to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. there is quite a lot of us! look who was passing and dropped in! with me arejohn rentoul, the chief political columnist at the independent, ruth lea, economic adviser for arbuthnot banking group and the broadcaster charlie wolf. you are here to talk three 100 days of the donald trump administration. we are discombobulated by this new format! tomorrow s front pages.. the observer reports on today s summit of eu leaders saying they want the uk to provide guarantees to eu citizens living in britain before any trade talks can begin. the sunday times also leads on the summit, reporting that the other eu member states have rejected theresa may s negotiating position and accused her of living in a parallel reality . the sunday telegraph says the prime minister has rejected the demands coming from brussels as politicians on both sides of the channel warned that the talks could turn nasty. the mail on sunday reports that theresa ma
offences, including five murders. and 46 years after their last series triumph in new zealand, the british and irish lions prepare to take on the all blacks. and coming up in sportsday on bbc news: i made a mistake and i must face up to it the words of british number three tennis player dan evans, after announcing he tested positive for cocaine in april. good evening. a mass evacuation is underway tonight of nearly 4000 people from 800 households in tower blocks in north london. camden council says it took the decision this evening, after it was told by fire services that the cladding on the blocks is not up to standard and the safety of the residents can t be guaranteed. the police have revealed that the cladding and insulation on grenfell tower has failed initial fire safety tests. they say they are now looking at criminal offences, including manslaughter. at least 79 people are known to be dead or missing after the blaze at the tower block last week. tom symonds has mo
by the public spending watchdog. the national audit office says ministers have locked consumers into paying for hinkley point through a subsidy on electricity bills that s risen from £6 billion to £30 billion. the government says the plant will provide clean electricity for six million homes. our science editor david shukman reports. each scoop of this digger lifts 30 tonnes of earth. look down at the driver of the truck below for a sense of scale. this is where one of two nuclear reactors will stand at hinkley point. 1,600 people work here now. soon, it will be 5,000. it s an immense and controversial project, and even now, the national audit office has weighed in, attacking the costs. the government has committed consumers to a risky and expensive deal with uncertain economic and strategic benefits. the government s case for proceeding with the deal last september was not clear cut. the concern is not so much the £18 billion to build the power station that s covered by
to swing last autumn‘s election. but today, donald trump s son, donald junior, was forced to release a string of emails suggesting he knowingly met last summer with russian officials who promised to dish dirt on hillary clinton. today, democratic senator tim kaine mrs clinton s running mate said, in terms of what s being investigated, this is moving into perjury, false statements and even potentially treason . a former watergate prosecutor described the emails as a smoking cannon . the president, meanwhile, defended his son as a high quality person committed to transparency. they only actually met last week but the exact relationship between president trump and his russian counterpart is a constant theme among critics. there were plenty of allegations but not much fact. now, details of a meeting between meeting willett were members of the trump campaign and a russian lawyer have changed that. the picture is rapidly evolving, the president s son having to shift his p
by being caught now, lives have been saved. number ten tries to stamp out cabinet bickering over post brexit immigration, but is the row over free movement over? are you paying too much for your bank overdraft? the financial watchdog wants fundamental changes. moeen ali s hat trick takes england to a thumping victory over south africa at the oval. and coming up in sportsday later in the hour on bbc news. a step towards safe standing in the premier league, after an influential liverpool fans‘ group voted in favour of the move. good evening from tyne cot cemetery in belgium, where commemorations have been taking place to mark 100 years since the start one of the bloodiest battles of world war i. over three months, british and allied troops clashed with german soldiers in what became known as the battle of passchendaele. in the fields around this cemetery, around 500,000 soldiers, on both sides of the war, were killed, wounded or went missing. as the battle began, torrential r