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as several commuters are shot on a train during the morning rush hour. tonight with the context, from london, anand menon, director of the thinktank uk in a changing europe and democratic strategist mary anne marsh is in cape cod.. prime minister borisjohnson and the chancellor rishi sunak have been fined for breaking lockdown laws. the metropolitan police have confirmed that prime minister borisjohnson was fined for his participation in a gathering gfx in the cabinet room on his birthday which was onjune i9 2020. it s been reported about 30 people attended the party, organised as a surprise by carriejohnson who has also been fined. at that time gatherings of more than two people inside were banned by law. an exception was allowed if the gathering was reasonably necessary for work purposes. (biv)the fines suggest the police didn t think this event was such an exception. despite becoming the first prime minister to be fined for breaking the law, borisjohnson says he ....
national committee. welcome to the programme. we begin in france, where emmanuel macron has won the first round of the french election. but he still faces a tough battle to win a second term as president. mr macron secured 27.6% of the vote while the far right marine le pen secured 23%. the far left candidate, jean luc melenchon, got nearly 22% of votes. combined they commanded close to three quarters of the vote. but when voters return to the polls in two weeks time for the second round they will be faced with the same choice they had in 2017 emmanuel macron or marine le pen. le duel the papers called it. though this time the race could be much tighter. this is the latest polling mr macron leading his challenger by just two points 51 19. the focus for both will now be on convincing those who voted for other candidates, to pick them on their ballot paper this time around. and it s the far left voters of mr melenchon that could have the biggest sway. he has alr ....
first, the latest headlines. investigators in the us city of baltimore are examining the data recorder from the ship that brought down a bridge, killing six people. inspectors are also looking at the twisted remains of the francis scott key bridge, as they try to determine how and why the incident occurred. the un high commissioner for human rights has told the bbc israel is significantly to blame for the appalling humanitarian situation in gaza. volker turk said if israel was using starvation as a weapon of war, that would be a crime. a review has found there were numerous missed opportunities, which may have prevented the death of finley boden, a ten month old boy who was killed by his parents in derbyshire, a man is in hospital with life threatening injuries after being stabbed on a train in south london. british transport police said it received reports of two men fighting while entering a train at shortlands railway station in bromley. the un high commissioner fo ....
and former england captain steph houghton will retire at the end of the current women s super league season. the 35 year old is city s record appearance holder and is part of the squad in contention to win the wsl title this season. houghton has 121 england caps and represented team gb at london 2012 and tokyo 2020. rob page will continue as welsh national team manager despite the failure to qualify for the euro 2024 finals. the news was confirmed by football association of wales president steve williams has moved quickly to remove doubts over page s future. former wales forward, rob earnshaw, agrees page should future. former wales forward, rob earnshaw, agrees page should stay but says he had to do better. i think he has done very, very well in the last eight months or so. i think he has improved the squad. but i will say this, he has to improve now because we did not make it to a major tournament and that also backs up going to the world cup, the world cup was very, ....
good evening. i m abby phillip in new york. and tonight, how joe biden got his groove back and why you re about to hear what he said last night. more than a taylor swift single on the radio. 30 plus million people tuned in last night to watch the president insist that the state of our union is strong, but also to see if biden could still look strong himself. it s something republicans told you over and over again that he simply could not do. president biden, on the other hand, i m not even sure if he knows where he is. and i don t say that flippantly, neal. it actually hurts. he is our president, even if i disagree with him violently. but he clearly is not all there may be automatically that we laugh at it, because some of his ideas and all of his ideas are are laughable, aren t they? but also, the longer we laugh, the less he ll speak. probably, or the longer he ll have to be up there. republicans. they bet on sleepy joe and a day later the spin is suddenly t ....