Characters on film, television and on stage. Herfamily have issued a statement, saying that she died peacefully in hospital. They said that she passed away this morning. An intensely private person, she was with friends and family at The End. She leaves two sons and five loving grandchildren who are devastated by the loss of their wonderful mother and grandmother, and they thank the wonderful staff at the hospital. They thanked everyone for their messages of support at this time. Dame maggie smith, who won so many awards for her work, including enemies for her work, including enemies for downtown abbey, where she starred in recent years on emmys. We will bring you more on her life and her career in the coming moments. Much more on the website also. She won the oscarfor her on the website also. She won the oscar for her character in the prime of missjean brodie. A very important half an hour because we will be bringing you live coverage of the israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahus
election result. it s a pressure campaign that came incredibly and alarmingly close to actually working. it could have completely changed the game for trump and his allies on january 6th if and only if it had succeeded. washington post is out with stunning new details on efforts by doj official jeffrey clark to essentially take over the justice department, efforts which culminated in a january 3rd meeting previously reported on by the post, the new york times and other outlets inside the oval office between clark, the man who would become the acting a.g. and his deputy richard donahue and of course one donald j. trump from the post reporting. clark had outlined a plan. in a letter he wanted to send to the leaders of key states that joe biden won. it said the justice department had, quote, identified significant concerns about the vote and that the state should consider sending a separate slate of electors supporting donald j. trump for congress to approve. in fact, clark
Thats the highest since the launch of the euro more than 20 years ago. And its worth putting into context that as recently as last year, eurozone Interest Rates were negative. The reason is that inflation is proving harder than expected to control. For the 20 countries using the euro, inflation was 5. 3 in august thats half the 10. 6 that it was a year ago. But as the ecb says today, it is still expected to remain too high for too long. Earlier we got the view from The Economist katharine neiss, she explained the background to this latest move. The ecb told us today through their actions they are still concerned with inflation being too high. I think in particular they are concerned that underlying inflation could become embedded in the euro area economy, making it harder for policymakers to get inflation back to their 2 target. Widely perceived this could be the lasting increase, we heard from the banks president that there was, the decision was not unanimous, there were dissenters. T
Its thursday 1st june. Im annita mcveigh. Welcome to bbc Newsroom Live. This time next week, the polls will have opened across the uk for the general election. Last night, key figures from the seven main parties went head to head on the bbcs election debate. So lets bring you up to date with the latest from the Campaign Trail. This morning, the Prime Minister is attempting to move the agenda back to brexit pledging to use the Promise Of Brexit to build a stronger, fairer and even more prosperous country and calling for voters to unite behind her leadership. Meanwhile, labour is returning to its rail policy promising to save money for Rail Commuters by changing the way fare increases are calculated. The party says the move would save an average rail season Ticket Holder £319 a year by 2022. Last night key figures from the seven main parties went head to head on the bbc. Theresa may was criticised for her failure to appear at that debate. Our assistant Political Editor norman smith is i
senator to depart the chamber. barely any of his republican colleagues even looked at him as he walked out. it was as if they were afraid that romney might meet their eyes and some acknowledgement might be called for, something they could not face. what could they not face? that s a great question. this is the ukraine call, by the way. the shakedown call. this was impeachment one, right. that morning i sat in romney s office and he said i will tell you ahead of time what my vote is going to be. you got a three-minute scoop. he said wait till 2:00 when my speech starts. i put that on, i had all the scoop and it was flying around the internet. so that went out. it was a very agonizing moment when he s telling me i am voting to convict on this charge. he was almost in tears.