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its monday 12th june. mps who have been investigating whether borisjohnson misled parliament about covid lockdown parties are meeting today to conclude their inquiry. mrjohnson has already seen a copy of their report and he resigned as an mp on friday describing the common�*s privileges committee as a kangaroo court. our political correspondent damian grammaticas reports. this is what the privileges committee has been looking into. borisjohnson attending pandemic parties. at one he b...

hello, welcome to verified live. three hours of breaking stories, and checking out the truth behind them. a man with a knife has attacked nursery school children in the french town of annecy. the victims are as young as three, according to french reports, which say two children and a man are in a life—threatening condition. one of the children attacked is a british national and another is a dutch national. a man was arrested near the scene. the moment of his arrest was captured on ca...

lets stay with the subject of whether its breaking news coming to us today from the uk health security agency. it has issued a weekend heat health alert. the heat health alert has been erased from yellow to a more severe amber, with warnings in three different regions of england, the midlands, eastern and southern england. the amber alert which is more severe than what we had before comes into effect from 9am on friday and indicates that high temperatures could affect the whole populat...

i think in my acting days, i did a tiny bit of bbc radio. oh, you did? it might have been in this very studio some 60—odd years ago. really, here? fantastic. well, weve got to dig those performances from the vault. i cant think what it was. it was something. ken loach, welcome to this cultural life. its a great pleasure to come. and good to see you. you too. you were born in 1936. you grew up in the midlands. tell me about your family. what did your parents do? my father was an elect...

smog from wild fires in canada, blankets new york and large parts of the east of the usa. nearly 100 million people could be affected. supermarkets are seeing a massive change in the way we shop. news research shows were buying groceries less often since the pandemic, and the shift to online has slowed. ill be taking a look. good morning. todays weather is very similar to yesterday. as we head to the weekend it is going to turn hotter and more humid by day and by night and we are looki...

really, here? fantastic. well, weve got to dig those performances from the vault. i cant think what it was. it was something. ken loach, welcome to this cultural life. its a great pleasure to come. and good to see you. you, too. you were born in 1936. you grew up in the midlands. tell me about your family. what did your parents do? my father was an electrical engineer. took his apprenticeship in the mines. the whole family, my fathers family were miners from the warwickshire coalfields...

i cant think what it was. it was something. ken loach, welcome to this cultural life. its a great pleasure to come. and good to see you. you, too. you were born in 1936. you grew up in the midlands. tell me about your family. what did your parents do? my father was an electrical engineer. took his apprenticeship in the mines. the whole family, my fathers family were miners from the warwickshire coalfields, and he worked at alfred herberts machine tool factory all his life. ao—odd yea...

i come here mainly to walk the dog in the morning and in the afternoon, and then also, its a great place to just clear your thoughts. ive come to london to meet gurinder chadha, a pioneering figure in the film industry — the first british asian woman to direct mainstream features in the uk. films that have won major awards and become international hits. in her movies, some eight feature films in all, from her best—known bend it like beckham... no—one can cross a ball or bend it l...

more sunshine around today, especially for eastern areas. before full weekend forecast is coming up here and breakfast. its friday 2nd june. our main story. the former this morning presenter phillip schofield says he has "lost everything", after admitting to lying about an affair with a young colleague. in his first interview since resigning from itv, mr schofield says he desperately regrets the relationship, but insists it was consensual and he strenuously denies claims that he groome...

disruption. gales or severe gales. it will be windy wherever you are. cloud and outbreaks of patchy rain in the west moving south, from the north, a return to sunshine and blustery showers, perhaps a bit of wintriness over the higher ground of scotland and temperatures up to about 13 in london but only five in aberdeen. moving ahead towards friday, it will be another blustery sort of day but not as windy as it will be tomorrow. thanks, sarah. and thats bbc news at six. you can keep up ...