there were countered protests, but jeremy corbyn has said, "i will a lwa ys jeremy corbyn has said, "nti—semitism. " very strong words. he has made two apologies in the last 2a was, is that enough for you? actions speak louder than words. i welcome what we got today from jeremy corbyn, which was two letters, after silence from macro dos years, two letters in one day. he is clearly trying to make up ground. it is about action and not words. we have had lots of words from jeremy corbyn before. he always declares himself to be an enemy of racism, the trouble is, he still hasn't confronted or taken effective action to expel anti—semites in his party. when you talk about actions, its expulsion is that you want, is it? for the most serious cases, people like ken livingstone and jackie walker should be expelled. that is the crime, widespread cry taken up by many labour mps. why hasn't he done it up until now, then? i wish i knew. did hasn't he done it up until now, then? iwish i knew. did you hasn't he done it up until now, then? i wish i knew. did you ask him that? many times. what did he s

what did jeremy corbyn say? let down by you? no, he simply said he was unhappy, i think that was the precise word he scented text and then a phone call. to be honest, i am not sure i was speaking against labour party policy. the labour party at its conference which is sovereign in terms of policy passed a motion last year that said exactly what i said in my article for the guardian newspaper and other members of the shadow cabinet, diane abbott recently articulated almost exactly the same views about the prospects for a people'sthe vote at the end of the process. i am not sure it is true i was overstepping the mark. i have been clear the last two years these are my views and jeremy corbyn knew that when he appointed me and he has never asked me to renounce them. kyle abbott said you are a valued colleague but it is argued you cannot sit on the front page of the opposition while advancing a position that is not labour party policy. she does not agree. pretty rich for her to say that given she did the same thing b

a text says, an apology from jeremy corbyn is meaningless. s of anti—semitism propagated by the media, it is all to do damage tojeremy corbyn and it is shameful. we will talk to the labourmp is shameful. we will talk to the labour mp john mann after 9:30am. is shameful. we will talk to the labour mpjohn mann after 9:30am. he says labour have to root out what he calls this cancer of anti—semitism within the party. do get in touch with us throughout the morning — use the hashtag victoria live and if you text, you will be charged at the standard network rate. jessica is here. we will talk about this absolute scandal around australia in a moment but before that, england have lost another test match in new zealand? yes, exactly. england captain joe root match in new zealand? yes, exactly. england captainjoe root has questioned the team's consistency after a heavy defeat to new zealand. you will remember england's dismal first—innings total of 58, which a lwa ys first—innings total of 58, which always meant it would be really tough to try and salvag

he not, jeremy corbyn has a lot to answer for. he has not, jeremy corbyn has a lot to answerfor.e has encouraged anti—semites and he has endorsed them. in the modern world, using social media, their conspiracy theories about dues and statements about hate spread like a disease, and this virus is affecting the personal details of 150 million users of a popular online fitness programme are compromised by a data security breach. also in the next hour... senior staff at some academy trusts are accused of taking "unjustifiably" high salaries. mps say the academies in england are using public money that could be better spent on children's education. and coming up in half an hour on bbc news... it's weather world, marking 100 years of the royal air force. and where better than here at its biggest base, raf brize norton? good morning and welcome to bbc news. thousands of suspects under investigation for violent and sexual offences have been released from police custody without any bail conditions attached, according to research by the bbc. new rules were introduced in england and wales a

do you believe jeremy corbyn is anti—semitic?s of this problem. i think up to now, at least, they haven't really got it, and i think they would be very wise to listen carefully to what the jewish community is saying today and to act upon it. you know, what i would urge the labour leadership to do collectively is to recognise this is a real problem. it's got beyond the stage where words will solve this. he's going to have to show that he really understands the issue, that the people around him really understand it, and that he is prepared to act on it. what will you say to people who say, of course you've always been hawkish on foreign affairs and the middle east, you are conflating two things here? what i say to that is very simple, that you can be anti the policy of any one government in israel. that's different from being anti the state of israel, anti its existence. when people are in that position, it very quickly trends across into anti—semitism. why do you think this has taken so long? i don't know, because i think there ar

the journalist, who i respect, ran a piece saying that in his view this could be the end of jeremy corbynt as we know it. but set against that a poll in the times said 80% of labour party supporters backjeremy corbyn and think he has handled the situation well. eddie izzard is a great supporter ofjeremy corbyn, i was looking back to comments he made on the today programme in on, at the time that the nec were voting, he saidi time that the nec were voting, he said i would urge the labour party to keep their eyes on the general election. he is not a huge supporter ofjeremy corbyn. that is why he wasn't elected, because he was on the the momentum slate, which organised jeremy corbyn‘s supporters to get them on to the nec. so so jeremy corbyn didn't want him. and now they have got him. now, the next story, i was looking atjeremy corbyn‘s twitter feed tonight seeing if there was any reaction to the news today... he never mentions bad news. his comment relates to this, the sunday mirror and victory on child burials. his comment is this is welcome news, a simple piece of dignity for families. we

jeremy corbyn is accused of failing to stamp out anti—semitism in his party. ondemn the labour leader. they wrote have delhi” groups condemn the labour leader. they wrote have delhi i also will be asking him how he can plus be say that he did not look at the mural which he supported which was critically anti—semitic. i want him to explain how he is a member of two notably anti—semitic facebook groups and he said he didn't notice. everything with jeremy and he said he didn't notice. everything withjeremy corbyn is, well, i hear no evil, i see no evil, i was not looking, i didn't see anything. i frankly find that strains my credulity. in his own statement, mr corbyn said... iam i am pleased that jamie has said he is going to meetjewish leaders within the next few days, weeks and months and that we are going to continue to campaign to stamp out racism and anti—semitism of any kind in the party at every level. for others, the labour leader must do more to prove he is tough enough on this issue which continues to plague him. let's talk to norman smith and westminste

the point is, if you intend to lead the country, as jeremy corbyn does, your first duty is to make peoplerbyn, although he was perfectly right to lay out some questions about what we know, corbyn didn't do it the right way. he should have come out at the beginning it made it clear that he would defend britain and he would ask other questions later. rachel, where are you on these? they have both made sensible points, but i thought that jeremy corbyn was right to point out that we needed some proof before we risked escalating what could be a very dangerous international situation, and i think a lot of the country really agreed with him on that. we've had eight years of the war in syria, we got 1500 civilian casualties in yemen, and then we have the death, probable assassination by a russian agency of one british citizen, a russian spy swap, and suddenly the entire international security establishment decides it's time to really launched an international diplomatic offensive against putin. i understand the reasons about the chemical attack on british soil, but i think we were right to be cau

jeremy corbyn says he is sincerely sorry for what he described as anti—semitism within the labour partyon meet the author this week, my guest is a norwegian writer, whose book, two sisters, tells the haunting story of two teenage girls who left their family in oslo five yea rs who left their family in oslo five years ago tojoin who left their family in oslo five years ago to join the syrian war and never came home. welcome to the look ahead at what the papers will bring us tomorrow. charlie wells deputy economy editor at the economist, and any of the front page is already in. the guardian leads with a warning from the equality watchdog that firms that fail to report their gender pay gap could face court. the ft headlines the demonstrations in barcelona following the arrest of the former catalan president carles puigdemont in germany. berger leads on calls for police to investigate funding for the boat leave campaign, following the whistle—blower revelations. the express claims that more than 30 conservative mps have signed a letter urging the prime minister to consider a radical overhau

this is one area jeremy corbyn has properly stuck to his arms and his guts, and it's a very differentand i in some ways admire your moral certainty about jeremy being on the right side of everything. these conflicts, geopolitics is really difficult. there are not glib, right, wrong easy solutions in all of this and i think right now you have a tiger by the tail and nobody knows how to handle putin. he is a thug writ large across the world. look at ukraine, him propping up assad in syria, this is not a nice person we want to be associated with. and venezuela. as the opposition, we need to show some responsibility and solidarity for the national interest and not just the party interest. but that's whatjeremy did and it's notjust about going along with the crowd. i think he missed the moment, the initial moment. i disagree. thank you forjoining us. thousands of civilians have fled the syrian town of hammouriyeh and its surrounding areas in the rebel enclave of eastern ghouta. the observatory for human rights — a watchdog based in britain — called it the biggest exodus of displaced people

back in 2012, jeremy corbyn seemed to support its presence in a facebook comment, later admitting he ts content. in a statement yesterday addressing the wider issue, mr corbyn said, we recognise anti—semitism as occurred in pockets within the labour party, causing pain and hurt tojewish community, in the labour party and the rest of the community. i am sincerely sorry for the pain that has been caused. jeremy corbyn has repeatedly condemned anti—semitism. now he's has acknowledged it and apologised for it. even some of his own mps wanting to go further, personally confronting the issue. his critics say it has been allowed to grow under his leadership. a suggestion that has been rubbished by his supporters. jeremy has spoken many times around issues of anti—semitism, around issues of anti—semitism, around issues of anti—semitism, around issues of not targeting individuals. labour is an anti—racist, non—anti—semitic party. and it is not the case to suggest that any group is being targeted. but the labour leader is once again having to prove where he stands on this crucial issue. alex fo

jeremy corbyn has an admirable record of consistency. the united kingdom, to our values, to the whole belief system that russia represents, and ta ke system that russia represents, and take specific and measured action. but absolutely no one is talking about a drift to conflict or bore. i think it is not right to compare it to iraq, afghanistan, libya, because the intelligence gathering that happened around those was of a com pletely happened around those was of a completely different nature. the intelligence and the facts that we have about what happened in salisbury are hard scientific facts gathered by the leading experts of the world from porton down. my apologies, we will have to leave it there. thank you. we will take you straight to cheltenham. it is gold cup day. good morning. good morning. looking forward to the greatest show on turf, the gold cup. willie mullins and gordon elliot, winning so mullins and gordon elliot, winning so many mullins and gordon elliot, winning so many races. mullins and gordon elliot, winning so many rac

all problems regarded by jeremy says he has now left the party. all problems regarded byjeremy corbynt labour party problems not coping with anti— set —— anti—semitism. this has been a running theme with the labour party for so long. the allegation is he has failed to address it adequately. i know he has apologised but many people ‘s —— people say it is too late. that is leading on the observer. i think they have it all to themselves. i haven't seen it anywhere else. they have obviously spoken to david gerard himself. i thought he was a supporter and a donor in tony blair's time, but actually, he did give half £1 million to the labour party in 2014 when ed miliband was the leader. he isa when ed miliband was the leader. he is a recent labour party supporter and he feels he can't be a member anymore. you expect to see more names added to that list? yes, especially if you look at the other headlines in the papers. this anti—semitism row is rumbling on an jeremy corbyn, he gave that big interview tojewish news, a long interview tojewish news, a long interview in which he set a lot of the

jeremy corbyn has pledged action on this issue.rocedures as a result of what's been going on. but some politicians have made it clear overnight that when it comes to christine shawcroft, they want to see something specific happen soon. some academy schools in england are using taxpayers money to pay excessive salaries to senior staff according to a report by mps. the public accounts committee says this is taking money away from children's education. but the department for education says it regularly scrutinises the finances of academies. marc ashdown reports. school budgets are under pressure from rising costs, but this report says more than 100 senior managers were paid a salary higher than £150,000. academies are free to decide for themselves how much to pay staff, but mps are warning it's difficult to tell if they are getting value for money. we are really pushing for greater transparency so that parents, pupils and others, the public, can see how their money is being spent, particularly senior managers and executive heads cover

mr smith said he believed jeremy corbyn wanted to adopt a more eurosceptic approach — which he believedmy. he told bbc breakfast that mr corbyn as not speaking up for the majority of labour party members on the issue of brexit. clearly not on this issue, because the majority of labour party members, as reflected in that motion at conference and in the motion in my own constituency led party a week ago is in favour of us taking a stronger view on brexit. i was the shadow northern ireland secretary. i have been very proud and i was privileged and thanks jeremy have been very proud and i was privileged and thanksjeremy corbyn yesterday for allowing me to serve on the front bench on northern ireland. it is one of the greatest legacies of the last labour government that we helped to deliver peace to northern ireland. but there is now a risk to the still fragile political process in northern ireland, and that is the prospect of brexit bringing back a hard border between the irish republic and northern ireland. and that would be incredibly damaging and destabilising, potentially risking the se

do you think, though, thatjeremy corbyn had no choice but to sack him over this latest statement from owen smith, or is jeremyith, or isjeremy corbyn being rather subjective and choosing to sack owen smith? in a sense, he has done what any party member has done in that situation, he has a party policy to stay part of a customs union, but not touch the single market and not consider a second referendum. owen smith's massively contradictory to that. in a sense, he didn't have much choice. but the timing of this is obviously important in the sense that corbyn has grabbed hold of all believers in the labour party —— the leavers. he has the strength to follow through with sacking a senior member of the shadow cabinet. you will be well aware that some of the creditors of jeremy corbyn has come from people saying he has taken a tougher stance with owen smith than he has with some people that have expressed anti—semitic views in their opinions. do you think the fact that he has done this to owen smith, sacked him, it is a sign of the strength thatjeremy corbyn feels he has as leader? gayle absolutely. jeremy corbyn m

jewish leaders have accused jeremy corbyn of repeatedly siding with anti—semites. nd alongside people with blatantly anti—semitic views. in a statement last night, the labour leader said: the american adult film actor, stormy daniels, who claims to have had an affair with donald trump, says she received threats to keep quiet about the alleged relationship. she said the affair took place in california in 2006, a year after mr trump and his wife melania got married. the actor gave her first televised interview on american broadcaster cbs. at least 48 people have died and many are still missing after a fire broke out at a shopping centre in siberia. the blaze started on an upper floor of the shopping complex while many of the victims were in cinema halls. a further 27 people are missing and as many as 41 children may be among the victims, according to russian officials. for the first time, british nationals made up the majority of reported modern slavery and trafficking victims in the uk, according to the national crime agency. more than 5,000 cases were identified las

last summer challenged jeremy corbyn. round jeremy corbyn‘s top table in the conventional so—called collective responsibility is using from him should party policy whether you or not. how does labour square that with this letter that was in the public domain since diane abbott sent it to her constituents and she says that the government won the vote of moving the brexit bill to the next age but the labour party continue to push for the many are not the nightly shoe argues for the electorate voting on the deal. interesting. it is tricky from the tea m interesting. it is tricky from the team corbin perspective. it is a letter to which several of owen's supporters have gazed intently in the last few hours. it is only four months old. quite quickly after that she popped up on question time and did a discrete traverse manoeuvre in front of david dimbleby in a large audience on bbc one. there was clearly a discrepancy people are pointing to that. i suppose the argument might be that this is not a public forum as much as the guar

[shouting] >> jeremy corbyn. >> mr. speaker, the shadow secretary for local government supports councils, thinks they should be properly funded and doesn't think they should be a vehicle for privatization. mr. speaker, the leader of the council who happens to be a conservative said where facing the most difficult financial crisis in our history and he didn't mince his words. he went on to say the government cannot stand idly by while rome burns. council funding has been cut by half since 2010. households in england, mr. speaker, now face council tax rises of 1 billion pounds. the tory leader of the local government association said, councils will have to continue to cut back services or stop some altogether. due to government cuts. so as people open their council tax bill, a senator with the conservative message is? pay more to get less. >> the average council tax is 100 pounds less at the conservative than it is under labour. he says his shadow local government secretary is supporting counsel that i would if you suppor

i mean, jeremy corbyn had to dismiss him, surely? understand why he was appointed in the first place. and it's not as if once you're appointed that you can pretend away views that you've had in the past. and jeremy has always prided himself on, you know, being consistent and true to his principles. it would be bizarre if he was to ask owen to adopt a different approach. and it's very clear, of course, in the labour party that there are a range of views — just as there are, frankly, amongst the different constituencies that voted labour in the last general election. but he knew, come on, when he went into the shadow cabinet that he could not have the same freedom to advocate things like a second referendum that he had done beforehand, he must have known that? it's not unprecedented, but we were promised that politics would be done a different way. i think this is a slightly exceptional case, because owen has expressed very strong views very vocally on these particular issues, very much in line with where our membership is, before he w

they deny that and say they are loyal to jeremy corbyn but on any objective analysis, this is damagingt from westminster. a brief look at some of the day's other news. barclays has been fined $2 billion in the united states, to settle claims of mortgage fraud. it had been alleged the bank misled investors about the quality of loans in the run—up to the financial crisis. the fine, from the us department ofjustice, was less than had been expected. a woman who was critically injured after being struck by debris from a crane at a building site in east london has died. 29—year—old michaela boor died in hospital this morning, two days after she was injured by falling bricks close to a building site in mile end. housing benefit is to be restored for 18 to 21—year—olds claiming universal credit. from april last year, young people were not automatically entitled to the housing element of universal credit, the payment which brings six existing benefits into one, and is in the process of being extended across the uk. housing charities had warned the policy would lead to rising homelessness. the d

did jeremy corbyn misread the mood of his party in the commons yesterday when he refused to point theger at russia? last night, a group of labour backbenchers said it unequivocally. they accept the russian state's culpability for the spy poisoning. some people felt the photograph ofjeremy corbyn in a russian—style hat surrounded by a red picture of the kremlin portrayed the labour leader as a collaborator with moscow. susan was one of them, and recorded this video for us. i felt compelled to contact you regarding the newsnight programme last night. and the portrayal of jeremy corbyn in some kind of a russian hat next to a portrayal of the kremlin. i feel that this is a very biased depiction of the man, and those more gullible in society will absolutely associate jeremy corbyn with russia and russians. i'm only interested injustice and honesty, and i don't see any of that here. very disappointed. now, last weekend, the sunday mirror said it had uncovered written britain's worst ever child grooming scandal, with claims that up to 1,000 girls had been abused since the 1980s. over the nex

rival demonstrations outside parliament as jeremy corbyn apologises for a second time about the painaused by anti—semitism in the labour party. southern nhs trust is fined £2 million over the deaths of patients teresa colvin and connor sparrowhawk. the judge called each case an "unnecessary human tragedy". on newsnight, we speak to tony blair on brexit and a senior member to jeremy —— jeremy corbyn‘s team. good evening and welcome to bbc news. it's the greatest collective expulsion of russian diplomats and intelligence officials in history. 23 countries, including america and 16 eu nations, have united in response to the nerve agent attack in salisbury. the united states is to expel 60 russian diplomats and 16 eu member states, including france and germany, are taking similar action. today's unprecedented move follows the poisoning of former russian agent sergei skripal and his daughter and the subsequent expulsion of 23 russian diplomats from the uk last week. moscow says the expulsions are a mistake and it will respond "symmetrically" to them in the coming days. our diplomatic corr

jeremy corbyn has pledged action on this issue.disciplinary procedures as a result of what's been going on. but some politicians have made it clear overnight that when it comes to christine shawcroft, they want to see something specific happen soon. the mayor of manchester, andy burnham, has told firefighters they are "wrong" to feel ashamed about their response to the manchester arena attack in may last year. an independent report published earlier this week said the crews "didnt play a meaningful role for nearly two hours" after the attack because of failures in leadership and communication. in an open letter to fire staff, mr burnham said no front line firefighter should feel they needed to apologise for anything. he says they were prevented from helping by decisions taken above them. the personal details of around 150 million users of the myfitnesspal app were accessed in a data breach. parent company, under armour, which owns the software, said usernames, email addresses and passwords may have been stolen. it's a pretty big da

they have been speaking at against what they see as jeremy corbyn's failure to act against this and iteen sparked by these letters from key groups in the jewish community who held a protest outside parliament today. the stunning thing about this is there has been this huge outpouring over the last couple of days, and, jeremy corbyn, in his comments, he has been desperately trying to say i am not anti—semitic and i've been fighting it for years and i've been fighting it for years and years and fighting racism for years and years and it hasn't hit home for some reason. there is obviously something people see in his comments that are insincere and you have to ask the question, how did it get to this point where there isa did it get to this point where there is a protest about anti—semitism in labour happening outside the house of commons? it's interesting because there is a picture of that protest on the front of the guardian, jewish groups protest in labour anti—semitism row. how damaging do you think this is forjeremy corbyn? i think it is quite damaging. asjoe said the that such a larg

appears to mention, many have never been supportive of jeremy corbyn. rong words against anti—semitism and what we need to see from now is action. scientists say it's the technology that could revolutionise computing. it's called quantum computing and for years, companies have been vying to build a fully operational quantum computer, which could process information much faster than today's most powerful super—computers. scientists at microsoft say they're now on the verge of a major breakthrough. our technology correspondent, rory cellan—jones explains. hello. copenhagen, and it's pretty cold outside, but inside a university lab, there's a place that's even colder. if you look right up here on this gauge, you'll see that the inside of that refrigerator is sitting at three hundredths of a degree above absolute zero. that's100 times colder than deep space. this may be the coldest place in the universe. and this is why. embedded in this chip is a qubit, the building block for the computer of the future, which will only work under these extreme conditions. m

you agree with this point of view thatjeremy corbyn you agree with this point of view that jeremy corbyn view thatjeremy corbyn wouldn't be any better or do you think he might be better? i don't think he would. but what are we comparing it to? what is your thoughts? i agree up to a point, but i feel it is very much sort of like a game, when votes are required, we are promised the world, but when we then vote and someone comes in, then nothing happens. then we go round in a circle again and we go back to the voting stage and we all hear lots of information about what's going to happen and where things can be changed and what we can do but actually it doesn't change. i don't know whether that's because of a lack of support and it cannot be changed, or whether it is actually what we want to hear. last thing i want to ask you to do is to place in politics yourself. what i would like you to do is imagine that you are going to give some advice to these people, to theresa may and jeremy corbyn, give them one piece of advice specifically about brexit. you may be longing to give them a more gener

jeremy corbyn has been able to make this move without prompting open mutiny.her response to the sacking on radio for a little earlier. owen smith was a valued colleague. he wanted to make a contribution to the debate and he will be able to do so. what he cannot do is sit on our front bench and advance a position which is not labour party policy. but no one is saying that he can't have his own opinion. but we are clear, we want a meaningful vote on the final deal in parliament because after all, we are a parliamentary democracy, but we are not calling for a secondary random. the reaction of one other labourmp, if only random. the reaction of one other labour mp, if only anti—semites were dealt with as swiftly as remainders —— remain. jeremy corbyn appearing to go against the removal of a mural which was anti—semitic. he says tonight, i'll sincerely regret that idid not tonight, i'll sincerely regret that i did not look more closely at the image which was deeply anti—semitic andi image which was deeply anti—semitic and i heartily support its removal. so he is ge

enough is enough, jeremy corbyn. in the front page of the express.llout. the front page of the telegraph is asking if darren lehmann will quit after the ball tampering scandal. there is a suggestion he could. he denies having knowledge about the cheating. investigators have arrived. there are suggestions in the back pages of the times they will face lengthy bans, steve smith and others. it is interesting. talking about the dark arts and ball tampering. this is not the first time this has gone on. there are other ways they have tried to change the condition of the ball which causes it to swing in the air and makes it hard to back against. superglue on their badge, their trousers, and when it dries, it is abrasive. rubbing it on your zip on your trouser, which changes the shape. and some have been chilling mints on the field. it is ok to use saliva on the ball. you cannot touch a mint in your mouth and then the ball. what will they do, search them? you talk about changing rules. what will players do, have pockets searched? they are saying it happens a

the mps are saying, jeremy corbyn need to put his words into action over christine shawcroft, he says they say, 0k, against anti—semitism and they say, ok, if you are an ally, why don't you express your displeasure and at least urge... he does not have the power to do this under labour's rules but urge christine shawcroft ago. the person who wrote this letter told us why. who thinks that ifjeremy corbyn didn't said that she should stand down, that it wouldn't happen? nobody. you know, this is about action. we've had enough letters, enough words to paper nelson's column. you know, if people are going to believe us as a party, we need to start following through on that and doing things. what was also interesting is the person in question christine shawcroft has posted twice on facebook today. initially her facebook today. initially her facebook posts said very clearly that she was not somebody who supported holocaust and eyes, but she was suggesting that the whole thing was got up to have a go at jeremy corbyn. that would tend to suggest that his supporters are not taking the underlying

the headlines at 11:11: jeremy corbyn says he is sincerely sorry for the pain caused by what he describes as pockets of anti—semitism within labour. the australia cricket captain steve smith has been banned for one match by cricket's ruling body the icc, over the ball tampering scandal. the australian prime minister has said he's shocked and disappointed at the revelations. thousands of protesters have taken to the streets of barcelona following the arrest of carles puigdemont. an extra 3,000 midwives are to be trained in england, to ease staff shortages and improve care. also in the next hour: lewis hamilton is denied victory in the formula one season opener. sebastian vettel pushed the current world champion into second place in melbourne, despite hamilton qualifying in pole position. good evening and welcome to bbc news. jeremy corbyn has said he is "sincerely sorry" for the pain caused by what he calls "pockets of anti—semitism" in the labour party. in a statement, the labour leader said he would be meeting representatives of the jewish community this week. a letter from two prominent

at least 39 labour mps and peers have signed a letter, urging jeremy corbyn to suspend a senior officialandling of a complaint about anti—semitism. at least 39 labour mps and peers have signed a letter, urging jeremy corbyn to suspend a senior official, over her handling of a complaint about anti—semitism. christine shawcroft stood down as head of the party's disputes panel, after calling for the reinstatement of a council candidate accused of denying the holocaust, but she remains a member of labour's national executive committee. with me is our political reporterjessica parker. i suppose the problem for this group of 39 who have signed the letter is that she is still on the national executive committee? that's correct, she is but we understand more people may have signed that letter overnight. the message that she should be suspended from the labour party and removed from the labour pa rty‘s party and removed from the labour party's ruling national executive committee. interestingly, in a facebook post this afternoon from christine shawcroft, she has reiterated that she did not see the

. >> jeremy corbyn. >> thank you, mr. speaker. i along with the prime minister absolutely condemn the vile messages and threatening packages that been sent to muslim members of this house. and also the rise in islamophobia and the abusive messages that have been sent to muslim families all over this country has to be utterly condemned by all of us as we condemn anybody that attempts to divide our country by racism or by extremism in any form. i think we just have to stand united with any community under threat at any time. >> mr. speaker, i am sure the whole house will join me in supporting what the prime minister just said about stephen hawking. one of the most acclaimed scientists of his generation. helped us to understand about the world and the universe. he was also concerned about the peace and survival of the world but also a passionate , campaigner for the national health service. and he said i have received expert medical attention in britain. i believe in universal health care and i am not afraid to say so. mr. speaker, i

in a tense house of commons, jeremy corbyn was not quite ready to accept the culpability of the russianour response must be both decisive and proportionate, and based on clear evidence. but listen to rising anger, asjeremy corbyn turns some of his fire on the tories. it is, as we on these benches have expressed before, a matter of huge regret that our country's diplomatic capacity as been stripped back with cuts of 25% in the last five years. it is tradition for the two main parties to stick together on foreign policy. not these two. this is not a question of our diplomacy, of what diplomatic support we have around the world. this is a question of the culpability of the russian state, for an act on our soil. fever rose. their continued disregard for the rule of law and for human rights must be met with unequivocal condemnation. look, tories cheering labour backbenchers. jeremy corbyn‘s team, arms folded. the russian government has behaved with arrogance, with inhumanity and with contempt. anger displayed in westminster that this is happening on british streets. in dorset today, the lorr

the labour leader, jeremy corbyn, has said his party must do better in the fight against anti—semitism his passover message, he tried to reassure thejewish community that labour would "never be complacent" about the issue. aa labour mps and peers have now urged mr corbyn to suspend a senior official over her handling of a complaint about anti—semitism. christine shawcroft stood down as head of the party's disputes panel, after backing the reinstatement of

jeremy corbyn has tried to show he is reaching out to thejewish community.ay, saying that in the fight against anti—semitism, i am your ally and i will be forced i have spoken to a signatory of last night's letter, and they say the letter is a challenge, a test of his result. -- his —— his resolve. 150 million users of the my fitness pal app are being urged to look for signs that their personal data may have fallen into criminal hands. under armour, which owns the site, discovered last week that the app had been hacked in february. it's thought emails, user names and passwords were stolen, but not credit card details. the government has called for an inquiry into the cost of fuel at the country's motorway service stations. the transport secretary chris grayling says petrol and diesel at motorway service stations can cost up to 19p per litre more than elsewhere. he's asked the competition and markets authority to find out why. the prince of wales has recorded an easter message in support of persecuted christians and other faiths around the world. in the video

jeremy corbyn is often the person in the eye of the storm.mitic mural was taken down and a wise friend of mine said he has never met a terrorist he doesn't like. hamas, hezbollah are all his friends. he will deny that he has been involved directly but has accepted their pockets of anti—semitism in the party and has today come out more strongly than other commentators have seen in the past, he utterly condemns anti— semitism and will not tolerate any. it is right that he says that but it was a whitewash job done last year on anti—semitism. the party that make they said they would not accept this about black people and we should not accept this aboutjewish people and he is right. in the telegraph still, the eu threatens breakup over at google. why are they so breakup over at google. why are they so concerned about the power that google wields? the right concerns. —— there. there is a tax which is try to get 2.1 billion from google does not pay any tax in his europe. but as we are discovering, google, all these tech companies are where you put y

jeremy corbyn has apologised though, didn't he?hink he has probably apologised a little too much because each time he didn't go quite far enough to make thejewish community oi’ enough to make thejewish community or anyone who doesn't believe that he should be appearing to condone anti—semitism feel any faith. he should be appearing to condone anti-semitism feel any faith. and i think people like john and who have been big campaign on this issue have almost seen that steps from jeremy corbyn is an opportunity to say hang on, let's go back and look at the stuff that hasn't been handled properly by the party because he's beena properly by the party because he's been a long—standing campaigner and very concerned about actions made by people in his own party and has never been afraid to speak up. this is part of where this story is coming from. it was quite extraordinary to see a demonstration not just by the jewish extraordinary to see a demonstration notjust by thejewish community but labour mps notjust by thejewish community but labo

shadow chancellorjohn mcdonnell has called on lord sugar to "delete and disown" a tweet depicting jeremy corbynshared the image with his 5.5 million twitter followers and responded saying the post was "a joke". mr corbyn has faced increasing pressure to stamp out anti—semitism within the party. more than 100 flights from stansted airport were cancelled last night after a shuttle bus caught fire outside the terminal building. a normal service has resumed this morning but some passengers are unsure when they may be able to fly. earlier, the chief 0perations 0fficer explained why they had to make the decision to send travellers home. smoke was blowing into and across the terminal and it was very difficult to see where it was coming from when you were inside. it went very dark and obviously their first thought, as it always is, is the safety and security of our passengers and we were immediately thinking, where is the safest place we can get them to in the terminal? that happened to be air side, causing conflict between people who had been properly screened through security and people who hadn't, m

on that point, jeremy corbyn was very clear, that any abuse would not take place in his name.our party for abuse or abuse of his views. going further and this particular form of abuse, of his views. going further and this particularform of abuse, not of his views. going further and this particular form of abuse, not being condemned outright, so while he is making his personal perdition clear, there will be questions and criticism about the tone that he ta kes. criticism about the tone that he takes. are you saying his comments would be enough to satisfy takes. are you saying his comments would be enough to satisnyewish leaders? it's notjust jewish leaders, its members of his own party. it's been bubbling along for some time. this isn't something that is very recent. whilejeremy corbyn and his supporters are keen to point out time and time again, he has condemned anti—semitism and racism in all forms, they say he is not doing enough to stamp out the issue in the wider party. he intends to ta ke in the wider party. he intends to take certain measures but i'm not sure these will

jeremy corbyn has over the past week tried to show he is reaching out to the jewish community, he's donefight against anti—semitism, i am your ally and i always will be. but i've spoken to a signatory of last night's letter, they say they have had a lot of warm words from jeremy on this issue, this letter that has been sent is a challenge, a test of his resolve. some academy schools in england are using taxpayers money to pay excessive salaries to senior staff. that's according to a report by mps, who say it's taking money away from pupils. the report comes as the national education union, formally the national union of teachers, meets for its annual conference in brighton. 0ur education correspondent marc ashdown spoke to me earlier. after that nhs pay deal recently, the buzz here in brighton is around whether teachers may be in line for something similar. teacher pay is one of the motion is set to be debated. school budgets are under intense pressure, headteachers have been for years have been saying they struggle to balance the books. any move to remove pay restraint would mean extra

to re m ove peers already pressing jeremy corbyn to remove christine shaw cropped from the ruling has no formal power to do so, but i understand that christine shaw —— shawcroft will step aside if the labour leader wa nted step aside if the labour leader wanted to. some are trying to make this an acid test forjeremy corbyn, saying, we have heard your strong words against anti—semitism, now we need to see action. there's been a big fall in the use of bail following the introduction of a 28—day time limit last year. it's thought the number of people released from custody with bail conditions attached has fallen by about two thirds. a bbc freedom of information request responded to by 12 forces found over 3,000 suspects released without bail conditions between april and june last year, including 31 murder suspects and 768 suspected rapists. malala yousafzai, the youngest ever winner of the nobel peace prize, has told the bbc she hopes one day to move back to pakistan. she's currently on her first trip back there after she was nearly killed by the pakistani taliban in 2012 for campaig

jeremy corbyn condemned the attack.nvestigation into the shocking events in salisbury must reach its conclusions. we need to see both the evidence and a full account from the russian authorities in light of emerging evidence that the prime minister has just referred to. the labour leader then turns to party funding and claimed there had been large donations from russian oligarchs to the conservative party. tory mps began heckling. we are all familiar with the way huge fortunes often acquired in the most dubious circumstances in russia, sometimes connected with criminal elements, have ended up sheltering in london and trying to buy political influence in british party politics. meddling in elections as the prime minister put it, and there has been over 800,000 pounds worth of donations to the conservative party, to the conservative party from russian oligarchs and their associates. that febrile mood persisted when the prime minister returned to the dispatch box on wednesday. the deadline she had set the kremlin by midnig

is under fire for its alleged bias towards opposition leader jeremy corbyn if you were just playing the channel is deliberately trying to portray the u.k. labor party head as two russian picking up the story of us to see a target. take a look at this image that the b.b.c. used in one of its news programs causing quite a stir in the u.k. and generally generally has been on the right side of history for the last thirty five years or from the right side of history and libya on the right side of history on afghanistan the right side of history in relation to iraq so which is which side of history the picture depicts the opposition party leader jeremy corbyn on red square wearing something that strongly resembles a russian hat and here is the original image suffice it to see twitter wasn't happy nice impartial backdrop the b.b.c. news perhaps could be split with a picture of pm clutching fistfuls of roubles and laughing. that backdrop is some absolutely shameful shameful stuff asking for international cooperation and strong evidence before we ramp up war rhetoric is russian collusion now is

but soon, jeremy corbyn was under attack again.ters in this house defended russia despite the growing evidence of the enormity of its crimes from 1929 to 1931. at least that was understandable on the basis of a shared ideology. now that the soviet union — russia has abandoned that ideology, to what can she attribute the reluctance of the right honourable gentleman opposite to point the finger where it properly lies? i can find no reason to attribute to the right honourable gentleman opposite for the stance he takes on this issue, and i hope that some of his right honourable friends have done, he will be taking a different position in the debate today. so what did he say? there can be little doubt that the nerve agent used in this attack was a military grade novichok of a type manufactured by russia. since that analysis was revealed by the prime minister two weeks ago, the russian state has had every opportunity to offer a plausible explanation as to how a nerve agent stock of this type came to be used in this attack. they've offere