that is what matters to the west country. why will you support the labour ma nifesto why will you support the labour manifesto in public? why won't you support the policy? a lot of questions will be asked of labour mps around the country, such as whether they are putting the face and a picture ofjeremy corbyn elephants, whether they can sign up to this sort of programme. there will be things in it they do agree with, but as you heard there, many labourmps, as one with, but as you heard there, many labour mps, as one put it to me, are trying to create their own lifeboat to save them, because they say that

south wales, the west country and west midlands could get into 9 degrees with sunshine.ge into next week, it will stay dry, it looks like we will begin next week with the same weather that we end this week with. a reminder of our main story this lunchtime... the conservatives are on course for their best local election performance in more than a decade. that's all from the bbc news at one, so it's goodbye from me — and on bbc one we nowjoin the bbc‘s news teams where you are. have a good afternoon. hello, you're watching bbc news. i'm olly foster at the bbc sport centre. england's cricketers are playing their first match of a busy summer. they are in bristol playing the firts of two one—dayers against ireland. it's the first time they have played england in england, but the team had seven survivors form the team that shocked england in the 2011 world cup. they made a positive start in bristol, racing to a0 without loss inside six overs. they soon collapsed. from 90—3, they were bowled out foir 126. joe root took captain william porterfield and the rest soon followed. adi

but the west country is an area and region that voted quite strongly for brexit and the lib dems areit as a party. this is what tim farron, the leader said. increasing our vote share by 7%, our best vote share for seven years, double the increase the tories have experienced in terms of vote share the country. both the labour party utterly imploding and devastated like no other opposition party in recent memory. there is an arm lesson from last night. —— another lesson. with our revival and success around the country, we're still seeing britain heading a conservative landslide. talking of parties imploding, that was really the ukip party. it fought for brexit, britain leaving the years. really, they were wiped out today. iaa seats where contested and they lost all, apart from one. not all voters had a vote in this because not all councils were voting, so ukip hasjust not all councils were voting, so ukip has just under 300 not all councils were voting, so ukip hasjust under 300 council seats but it is like taking a battering today. as one voters put it earlier today, perhaps the reaso

and the prime minister, campaigning in the west country today, defended her decision not to be in cambridge for tonight's debate. i think debates where the politicians are squabbling among themselves doesn't do anything for the process of electioneering. i think actually it's about getting out and about, meeting voters and hearing directly from voters. also on the programme tonight: the breast surgeon sentenced to 15 years injail. ian paterson is sent to prison after performing completely unnecessary operations on patients after inventing or exaggerating the risk of cancer. over four years of trauma and stress in trying to bring this man to account, no amount of prison sentence will ever compensate what myself and the other people affected have gone through. at least 90 people are killed in the afghan capital kabul after a truck bomb explodes in the diplomatic quarter. and the global accord to curb carbon emissions — is president trump about to withdraw america from the paris climate change deal? coming up in sportsday on bbc news: arsenal majority owner stan kroenke says arsene wenger is t

through the afternoon we will see rain returning in to the west country and towards wales. there will be some sunshine breaking through that cloud as it continues to thin and break in the next couple of hours. the m4 corridor northwards likely to see hefty showers developing, some heavy with hail and thunder mixed in. watch out if you catch one. warm and humid you will notice. there is that rain continuing to push to southern scotland. for much of northern ireland and scotland should and good deal of sunshine, especially western scotla nd deal of sunshine, especially western scotland where it will feel quite warm. that's in comparison to the east coast that will be chilly and grey and breezy. through the overnight period it looks like the rain will move northwards into south—west scotland. northern ireland may see a fair amount of rain during the overnight period. further south and east could see a few heavy showers, otherwise lengthy dryer interludes and it's going to bea mild dryer interludes and it's going to be a mild night. double figures for most. saturday, a few earl

the prime minister — visiting the west country today — said she preferred to be meeting voters on the that she would stick to her guns and not take part in that cambridge debate this evening. the audience are now taking their seats — ready to ask their questions and weigh up the answers. caroline lucas from the green party there and we have just seen leanne wood from plaid cymru. these are live pictures now ofjeremy corbyn the labour leader. a lot of applause. as the labour leader arrives in cambridge. and he waves to quite a large crowd of supporters clutching labour party banners on this sunny evening in cambridge. and this sunny evening in cambridge. and this decision from jeremy corbyn very interesting, he had said he would not take part in the debate if theresa may was not taking part but had a change of mind. alongside his communications chief seamus milne. walking towards the spectacular, sumptuous venue walking towards the spectacular, sumptuous venue for this 2017 election debate. so jeremy sumptuous venue for this 2017 election debate. sojeremy corbyn against all expectation

then, last year, the west country voted very decisively for leave, in the eu referendum. political correspondent vicki young has been to penzance to talk to people about how they intend to vote next month. landing the catch in west cornwall, an area where the liberal democrats are hoping for a comeback. a blue tide of conservatives swept them away at the last election, but since then, the brexit vote has transformed the political landscape. so how is the lib dem's pro—eu message going down with fishermen in a region that voted to leave. did you vote in the referendum? yes, i was very heavily leave. the liberal democrats used to be really big in cornwall, they want to make a comeback here? in my opinion, that's not really a very good go is it? we are coming out and people are saying we want an easy deal, don't want to give anything. it needs to be brexit for us, i can't speak for everyone, but for us, that's what it needs to be really. conservative i'm going to be voting for. why's that? because i don't like labour, basically. it's between the two of them, isn't it? theres

then, last year, the west country voted very decisively for leave, in the eu referendum. to penzance to talk to people about how they intend to vote next month. landing the catch in west cornwall, an area where the liberal democrats are hoping for a comeback. a blue tide of conservatives swept them away at the last election, but since then, the brexit vote has transformed the political landscape. so how is the lib dem's pro—eu message going down with fishermen in a region that voted to leave. did you vote in the referendum? yes, i was very heavily leave.

it could be any woods in the whole of the west country. the tweet a sly wink from her, that she's been told to stay shtum? i'm from bbc newsnight, have you seen andrea leadsom? she was in penzance to talk to fishermen. sadly we couldn't find any who'd met her. we've grown used to the idea of message discipline since new labour and its pager culture but disappearing ministers, that seems a whole new level of control freakery. and as for the missing woman herself? we tried our hardest but andrea leadsom was, as the fishermen like to say, the one that got away. inspector sweeney there. and we'll be despatching him to hunt for missing politicians from other parties before the election. we did ask tory central office if they'd told leadsom and others not to speak to newsnight during the campaign but they didn't get back to us. caitlyn jenner was the archetypal american jock, one of the united states most famous and revered athletes who, as brucejenner, took olympic gold in the decathlon at montreal in 1976, and broke the world record. fast forw

across eastern wales in the west of the midlands and into the west of the midlands and into the west countrygland. with a bit of sunshine you could add 45 degrees to the temperatures across the southern counties and towards east anglia but through the evening with the sunshine, the storms could drift further towards the east, and all the while notice the cloud and rain is sitting there across scotland. overnight, much of that weather, but not all will move into the north sea to allow the next set of fronts to line up to the western side and northern parts of the british isles for tuesday. quite windy there, maybe gales on the western side of scotla nd maybe gales on the western side of scotland and the rain comes through northern ireland quickly and then across northern and western parts of the british isles. the tail end not producing a lot of rain towards the south where it will eventually get a shower and a thickening of the crowd —— cloud, but that is pretty much it. more details on the bbc website. i'm sharanjit leyl in singapore. the headlines... japan protests as north korea fires a m

the western coast of wales and into pembrokeshire, pool, devon and the west country, and the south coastto clear, blue skies. quite a few areas also stuck under the cloud. the midlands, eastern areas, lincolnshire, wolverhampton and newcastle. parts of scotla nd wolverhampton and newcastle. parts of scotland as well. the cloud will break up doing today across the western areas especially. essentially, the west hangs onto the sunshine with the best temperatures, such as belfast at 18 degrees and london at 16. tomorrow will be nippy. at dawn on wednesday it will feel chilly out there. temperatures will be a couple of degrees above freezing in some area. the may sunshine is very strong. so the temperature is will quickly suit s4c shoot up to the high teens. 0n thursday, we see some changes. the atmosphere changes and we see the threat of cloud and spots of rain. it will still be decent weather with temperatures in the mid—teens, heightened in some spots. the changes arise on friday. the downfalls a re changes arise on friday. the downfalls are hit and miss on southern and central areas with

meanwhile, the prime minister, campaigning in the west country today, defended her decision not to beticians are squabbling among themselves doesn't do anything for the process of electioneering.

meanwhile, the prime minister, campaigning in the west country today, defended her decision not to be in cambridge for tonight's debate. i think debates where the politicians are squabbling among themselves doesn't do anything for the process of electioneering. i think actually it is about getting out and about, meeting voters and hearing directly from voters. and in other news... jailed for 15 years — the breast surgeon who carried out a series of unnecessary operations at hospitals in the west midlands. and coming up on newsnight — fresh from the election debate spin room, brexit secretary david davis and shadow foreign secretary emily thornberry. and fashion campaigning in fife, snp leader nicola sturgeon. —— fresh from campaigning. good evening and welcome to bbc news. with just eight days to go until the election, one of the biggest debates of this campaign has just taken place in cambridge. there were seven party representatives involved, including labour leader jeremy corbyn, who'd announced earlier in the day that he would, after all, be attending. the prime minister theresa m

they would be and that was the purpose of the visit from theresa may today in the west country, she wente it said the lib dems would have their eye on. now she's in bristol, we cannot show you exactly where she is for security reasons, but if you get an impression from where we are in the south of the city, the tower block in the background, this is the kind of place where the labour party does well and it has been labour for almost all of the past 100 years. with one exception, in 1983 labour mp was tony benn, his party was led by michael foot, a left—wing leader and the tories under margaret thatcher scored a decisive landslide victory that year. as it was the seat slipped in to preserve the control for two parliaments. that is the trick that theresa may would like to see repeated. this is a very deliberate act, they've come to bristol, only three labour seats here, one more in exeter otherwise the south west is a sea of blue. and theresa may indicated clearly she would like to take at least some of those labour seats from then onjune the 8th. thank you very much. the prime minister ha

but mrs may, visiting the west country today, said she preferred to be meeting voters on the campaignrail. i think debates where the politicians are squabbling among themselves doesn't do anything for the process of electioneering. i think, actually, it is about getting out and about meeting voters and hearing directly from voters. also on tonight's programme... 15 years in jail for the surgeon who carried out needless operations. thejudge said ian paterson was driven by material rewards. today, his patients spoke out. over four years of trauma and stress in trying to bring this man to account. no amount of prison sentence will ever compensate what myself and the other people affected have gone through. at least 90 people are killed in the afghan capital, kabul, after a truck bomb explodes in the diplomatic quarter. and to boldly go where no spacecraft has gone before. nasa's plans to probe the sun's atmosphere. and coming up in the sport on bbc news... defending champion novak djokovic and the king of clay, rafa nadal, both ease into the third round of the french open. good evening f

but mrs may — visiting the west country today — said she preferred to be meeting voters on the campaign. i think debates where the politicians are squabbling among themselves doesn't do anything for the process of electioneering. i think actually it is about getting out and about meeting voters and hearing directly from voters. inside the senate building of the university of cambridge final preparations are being made for the bbc debate featuring no fewer than seven party representatives. we'll have more from huw in a moment. the other main stories on bbc news at five. jailed for 15 years — the breast surgeon who carried out a series of unnecessary operations at hospitals in the west midlands. he took everything away from me. up until today it's been going on since the ‘90s and only today i've got justice. he took away my youth. preparations are underway at old trafford cricket ground for a concert honouring victims of the manchester bombing. and arsene wenger signs up to two more years as arsenal manager and says he wants to win next year's premier league title. it's 5 o'clock. we're i

that is what matters to the west country.r ma nifesto why will you support the labour manifesto in public? why won't you support the policy? a lot of questions will be asked of labour mps around the country, such as whether they are putting the face and a picture ofjeremy corbyn elephants, whether they can sign up to this sort of programme. there will be things in it they do agree with, but as you heard there, many labourmps, as one with, but as you heard there, many labour mps, as one put it to me, are trying to create their own lifeboat to save them, because they say that leadership is a huge issue on the doorstep, and they say that even though people might like the idea policies such as renationalising the railways, they say that the issue of jeremy corbyn and his leadership is a problem. well, that is their view. of course, those close tojeremy corbyn think that this is exactly the kind of programme that can win them the general election. i should say, the candidates' list, those going to stand across the uk, will close t

when the strengthening closer to the west country coast.will see plenty of sunshine coming through also. as we go on to friday, a repeat performance. like south—easterly breeze and driving the heat further north and, if anything, perhaps the highest values in the north—west of scotland. 29 degrees at not out off question for areas like inverness. generally speaking, a pretty hot date for many of us. as we move out off a friday, there is a weather front pushing it from the atlantic. is that arms into the hot air, it could potentially trigger some thundery downpours. north—west scotland, northern ireland and north—west in then and as far down as here the most likely places. a hot and humid start for the bank holiday weekend. thundery breakdown on saturday and fresher conditions to follow for the remainder of the weekend. more showers to come so if you are interested , showers to come so if you are interested, sunday into monday, keep watching the forecast. i'm kasia madera in london. the headlines: more details emerge about jeremy hunt, the m

and the prime minister, campaigning in the west country today, defended her decision not to be in cambridgeor the process of electioneering.

murky start in the south—west, with coastal fog lingering across parts of the west country and south many of us. just a scattering of showers across eastern scotland will be more persistent northwards. as we move into thursday, we keep quiet them. coastal mist and fog returning. more sunshine coming through on thursday. asa sunshine coming through on thursday. as a consequence, sunshine coming through on thursday. as a consequence, it will be warmer. dry for all, with light winds and top temperatures of 25 degrees in the south—east, 23 for glasgow. this drive—in set to continue for the rest of the week. lots of warm sunshine coming through. as a consequence, it will turn very warm, in fact, hot for some. hello and welcome to our lookahead key papers. —— hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are laura hughes, political correspondent at the daily telegraph and jack blanchard, political editor at the mirror. and there's really only one story in town. and the guardian reports that the security services are urgently seeking to establi

heading back to south wales and the west country, this is where we will have thundery downpours and strongre we will have the highest temperatures. and then it really gets wet overnight. the downpours become more extensive across england and wales, the thunderstorms, as well, all moving north. lighter rain in northern ireland and eventually southern scotland. very muggy in the south. behind those downpours, and they continue to drift north through the midlands, very wet for much of the day across northern england. slowly improving in northern ireland. the rain pushes into scotland. it will warm up in the south, very warm and humid, but there could be more thunderstorms triggered later in the day. a cool day under the rain in scotland. the rain eventually clears away overnight and the showers, as well, and then we look to the west to see the weather coming for the week ahead. some weather fronts coming in. with the pressure higher, it will be turning dry and when the sunshine is out it will feel quite pleasant. this is bbc news. the headlines at 12pm: police release images of the manchester

she has been in the west country.has done twice as many meetings, taken more questions from the public and from journalists than jeremy more questions from the public and from journalists thanjeremy corbyn ever from journalists thanjeremy corbyn ever did. he makes a speech to a momentum rally and goes away. she is engaging with real people. we did see the choices evening. you start a conservative government calmly getting about taking difficult decisions, and making sure that we are ina decisions, and making sure that we are in a good place. i think what we saw tonight was a conservative prime minister hiding from the british people and not being prepared to come out and answer questions in the way thatjeremy come out and answer questions in the way that jeremy corbyn did. jeremy, tonight, was passionate and principled and pine in a cereal. you have a choice, you can either have a prime minister like that or you can have a prime minister hiding behind the curtains at number ten, and just switching on the great british

country. further west, more sunshine, the eastern half of the country.he week we should see temperatures rising with the lighter winds and more sunshine, but more rain creeping in by the end of the week from the south. that is all for now. we're live in paris, where the polling stations will close within the next couple of hours, as the people of france choose their new president. after a deeply divisive campaign, france will know later tonight whether the new head of state will be emmanuel macron or marine le pen. tens of millions of voters have been visiting the polling stations, but the latest official figures show that turnout is down on the previous contest five years ago. i'm shaun ley — the other headlines this afternoon. labour promises to raise tax for only the top 5% of earners. the shadow chancellor says labour is now the party of low taxation for middle and low earners. the conservatives pledge more money to fund mental health staffing in the nhs and a change in the law so fewer people are detained against their will. 82 nigerian schoolgirls

the sunshine, dry air and down sloping from the high country west northwest. us just a little bit more in the way of heat. right now 79 in town, culpepper is 80 with low 70s from winchester. as we look outside not bad at all considering how the weekend started. we are finishing strong. 79 right now. the air is very dry. huty point at 40 and if we didn't have the breeze we'd be much colder tonight closer to the dew point but with the winds mixed our lows will be in town staying in the low 50s. look at highs tomorrow in the middle of the country 90 in st. louis, kansas city, nashville, atlanta upper 80s in the mid 70s. this heat is going to build moving towards the east on top of it as we get into the middle and latter part of the week. in the short term this storm system still spinning with rain. parts of new hampshire this morning about 15 to 1800 feet woke up to snow on mother's day. this storm is giving us all of the wind we've been dealing with and a couple of showers in south west pennsylvania might just sneak in west of us but for the most part dry and br

country. the chilly start for scotland. some outbreaks of showery rain into the extreme south—west.outbreaks of showery rain into the extreme south—west. good morning. first our main story. after a day of tory triumph in the local elections the labour leaderjeremy corbyn has admitted he faces an historic challenge ahead of next month's vote. campaigning for the general election on the 8th ofjune will resume today with the prime minister saying she's not taking anything for granted despite her party gaining more than 560 seats. our political correspondent tom symonds has more. it was a curtain raiser for the general election to come, and as the parties begin the national race in earnest, each have their own impressions of what the local election results mean. the conservatives took 11 more county councils. they won a tight victory in the west midlands mayoral election, and even eight seats on glasgow city council, far from traditional territory. but the tories know they can't regard the election as in the bag. i'm not taking anything for granted. i will be going out for the remaining

a weather front pushing its way west to east across the country.gus. quite a bit of cloud around there. out of that cloud, we are seeing some outbreaks of rain but sunday should be a day of sunshine and a few scattered showers, too. here is the weather front that brought the rain to many of us overnight in the west, clearing to the east throughout the course of sunday morning. so a return to sunshine across many parts of the country. that rain will linger in the north—east of scotland. this is 9:00 in the morning, particularly for the northern isles, north—east of mainland scotland, too. some sunshine towards dumfries and galloway, towards northern ireland, too. a bright start to sunday here. a bit cloudier down the east coast of england, and you could catch a showerfirst thing, but actually much of northern england and wales look dry with some sunshine. you can just see a few showers starting to crop up across central parts of wales. almost anywhere could catch a shower later in the day but i think predominantly it is a dry picture through sunday

the return to rain across the west country and into wales as we head into this evening.rain was pushing into southern scotland earlier this morning. a fine end to the day to the north—west of scotland. cold and grey for the east of scotland. it will remain murky through the night. we will have some rain into northern and western wealth and maybe north—west england. further south, drier towards the end of the night, most drier towards the end of the night, m ost pla ces drier towards the end of the night, most places should be dried and warm and humid. saturday will be quite a —— start for the northern half of the country with outbreaks of rain and still quite chilly. through the afternoon we stuck to see showers developing, some of these could be heavy with hail and plunderfor western scotland. it will feel quite warm. light winds with temperatures reaching 19 or 20. a band of rain on saturday moves north and east roads overnight but it will be short lived. that introduces fresher air. we lose the humidity we have to day and into saturday so it will feel pleasa nt and in

similar to the west country towards somerset, rumbles of thunder and lightning in bridgwater and arenshine. low 20s. warmer for northern england the lack of sunshine. low 20s. warmerfor northern england and the lack of sunshine. low 20s. warmer for northern england and the north—west vertically but in northern ireland and the north of scotland, dry with sunshine continuing away from the north and east where it will be cloudy with a chilly breeze, especially for the east coast of scotland. those thunderstorms will move northwards during this evening, tending to fizzle out in their intensity. some rain getting into northern ireland overnight. again, there could be some heavy bursts mixed and because it‘s going to be a humid night. a little bit cooler further north. then, into friday, cloudy picture for most places. more sunshine for northern and western scotland but further south it will be showery and there could be thundery downpours mixed in for england and wales, particularly through central areas, as temperatures will lift close to 20 degrees in places and it will still be quite h

significant tension still exists between russia and the west following the country's ongoing disputee. and sanctions are still in place. with me is lilit gevorgyan, senior economist at ihs global insight british airways is facing questions over the catastrophic failure of its computer system and how it's handled the fallout. vladimir putin wants to meet the man who managed to secure victory, despite the odds but secondly i think the russian president has a number of messages to deliver to the new french leader and the first message would be to decouple politics from economic and work on oui’ politics from economic and work on our political disagreements, rebuild oui’ our political disagreements, rebuild our political disagreements, rebuild our political relationship but i think president putin will use the word pragmatism which in russian interpretation means let's work on commercial relations. we are very much interested in around 6000 french companies working in russia... self interest, you are talking about. is mr macron going to say i am part of the european union all let's talk

minister is hoping that as vast swathe of the west cou ntry hoping that as vast swathe of the west countryvote for her as the leader to negotiate the exit and secure funding for the region. we've acted as a government to provide some certainty for people, forfarmers for provide some certainty for people, for farmers for example, in terms of common agricultural payments from the period 2020. we've already done the period 2020. we've already done the same in relation to the structural funds and indeed, the same in relation to the structuralfunds and indeed, said that if people have funding that is signed up before we leave the eu, if it matches, if it is good value for money and matches our strategic priorities then we will guarantee that money. beyond that, we have an opportunity to ensure that what we're doing is providing support for those parts of the country that need it, but doing so in the best possible way, but it's notjust about the issue of funding. it's about the issue of funding. it's about our modern industrial strategy. it's about ensuring that we are promoting and encouraging

into next week, low pressure will remain dominant towards the south—west of the country.rly winds will remain with us. they will fluctuate between south—easterly ones which may bring something milder but also those chillier north—easterly ones too. most staying dry. welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in north america and around the globe. my name is mike embley. our top stories: smiles and applause after congress takes the first step towards scrapping obamaca re in favour of trumpca re. this is, make no mistake, this is a repeal and a replace of obamacare, make no mistake about it. make no mistake. after 70 years in the public eye prince philip, husband of queen elizabeth, is retiring. now it gets personal. france's presidential frontrunner, macron, files a lawsuit, after rival, le pen, repeats claims he has a secret bank account. also in the programme: one of rome's most important landmarks gets a multi—million dollar makeover.

rush hour tomorrow morning, we have a pretty cloudy start across cornwall and devon, much of the west countryand and throughout scotland. even our friends in the far north and northern isles enjoying a beautiful start of the day. a fine start across the country tomorrow. a couple of light showers breaking out in some places but these temperatures are nothing to be sniffed at. 21 in northern england. 19 for glasgow. former traditionally in the south—east and not much change on the way in the afternoon or evening as well. a change on the way as far as thursday is concerned. outbreaks of rain heading into north—western parts of the uk. a big area of low pressure with winds blowing around like a washing machine. scooping up the warmth left across france and shunting it in our direction. former air comes across france and shunting it in our direction. formerair comes in across france and shunting it in our direction. former air comes in from the south, 25 in london and 20 in newcastle. 21, even. rain pushes into the north—west. these weather fronts are slow—moving. that air comes in from the south

but mrs may — visiting the west country today — said she preferred to be meeting voters on the campaign

as the country changes, many, if not most, have adopted the cultural values and styles of the west. wear the traditional hijab. >> anthony: a lot of people who watch this, particularly women, look at the hijab in particular as an instrument, at the very least as an instrument of male oppression. what would you say to them? >> oumy: for me religion is a, uh, is a personal thing and i, and i decide, decided to, to get this. so, why people keep on asking me every day, "why? why? why?" >> anthony: well, i, i think the simple answer is that what to you is a personal lifestyle choice looks too much of the world like a political choice. >> oumy: it is a choice for me. so, some of the senegalese girls, they have a choice to wear western clothes. i have also as a right to wear this. >> minielle: in a way, the reason behind it for every muslim, uh, will be modesty. whether you come from a rich background or a poor background, people should not judge you on the way you dress. she doesn't want you to be, like, "oh my gosh. i love her hair. oh, her earrings! oh! the watch!" no, you see us as som

the best of the sunshine in the north and west of the country. temperatures, 15—16. southern, and eastern parts of the uk. chilly. the best of the sunshine in the north and west. high pressure on the weekend keeps the weather systems out. dry on saturday and sunday. a north—easterly. chilly in north and east areas. the best of the sunshine in the west of the country. pretty impressive daytime maximum is. welcome to the headlines from london. tensions between britain and the eu over brexit, after a difficult meeting with the european commission president. britain's prime minister describes that the road ahead could be bumpy. during the conservative party leadership campaign i was described by one of my colleagues as a "bloody difficult woman". i said at the time that the next person to find that out would be jean—claude juncker. donald trump and vladimir putin discuss problems ranging from north korea to syria. they agreed to try to meet in july. korea to syria. they agreed to try to meet injuly. and in singapore, coming up: how free is the global price? we find out a

into next week, low pressure will remain dominant towards the south—west of the country.y winds will remain with us. they will fluctuate between south—easterly ones which may bring something milder but also those chillier north—easterly ones too. most staying dry. welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in north america and around the globe. my name is mike embley. our top stories: smiles and applause after congress takes the first step towards scrapping obamaca re in favour of trumpca re. this is, make no mistake, this is a repeal and replace of obamacare. make no mistake about it. after 70 years in the public eye prince philip, husband of queen elizabeth, is retiring. now it's gets personal: france's presidential front runner macron files a lawsuit after rival le pen repeats claims he has a secret bank account. and the surfer lost at sea for more than 30 hours survives to tell the tale.

a weather front pushing its way west to east across the country. around there. out of that cloud, we are seeing some outbreaks of rain but sunday should be a day of sunshine and a few scattered showers, too. here is the weather front that brought the rain to many of us overnight in the west, clearing to the east throughout the course of sunday morning. so a return to sunshine across many parts of the country. that rain will linger in the north—east of scotland. this is 9:00 in the morning, particularly for the northern isles, north—east of mainland scotland, too. some sunshine towards dumfries and galloway, towards northern ireland, too. a bright start to sunday here. a bit cloudier down the east coast of england, and you could catch a showerfirst thing, but actually much of northern england and wales look dry with some sunshine. you can just see a few showers starting to crop up across central parts of wales. almost anywhere could catch a shower later in the day but i think predominantly it is a dry picture through sunday morning. slightly cloudie

a weather front pushing its way west to east across the country.day on saturday in angus. quite a bit of cloud around there. out of that cloud, we are seeing some outbreaks of rain but sunday should be a day of sunshine and a few scattered showers, too. here is the weather front that brought the rain to many of us overnight in the west, clearing to the east throughout the course of sunday morning. so a return to sunshine across many parts of the country. that rain will linger in the north—east of scotland. this is 9:00 in the morning, particularly for the northern isles, north—east of mainland scotland, too. some sunshine towards dumfries and galloway, towards northern ireland, too. a bright start to sunday here. a bit cloudier down the east coast of england, and you could catch a showerfirst thing, but actually much of northern england and wales look dry with some sunshine. you can just see a few showers starting to crop up across central parts of wales. great day welcome to bbc news. my name is tom donkin. our top story: north korea carries out a

country honors his service and sacrifice. steve patterson, nbc news, los angeles. >>> and when we come back, graduation day at west point and oneamily's extraordinary achievement. >>> on this memorial day weekend, we end tonight with a story about service to country and the contribution of one remarkable family. among those graduating this weekend from the u.s. military academy at west point, three brothers, a rare accomplishment that hasn't been seen at west point in decades. maya rodriguez was there. >> reporter: it's graduation time at america's oldest military academy. west point's class of 2017 preparing to leave school to serve their country as army officers. among the new second lieutenants, the three ogrydziak brothers. 23-year-old noah and 21-year-old fraternal twins cole and sumner, all graduating together. >> after high school, you know, that would kind of be it. we'll all do our own thing, whatever that would be. >> reporter: but that's not how it turned out. each brother deciding on his own to apply to and attend west point. surprising their non-military older brother and their mom and dad, both of whom served in t

speaking during a visit to the west african country, he warned that militant organisations there wereen could have as many as 300,000 cases of cholera within six months and an "extremely high" number of deaths, according to the world health organization. nearly 250 people have died in the past three weeks alone. a judge in the us state of minnesota has ruled that the six brothers and sisters of the pop star prince are the heirs to his estate. the six, including tyka, seen here shortly after his death last year, will take shares of the singer's $300 million fortune. the wikilea ks founder, julian assange, is claiming a "victory" after swedish prosecutors decided to drop their investigation into claims he carried out a sexual assault. but he remains in the ecuadorean embassy in london, where he took refuge five years ago. british police say if he left they would still arrest him for failing to attend court. caroline hawley reports. 0ut into the fresh air. cheering. 0n the balcony of the ecuadorian embassy, julian assange emerged this afternoon to have his say on the end of the swedish i

country, we have had some warm late spring sunshine. this was the view in broadstairs earlier. bit of cumulus fairweather cloud around. more clout further north—west of our weather watchers. vision into parts of the west wales and south—west england. that band of rain going to shift its way eastwards across all of the country as we head through the latter pa rt country as we head through the latter part of the evening and overnight. telling wet and windy for a time as that edges its way eastwards. the western side of england, wales and northern ireland haveit england, wales and northern ireland have it clear and somewhat fresher. temperatures in lovely spots down to 5-6. temperatures in lovely spots down to 5—6. tomorrow morning still some rain lingering across north—east: but some sunshine across the south west of scotland. bright start of the day in belfast. one or two showers lingering around coastal paths that towards lancashire and down across wales some sunshine to start your day. and one or two showers cropping up, they are pretty hit and miss. showers cropping up, they are pretty hitand miss. a showers cropping up, they are pretty hit and

, devon, cornwall and hampshire, gloucestershire, the west country, devon, cornwalland south wales, thatwill see sunshine, feeling pleasantly warm and gentle breezes. in scotland, the remnants of this morning's ran across the north—west, but nothing to write home about. —— rain. cloud across parts of the northern and eastern coasts holding temperatures down, but for the rest of scotland, the north—east of england and east anglia, we are back into sunny skies, and feeling pleasa nt into sunny skies, and feeling pleasant temperatures, up to 24. that will fill humid in london. through the evening and overnight, all these showers migrate north. we will also see some in the west. it will also see some in the west. it will not be as cold as last night, and we will start to see some poor coming in across the north of scotland. —— some hoarforst. moora, lots of showers, heavy and thundery with hail. some sunshine in between. through the afternoon you will see more cloud coming in from the coast, along the northern and eastern parts of scotla nd along the northern and eastern parts of scotland an

some signs of some thick cloud and some very well come when pushing in to the south—west of the countryout in southern england and you could see some thunderstorms anywhere from sent west central to the west country. the thursday night into friday, they could be subversive array in, and then through friday a generally cloudy day across the board, certainly for england and wales cricket board front moves across us again. i warm front in the afternoon could bring some rainy afternoon could bring some rainy afternoon in the midlands and east anglia. it will be warm and muddy for england wales. into the weekend it's a bit fresher across the board, is an south—westerly wind that will drive a few showers and obese and sunny spells as well. and there will be some sunny spells as well. political shock waves in america as president trump sacks the head of the fbi without warning. explosive news from washington. james comey — the country's most senior law enforcement official — was investigating links between the president's campaign team and russia. ifan at if an at independent prosecutor is app

west, it will not last. some of the rain again heavy, wouldn't rule out thunder in there again. the opposite end of the countrys across the south—west. then across the north channel into northern ireland, decent afternoon. so too for much of the north of england, northern wales but clouding all the while to the north

officials say the missile was fired from a test facility near the country's west coast traveled about 400 miles before landing in the seas japan. it's not clear what kind of missiles were tested but in test was much more successful than the last which blue up shortly after launch this comes dates after south korea elected a new president. >>> the white house issues a response to that launch. that response coming out a few hours ago what's interesting is the word wg the missile impacting so close to russian soil closer to russia than japan, the president cannot imagine russia is pleased and also calls for stronger sanctions against north korea. a tragic stas for the stanislaus. a deputy and community service officers died after the car crashed into a building and caught fire. the two were responding to a burglary call. the chp is investigating why the car swerved off the roofrp rooted. the in happened after a alameda deputy died in a crash in livermore his car stopped in a freeway and hit by a bus. >> oakland firefighters rvgted a child drapd in a burning home np. crews found and reviv

he made the comments on his arrival in the west african country of mali, where he'll meet french troopsfrance, mali has suffered a number of attacks, including the radisson blu bamako hotel siege two years ago in which 20 people died. american warplanes operating in syria have attacked a convoy carrying militia fighters supporting president assad. the us—led coalition says the convoy was heading towards a base used by western special forces, near the border with iraq. russia has condemned the attack as ‘unacceptable'. the incident comes as president trump prepares to visit saudi arabia, his first overseas trip since becoming president. james landale reports. us warplanes launching air strikes against so—called islamic state targets in syria. but now they are also attacking ground forces loyal to the syrian government. ostensibly the air strike was designed to protect british and american special forces like these. they are based in the south—east of syria, where they are training opposition groups fighting is. these pictures were taken last year. the pro—syrian convoy that included iran

the west african country where 4800 killed more than people, touring a community hit hard by the virus14, praising library for its remarkable cooperation on health care issues. russia's foreign minister laughed off reports suggesting president trump shared sensitive intelligence with him. he says he did not understand what the secret was since the u.s. revealed the potential for a laptop terror attack when it banned them on airlines from some mideast countries. global news 24 hours a day, powered by more than 2600 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. i am alisa parenti, and this is bloomberg. just after 5:30 p.m. in washington, already 7:30 friday morning in sydney. look at theas a markets. a little bit of a comeback today in the u.s. good morning to you. paul: yes, we might see some of that flow through to australia. futures off just a shade. fairfax media had a good day yesterday against a falling market, up 6.5%, this on news that a bidding war for the newspaper giant seems to be emerging. a bid around $1.20 per share. futures looking positive, and it may have cracke

all three brothers graduating from west point, now serving their country.nightly news" begins now. >>> from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is nbc "nightly news" with kate snow. >> good evening. with so many public revelations over the past week about the investigation into links between trump officials and russia, the white house is now stepping up efforts to combat critical story lines after a nine-day overseas trip the president billed as a great success, the administration is hoping this week to get back to legislative priorities and promises made during the election like health care reform. but the shadow of that investigation and nearly daily staff shakeup rumors loom large. we begin tonight with hans nichols at the white house. >> president donald trump returning home late last night and raising no time to go on offense this morning. it is my opinion that many of the leaks, he says, coming out of the white house are fabricated lies made up by the fake news media. the white house is preparing a war room to push back on the russia investi

west point's class of 2017 preparing to leave school to serve their country as army officers. new second lieutenants, the three o'gresiak, noah, and twins cohl and sumner, ought graduating together. >> our own thing after high school. >> reporter: but that's not how it turned out. each brother deciding on his own to apply to and attend west point. surprising their non-military older brother and their mom and dad, both of whom served in the coast guard. >> it was their decision to go there, not pressure from us. i'm proud as heck that they are. >> it is an honor and we're tickled. >> reporter: it is also a rarity. the last time three siblings graduated from west point at the same time? more than 30 years ago. >> they made it through this 47-month crucible. i think everyone has realized how special that is since it really does not happen very often. >> reporter: for these brothers -- >> i would think friday night pizza night, that's kind of our thing. >> reporter: -- that meant relying on each other through the grueling years here. >> we all go through our individual trials like