the spice girl mel b on finding herself penniless and living back with her mum.her apologises to parents over the quality of his own school's meals asking how difficult is it to bake a potato? and why these california giants that have taken root in large numbers in the uk. and coming up on bbc news, wales's final game of the six nations against italy will also be the last for george north. after 14 years and 120 caps, he's announced his retirement.

charlotte gallagher went to meet her. >> mel b made millions from the spice girls.ears ago, after leaving an abusive marriage she was left with almost nothing and have to move in with her mother in leeds. her ex denies the allegations. >> it is shameful. i am all about girl power, yet, what am i living? a completely powerless situation. i was doing spice girls 2019 and i lived with my mom because of all of the emotional and financial abuse too. i did not realize i did not actually have as much money as i thought i had. obviously any situation is better than being with your abuser. but when you have left that abusive situation, it's like starting all over again. >> has it helped to moving back? >> definitely. my mum is one of seven so i am surrounded by friends and families, aunties, uncles, nieces, the whole nine yards for yet i put my head down and worked and lived frugally and i have been able to buy my own house. this is 5, 6, 7 years on. i did not really have much. >> you said you are shopping at aldi. >> i still love shopping at aldi. i don't think i will ever

and the spice girl mel b on finding herself penniless and moving back in with her mum.irl power, yet look at what i'm just leaving, which was a complete girl—powerless situation. and on newsnight at 10.30pm — we'll go deeper behind the headlines and speak live to key players on today's big stories. plus, a first look at tomorrow's front pages. good evening. the prime minister is resisting pressure for the conservatives to return £10 million donated by the businessman frank hester, who allegedly said the mp diane abbott made him want to "hate all black women" and should be shot. rishi sunak told the commons that the alleged remarks were racist but that mr hester�*s apology for making rude comments should be accepted. this evening, diane abbott attacked both the conservatives and labour for their response to the controversy. here's our political editor chris mason. will you give the money back, prime minister? the big questions ringing in the ears of rishi sunak today... would the party take more money from mr hester? ..after a morning in which two senior conservatives an

mel b made millions from the spice girls.ad to move in with her mum in leeds. her ex denies the allegations. it's embarrassing. it's shameful. i'm all about girl power. yet look at what i'm just leaving, which is a complete girl—powerless situation. i was doing a spice girls tour in 2019 here. then i lived with my mum because i wasn'tjust emotionally and physically abused, it was all the financial abuse too. i didn't realise that i didn't actually have enough, as much money as i thought i had. obviously, any situation is better than being with your abuser, but when you've left that kind of abusive situation, you have to... it's like starting all over again. has it helped, moving back to leeds? definitely. i mean, my mum is one of seven, so i'm surrounded by friends, family, aunts, uncles, nephews, nieces, the whole nine yards. ijust put my head down and worked and lived frugally and hence i've been able to buy my own house. but this is like five, six, seven years on when i didn't really have much. so you were saying you're sh

mel b made millions from the spice girls.st nothing and had to move in with her mum in leeds. her ex denies the allegations. it's embarrassing. it's shameful. i'm all about girl power. yet look at what i'm just leaving, which is a complete girl—powerless situation. i was doing a spice girls tour in 2019 here. then i lived with my mum because i wasn'tjust emotionally and physically abused, it was all the financial abuse too. i didn't realise that i didn't actually have enough, as much money as i thought i had. obviously, any situation is better than being with your abuser, but when you've left that kind of abusive situation, you have to... it's like starting all over again. has it helped, moving back to leeds? definitely. i mean, my mum is one of seven, so i'm surrounded by friends, family, aunts, uncles, nephews, nieces, the whole nine yards. ijust put my head down and worked and lived frugally and hence i've been able to buy my own house. but this is like five, six, seven years on when i didn't really have much. so you were

and former spice girl mel b tells us how she's using the tough times in her life to help others.far this year. he is into the quarterfinals at indian wells after an 18th consecutive win. we'll have the latest from california. some women who pay to pay to freeze their eggs are being misled about their chances of having a baby — according to a fertility charity. more and more women are choosing to freeze their eggs, but bbc analysis has found that dozens of clinics offering the service privately may have breached advertising guidance which says they mustn't give false or misleading information. anna collinson reports. going into the operating theatre, that's when it gets really real. rowe is about to have her eggs retrieved. the idea, to freeze them at a younger, more fertile point and use them when she's ready to have a baby. i'm an absolute realist going into this, and i know that freezing my eggs does not guarantee me success of having a child in the future. under sedation, a long, thin needle is carefully inserted into each ovary to retrieve her eggs. they're frozen and placed

internationalfame as one fifth of the spice girls — but despite selling millions of records, singer mel bm. citing the breakdown of an abusive relationship for her troubles, mel now hopes she can use her own experience to help others reclaim their lives. charlotte gallagher went to meet her. mel b made millions from the spice girls. but a few years ago, after leaving an abusive marriage, she was left with almost nothing, and had to move in with her mum in leeds. her ex denies the allegations. it's embarrassing, it's shameful. i'm all about girl power. yeah, look at what i'm just leaving, which is a complete girl powerless situation. i was doing a spice girls tour in 2019 here, then i lived with my mum because i wasn'tjust emotionally and physically abused, it was all the financial abuse too. i didn't realise that i didn't actually have enough — as much money as i thought i had. so i had to literally eat humble pie, live with my mum, and my mum was the kind of person that would say, "oh, you've left him now, you're fine." but that couldn't be further from the truth. 0bviously, any situatio

and we hear from former spice girl mel b about leaving an abusive marriage and moving back in with her today on bbc news. let's look at some other stories making news. a 34—year—old man has beenjailed for at least 21 years for the murder of a man in newtownabbey, northern ireland, two years ago. 54—year—old roy reynolds, was beaten and stabbed to death. his remains were placed in a car boot and taken to a reservoir. ajudge described the murder as "merciless" and "brutal in the extreme." official figures show, hundreds of refugees were left homeless in london during a cold snap, after being evicted from home office accommodation. london councils said more than 300 refugees had to sleep rough injanuary because their claims had been closed. the home office said it was working with authorities to improve the system. a headteacher in southampton has admitted he's disgusted by the state of the food served at his own school. in a despairing letter to parents, jason ashley, head of redbridge community school in southampton, said meals served in its canteen were "completely unacceptable." he as

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. >> tanya sat down with her spice girl mel b.ho updated her 2018 book "brutally honest" and releasing it to coincide with the international women's day. >> the purpose of book is me discovering and talking about my ten-year abusive marriage. i brought the book out in 2018, but a lot happened between 2018 to 2024. i just thought, you know, it is about time i updated the book and i wanted to bring it out on a positive week. women's international day. i could not have peicked a bettr time. it is an epidemic. unless we start talking about it and doing something about it, then it will not change any time soon. >>> on to corporate news. new york community bank shares are continuing the rebound pre-market after moody's announced it is placing the regional lender on review for upgrade from review for a downgrade. the rating comes a day after the lender received a $1 billion lifeline from the consortium of investors and named joseph ottingi as its ceo. it is up 2.5% in pre-market trade. >>> it has been a spectacular move we have seen from

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. >> the spice girls mark three decades of their first audition last month, mel b said the spice girlsoing to release some, quote, really good news that involves all five of us, she also said that fans would be 100% satisfied by the news. okay, that's a big promise. the group shared this video on social media. oh, look at them. baby spice was actually baby. they started this back in 1994. they say it's turned into an amazing journey, way beyond what they could have imagined, and they wanted to say thank you to their fans for their support from day one. >> so sweet. >> yeah. what do y'all think? it's going to be the big surprise. >> no, i love them. yeah, but they've been pulling us along for years. >> they really have for years. >> i was trying to stay positive, but i'm talking about this at this point. >> i'm like, i'm like, just drop it or not, call me when the surprise is released. >> they have been breadcrumbing us. >> they have been member. last year we showed their website with some thing was going to happen with all five of us, all five of us. so, you know, contract negotiations

on mel b and her comments now in the christian scandal .he spice she says that all of the spice girls have rallying around girls have been rallying around geri girls have been rallying around gen her geri horner, providing her support because geri's been facing slack . a lot of facing a lot of slack. a lot of people are saying, what is the girl power standing by girl power with her standing by her husband? and i think, you know, have the know, for her to have the support by the rest of the girls, quite brave them . girls, it's quite brave of them. and i think she needs that support. going through support. she's going through a tough that's girl tough time and that's what girl power about. tough time and that's what girl povier about. tough time and that's what girl povi think about. tough time and that's what girl povi think it's)out. tough time and that's what girl povi think it's sot. tough time and that's what girl povi think it's so lovely. >> i think it's so lovely. and you do this the spice you do see this with the spice girls you eve

mel b's anguish at pal's family strife just amaze me how much media attention this story's getting.former defence secretaries back the mail's campaign. look, mark francois actually did say at the budget as well, you know, is putin going to have to be in warsaw before we decide that we're going to actually spend what we on the mirror, what we spend on the mirror, keep it on the screen at the moment, because we've moment, though, because we've got we've got the, meghan markle, online markle, meghan, the worst online abuse attacking women, abuse is women attacking women, she she it's not she says. and she says it's not catty, it's cruel. and i do believe, well, i'll introduce my panel again. i have got john sergeant, of course, former bbc, political bigwig. i've also, of course, got the director of pubuc course, got the director of public services, mark littlewood, and entrepreneur and social commentator joanna jarjue. focus a little bit jarjue. let's focus a little bit on this story. now, meghan markle says that she was cyber bullied pregnant with bullied while pregnant with archie sh

audience for being hd the chance to be on the stage and answer questions from ari mel and idea was to really do a little bthe side and the personal journey of you and o are and this extraordinary extraordinary and what was pretty brutal coming of age story in washington, dc, the cautio tale but ultimately inspirational one, i think, and i know this has been inspiring for me as so we all know the public came to know through testimony before the house select committee tounitedbut it wasn't until about a year after that testify that you were able to to begin writing story and to telling your your full story publicly. and so i'd like to start from the a jersey girl, jersey tell tell me. growing up in new jersey with a mom and dad who split when you were in fifth grade. a you were born in your home. so was your brother. one of the both of us were your both home. but and your brother was born. before new jersey? tell us about your parents, your background, how was. so thank you for the warm introd thank you all for being here this morning. and to rancho mirage graciously hosting myself and for both of us, this

with mel nutrition to compound into problems facing medics and gaza. increasing numbers of the sick and dingy need medical help. these doctors have dwindling resources to treat them. victoria gates and b l g as they're all just arrows. moss and what isn't giovanni a that's in northern garza and he's following developments from there. the story was called the him, the 9 a on the job. a he's so far the from a severe the my little tradition. he's been 10 days in come on. i was, was, was because of it was the trying to, uh, bring his life back end as you know, get his life is health better. but they couldn't because of the s a v shortage of a food style fence was material here. and then also because there's another case, a called jenna and then come out of the hospital is suffering from the same uh, deceased that. so this smells nutrition uh, are reaching on presidents legacy and also because of because with the severe uh siege give both of them to the citizens who are living and also because by that is what it is. and these numbers, uh, it continues to climb because of the, as solving policy in both of them the policy needs here. uh, one more thing. as you know, i understand ink and in t

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mel nutrition to compounding the problems facing medics and gaza. increasing numbers of the sick and dingy need medical help. these doctors have twinkling resources to treat them. victoria gave some b l j is there. a south africa urgency requested that the international court of justice considered additional measures this month, it's case against as well. it accuses israel of a breach in the un genocide convention as it continues bombarding because this trip i'll just here is gabrielle is on the reports from new york. the world is watching is palestinians go hungry due to israel's war on guys a. it's now clear the i c, j is watching as well. on thursday, the court unexpectedly announced new orders on israel to try to prevent famine. there are 3 new provisional measures, but the most significant one calls on is real to without delay, ensure and hindered provision of humanitarian aid. everything from food and water to clothing and shelter throughout garza including increasing the capacity a number of land crossing points and maintaining them open for as long as necessary . this additional provisional measure also calls on israel with the immediate effect to hold any military action t

b l g 0. the for the united nations is warning the 220000 children institute on could die from mel nutrition in the coming weeks and months. so un humanitarian affairs agency has breached the security council describing the situation as one of the worst humanitarian crises in recent history. fighting between the army and the paramilitary rapids support forces since last april has killed tens of thousands and caused acute food shortages. as for the time, the leading season arrives in may, people in some parts of the for could face what we term. i p. c, face 5 level acute food insecurity. we call this stage a catastrophe. nutrition is soaring, so alarming levels and is already claiming children's lives. the recent m, as of report revealed that one child in is dying every 2 hours and exams i'm comp and no fashion, no stuff for our humanitarian travis, the splitting out. since we're done on the available international inaction and in attention, simply put, we are feeling the people of sedan, of hundreds of thousands of refugees from so don had been forced to flee into celts to dawn, and many are tr

mel nutrition to compound into problems facing medics and gaza. increasing numbers of the sick and dingy need medical help. these doctors have twiddling resources to treat them up, victoria gates and b l g as their well i'll to 0 as more often with isn't jamalia in northern gaza following developments destroy. it was called the him, a 9, a, a, an, a job, a, he's suffered from a severe the model. nutrition he's been 10 days in come on was, was, was because it was the trying to bring his life back end as you know, get his life and his health better. but they couldn't because of the s a v for page of a for the style fence with materials here. and then also because there's another case, a called jenna and then come out of the hospital is suffering you from the same as the sees the so this smells nutrition a are reaching on presidents, legal to see. and also because of because of the severe a seat in both of them did all the sinews, who are living and also goes by, that is what it is. and these numbers of it continues to climb because of the solving policy in bows. i wanted to bother students here. one more thing, as you know, i'm understanding and, and, and in the market, the streets, w

mel nutrition to compounding the problems facing medics and gaza. increasing numbers of the sick and dingy need medical help. these doctors have dwindling resources to treat them. victoria gates and b i, which is their last we mentioned the us top court has ordered israel to take additional measures as like your monetary and situation wesson's across concepts. the international court of justice has told israel to without delay, provide the on handed provision of just need a basic services on humanitarian assistance to palestinians. throughout garza, it was the oldest as well to increase the capacity, a number of land crossing points. and for them to be kept open for as long as necessary. gabriel, as also has moved on why the international court of justice has chosen to issue the order. and they said that these new provisional measures are meant because of a change in the situation on the ground in gaza. they said when they issued their provisional measures of january 26th, at that point there was only a risk of famine in gaza. and the i c j says now that but now famine is setting in. and that is why these provisional measures needed to be updated if you will, to taking the fact of

with mel nutrition to compound into problems facing medics and gaza. increasing numbers of the sick and dingy need medical help. these doctors have dwindling resources to treat them. victoria gates and b i, which is there. so that's what's happening on the ground and gaza will get more now on that you and court order, which is telling israel to ensure the basic food supplies are allowed into the strip in a moment, will speak to him. the son who attends us. joining us from occupied east jerusalem, but 1st let's spring and gabriel is on there who's joining us from the united nations in new york and following the story out of the when gabriel. so are these new measures and what are they calling for? for the i c j, unexpectedly, i should say we didn't get any warning that this was going to be released. they are 3 new provisional measures. the 1st one is just reaffirming the initial 6 provisional measures from late january not too significant. they're the 2nd provisional measures, the one i really want to hone in on here, because it is the one that is the most relevant. it essentially deals with trying to prevent further famine isn't guys it. and it has 2 parts. the 1st part of this news p

b of house report 118-407 offered by mr. huizenga of michigan. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 1052, the gentleman from michigan, mr. huinga, a melrom michigan. mr. huizenga: thank you, mr. chairman. i'll recognize for 2 1/2 minutes here. mr. speaker, for 90 years the securities and exchange commission has been tasked with three things. investors, maintan fair, orderly and efficient markets, and, finally, facilitate capital formation. the amendment before us today does aee. first, it directs the securities and exchange commission to promulgate rules with respect to electronic delivery of some required disclosures to retail investors. second, it provides a transition period allowing an initial paper communication about the electronic delivery to be sent to investors. third, during a period not to exceed two years, the amendment requires delivery of the annual notice i remind investors of the ability to opt out of that and into electronic delivery at any time. and lastly, i can't emphasize this enough, this amendment provides a mechanismer to investors -- mechanism for investors at any tim to opt out of e-delivery. once again, you