hello and welcome to newswatch with me, samira ahmed. she won t take part in a televised leaders debate. if she won t, then he won t. will the bbc do more to make a head to head happen? and are the green party being given a fair share of airtime on the bbc‘s special election programmes. there has been a bit of a phoney war feel to the election campaign so far. before the parties began publishing their manifestos. many questions had been fobbed off with this answer, given to laura kuenssberg byjeremy corbyn on tuesday. well, you will have to wait for the manifesto for the details. you were expecting that answer. those manifestos will be officially unveiled next week, but on wednesday night we got a sneak preview of what labour s might contain. somehow, an earlier version had ended up in the hands of chris mason. i can t claim i ve read it all, but here it is. stamped right through the middle of the document, about 20,000 words in total, draft, confidential. in other words,
that a stomach churning interview, it made uncomfortable viewing on many fronts, not the least of which is the absolute obsequiousness of the presenters. and one twitter user wondered, how can this propaganda be allowed when may runs from a face to face debate? yes, the television debates. the format in which senior politicians appear in the set piece election programmes only started in 2010, but has since become a battle ground with broadcasters. in 2015 david cameron refused to follow the example of his predecessor as prime minister, gordon brown, and take part in a head to head discussion on the bbc with other party leaders. five of whom appeared without him in a so called challengers debate. theresa may has followed his example and jeremy corbyn has said he won t take part in such a programme either, if she doesn t. so this time round we were told this week the bbc will be showing a debate featuring senior representatives from labour, the conservatives, the liberal de
around a0 nhs trusts and some gp surgeries were hit but there s no sign that patient data has been compromised. iamat i am at saint barts, the largest nhs trust in the country. it runs five hospitals here in east london, and all of them will be closed today for routine outpatient appointments. organisations around the world have been affected by the malicious software known as ransomware with reports of infections in dozens of countries. good morning. it s saturday the 13th of may. also today, labour s deputy leader tom watson warns his party faces a margaret thatcher style landslide defeat if it doesn t improve its ratings in the polls. in sport, chelsea the champions. they can finally celebrate after a late win at west brom secured the premier league title in antonio conte‘s first season in charge. and you cannot stop a brownlee. johnny refuses to give up in yokohama. after a nasty trashy picks up yokohama. after a nasty trashy picks up his bike and runs with it. a
the show and it is just wonderful to have all of this support. i really thank everybody for it. that is the winner of masterchef, 2017. now we can see what the weather forecast is holding for us. i m so looking forward to my salad, you have no idea. i will still be hungry afterwards. we have a mixed bag of weather, we have some low cloud and damp conditions across northern ireland, but the sunshine has been developing more widely. in the south west and across wales. the sunshine will move into england and wales. the rain is transferring north through northern ireland into scotla nd north through northern ireland into scotland where we have a few showers and the wet weather will move north through scotland. some thundery showers possible in the highlands. cool and damp to enter the afternoon, but improving in northern england. across northern ireland it will brighten up briefly and left those temperatures ahead of the showers which arrive in the evening. that is knocking on th
about our future, a choice about following the uk down the brexit path or becoming an independent country. prosecutors abandon an indecent assault case against rolf harris, after a jury fails to reach a verdict. also in the next hour killed doing the job she always wanted. the mother of zookeeper rosa king, who was killed by a tiger, says she loved her work, and wouldn t have done anything else. and back in the top flight after 45 years huddersfield town will celebrate promotion to the premier league with an open top bus parade later today. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. with just over a week to go to the general election, campaigning has resumed in earnest, after a pause because of the manchester attack. labour leaderjeremy corbyn, focusing today on the issue of childcare, found himself in a bbc interview unable to provide the cost of a key pledge extending free childcare to all two year olds. meanwhile, theresa may, campaigning in the west midlands on brexit,