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also: the final week of campaigning is underway in the french presidential election, between marine le pen and emmanuel macron. police and protesters against far right candidate marine le pen have clashed in paris. a new picture of princess charlotte taken by her mother has been released ahead of her second birthday. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. downing street says it doesn t recognise an account published in a german newspaper of a supposedly fractious dinner between the prime minister and the european commission president, jean claude juncker, last week. the newspaper reported there were sharp disagreements about how quickly a deal could be reached over the rights of british and eu citizens and how much the uk owed the eu. number ten described it as a constructive meeting. our political correspondent leila nathoo reports. no love lost between the prime minister and the european commission s presidentjean claude juncker last week. a chance to get t ....
i congratulate you on your reelection at least someone got a landslide. and i m sure we all look forward to welcoming the queen s speech just as soon as the coalition of chaos has been negotiated. also this hour: inflation hits a nearfour year high continuing the squeeze on consumers as prices rise faster than wages. and the european commission will rule shortly on whether brexit means euro clearing houses should be moved out of london. talks between theresa may and the leadership of the democratic unionist party at downing street aimed at securing support for a minority conservative government have finished for the day. arlene foster and nigel dodds arrived here to speak to theresa may, and they were inside for some time. quite lengthy talks. the bbc understands there are no issues outstanding from the negotiations and that a deal has been largely agreed. we hear that considerable progress has been made. we have also heard that arlene foster, the leader, is p ....
we all look forward to welcoming the queen s speechjust as soon as the coalition of chaos has been negotiated. the other main stories on bbc news at 5pm: inflation hits a nearfour year high, continuing the squeeze on consumers as prices rise faster than wages. and the european commission is expected to put forward proposals which could strip london of the multi billion pound euro clearing market following brexit. very good evening from downing street, where it is hoped that the deal will eventually be done between theresa may and the democratic unionist party. there were several hours of talks today. the prime minister is now in france for that meeting with emmanuel micron. we understand, that there are no outstanding issues between the two, but we do not have that firm conclusion of talks, and any announcement of a deal so far today. we will have more from stormont in a moment. we will also be talking to former secretary of state for northern ireland, about his views o ....
us. bbc us. bbc ors us. bbc or s is how to retailers. let s begin with a major political story here in the uk. theresa may has a deal in place to help her government get a parliamentary majority. he s it is being signed by the prime minister s conservative party along with the democratic changes party for northern ireland. this is not a coalition, the dup is not in government in that way. it has agreed to support the government on key votes in parliament such as those on the national budget and multiple times on brexit. needless to say the dup will be getting plenty in return, you can read the entire agreement online. it has been posted by the government but the headline figure getting the attention is that northern ireland will get around £1 billion in extra funding over the next two years. that is. $1.3 billion. that has had a mixed response. the other devolved nations are not impress impressed. use the welsh first minister saying that they still represent ....
in singapore, midnight in london and 8am in kuala lumpur, where it is reported that the half brother of the north korean leader, kim jong un, was killed. police save kim jong nam was found dead at kuala lumpur airport. american intelligence sources say they strongly believe that he was murdered i north korean agents. our correspondent sent this report from tokyo. this is kim jong nam, whose body is thought to be the one now lying in a malaysian morgue. officials there say he died after being sprayed in the face with something at kuala lumpur airport this morning. south korean media immediately claimed north korean agents had assassinated kim on the orders of his own younger brother, kim jong un. north korea s young dictator has been tightening his grip on power, ruthlessly purging potential opponents. what s so sensitive? last year i saw for myself how strange north korea can be. i was detained and expelled for insulting the kim leadership. much more telling is what he ....