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coming up: the government heads off the threat of a defeat on the queen s speech, by offering a concession on abortion rights for women in northern ireland. we will be funding her department with additionalfunding so that she can make a grant to the external organisations who will provide these services. the culture secretary says she s minded to refer fox s proposed takeover of sky to the competition watchdog. and is another parliamentary tradition about to disappear, as the speaker hints he s relaxing the dress code? the question of whether that member is wearing a tie is not absolutely front and centre stage. but first, the government has seen off a possible rebellion in the commons by announcing that it will fund abortions for women who travel from northern ireland to england. a cross party group of mps was threatening to back an amendment to the queen s speech put forward by the labour mp stella creasy. with a tiny majority in the commons the government bowed to th ....
and many relying more and more on friends and family. hello, welcome to the programme, we re live until 11 this morning. lots to talk to us about today, including if you are a family caring for a disabled child, tell us about your experiences, do you get the help and support you need? do get in touch on all the stories we re talking about this morning, at the standard network rate. our top story today britain s surveillance agency, gchq, to spy on donald trump as utterly ridiculous . it s unusual for the agency to issue public statements, but it says that claims first made on fox news and repeated by the white house our news correspondent richard lister is with me. richard, tell us first of all how it came about that gchq was in the frame. i suppose we should go back to the original allegation which came from president trump, who said on the 4th of march, terrible, just found out obama had my wires tapped in trump tower just found out obama had my wires tapped in trump tow ....
that can lip read better than humans which has been trained on bbc news programmes. an international conservation body has given its backing to scottish north sea haddock after it was taken off a list of sustainable fish to eat . good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. it s rare for britain s intelligence community to make a public statement about anything. but the secret surveillance agency gchq has firmly rebutted allegations repeated by the white house that it spied on donald trump. gchq said the claims were ‘nonsense, utterly ridiculous, and should be ignored . this morning, downing street said it was promised by the white house that the allegations wouldn t be repeated. richard lister reports. it is an extraordinary claim, that donald trump was bugged by gchq on the orders of barack obama, a claim that has led to strenuous denials from london. it was first tweeted by president trump who said his phone had been tapped before his inauguration. he said presid ....
chancellor merkel heads to the white house amid growing us complaints that german business isn t playing fair. plus, a yawning hole in our finances. we lack of sleep could be if??? g; l??? “inhiiéiuféfiif billions from the global wiping billions from the global economy. welcome to world business report we start in the us where president trump will be hosting german chancellor angela merkel at the white house later. coming up, singapore has its best month for trade in five years. now, back to the us, and their meeting w eit‘fiteetitiq germany later. the two nations are major trading partners but there s been growing concern on the us side that their relationship is simply not fair. the rhetoric has raised fears of a damaging trade war. let me show you why. last year the us sold $49 billion worth of goods to germany everything from boeing airliners to pfizer medicifieif ., that sounds like a healthy figure until you look at this one %“: ....
it s rare for britain s intelligence community to make a public statement about anything. so the fact that gchq felt it had to rebut allegations that it spied on donald trump shows how seriously they took the comments made by the white house press secretary, sean spicer. gchq said the claims were nonsense, utterly ridiculous, and should be ignored . £225 i292; £553,516? £52531 ”777 , downing street says it s been promised by the white house that the allegations won t be repeated. it is an extraordinary claim, that donald trump was bugged by gchq on the orders of barack obama, a claim that has led to strenuous denials from london. it was first tweeted by president trump who said his phone had been tapped before his inauguration. he said president obama was a bad or sick guy. the intelligence committee said there was no evidence. the evidence remains the same, we do not have any evidence that took place. we have cleared that up, we have seen no evidence of that ....