Pupils in england. And celebrating the best of gaming. Well be live at the British Academy Gaming Awards. Its 5 oclock. Our main story is that britains highest court has ruled against a father who took his daughter on holiday to florida during school term time. Jon platt from the Isle Of Wight had won earlier legal battles and refused to pay a fine but the Department For Education took the case to the Supreme Court. The Prime Minister has welcomed the decision, saying it recognised the importance of children attending school. The Supreme Court ruled unanimously that it was disruptive to a childs education to remove them from school during term time. Our legal correspondent, clive coleman, reports. Arriving at the highest court in the land, a father, john platt, about to find out if taking his daughter on holiday in term time meant hed broken the law. In 2015, jon platt took his daughter on a weeks holiday. He was fined £120 by his Local Council on the Isle Of Wight forfailing to ensur
The conservative c. D. U. C. S. U. Bloc the Social Democrats would get less than a fifth of the votes only eighteen percent. The right wing populist if the would reach a record high seventeen percent the liberals and left each still rank below ten percent while the greens would move up to fifteen percent. According to this poll if there was a General Election next sunday in germany the Coalition Parties would lose their majority in parliament but had to make up ford germans consider health and pension policies among the most important issues to be taken care of by their government so work awaits parliament after its summer break ends in september. That would be up to date but some of the stories making news around the wild yemen may be on the brink of a new break off thats a warning which comes from the in isolation widespread malnutrition and conflict could push up the death three. Score for
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Evening. Well see you in half an hour at 6 00. Tonight, breaking news. The showdown between the u. S. And iran. After iran shoots down a u. S. Navy drone. Tonight, right here, the new u. S. Surveillance showing the massive 100 Million Drone as big as the wingspan of a 737, plummeting from the sky. Hit by the iranians, they say it was in iranian airspace. The u. S. Says thats not true. And tonight, President Trump now saying maybe iran made a mistake. That it could have been someone, quote, loose and stupid. And breaking now as we come on the air, what were now learning after an Emergency Meeting in the Situation Room. Martha raddatz and mary bruce standing by live. The stunning turn tonight in the War Crime Trial of a former navy s. E. A. L. , accused of murdering a prisoner. A fellow navy s. E. A. L. Taking the stand today and telling the court, i was the one who
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