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We start in china where as youve been hearing telecoms giant huawei has launched a new legal challenge against the us. Its appealing a decision last month to stop us mobile phone companies from using government grants to buy its equipment. It follows a similar legal challenge in may against a ban on Us Government agencies from buying its kit. Lets get more on this story from our correspondent in shanghai, robin brant. What does huawei hope the practical effect of this will be . What do they hope to achieve with this challenge . They want to overturn a ban and we will have to wait and see what the us court of appeals thinks about that. But what it is also trying to do is demonstrate that it has the resources and the desire to push back and there is also a Public Relations exercise ongoing here, one in which huawei is spending a vast amount of money as it continues, frankly, in its fight with the Us Government. This is a fairly technical moved today, the second attempt in a year by huawe
Costs go up by more than a £100. Edna depends on her meals on Wheels Service now its under threat a new petition to boost the social care budget did you know more young people do vocational qualifications than a levels . Its btec results day. And coming up on bbc news. Jofra archer gets his cap but needs a brolly as dayi of the second ashes test has been washed out after heavy rain at lords. Good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. Mps may be on their summer break but thats not stopped the conservative civil war over brexit. The former chancellor Philip Hammond has rounded on number ten accusing the Prime Ministers advisers of trying to wreck the chances of a new deal with the eu. Mr hammond says they are setting conditions that make a no deal inevitable and he called that a betrayal of the referendum result. But the Prime Minister says opponents of brexit were in a terrible collaboration with the eu, those were his words. Our correspondent ben wright reports. From ben wright
The uk is in the grip of a cauliflower shortage. Good evening and welcome to bbc news. An interim report from air accident investigators says the footballer Emiliano Sala had been exposed to harmful levels of Carbon Monoxide before a fatal plane crash over the channel. The report says it is likely the pilot David Ibbotson was also exposed to the gas, potentially reducing his ability to fly the aircraft. The footballer was flying from france to cardiff when the plane crashed. 0ur correspondent wyre davies has the story. The death of Emiliano Sala, atjust 29 years old, and in such tragic circumstances, shocked the footballing world. The Argentine Centre forward had just signed for cardiff from nantes and was on his way tojoin his new team in the welsh capital. While trying to woo him, he had been flown between the cities in private jets, the last flight, after he had signed, was in a single engine turboprop, at night, and in poor weather, shortly after take off from nantes, in an audio m
Good morning. A lot of fine weather on the way across the uk this weekend. But a little bit of a change in the way things feel. Some fresh air blowing in from the north. More on the way things are looking inafew more on the way things are looking in a few moments. Its saturday the 6th ofjuly. Our top story murderers who refuse to reveal the location of a victims body could be forced to spend longer in prison under a new law. The legal change, known as helens law, follows campaigning by the mother of Helen Mccourt, who was killed in 1988 but whose body was never found. Ben ando reports. For 31 years, Marie Mccourt has been fighting for helens law, named after her daughter who was just 22 when she was abducted and murdered in 1988. Her killer, pub landlord ian sims. He has never reveal the whereabouts of helens body. Marie led a campaign demanding that murderers who refused to disclose the whereabouts of a victims remains bent longer behind bars. In 2016 mp5 remains bent longer behind ba