and first of two days of commemerations in europe to mark the 80 years anniversary of the normandy landings. good evening, a day is a long time in politics. this morning the front pages brough some brief respite to the conservatives. snap polls suggesting that it was rishi sunak who had come out on top in the first leadership debate of the campaign. the prime minister had referred several times in that debate to a so called independent assessment of labour s spending plans, which the tories suggest will mean every working family paying £2000 more in taxes. the prime minister said that was a figure that had been signed off by civil servants at the treasury. the only problem is it hadn t. the bbc has obtained a letter from the most senior civil servant in the treasury, the permanent secretary, james bowler who wrote to labour making clear the civil service had not been as involved as the conservativesclaimed. as you would expect, labour is furious. here s our political editor
mouth about meghan markle and prince harry. his thoughts are almost too bizarre to believe, but we begin the reidout tonight with the question you ve been asking that i m sure you ve been asking for an entire year now, when will we return to normal life? we have the first sign that some aspects of the pre-pandemic lives are on the horizon with the cdc giving the green light for fully vaccinated people to gather with other fully vaccinated people without wearing masks or social distancing. getting to see our loved ones again to share a meal indoors with grandparents, parents and friends is the best thing we ve heard in a very long time. we re also seeing grim numbers that have haunted us all year with newly reported coronavirus and hospitalizations on the decline. the reason for this progress boils down to science in the form of three vaccines. the problem is there s a segment of the u.s. population that insists on rejecting science while clamoring that their so-called perso
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and iraq. and at wimbledon, the elimination of kyle edmund means there are four british players in the last 32. it s 5pm. our main story president trump has arrived in germany, ahead of a two day g20 summit. this afternoon air force one touched down in hamburg. security has been stepped up in the city as thousands of people are expected to demonstrate at numerous events across the city on issues including climate change. it s not overstating things to say this summit could shape how the world responds to its most pressing issues for years to come. this is why, on the issue of climate change which angela merkel has chosen as the central theme, well, the united states and its president are out of sync with the vast majority of the world and how to respond. he is pulling america out of the paris climate change accord. we ll start to understand what that will mean in practical terms as the rest of the world pushes on. then there is globalisation, a surprising amount of agreemen
good evening and welcome to bbc news. thousands of people have been protesting on the streets of hamburg tonight, ahead of the 620 summit which begins tomorrow. there s heavy security in the city tonight. these are the live pictures. you can see a lot of riot police deployed. some 20,000 security officers, we were told, had been deployed. about 100,000 demonstrators, in various different protests around the city this evening, ahead of bgt 20 summit, protesting against globalisation. protesting in particular against donald trump, many of them, and america s withdrawal from the paris climate change accord. earlier on there were some quite a violent scenes, water cannon has been fired. quite a few scuffles, as well. police say a planned a protest march has been called off by organisers after the clashes. a short time ago our berlin correspondent was on the ground among the protesters in hamburg. correspondent was on the ground among the protesters in hamburgm is not over yet. po