In the week the queen came to westminster for the state opening of parliament, and set out the governments plans for the next two years starting with brexit. My government will seek to maintain a deep and special partnership with european allies, and to forge new Trading Relationships across the globe. Theresa may sets out what action the governments taking following the Grenfell Tower fire. But reveals other high rise blocks could be at risk. Mr speaker, shortly before i came to the chamber, i was informed that a number of these tests have come back as combustible. And all mps start their life in parliament by taking an oath of allegiance to the monarch, but is it Time For A Change . I think the queen is a wonderful woman and does great work, but im here to represent the people and that wasnt an option. But first its been a dramatic couple of weeks since we were last here, with an election result that few predicted and theresa may returned to power just with her party now the largest
Apparently mutual with trump regularly expressing his admiration of putins strength. Today, however, The American President seemed to place his russian counterpart on the other side of a purported war against Western Civilisation. During a speech in the polish capital, warsaw, he called on russia to stop destabilising ukraine and other countries and to end support for hostile regimes such as those in syria and iran. With the pair due to meet tomorrow at the 620 summit in hamburg, newsnights diplomatic editor mark urban has been exploring The American President s apocalyptic warning. Its the president s second visit to europe and todays speech was billed as a big Foreign Policy moment. Given in warsaws Krasinski Square in front of a memorial to the 191m uprising against the nazis, an appreciative audience had been brought in by the polish government. It fell to the first lady to do the warm up. The president of the United States, donald] trump. And with that, trump set out his stall of
Its100 years since women were allowed tojoin its100 years since women were allowed to join the uk armed forces. We found out what has changed between their women who served them and those who serve now. Good morning. Its friday 7th july. Im annita mcveigh. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. President trump has met russias president Vladimir Putin face to face for the first time. The two leaders shook hands at the 620 summit in the german city of hamburg. They are due to hold further talks later. Ros atkins is in hamburg. Welcome to the vast Conference Centre in hamburg, where the g20s summit is taking place. The leaders are here and ready to start negotiations, moving to what they hope will be a communique on saturday afternoon with commitments on some of the most pressing issues oui on some of the most pressing issues our world is facing. There had been broke out last night and into this morning. The German Authorities are telling us that over 70 Police Officers have been injured in the la
From the president against a member of his own cabinet this week, calling the Attorney General wea k and beleaguered. All this on the very day he struggled to get a major piece of legislation on reforming health care through congress. And into this maelstrom walks the British International Trade Secretary, liam fox. He wants a big International Trade agreement with the United States. He needs it desperately if brexit is to be a success. President trump rolled out Senior Republicans to meet dr fox, including the house speaker, paul ryan. But when trump tweets that a uk trade deal is big and exciting, who does he mean will benefit . Before we came on air, i spoke to liam fox about trump, trade and yes chicken. Well hear his thoughts in a moment. First, The Big Picture of whats at stake. At 4 16am this morning, the president of the United States twitter account enthused over liam foxs visit. Our Special Relationship with the uk is going to be even better, the us Trade Representative and u