Anything. Also coming up the next few hours could decide whether i go america remains tanser of germany as talks to form a new Coalition Government goes down to the wire and siemens announces plans to cut nearly seven thousand jobs will it be in germany the unions are calling it an attack on the employees. Plus an unprecedented sale at christies in new york the pings is so. A five hundred year old masterpiece by Leonardo Da Vinci becomes the most expensive piece of art ever sold at auction. And an island paradise that could soon be underwater cura bhatti on the front line of Climate Change as the u. N. Climate conference draws to a close in germany. Im sara kelly welcome to the Program Thanks for joining us a new turn of events in zimbabwe a newspaper has published photos of president Robert Mugabe holding talks with the military and a delegation from south africa the president of that country jacob zuma says that the political situation will quote become very clear shortly so is a sol
Marriage, we speak to a heterosexual couple fighting for a Civil Partnership, the problem is they are only available to same sex couples. This is being debated in the house of commons today. Should the law be changed to allow it to be available for everyone . Hello. Welcome to the programme, were live until 11 this morning. Well be talking about Prostate Cancer. The number of men dying from this has now overtaken the number of women dying from Breast Cancer for the first time in britain. Wed like to hear from you. Are you suffering from Prostate Cancer . Or maybe someone in your family . Or have you survived it . Do get in touch on all the stories were talking about this morning. Use the hashtag victorialive. And if you text, you will be charged at the Standard Network rate. Our top story today. Theresa may has insisted she is delivering what the british people want on brexit, despite persistent criticism of her approach from within the conservative party. The Prime Minister has ended
Half hour ago. Take a look. This is where the fire has jumped at parts. Jumped highway 20. This is what they did not want to happen. They were trying to hold the fire at highway 20 but it jumped across the highway in spot fires and in some cases running up a ridge that they were about to send an air attack after. This is the time of day when things change. We were really in the nick of it thick of it along highway 20, the Northern Edge of the fire. They have been doing water drops with the helicopters helicopters and the air tankers. Going after the fire with everything they have. I keep hearing this is unprecedented. As of this morning it was 60,000 acres and growing. We watched it approaching towards us along highway 20. 5,000 people have been evacuated. We have been watching today in the last 10 minutes emergency vehicles rush to try contain the flames. We talked to one of the Public Information officers, here is what he had to say. Yeah. We have been talking about, you know, every
Minutes one day before plants a session referendum questions in catalonia about whether the vote will proceed and what happens next. Meanwhile across the border in france the second largest cattle and community watches and waits. The u. N. Will investigate accusations of war crimes in yemen but its had to make a lot of compromises. With an agenda stretching from trade to north korea the u. S. Secretary of state arrives in china. Spains catalonia region is twenty four hours away from a political confrontation a banned secession referendum is scheduled to take place on sunday campaigners for a yes vote occupying schools expected to be used as polling stations but the Spanish Government insists there will be no vote it says the referendum is illegal and is deploying police to ensure that no ballots are cast opinion polls suggest forty percent of registered voters in catalonia want to break away. Call pennell is live for us in barcelona i believe the police have been pretty active today. A
Agrees to pay the money she says it owes to the e. U. Also coming up new britches sure the extent of the devastation caused by months of fighting in the form of Islamic State stronghold of dhaka what does the future hold for the city. And the willows along with india over the saving event kicks off this weekend with a new rule aimed at more gender equality that is shaking up the competition. Hello and welcome a man with a good to have your company. Elite isnt bustles are trying to work out how to speed up talks on bragg said today was supposed to be the day when the announced the negotiations would be moving on to the next stage but the process has been stored by a number of core issues britains tourism he has appealed to e. U. Leaders a meeting in brussels to inject more urgency into the discussions to resign me has held a News Conference in brussels this is what she had to say. Both sides have approached these talks with professionalism and a constructive spirit and we should recogni