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By a 24 hour strike. And passing the baton the queen starts the relay which will end at the Commonwealth Games next year. And coming up in the sport on bbc news we look ahead to the last of the fa cup quarterfinals. Good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. Nicola sturgeon has announced plans for a second referendum on Scottish Independence. Its two and half years since the last one, in which scots voted 55 to 45 to remain in the United Kingdom. Scotlands First Minister says she wants the referendum to take place between autumn of next year and the spring of 2019, to offer people a choi...

Also wheres the evidence . Congresss House Intelligence Committee demands from the president that his phones were wiretapped just before the election. After turkeys ministers are blocked from attending some european rallies, president erdogan threatens to take the netherlands to the European Court and accuses germany of supporting terrorists. Diplomatic freeze. Blizzards in americas north east forces german chancellor merkel to reschedule her trip to the white house. Im katty kay in washington, Christian Fraser is in london. It is 53 days since donald trump took office, its 233 days since brit...

Who are facing famine across africa and the middle east. The United Nations says the crisis in nigeria, south sudan, yemen and somalia threatens to be the worst in 60 years. In somalia, conflict and corruption has made the effect of a two year drought even worse. Our correspondent Andrew Harding is in baidoa in the countrys south west. You may find some of the pictures in his report distressing. This is baidoa, a town besieged by two unforgiving enemies. The soldiers are here to guard against al shabab, the militant islamists controlling the countryside in this corner of somalia. But its the s...

About the politics and International Diplomacy around this, because russia maintains this was that syrian air strike on a store of rebel held weapons, they hold the veto on the security council. There will not even be a resolution, probably, condemning this . Russia has consistently used its veto on the council to veto any attempt to castigate assad, given the fact that moscow is his biggest patron. Until recently, President Trump made clear his Main Objective in syria was to defeat Islamic State and he was considering cultivating assad as an ally and now this has happened, any attempt to cult...

because your choice didn't win or you want to checkup the other runners up, go to suzanne malveaux's page,. and it's the big story today. today is the big day for president obama. that long awaited jobs speech on congress. it was planned for last night. you know the republicans were debating last night and had to be moved to tonight, the president's speech. here we are six hours away from the speech. he is expected to propose more investments and tax breaks that will cost $3 billion. the president may call for an infrastructure bank providing for low cost loans to get projects off ...