face the crowds outside. i will report live from outside the supreme court on hearings that have huge legal constitutional and political implications for the entire country. we ll have the latest from ben brown at the supreme court and we ll be talking to an expert on constitutional law. the other main stories on bbc news at 5pm. at the lib dems conference the new party leader, jo swinson, says she would stop brexit immediately if she was in government. today i am standing here as your candidate for prime minister. applause. following the murder of teenagerjodie chesney in london in march, four people have gone on trial. going the distance after a gruelling 5a hours sarah thomas becomes the first person to swim across the english channel four times in a row. i will sleep for the rest of the day, iam pretty i will sleep for the rest of the day, i am pretty out of it and tired right now, for sure. it s 5 o clock. our main story is the landmark case being heard at the supreme
what you are saying but others will say all of this is such a great area because of our unwritten constitution. we don t know exactly where we do stand and it s a question of balance of powers between parliament and the government and the courts, but it shouldn t be this unpredictable in a sense. i agree it shouldn t be unpredictable and it wasn t unpredictable. the law does not permit judicial unpredictable. the law does not permitjudicial review of the prerogative to prorogue parliament. it is subject to political control. that leaves space for a serious political controversy, a disagreement between mps and the prime minister and eventually there has two. we will have to leave it there because we are back inside the supreme court. let s listen to the government s representative here. supreme court. let s listen to the government s representative herelj paraphrase of course from the opinion of hodge in the case of her goal. mark reference has been made to constitutional prin
let s catch up on all the support and we are joined as we have heard, it is not a simple let s catch up on all the support and we arejoined by let s catch up on all the support and we are joined by gavin. afternoon. after two noon to you as question and we will now consider well. former newcastle united and england carefully all the arguments forward peter beardsley has been suspended from all football related activity for 32 weeks for making presented to us. the government s racist comments to players. beardsley left newcastle lawyer once the supreme court after a 14 month club justice not to stray in what he investigation earlier this year. he called one black player calls forbidden territory and a a monkey while newcastle s under 23s coach, and joked political minefield. about climbing trees. an independent football association the death of pc andrew harper panel said his remarks were obviously racist prosecutors drop a murder charge and wholly unacceptable . against
and why it matters. meanwhile, a former prime minister, david cameron, is being criticised for revealing conversations he had with the queen before the scottish independence referendum in 2014. and amazon chiefjeff bezos announces measures to make his company carbon neutral. canada s prime ministerjustin trudeau is facing a political crisis after images have emerged of him wearing blackface. he s spoken to the press. i want to begin by saying a few words directly to racialized canadians who face discrimination every single day in their lives, even in a country like canada. what i did hurt them, hurt people who shouldn t have to face intolerance and discrimination because of their identity. this is something that i deeply, deeply regret. darkening yourface, regardless of the context or the circumstances, is always unacceptable because of the racist history of blackface. i should ve understood that then. and i never should ve done it. here s the latest footage to emerge. it was
johnson would not like to go down in history as mr no deal. brazil s president has bowed to international pressure and ordered the armed forces to tackle the record number of fires in the amazon forest. british airways is facing anger from thousands of passengers who ve received emails to say their flights next month have been cancelled because of strikes by pilots over pay. and england s batsmen are fighting to keep their ashes hopes alive at headingley, where they re chasing an unlikely target of 359 to win. prince andrew has released a statement about his friendship with the disgraced financier jeffrey epstein, the first time the prince has spoken directly about his links since epstein took his own life in a new york prison cell earlier this month. prince andrew said at no stage did he see or suspect any criminal behaviour. epstein had been awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges when he killed himself. here s our royal correspondent nicholas witchell. what was pr