with lord halifax with the prime minister on may 10th and halifax already open in the discussions. so figuring out what the peace settlement would be. but he recognized first of all, a substantial number of the ruling conservative party's in with the majority of the conservative party as the man who should have remained in their prime minister. except when chamberlain resigned and then was flabbergasted. >> so they did not have the unanimous backing from the party. and to be obliged of these arguments that it is quicker rather than not. but dunkirk gave him the opportunity within the house of commons not just snatching victory from the jaws of defeat but that evacuation to do the unexpected end of miraculous. then the british point of view changed as the notion of defeat as say willingness to engage in that is less destructive. it changes because of dunkirk. and as churchill put it is necessary. and don may 1940 when the germans attack and it is an extraordinary achievement to make that mental switch to make that determination and that includes dunkirk. and this is an almost uncann

said a majority of people would have preferred halifax search of the most of the tories would have. and most of the labor leaders wanted halifax churchill was not a popular with labor and infuriated them time after time. so with this group of tory rebels and from the time the debate was over when chamberlain finally resigned their work today's that they really campaigned for churchill very hard to get the same time halifax wanted to be prime minister he would have. he had that meeting with chamberlain and churchill in which he said there are a number of reasons that he gave but one reason he know really churchill would be running the war he didn't want any part of that. and i don't they get played a major role but at this a meeting he was told in fact, the mood in the house of commons was changing toward churchill. but inveigle the low country of france through everything off. the old ideas of who should be prime minister and the idea of hitler invaded helped churchill as well. >> those of us who have been speechwriters like to think of the idea of rhetoric and reality you -- realit

at the end of april, we went up and visited halifax.d to through the screen. we picked out apartments, we had to browse businesses for job opportunities. it really solidified our decision to move there. the people are incredible. i am a sunshine person. i love blue skies and sunshine, i do know it is a bit more overcast up there. it will be a climate adjustment, that is one of my biggest concerns. one of my biggest concerns is jobs. i am an office manager, i have done it for over six years now. i am getting my mba, i would like to take that experience and maybe seek out a new profession. we'll still retain our american citizenship while being canadian permanent residentes, we just can't vote in canada. i am excited to dive into this new life. we will kind of play it by ear. i would love to get up there, stay up there and fall in love with it, and maybe one day become a canadian citizen. and it's not just and it's notjust the weather that could be a change for them. three people fishing off canada's east coast have had a huge fright, we'

at the end of april, we went up and visited halifax. we wa nted went up and visited halifax.s opposed to through the screen. we picked out apartments, we had to browse businesses for job opportunities. apartments, we had to browse businesses forjob opportunities. it really solidified our decision to move there. the people are incredible. i am a sunshine person. i love blue skies and sunshine, i know it is a bit more of a car stop there. it will be a climate adjustment, that is one of my biggest concern is. one of my biggest concern is. one of my biggest concerns is jobs.|j biggest concern is. one of my biggest concerns is jobs. i am an office manager, i have done it for over six years office manager, i have done it for over six years now. office manager, i have done it for over six years now. i am getting my mba, i would like to take that experience and maybe seek out a new profession. we will still retain our american citizenship, we just can't vote in canada. i am excited to do jump vote in canada. i am excited to do jump into this new life. we will kind of play it by ear.

the piece hall in halifax has re—opened today following a £19 million transformation.ece hall in halifax has re—opened today following a £19 million transformation. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. british gas will increase electricity prices by 12.5% in september, a move which will affect more than three million customers. its parent company centrica said the price rise is a because of the increasing cost of transmitting energy to people's homes, and government environmental policies. the government has indicated that it may still legislate to impose a cap on energy prices. our business correspondent theo leggett reports. british gas likes to say it is putting its customers in control. but even if they turn the heating down, those on a standard variable tariffs will see their bills going up. after the increases announced today, the cost of an average dualfuel energy bill, electricity and gas, provided by british gas, will be going up. it will now cost £1120 a year, an increase of £76 compared to last year. it is not the cheapest among the big players any more,

and the piece hall in halifax — once at the heart of

it could have gone the other way and probably would have if halifax had been prime minister. now britain faced invasion with an army that was under strength because britain hadn't really mobilized very rapidly. almost all of its heavy equipment was left behind at dunkirk. all the army heavy tanks and most of its artillery. it is difficult to get across how shocking this was. invasion was simply not part of the british national experience. on the continent, countries had been invaded, occupied, reemerged. britain had not. last time britain was invaded was 1066. britain had fought wars all over the world and lost some, won some. they lost the american colonies. but they were wars fought somewhere else. throughout the 20th century the french army had been the bulwark between britain and an enemy. now, the enemy was on the french sure. shore. -- this was shocking. you can imagine the impact on britain. what was surprising, the impact of all of these events on america. on may 9, the prevailing mood in america was the prevailing view was that the united states had no business getti

at 10am on the dot today, the people of halifax were welcomed back in. it is brilliant.d back in. it is brilliant. it is a plus for the tonelj welcomed back in. it is brilliant. it is a plus for the tone. i am born and bred here. fantastic. good to see it how it is back to where it should be. i used to come here and hang out with my mates. it is really nice to see it. i hope that it takes off and people come and visit it because it is a fantastic place to be. nothing is new for these old stones, who have witnessed that before. you would think we are in italy. we've got the lovely weather. those i've spoken to are confident this will pull people to the region. it is extremely fitting that the day that it opens is yorkshire day. glorious, how fantastic. british vogue has a new editor today — the first man at the helm in the magazine's history. edward enninful has taken over from alexandra shulman, who was the editor for 25 years. the uk fashion industry is worth 26 billion pounds a year to the economy — so people will be watching closely to see how mr enninful shapes the m

it really does look like we could be in italy this morning but we are in halifax.hat we don't have that report right now but can you give us more of a look around and tell us more about that place because as you said a moment ago, lots of people are thinking what an extraordinary building architecturally and the scale of it? yes, as you can see, if you can have a look there is over 300 identical doors, each have a little trading unitand a doors, each have a little trading unit and a window and a door and back then over 200 years ago this is where people came to trade their cloth. in a minute we will introduce you to the counsellor who is delighted to be opening this. if you come down here i'm going to take you ona come down here i'm going to take you on a little tour and we're going to go and see... if you come down these stairs... we are going to find out what's going to be going on. coming onto nicky, we've been hearing a bit about the past and how it used to be about the past and how it used to be a trading place and how they're used to be loads of wall and cott

at 10am today, the people of halifax were welcomed back in. i think it is brilliant.where it should be. i used to come here and hang out with my mates. it is really nice to see it open again. i hope that it takes off and people come and visit it because it is a fantastic place to be. nothing is new for these old stones, who have witnessed itt before. you really think we where in italy, there is the weather and alfresco dining and the live music. those i have spoken to today are confident it will pool people to the region. it is fitting the day the piece hall opens is yorkshire day. we will have more on that centrica story and the rise in bills and we will be catching up with our washington correspondent. now for a look at the weather. we have changed the month but not the weather. everything on shore in these pictures. look at this picture. a very turbulent afternoon in east yorkshire and lincolnshire. we are ina gap yorkshire and lincolnshire. we are in a gap between weather systems tonight. it is not very big. this is coming infor tonight. it is not very big. this i

the decision is the halifax shame about. election night. we saw the numbers come in much better noise. the dome of trump and his campaign team that any of the pollsters have predicted it was shock and then it was just it's heartening. jokingly said well. the summer movie can't. heather. got a line. she went to the official website canada's immigration website has crashed. i just love people have the same idea. obviously a lot of family and friends then i think we were serious but as a joint news letters as i became more to keep it on. of immigration they did start to realize slowly but surely that we're removing. and we started doing research buckenham and we found that the ideal just aligned. more greatly with with ours we started in january we hit the ground running with background checks with employment history with you have to have a certain amount of savings. n't. at the end of april we went up and visited halifax nova scotia you want to see how low. for the character measured up. in real life as opposed to through. screen and that we'

it's hoped this historical hall will place halifax back on the map. 238 years on as the shelves fillefore. from today, people studying to be nurses or midwives will no longer receive nhs bursaries, instead, they will have to apply for student loans. applications for courses are down by more than 20%. the government says it is providing funding for an extra 10—thousand university places for students on nursing, midwifery and other health degrees in england. john maguire reports. these second—year nursing students are getting their first look at the anatomage table using the latest technology to take a 3—d trip through a virtual human body. their degree course at the university of central lancashire is funded by nhs bursaries and grants, but as of today applicants wanting to study nursing, midwifery and other medical courses will need a student loan in line with other undergraduates. so would it have deterred these students? i don't think it would have made a difference to myself because i really wanted to become a nurse and although the financial implications of not having a bursary w

viewers can see harry in halifax at 6.30pm on bbc one in that local area.ug fe nta nyl. the national crime agency says the majority of those who died were heroin. two—thirds were in the yorkshire, humberside and cleveland areas. a 25—year—old man from gwent has been charged with investigations into the supply of synthetic opiates. the united nations commissioner on human rights zeid ra'ad al hussein has called on the venezuelan government to release two opposition leaders, who've been re—arrested just two days after a controversial vote to change the country's constitution. the daughter of one of the men — antonio ledezma — posted this video on social media. she says it shows her father being taken away by officers from the intelligence service. the wife of the other man — leopoldo lopez — said she would hold the president responsible if anything happened to her husband. earlier our south america correspondent, will grant, sent us this update from caracas. authorities in venezuela have claimed for a long time that they're not a dictatorship as has been said

it's more than 400-miles away from halifax. it continues to move away. today, it was high. it's over now. the seas now two to three feet. don't go swimming where and when life guards are not on duty. moderate risk improving as we move through the day tomorrow. right now, philadelphia 77 down from the high of 89-degrees. the warmest day since the second day of august. dewpoints are high in the 60s in philadelphia, 70s to the south. that's the oh pressive air. that air moves in, in time for friday. the morning commute, not as widespread as this morning. temperatures in the 7 0s. i have more in the seven-day forecast. jim? >> thank you, cecily. a body has been in a home for an extended period of time. christie? >> neighbors say it was a family friend who asked police to do a welfare check. when officers arrived, the odor was a dead give away something wasn't right. >> we showed up at 3:00, for a wellness check. then a second car and third dar. >car.suddenly it was the scene a suspicious death investigation. a man was slowly decomposing in his family delaware county home. >> fi

and we'll be celebrating all things yorkshire, as halifax's refurbished piece hall re—opens, appropriatelyhire day. that's all ahead on bbc news. now on bbc news it's time for sportsday. hello and welcome to sportsday. i'm hugh feris. the headlines: unbeatable, unstoppable usain. bolt delivers his legacy wish as he looks ahead to his final champoinships. england's first injury blow of euro 2017. keeper karen bardsley will miss the rest of the tournament after it was revealed she's broken her leg. and robert kubica, the man described as the finest driver of his generation could be ready to race in formula one again, six years after an accident that looked like it would be career—ending. hello again. great to have your company. the world of sport will be losing a true superstar in around 10 days time. usain bolt is stepping away from the arena in which he's won eight olympic titles, and 11 world championship golds. and in london this week and next he'll hope to add more before retiring a true legend. and with that in mind, he's been holding court with the world's media looking ahead to the e

canada itself when you think about the movement of institutions like the bank of nova scotia from halifaxto toronto. they had already developed a sense of how do you congresser -- conquer space, basically. they had the experience overseas . furthermore, the canadian bankers were working in intercolonial mode which is the sense that they were going to do the work in the british colonies that england itself wasn't going to do, the caribbean territories were sceded to canadians, at the same time, the canadian banks recognizing that there was -- they said it was an advantage for us, we will go into cuba, we will go into jamaica and receiver as surrogates of u.s. capital. in cases like the world bank of canada, they actually set up an office on wall street, you know, so they could be in that mix, but then served wall street interest to some degree in the region and at one point, i can't remember the exact date, at one point chicago business interest and capital purchased a huge chunk of the world bank of canada to -- to use them. i think it was a mutual use but to use them for capital expansio

got three from three after a ha rd the wolves got three from three after a hard one victory against halifaxatalan dragons. and that is all the catalan dragons. and that is all the sport for now. thank you for that. and now for the latest on donald trump. donald trump has thanked his former chief strategist, steve bannon, for his service after he was fired from his job at the white house. mr bannon, who was seen as the architect of mr trump's right—wing agenda, has vowed to continue to fight the president's opponents. he'll return to a role at the ultra—conservative website, breitbart news. in the last hour, president trump has tweeted that mr bannon will be a tough and smart voice at the right—wing news website. david willis reports. steve bannon, widely credited for helping steer donald trump to victory, he was one of the most powerful men in the white house. if you think they will give your country back without a fight, you are sadly mistaken. every day... every day, it is going to be a fight. steve bannon has now returned to right—wing website, breitbart news, which he ran before leaving

it three wins from three in the super league qualifiers, but only after a hard—fought victory over halifaxlio to grind out a 22 points to 8 win. lisa and jury lisa andjury in lisa and jury in saab to second place in the qualifying table after condemning catalan dragons to another defeat. they won 30—6. in the rugby championship, new zealand beat australia 54—34 — a record points score for the all blacks over their local rivals. new zealand raced into a healthy 40 points to 6 lead at half time — ripping the australia defence to shreds almost at will — the performance being described as one of the best ever seen. the second half continued in the same vein — with the all blacks at one point having a 54 points to 6 lead. australia fought back in the second half — by then new zealand had already secured the victory. ronnie o sullivan has blasted his way into the semi—finals of the china championship in guangzhou. the rocket thrashed graeme dott by 5 frames to nil in their quarter—final. dott accumulated just 21 points in the 5 frames. the world's current top six have all already been knocked ou

the halifax says property prices were 0.2% lower than the previous quarter.. back now to that story about consumer spending. visa says the amount we're spending has fallen yet again. the figure for last month shows consumer spending fell by close to one per cent — compared to july last year. it's the third monthly fall in a row. joining me now is kevin jenkins, visa's uk & ireland managing director. thank you. why are we spending so little? well, if you look back to 2013 there are some similarities with what we're seeing in the economy at the moment which is essentially inflation is outstripping wage growth at the moment so there is quite a downward pressure in terms of wages. we're seeing wage growth of around 2% whereas inflation is closer to 3% so people essentially are feeling bad in their pocket and feeling a bit squeezed. what areas are we cutting back on specifically? if you look atjuly compared to july last year there has been quite a downward squeeze in terms of what we would call big—ticket items. so people are spending less on cars, which decline a

nafta negotiations today boom bust in the washington at the white house alex mileage joins us from halifax canada i want to start with you has trump's rhetoric on now changed since he called it the worst trade deal ever. it certainly has changed a lot or hall during the campaign he famously called nafta the worst trade deal ever in the history of the u.s. trade deals and had a lot of negative rhetoric not only on nafta but also on t.t.p. . and just trade deals in general but once he was elected to office his tone really softened and then in april he announced that instead of scrapping nafta all together like he did with p.p.p. he would be open to negotiations so as for the u.s. side what we can expect out of today and the talks moving forward trump officials want to see a change in labor regulations in particular how it impacts wages and how you know we can prevent the pushing down of those wages through outsourcing labor they want to see a change in the way we combat currency manipulation and they also want to update that dispute resolution process which if it were to be changed would jus

prime minister -- the king wanted somebody else and a lot of people thought somebody one, like lord halifax, would be prime minister. england almost certainly would have made peace with germany 1940 and i was churchill who rallied the british people, who insisted they would not have a peace agreement, and who gave a series of speeches in 1940 that pulled the country together in mobilized it. and the speeches are great political speeches. they're very tough and very truthful. speech wiz remember, fight them on the beaches, this is their finest hour, blood, sweat and tears, all 1940. we will fight them on the beaches is remarkable because it describes a fighting retreat. if the germ germans invade we'll fight them on the beach, top the landing field, in the cities. we will fight them in the hills. describing fighting and retreating from the germans as they come over the country. this was startling stuff to hear in england at that time. i think the churchill speeches that year are the literary equivalent orwell residents greatest essaysy and yet are '43 his speeches were far more infrequent, f

fourth quarterly fall in a row for the first time since 2012, according to the halifax.ender says demand is weaker owing to a cocktail of weak wage growth, a rise in prices in the shops, and affordability concerns. we could get more control over our personal information under proposals outlined by the government. people will be able to ask for personal data to be deleted and also ask firms to obtain "explicit" consent when they process sensitive personal data. it is interesting. there is so much wrapped up into this announcement. what are the bits that stand out for you? these proposals would give people the right to ask for any social media post that they placed before the age of 18 to be deleted. us obviously, the idea that young adults might find it difficult to get a job because of something embarrassing that they posted before they reach maturity, they don't want that. that is a central plank of this legislation proposals. 0ther people will be able to ask for material. if companies break the rules the penalties are going to be much bigger so the information commissi

the commander of the british station in halifax, which meant north american waters, wanted to retire but he didn't have enough money until the war of 1812. but so many ships were captured around the chesapeake and off virginia and sold as prices at auction that his cut of 10% amounted to 100,000 pounds sterling. if you work that out in the millions in our money. saluting and plundering, but very targeted. because we burned york, the british government in canada asked the british invaders in virginia to burn washington d.c., in retaliation. and they were ready. early in 1814 napoleon, after failing to take egypt, india, russia, was down to returning alone to paris and capitulating. that was a signal for the british who felt they had been stabbed in the back by their american cousins to send huge reinforcements to america. so they began by extending their blockade all the way from maine to new orleans. especially trying to stop privateers. this is another one of those war of 1812 words that you don't hear very much we would call them the merchant marine. we even have a merchant marine

and wein with halifax is have a big lancaster bomber in the works. we will bomb germany.ouble be a second front. by the way they will lose 40 -- 45,000 brits and 25,000 americans. i think you should make a note of it in this relationship, because you can see what a second land front would've been like in 1942 and 1943 had the british allowed us to do a -- like george marshall wanted us to do. you can see that through the air campaign. we go over there confident, swaggering, say we have a b-17, we fly in formation, it is absolutely a fortress and the british say, do not tell us that. our cruise as they bomb. what the germans do, as they leave england, they pick you up on radar and they have 20-30 bases here and they pass you off from 109 squadron to 109. the new f1 90 is better. they are excellent pilots. they will shoot you down like you do not believe. we are doing this at night. we are doing get in singular formation. we do not announce what we are -- where we are going. if you think you will stack up 100-200 bombers in broad daylight, then you will be about 20,000 feet

actually, we need to recognise that the situation in northern towns like halifax is very different from very much for joining us, i am very grateful to you. let's just read out a statement from a government spokesperson. "integration is key to making sure migrants can achieve economic stability and play a role in their local community. we have made £140 million available through the controlling migration fund to build community cohesion and encourage the integration of recent migrants, including a number of projects focusing on english language education, and we'll shortly be bringing forward plans for a new integration strategy." coming up, rugby player dan mugford speaks out about his battle with depression and how he's now working to help others. now, she's the british singer and songwriter who's sold more than 23 million singles worldwide and topped the charts here in the uk and the us. charli xcx has performed with the likes of taylor swift and rita 0ra — and written songs for stars including rihanna, britney spears and blondie. more recently, she's moved behind the camera and dire

the halifax says property prices were 0.2% lower than the previous quarter.y. around the globe, caesarean section rates have increased dramatically, even as a large amount of them are not medically required. whilst the average rate is 28% amongst oecd countries, in turkey more than half of babies are born by c—section, the highest rate in the world. selin girit takes a look at why. at this hospital, eight babies are born today. five of them by caesarean sections. c—sections are rather popular in turkey. over 50% of babies are born not by natural birth, but by these operations. that rate is the highest amongst oecd countries. but why do so many expecting mothers go through these operations? is it by choice or necessity? the increase in c—sections are due to the rise in first births among older women and multiple births resulting from the ivf treatment, but are all of these caesarea ns medically justified ? five years ago, turkey adopted a law making it the first country to punish elective caesarean sections, but it has one of the highest rates of c—section amo