As englands opener is ruled out of their next two matches with a hamstring injury. Good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. Chaos, confusion and Communications Problems hampered the efforts of Emergency Services to help victims of the London Bridge attacks. A senior London Ambulance Service Manager told the inquest that it took too long to reach some of the victims, more than three hours after the attackers had been killed. But he also praised ambulance crews who volunteered to go into a potentially dangerous area despite the possible risk to themselves. Eight people died and nearly 50 were injured in the attacks injune 2017. Our correspondent Richard Lister is at the old bailey. What more was said today . One of the Big Questions of this inquest is why it took so long for medical teams to get into borough market. We got some of the answers today. One was that police kept them out because they we re police kept them out because they were concerned there were still attackers on
Power to try to hold back the desert sands. Good morning. It is 7 00am in singapore, midnight in london, and 8 00am in osaka, where leaders of the worlds biggest economies have gathered for the 620 summit. In just a few hours time, they will gather for the official family photo which will get the summit underway. Trade wars, iran and Climate Change are all topics that are likely to dominate. For more on this, i am joined now by our correspondent Rupert Wingfield hayes in osaka. Rivets, even before the summit begins, already tensions building with President Trump ruffling a few feathers rupert. With President Trump ruffling a few feathers rupert. Thats right, rico. President trump on his way he has managed to sort of throw down the gauntlet or say some fairly controversial things about several of the people that he is going to meet here today. So he managed to say to indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi that he has imposed unacceptable Narendra Modi that he has imposed u na cce pta ble t
Where huge tracts of forests are being wiped out. This is happening all over the amazon, to create new farmland, and the result is that the great forest has never been under such pressure. It is 9am in hong kong and you can see that this is the cleanup of what the protesters did to the Legislative Council building overnight. In the early hours of this morning, we heard from the chief executive, carrie lamb who held a News Conference to condemn the violence. She said they disregarded the rule of law. The protests coincided with the 22nd annivesary of the handover of power from the uk to china, and the growing discontent over a proposed law which would make it easier to extradite people to china to stand trial. If the extradition bill had passed, it would have made it possible for people to face trial. Rupert Wingfield Hayes has the latest. Exactly 22 years after china took control here, the youth of hong kong today vented their fury, attempting to smash their way into the territorys par
Hello and welcome to bbc news. The European Union and the south American Economic bloc, mercosur have agreed a huge free trade deal after two decades of talks. The agreement with argentina, brazil, paraguay and uruguay creates a market for goods and Services Covering almost eight hundred million people. Heres our south America Business correspondent, daniel gallas. All attention is about trade tensions between china and the United States, the news of brexit being negotiated, so were seeing politicians saying that the best way to create jobs is to lower tariffs and reduce protectionism. Its not a view that everyone shares in south america and europe, and politicians will still have the trouble to make their point at home with their member states, but it is quite significant that a deal that has been negotiated for over 20 years has been struck at this moment. What you think the biggest benefits will be that people in south america will see out of all of this . Well, the people of south
Mission control room to the public. Hello and welcome. Theres anticipation building as President Trump and chinas xijinping are due to meet in just over an hours time at the 620 summit injapan. The two countries are, of course, currently locked in a bitter trade war which is threatening to escalate. All eyes are on whether this meeting can break the deadlock. Ourjapan correspondent, Rupert Wingfield hayes is at the summit in osaka. He is watching all of the happenings for us. Rupert, can you give us an idea of how crucial this meeting will be . Yes, it is the meeting that has overshadowed the whole of this 620 has overshadowed the whole of this g20 summit, yesterday and today. This meeting will happen in about one and a half hours time. The reason everybody is watching this meeting so closely is because it is the first time President Trump and president xijinping been the first time President Trump and president xi jinping been able to sit down face to face since the trade war between