at least six mountaineers were killed and eight others injured when parts of a glacier collapsed, sending snow, ice and rock cascading down the slopes of marmolada. now on bbc news, political thinking with nick robinson. hello and welcome to political thinking. how do we live with a resurgent russia? do we need to confront or cooperate with china? can the uk repair its relations with the eu post brexit? foreign policy matters again. my guest on political thinking this week hopes to be our next foreign secretary, the first labour foreign secretary for many, many years. it s a dramatic change for david lammy, who for years used his powerful voice in the back benches to argue for justice for the people in his constituency in his home of tottenham in north london. david lammy, welcome to political thinking. thank you, nice to be back. when you were last on this programme, you talked to me about how pleased you were to be on the backbenches. i m very satisfied, you said. i feel
when you were last on this programme, you talked to me about how pleased you were to be on the backbenches. i m very satisfied, you said. i feel free, i feel liberated. i mean, at the time, you were making those passionate speeches that you did on grenfell, on windrush and all the rest of it, does that now mean you feel sort of caged? not quite. i loved being on the backbenches, you know, i really did. i loved being in government, to the extent that you actually did something. i suppose i am now in the third act. i don t know how many acts there are going to be. but what would i say this time? i have been in parliament 22 years, i m 50 in a couple of weeks time. so i suppose i ve got to come to terms with the sort of seniority in parliament, and, you know, parliament is generous if you have been there a long time, this is notjust your own party, it is the opposition as well. parliament quite likes specialisms and i ve, you know, there are some issues that i feel i have retur
now on bbc news. nick robinson in conversation with people who influence our political thinking about what has shaped theirs. hello and welcome to political thinking. how do we live with a resurgent russia? do we need to confront or cooperate with china? can the uk repair its relations with the eu post brexit? foreign policy matters again. my guest on political thinking this week hopes to be our next foreign secretary, the first labour foreign secretary for many, many years. it s a dramatic change for david lammy, who for years used his powerful voice in the back benches to argue forjustice for the people in his constituency in his home of tottenham in north london. david lammy, welcome to political thinking. thank you, nice to be back. when you were last on this programme, you talked to me about how pleased you were to be on the backbenches. i m very satisfied, you said. i feel free, i feel liberated. i mean, at the time, you were making those passionate speeches that you di
Military aircraft closer to israel amid concerns of a larger regional conflict breaking out. Was iran involved in hamas planning and new attacks from the north . Americans among the dead. The state Department Says at least nine americans have been killed. More than 1200 people, soldiers, civilians and children are death on both sides. Those numbers are expected to climb even higher. Im Andrea Mitchell with our continuing coverage of the war in israel. A constant barrage of israeli air strikes lighting up the sky. 300,000 israeli troops have been called up after this weekend marked the most extensive invasion of israeli territory in decades. These tanks are at the border area between israel and gaza. Any Ground Invasion will be complicated of the desperate hostage situation. A heartbreaking dilemma of one israeli mother who was brave enough to come on and talk to me about it at this hour. I could hear people speaking in arabic outside their door, and they broke in. The last thing i hear
if they re elected. nigel farage will be making a speech soon for reform uk. voting is under way in the first round of france s parliamentary elections, this is the scene live at a polling atation in paris. iam in i am in paris where some people are hoping for a victory for the far right. and let s go, girls! just a few hours till shania twain takes to the pyramid stage on the last day of glastonbury. hello, i m luxmy gopal. the spanish civil guard has called off the search for the missing british teeenagerjay slater. the 19 year old from lancashire has been missing in tenerife since 17 june, after he told a friend he was lost in the mountains. police carried out a new search on saturday with the help of dozens of emergency workers near the village of masca, in the rural de teno national park. our correspondent nick garnett has been following this story for the past few weeks. he s just left tenerife but before he left he gave us this update. well, yesterday they carried out