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time now to digest the days election campaigning — and theres a lot to digest today — heres newscast, with adam fleming and the team. chris, let me get this straight. i cant see anyone, but you can see both me and alex forsyth. thats right — although thats only because i was sent a little picture of the two of you, just to remind me what you looked like. with you in your studio and alex in hers, and me in mine. hang on, we last saw each other on thursday — youve forgotten alrea...

in papua new guinea. bangladesh braces for a tropical cyclone. lets return to the general election. the conservatives have announced they will introduce mandatory national service for 18 year olds if they win. its a plan labour have called desparate and unfunded. earlier this morning, the home secretary, james cleverly, spoke on sunday with laura kuenssberg. what were putting forward is a mandatory national service, a small element of which will be with the military, and anyone taking ...

the six steps?— the six steps? establish secure border command, _ the six steps? establish secure border command, crackdown . the six steps? establish secure | border command, crackdown on anti-social_ border command, crackdown on anti—social behaviour and train teachers. _ anti—social behaviour and train teachers, can i be forgiven? gur teachers, can i be forgiven? our viewers must — teachers, can i be forgiven? our viewers must have _ teachers, can i be forgiven? oi" viewers ...

sir keir starmer says labour will put growth and wealth creation at the heart of its plans for government. he was launching the partys election manifesto in manchester and ruled out increases to the rates of income tax, national insurance and vat. he also made a pitch for business, saying that a "plan for growth" would be at at the heart of his government, leading to a "decade of national renewal". our political correspondent iain watson has the details. lets start with a spoiler alert...

how long could you last without your smartphone? we met —— we meet at the teenagers swapping there is for a brick phone forfive teenagers swapping there is for a brick phone for five days. hello, im geeta guru—murthy. lets take a look at the main election developments this hour — the prime minister has said he has not given up hope after his defence secretary warned the electorate not to give labour what he called a supermajority at the next election. he said a big victory at t...

The financial crisis hit. Wages fell sharply and inflation rose as things like the cost of petrol went up. That led to this long period of pay squeeze and that didnt come to an end until september 20 14. And until today wages have stayed above the cost of living but the gap has been closing and today those lines crossed. Individual incomes on average are going down again. Donna spicer is a Teaching Assistant from south east london. She has faced a pay freeze for four years. South east london. Sh...

Or, to be more precise, america in the company of nicaragua and syria. If President Trump pulls out of the paris climate accord, thats who the us willjoin as the only countries in the world not to have signed the Landmark 2015 agreement. It will signal a withdrawal of American Leadership on perhaps the most critical issue of our time, with enormous implications for the future of the planet, politics and jobs worldwide. So what is the paris accord . Under it, countries committed to capping Global...

Ministers — spike recently. when you speak to ministers privately, they are exasperated by those demands, firstly _ exasperated by those demands, firstly because of the potential cost of — firstly because of the potential cost of them, given that the bill is associated — cost of them, given that the bill is associated with the big interventions recently, but also because — interventions recently, but also because of that sense that it could because of that sense that it could be counter�...