and the liberal democrats foreign affairs spokesman chuka umunna will be taking your questions on brexitoming general election at 2.30 this afternoon. send us your questions on twitter using the hashtag #bbcyourquestions or you can email them to to yourquestions@bbc.co.uk. rugby star gareth thomas says he wants his everlasting legacy to be greater awareness of hiv, after revealing his own positive diagnosis back in september. the former wales rugby captain has been speaking to prince harry in an interview for the terrence higgins trust, as part of world aids day. you've got a new purpose in life and you've turned a negative into a positive. yeah. and i'll tell you what i feel like. and this is the truth, mate. i always felt that my life was to play rugby and to represent wales, which i did with all the passion i have, right? but i actually feel that my rugby gave me the platform to actually do what i'm doing now. and i believe what i do now, like, what i do now is really what i care about. because there's not many people from a simple life like i've come from who could have the power to

the party's foreign affairs spokesman chuka umunna said there were questions to be answered about the, the system needs to be looked at. but the facts are this. the assailant, the person who committed the attacks here, was jailed under a regime inherited by the coalition government from a labour government and then he was released early under a conservative government. so, this happened under governments of different political persuasions and the changes that need to be made, frankly, i think the focus has to be on properly funding the parole board, properly funding the probation services, and let us remember, i think the prime minister has been dishonest... those things were cut under the liberal democrats when you were part of the coalition. like i said, this is why it is difficult to try and play political games with this. and let us not forget, actually, that if this particular individual had been convicted for doing what he did now, he would not have been released early, he would have to serve at least two thirds of his sentence, and he would have only been released if the parole

and the liberal democrats' foreign affairs spokesman chuka umunna will be taking your questions on brexitoming general election at 2:30 this afternoon. send us your questions on twitter using the hashtag #bbcyourquestions, or you can email them to to yourquestions@bbc.co.uk. the secretary general of the un, antonio guterres, has called for greater political will to tackle climate change. he was speaking ahead of the 2019 un climate change conference, known as cop25, which formally begins in madrid tomorrow. mr guterres praised young people for their efforts to improve the environment and said subsidies on fossil fuels should be scrapped. the road map to stay below 1.5 degrees is still within reach. the technologies that are necessary to make this possible are already available. and the signals of hope are multiplying. public opinion is waking up everywhere. young people are showing remarkable leadership and mobilisation. what is still lacking is political will. political will to put a price on carbon. political will to stop subsidies on fossil fuels. political will to stop building coal p

chuka umunna, from the lib dems, thank you very much for being with us.how. we are starting off in iceland this week. it is one of the best places in the world to see whales in their natural habitat. but it's also now providing a home for a pair of these amazing mammals who've spent their lives in captivity. they are now looking forward to their retirement in an environment that is closer to their natural home. and cat has been to meet them. here, just off the coast of iceland, we are searching because, apparently, there is something in the water. notjust one of them either. there are 23 species of them. every now and then, someone points in a direction and the whole boat rushes over, trying to see what is happening. and then someone points in another direction so we rush that way. it is like whack—a—mole, you never know when they will pop up. whale watching boats cast off to sea each day in iceland in the hope of catching a glimpse of these mammals. you have a great spot up here. the best one on the boat. minke whales, two o'clock. minke whale at two o'c

and the liberal democrats foreign affairs spokesman chuka umunna will be taking your questions on brexiting general election — that's at half past two. the prime minister has told the bbc that 7a people who were jailed for terror offences — have been released before serving their full sentences. their cases are now being reviewed. it follows the attack on london bridge on friday in which the convicted terrorist usman khan killed two people and injured three others. khan had been released after serving half of a 16 year sentence. in the past hour it's been announced that the woman who died in the attack was a former student at the university of cambridge. of those injured on friday, one has now returned home and the other two are in a stable condition. sarah corker reports. just metres from london bridge... a service at southwark cathedral remembering those killed and injured in friday's attack. we have to help ease their pain but also speak into that pain with words of hope. 25—year—old jack merritt was leading a prisoner rehabilitation event when he was fatally stabbed. in the words of

s such as tom break sam jima chuka umunna jane dogs i'm so sorry i couldn't get them elected along with so many more of our wonderful candidates. racism is infecting our politics terrifyingly it has no become mainstream. a labor party mired in anti semitism complaints unresolved the jewish community fearful it took labor months to expel a member who wrote about gassing jews months when allister campbell voted lib they kicked him out in 2 days. break that party representatives filmed talking about being outbred by muslims and reveling in a story about plans to incase a paix head in concrete in the foundations of a mosque. watching that footage i felt sick yet this is the party that has handed boris johnson the keys to number 10. the conservatives are failing on islamophobia and the prime minister and willingly received the endorsement of tony robinson britain's biggest racist. so many people will look at the last few weeks these results and be filled with dread about the future of our country i understand i'm worried too this goes beyond our future relationship with the european union. i

their spokesman chuka umunna said everything by donald trump and borisjohnson should be taken with at. nicola sturgeon said the future of the nhs should not be in the hands of what donald trump says. as for boris johnson, the hands of what donald trump says. as for borisjohnson, the conservatives have consistently denied throughout this campaign there is any suggestion the nhs would be up for sale. today he said he could categorically rule out that any part of the nhs would be on the table in any trade negotiation, including pharmaceuticals. this is, he said, pure loch ness monster, bermuda triangle stuff. thank you. mr trump is currently making his way to clarence house for tea with prince charles and the duchess of cornwall before joining the rest of the nato leaders at a reception hosted by the queen. we can cross to carrie gracie outside the american ambassadors residence where president trump is staying, carrie. quite a lot of controversy? absolutely. in terms of security, it has been very busy. i'm outside winfield house, the american ambassador's residence in regents park. it

been split i wa nt to the remain vote had been split i want to pick out a couple city of london, chuka umunna split the vote and the conservatives... that, he split the vote and the conservatives. . . forgive that, he split the vote and the conservatives... forgive us, we are going to toro. the last declaration. this is the declaration of the result of the poll for the st ives constituency. this is the last declaration for the six constituencies of cornwall and i just want to pay my thanks to the thousands of staff that have been involved in the election here in cornwall for their hard work and their planning in what has been difficult circumstances, particularly here in st ives. and thank you as well to the candidates and agents for your support while we have sought to bring forward and deliberate this results in as timely a way as possible, given the adverse weather conditions that we have been facing. i weather conditions that we have been facing. lam weather conditions that we have been facing. i am now going to move to this declaration. being the acting returning officer at the above ele

the party's chuka umunna joins us now from westminster. thank you for coming on today.made no pretenses about you's position here, and he didn't either. well! you asked me a question, please let me finish. he has been absolutely clear that he wants people to tactically vote in this election for remain candidates who stand the best chance within particular constituencies of being able to win, and he has endorsed a number of candidates, i am one of them, but he has also done the same with some letter candidates, so there is no illusions that he is seeking to back a single candidate, but remain candidates. he corrected a lib dems weed because he says it wasn't accurate. yes, but there has been, look, there has been absolutely no effort to try and miss portray, if you like, his support. hejust portray, if you like, his support. he just objected to some wording in a tweet, but it's not a big issue, i promise you. you say it's not a big issue but in the context of trust and understanding where all the parties are coming from at the moment, and also from a liberal democrat per

london where donald trump is coming into town, by ian stoltenberg, the secretary general of nato —— chuka umunnae re just wonder what your impressions were of jack merritt when you met him? a very fine young man, a dedicated man. he has been described as such which he is but he is not a cambridge graduate you might imagine. he lived in cambridge but then went to the university of manchester to do a law degree and back to cambridge to the institute of criminology to do a masters degree and it was there that he began going into prisons and to learn about prisoners and to realise that he wanted to use his knowledge of the law to help others, to help prisoners and direct law in a practical direction rather than any other. an interesting idea, the way in which you can apply that kind of academic learning into a way that maybe was not a typical route for a trained lawyer. exactly so. an interesting part of what he did was to runa interesting part of what he did was to run a course, run by the institute of criminology and funded by charitable donations the broad cambridge law students into prison so ca

chuka umunna stood for the liberal democrats, did really well, look at the share, but taking from labourious example in kensington, emma dent coad, you will remember, took the seat when a shock after the grenfell tower disaster, she had a narrow majority, sam gyimah took 21% of the vote, but look how close it was, just going back to that, if he had stood aside, you would have had to think that emma dent coad would have taken that one, so i had scratcher that there two sides will look at. this only occurred to me a few minutes ago as we were going through the numbers, emily, look at that, seats did change hands, but exactly as you were in 2017. we could have all stayed at home, stayed out of the ring, emily! , some of us did, i'm sure! christian, thanks very much indeed. we are going to get the view from brussels of this conservative landslide, sirjonathan faull is a former british official in the european commission. what is your sense of how this result will have been received in brussels? well, i think people will be saying to themselves that now we have a british government with the f

all those people that have left to join the smaller parties, luciano burge failed this morning, chuka umunnaentrists, centre—left forces in british politics, they have all vanished. that means there is going to be a big reshaping not just in the labour party but to the centre and left of it as well. i've no idea what is going to happen but it's going to be fascinating. no idea what is going to happen but it's going to be fascinatingm no idea what is going to happen but it's going to be fascinating. it is. the reshaping is something jeremy can talk to us about as well. of course it starts in the commons! this is what this is all about this reshaping and it starts on the government benches with what is still technically a projection but we're still technically a projection but we' re pretty still technically a projection but we're pretty sure this is how it'll end up. the conservatives on 36a seats with just five more to declare. of course they had to get across the winning line and they did that and some. if you look back at the last election, and at 2010 and even the last election, and at 20