At the cricket world cup englands bowlers make steady progress as they take on new zealand hoping for a place in the semi finals. China and britain have become embroiled in a heated war of words over the demonstrations in hong kong. Its after the foreign secretary jeremy hunt warned of serious consequences for china if the rights of People Living in the territory were infringed. Today beijing accused the uk of indulging in colonial era fantasies and warned it not to interfere in its domestic affairs. The Foreign Office in london summoned the Chinese Ambassador over his comments on the matter. Hong kong have now returned to the embrace of the motherland connects the special administration of china. Its not part of the uk. So i would call them to say hands off of hancock hong kong and show respect of whats been achieved in hong kong and one country to systems. Lets speak to our diplomatic crrespondent james landale, after that he was called into for a meeting, he described it as unaccept
The world cup semifinal, cricketer is managed where football fails, thanks to comprehensive 119 run a victory over new zealand. China and britain have become embroiled in a heated war of words over the demonstrations in hong kong. Its after the foreign secretary jeremy hunt warned of serious consequences for china if the rights of People Living in the territory were infringed. Today beijing accused the uk of indulging in colonial era fantasies and warned it not to interfere in its domestic affairs. The Foreign Office in london summoned the Chinese Ambassador over his comments on the matter. Hong kong have now returned to the embrace of the motherland, its a special administration of china, its not part of the uk. So i would call them to have hands off of hong kong and show some respect of what has been achieved in hong kong, and be one country to assistance. Following that press conference by the Chinese Ambassador, mr liu was hauled in for a meeting by the head of the Foreign Office,
By australia at lords. It is a result which leaves their hopes of reaching the semi finals in the balance. Bathed in sunshine. France, germany and italy prepare for a heatwave, as temperatures are set to soar to above a0 degrees. And the source of that heat is coming up from north africa. It is coming up from north africa. It is coming our way as well. Some of us will have temperatures into the high 20s or low 30s by the time we get to the end of this week. Today it is a fairly cloudy, murky start, but they will be some sunshine, and i will tell you where in 15 minutes. It is wednesday 26 june. The families of three children with special Educational Needs and disabilities will challenge the government in the High Court Today over what they say is inadequate funding. Their lawyers will argue the government is leaving councils in england unable to fulfil their legal duties to give these children the support they need. Breakfasts Jayne Mccubbin reports. This is the little girl who is taki
Persuasive rather than polarising . Kwame kwei armah, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you so much for having me. It is a great pleasure to have you. Now, youve been in the Theatre Business as an actor, a writer and a director for the best part of three decades. Ijust used that phrase, some would call it a cliche, about the culture wars. Does it feel to you that today there is a somewhat toxic culture war . I think youve framed it beautifully. It is toxic, but most importantly, its disingenuous. In my humble opinion. Its used to kind of create political fear. And ourjob as artists is, i think, fundamentally to take away that fear, to take away the binaries that i think this farce of the culture wars are. You know, i often hear politicians and im not one to diss politicians, but i also often hear politicians use race or class or immigration or use history as a Battering Ram to get themselves into the hearts of the populist. But those issues youve just outlined race, immigration they are centr
We begin in niger, where the Breaking News in the last half an hour is the military leaders who staged a coup say they have closed the countrys airspace over what they called the threat of intervention against them. The announcement came as a deadline expired for them to restore the ousted president or face the possible action from the west African Regional grouping known as ecowas. Earlier thousands of people gathered in nigers capital to support the militaryjunta, despite International Condemnation of the soldiers actions. Some neighbouring countries including mali, burkina faso and guinea have voiced support for the coup leaders. And algeria, which Borders Niger to the north, has said it is categorically against armed intervention. France says it will support efforts by ecowas to restore nigers elected president. Nigers Prime Minister was in paris on saturday, meeting lawmakers and greeting protestors outside the countrys embassy. He has dismissed that pro coup protests are taking p