bbc news 24. you are watching bbc news 24. the new, round—the—clock tv news channel. bbc news 24.elieve we said the now o'clock news! well, that was 20 years ago today, the launch of news 24 as it was then. and the man whose initiative it was, was the bbc‘s director of news at that time, tony hall, who's now in overall charge of the bbc as director—general, this was his message in 1997. you may not thank me for this... there is an audience demand for news when they want it, not when we the broadcasters tell them to want it, and we're trying to use all our existing resources to give our licence fee payers better benefit in that way. and lord hall, the bbc director—general, is with me. nothing has changed. a lot has changed! 0h nothing has changed. a lot has changed! oh dear. it seems a very long time ago now. you were there, gavin was there, sarah. it seems amazing to say it now, but actually, 20 years ago, the notion of being their 24 hours a day, seven days a week was, well, this is pushing boundaries, will there be an appetite for it? will we be repeated lots of years? now you t

you can see more on all of today's stories on the bbc news channel. hello. e. 90 mps — about a third of them conservatives — have signed a letter to the prime minister and chancellor to say that patients are being "failed" by the nhs and social care in england. the politicians who signed the letter — including nearly 30 former ministers — are calling for parties to work together to find a solution. our health editor hugh pym reports. the pressure on the nhs is growing. there are fears that hospitals will continue to struggle to find enough beds to admit new patients, partly because of difficulties discharging elderly patients, caused in turn by problems with social care. a group of mps now says that a long—term sustainable settlement is needed and that only a cross—party nhs and care convention can deliver that. in the letter written to the prime minister and the chancellor, the mps say... senior conservative, labour and liberal democrat backbenchers are among those who signed the letter. i think the nhs and social care are huge issues for our generation and

all that to come on the bbc news channel. but this is where we say goodbye to viewers on bbc one. you stay with us and don't watch the football. let's look at the newspapers. we have got a debut on the breakfast sofa. daniel hughes is a specialist in handling negotiations. he will tell us what caught his eye. first, pages. the sunday times has got an interview with the chancellor, where he is pledging to use the budget to help build 300,000 new homes a year. the observer is looking at the protests in zimbabwe overnight. people marched on the capital. they we re people marched on the capital. they were urging president mugabe to resign. the sun is saying how liz jones has been taken off air over alleged sexual harassment. a spokesperson for aled jones said, he accepts that his behaviour over a decade ago was occasionally juvenile and apologised for any upset caused. the bbc has not commentated on the allegations. the sunday mirror features with the story we're leading on this morning about the body of missing teenager gaia pope, being found by police. danny east here. you are a trai

bbc news, in tokyo. you can see more on all of today's stories on the bbc news channel. the news that charles puigdemont‘s a p pa re ntly news that charles puigdemont‘s apparently handed himself into the police in belgium. the next news on bbc one is at 5.35pm. bye for now. you're watching the bbc news channel with shaun ley. let's return to our main story — and the continuing allegations of sexual harassment and inappropriate behaviour. this afternoonjeremy corbyn has been addressing the scandal in westminster at labour's north—west regional conference in blackpool. he told delegates that his party is not afraid to turn the spotlight on itself: everybody must be genuinely listened to, because abuse of power often hide in plain sight. we know it's there — especially those who experience it every day — but as a society, too often we don't challenge it. change happens when, led by those who suffer from abusive power, we collectively stand up and say, no more. so, faced with the ongoing revelations about sexual harassment, we must make this a turning point and a moment of re

bbc highlights programme which follows after the news here on bbc one. back to you. you can see more on all of today's stories on the bbc news channel. 5:40pm. bye for now. you're watching the bbc news channel. more now on our top story — the sexual harassment allegations at westminster. a short while ago the shadow foreign secretary emily thornberry has been speaking about the issue. she says she feels ashamed that the sort of behaviour that is being exposed to be happening within her own party and she says more must be done so that young people can feel co mforta ble done so that young people can feel comfortable and safe. there was a problem with harassment of women in all aspects of our society and westminster is part of that. i think in westminster as well things are changing but there is still quite a majority of sort of older, powerful men, and younger, ambitious young men, and younger, ambitious young men and women and that, plus drink, plus everything else, there is no excuse for it, but i think there is a power relationship and i think some of the men abuse it. you have beenin some of the men abuse it. you have been in poli

to stop because kate is champing at the bit, to come and read the very important news on bbc one, and the bbc news channel. kevin schofield and benedict paviot will be here later. kate coming up very soon. this is how we start remembrance sunday. not quite as cold here but clearer skies and a few wintry showers to the far north with temperature just a couple of degrees above freezing. that cold air will continue to push steadily south across the whole of england and wales as we go through remembrance sunday so it is worth bearing in mind we could see a scatter of showers, some running down to the midland and maybe into the south—east but hopefully they will ease away in time for the service at the cenotaph, but it is worth bearing in mind there could be an isolated rogue shower floating round. elsewhere if you are heading for services most likely chance of seeing showers at 11 o'clock in the morning is through wales and maybe one or two into south—west england, elsewhere should be dry, cold, yes, we will need to wrap up warm, but there should be good spells of sunshine. a few isolated showers across the e

you can see that panorama special cheer on the bbc news channel in the uk in just over one hour's timeld news in one hour's time. our business correspondent andy verity is here. -- bbc —— bbc world news. -- bbc world news. what they show, she had a trust where he put hundreds of millions of pounds in 2000 in bermuda. we also see in the documents that have been revealed, that he was drawing down payments from it, around £150 million is documented. the thing with the trust is that if you are a wealthy individual you can put your money into it, and so long as you don't have control over it, you don't have to declare attacks, it is supposed to declare attacks, it is supposed to be for the benefit of someone else. but if you remain in the control of payments, the trust structure doesn't work. and the documents explained that the trustees of the trust were concerned about the payments going out without them knowing. one trustee says, i would like to emphasise that it is imperative that at all times trustees know of all transactions prior to them occurring. clearly that wasn't happening, lord

bbc news 24. the new, round—the—clock tv news channel. bbc news 24. bringing you the whole picture. cloud and rain on the way. initially there across north and west, but as we go through the night it will work its way through the parts of england and wales. i think the far south—east will be dry at this stage, but as we start the new day on friday, that weather front will have worked its way down to the southern counties of england, once that pours a way it is a mixture of sunny spells and showers. the most frequent of the showers will be across the most north and western parts of scotland. it is still relatively mild in the south, a decidedly chilly day further north, temperatures not better than single figures. overnight, this rain will come back to england and northern ireland and wales. we have to get rid of that during the course of saturday before the weekend becomes one of sunny spells and showers at turning colder. hello, this is bbc news, the headlines at 8:30pm. penny mordaunt has been named as the new international development secretary. she replaces priti patel who resig

you can see more on all of today's stories on the bbc news channel. he news where you are. pa rt part two of the weekend will be drier and brighter for many part two of the weekend will be drier and brighterfor many of part two of the weekend will be drier and brighter for many of us apart from a few showers. it will be apart from a few showers. it will be a cold bonfire night for most but at least dry. 0vernight the temperatures falling away under the clear skies. you can see the blue hue. by dawn, temperatures in the countryside, —1, —2 for many but up to —6 for some along with some mist and fog. starting monday on a cold note across parts of england and wales. a change taking place across the north and west as a weather front comes in with increasing cloud and rain and wind. some cloud by the afternoon will reach the south—west of england and parts of wales, some light rain and temperatures slowly lifting to 11 or 12. in the east, dry with sunny spells through the day but quite cold. north—west england into scotland and northern ireland, a lot of cl

as we've been reporting — today marks the 20th anniversary of the bbc news channel. e station — which was then known as — bbc news 2a — launched at 6pm on the 9th of november 1997. earlier my colleague huw edwards spoke to the bbc‘s director general lord hall — who was the bbc‘s head of news when the channel was launched — he was asked why the bbc decided to introduce a rolling channel. it seems amazing to say it now, but actually 20 years ago, the notion of being their 2a hours a day and seven days a week was pushing boundaries. will there be an appetite for this? will anyone watch this? will it be repeating a lot of news? all of those things it take for granted, that you just turn on and you find out what has been happening. major stories happen and you find out what has been happening. but at that point the issue was, how will you fill 2a hours a day, seven days a week with news? that was the question we kept being asked. at the same time as bbc news 2a was being launched, we also launched bbc news online, and again i remember people saying, what on earth is all th

we are staying at the cbi conference for the rest of the afternoon for the bbc news channel and we will time. thank you. this year is likely to be one of the warmest on record, that's according to the world meteorological organisation. its report was released as the un climate change conference began in the german city of bonn. it's the first major meeting since president trump announced plans to take the us out of the paris pact. our environment correspondent, matt mcgrath, has been looking at the report. delegates from all over the world have come here to bonn for the start of un climate talks and, today, the world meteorological organisation has released their state of the climate report based on data from january and october, but the wmo said it is likely that 2017 will be one of the top three warmest years on record. and they said without el nino, it would be the warmest on record. and over the past five years, that period is the warmest since records began. the wmo is also pointing out that 2017 has been a record year for extreme events. we've had hurricanes in the caribbean that

africa, monitored at one point by 22,000 people on a flight tracking website, as shown on the bbc news channel to tweet: while a user called kubrick's lens cap thought: when the soon—to—be ex—international development secretary reached heathrow airport, the coverage switched from flight tracker to helicopter camera, and the complaints continued. here's roy ramm: it was a huge information dump, the leak of over 13 million documents, worked on for a year by almost 100 different media organisations. a lot of work clearly went into the so—called paradise papers, and despite it being a busy news week as well, the bbc gave the story a lot of airtime. tonight on panorama,...

by the way, that full interview will be shown again here on the bbc news channel at 830 this evening.nterview will be shown once again for you here on the bbc news channel and, of course, for more coverage and analysis on the wall engagement and the day's other news too, you can go to the bbc news website, and then you will see all the links there, notjust to the engagement story but the day's other stories as well. just have a look at the website for of that. the time is 29 minutes past six and we are going to catch up with the weather now with chris. we'll continue to see blustery showers across the north west of the country as we go through the rest of the day and overnight tonight as well. snow in the showers over their higher ground in scotland where things could be icy for a time but marginally their wind keeping temperatures above freezing for many of us. it will still feel pretty chilly overnight. looking at the weather this week, we have a big ridge of high pressure which is stopping mild atlantic winds from reaching our shores and instead we get these mild mystic back cold n

coming up next on the bbc news channel, newsday looks at the latest international news.0am followed by lively debate and breaking news in the victoria derbyshire programme at nine a.m.. i'm mariko 0i, in singapore. welcome to newsday. the headlines: a president with no power. zimbabwe's robert mugabe meets the army chief who placed him under house arrest. the united nations secretary general tells the bbc a "massive effort of reconciliation" is needed in myanmar to end violence against the country's rohingyas. the rohingya population is probably the most discriminated population of ever seen the most discriminated population of ever seen in the world. desperation too for the millions in yemen living under blockade and on the brink of famine. saudi arabia's foreign minister says his country is not to blame. one of asia's last nomadic tribes is forced to choose between modernity or starvation. we have a special report from the rainforests of indonesia.

coming up for viewers on the bbc news channel and bbc world news — as climate change talks begin in germany the day. and next stop seoul — as president trump leaves tokyo to continue his asian tour, what advice did he have for the japanese when it comes to containing north korea? that's still to come. monday has allowed autumn to show a variety of faces across the british isles. it depended way you spend the day. in the north—west, cloudy, wet and windy. after a chilly start further south, a glorious sort of a day. sunshine for the greater part of the day. cloud eventually tempering the sunshine if not robbing you of it altogether. that cloud is going to be quite important. that will help to keep temperatures up. slow progress on this weather front. cloudy, temperatures up. slow progress on this weatherfront. cloudy, wet, and windy weather already over the north west of scotland. gradually it moves to other northern and western parts of the british isles. temperatures will be closer towards the front but behind it they may dip away. so, little bit of sunshine north of the great glen, perhap

africa, monitored at one point by 22,000 people on a flight tracking website, as shown on the bbc news channeld ian miller to tweet: while a user called kubrick's lens cap thought: when the soon—to—be ex—international development secretary reached heathrow airport, the coverage switched from flight tracker to helicopter camera, and the complaints continued. here's roy ramm: it was a huge information dump, the leak of over 13 million documents, worked on for a year by almost 100 different media organisations. a lot of work clearly went into the so—called paradise papers, and despite it being a busy news week as well, the bbc gave the story a lot of airtime. tonight on panorama,... it started at 6pm on sunday with a panorama special, and more than half of the news at ten was dedicated to the subject, pushing a report of the texas shooting and new allegations against damian green down the running order. on monday, there was another hour—long panorama special, watched by neil spellings: immediatedly following panorama was the bbc news at ten o'clock. this dedicated the first half of the show, so 1

bbc news. and there will be full coverage of the bbc news channel at 20 from 5.30 later this afternoon here on moment we say goodbye to viewers on bbc two. first we leave you with for a look at the weather... hello, a cloudy scott today across many parts of england and wales, with a bit of rain and drizzle around. but further north, we have had some sunshine and this is just one scene across scotland at the moment, some blue sky there. thank you to our weather watcher. you can see for the rest of scotland and northern ireland and increasingly the far north of england from the satellite, some sunshine. elsewhere, cloudy skies and as i mentioned, a few spots of rain. that rain and the cloud will continue to move its way further south and east, so increasing amount of sunshine across england and wales and certainly for scotland, we will keep sunshine into the afternoon. just a few showers coming into the far north and quite breezy conditions, temperatures about 7—10dc. dry and sunny for much of northern ireland, through northern england, the midlands, wales and increasingly south—western parts of

coming up in a moment on the bbc news channel, the papers.with me are martin bentham, home affairs editor at the london evening standard and victoria murphy, who's royal correspondent at the daily mirror. there's your clue as to what is on the front pages! tomorrow's front pages, starting with... the ‘i' which has a picture of prince harry and and his fiancee, the american actress meghan markle who announced their engagement earlier today. the happy couple also makes the metro's front page, with a close up of the engagement ring which is decorated with diamonds from princess diana's collection. the telegraph reports how the queen's corgis took to ms markle to ms markle straightaway, according to prince harry. the ft leads with how the price of the bitcoin hit a record high today, with the value of the virtual currency rising more than 850% since the beginning of the year. the daily express goes with the royal engagement, and comments from harry that the stars were aligned when he met meghan. the mirror reports how prince harry had proposed ea

and you can see the full interview on the bbc news channel and bbc world news from 8:30pm gmt in aboutanken, the democratic senator from minnesota, says he's embarrassed and ashamed by his behaviour towards women. four women have now accused him of sexual misconduct and he'll be the subject of an ethics investigation. just a short time ago, franken spoke outside his senate office saying he has been doing a lot of reflecting and he again apologized for his actions. i know that i've let a lot of people down, the people of minnesota, my colleagues, my staff, my supporters and everyone who has counted on me to bea and everyone who has counted on me to be a champion for women. to all of you, ijust want to again say i am sorry. senator franken isn't the only elected official in the us having to answer allegations against him. on sunday, congressmanjohn conyers stepped down as the ranking democrat on the housejudiciary committee. the civil rights hero had to give up his powerful position pending an investigation into sexual misconduct. all this as roy moore continues his run to become a us se

and we will be showing richard bilton‘s special edition of panorama here on the bbc news channel in theund 15 minutes‘ time. less talk to our economics correspondent. this is a huge leak and it shows what the duchy of lancaster was doing in investing the queen's private money. she has insight of the duchy of lancaster which has hundreds of millions of pounds on her behalf, she draws her private income from it, that doesn't necessarily take day—to—day interest in individualfinancial necessarily take day—to—day interest in individual financial investments. that is important, because of those 1005 that is important, because of those 100s of millions, perhaps tens of millions went to the two offshore finds, in cayman islands and bermuda. the one in the cayman islands invested about £350,000 in a private equity venture run by a uk company which purchased to retailers, one was threshers which went bust, owing £70 million to the tax man, and the other was a company where people go to get a server or a washing machine, they paid by the week and can pay more than the initial purchase price. the

bbc services, but over 755 are exempt. 0ne conservative spoke up in favour of the corporation's freeview channels. the free view channels include bbc one, bbc two, bbc three, bbc four, cbbc, cbeebies, the bbc newsof course the entire licence fee on its own! peter heaton—jones. staying in westminster hall an mp used a debate on wednesday to warn that the uk could be facing an epidemic of opiod abuse. it follows thousands of deaths in the united states linked to the synthetic opiod, fentanyl — a painkiller many times stronger then heroin. between 2009 and 2015, it is estimated that fentanyl and its derivatives have killed approximately 300,000 people in the us during that time. now, these numbers are of virtual biblical proportions. he feared we were on the brink of an epidemic and called for better education and increased sentences for drug dealers. and i feel that we should be giving some thought now, as we cope or potentially have to cope with fentanyl and similar lethal derivatives. perhaps by creating a new class, double a class of these really truly lethal drugs. a formerjustice minister said the so—called war on drugs had been an unmitigated disaster. we should be learning from decriminali

brazilian grand prix first look at the papers i up a first look at the papers is coming up on the bbc news channel the two brightest planets, will be visible to the naked eye just before dawn tomorrow. the planets will appear about an hour before sunrise just above the horizon, and may appear to look like one bright star. and if you have a telescope, you'll also be able to see jupiter's four moons. earlier i spoke to professorjohn zarnecki, president of the royal astronomical society, who told us more. that is a good way of describing it. these are two objects quite a long way apart, about 700 million kilometres apart in space, but it's one of these cosmic coincidences as they do their dance around the sun, every now and again, they appear almost coincident, and this is one of those occasions. how often does this alignment happen? i looked it up. every few years. there was one a couple of years ago, and then the previous one was 15 or 20 years before. sometimes it's a bit too close to the sun, so we can't see it. but what's good about this time is that the weather forecast for much of the uk is qu

there's more throughout the evening on the bbc news channel, and we are back with the late news at tenr the news where you are. goodbye. hello, this is bbc news. let's return now to our top story, and the bbc understands that president mugabe is set to stand down as president of zimbabwe. mr mugabe is set to address the nation later this evening. earlier he was dismissed as the leader of the ruling zanu—pf party, a day after tens of thousands marched on the streets, calling for him to go. he's been replaced by the former vice president, emmerson mnangagwa, whose sacking by mr mugabe sparked this political crisis and military intervention. my colleague ben brown is in harare and we can speak to him now. what is the latest? well, we are just waiting for this tv address from robert mugabe, which has been trailed for the last couple of hours on zimbabwe on national tv, zbc have told viewers to stay tuned for an address from state house, the official residence of the president. so the whole country is waiting for that and all of harare, where i am tonight, waiting with baited breath tonight

all that to come on the bbc news channel. 0n on bbc 0n bbc one day watching match of the day. their own record, the longest run of unbeaten matches. my favourite statistic is that the aggregate scoreline between celtic and the rest of scotland since the last —— start of last season, over 100 goals tojust since the last —— start of last season, over 100 goals to just over 30. celtic‘s unbeaten run in domestic matches now stands at a british record of 63. to break the record they beat stjohnstone, who just happened to be the last team to beat them back in may 2016. 4—0 the score. it means everything to do it is an incredible effort by the players and a wonderful example of professionalism. of creating high standards every day. they have faced everything is football players. elsewhere in the scottish premiership — aberdeen could only draw with hamilton which extends celtic lead at the top — hibs beat dundee two —1, rangers won three nil at home to partick and ross county held on to beat motherwell 3—2. west ham manager slaven bilic says he is under "big pressure" after his side w

bbc news website. now, on the bbc news channel we will return to the paradise papers, one of the biggest offshore datainvestigates the secret world of the rich and the powerful. this is a story about money and how the rich and powerful try and hide it from the taxman. it is big guys who are using their power, their strength and their monastery advantage in order to gain the system. there seem to be different rules for billionaires. in one of the biggest offshore data leaks in history, we learn how corporate giants shift their profits and avoid the taxman, thanks to the world's tax havens. the trouble is it isn't illegal, the trouble is it legal.“ the companies are not paying their fairshairks it the companies are not paying their fair shairks it means you and i are paying more, simple as that. it's a story about how big business and billionaires lose an elite law form operating in tax havens right on britain's doorstep. it looks like the isle of man company was a tax avoidance vehicle which allowed executives to avoid more than one million dollars in tax over three years. that is absolutely wrong. the

remember, you can watch witness every month on the bbc news channel, or you can catch up on all of ourg with more than 1000 radio programmes in our online archive. just go to: we turn to 1964, when the windmill theatre in london's red light district soho closed its doors. it had become a national institution because for a long time it was one of the few places in britain it was possible to see naked women on stage. that particular blend of glamour and tattiness, sweat and eau de cologne. something seedy and yet touching and innocent... it was a national institution. there was nowhere else like it. there never can be. whatever it was, it has a great story. it was by accident. i was walking along archer street and i saw the sign saying ‘windmill theatre stage door‘. so i walked in, i don't know why, and i said to the stage door man, "can i have an audition please"? and so he phoned upstairs to the office and i was sent upstairs and vivian van damm didn't audition me, but he said, "i like you, i'm going to take a chance on you". what he didn't know was i was 14 and a half years old. and h

bbc news, westminster. and you can watch panorama‘s second report which includes a series of further revelations from the paradise papers tonight here on the bbc news channelday. it‘s emerged that the gunman, identified as devin kelley, had been discharged from the us air force for domestic abuse. our north america correspondent rajini vaidyanathan, clearly details emerging about the gunman. what more do we know about him and the motive? well, police did update us a couple of hours ago and they did say, as you say, they believe that the motive was a domestic, a family dispute. i was talking to the local sheriff here earlier this morning and he told me that the suspect in laws, or ex—in—laws, it‘s not clear, used to worship at the attack behind me from time to time. they weren‘t at the service on sunday when the attack took place, although when they found out what had happened they did actually come here afterwards and they were from the small town of sutherland springs, the suspect was not. officials said later there was some dispute between the suspect and his mother—in—law and that he sent threatening texts to her and also had arguments with her. that‘s

you can see more on all of today's stories on the bbc news channel. time for the news where you are. hello. this is bbc news. more now on our top story, in an extraordinary day in zimbabwe, president robert mugabe has not resigned from power, despite pressure on him to do so from within his own party. atjust after seven o'clock london time, president mugabe made a televised address from his state residence, flanked by military men. and despite the widespread speculation he was about to stand down, he disappointed many by not resigning, and instead said he intended to lead next month's congress of the ruling party, zanu—pf. let's listen some of that speech now. zanu—pf isa zanu—pf is a party of traditions. and it has been served by successive generations, who bound together by shared ideals and values, which must continue to reign supreme in our nation. hence, —— hints of intergenerational conflict must be resolved through harmonised melding of old established players, as they embrace and welcome new rules. new ones, through a well—defined sense of hier

there's more throughout the evening on the bbc news channel, we are back with the late news at ten — e you are. goodbye. hello. this is bbc news. let's get more now on the criticism facing the government in the past few moments the husband of nazanin zaghari—ratcliffe, the british woman imprisoned in llanelli on charges of spying says she has seen a on charges of spying says she has seen a medical specialist after seeing lumps on her breasts and is on the verge of a nervous breakdown. the government is facing further criticism over its handling of the case. earlier i spoke to her mp, tulip siddiq, who said the government had been slow to get involved in her constituent‘s ordeal. i have been talking about this case for 19 months now, when richard first came to me criticising iran for putting my constituent, who is innocent, injail on trumped up charges and tried in a kangaroo court, and the government didn't agree to meet with me. boris johnson wouldn't meet my constituent, nazanin's husband, for 19 months now. when he finally made a comment, he decided to get it wrong. borisjohnson do

bbc one. you can get full analysis and news from the premier league and the scottish premiership on the bbc sport website. that's it. you can see more on all of today's stories on the bbc news channel. hello. wherever you spent the day it was on the cold side, wasn't it? some of our weather watchers reported the first snows of the season. elsewhere, if you didn't have snow, there was just that raw beauty of november to admire. we will keep showers going overnight across northern and western parts of the british isles, some running down over the irish sea to the north midlands. quite a a conservative mp has said that he is leading a campaign to hold the government to defence spending. a cohort of mps was determined to fulfil its duty to maintain britain's defence livability. fulfil its duty to maintain britain's defence livabilitym fulfil its duty to maintain britain's defence livability. it was a real frustration among conservative mps that defence did not get enough of a mention in the budget, and their argument is that they don't want to see any further cuts. and you concede in terms of the mod, via various examples. take for instance, the number of serving soldiers. that has fal

news on bbc one is at 5.55pm. bye for now. hello, you are watching the bbc news channel with me, nicholas owen.orting, drones could be banned from flying near airports or above 400 feet under new laws being proposed by the government. owners would also have to sit safety awareness tests, and police would be given greater powers to seize drones, which may have been used in criminal activity. earlier i spoke to christian struwe, head of european policy at one of the world's biggest drone manufacturers, dji. we are talking about drones of a certain size, by the way, not the christmas present sort of ones. and i also spoke to assistant chief constable serena kennedy, the national police chiefs' council lead officer on drones. i started by asking her if new laws will make a difference in cracking down on the illegal use of drones. we are keen to work across government with the agencies affected by the misuse of drones to understand how we can implement this legislation and how to make a difference to us in policing. because we have different extremes. we have people using drones in an anti—social wa

you can see a longer version of tim whewell‘s film on our world on the bbc news channel at 9:30 on saturdaygetting hard to keep up with the allegations and revelations about sexual harassment that are now forthcoming. names are coming thick and fast — not just in politics. kevin spacey and dustin hoffman are two that have emerged this week for example. but when you find out about the bad behaviour of big stars who you have admired or loved, does it affect your appreciation of their art? i consider the woody allen film annie hall to be one of the best movies ever — but knowing that his adopted daughter has accused him of sexual abuse, should i reassess my opinion? what's the difference? it's all mental masturbation. 0h, now we're finally getting to a subject you know something about. just because allegations arise about the director, doesn't mean the script changes, or the quality of the acting — it's the same film it always was. but we have a relationship with a film that goes deeper than the lines, some kind of aesthetic connection. it speaks to us, and what it says surely does alter with

news on bbc one is at 5:45pm. bye for now. hello. you're watching the bbc news channel.atest high—profile celebrity to back the campaign to free the british iranian woman nazanin zaghari—ratcliffe, who has been in prison in iran for nearly 19 months. the oscar—winning actress has been leading a march of families from mrs ratcliffe's neighbourhood in north west london urging iran's leader to reunite nazanin with her husband and three—year—old daughter gabriella. 0ur correspondent, alice hutton, has been talking to supporters including emma thompson at the march. she's losing her mental health and physical health quite quickly now, so this is a desperate and urgent situation, which is why i'm not supposed to be out at all but i said to my doctor, i can't not come to speak because i'm free, i'm free, i've never appreciated my freedom more, imagining the situation of this woman. to be separated from your child when your child is only three is a terrible thing, everyone can imagine that, but when you have had children, it's unspeakable, so we are appealing as a community, not

bbc news, sydney. you can see more on all of today's stories on the bbc news channel. president vladimir putin have agreed to fight so—called islamic state in syria until its defeat. a statement was released after the leaders met briefly on the sidelines of an asia—pacific summit in vietnam this weekend. nearly 250,000 people have now fled raqqa, once seen as the is stronghold, during the military offensive to drive out the islamic state group from the city. ahmed is one of them this is his story. my my house was hurt, my whole family we re my house was hurt, my whole family were inside. the air strike didn't differentiate between ies militants and my family. i tried to help, i managed to pull my wife from under the rubble. but i was not able to save my son. and my little boy. we arrived at the meeting place. they were about 300 of us. we got to a crossroads on the way out of the city. you could see the opposition troops on the other side. we started walking towards them. suddenly, a land mine explodes, i go deaf. there are body parts flying around me. a doctor shouts,

you can see more on all of today's stories on the bbc news channel. that's all from me. goodnight.howers will be in the west. some heavy with hail, thunder and wintriness over the high ground. central and eastern areas will be dry with clear skies and cold. cold across the board with a touch of frost in sheltered eastern areas by dawn. tomorrow a better day. some good spells of sunshine. but it will feel cold. we start with off with showers in the morning through central and western areas. some wintriness over the higher ground. but they will fizzle out in the afternoon and many places staying dry with sunshine. but temperatures six to ten degrees. towards sunday evening for bonfire night, the event should be dry for most. you can see a blue hue, it will be a cold one. there will be some showers around coastal areas of north, the west and the east. but inland it should be dry. one or two showers around the channel islands. as we head into sunday night it will turn very cold. we could see temperatures down to minus six celsius this one or two places. many of will wake up to mist and

there will be more sportsday on the bbc news channel throughout the evening.he country. it has been miserable out there. it is rain, misty low cloud, it is going to take a while longer to clear. but it will clear for most of us, and once a while longer to clear. but it will clearfor most of us, and once it does it will be a cold night. it is already a cold evening across scotland, wintry showers over the hills. you can see clearer air coming southwards. here, more limited frost, but there could be a limited frost, but there could be a limited amount of fog as well. for the majority it is a cold night. it will be a cold start to tomorrow morning, still quite a bitter wind for the north—east of scotland. lighter winds than today. it is going to be chilly, barely five, six, even in the sunshine. weather cloud comes and i think it will feel quite cold. the sun is so low. it does get a little bit milder through monday, except in the north, sticking with that cold air in the meantime. this is bbc news. the headlines at 7pm: in zimbabwe, state television reports that

on the bbc news channel, we will have all the latest reports, results, interviews and features from theports centre. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. pope francis has urged myanmar to respect human rights, justice and different ethnicities, but he stopped short of specifically referring to the rohingya muslims, many of whom have fled to bangladesh. the pope was delivering a keynote speech in myanmar, where he met the country's de facto leader, aung san suu kyi. hundreds of thousands of rohingyas fled a military crackdown in myanmar that began in august. many of them are now living in vast makeshift camps across the border in bangladesh. reeta chakrabarti is in kutupalong camp that's sprung up about 20 miles from the city of cox's bazar. sophie, the hundreds of thousands of rohingya refugees living here in conditions of desperation and absolute squalor luck on world leaders to highlight their plight, but while the pope did talk to myanmar‘s leaders about the need to respect ethnic differences, he followed the advice of catholic leaders in that country and didn't talk ab

news on bbc one is at 5:35 p:m.. bye for now. you are watching the bbc news channel. it is one it is1:12 p:m.. it is 1:12 p:m..or the owner of a stolen car after a woman was killed in sussex. as talk amount to our correspondent simonjones, who joins me from there. what do we know about the circumstances of this crash? this happened yesterday afternoon at half past two. a 70—year—old woman had just joined half past two. a 70—year—old woman had justjoined this road behind me in her ford fiesta when she was hit bya in her ford fiesta when she was hit by a stolen black mercedes. the woman was pronounced dead at the scene. there was a female passenger in the car. a friend of hers, also a woman, escaped with mind your injuries, and was taken to hospital. —— minor injuries. the driver of the stolen car ran off. there was a huge police hunt involving a helicopter and also sniffer dogs, but they couldn't find any trace of the man. officers believed he had tried to flag down a car to try and get a lift. we know that police had first spotted this stolen black mercedes 11 minutes earlier along with another mercedes which

we‘ll have more on that on the bbc news channel.d to the history books. but teachers at one primary school think pupils are missing out by not putting pen to paper, the way their grandparents did. so the school in kidderminster has teamed up with two local care homes to launch an inter—generational pen pal scheme between children and residents. 0ur reporter emma jane kirby has been to find out more. we have got some exciting post today. what do you think it might be? the letters! the pen pal letters! the postman has been at this school in kidderminster and they‘re eager to find out what their pen pals have to say. dear jasmine. thank you so much for your very lovely and well—written letter... most of the children have never received a letter before, let alone a written one. but thanks to a scheme linking them to a local care home, they‘re now old hands at it. we believe the art of letter writing is lost, so we‘re encouraging children to write for a real purpose, beyond a simple snapchat or text message. above that we want to engage

later in the hour we'll have sportsday on the bbc news channel, with all the latest reports, results,s and features from the bbc sports centre. good evening. for the first time in over a decade the bank of england has increased interest rates — and there could be more to follow. it's raising the official bank rate from a record low of 0.25% to 0.5%. it's part of the bank's attempt to restrain inflation, which is well above the government's target. but some economists believe the decision is wrong and will put greater strain on the economy. the higher rate will mean bigger monthly payments for those with variable rate mortgages, but savers will see some benefit, as our economics editor kamal ahmed reports. one small step upwards for interest rates, affecting millions of savers and millions of borrowers. it's more expensive if you have a mortgage, and forjames smith in south london, it's time to cut costs. we've been very lucky without realising it. i think it's going to start, it will probably bite more from now on. for so long we've thought, it's always going to be like this, but it's

news coverage, the weird relationship with the press. this is beyond 100 days from the bbc. coming up for viewers on the bbc news channelia where a key battle for governor is playing out and the campaigning here, is personal. we'll be looking at the political adverts from both sides. and i'll be speaking to the mexican tourism minister — is donald trump good for business south of the border? we'll be finding out. a day of contrasting fortunes across the british isles and for many it was one of those, quite wet at times and when they also. to the west it eventually improved but it took a while, had to move this weather front just while, had to move this weather frontjust a little bit further towards the east and bright skies p°ppin9 towards the east and bright skies p°pping up towards the east and bright skies popping up across scotland northern ireland and down into the south of england. through the yesterday evening and overnight the front continues towards the east, the rain tending to weekend. behind it the skies began to clear land as a consequence the temperature dips and there will be significant frost in some spo

coming up for viewers on the bbc news channel and bbc world news: storms in the southern atlantic arebmarine missing for five days. and lebanon's prime minister says he will return home late this week. we'll get the story behind his absence. that's still to come. cloudy and damp for many of us today but the lucky few had some sunshine. this weather watch picture is from leicestershi re this weather watch picture is from leicestershire earlier and it shows a lot of blue sky. it was quite warm in places and flintshire had temperatures up to 17. for many of us temperatures up to 17. for many of us it is a dull and misty and murky night to come. rain working through northern ireland and northern england are pushing into scotland tonight. a wet start in the central belt. in scotland there is still win triggers over the tops of the hills as the wet weather moves in. tomorrow morning for a large part of england and were they will be dry but drizzly and places. essentially dry with plenty of cloud and those temperatures widely into double figures. very mild. in northern ireland the overnight

coming up for viewers on the bbc news channel and bbc world news — the state that helped donald trumpare they as fervent as ever? we've the view from wisconsin. speaking of — how's this for a view? we hear from the astronaut who's spent 12 months in space — why he describes it as a test of endurance? that's still to come. once again wednesday turned out not to bea once again wednesday turned out not to be a bad day for much of the british isles. further north and west sunshine was in short supply. this frontal system coming in from the atlantic now bringing rain into scotla nd the atlantic now bringing rain into scotland and eventually northern ireland. overnight we have the prospect of thicker cloud moving south east. before that temperatures really fall away, maybe even some frost until the cloud just raises temperatures later on in the night. first thing on thursday morning, enough cloud still to produce some rain across east anglia and the south—east. north of that brightening up pretty quickly in the morning across cumbria and northumberland. for northern ireland and the greater

coming up for viewers on the bbc news channel and bbc world news — we've more on the manhattan attacke heading to newjersey and new york. and we'll be asking if there's a more regular role for the military to play in helping to keep our streets and cities safe? we'll be getting the thoughts of the former head of the british army — general sir mike jackson. that's still to come. the first day of november was mild but over the next few days things turn cooler. we had rain today in scotla nd turn cooler. we had rain today in scotland and this is all but is left of it this evening. just a bit of rain or drizzle moving south. i decided that some clearer skies and turning quite chilly especially in the countryside. to the south of that we may get some fog. some fog possible through the central bank of scotland. but it should not last for long. —— bank. showers retreating back into the north sea. this is the main band of cloud north of london into south wales. but south of that watch out for some fog in the rush hourfor watch out for some fog in the rush hour for the watch out for some fog i

coming up for viewers on the bbc news channel and bbc world news — the warning from european business‘t made on reaching a deal, and fast. and what does the last supper tell us about davinci? we speak to the author who‘s just written about the life of leonardo. that‘s still to come. it is being cold across the uk with frost around and mountain snow. a nice picture from the highlands. tomorrow, a little milder will stop not a lot. some of us will have a cold start to the day but overall, what will happen is cold air sitting on top of us will be pushed away and milder and atlantic air will come in. there is a lot of cloud, outbreaks of rain across the north. in the south this coming night, relatively dry and temperatures dipping down to single figures. in scotla nd dipping down to single figures. in scotland in the morning, we are expecting sunshine and this is where the best of the weather will be on tuesday, certainly from the lowlands northwards. colder in the glens. the central part of the uk, where we have a weather front, cloud and the light outbreaks of rain, around 10 degrees. i

you can see katty and christian fraser on beyond 100 days, monday to friday on the bbc news channel andalonia soon, pro—independence protesters have blocked traffic and the trains. we will hear why they are doing it and how the region is gearing up for elections next month. here in the uk the head of nhs england has given his starkest warning yet about the impact its financial woes are having on patient care. simon stevens, the chief executive of nhs england, has challenged the government to find an extra £330 million every week, as promised by pro—brexit campaigners. the nhs wasn't on the ballot paper, but it was on the ballot bus. folk leave for a better funded but it was on the ballot bus. folk leave for a betterfunded health service, £350 million a week. —— vote leave. this is what the campaign director of vote leave said in january. pundits campaign director of vote leave said injanuary. pundits and mps kept saying why isn't vote leave arguing about the economy and living standards? they did not realise that for millions of people £350 million for millions of people £350 million fo