Managed to fool hsbcs Voice Recognition Security System, designed to prevent fraud. Good morning, its friday, 19th may. Im annita mcveigh. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. Breaking news this morning. Swedish prosecutors are ending their seven year long investigation into the wikileaks founder, Julian Assange, who has been accused of rape. Mr assange, whos a5, has been living at the Ecuadorian Embassy in london since 2012, claiming asylum to avoid extradition to sweden. Scotla nd Scotland Yard says it is obliged to arrest him for Breaching Bail Conditions if he leaves the embassy. Julian assange has just tweeted this picture. This is in reaction to that means from sweden. That is the first reaction from Julian Assange, though no statement from him as yet. Lets cfoss no statement from him as yet. Lets cross to the Ecuadorian Embassy in london. Our correspondent, Richard Lister, is there. Richard, so, any expectation we might Seejulian Assange leading that embassy any time soon . I would hav
Donald trump will announce today if hes Pulling America Out also coming up Pulling America Out of the paris Climate Change agreement, but chinese and eu leaders are preparing to pledge their support for the deal. Im at the biggest ago cultural show in england where farmers like will gather to show off their animals and talk about the biggest issues ahead of next week in their industry. England get their campaign started against bangladesh at the oval in a couple of hours time. Carol is going wild with the weather looking at nature on our door steps. Good morning. Good morning from camley street a stones throw from kings cross. Its a haven of tranquility. The Wildlife Trust launches its 30 days wild today, encouraging us in the cities to really engage with wildlife on our doorsteps. The weathers not looking too bad either. For most, it will be dry and sunny, however theres some rain coming in from the west. More on all of that in 15 minutes. Good morning. First, our main story. Theresa
From misappropriating JobKeeper funds, to illegally sacking thousands of workers, to Alan Joyce’s enormous “pay” rises, the scandals associated with Qantas are piling up. Mary Merkenich argues it should be renationalised.
that they should have been spending on the sewerage system. so, my question becomes, is we ve provided you with the funding, the regulators confirmed that, the water companies have confirmed it. what happened to the funding? where has it gone? it clearly was not spent on the sewerage system, and can we now have a refund? you seem to believe these days that renationalisation of the water industry is the answer. are you sure about that? actually, i haven t said that at all. he laughs ..as it happens. my perspective. well, forgive me, but when i think thames water announced this massive debt, and it looked for a while as though they might, frankly, default on their debts and collapse, you said, we shouldn t pay a penny to bail out thames water. correct. we should, in essence, renationalise it. no, there s a qualification on that, and let me make two points. 0ne, if we nationalise those companies, we let those shareholders and those bondholders and those people who ve made off with