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managed to fool hsbc‘s voice recognition security system, designed to prevent fraud. good morning, it s friday, 19th may. i m annita mcveigh. welcome to bbc newsroom live. breaking news this morning. swedish prosecutors are ending their seven year long investigation into the wikileaks founder, julian assange, who has been accused of rape. mr assange, who s a5, has been living at the ecuadorian embassy in london since 2012, claiming asylum to avoid extradition to sweden. scotla nd scotland yard says it is obliged to arrest him for breaching bail conditions if he leaves the embassy. julian assange has just tweeted this picture. this is in reaction to that means from sweden. that is the first reaction from julian assange, though no statement from him as yet. let s cfoss no statement from him as yet. let s cross to the ecuadorian embassy in london. our correspondent, richard lister, is there. richard, so, any expectation we might seejulian assange leading that embassy any ....
business. hsbc promises £10 billion infunding for business. hsbc promises £10 billion in funding for small firms, but what difference will it really make? i will speak to the boss later. in sport, england s paul casey is the pick of the european challengers at the us open. a first round of six under par sees him just a shot off the leader rickie fowler at golf‘s second major of the year. and sarah has the weather. thatin that in about ten minutes. first, our main story: police are warning they may never be able to identify some of those who died in the fire at grenfell tower in west london on tuesday night. 17 bodies have been found so far, but the number of fatalities is expected to rise significantly. andy moore reports. the first victim of the fire to be officially named is mohammed alhajali, assyrian refugee who came to britain for a better life. his brother was led to safety by firefighters but in the chaos and confusion bahama got left behind. firefighters but ....
offering sex for around could face prosecution, after a bbc investigation. plans to recruit an extra 21,000 mental health workers in england over the next four years, are announced by the health secretary. sam shepard, the hollywood playwright and actor, has died at the age of 73. earlier today one of french cinema s biggest stars, jeanne moreau died at her home in paris at the age of 89. it is an absolute mess. it is also a wind up, geoffrey! it is an absolute mess. it is also a wind-up, geoffrey! and geoffrey boycott is bold a googly by his collea g u es boycott is bold a googly by his colleagues on bbc test match special. bowled. good evening and welcome to bbc news. commemorations have been taking place in belgium to mark a hundred years since the start one of the bloodiest battles of world war one. over three months, british and allied troops clashed with german soldiers in what became known as the battle of passchendaele. around half a million soldiers on bot ....
craig. he ended months of speculation after confirming he will be returning to the role of 007. what does it mean for the most successful movie franchise? hello. welcome to the programme, we re live until ”am this morning. health inspectors have criticised an nhs trust being investigated over a number of baby deaths, saying it still has not improved enough. we ll be speaking to a father whose daughter died while under the care of shrewsbury and telford hospital. do get in touch on all the stories we re talking about this morning use the hashtag victoria live and if you text, you will be charged at the standard network rate. our top story today. the government says it wants to maintain a seamless border between northern ireland and the irish republic after the uk leaves the eu so that people and goods can continue to move across freely. a paper setting out britain s negotiatating position being published today rejects what it calls the hard borders of the past ....
i m sarah montague. the european union in greater trouble than ever before. it s notjust because of brexit, even founding members countries like italy are unhappy about the direction it s headed. the italian economy has always struggled within the straightjacket of the euro. and it s wanted its fellow members to help share the burden of the half a million migrants who have turned up on its shores over the past three years. my guest here at the italian embassy in london is italy s europe minister, sandro gozi. he is a passionate european. how does he think the eu should change if it to survive and win over the next generation of europeans? sandro gozi, welcome to hardtalk. you have said that the beginning of european disintegration has started with brexit. is the eu disintegrating? if it remains the status quo, certainly. it must get out of the status quo. it must show there is a political reaction to the series of crises that has hit the union. among these, the majo ....