ian watson, bbc news.housands of homes and businesses are still without power this morning, after storm eowynn caused major distruption across parts of the uk and ireland. one man was killed in the storm, which the met office describes as probably the strongest in at least 10 years. our reporter, louisa pilbeam, has more. as the clean—up continues from a once—in—a—generation storm, huge numbers of people are still without power today. electricity companies say some customers may have to wait days until being reconnected as a team struggle with damage caused by winds in excess of 100mph and continuing high winds, snow, ice and debris in some areas. in ireland, those winds were the strongest ever recorded and claimed the life of 20—year—old kacper dudek, killed in county donegal when a tree fell on his car. across ireland, nearly 500,000 customers are still without electricity, with warnings from power companies it could take several days to reconnect them. in the uk, 19,000 homes and businesses are still wi

while growing the economy takes protests are economy takes time, protests are ian watson, bbc news.al correspondent heathrow. to send to the voting public with this? was a reminder that in really does politics, rhetoric really does matter. rachel reeves has been chancellor almost seven months. tone today, the optimism, the tone today, the optimism, was hugely and deliberately different a lot of her gloom that was from a lot of her gloom that was punctuating when she got into the treasury. that is ass to . x; to say she has ti’ti’s’ayéhe’ ha; 5155913 7 ti’ti’s’ayéhe’ ha; 6559135; 7 liétosayshe ha; 51559135; and not to say she has changed her mind about what she sees as the dire economic inheritance she got from the conservatives, far from economic inheritance she got from the conservatives, farfrom it. it is an in they are worried about government they are worried about consumer confidence and business " 1553” mg w " 1553” mg £0” w confidence and are'trying to everybody with burst of 77 there 5 77 there attention here. optimism. there is attention here. it is one thing to boost econo

ian 0wens, elaine lanerie, lesley williams, paul brannan, scott forbes, barry watson and john clarke.nimum terms that they have to serve in prison. that ranges between 8—20 years for each of them individually, depending on their involvement in the crimes. then they can be considered for parole. they will, of course, not necessarily be released, but if they ever are released from prison, they will be under supervision for the rest of their lives. so this is a lifelong sentence that each member of this gang has been given. the abuse took place in the north of glasgow between 2012—2019. two girls and a boy were subject to multiple serious sexual assaults and violence. some of them made to consume drugs and alcohol in a flat that they called the beasty house because it was crawling with insects. now, four of the group were convicted of attempting to murder one of the girls by trapping her in places including a fridge and a microwave. now, as i said, they have all been given these orders for lifelong restrictions. thejudge paid tribute to the exceptional courage and perseverance of the old

let's go to westminster and ian watson.f we can start with the conservative leader, we've had some exit from his speech. leader, we've had some exit from his seech. ~ . , speech. what will she say? kemi badenoch. _ speech. what will she say? kemi badenoch, it's _ speech. what will she say? kemi badenoch, it's the _ speech. what will she say? kemi badenoch, it's the first _ speech. what will she say? kemi badenoch, it's the first big - speech. what will she say? kemil badenoch, it's the first big speech of the year, she said she didn't want to rush into new policies, so she's saying politicians across—the—board haven't been honest with the public and she will apologise for some the things her own party did or didn't do any government. for example, she will say they made a law to bring net zero by 2050 but only after it did they get about thinking how they will do it. she suggested immigration had got up at a time when they said it should be coming down. and beyond that, even brexit, she was saying they went ahead, voted brex

ian watson in london for us.s policies on immigration and deportation. in the past hour, colombia ordered 25% tariffs on us imports — in response to trump's earlier threats of tariffs, travel bans, and sanctions against colombia. it all began when colombia blocked us military deportation flights carrying around 80 migrants from landing in the south american country. the colombian president said migrants should be treated with dignity, adding that they weren't criminals. president trump said on social media — that his retaliatory measures are "just the beginning." colombia's foreign ministry says — they are now making a presidential plane available for the return of their citizens. mexico has also refused to let us deportation flights land on its territory. but on friday, two us military flights each carrying around 80 migrants were allowed to land in guatemala. donald trump has made removing unlawful migrants from the us a cornerstone of his immigration policy. meanwhile, raids by immigration, customs and enforce