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soon after setting sail for dover. and bt sport are to pay £1.2 billion to carry on showing the champions league and europa league until 2021. the new deal ends the highlights shows on terrestrial tv. good morning. welcome to bbc newsroom live. the uk factories at ellesmere port and luton employee. the new owners met government and unions last week and provided insurance that existing production commitments would be honoured at ellesmere port until 2020 and luton for some years beyond that but the combined company will have 2a factories in europe and some say that is too many. it s one of the biggest deals in the car making sector. british and german brands vauxhall and opel are to merge with the french brands peugeot and citroen. together they will make a company which is the second largest automotive player in europe. today, the bosses of general motors and psa welcomed the £1.9 billion deal and stressed their commitments to vauxhall and opel at least until 2020. af ....
alexei navalny, has been sentenced to 15 days in prison, for organising the biggest anti government protests the country has seen in several years.tens of thousands of people attended the rallies in several cities, demonstrating against alleged corruption by the prime minister, dmitry medvedev. 0ur moscow correspondent steve rosenberg reports. i m standing outside of a moscow court house in a spring blizzard. the short while ago, the russian opposition activist navalny was found guilty of organising sunday s mass protests, anti government protests across russia. he was fined the government of around $350, and then he was found guilty of disobeying police and for that, he was sentenced to 15 days in jail, and this police van behind me has arrived to whisk him off to jail. some of his supporters came and held up some of his supporters came and held up good luck signs hoping that he could see them through the windows of the ban. but then the police officer came up to them, ....
government in northern ireland expires injust under two hours, with no agreement in sight. sinn fein is refusing to be part of an executive led by the democratic unionist leader, arlene foster. the northern ireland secretary will have to decide whether to call a snap election. and the new £1 coin is released tomorrow but are these everyday machines ready for it? good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. theresa may will meet nicola sturgeon in scotland later for the first time since the snp announced their proposals for a second independence referendum. at the beginning of a week that will see article 50 triggered on wednesday, the prime minister will say she wants to build a more united nation . tomorrow, the scottish parliament is expected to pass a vote in favour of seeking a new scottish independence referendum, which ms sturgeon wants to hold in autumn 2018 or spring 2019. theresa may, though, has said now is not the time for it. our scotland correspondent lo ....
we ll hear why throughout the programme. and a royal marine who s in prison for the fatal shooting of a taliban fighter in afghanistan finds out today if he is to be freed or must serve more time behind bars. i m hoping and praying that, along with the former archbishop of canterbury, forformer with the former archbishop of canterbury, for former release. why? because he deserves it and this was an absurd sentence from the beginning and i m hoping the court will be persuaded that we are right on that. we ll bring you the result as soon as it happens. it s due around 1030 this morning. hello. welcome to the programme, we re live until 11. throughout the morning the latest breaking news and developing stories. a little later in the programme we ll look at the latest on scottish independence. and we ll discuss this front page, never mind brexit who won legs it . tell us what you think. do get in touch on all the stories we re talking about this morning use the hashtag ....
justice for his wife, six years on. the husband of a woman murdered on their honeymoon in mauritius returns to the island, after police launch a fresh investigation. new research suggests that firefighters have a higher heart attack risk because of a long exposure to high temperatures. good morning, it s tuesday the 11th of april. i mjoanna i m joanna gosling. welcome to bbc newsroom live. at least 58 people are reported to have been killed in a suspected gas attack in syria. the british based monitoring group says either syrian government or russian planes carried out the bombing in the town of khan sheikhoun in the rebel held province of idlib. the syrian observatory for human rights believes the dead are mostly civilians, among them children. at least 60 people are thought to have been injured. the syrian government has denied using chemical weapons. these are the latest pictures in the aftermath of the attack. the syrian army hasn t made any comment on the reports, ....