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hello and welcome to newswatch with me, samira ahmed. she won t take part in a televised leaders debate. if she won t, then he won t. will the bbc do more to make a head to head happen? and are the green party being given a fair share of airtime on the bbc‘s special election programmes. there has been a bit of a phoney war feel to the election campaign so far. before the parties began publishing their manifestos. many questions had been fobbed off with this answer, given to laura kuenssberg byjeremy corbyn on tuesday. well, you will have to wait for the manifesto for the details. you were expecting that answer. those manifestos will be officially unveiled next week, but on wednesday night we got a sneak preview of what labour s might contain. somehow, an earlier version had ended up in the hands of chris mason. i can t claim i ve read it all, but here it is. stamped right through the middle of the document, about 20,000 words in total, draft, confidential. in other ....
that a stomach churning interview, it made uncomfortable viewing on many fronts, not the least of which is the absolute obsequiousness of the presenters. and one twitter user wondered, how can this propaganda be allowed when may runs from a face to face debate? yes, the television debates. the format in which senior politicians appear in the set piece election programmes only started in 2010, but has since become a battle ground with broadcasters. in 2015 david cameron refused to follow the example of his predecessor as prime minister, gordon brown, and take part in a head to head discussion on the bbc with other party leaders. five of whom appeared without him in a so called challengers debate. theresa may has followed his example and jeremy corbyn has said he won t take part in such a programme either, if she doesn t. so this time round we were told this week the bbc will be showing a debate featuring senior representatives from labour, the conservatives, the libe ....
around a0 nhs trusts and some gp surgeries were hit but there s no sign that patient data has been compromised. iamat i am at saint barts, the largest nhs trust in the country. it runs five hospitals here in east london, and all of them will be closed today for routine outpatient appointments. organisations around the world have been affected by the malicious software known as ransomware with reports of infections in dozens of countries. good morning. it s saturday the 13th of may. also today, labour s deputy leader tom watson warns his party faces a margaret thatcher style landslide defeat if it doesn t improve its ratings in the polls. in sport, chelsea the champions. they can finally celebrate after a late win at west brom secured the premier league title in antonio conte‘s first season in charge. and you cannot stop a brownlee. johnny refuses to give up in yokohama. after a nasty trashy picks up yokohama. after a nasty trashy picks up his bike and runs with it ....
the show and it is just wonderful to have all of this support. i really thank everybody for it. that is the winner of masterchef, 2017. now we can see what the weather forecast is holding for us. i m so looking forward to my salad, you have no idea. i will still be hungry afterwards. we have a mixed bag of weather, we have some low cloud and damp conditions across northern ireland, but the sunshine has been developing more widely. in the south west and across wales. the sunshine will move into england and wales. the rain is transferring north through northern ireland into scotla nd north through northern ireland into scotland where we have a few showers and the wet weather will move north through scotland. some thundery showers possible in the highlands. cool and damp to enter the afternoon, but improving in northern england. across northern ireland it will brighten up briefly and left those temperatures ahead of the showers which arrive in the evening. that is knocking ....
singapore and beijing, and 8pm in florida, me president trump has florida, where president trump has told reporters that the north korean leader was acting very very badly. the reason for his irritation? well, the latest news from pyongyang were kim jong un was pictured celebrating what he said was a successful rocket engine test. the us secretary of state rex tillerson, who was in beijing at the time, said tensions on the korean peninsula:- beijing at the time, said tensions on the korean peninsula: had ! beijing at the time, said tensions on the korean peninsula: had reached on the korean peninsular had reached a dangerous level. our china editor carrie gracie has this report. the smiles were somewhat strained met america s top diplomat. they had intended to steady anxieties about where us china relations are headed. but as these players posed for the cameras, they were upstaged by another. test of a new rocket engine for its space and satellite programme. no wonder h ....