Will face charges over claims theyd breached the rules on Campaign Spending during the last General Election. Fifa investigates paul pogbas £89 million transfer from juventus to Manchester United last summer. And pigs do fly. 50 years after pink floyds Debut Album A Celebration and exhibition to mark the anniversary. Its 5 oclock, good afternoon. President trump has defended his decision to sack the head of the fbi without warning saying hed lost the confidence of almost everyone in washington. But critics from both sides say the dismissal of james comey smacks of a cover up, to do with the agencys investigation into possible collusion between the trump president ial campaign and russia. From washington, heres rajini vaidyanathan. Absolutely explosive news from washington. This is a fox news alert. James comey has been fired. Politics in the time of trump is often unpredictable but this was a political bombshell that few saw coming. Back in washington today james comey was in los ange
Publicly owned Energy Company in every part of the uk. National grid, railways and Bus Companies are to be nationalised. Well, im joined byjack blanchard, the mirrors Political Editor replete with a copy of this thing. And with our own Political Editor, nick watt. Just to be clear, jack, what you have there is a print out. Its not a typeset, formalised version . Im afraid not. No cover, no glossy feel. It is a dodgy, leaked document. But it does have their draft measures. Give us some of the eye catching ones. Theres a lot in there. As you mention, there is the plan to bring a big part of the Energy Industry back into public ownership. There is a Huge Investment plans for the nhs, £6 billion extra a year, which will be funded with new taxes on people earning more than £80,000 a year. Theres Council Houses to be built every year, tuition fees abolished entirely. We kind of knew that anyway. And then the creation of new whitehall departments, a ministry of labour, a department for hous
And any ties to Trumps Campaign. The former tv presenter rolf harris is being released on bail tomorrow. The veteran entertainer is currently on trial accused of indecently assaulting three girls between 1971 and 1983. Retail sales rose by 2. 3 last month defying Market Expectations that rising inflation would cause a consumer slowdown. Hello and good morning. Welcome to bbc news. Im sophie long, in West Yorkshire. Where theresa may will promise to address the rising cost of social care in england and curb immigration when she launches the Conservative Manifesto shortly. It has been delayed due to Travel Problems and there have been a couple of protests which have sprung up. Small protests at this stage. One to the side of the building and another to the entrance. Shortly theresa may will arrive here and unveiled the Conservative Party plans for the election. Lets take you through what we are expecting to hear from theresa may at this stage. The party is promising that no one will have
Global industry. There was a bomb in the city centre. A code word known to be one used by the ira was given. Army bomb experts were examining a suspect van when there was a huge explosion. The South African Parliament has destroyed the foundation of apartheid by abolishing the population registration act, which for a0 years forcibly classified each citizen according to race. Germanys parliament, the bundestag, has voted by a narrow majority to move the seat of government from bonn to berlin. Berliners celebrated into the night but the decision was greeted with shock in bonn. Just a day old and the royal baby is tonight sleeping in his cot at home. Early this evening, the new prince was taken by his mother and father to their apartments in kensington palace. The real Focus Of Attention Today was valentina tereshkova, the worlds first woman cosmonaut. What do you think of the russian woman in space . I think its a wonderful achievement and i think we might be able to persuade the wife it
Western areas tonight. Central and eastern, and southern areas of the uk will tend to clear. Where the skies clear in the north it could be very chilly, down to 5 degrees. Towns and cities nowhere near as cold. Tomorrow, showers return. There will be fewer across more southern areas, most of them across scotland, Northern Ireland and Western Areas. They are very difficult to predict, what time and they will occur. And where they will occur. Hello. This is bbc news. President trump has criticised china on twitter, saying its doing nothing to halt north koreas Weapons Programme after pyongyang test fired its second Intercontinental Ballistic Missile in a month. The australian Prime Minister says Counter Terror police have foiled an attempt to blow up a plane. Four people have been arrested in raids across sydney. The threat of terrorism is very real. The disruption operation, the effo rts real. The disruption operation, the efforts overnight, have been very effective, but there is more w