When the conservative mayor of the West Midlands accused the government of cancelling the future if the leg between birmingham and manchester isnt built. Speaking outside the conservative Party Conference in manchester, andy street said the government must not give up on h52 and the Prime Minister must rethink radically how the project is delivered. But Downing Street is still insisting that no final decision has been made. With the latest, heres our political editor, chris mason, in manchester. Party conferences are always a cauldron of whispers and gossip. 0k, good evening, everybody. Denials and announcements. At half five tonight, enter the conservative mayor of the West Midlands. Gripping this situation means reexamining it. It does not mean giving up, admitting defeat, you could say, or even, you could say, cancelling the future. Mr street, have you considered resigning over the cancellation of the northern leg of hs2 . Were not talking about that. The issue is were working hard
From new york Gary Odonoghue reports. Donald trump on his way to court yet again. The question this time around is he as rich as he says he is . Its a scam, its a sham. Just so you know, my Financial Statements are phenomenal. And while the former president cant be sent to jail, you as it is a civil trial, this one has really riled him up. And the Violent Crime that is being committed in our city and our state is disgraceful, and were going be here for months, with a judge that already made up his mind, its ridiculous hes a democratjudge, hes an operative, and its ridiculous. Attacking thejudge is a curious tactic, since he will decide on damages. Hes already ruled that mr trump and his children acted fraudulently. But the new York Attorney general is suing mr trump for 250 million for overstating the value of his properties to get cheap loans. No matter how powerful you are, no matter how much money you think you may have, no one is Above The Law. And it is my responsibility and my du
killed by israeli strikes since the start of the war. all major un agencies are now calling for a humanitarian ceasefire. jeremy bowen sent this report from southern israel near the border with gaza. israel promised mighty vengeance. it thundered across beach camp in gaza city. israel s justification is defending the living, as well as avenging its dead. palestinians call this genocide. this girl from jabalia camp is asked what happened to her. she says, a missile came down on us. bricks fell on us. i asked, where s my dad and where s my mum? she is asked, where were you? i was here, in the house. we were at home, and the roof came down on us. we looked in on the war this afternoon from sderot, the closest israeli border town. israel has refused an american request to pause military operations to allow time for humanitarian convoys, or talks to free the hostages. israel might be able to break hamas as a military force, but what happens then? history shows israel s ar
Im katty kay in washington, Christian Fraser is in london. President trump in the last hour has been speaking to members of the Us Armed Forces in tampa, florida. This is his first addressed to troops as their Commander In Chief and he has been speaking in particular about nato. We have your back, every hour of every day, now and always. That also means getting our allies to pay theirfairshare, means getting our allies to pay theirfair share, they are means getting our allies to pay their fair share, they are very unfairto us. Their fair share, they are very unfair to us. They strongly support nato. We only ask that all of the nato. We only ask that all of the nato members make theirfull and properfinancial nato members make theirfull and proper financial contributions to the nato alliance, which many of them have not been doing. 0ur north america correspondent, nick bryant, is here. You were sitting with me in the studio, there is President Trump making what seems like a recommitment
theories, now paying the cost for doing that. we were reporting the other day, i think 11.1, maybe the other day, about $45.2 million. does alex jones have that money? it was interesting because in court he claimed he was bankrupt. yet there was evidence presented by an economist that said he was still making lots of money through his companies, about $800,000 a day. so they really questioned whether or not he was bankrupt. and i should also add that in court he retracted his claims. he said that he d been, you know, just spreading information that he d received. but he had also been going on his web casts and attacking thejudge, attacking thejurors. his lawyer, outside court, once these punitive damages were decided, said this was an attack on the first amendment, this was his right to free speech. but the point that families are making and defamation cases are quite difficult to bring in the us, quite often but the point the families and prosecution were making is that free speec