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The greens will become the first party to launch its manifesto later, with a pledge to reach net zero Carbon Emissions in the uk by 2030. Ahead of the general election bbc news is in southampton today, looking at the issues concerning voters there, with a focus on education. Renowned broadcaster Sir David Attenborough tells the bbc the world is beginning to tackle the threat of Plastic Waste. Its a bit of a litmus test to see whether, in fact, the population care about this sort of thing, and pe...

Al blackman was known as marine a he served more than three years in prison for shooting the taliban fighter in the chest at close range, and is here to tell us how hes now helping other ex Service Personnel. Huddersfield University Students tell Prince Andrew to quit as their chancellor. And the hollywood actor whos made allegations of abuse against movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, rose mcgowan, tells us she doesnt believe prince annrew. My my response to the interview Prince Andrew gave is one, l...

From westminster and cardiff, and will be talking to three now former parliamentarians, with more than 80 years of experience between them. The other main stories on bbc news at 5. The Climate Campaign group, Extinction Rebellion, wins a legal challenge against the metropolitan polices ban, on their protests in london. And the two time olympic champion, nicola adams, retires from boxing because of fears she could lose her sight. Its five oclock. Our main story is the official start of the Electi...

The new radicals, that is who we themselves, they got a play off are. We want to bring politics and place by winning their nations the group and in the draw, they got oui are. We want to bring politics and our democracy into the 21st century. Israel. Scotland have beaten israel three times out of the last four times they played, so that is promising. The match will be at hampden so a home match on march 26 im an norwich healing from voters with the winner going through to about the issues that m...

Speaks to me about the challenges of implementing real world Foreign Policy and americas place in diplomacy. To see america from the inside out, and to see whats good and even great in america, but also to see america from the outside as well i think is an important part of being an effective diplomat. Plus italy becomes the first country in the world to make Climate Change lessons for schoolchildren compulsary. Hello and welcome im Michelle Fleury in washington and Nuala Mcgovern is in london. ...

Lewis hamilton will start the us formula one grand prix in fifth on the grid, but is still poised to win the world drivers championship. And the dateline london panel ask if a general election can resolve the crisis that is brexit. Thats in half an hour, here on bbc news. In the past hour, the leader of the brexit party, nigel farage, has announced he wont stand in next months general election. He says instead he will be campaigning across the country against the prime ministers proposed brexit ...

Well i have selected three of the questions which i think i can answer. The first about the number of mps standing down. Is it a particularly large number . I thought that there would be because we had some big names, kenneth clarke, the pam and the former chancellor, vince cable former leader of the liberal democrats standing down. But is not particularly large, 68 so far, on average it is about 80 and after the expenses scandal it rocketed to above 100 not a huge number this year. The second q...

Lewis hamilton will start the us formula one grand prix in fifth on the grid, but is still poised to win the world drivers championship. Order order and bercow bows out. A retrospective look at the house of commons speakers time in the chair. Thats in half an hour, here on bbc news. In the past hour, the leader of the brexit party, nigel farage, has announced he wont stand in next months general election. He says instead he will be campaigning across the country against the prime ministers propo...

Gcioss cloud is increasing, you can see it across the western side of the uk, northern ireland, western scotland, increasing chance of a little light rain or drizzle on through the rest of the day, some hill foreground in places. Brighter skies to the east, temperatures where they have been for the past few days. Sam hill fog around in places. Temperatures not coming down too far from where they have been in the day, so whatever the costume is, we should be ok, and temperatures not going down fa...

I dont think theres anything brazenly irresponsible about advocating for us having a deterrent to nuclear war. What the purpose of my remarks was, we need to make it clear to our adversaries, russia in particular, if we use Nuclear Weapon, he will pay an enormous price for it. I cant believe the gentle lady as opposed to that. The goal of all of this is to stop anybody from thinking they under any circumstances, to have a good outcome for them. My point on the deterrence is the russians will lau...