Papers obtained by bbc panorama show drax took timberfrom papers obtained by bbc panorama show drax took timber from rare forest in canada that it had claimed were no go areas. It comes as the government decides whether to give the firms yorkshire side billions more in environmental subsidies, funded by energy bill payers. Drax says its wood pellets are sustainable and illegally harvested. Lets get more on this from our reporter who conducted that investigation. What did you find . This is about a Power Station in england. This is the worlds biggest woodfired Power Station. It does say by burning wood pellets. It receives a huge amount of public subsidy, as you just mentioned, because these wood pellets, when you burn for electricity, that is counted as renewable energy. The Power Station gets through an awful lot of wood pellets each year, about 6. 5 million tonnes. All of these are imported into the uk from overseas, many of them coming from the us and canada, where drax runs 17 pell
Its the sport hes always been passionate about we hearfrom Prince Phillip one week after announcing hes stepping down from public life. And coming up in the sport on bbc news hes the most expensive footballer in the world, but paul pogbas record transfer to Manchester United is now the subject of a fifa inquiry. Good evening and welcome to the bbcs news at 6pm. Washington is awash with rumour and speculation tonight, after president Donald Trumps Shock Dismissal of james comey the director of the fbi. In the president s words, mr comey was not doing a good job. Theres been widespread criticism of the move political opponents have raised the suspicion that mr comeys dismissal was linked to his investigation into allegations that members of the trump Election Team colluded with moscow during last years president ial election. Heres our north america editor, jon sopel. This is a fox news alert. Fbi Directorjames Comey this is a fox news alert. Fbi director james comey has this is a fox ne
Police investigating the manchester Suicide Bombing will resume sharing intelligence information with their us counterparts. Cooperation was temporarily suspended after details of the investigation were leaked to American Media. President trump said those responsible should be prosecuted. In the uk, a minutes silence was held to remember the 22 people who lost their lives in the attack. From manchester, gavin hewitt reports. In the minutes before the silence, thousands headed to the squares, the open spaces, the office doorways, a moment for a Wounded Community to reflect, to remember, to stand together. In manchester, a long minute ended with applause. Applause it was really beautiful, i thought it was so nice, everyone coming here and showing respect. Todays been a time to reflect and a time of remembrance. And at the same time, to show strength and unity, and our support to those whove lost their loved ones. Ive come to pay tribute to those who were so courageous that night, those w
Nice to be here. Would you agree with me that your bank has moved an awful long way from those early days and from its original mission . No, i wouldnt. I would certainly agree with you that we have expanded our geographically, but the mission is the same. Private sector development, the creation of effective markets. Were still actually operating in oui were still actually operating in our traditional region. But because of the success of the Business Model, we decided we should expand to turkey, central asia and north africa, as you said. It is a sign of success, not mission creep. The problem with that is that from the beginning, you were a Financial Institution underpinned by a clear statement of values. In the places youve just outlined where you operate today, those values do not seem to be applied in the same way. Sometimes there are values, such as political, democratic, values, pluralism, like stated. They are certainly applied inconsistently in some places. But we are very op
Nice to be here. Would you agree with me that your bank has moved an awful long way from those early days and from its original mission . No, i wouldnt. I would certainly agree with you that we have expanded our geographically, but the mission is the same. Private sector development, the creation of effective markets. Were still actually operating in oui were still actually operating in our traditional region. But because of the success of the Business Model, we decided we should expand to turkey, central asia and north africa, as you said. It is a sign of success, not mission creep. The problem with that is that from the beginning, you were a Financial Institution underpinned by a clear statement of values. In the places youve just outlined where you operate today, those values do not seem to be applied in the same way. Sometimes there are values, such as political, democratic, values, pluralism, like stated. They are certainly applied inconsistently in some places. But we are very op