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rides this afternoon. hello and welcome to the programme. we re live until iiam. throughout the morning, the latest breaking news and developing stories. a little later, we ll bring you the latest on the tainted blood scandal which saw thousands of haemophiliac patients being infected with hiv by the nhs in the 1970s and 1980s. as always, 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 president trump has fired the head of the fbi, james comey, in a move that has shocked us politics. he d been leading an investigation into alleged links between the trump administration and russia. the white house says mr comey has been terminated and removed from office . aleem maqbool reports. absolutely explosive news out of washington tonight. this is a fox news alert, fbi director, james comey, has been fired by the president of the united stat ....
of birds underneath the 840 motorway in buckinghamshire. fifa has announced it is investigating paul pogba s £89 million transfer from juventus to manchester united last summer. good morning. it s wednesday, 10th may. i m joanna gosling. welcome to bbc newsroom live. we start with breaking news that the crown prosecution service has said no concept of politicians or official would be charged with breaking rules on election campaign spending in 2015. the cbs have been considering file sent by the police for nearly 30 constituencies. the party has insisted administrative errors were to blame for any spending which was incorrectly declared. we have a statement through from the head of special crime at the crown prosecution service. it says, we are files of evidence from 14 police forces in respect of allegations relating to conservative party candidate expenditure during the 2015th general election campaign. we considered whether candidates and election agents working in ....
dedicated to ideas that never took off. the museum of failure. good morning. it s june 8th. iam i am annita mcveigh. welcome to bbc newsroom live. polling stations are open across the country as millions of people go to cast their votes in the general election. they ll close at 10pm this evening, with the first results due before midnight. police say there ll be increased security at some polling stations with armed officers in some areas. joining me now from westminster is our political correspondent alicia mccarthy. and intensive seven week campaign and now people get to go and cast their votes, tech as to what has been happening. 50 days since mps voted to hold the selection and finally, today is the day. polling stations will be open for another 11 hours. we have seen theresa may, tim farron, nicola sturgeon, jeremy corbyn, they have all been out to vote so far. we are electing 650 mps. we have got 3301 candidates standing in the selection. 986 of those women. t ....
that voting is under way in the uk general election. we ll bring you the exit polls in just under one hour. the former fbi director james comey gave testimony to the us senate today. this is how glenn thrush of the new york times puts it. history made, former fbi director calls a sitting president a liar. or you could take the view of bill o reilly. hearing is pretty much done. the president took hits on flynn but nothing that was not already known. mr comey answered questions from the senate intelligence committee for several hours. and his contact with donald trump was the focus. as was alleged russian interference in the us election. there s a lot to take you through. let s start with this. i understood that i could be fired by a president for any reason or for no reason at all. and on may 9th, when i learned that i had been fired, for that reason, i immediately came home as a private citizen. but then the explanations, the shifting explanations, confused me an ....