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good evening and welcome to bbc news. the prime minister and the leader of the opposition, sir keir starmer, have laid flowers together at the site of the fatal stabbing of the mp sir david amess in essex. sir david was stabbed repeatedly during a constituency surgery in leigh on sea yesterday. the police say they are treating the attack as a terrorist incident which is potentially linked to islamist extremism . a 25 year old man who was arrested at the scene remains in custody and searches have been carried out at two addresses in london. tonight a candlelit vigil is taking place in leigh on sea. our home affairs correspondent daniel sandford reports. a united front in the face of a suspected terrorist attack. the prime minister, the leader of the opposition, the speaker of the house of commons and the home secretary. four of the most senior politicians in the land at the church today where sir david amess mp was murdered. he was killed doing a job that he loved, serv ....
keeps rearing its head. when will the general election be? and it s not going to be on the 2nd of may because in an interview with itv in the west country on thursday night, rishi sunak said there will not be a general election on the same day as the local mayoral and police and crime commissioner elections, which are happening that day. now, whether you love or hate speculation about the general election campaign, the fact that there is so much and the way it s been going, actually, it is quite revealing about what s happening in politics. so we will kick off with that on this episode of newscast. newscast. newscast from the bbc. hello, it s adam in the studio. and it is chris in cardiff today, because there s a splash of democracy and voting going on here, with a new labour leader being elected on saturday who will become the new first minister next week. and talking of other stories that have occurred today, michael gove, the levelling up and communities secretary, u ....
following an incident outside a bristol nightclub. what a great shot! and tributes for cyrille regis, the man who led the way for black footballers in britain who died at the age of 59. good evening and welcome to bbc news. cabinet ministers have tonight been holding an emergency cobra meeting to discuss the financial collapse of carillion. the firm had government contracts across school catering, hsz, the nhs and prisons, and its demise has left its own employees and many more who work for it indirectly facing a worrying future. carillion itself employs almost 20,000 workers in the uk. the company has a50 government contracts a massive portfolio. it sub contracted thousands of small firms to do some of that work. carillion‘s demise has raised questions for government about the way public sector projects are handed out to private sector businesses. here s our business editor, simonjack. this bypass near aberdeen is in scotla nd this bypass near aberdeen is in scotla ....
coming up. one mp makes a moving plea for the government here to do more for the syrian people. they should not be strewn in the rubble of eastern ghouta. those bodies should be piled up in this chamber. the lords hear about the worsening obesity crisis among children. five year olds are now eating their own body weight in sugar every year. and one mp describes hate crime against sikhs. someone, consumed with so much hatred, tried to pull off the turban of one of my sikh guests as he queued upjust outside our parliament buildings, and shouted, muslim, go back home! the russian president has ordered a daily five hour pause in the syrian government s assault on the rebel held area of eastern ghouta. at the weekend, a un security council resolution was passed demanding that all parties cease hostilities without delay for at least 30 consecutive days to allow humanitarian aid deliveries and medical evacuations of critically ill people. in an urgent question to the forei ....
spending much more on public services, and injeremy corbyn s case, it means nationalising a lot of things. i m not sure if that is an entirely new economic model.m might not be new, but going back to june 28, whenever it was, how did the public think these things are goodidea? the public think these things are good idea? labour did much better than many people, including nick expected. it s too. it s not a new thing. opposing thatcherism and opposing liberal market capitalism which is what jeremy corbyn is doing is the kind of revert to plan a of labour and it s is the kind of revert to plan a of labourand it s in is the kind of revert to plan a of labour and it s in their dna. he does do one thing that is new and not without risk. he hinges part of the speech, if what has been nicked is right, on the grenfell tower tragedy. he says this demonstrates the failings. a symbol of the problems. what happened at g re nfell tower was problems. what happened at grenfell tower w ....