julian responsible pleaded guilty to one charge under the sp on act julian assange. we will get reaction from the us. good evening. first the conservatives, now labour both main parties embroiled in the betting scandal. today, the tories withdrew support from two of their candidates, craig williams and laura saunders, who had bet on the timing of the election. both are on the ballot as conservatives, but will sit as independents if they are elected. and then tonight, labour suspending one of their candidates kevin craig, who reportedly had bet against himself. the party has returned £100,000 in donations the businessman had given them. there is a sense that we don t yet know the full extent of the investigation. the gambling commission says five more metropolitan police officers are alleged to have placed bets. 0ur political editor chris mason has more. this is craig williams, a friend and parliamentary aide to the prime minister. he turned down my request for an interv
the gambling commission over a bet about the timing of the election. russell george who is a member of the welsh parliament has stepped back from his party s shadow cabinet and says he will co operate fully . wikileaks founderjulian assange leaves prison in britain and flies to an american territory in the pacific after reaching a plea deal with the us. he will not face further prison time after pleading guilty, and he will be free to return to australia, his home country. at least five people are shot dead in kenya as police crack down on protests against tax increases. the kenyan government has announced that the military have now been deployed. and a former fujitsu engineer who helped design the horizon it system tells the post office inquiry that he thought the software worked well, most of the time. garethjenkin gave evidence in the pivotal 2010 trial of seema misra, who was jailed while pregnant. the wikileaks founderjulian assange will land this hour in the us t
pointing to the latest figures which suggest they are not waiting, they are crossing in record numbers. this morning those reports were put to home secretary james cleverley, during an immigration debate on lbc. so are voters really meant to believe that people living in camps and on sand dunes are looking at the polling of the next general election in the united kingdom? they absolutely do. the people, those people are doing that. mr cleverly. well, unless you re going to accuse the journalists that went over there and spoke to them of lying, which i think would be a bold call. we know that this is a digital, digitally enabled criminal enterprise. the people smugglers and the people that seek to be smuggled pay very, very close attention to a whole range of things. and it is clear from these quotes that there are there s a cohort of people currently in france who are waiting for rwanda to be taken off the table before coming over here. and these quotes in the telegraph make
we are going to start with kenya in this hour. police in the capital nairobi have shot dead at least five people taking part in huge demonstrations against planned tax increases. crowds broke through police cordons and entered the city s parliament buildings, setting part of the complex alight. for several hours, police fired tear gas and rubber bullets as thousands of protesters marched through the streets. about a0 people are being treated in hospital. our correspondent merchuma is following developments from nairobi and has the latest. this is the accident and emergency unit at the kenyatta national hospital here in nairobi, the biggest referral facility in the county and country. and the whole day, the medics here have been on standby to receive casualties from the protests that have been happening in town. initially, there were two other medical camps set closer to the central business district, with volunteer medical personnel taking care of the injured people, giving t
thanks for your company have a good night. live from london. this is bbc news the general election betting controversy deepens a fifth conservative figure is investigtated two conservative candidates lose their party s support and a labour candidate has been suspended the wikileaks founderjulian assange lands in a remote us territory in the pacific, where he ll face a final court hearing and then should be free we re there live. and, a england draw 0 0 with slovenia but they re still through to the last 16 at the euros. hello i m kasia madera. a fifth conservative figure is now being investigated by the gambling commission over alleged bets on the timing of the general election. the conservative party has withdrawn its support for two candidates craig williams and laura saunders. now russell george a conservative member of the welsh parliament is being looked into as well. and labour has suspended one of its candidates kevin craig who admitted he had bet again