aruna iyengar, bbc news.housands attended despite sub—zero temperatures and were treated to poetry, magic and music, as david sillito reports. bradford 2025, and the launch event of this uk city of culture. 10,000 had gathered to watch the celebration of the city as it begins its year of culture. this means something important to you, doesn't it? yeah. proper. you're born and bred bradford? yeah, definitely. i'm, like, i bleed bradford. the words that people are saying and the people that are involved, like, it is bradford. like, it is so bradford and it's... yeah, i'm proud of it. and there's also, we've been told, going to be a touch of magic, famous bradfordian — steven frayne, formerly known as the magician... ..dynamo. i grew up on delph hill estate in bradford. this is where he grew up. and this is more than just another show. to be in a place where there's a massive stage put right in the centre for people to come and share in some amazement, like, that's like a dream come true. it genuinely is. this i

aruna iyengar, bbc news. finally this half—hour. is music superstar ed sheeran walking into an assembly at a school in cardiff. he sang his 2017 number one hit shape of you to the delight of the hundreds of pupils. it's part of his new foundation to promote the teaching of music in schools. britain has this kind of thing where it is pushing people towards bankers all working in tech or finance or towards bankers all working in tech orfinance or all towards bankers all working in tech or finance or all this sort of stuff, when actually the arts, and they know well is ours, there are some amazing music, amazing film, amazing painting that comes out of wales that, you know, doesn't happen unless you guys go i want to do that. ed sheeran. a reminder of our menus. you can see the qr code with the latest on fires in los angeles. these are the live pictures as we come up to 9:30pm where a nighttime curfew is in force. hello there. well, temperatures struggling to get much past freezing by day and once again, it is the coldest night of the

aruna iyengar, bbc news.ur political correspondent, tom symonds, who's in westminster. tom, there's been more reaction from downing street in response to the recall this morning. that's right. just to be clear, these are comments by the prime minister's official spokesperson. we lobby journalists minister's official spokesperson. we lobbyjournalists get minister's official spokesperson. we lobby journalists get a minister's official spokesperson. we lobbyjournalists get a briefing every morning from number ten. i havejust come from every morning from number ten. i have just come from it. this was in response to a number of questions he was asked about the events of the day. he was asked about this recall to prison and about the story generally and the prime minister's especial spokesperson said keir starmer was extremely troubled by this. he said the prime minister thinks the bbc needs to answer some questions pretty urgently. the spokesperson said he had seen this morning that the individual involved had ret