The white house says it is monitoring what it described as haitis rapidly deteriorating security situation. France has become the first country to put a womans right to an abortion in the constitution, almost 50 years after it was first decriminalised in the country. A specialjoint sitting of both houses of the French Parliament voted for the amendment. Representatives of all major and minor parties spoke in favour, saying women would no longer have to live in fear of their rights being rescinded. And the European Commission has fined apple 2 billion for violating the eus anti trust laws. The competition commissioner, margarethe vestager, said the company had, for a decade, abused its dominant position in music streaming apps, and ordered the us tech giant to remove all the restrictions, and to refrain from similar practices in the future. Apple has said it will appeal against the decision. Its going to be a defining week for the 2024 president ial elections. Tomorrow is super tuesday.
earlier, he met prime minister rishi sunak at downing street, with the war in ukraine high on the agenda. during the meeting the president described the us uk relationship as rock solid with rishi sunak adding that the two countries were the firmest allies . both leaders are travelling to that nato summit tomorrow. but that meeting with the king is still on going at windsor and my colleague maryam moshiri is there now. yes, the helicopter on marine one left windsor castle around about 30 minutes ago after what felt at least from what we were looking at a very relaxed and happy and warm meeting between the two men, as we saw earlier in pictures, they greeted each other quite warmly and that was followed by an inspection of the welsh guard and after that the two men entered into windsor castle and together they spent we believe a bit of time having afternoon tea or lunch and then discussing the subject of climate change and climate finance and there was a group of peop
the one minute silence has been observed on the eve of the state funeral for her majesty queen elizabeth ii, and across britain as we saw there people eager to show their respect and indeed to think about what tomorrow represents, and judith and giles are still with me for a final thought as we look ahead to tomorrow. what do you think tomorrow, judith, will mean to people, as a day of remembering and giving thanks? will it touch millions of people as some people predict i would very much think it will be a beautiful day and we will see all the wonderful thing that can happen in music and the wonderful abbey, and i think also an important moment for us to realise we will not be seeing the queen again. she won t p0p up, seeing the queen again. she won t pop up, as she so often did, even in the last year doing some delightful things like cutting a cake at the wru or something. she has died and this is our real moment. yes, wru or something. she has died and this is our real mom
to me on how great the paintjob was, so there is her humour again! and there was the smell of fresh paint following her wherever she went! thank you very much for talking to us and sharing your memories of the queen. thank you for this opportunity. memories of the queen. thank you for this opportunity. i memories of the queen. thank you for this opportunity, i greatly this opportunity, i greatly appreciate it. it this opportunity, i greatly appreciate it. this opportunity, i greatly areciate it. , for many people, meeting the queen was a once in a lifetime experience. one way to meet her majesty was to be invited to buckingham palace to attend an event, or collect an award. someone who did just that was maureen coumbe, who alongside her husband tony, was awarded an mbe back in 2012 in person by the queen. why did you get an mbe? it was services to why did you get an mbe? it was services to children why did you get an mbe? it was services to children and - why did y
also on the programme. in beijing, the chinese communist party congress continues, but some parts of the city are back under a covid lockdown. and a jury in new york clears the actor kevin spacey of making unwanted sexual advances on a iii year old. hello and welcome to the programme. the uk is set to get a new prime minister by the end of next week, after the conservative party announced details of a fast tracked contest to choose its leader following liz truss s resignation. she stepped down afterjust six chaotic weeks in the job, by far the shortest tenure in british history. her leadership foundered when the markets took fright, the pound crashed, she sacked her chancellor kwasi kwarteng and was forced into a humiliating series of u turns. we start our coverage with the bbc s political editor chris mason. lunchtime in downing street and the lectern is back. six weeks and two days since liz truss stood behind it as she became prime minister, she was back too this time