by the dutch weather service. here's the good news — the worst of the storm is expected to miss us. as it tracks across southern parts of the country, it'll onlyjust be developing — which means that the worst of the weather will track across the north sea, and unfortunately, impacts the low countries. so, here's that rain as it spreads across southern parts of england and wales through the course of the night. the met office warns there could be some heavy rain in the south — in fact, through wednesday morning, we could see as much as 40mm of rain, the met office warns — and on top of that, gusty winds around the southeast and east anglia. so, here's that rain, early in the morning — you can see it's actually spread a little bit further north, too, but it's not quite as heavy across lincolnshire into the peak district, or even yorkshire. but it does leave behind a legacy of thick cloud and quite chilly conditions. now, here are the winds, up to around gale force, we think around east anglia and the southeast of england. again, the worst of the storm is expected to develop across the north sea, which means that storm connell will, in fact, miss us. but, further towards the west and the north, it'll be much better with some sunshine, light winds. but it will be chilly —

five celsius in belfast, around three celsius expected in glasgow. so that's wednesday. now, here's a look at thursday's weather forecast. you can see what we call a transient area of high pressure between two low pressures — and that means light winds, some clear skies into thursday morning, and of course, a touch of frost, in fact, widespread frost expected north or south. and there'll probably be some mist and fog in some locations, as well. so, here's that bean—shaped area of transient high pressure for a time — but it's already changing, the weather, out towards the west. low pressure is winning, and the weather front is spreading rain across much of ireland with increasing winds. and also, this will be responsible for introducing milder weather in the days ahead to many parts of the uk. so, temperatures are expected to rise as we head towards the weekend, and just about into next week. but rain at times is possible across many northwestern and western areas of the uk. that's it from me, bye—bye. welcome back to bbc news. israel hits beirut with a wave

of attacks, as their security cabinet meets right now to discuss a ceasefire deal with hezbollah. five people have been found alive and four bodies have been recovered, after a tourist boat sank, off egypt's red sea coast. mps at westminster are preparing to vote on friday on a bill to allow assisted dying in england and wales. we will speak to two mps on either side of the issue. # the first cut is the deepest # honey, i know... and rod stewart's return — 23 years after he last headlined at glastonbury, he will be back to play the legends�* slot. all those stories coming up in the next few minutes. let's catch up on the sports news first with gavin. good evening. good evening, matthew. we're passing the halfway point on this new champions league format tonight.

the 36 teams have all played four of their eight games in the opening phase. later on, all eyes turn to the etihad — with manchester city against feyenood, and the premier league champions trying to end their historic run of five straight defeats. remember, pep guardiola had never lost more than three in a row during his whole managerial career before this streak of defeats. but his opposite number in the away dugout rejected the suggestion city are slowing down. i think they are top quality players. obviously they've been struggling a little bit with injuries — i know kevin has been out for a period — but also, he's on his way back. i'm quite sure that his legs are working really, really well. i know for sure his brain is working really well. for me, he's one of the best players in the world still. so yeah, they've got quality players — even though, as you said, they may be a struggle a bit or more then they used to. arsenal are the other premier league side in action this evening. and they'll face sporting, who had ran out 4—1 winners against man city, in the competition, at the start of the month ynder former boss, ruben amorim.

we have to improve, i think we've made the right steps, and looking back at the way we played inter, they've been so dominant in the league and having the champions league final that they should've won. we should have dominated the game — but the reality is you still have to make it happen, and we didn't, you know? and making that stomach of those steps is what we need to do next. be ruthless, be much more efficient in the decision box, and do what we need to do to take three points away from here. few would have had both bayern munich and their opponents later, paris saint—germain, in the bottom half of the league phase at this point — with the french champions in danger of elimination, as they're only 25th. bayern are 17th, with two wins from four, and their striker harry kane has been defending himself from accusations he doesn't score enough in big games, with dortmund and bayer leverkusen to come after psg. i think if you look at my goals last

season against some of the bigger teams, away at stuttgart, all those types of games, it's may be taken out of context. but i try and score in every game, help the team in every game. obviously this week is a really big week, and the striking and goal—scoring and the team, i want to help the team by scoring goals, for sure. but i always feel like my performances are more than just goals. elsewhere, the competition's surpise team so far — brest — have their toughest challenge to date. they're playing barcelona, with striker robert lewandowski looking to become only the third player to reach 100 champions league goals, after cristiano ronaldo and lionel messi. the four—time world championjohn higgins has cruised into the last 16 of snookers uk championship in york. he thrashed china's he guoqiang 6—0. higgins has won this championship three times before, but the last of those was 14 years ago. the scot rolled back the years though, and was in superb form from the start,

knocking in breaks of 110 and 92 to take the first two frames, and he never looked back. higgins will play eitherjudd trump or neil robertson next. those two are battling it out at the moment. trump leads by 5—3, so he needs just one more frame. you can watch it live right now on bbc two, or on the bbc sport website and app. jacob bethell will bat at number three on his test debut in england's series opener against new zealand in christchurch on thursday. bethell — who is a suprise call—up, having never scored a century in senior cricket, but has impressed in the white ball formats for england — plays in place of wicketkeeperjordan cox, who was ruled out with a broken thumb. regular number three ollie pope takes the gloves and slides down the order to number six, with captain ben stokes at seven. and that's all the sport for now. thanks very much, gavin.

mps at westminster are preparing to vote on friday on a bill to allow assisted dying in england and wales. the proposals would apply to terminally ill adults who are aged 18 or over, and are expected to die within six months. the debate has been fierce among mps. earlier, i spoke to a former gp in favour of the bill. and rachel maskill, who worked as a carer before entering parliament and opposes it. i started by asking what he was so vocalin i started by asking what he was so vocal in support of this. i've been gp for about 30 years, so on average, i look after 4—5 patients a year with terminal cancer. and i'vejust had so many experiences where the offer — if someone could, you know, take their own lives, then they would've done and it would have relieved suffering. so, one patient actually hung themselves, rather than go through the terminal diagnosis. and ijust want to give patients a choice at the end of life. i suspect not many

of them will take it. rachel, let me bring you in, because you've reached the opposite conclusions — on what grounds? well, first of all, we know that palliative care is not available to everyone in the country — 100,000 people each year are not able to access that. for most, it is far too late. and also, it's inequitable in who gets it and who doesn't. so, we really do need to focus on improving palliative care. yet in jurisdictions where assisted dying has been introduced, palliative care has fallen down those league tables — as opposed to those jurisdictions which don't have a change in the law. but beyond that, i'm really concerned about coercion. we know that we live in a coercive society — we only need to look at the way that algorithms today driving us down certain channels on online, and of course, we hear about coercion in so many circumstances — whether it's around relationships or across wider society.

and therefore, for a piece of legislation to suggest that even a doctor — and we think about the authority that a doctor has over a patient — could raise with their patient an assisted death, that's what's written within the bill, is highly coercive. i'll come back to that coercion point in a moment, but, rachel, do you think we know enough, in terms of the factual basis of this decision? or should there have been some sort of impact assessment? well, you're correct, there should be an impact assessment. we've only had the bill forjust two weeks, and that is no time at all to assess the contents of the bill. we're not voting on friday on whether or not we're for assisted dying — it's on the clauses written within the bill, and there just isn't enough time. but what i would say is, we have to have that critical analysis, that in—depth understanding, not only the impact on individuals, the impact on the nhs and other services, as well as the impact on the judicial system.

that work not being done means that there is no understanding formally of the consequences of this bill going through. simon, address the point that rachel made, that if we sorted out palliative care and improved that, then we would address a lot of the problems that you raised in your first answer about the quality of life in those final months? i just life in those final months? i “ust don't life in those final months? i 'ust don-t agree fl life in those final months? i 'ust don't agree with i life in those final months? i 'ust don't agree with that. i life in those final months? limit don't agree with that. because i think, even in areas of excellent palliative care — and i've been a part of that as well — people would still prefer to have control over the end of their lives. so certainly, i disagree with that — and also, there's quite a lot of evidence, in fact, and also, there's quite a lot of evidence, infact, having and also, there's quite a lot of evidence, in fact, having assisted dying improves palliative care in the areas where it's been approved. so california and australia, we have living models which are very similar to our own societies, where it's been incredibly successful. and what's also interesting is that this

coition, the sphere of coition — i've talked to doctors who are involved in this in australia and california, and they've seen no evidence of this. —— this fear. in fact, before they took this decision, there was a worry that would be a problem — they say it hasn't been, and coition actually goes the other way, when someone decides they want to end their lives, their usually try —— family try to usually coerce them into not doing it. try to usually coerce them into not doin: it. .,. try to usually coerce them into not doin. it. ., ,, ., doing it. rachel, address that, because i— doing it. rachel, address that, because i said _ doing it. rachel, address that, because i said i'd _ doing it. rachel, address that, because i said i'd come - doing it. rachel, address that, because i said i'd come back. because i said i'd come back to coition because a lot of concern about vulnerable people being coerced — but don't you think there are specific safeguards, despite what you heard from simon? there are two doctors and a judge involved before any sort of authorisation, and then that person would have to self and minister as well? itrefoil self and minister as well? well first of all. _ self and minister as well? well first of all, coition _ self and minister as well? well first of all, coition is _ self and minister as well? well first of all, coition is very - self and minister as well? well first of all, coition is very real and _ first of all, coition is very real and is — first of all, coition is very real and is clinician who worked with people — and is clinician who worked with pe0ple at— and is clinician who worked with people at the end of their lives, i heard _ people at the end of their lives, i heard countless times people say to

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deserves. ., . ., , protection that the public really deserves. ., _, , , deserves. the vote comes this frida . deserves. the vote comes this friday. details _ deserves. the vote comes this friday. details of _ deserves. the vote comes this friday. details of what - deserves. the vote comes this friday. details of what could i deserves. the vote comes this| friday. details of what could be donald trump is my first executive order when he reenters the white house have started to emerge. he says he would impose a 25% tariff on goods coming from canada and mexico, and an additional 10% on all chinese imports, all on the first day of his presidency. our correspondent told me more about the proposals from washington. an additional 10% tariff on china mikrut china. there are already some tariffs and place on chinese good. it's worth understanding what a

tariff is. it's an additional fee on any imports into the country, which means that any goods coming from canada and effectively will cost 25% more. and also that may be absorbed by the importer, but some that might passed on to the consumer, and the fear here is ultimately what that means is higher prices for consumers in the shops. it's interesting because when you read the detail on this, you would assume it's to do with trade or protectionism — but donald trump, talking openly, he says this is about drugs and migration. yeah, and it's interesting, if you look at the way donald trump talks about tariffs in his first term, it was exactly on economic grounds, as you say, it was about defending the us economy. and he talked a bit about it in those terms as well on the campaign trail — but if you look at, as you say, how he's talking about it now, it's very much more

about other issues. it's about what he sees as the problem of immigration, of illegal immigrants coming in from canada and from mexico, and the issue of fentanyl — which is a synthetic opioid which has caused major problems in communities in the united states, which donald trump blames partly on china and partly on mexico as a final for those drugs into the united states. worth saying that the chinese and the mexicans have both said this morning that imposing tariffs wouldn't effectively tackle the problems that donald trump is talking about, and risks a sort of trade war, a sort of tit—for—tat, if you like, with both sides imposing tariffs on the other — and the risk is that would seize up international trade and ultimately be bad for jobs in all of those countries. bbc verify�*s benyachou has been looking at those proposals and more details. the government says it wants to get britain working and is outlining new policies to achieve that. let's start by looking at the problem the government is trying to address. the government is concerned about inactivity.

that's not the same as unemployment, which is people looking for work who can't currently get it. inactivity is people who are not looking for work, so essentially the government wants to get more people out of this group and into work. and one of the reasons inactivity is increasing is increasingly long—term sickness. our best estimate of the number of working age people not in work because of a long—term illness is up from around two million in 2019 to around 2.8 million today. most of those people are on benefits. spending on working age health and disability benefits stands this year at £56 billion, and it is projected to rise to £75 billion in 2030 as more people becoming inactive. this is the spiralling benefits bill referred to by the work and pensions secretary liz kendall. so what are some of the policies the government is proposing that would tackle all of this? well, one is a youth guarantee. so every young person has access to education or training and the threat of benefits

being removed if they don't take it up. two, replacing the apprenticeship levy on companies in england with a more flexible growth and skills levy. three, devolving powers to mayors and councils to connect local work, health and skills support in the ways that meet the needs of their specific areas. four, measures to overhaul the health, disability and benefits system so that benefits support people to enter and remain in work. the last one will be a particular challenge and here's why. in the election campaign, labour claimed that the tories�* tax plans were not fully funded because their policies to cut £12 billion from the welfare bill in this parliament were already factored into spending projections by the government's official forecaster. that was a valid point at the time but it now means this government has to deliver a chunk of those planned welfare bill savings, around £3 billion. employment and welfare experts think well—designed policies can encourage more people into work and that this

would be beneficial for the individuals involved. previous governments have managed to reduce working age inactivity with some help from economic growth. yet experts also caution that bringing down the welfare bill isn't necessarily the same thing and that this has been historically not simple to achieve. for some couples, ivf treatment is their only chance of being able to have children — but the process can be long and difficult, to say nothing of emotionally draining. so just imagine the happy surprise for a couple in somerset, when they learned that they could expect triplets — conceived afterjust one round of ivf. cruz, enzo and aljo are all doing well — and our reporter cheryl dennis has been to meet them. come on, then, big boy. learning to juggle so many tiny hands and feet. just a year ago, shannon and ace from wincanton in somerset were facing the possibility that they couldn't have children at all. but now they're getting

to know their three baby sons — born ten weeks early at 29 weeks and six days, they're being looked after at the gloucestershire royal until they're big enough to go home. they're extra special. as well as being the result of ivf, they're also triplets. and not only that, they're even rarer — identical triplets. we're lost for words, to be honest. it's still... i don't think it's quite sunk in. i think until we get them home, it's not really sunk in that we've got three identical boys. the couple's ivfjourney began two years ago. having been together since they were teenagers, they wanted a family. you can be so sort of swallowed up by ivf and doing the right things and doing everything. i think we were very, very lucky with it being our first round. so we have had it very good and very, yeah... really lucky. at first they were told they were having twins. it took a while to get used to the thought of twins and how we were going to do it...

yeah, we were shocked but we were happy yeah, we wre shocked but we were happy with twins, weren't we? yeah. kind of all along we wanted twins. at their next scan, they were told it was triplets. speechless, weren't we? yeah, like i said, we drove an hourjourney home and we didn't say a word to each other. we didn't know what to say. we were just thinking about everything. our minds were going 100 miles an hour. yeah. it wasn't an easy journey. at different stages of the pregnancy, medics advised it may be too risky to carry all three. you know, the doctors were pretty certain that we weren't going to make it past 21 weeks, which, if we didn't make it past 21 weeks, none of the babies would have survived. when they arrived, the boys were well enough not to need the specialist care on offer in bristol, but they did need support for premature babies at the gloucestershire royal. the couple have been sharing special moments of theirjourney on tiktok, with hundreds of thousands of people checking in. we've had people from all over

the world messaging and praying for us, and... yeah _ i mean, it was only meant to be you putting a video out for your friends and family to see. and then it obviously took off. documenting the journey, isn't it? it's an interesting journey. this is a family whose wishes have already come true three times over. they're now hoping to be back home for christmas. cheryl dennis, bbc news. that's absolute fantastic. sir rod stewart says he is "ready" to take to the stage again at glastonbury after being announced as the artist for next year's sunday afternoon "legends" slot. 23 years after he was last on the bill there. the 79—year—old is one of the biggest selling artists of all time and has already announced he'll stop doing large scale world tours of the end of 2025. here's art savage.

as well as a spot of football. that year, tickets cost £97, and glastonbury had erected a five—mile long super fence to keep out gate—crashers. on stage, rod thanked the audience for keeping the festival safe. glastonbury is going to go on for the next 30 years. maybe i won't be here, but you lot will be here. rod stewart and maggie may. do you remember it? rod stewart is one of the biggest recording artists of all time, selling more than 250 million records worldwide as a solo artist and with the faces. # wake up, maggie, i think i've got

something to say to you... ferrari can't go through here at all. so me and the boys thought we'd come and do it ourselves. in recent years, he's also become something of an activist, filling in potholes near his home in essex. can you get the hairdryer, please? and paying for mri scans in an attempt to cut nhs waiting lists. i'm in a privileged position. i've, you know, i've earned my money and i want to help people. when he returns to glastonbury when he returns to glastonbury injune, he will be 80 years old. injune, he will be 80 years old. # we are sailing stormy waters... # we are sailing stormy waters... the star recently announced the star recently announced his plans to retire his plans to retire from large—scale touring next year, from large—scale touring next year, but in a statement, he said but in a statement, he said he was ready and able to return he was ready and able to return to the pyramid stage next year. to the pyramid stage next year. thank you very, very much. thank you very, very much. mark savage, bbc news. mark savage, bbc news.

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hour we saw yet another explosion over the skyline. but antony blinken, we saw that press conference in the last 45 minutes, said, "i believe we are in the final stages, there's been an intensive diplomatic effort by the united states and partners like france working with israel and lebanon over many months," and if we reach a conclusion, it'll make a big difference. in terms of the difference, we've seen through the course of the afternoon huge amounts of blasts, those are the pictures from earlier. so as i say, do stay with us on bbc news, we will bring you that news conference and statement from the israeli prime minister here in the next few minutes. hello. well, tuesday brought some calm weather. however, tonight we're expecting some heavy rain across southern parts of the uk, and gusty winds into wednesday, around southeastern parts of england. now, it'll be brought by developing storm connell —

and here it is on the satellite picture — it's been named by the dutch weather service. here's the good news — the worst of the storm is expected to miss us. as it tracks across southern parts of the country, it'll onlyjust be developing — which means that the worst of the weather will track across the north sea, and unfortunately, impacts the low countries. so, here's that rain as it spreads across southern parts of england and wales through the course of the night. the met office warns there could be some heavy rain in the south — in fact, through wednesday morning, we could see as much as 40mm of rain, the met office warns — and on top of that, gusty winds around the southeast and east anglia. so, here's that rain, early in the morning — you can see it's actually spread a little bit further north, too, but it's not quite as heavy across lincolnshire into the peak district, or even yorkshire. but it does leave behind a legacy of thick cloud and quite chilly conditions. now, here are the winds, up to around gale force, we think, around east anglia and the southeast of england. again, the worst of the storm is expected to develop

across the north sea, which means that storm connell will, in fact, miss us. but, further towards the west and the north, it'll be much better with some sunshine, light winds. but it will be chilly — five celsius in belfast, around three celsius expected in glasgow. so that's wednesday. now, here's a look at thursday's weather forecast. you can see what we call a transient area of high pressure between two low pressures — and that means light winds, some clear skies into thursday morning, and of course, a touch of frost, in fact, widespread frost expected north or south. and there'll probably be some mist and fog in some locations, as well. so, here's that bean—shaped area of transient high pressure for a time — but it's already changing, the weather, out towards the west. low pressure is winning, and the weather front is spreading rain across much of ireland with increasing winds. and also, this will be responsible for introducing milder weather in the days ahead to many parts of the uk. so, temperatures are expected to rise as we head towards the weekend, and just about into next week. but rain at times is possible across many northwestern

and western areas of the uk. that's it from me, bye—bye.

today at six. 1100 jobs are at risk with we are expecting to hear benjamin

netanyahu about a potential cease—fire agreement in lebanon. it follows a day of ferocious attacks on beirut with 20 air strikes in just two minutes, then israel's security cabinet met to discuss proposals to end the fighting with hezbollah. five people have been found alive and four bodies have been recovered after a tourist boat sank off egypt's red sea coast. and ukraine says russia has launched drone strikes damaging critical infrastructure across the country. welcome to the world today, we are expecting benjamin netanyahu to tell us very shortly in the next few minutes whether or not his government will agree to a possible

cease—fire in lebanon. now, israel's