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the conservatives and labour make election promises to tackle terrorism. theresa may plans a new commission to counter extremism. jeremy corbyn is pledging 10,000 more police and security staff. now on bbc news it s time for dateline london presented this week by jane hill. hello and welcome to dateline london. i m jane hill. a warm welcome after a difficult week for many. we will of course be discussing the aftermath of the manchester suicide bombing. we ll assess president trump s first overseas trip. and we look at the state of the general election camapaign here in the uk, with less than two weeks to go to polling day. to discuss all of this with me today iain martin, a times columnist, the american broadcaster jeffrey kofman. thomas kielinger of die welt, and nisreen malik, the sudanese writer. a warm welcome to all of you. in manchester, on monday night, a pop concert by an american singer popular with young girls ended in carnage when a 22 year old man born in ....
to dateline london. i m jane hill. a warm welcome after a difficult week for many. we will of course be discussing the aftermath of the manchester suicide bombing. we ll assess president trump s first overseas trip. and we look at the state of the general election camapaign here in the uk, with less than two weeks to go to polling day. to discuss all of this with me today iain martin, a times columnist, the american broadcaster jeffrey kofman, thomas kielinger of die welt, and nisreen malik, the sudanese writer. a warm welcome to all of you. in manchester, on monday night, a pop concert by an american singer popular with young girls ended in carnage when a 22 year old man born in the city blew himself up, in the foyer of the concert arena. children as young as eight were killed, and scores of people remain in hospital. the hunt is continuing for the people who supported salman abedi, many people have been arrested here in the uk. and in libya, abedi s father and one of ....
colluding with russia during the presidential election. he s appearing before a senate investigations panel. the government promises an energy revolution, investing hundreds of millions pounds in battery technology. and 20 years after her death, prince william says he often talks of granny diana to keep his mother s memory alive for his children. it s five o clock, our top story is that the parents of the terminally ill baby, charlie gard, have ended their legal fight to take him to the united states for experimental treatment. the high court was told they now accepted no medical treatment could help him. charlie s mother, connie yates, said she believed time had been wasted and earlier treatment could have improved the quality of her son s life. speaking outside court a short time ago, charlie s father, chris gard, said they now planned to spend some last precious moments with their son. helena lee has been following the case at the high court and we canjoin her no ....
a silver from the women and a bronze from men in the 400 metre relays bring the tally to six in the final moments of the world athletics championship. good morning. we are talking about family run businesses this week. they are on the increase. there are nearly five million family run businesses in the uk contributing nearly half a trillion pounds to the british economy. and 50 years after pirate radio ships were outlawed, we look back at how they changed the sound of music radio. and carol has the weather. good morning. for many central and eastern areas today, dry and bright with sunshine. rain in the west that is slowly going east and north through today. i will have more details in 15 minutes. thank you. see you then. good morning. first, our main story. arrests of passengers suspected of being drunk at uk airports and on flights have risen by 50% in the past year, according to an investigation carried out by bbc panorama. critics of the airline industry say a volun ....
of freetown, capital of sierra leone, burying houses in mud. that casualty figure is expected to rise, with hundreds of bodies are still thought to be trapped under the debris. our diplomatic correspondent james robbins reports. snatched video on a mobile phone shows a torrent of mud and water carrying away everything in its path. this driver risked his life, on a bridge all but overwhelmed by the flash floods. freetown is an overcrowded coastal city, with few defences against heavy rains. they come every year, but not usually with quite such ferocity. about 250 bodies have been recovered so far. the authorities fear there could be many more trapped in the ruins of houses. the bbc‘s umaru fofana is there. i went down to the spot myself, and you could see people using their bare hands, pulling up corpses from beneath the mud. the road itself to the disaster area is almost impassable, massive rocks. and this area, called mount sugarloaf, caved in in the early hours of t ....