speaking at a visit to raf northolt, chancellor rachel reeves met with women personnel in the armed forces >> well. >> it's. >> it's. >> fantastic at raf northolt to be able to meet with women personnel in our armed forces on our front line. international women's day is an opportunity to celebrate how far we've come, but also as a government and for me personally, as the first ever female chancellor of the exchequer to redouble our efforts to ensure that we have opportunities for women, which is why we are going further and faster on childcare and breakfast clubs to help parents, but particularly women, balance work and family life. >> tropical storm alfred has made landfall on australia's eastern coast. tens of thousands of people have been evacuated, with more than 300,000 homes left without power. the country's bureau of meteorology has warned the intense rainfall could lead to flash flooding as the major storm moves inland. authorities in the united states have confirmed that hollywood actor gene hackman died of natural causes a week after his wife, betsy, died from a haunt of virus pu

. >> well, it's fantastic at raf northolt to be able to meet with women personnel in our armed forcesn our front line. international women's day is an opportunity to celebrate how far we've come, but also as a government and for me personally, as the first ever female chancellor of the exchequer to redouble our efforts to ensure that we have opportunities for women, which is why we are going further and faster on childcare and breakfast clubs to help parents, but particularly women, balance work and family life. >> and finally, for european brown bears at whipsnade zoo have woken up from hibernation. the bears manor, mini inaya and of course cinderella have finally gotten out of bed after three months of deep slumber, signalling the start of spring at the uk's largest zoo. well, those have been your latest gb news headlines. for now, i'm lewis mckenzie. now it's back to nana. >> for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code or go to gbnews.com/alerts. >> good afternoon. >> good afternoon. >> and welcome. it's fast. >> and welcome