingfield hayes contains some flash photography. This is the launch of a musudan Ballistic Missile, the same type that was fired from north korea into the sea of japan early this morning. Todays launch was almost certainly timed so that north koreas dictator, kim jong un, could crash a Weekend Party taking place on the other side of the world. President donald trump and japans Prime Minister, shinzo abe, have been spending the we