gary 0'donoghue, thank you.monday, axel rudakubana pleaded guilty to the murders in southport last summer of elsie dot stancombe, alice da silva aguiar and bebe king, and on thursday he was sentenced to life witha minimum of 52 years in jail. the news at six covered some of the highly distressing details about some of the attacks which emerged in court. some of the injuries were so horrific that we are not going to report it all, and i must warn you that what you're about to hear is very distressing. judith moritz reports now from crown court. the report that followed from judith moritz, daniel sandford and fiona trott in liverpool, and the programme as a whole, drew praise from viewers, as did the live coverage during the day on the news channel, much of it fronted by sarah campbell. but there were also concerns about the coverage during the course of the week, articulated in this anonymous phone message we received. i wish the bbc would stop showing the picture of the southport child killer. you are enhancing

. - 0ur senior north america correspondent, gary 0'donoghue, said the political rivals were showing ar needs to look limited toil, the president needs to look presidential and some cheap shots on the tarmac would not work. that does not paper over the problems. number one the president threatening to tie federal money to changes in state policy, how they handle water, forestry, the governor won't be able to agree with that effectively blaming the governors for these fires that wreaked devastation. there is a lot of politics in these methods and you have to remember there are people as well involved. i have been talking to two people that have just come back and their house is up that way, they were renters, they have come back for the first time since the fire. they lived here for 12 years. sarah's parents house was lost in the palisades fire as well. two generations of their family lost their houses. this house behind me was on the market at the time the fires burned. it was a seven bedroom house, a beautiful spot, $18 million on the market for and look at what is left. you heard tha

a little earlier i spoke our senior north america correspondent gary 0'donoghue who was in los angeles to remember that these fires, the two main fires, are still burning and that while the the fire department has managed to contain a little bit more of each of one, there's still most of those perimeters aren't contained. now, fortunately, yesterday, we've now learned that the death toll has not risen from that 24. they've been searching through the remains of people's houses, and they haven't happily found any more, uh, corpses or dead people at this stage. but that could easily change. i'm going to bring in now sheila kelleher, who's a captain at the la fire department. sheila, we were expecting bigger winds this morning. starting to gust a little bit, but may get worse later on. yes, there's definitely potential for 45 mile an hour upwards gusts, so we're prepared for that. we have strike teams deployed out throughout los angeles county because this is an impacted area also north of the santa clarita valley and a few other areas that haven't started to burn yet. we're very concerned

gary 0'donoghue.ill take part later in the day but people trickling in a security very tight around the arena so what is expected to happen? yes. is expected to happen? yes, security very _ is expected to happen? yes, security very tight, - is expected to happen? yes, security very tight, people . security very tight, people lining up from very early in the morning and the place is perhaps more than half—full now with three tiers of seating around the edge of what is after all a basketball court and a hockey ice rink. they are filling up pretty quickly so people will be able to watch what goes on at the capital on large screens here and they've been showing pictures of the white house as well and of donald trump and melania trump, jd vance and his wife arriving there with big cheers going up when they see the president and when they see the president and when they see the president and when they saw when they see the president and when they sand vance as well so they are already starting to engage it

joining me is our north america correspondent gary 0'donoghue who is in california for us.ith what we are expecting from the president once he does land they in los angeles? irate does land they in los angeles? we know does land they in los angeles? - know he is going to be greeted by the governor, gavin newsom, and they are not the best of friends. they've called one another names, they have clashed at various points over the way the fires have been handled. the president blames him and other democrats for not putting the stuff fires out sooner and specifically blames them for, he says, not diverting water to the north of the state down to metropolitan areas like la and southern california here. now, they say there was plenty of water, there was not a problem with that. and there are of course repeating —— competing concerns over water in the state over farming come over environmentalism, over urban development. so he will get a tour of the palisades area just a little southeast of where i am in malibu. he is going to have a roundtable with legislators including some democ

gary 0'donoghue is on the ground there.re one of the biggest of the two fires is still burning. there has been some good news today because the winds haven't been quite as bad as they were expecting. that could change in the coming hours, but it has allowed them to start to contain a tiny bit more of the fire here and also the one up in pasedena. they are looking tomorrow, though, at potential higher winds, and thatis at potential higher winds, and that is a risk for further flare—ups and for further spread. also, fema, the emergency management authority, they are setting up two disaster relief centres. not just to distribute state and local aid where there's money available for people, for rehousing forks the belongings they've lost, really to sort of try to rebuild their lives, but also to co—ordinate something like 70 other organisations. everything from the salvation army to habitat to humanity, to the american red cross, to give people the kind of help they're going to be needing over the next days and weeks. this disa

we can now speak to our senior north america correspondent, gary 0'donoghue.onald trump meeting some of those emergency workers. important moment for california, of course, but his ivory much on other issues as well. —— his eye very much. much on other issues as well. -- his eye very much-— eye very much. there's a lot going on in these — eye very much. there's a lot going on in these first _ eye very much. there's a lot going on in these first few _ eye very much. there's a lot going on in these first few days. - eye very much. there's a lot going on in these first few days. it - eye very much. there's a lot going on in these first few days. it has . on in these first few days. it has been a blizzard of activity for donald trump. he has got some good news tonight, though. he has had his controversial pick for defence secretary confirmed by the us senate. pete hegseth was split 50—50 in the senate, the vote for him, and the casting vote had to be made by d the casting vote had to be made by jd vance the vice president to get him through so donald trump does no

. _ joining me is our north america correspondent gary 0'donoghue who is in california for us. as the two men on the tarmac really politically rivals, but showing this united front, i guess you might say, when it comes to the relief response now for those devastating wildfires.— now for those devastating wildfires. ., ., �* ~ wildfires. yeah, i don't think they would _ wildfires. yeah, i don't think they would have _ wildfires. yeah, i don't think they would have been - wildfires. yeah, i don't think. they would have been anything in them showing any direct animosity towards one another in that moment. the governor needs to look presidential, and cheap shots on the tarmac would not have works. i don't think that papers over the problems and there are problems. number one, the president threatening to tie federal money to changes in state policy, how they handle their water, therefore of the governor �*s not going to be able to able to agree to that. and effectively blaming the governor and others for these fires that have been devastating here. a lot of politics in these visits