craig williams and laura saunders, on the date of the general election. on the campaign trail, labour is setting out changes to the process for someone to legally change their gender. the party is also offering to provide hundreds of thousands more dental appointments on the nhs. the lib dems release their analysis on hospital waiting times. leader sir ed davey claimed the country has ten days to save the nhs. the snp sjohn swinney will give a speech on brexit. while the dup is launching its manifesto in northern ireland. so it is a busy day for all of the parties today. we ll touch on all of the above in this programme, but let s start with the election betting investigation. here s tobias elwood speaking to the bbc radio 4 today. this betting saga has been deeply unhelpful, self inflicted distraction, and in what world they thought this was acceptable is beyond belief. the prime minister has expressed his anger, he said that at the leaders s question time debate. it has bee
tricky for labour. something they would rather not be talking about because of sir keir starmer s shifting stance within this issue and conservatives have certainly frequently criticised the labour leader saying it is evident he is fickle with certain things and changes his mind. he insists the record of his party on women s rights is good and they would do more if they were to get into government. more if they were to get into government- more if they were to get into government. more if they were to get into covernment. ., ~ government. good to see you. thank ou ve government. good to see you. thank you very much government. good to see you. thank you very much indeed. as the last full week of campaigning gets underway, the dup has launched its manifesto this morning. at the last general election, in 2019, it won eight seats more than any other party in northern ireland. in the manifesto, the party set out more ways it wants to remove trade barriers between great bri
Treated many of the young victims. What we saw was essentially war wounds. War wounds . Yes, so the kind of wounds you would see on a battlefield. And we look at the politics of zero hours contracts and the debate over workers rights. And coming up in sportsday on bbc news, englands Champions Trophy Ambitions take root, as they win their opening match against bangladesh by eight wickets with joe root scoring an unbeaten century. Good evening. President trump has announced that america is to withdraw from the paris climate agreement, the treaty signed by 200 countries just two years ago to reduce Greenhouse Gas emissions worldwide. He said hed taken the decision because of the the economic burdens imposed by the treaty. His predecessor, barack obama, Whose Administration signed the accord, said it was a decision to reject the future. Mr trump made the announcement despite several appeals from the United Nations to respect the future of the planet. Our correspondent nick bryant has more
Now on bbc news all the latest Business News live from singapore. President trump pulls out of the parrot climate agreement, his supporters may be happy but how will it impact asia . Harris climate agreement. Skype gets a makeover, we will show you the new features and why it is competing with snapchat. Welcome to this friday edition of Asia Business report. President donald trump has withdrawn from the paris climate treaty. The decision means the us is only one of three countries beside syria and nicaragua to oppose the global effort to tackle Climate Change. But he says he is open to re negotiating the deal. In order to for furl my solemn duty to protect america and its citizens, the United States will withdraw from the paris climate accord. But, begin negotiations to re enter either the paris accord, oi, re enter either the paris accord, or, in entirely new transaction. In terms that are fed to the us, its businesses, workers, people, taxpayers. So, we are getting out, but we will s
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