we need plenty of extra democracy, we need a new system, but not a mayor. birmingham s most famous mayor, liberaljoseph chamberlain, ran the city at the height of its municipal greatness. he controlled the supply of water, electricity, gas. he controlled the police service and the fire service, and for some, the new metro mayor is a welcome return of power to the west midlands. as well as birmingham, the mayor s constituency includes coventry and walsall, dudley and sandwell, solihull and wolverhampton. so what do the passengers on the wolverhampton tram think? the worry is that the smaller conurbations around the west midlands won t get as much as everywhere else. as long as it s a fair crack for everybody then, yeah, go for it. i think it s yet another layer of very expensive bureaucracy, when in essence the country is controlled by central government. they hold the main purse strings. i don t know anything about it, to be honest. have you not been hearing anything about it
the rower katherine grainger is made a dame by the queen. schatz. and coming up in the sport on bbc news: asenal will have to make champions league history tonight, if they are going to overturn a four goal first leg deficit against bayern munich at the emirates. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. facebook has been strongly criticised after a bbc investigation found it is still failing to remove inappropriate and sexualised images of children. after a series of sexually suggestive pictures and comments were reported to the social networking site, more than 80% of them still remained online. the nspcc described facebook‘s response as appalling . facebook says it takes the matter extremely seriously and is continuing to improve its system of removing such content. our correspondent angus crawford reports. the rules are simple. facebook says it removes nudity or sexually suggestive content. but our investigation last year found paedophiles using secret groups
to the bbc news at six. the government is facing the prospect of another defeat in the house of lords over the process of leaving the eu. peers are expected to vote for parliament to be given a legal guarantee of a vote on the final brexit deal. that is, they wa nt final brexit deal. that is, they want mps to have more than a simple yes or no on the final negotiation. it will be the second defeat in a week for the government in the lords over brexit. our political editor laura kuenssberg has been watching the debate. it is theresa may s team. do you think parliament should have a meaningful vote? who do not want to give parliament a promise in writing, against the other team, in the lords, where they are voting to try to force the prime minister to give a foul in law that parliament will have the final say on the eventual deal on brexit. vow. will have the final say on the eventual deal on brexit. vow. we are taking a more principled stand in the house of commons. theres
in a moment it will be time for sportsday but first a look at what other is coming up. as president assad is accused of carrying out war crimes at a un emergency debate on the syrian gas attack, we ll be talking to a founding member of a group, which has compiled a 20 page indictment against the dictator. we ll be hearing from a labour party member who gave evidence at the yesterday s hearing at which ken livingstone avoided expulsion for his comments that adolf hitler supported zionism. and to celebrate the 20th anniversary of hard talk we will have a special programme looking back at the highs and lows of the show. there can t have been any lows! now it is time for sportsday. hello and welcome to sportsday. i m hugh woozencroft. our main headlines this evening. umbrellas at the ready in augusta as players and fans are cleared from the course due to severe thunderstorms. will antonio conte and chelsea beat rejoicing tonight? there is a key match for them in the premier leagu
of thousands of pounds, but it s a drinks campaign which has fallen flat, and the cost to pepsi s reputation could be even greater. elaine dunkley, bbc news. newsnight is coming up on bbc two. here s evan. something strange is happening in the french presidential election, candidates from the two main parties have been overtaken in the opinion polls by outsiders. tonight, we visit a former coalmining region in france to find out what s going on. join me now on bbc two. that s newsnight with evan. here, on bbc one, it s time for the news where you are. hello and welcome to sportsday i m hugh woozencroft. your main headlines this evening. chelsea beat manchester city to preserve their lead at the top on a busy night of premier league action. after 43 yea rs premier league action. after 43 years in the sport, olympic champion nick skelton ‘calls time‘ on his showjumping career. and umbrellas at the ready in augusta as players and fa ns the ready in augusta as players and f