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Turnout in the first round of the president ial election is slightly higher than at the same stage in 2012. A Murder Investigation has been launched after man was killed by thieves who stole his car from outside his house in manchester. Now on bbc news, bbc Parliaments Programme looking back at the week in westminster, presented by alicia mccarthy. Hello and welcome to the week in parliament, when theresa may went public with the best kept secret in westminster. I have just chaired a meeting with the cabinet where we agreed that the government should call a General Election, to be held on 8thj...

To the week in parliament, when theresa may went public with the Best Kept Secret in westminster. I have just chaired a meeting with the cabinet where we agreed that the government should call a General Election, to be held on the 8th ofjune. Opposition parties say they welcome the fight, but. This is a Prime Minister who promised there wouldnt be one. A Prime Minister who cannot be trusted. Meanwhile in holyrood, the snp and the conservatives square up over scotlands future. But it wasnt all about the General Election. In the commons, there was concern over the Nuclear Ambitions of north kore...

What is called technically "the microeconomics, whether the numbers add up, "you lose the bigger picture," which is what the impact on society is of austerity, for example. and whether it is actually, long—term, making us poorer because the consequences are cut, even if the numbers up may be very bad for the economy as a whole. do you accept that criticism? that misses a lot of what we do. a lot of what you will see of the ifs on the airwaves is just about that, but we work on all sorts of things like pensions. we spent a lot of time during the austerity years pointing out what it meant for ...

This budget as the starting point of the conversation and not the end point. even though this budget was clearly an effort by the president to signal a willingness to compromise, the history of these negotiations show that republicans will try to pocket these concessions then make more demands." it's unclear whether the chain cpi proposal is a ploy or whether he genuinely believes in the necessity of entitlement reform, or maybe it's both. there does seem to be ample evidence going back to the beginning of his presidency that he is committed to the cause of deficit reduction, calls for a grand...

The american. they were tight. hollande is a little bit more of a black box. but ideologically, he seems to be in line with what obama is promoting abroad and here. >> how about the policy that is hollande is putting there -- he and obama are running neck and neck. will they converge together? >> what's happened so far is the german pro-austerity plan has won out throughout europe, this idea that in order to get europe grounded again, you need to cut government spending, you need to raise taxes, you need to shrink debt, so on and so on. that's basically what most of the european countries have...