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of 3 million euros in cash to prince charles by a qatari sheikh. clarence house says all the correct processes were followed. good evening to you at home and good evening to you so lots to get this we will get cracking straightaway and start with a front page of the financial times covering this g7 summit going on in bavaria today and we are covering it here on bbc news. look at the headline they have picked out there, g7 aims to hurt russian war chest with price cap on crude exports w...

our royal correspondent, nicholas witchell, looks back at king charles�* first year on the throne. the end came amid the tranquillity of balmoral, exactly as the late queen had wanted. at 3:10, at the moment of her death, the crown passed and the reign of charles iii began. no british monarch had waited longer to succeed to the throne and few monarchs can have been as aware as he was of the scale of the challenge... to succeed such a revered sovereign and maintain the monarchy�*s p...

The King and the Princess of Wales both enjoyed a bounce in the popularity stakes after being admitted to hospital for their respective health scares.

But this move could also be in breach of wt0 rules and so it was something that the prime minister possibly ethics adviser who reside quite recently and this was part of the conversations that triggered his resignation, that he thought it was wrong for the prime minister to knowingly breach international rules. so there is quite a couple get a political row going on there, but these are attempts by downing street and the prime minister to get on the front foot a bit in policy after weeks and wee...

Over the years. hes not the most popular guy around. whats your take on him, whats he like? >> hes up against -- when it comes to the popularity stakes, if you like, the much-loved, the dearly-loved rafe nadal and roger federer and hes been up against that over the years. hes come from nowhere in terms of winning grand slam titles, hes got himself right up there alongside them on 20. theyre all fascinatingly poised on 20. i found him person to able, ver generous with his time, very passionate, v...

Where you see this come home to roost, chickens will come home to roost on this tax bill, even with the trump base? >> i think, my suspicion is that the bill will go more or less follow-through. but the chickens arent just on the roost, i think they are hammering on the windows. i mean, if you look at the very narrow, if you look at people like larry are saying about the prospects for the midterms in 2018, this president perhaps is not exactly leading the field in the popularity stakes, so you h...

Publicly, he says its better to be able to speak frankly and privately in these sorts of conversations. however, what he has said is that the call, while it may have ended abruptly, he said it did end courteously. this is how he put it. >> the report that the president hung up is not correct. the call ended courteously. and as far as the nature of the discussion, it was very frank and forthright. i stand up for australias interests. i make australias case as powerfully and persuasively as i can ...