our correspondent, naomi grimley, has been watching today's events.s day — banging pots and pans to make themselves heard. many of them had taken part in a feminist strike today across spain, to draw attention to sexual discrimination, violence and the wage gap. in afghanistan, where international women's day is a national holiday, these women often face prejudice on several fronts. but the international red cross filmed them enjoying what they do best. at the elysee palace in paris, emmanuel macron presided over a new award by the french state to recognise trailblazing women. the first winner was a woman who has campaigned against child marriage in cameroon. she accepted the prize, named after the famous french feminist politician simone veil. translation: for me it is a call to follow in her footsteps and to pass on the shared task defending women to future generations. president putin has also been trying to flag up his credentials as a champion of female empowerment. here he was riding with female officers in the russian mounted police. closer to

naomi grimley, bbc news. of those three countries are zimbabwe where thousands of people have been left homeless by the cycling. the ministers there admit they failed to anticipate the magnitude of the disaster. our correspondent shingai nyoka has been to the town of mutare, close to the border with mozambique. i am here at the command centre, which is responsible for the rescue and relief efforts in eastern zimbabwe, and i havejust spoken to the minister of local government, july moyo, who tells me that the majority of food aid and supplies are still stuck here because access is still such a challenge. the helicopters that have been moving between here and the affected areas are prioritising medical evacuations. we have seen for ourselves the difficulty of trying to access some of these areas by road. some of these narrow roads are partially blocked by landslides and rock falls. now, president emmerson mnangagwa has gone into those areas to see the extent of the devastation himself. officials say that 98 peo

naomi grimley, bbc news.ha macphail has been sentence to life in prison, and told he'll spend at least 27 years behind bars. the judge said 16—year—old aaron campbell was a cold and calculated individual who had shown "not a flicker of remorse" during the trial. lorna gordon was at the high court in glasgow — you may find some of the details in her report upsetting. six—year—old alesha macphail, described as a beautiful, kind and smart girl. her family said they'd been left devastated and heartbroken by her murder. her killer, aaron campbell, today admitted he carried out the crimes. throughout, he has shown no remorse. thejudge, lord matthews, gave details of what campbell said happened the night he abducted the little girl from her bed in the family home. you said that alesha was drowsy and became a bit more awake when you went outside. at one point, she asked who you were and where you were going. you said you were a friend of her father's, and that he was taking her home. over the next few days, you were

naomi grimley, bbc news. time for a look at the weather. things are looking unsettled. today did start off op a promising note. many of us had blue sky and sunshine, this was the picture in norfolk, it is parts o eastern england that will keep that sunshine for longest, but for most of us it has been going down hill, because we have this weather front which is draped north to south across the country, that is spilling in lots of cloud, rain, and some fairly windy conditions too. this is the recent rainfall radar, and you can see as the rain has been moving in are the west, a bit of snow has been falling over highest grounds of the pennines and high land scotland too. it is falling mostly as rain. for the south—east towards east anglia, here you should keep fairly dry and bright weather, and there will be some brighter weather returning to northern ireland later on too, but in between lots of cloud, rain, temperatures somewhere between seven to 11, so on the cool side for the time of year. windout there too. the wind will help to drive most of the cloud and rain away to

i've been speaking to our political correspondent naomi grimley.hat might happen next. well, it does not look particularly promising for the prime minister to be honest. earlier on this evening, look like she played a rather clever card to get brexit supporters back in her party on side by promising that she would create. it is always going to be the last card in the pack, the prime minister would ever want to play and although it looked like it might have worked for a couple of hours, we then heard that the democratic unionists, who prop up her government, are still sticking to the guns. they do not believe her deal is right for northern ireland and they will be not voting with her in the lobbies when she tries to put this deal back to parliament. to that end, it looks like a bit of a futile gesture and it does beg the question, if she can't get her deal through parliament, will she have to go anyway? having said that, there are people who were staunch opposes of her deal but are now coming out of the woodwork saying they will support her. are we

our world affairs correspondent naomi grimley reports.ms to be left of the city of beira, which took the full force of cyclone idai. watch how the lonely figure in the centre of your screen wades towards what's left of a home. in a landscape where tree tops are now lapped by water, one man is precariously winched to safety by rescue workers. a swathe of land 50km wide is completely submerged. many have been left clinging to roofs, as these pictures show. thankfully, aid is arriving in the shape of food, shelter kits and cash assistance, but it will reach urban areas first. rural communities will have to wait longer for help to come. so we're talking about a huge crisis. to give you a sense of that, we've probably only accessed about 10% of the area that's currently affected, to even get a sense of what those needs are. so, beyond that, we're looking at probably around 600,000+ people affected. across the border in zimbabwe, the government has admitted itjust can't cope with the sheer scale of this disaster. too many people have the same s

let's get the latest from our correspondent naomi grimley. a city on the highest level of alert.in the aftermath of today's shooting. heavily armed police can be seen scouring the streets looking for the prime suspect who is still on the run. the incident itself happened at 10:45am at this tram stop just outside the historic city centre. several shots were fired inside this tram, three were killed according to the city's mayor and many others injured. the dutch prime minister has indicated terrorism is a possible motive. translation: an act of terror is an attack on our civilisation, on our tolerant and open society. if this was indeed an act of terror there can only be one answer and the answer is the rule of law. and the police have now issued this picture with some uncompromising advice. do not approach this man. he has been named as 37—year—old gokmen tanis, a turkish national who the security services clearly think is behind the attacks. translation: in utrecht there was the shooting at several locations this morning. what we do know is that one of the perpetrators is on the

naomi grimley, bbc news.ning, it will stay quite breezy and most of the rain we re quite breezy and most of the rain were clear but it will stay showery through the evening and overnight. the bulk of the cloud and rain has been down to this weather front pushing eastwards across the uk, clouding over across eastern areas, with some sunshine earlier in the day. later this afternoon into the evening, pretty soggy for many of us but some make some time for northern ireland, and into the evening and overnight, the rain clears away from southern and eastern england, clear and drier conditions for many of us. snow showers across high ground in scotland, rain until snow in northern ireland and north—west england. those of round 2—3 in the north, 4—7 in the south. could be a touch of frost in the countryside. the weekend looking pretty u nsettled, the weekend looking pretty unsettled, we have got this west of the influence to our weather. the wind coming in from the atlantic, bringing further areas of low pressure an

naomi grimley, bbc news.heresa may's deal that enters a no deal. he is very clear that if mps again next week. theresa may's brexiteer within a looks like we're heading for a no brexit. he didn't roll out a long—term extension but said would require significant political change on the part of britain and so far parliament has shown wattel side of that. prospects of a no—deal brexit look significantly increased. people are calling for the revoking of article 50, staying in the eu, on our current terms, it has had more than1 million our current terms, it has had more than 1 million signatures. our current terms, it has had more than1 million signatures. it keeps crashing because many people are trying to sign it, is that a sense in the business community that whatever theresa may does next week or nothing? there is a joint statement today from the tuc and the cbi saying that theresa may needs to change course. there is a growing alarm on all sides of the divide here that we are heading dangerously close to a no

let's speak to naomi grimley, our world affairs correspondent.ans more than one person was involved or whether one gunman went from one location to the next, shooting. just to recap so far, we know that there was shooting on board a tram in utrecht, in a square cut the 24th of 0ctober square, we believe that one person has been killed and that several have been injured. we also know there is a police raid happening about two blocks from now, ina building happening about two blocks from now, in a building which we believe might be where the gunman currently is. and we don't know how many people we re and we don't know how many people were involved in the attack, and we don't know the identity and we don't know the motive? all we know is that the prime minister, mark rutte, said it was deeply concerning. we also note from the police that they have referred to it as being an appearance like a terrorist attack, but they are also being cagey at the moment. it is also worth pointing out that the university of utrecht, schools, mosques in the city have

naomi grimley has this report. a city on the highest level of alert.and many others injured. the dutch prime minister has indicated terrorism is a possible motive. translation: an act of terror is an attack on our civilisation, on our tolerant and open society. if this was indeed an act of terror there can only be one answer and the answer is the rule of law. and the police have now issued this picture with some uncompromising advice. do not approach this man. he has been named as 37—year—old gokmen tanis, a turkish national who the security services clearly think is behind the attacks. translation: in utrecht there was the shooting at several locations this morning. what we do know is that one of the perpetrators is on the run. as you know we cannot rule out a terrorist incident. utrecht‘s residents have been told to stay inside until further notice but there has been intensive police activity, including sniffer dogs at a block of flats on truman avenue, not far from the tram stop. meanwhile security and other cities such as amsterdam has been beefed

our correspondent naomi grimley reports.eems to be left of the city of beira, which took the full force of cyclone idai. watch how the lonely figure in the centre of your screen wades towards what's left of a home. in a landscape where tree tops are now lapped by water, one man is precariously winched to safety by rescue workers. a swathe of land 50km wide is completely submerged. many have been left clinging to roofs, as these pictures show. thankfully, aid is arriving in the shape of food, shelter kits and cash assistance, but it will reach urban areas first. rural communities will have to wait longer for help to come. so we're talking about a huge crisis. to give you a sense of that, we've probably only accessed about 10% of the area that's currently affected, to even get a sense of what those needs are. so, beyond that, we're looking at probably around 600,000+ people affected. across the border in zimbabwe, the government has admitted itjust can't cope with the sheer scale of this disaster. too many people have the same