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with the eu in 2020. it wants to change the northern ireland protocol to make it easierfor some goods to flow from great britain to northern ireland. it is as disgraceful, it does nothing to serve the interests of people here, it flies in the face of international given that he himself negotiated. well have the latest on that from our correspondent in washington. russia has aged bridges in a avoidance, warning that it is now official —— impossible to leave the city. ukrainian troop...

it is unfair because of human rights, the equality act and the public sector equality duty, it is unfair to treat disabled people differently. and queen elizabeth ii becomes the worlds second longest serving monarch — only louis xiv of france has ruled for longer. hello and welcome to bbc news. a former british soldier has been killed fighting in ukraine, his family have announced. jordan gatley — who left the british army in march — died in the battle for the eastern city of sev...

hello, this is bbc news. im shaun ley. the headlines. the family of former british soldier jordan gatley say hes been killed fighting for the ukrainian armed forces in the eastern city of severodonetsk. ministers order a review into whether a 5 pence cut in fuel duty is being passed on quickly enough to drivers. its horrendous. i dont know how people are going to survive. i rely on my car all the time, and its a huge cost to everybody. it comes as a leading business group tells the bbc...

hello and welcome along to sportsday. im �*s era —— sarah mulkerrins. joe root hits 150 as they back to back against new zealand. dan evans rounds off a perfect week. and linn grant becomes the first female winner on the dp world tour after victory in scandinavia. welcome along to sportsday. day three was all about englands batters as they dominated play at trent bridge. starting the day on 90 for one, they were looking at a hefty first endings told her a 553. play ended with a r...

and you are looking in for every week and month that goes by, the dream of homeownership recedes further into the distance. the average age of first—time buyers has been rising continuously. the proportion of young people who can afford to buy their own home has been falling. between 2005—2016, the proportion of 2534 —year—olds that owned their own home fell by 20%, whereas in most other countries, it has been rising. it is true that we still have higher rates of overall homeow...

embarrassed to admit they watch television. >> hello. >> people used to say i was there. now they say i watch it on television. ♪ slowly but surely, the 1970s are disappearing. the 1980s will be upon us. what a decade it is coming up. >> happy new year! >> as you begin the 80s in the television world, the landscape nine out of ten watching one of only three networks. >> more than 30 million people are aducked to it. social critics are mystified by its success. what is it? its telev...

screen, developments in great britain right now. the very future of boris johnson, the prime minister that is under duress, if you look at it that way from his own conservative government, 359 members that are voting whether he should stay in power or that they have lost confidence in him. we should know the results soon as the leader of the torres goes, someone else would have to take over. who that next person would be. the unlikely that this happens is anyones guess. even if he surv...

people who do know it is a lie but they choose to repeat the lie and choose to live in that alternative reality? >> well your exactly right. there is a tendency to think this is somehow based on education or experience or anything else. and it is not whether you went to college or where you went to college that is the most likely predictor, it is whether you consumer right-wing media. youre more likely to bring conspiracy theories about vaccines and elections. that is the problem in th...

the country philadelphia, chattanooga, phoenix, chicago. just some of the city that is saw shootings over the weekend as families continue to grieve the 21 lives taken in the texas massacre. well ask congressman colin allred what more can be done at the federal level. in ukraine, russia striking kyiv with missiles for the first time in weeks. well take you live to ukraine. also this hour, new detailing around the fatal shooting of a retired wisconsin judge. police say the suspect was...

>> all of us here know that we are present at the making of history. >> as the queen takes her first cautious steps as monarch, she is torn between the palace old guard led by her mother and those like her husband, philip, who want change. with scandals swirling around her sister margaret threatening to tarnish her reign, the queen must assert her power, sacrificing the happiness of those she loves. >> february 1952. elizabeth ii has been queen for just a few days, following the death ...