in our election blind date series. today, cambridge historian mary beard and strip club owner peter stringfellow. you look slightly distinguished, quite hunky. you are quite a pretty lady. get that on camera! welcome to the programme, we re live until 11am. we re also talking about ariana grande s one love manchester concert to raise money for people affected by the manchester bombing. tickets go on sale at 10am this morning. we ll have the details and we d love to hear from you if you re planning to go. do get in touch on all the stories we re talking about this morning use the hashtag #victorialive. if you text, you will be charged at the standard network rate. our top story today. theresa may s political opponents have criticised her for not taking part in a seven way general election debate. she was accused of lacking guts during the 90 minute event. let s get more from our political guru norman smith. is it possible to say who one? it was probably the television volu
and it is horrible for me to hear they are missing or they are dead or they are in hospital or something. how did the fire start, and why did it engulf the entire building injust minutes? questions but as of yet no answers. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. the prime minister has ordered a full public inquiry into what happened here, why the fire spread so happened here, why the fire spread so quickly, and with such deadly consequences. the death toll at the moment is 17, but that is expected to rise. we know, in terms of casualties, that 37 people are still in hospital, 17 of those in critical ca re in hospital, 17 of those in critical care at the moment. the prime minister, theresa may, was here earlier on today neighbours and, and jeremy corbyn, the leader of the labour party, has also been here, he went to a nearby church currently and emergency centre, and he said that the truth must come out. he once and he wants answers. i m joined by deputy assistant commis
jazz, visitors head back to the 19205 jazz, visitors head back to the 1920s when music and style defines the era. live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news. it s newsday. good morning. it is 7am in singapore, midnight in london and 2am in the last stronghold of so called islamic state, the syrian city of raqqa. is is facing all out war on severalfronts. city of raqqa. is is facing all out war on several fronts. across the border in iraqi troops have taken most of the city of mosul but not in time to save the famous mosque. in raqqa us backed fighters at the syrian democratic forces are close to pushing is out. our correspondent gabriel gatehouse is on the frontline and sent this report. this has been a long and brutal road. we are inside raqqa canal, driving to the centre of the syrian democratic forces, the sdf, a coalition of kurds and arabs. they have only just retake coalition of kurds and arabs. they have onlyjust retake in these streets after
in russells. it was precisely a year ago that the eu was waking up to a reality that one of its member states wanted out of the european union. one year on, and they are beginning to hear some of the details surrounding that departure. brussels. theresa may laid out before her fellow eu leaders last night the plan for allowing 3 million eu citizens the same rights as british citizens, those who are living in the uk, and have been there for at least five years. there are certain other details attached about, but she described the plan as about, but she described the plan as afairand about, but she described the plan as a fair and serious offer, trying to provide certainty and reassurance to those eu citizens. she has also made it perfectly clear that for that to work, there must be what she is calling reciprocity. the same sorts of measures for uk citizens living gci’oss of measures for uk citizens living across the eu, once the uk is out of the club. more details from ou
the issue a list of demands in a growing crisis. welcome to world leaders today. more than 800 hollings in tower blocks on a council estate in camden, north london are being evacuated because of safety concern. camden council says residents in flat in five towers and the chalcots estate will be moved for urgent safety work. it follows the fire in last week in which 79 people died. the last few minutes, we have heard from georgia gould, leader of camden council. she explained why the decision has been made. ever since the tragic fire at grenfell, we have done everything we can to check the safety of our blog. on wednesday we were first in the queue to check the cladding on our blocks. what we found was the installation was safe but the external cladding was not up to the standard that we wanted and was not fire retardant. obviously this was very disappointed and we share that disappointment with our residents. we ve had a public meeting on thursday with residents were they con