hello i'm hugh ferris. the premier league has new leaders. manchester city won the battle between first and second,

arsenal are going to nick it by one goal. it was city who struck 1st. kevin de bruyne pouncing. then in errorfrom edelson and arsenal the penalty for the fans desperate for an intervention. but bukayo saka didn't need it. prayers answered. the second saw city take charge. setting up a translate jack grealish. and they are talisman erling haaland made sure of the win. it finished a convincing 3—1 sending manchester city to the top of the sending city to the top of the read and arsenal questioning their title chances. chelsea have still only won once in 2023 after losing the first leg of their champions league last 16 tie at borussia dortmund. despite having a host of chances in germany, chelsea were beaten by karim adeyemi's solo effort

on the counter, getting the better of new record signing enzo fernandez as graham potter's side failed to win for the fourth game in a row. the second leg is next month. there was only one english side involved in the champions league tonight, but two english managers. scott parker has been in charge of club brugge since new year's eve and he's now only one of five englishmen to take charge of a knockout match in the competition. the belgian side lost 2—0 to benfica in their first ever game at this stage of the competition. a penalty and then a late strike from david neres the difference. wales women beat the phillipines in the first match since being paid the same as the men's side. kayleigh green's penalty on the stroke of half—time was enough to give hem a 1—0 win in their opening match in the pinatarcup in spain. scotland have lost their opening match in the pinatar cup 2—0 to iceland. after largely dominating the first half they went behind when debutant olof kristinsdottir opened the scoring five minutes into the second half and less than a minute later she fired in a second.

scotland's next match is against the phillippines on saturday. england captain leah williamson says the squad will continue to promote inclusivity ahead of wearing the onelove armband at this month's arnold clark cup. it comes after czech republic internationaljakub jankto announced he is gay. england play south korea tomorrow. we are a squad that promotes inclusivity, equality. we obviously have a number of people that feel very strongly about it and i think it is not even a question for us, really. you know, you havejust seen another men's player step out and be as brave as they can be and potentially changed their whole life. they don't know what is coming, so for us to stand also in solidarity with that is important to us. but yeah, it is something we have always done, something we will continue to do

and yeah, like i say, we're notjust impacting football, we are trying to have a positive impact society. meanwhile, manchester united's ella toone, who was sent off against tottenham in the wsl on sunday has had her red card overturned. tottenham's eveliina summanen has been charged with deceiving a match officialfor her part in the incident and could face a two match ban if found guilty. in the women's t20 world cup india joined england on two wins from two — with a comfortable victory over west indies. batting first, west indies made just 118—6 from their 20 overs, restricted in part by deepti sharma's three wickets. india then reached their target of 119 with 11 balls to spare. wicketkeeper richa ghosh hit the winning runs and top scored with 44 from just 32 deliveries. pakistan batter muneeba ali struck her country's first hundred as they easily beat ireland. the century was the mainstay of their 165 for 5 from their 20 overs.

ireland found the chase hard going and were dismissed forjust 95. sadia iqbal took the final wicket but nashra sandhu was the pick of the bowlers finishing with 11—18. much more on our website. that's all the sport for now.

teddi and nala have mld, metachromatic leukodystrophy. this little piggy went to market... children are born apparently healthy, but the condition gradually attacks the brain and body. ..all the way home. are you a ladybird? ladybird! this was nala when she was two. now, a year later, she can't walk or talk and is tube—fed. her body is basically kind of gradually shutting down. she will lose her eyesight, she will lose most of her senses and it will basically come to a point where there is nothing left for her to lose. nala's mld progressed too far for her to be treated. but it meant the condition was picked up in her sister teddi before damage was done.

she's at royal manchester children's hospital having stem cells removed from her blood, the first stage of a ground—breaking gene therapy. so, when they told us that there was treatment available for teddi, it was kind of like, a bit like a bit of a bitter pill to swallow because nala can't be helped, so you know, we are extremely grateful in one sense and then really sad on the other. two months later, teddi's personalised therapy, called libmeldi, is ready. scientists have added a working copy of the faulty gene which causes mld to teddi's cells. they're your cells. libmeldi costs more than £2.8 million, though the nhs has agreed a confidential discount. this one—off infusion aims to stop teddi's disease in its tracks.

teddi will need to spend several more weeks in hospital while her gene—altered cells make their way to her bone marrow and start to produce the crucial missing enzyme that causes her condition. fewer than ten children a year in the uk are likely to be eligible for libmeldi. one reason why the price tag is so high. teddi's doctors are trialling similar treatments for other rare conditions. i think it will be transformative in genetic diseases. libmeldi shows that we can take their own stem cells, put in the gene that their illness is deficient or faulty in, and correct the condition. teddi can expect a healthy future. but nala is terminally ill. her parents want mld screened for at birth, so it's always picked up early enough for treatment.

fergus walsh, bbc news. west antarctica is a challenging place to work. it is the stormiest part of the world's stormiest continent. it took more than a month and more than a dozen flights to get the scientists and their equipment to the front of the glacier. ice—hardened ships brought in fuel and other bulky supplies, which were then dragged over the ice in an epic 1,000 mile overland journey.

this was the final destination. a campsite at the point this vast glacier goes afloat. if we are thinking about what is sea level going to be like in ten years, this glacier is the place to be. boilers turned snow into water. hot water was used to melt down into the ice. this is a historic moment. the first time anyone has tried to drill down through this glacier. beneath the 600 metres of ice below me is the most important point of all, the point at which the ice meets the ocean water. for the first time ever, scientists could take measurements under the ice, to the surprise of some local creatures. they sent down ice fin, a remotely operated robot submarine, packed with scientific instruments. 0h—ho—ho! yes!

by by taking ice for an under the ice we can actually go right up in marriage are exactly for the melting is going on. but we can see is instead of this flat eyes that we all pictured, they are all kinds of staircases and cracks in the ice that weren't really expected. a team from the british antarctic survey using different instruments also found that the overall melt rate was lower than expected. it showed how sensitive the glacier is to even small changes in sea water temperature. we know from satellite to retreating very quickly. but the results show us is _ very quickly. but the results show us is you — very quickly. but the results show us is you don't increase the rate that_ us is you don't increase the rate that much— us is you don't increase the rate that much to drive a very fast retreat — so has the glacier passed a tipping point where collapse becomes inevitable? 0ur observations don't necessarily

tell us that, but what it does tell us is how the ice shelf is currently melting and we can use that knowledge from today to produce better models which will tell us more about the future. thwaites is at the bottom of the world, but what happens here will affect us all. the better the processes that work under this glacier are understood, the better forecasts we will have of how our seas will rise in the decades to come. forewarned is forearmed, they say. that is particularly important because carbon emissions, which are driving the processes warming this glacier, continue to rise rapidly. justin rowlatt, bbc news, thwaites glacier. this is bbc news. we will have the headlines and all the main news stories for you at the top of the hour, straight after this programme.

hello and welcome to newswatch, with me, samira ahmed. coming up — what can viewers expect now thatjournalists will be able to report on what happens in family courts? and do we need to be told what the phrase "cabinet reshuffle" actually means? first, the number of people killed in monday's earthquakes in turkey and syria has been rising all week with compelling and distressing images of the destruction caused shown on television. one of the first on the scene was the bbc�*s middle east correspondent anna foster, who reported on monday's news at ten using just her mobile phone from the town of 0smaniye, 80 miles from the epicentre. wherever you look in this city, you can see where shopfronts have collapsed, there is broken glass and, of course, there is darkness, complete darkness everywhere — apart from the light of the mobile phone that you can see me by —

and this is the scene that has been replicated across southern turkey. lighting there came courtesy of a taxi driver named berkan, via his mobile phone, and anna foster later tweeted these pictures of the two of them at work. broadcasting in those conditions is a considerable challenge and viewers expressed their admiration, including jules 0, who posted this: but in the days following, there were criticisms of some of the bbc�*s coverage, particularly a report on wednesday's evening news bulletins which — despite a warning of harrowing images to come from the presenter beforehand — upset janet georghiou:

janet cra btree agreed: we discussed last week a review into the bbc�*s economics coverage, one of whose findings was that many viewers find the output "incomprehensible", and some of the terminology used "mystifying". simpler language and more explanation appear to be the answer, and notjust in the area of economics — but some members of the audience think that can be taken too far. take these lines seen on the bbc news website on tuesday:

clive couzens read that, and this was his reaction. i'm wondering what the bbc thinks of its audience, whether they think we have any intelligence at all. in recent days, reporters on the website — on the news website, have felt it necessary to explain that the cabinet is "rishi sunak�*s group of most senior ministers" and that inflation is "the rate at which prices are rising". given that inflation has been in the news daily for several months now, is it really necessary? where will this end? will they soon be telling us that apples are a crispy, green fruit, for example? please, give us some credit for some modicum of intelligence. one of the moves in that government reshuffle was the appointment of lee anderson to the post of deputy chairman of the conservative party.

here are two political correspondents, nick eardley and ben wright, talking about mr anderson on thursday. anyone who works around here would tell you that lee anderson is no stranger to controversy. he has said several controversial things, from criticising the users of food banks — as you heard there — to remarks about the england football team taking the knee. references like those to "controversy" and the description of mr anderson as "controversial" caught the attention of tina stowell, a conservative peer who chairs the communications committee in the house of lords and used to work at the bbc. she tweeted: but russ jones thought that was:

controversial or not, in an interview on wednesday on bbc radio nottinghamshire, lee anderson tried to turn the tables on presenter verity cowley. there is a worry by some that you might be a bit dishonest. no, not really. i mean, have you ever told a lie, verity? but we're not here to talk about me, we're here to talk about you. no, no, no, no — iasked the question, have you ever told a lie? the mp asked the presenter ten times if she'd ever told a lie and ended by asking for the whole ten—minute interview to be played in full as he said he didn't trust the bbc to cut it down fairly, or else not to be played at all. radio nottingham did run the whole interview, which also appeared on the bbc website, to the approval of andy brockman:

0vernight on sunday, the bbc news channel reported on the grammys, the music industry's annual awards ceremony in los angeles. here's a headline they ran in one of their half—hour bulletins in the small hours of monday morning. and beyonce�*s big night — she gets ever closer to winning the most grammy awards of all time. that picture, of course, was not of the singer beyonce of colour, and mary anderson commented: bbc news posted this statement:

now, the uk has always been much slower than the united states in opening up its legal process tojournalists and camera crews. things are changing, though, with limited filming in crown courts permitted since 2020, as it is in the supreme court and the court of appeal. and last week saw the start of a pilot scheme, whereby some reporting will be allowed of what happens in family courts — a part of the justice system which involves at least 500,000 people a year. one of the journalists who's going to be taking advantage of the new scheme is the bbc�*s sanchia berg, who's been reporting extensively on the family

courts over her career, and shejoins me now. thank you so much for coming on newswatch, sanchia. why is it so important forjournalists to report from family courts? well, judges say that we no longer have the death penalty in england and wales, the family courts retain the most drastic powers of any court because they can take action to separate a child forever from its birth family, from its parents through adoption. they can also make a serious impact on family lives by taking children away, putting them into care, and they also make these critical decisions in what are called private law cases, where parents are separating, they cannot agree on where the children should go and the court will decide where they go. so, as you said, they involve hundreds of thousands of people every year but, until now, reporters haven't been allowed in, so there has been very little scrutiny. occasionally, very exceptionally, we've been able to report cases. but this pilot in three court centres — leeds, cardiff and carlisle — should allow us to follow cases in an entirely different way. and of course, the other big thing about these family courts and care

cases, particularly, is there have been a number of really high—profile awful child deaths that have hit the headlines — i'm thinking about star hobson, for example, and arthur labinjo—hughes, and child protection is something that we should be able, through this pilot, to see much more closely. and a couple of the authorities involved in those cases, will audio or cameras be allowed in at all to record anything?

no, not at all, not at all. this is still, in some ways, a very closed environment, so we are the only people in addition to the families, the local authorities, the children's guardian from the court advisory service cafcass who will be in the court. if participants know that reporters are there, might it somehow distort the legal process? well you would think that's a possibility, and unfortunately, we haven't done a controlled experiment with this and spent time in these courts beforehand to judge whether it's different but certainly, when it comes to disturbing the normal process of the court, it doesn't seem like our presence has had that kind of impact. we know that there won't be any audio orfilming in these family courts but generally, is the legal system opening up to broadcasters? certainly. there is now the broadcasting of sentencing in criminal cases,

which is quite significant, and there are certain other steps that the courts have been taking to try to make it easier for the press to do their work. i think certainly within the judiciary, there is a sense that openjustice is a really important principle — thatjustice has to be seen to be done as well as being done. but, as i'm sure you've discussed on this programme, the other side of the coin is that a lot of media organisations lack the staff, lack the resources to send in court reporters, no matter how much thejudiciary might like to see them in there. sanchia berg, thank you so much. thank you for all your comments this week. if you want to share your opinions about what you see or hear on bbc news on tv, radio, online and social media, e—mail us. or you can find us on twitter. you can call us. and do have a look at previous

interviews on our website. that's all from us. we'll be back to hear your thoughts about bbc news coverage again next week. goodbye. hello there. we've had quite a mixed day of weather, really on wednesday. many of us saw some spells of sunshine, but we also had this band of rain, a very narrow weather front that's worked its way eastwards across scotland, england and wales through the day with the clear and sunny skies either side of that. we ended the day, though, in northern ireland with some thicker high cloud working in creating this halo around the sun. well, that high cloud is associated with the next weather system, bringing damp weather, then, through wednesday night. and into thursday, we'll still have some outbreaks of rain left over, particularly across parts of england and wales, although some patches of drizzle further north for parts of southern and central scotland and northern ireland too. now with that there'll probably be some mist and fog patches around

western coast and hills, but gradually through the day the weather will try to brighten up. the best of the sunshine likely to be across northern areas of scotland. that's where the coolest air is. temperatures about eight in stornoway, but otherwise it's another very mild day, 10 to 1a degrees pretty widely across the uk. now for thursday night, we're going to start to see the winds really pick up in strength, particularly across western scotland as a band of rain works its way southwards here. the rain also affecting northern ireland through the night. england and wales, well, a lot of cloud around, i think. now looking at the weather picture into friday, this area of low pressure moving just to the north of the uk is going to be bringing a zone of strong winds in association with this occlusion. now those strong winds are going to be going straight across scotland where i think through the day we could get gusts as strong as 75 miles an hour and it will also be very windy indeed across the pennines and to the east of the high ground, north—east england down to about yorkshire. now, the winds this strong have the potential to bring some disruption. now the roads could be affected.

for example, the a1, those winds would be blowing across the road and that would mean that high—sided vehicles would be at risk, could even see one or two getting blown over. and a similar story around some of the airports. leeds, bradford, for example, crosswinds here may make for some pretty tricky landing conditions. you might find some cancellations or delays to flights, certainly worth checking before heading out and about, but it stays mild. temperatures around 10 to 1a degrees, england and wales. still with some cloud and drizzle around brighter skies, working into northern ireland and scotland through the afternoon, but still very blustery. now the weekend sees much lighter winds around, but we've still got the remnants of weather fronts slowly pushing southwards before we see a build of pressure into the second half of the weekend. what does all that mean? well, for saturday, probably quite a cloudy day for many areas with the threat of some rain, most of it would be quite light and patchy. and there could be some areas that miss it altogether, perhaps across northern and eastern areas of scotland. temperatures, well, quite a range, mild for many, but a little bit

cooler than recent days in scotland. now, sunday for many looks to be the drier of the two days of the weekend. again, cloud will vary, but there should be some sunny spells coming through at times and our temperatures, well, still above the february averages nine in glasgow to about 12 degrees in london. the forecast remains quite reliable up until tuesday. and so for scotland and northern ireland, probably staying cloudy still with the threat of outbreaks of rain but still mild, the temperatures generally into double figures. further south across england and wales, we're closer to an area of high pressure and that should mean generally, although there's still quite a bit of cloud around, you've got a better chance of seeing some bright or sunny spells, but in the short term, watching out for those strong winds to come through on friday.

welcome to newsday, reporting live from singapore, i'm karishma vaswani. the headlines. shouting. commotion in court — as the 19—year—old gunman who killed 10 black americans, at a grocery store in buffalo, new york — is sentenced to life in prison — without parole. tributes to a young footballer — rescued from a thai cave in 2018 — who's been found dead at his school in england. scotland's first minister, nicola sturgeon resigns unexpectedly — after more than eight years in the role. being your first minister has been the privilege of my life. nothing, absolutely nothing i do in future will ever

come anywhere close.