Opportunity to build a better, brighter future. Well bring you the very latest from the campaign trail. Also in the next hour. The us speaker of the house of representatives announces that impeachment proceedings against President Trump will go ahead. The president has engaged an abuse of power in our National Security and jeopardising the integrity of our elections. Frances largest strike in years brings much of the country to a standstill workers are angry about planned Pension Reforms that would see them retiring later orfacing reduced pay outs. And two british pilots land back in the uk after flying around the world in a newly restored spitfire. Its 5 00, our top story. With one week to polling day, the Political Parties are beginning theirfinal push for votes. Boris johnson is promising to pass his brexit deal and to bring in a tax cutting budget within 100 days, if the conservatives win the election. Labour have outlined plans to recruit almost 20,000 extra teachers in england ov
The billionaire businessman elon musk is cleared of defaming a british cave explorer after calling him pedo guy on social media. And coming up at 5. 30, hype building for the long awaited re match, with anthonyjoshua facing andy ruiz tonight. Find out about that and more, with our sports bulletin. The internet message forum, reddit, says it believes a leak of sensitive uk us trade documents is linked to a Russian Campaign to influence voters. The dossier, which runs to several hundred pages, was highlighted byJeremy Corbyn in labours claim that the nhs would be on the table during us trade talks, something denied by the conservatives. Labour says the release of the documents was in the public interest, and neither the uk nor us governments have denied their authenticity. Reddit have issued a statement explaining their actions. It says we were recently made aware of a post on reddit that included leaked documents from the uk. We investigated this account and the accounts connected to it
Hello this is bbc news with shaun ley. The headlines. The online forum reddit says it believes leaked government documents, detailing uk us trade talks, and posted on its site are linked to russia. Oceans are running out of oxygen warn scientists as global temperature rises put many species of fish at risk of extinction. 12 people are swept to their deaths by floods in uganda, as east africa is devastated by heavy rainfall and landslides. Fears that a mega bushfire near sydney thats burning out of control could take weeks to put out. A chinese american researcher is freed by iran in a rare Prisoner Exchange with the us. President trump thanks the iranians for very fair negotiation. Thank you for your company throughout the afternoon. Now on bbc news, its time for sportsday. Hello and welcome to sportsday, with mejane dougall and ben croucher. The headlines this evening. A lighter anthonyjoshua says weight doesnt matter as he prepares to re claim three belts from andy ruinunior, in one
Created the chances. I think they didnt shoot. And it was fantastic. Very pleased. Congratulate the players. And i think the three points we got and we have again reduced the gap to four points with chelsea. Elsewhere, arsenal Beat Leicester 1 0, with an own goal from robert huth. Arsenal are now back up to sixth four points off the Champions League places. And in the battle of the bottom two, middlesbrough recorded their first victory of 2017 by beating sunderland i o. The black cats on the brink of relegation which could come as early as this weekend. Theyre rock bottom and i2 points from safety. In spain, barcelona and real madrid remain level on points at the top, after they both won, and scored 13 goals between them. Lionel messi scored twice as barca thrashed osasuna 7 i, with gomes and alcacer also scoring two each. Javier mascherano got the other his first goal for barcelona in 319 games for the club. And real madrid won 6 2 at deportivo la coruna, where James Rodriguez scored
Scotland, closer to 13 celsius. Tonight will be nippy, like last night. We had some grass frost last night. We had some grass frost last night. Tonight it will fall down to around three celsius outside of town. Another chilly start to the day tomorrow. Then plenty of sunshine across england. Notice what happens across the south Western Areas of england and wales, particularly Northern Ireland and scotland. A Weather Front coming in, which means cloud and rain later in the day. A lot fresher. Eyes meet peak at 25 celsius In The South East and east anglia. Temperatures may peak at 25 celsius. Hello, this is bbc news. The headlines. Swedish Police Believe the man they have arrested a 39 year old from uzbekistan is the driver who carried out yesterdays fatal attack in stockholm. They said theyd found a suspect device in the lorry but wouldnt confirm if it was a bomb. The Foreign Secretary has called Off A Visit To Moscow to moscow in the wake of the Syrian Chemical Weapons attack. Borisjoh