Voting Day Itself News Today

welcome to the programme. we start this hour with the latest on the uk general election. the leader of the scottish national party, john swinney, has launched his partys campaign ahead of the vote onjuly the 4th. at an election rally in glasgow, mr swinney pushed for independence, celebrated his partys record on fighting the cost of living as well as attacking both the conservatives and labour. he said people in scotland wanted rid of a "disastrous" tory government, and he accused labo...

hello. im nicky schiller. welcome to the programme. we start this hour with the latest on the uk general election. in the last hour the scottish national party leader, john swinney has launched his partys campaign for the vote onjuly the 4th. at an election rally mr swinney pushed for independence, celebrated his partys record on fighting the cost of living as well as attacking both the conservatives and labour. he said people in scotland wanted rid of a "disastrous" tory government, a...

This is bbc world news. Its newsday. Good morning. Its 7am in singapore, midnight in london, and 7pm in washington, where the us House Of Representatives has narrowly passed a Republican Party proposal to repeal Barack Obamas affordable healthcare act. After suffering an embarrassing setback in march, President Trump finally notched up his first major legislative victory. The vote in the House Of Representatives was tight. 217 to 213, with no democrats voting in favour. But quite how quickly thi...

Right up to voting day itself, one killed in the city of matamoros just a couple of days ago, just a day ago. on the day of closing the campaign, as one candidate was taking the stage to close his campaign, to address his supporters, a final plea for votes, he was murdered, shot in the back of the head by a gunman in the state of guerrero. so it has just been very, very bloody, a bloodstained election and i think illustrative of the size of the task that faces the next president, expected to be ...