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and they ask us to help, as i say, i think it will be very difficult to say no. we don t need unilateral action, we need to work through the un but, above all, we need to bend ourselves totally to getting a political settlement in syria. the government loses a court bid to delay publication of its air pollution strategy until after the general election. new figures show a big rise in violent crime in england and wales with knife crime at its highest level for six years. and how readers are turning off their e books and switching back to paper, as publishers enjoy a record year. good evening, there s been a major security operation in whitehall as armed police arrested a man suspected of planning acts of terrorism. a rucksack and several knives have been recovered from the scene, but no one has been injured. it s understood officers from scotland yard s counter terrorism command moved in on the suspect as part of an intelligence led operation. the prime minister was not ....
to put england on top in the third test at the oval. plus, a moment of tv history. casualty celebrates 30 years on air with a special episode filmed in just one take with just one camera. and sarah has the weather. good morning. it s a fairly mixed picture through the weekend. there are spells of sunshine, but also plenty of blustery showers. i ll bring you the details in about 15 minutes. look forward to it, sarah, thanks. good morning, first our main story. donald trump s top white house aid has resigned after days of public infighting at the white house. earlier this week chief of staff, reince priebus, was described as a paranoid schizophrenic by the president s new director of communications. the new man in charge of making sure the administration runs smoothly is former military generaljohn kelly. here s our north america correspondent peter bowes. another tweet, another resignation, another day in the trump presidency. reince priebus is the latest senior figure i ....
we ll be talking to the winners and losers. and who would you trust with your bank account. we will need one london digital bank that promises a new way of managing your money. we ask what would be the one thing you change about the bank you use, cheaper loans, better interest rates, faster service? let us know. .just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. hello and welcome to business live. good to have you with us. banking is dominating the programme today, get in touch with your thoughts. we are talking about europe s biggest bank, hsbc. one of the world s biggest banks, hsbc, has reported its latest set of earnings and if you re a shareholder you are going to be very pleased with what they have to say today. the bank made a pre tax profit of $5.28 billion in the second quarter of the year that s more than the $4.6 than the $4.6 billion that analysts were expecting. hsbc announced a share buyback of up to $2 billion as it looks to make the most of its huge cash pile. the move ....
cup quarterfinal. good evening and welcome to bbc news. major new offensive is underway in iraq against the so called islamic state group with security forces trying to regain full control of mosul. the city was seized more than two years ago as is took control of northern and western iraq. iraqi forces launched their main offensive in october. and last month they recaptured the eastern part of mosul. but around three quarters of a million civilians remain in the western half where there ll be stiff resistance from is. our middle east correspondent, quentin sommerville, and cameraman nik millard are the only television journalists on the front line with the iraqi forces. just after sunrise, iraq began what it hopes is its last major battle against the so called islamic state. thousands of men and hundreds of armoured vehicles in a line of attack that spread for miles. the iraqi army are starting their assault on western mosul. they have reached their own defences. ....
good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. aid agencies say the international community must not ignore a warning that the world faces the worst humanitarian crisis since the end of the second world war. the united nations under secretary general for humanitarian affairs, stephen o brien, says more than 20 million people are at risk of starvation in four countries nigeria, somalia, south sudan and yemen. he warns that three and a half billion pounds is needed byjuly to avert disaster. our world affairs correspondent richard galpin has more details: for months now, it s been known that millions of people, including young babies like this, in yemen, have been starving. she was just four months old when a bbc team met her in december. and across yemen, hundreds of thousands more children have so little to eat they are struggling to stay alive. and the threat of mass starvation is affecting three other countries. this is a refugee camp in south sudan, which, like yemen, has ....