21 minutes ago About sharing The UK’s approach to China is “more robust” than most of its allies, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has said. It comes after some MPs criticised the response to cyber-attacks against the Electoral Commission and UK politicians, which the government has blamed on Beijing-linked hackers. Ministers are facing growing calls to…
Armed forces minister James Heappey is also standing down, with replacements expected shortly.
The clip showed a stampede in a New York subway station and was replaced with the scenes cut.
2 hours ago About sharing By Alistair Coleman BBC Monitoring North Korea’s state television channel has censored a BBC gardening programme – by blurring out presenter Alan Titchmarsh’s trousers. Central TV aired a 2010 edition of Alan Titchmarsh’s Garden Secrets for its morning audience, but made sure that viewers could not see his jeans. Jeans…
50 minutes ago About sharing By Katie Razzall & Larissa Kennelly & Darin Graham & Emma Saunders BBC News The British Museum has launched proceedings against a former staff member who they believe stole and damaged at least 1,800 of its items. It has asked the High Court to order the disclosure of eBay and…
BBC Verify analyses the collision between the container ship and the Key Bridge in Baltimore
38 minutes ago About sharing Mr Assange’s lawyers say he faces up to 175 years in US prison, if convicted By Ian Aikman BBC News The US must provide assurances that Julian Assange will not receive the death penalty if convicted, before a UK court rules on whether he can appeal against his extradition. The…
Up next is Steve Brine, of the health select committee, who quotes Chancellor Jeremy Hunt and asks the PM to identity which parts of the NHS are “woefully inefficient”. Sunak responds that the NHS has it’s own productivity plan – not decided by the government – and suggests it needs to adopt new digital technology….
12 minutes ago About sharing Another suspect was arrested on Tuesday in connection with last Friday’s attack on Crocus City Hall By Paul Kirby BBC News Russia’s Vladimir Putin has acknowledged “radical Islamists” carried out Friday’s deadly attack on a Moscow concert hall. But he has repeated his claim that they had some kind of…
The review was prompted by the Nottingham attacks and ordered by the health secretary.