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in sport: still in the title race. tottenham beat crystal palace and keep the heat on leaders chelsea. a boom for books as the publishing industry has a surge in sales and a record year. and carol has the weather. a chilly start in southern areas, with a touch of frost. but here we ve got early sunshine. most of the uk will be cloudy, with showers and a few sunny spells in between. more in about 15 minutes. thank you amcu bend. see you then. tensions are rising in north korea, as the u 5 call for more pressure to force the country to give up its nuclear weapons programmes. last night, president trump briefed all 100 members of the senate, revealing a strategy of economic sanctions and diplomacy. but washington also said they were prepared to defend themselves and their allies, as our correspondent laura bicker reports. the us is piling on the pressure. this is a military exercise just north of the north korean border. a message that the us is ready if diplomatic effo ....
the jobs that are being created. i ll have more later. in sport, italian championjuventus took a big stride towards the champions league final. jose mourinho has set his sights on winning the europa league in the semi final tonight. also this morning: the story of eight year old marin and herfriendship with police dog in training tag. he is my best friend. he is basically my special bff. and carol has the weather. there is a north south split, in the north it will be sunny, in the south it will be cloudy with showery outbreaks of rain. in the east in the breeze once again it will be chilly. i have more injust over ten minutes. good morning. first, our main story. a bbc breakfast investigation into the treatment of eating disorder has shown rising numbers of men being affected by conditions like anorexia and bulimia. figures obtained through a freedom of information request showed the number of males receiving out patent treatment in england is rising at double the rat ....
numbers. i will give you an example. in 1984, we had about 17journeys per day between london and manchester. now we have 47. we have the busiest train lines in europe. about 20% more journeys than france, 60% more than germany. about 20% more journeys than france, 6096 more than germany. that is a response to demand. british rail tailored its demands and services accordingly in the same way. this is not actually a fact that you can point to to say, it is because it is private and it has done better. it is nearly gone merely grown because of endogenous factors. is nearly gone merely grown because of endogenous factorsm terms of the practicalities of this, people may come to this neutral and say, i can remember what british ra i lwa ys say, i can remember what british railways were like, i know what the ra i lwa ys railways were like, i know what the railways are like now. if i am a southern rail customer, i might not like the fact that there have been so like the f ....
we hearfrom michel faber, whose new book of poems came about after his wife s death. good evening and welcome to bbc news. labour s election manifesto has been formally approved by the party leadership and is set to be launched within days. but some of the main parts of the manifesto have already found their way into the public domain, after a version of the document was leaked overnight. it included proposals to re nationalise the railways, and to scrap university tuition fees in england. the shadow chancellor, john mcdonnell, said it was a modern and progressive set of proposals. the party leaderjeremy corbyn said the manifesto had been unanimously agreed, and all its contents were carefully costed. they wondered what exactly was going on, and you might too. this was meant to be the grand unveiling of a labour poster, albeit on a waste ground in south london. but the party leader was nowhere to be seen. jeremy corbyn should have been selling the slogan. he d been pr ....
nice to be here. would you agree with me that your bank has moved an awful long way from those early days and from its original mission? no, i wouldn t. i would certainly agree with you that we have expanded our geographically, but the mission is the same. private sector development, the creation of effective markets. we re still actually operating in oui’ we re still actually operating in our traditional region. but because of the success of the business model, we decided we should expand to turkey, central asia and north africa, as you said. it is a sign of success, not mission creep. the problem with that is that from the beginning, you were a financial institution underpinned by a clear statement of values. in the places you ve just outlined where you operate today, those values do not seem to be applied in the same way. sometimes there are values, such as political, democratic, values, pluralism, like stated. they are certainly applied inconsistently in some plac ....