your office overlooks london bridge, sian, you saw the aftermath. and it is pretty tall, we work on the ninth floor, and when the incident happened friday late lunchtime, we were working and our building was put into lockdown. everyone immediately went to the window, we have a view right over the bridge, we could see what was happening, i did not personally see the incident unfolded, but we could see the aftermath, the bridge lockdown, police, the way they cordoned off the area, and dealt with the situation. two and a half yea rs with the situation. two and a half years since london bridge was the location of a previous attack, shyama, two died in this, we know the name of one, jack merritt, but the name of one, jack merritt, but the nature of the attack was very different. it was very different because it spilled onto the bridge as farasl because it spilled onto the bridge as far as i understand it and it was not aimed at people on the bridge, aimed at people and the fishmongers' hall. the fact is, he was wearing a fa ke hall. the fact is, he was w

thank you, daisy mcandrew, and sian griffiths. i hope to see you before christmas. goodbye.ustin halewood. here's your latest sports news. arsenal are closing in on their new manager. we understand mikel arteta has said his goodbyes at manchester city, where he's been assistant coach under pep guardiola, for the past three years. he's expected to be announced as the new boss at the emirates tomorrow. they were scheduled to have their pre—match press conference ahead of saturday's game against everton today, but that's been postponed until tomorrow now when they expect arteta's appointment to be confirmed. well, caretaker manager duncan ferguson will be in the everton dugout for the game against arsenal. ferguson has been in temporary charge for the past three matches, overseeing a win against chelsea at goodison, a draw at manchester united and a defeat on penalties against leicester in the carabao cup this week. the club though are said to be closing in on the appointment of the former napoli and chelsea boss carlo ancelotti. macclesfield town have been deducted six points

sian lloyd, bbc news.vous about undergoing procedures. bbc london has been following one of the first patients in the country to be immersed in alternatve reality during his surgery. bhavanni vadde reports from st george's hospital in tooting. austin mills is being prepped for surgery after he was knocked off his bike by a car a few weeks ago. he is wearing a virtual reality headset to distract him as he is injected with a localised anaesthetic, which means he will be awake throughout his operation. many patients don't want to hear anything or see anything in the theatre and even if i tell them that there is going to be no pain, they are very worried about being awake in a theatre environment. so, in the past we would use sedation to make them sleepy or drowsy and with the vr we don't need to do that because effectively with sound and sight gone, and they are in their own little world, they can have nothing at all. there will be some guided meditation while we talk you through some breathing. sure. and a b

sian lloyd, bbc news.hat a number of people have been rescued trying to cross the channel to the uk. the coastguard said it had been co—ordinating several search and rescue operations, involving border force officers and the rnli, off the kent coast near dover. a helicopter and plane were also involved. the israeli prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, is facing a vote for his leadership of the likud party today. the challenge from long—time rival gideon saar is said to be the biggest mr netanyahu has faced in his 20 year—rule of the party. yesterday evening a rocket fired from the gaza strip, interrupting a likud party rally in the border town of ashkelon. the prime minister and his wife were escorted from the stage, after sirens went off. the seychelles off the coast of east africa is setting itself up as a hub for marine preservation. the first—ever large—scale coral reef restoration project was set up there and now they are transplanting what they call "super coral". with over half of the world's reefs a

sian lloyd, bbc news. the headlines on bbc news... british holiday—makers who died in a swimming pool on christmas eve. gabriel diya and his two children drowned at a hotel on the costa del sol. a powerful typhoon tears through parts of the philippines, killing at least 16 people and leaving thousands homeless. firefighters continue to tackle out—of—control bushfires in australia, with a warning that more record—breaking temperatures could be on the way. sport and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre, here's chetan. good afternoon. sam curran's been the star bowler on the opening day of the first test against south africa taking 4 wickets as the hosts were left on 277 for 9 at stumps at centurion. a promising start for england who had south africa 111 for 5 at one stage after some indifferent batting. quinton de kock mounted a recovery before curran stopped him just 5 runs short of a century. curran with 4 for 57. earlierjames anderson struck with his first ball and three wickets for stuart broad. it was a hot and gruelling

sian lloyd has been finding out about some of the changes that have taken place.ing, very pleasant, and they'll say, "what do you do?" and i'll say, "well, i'm a judge," and quick as a flash, they'll say, "do you work in family?" it tells you a lot, doesn't it, about subconscious assumptions that are still being made that we need to battle against. this piece of art is an emblem of how the change has happened and how the future has got to be different because law has to reflect the world that we live in, and it's getting there. the first ever artwork commissioned to celebrate women's contribution to the legal profession, marking the centenary of them being allowed to practise law. unveiled in the supreme court, a legacy to those who paved the way, part of a campaign to inspire future generations. i think it will give the courtroom a different feel, an altogether different atmosphere. a new atmosphere of a more egalitarian and modern approach. this is how it looked 100 years ago — not a woman in sight. times have changed. mrsjustice carr has recently been promoted

and our sunday morning edition of the papers is at 9:35am — this morning's reviewers are sian griffithsucation editor at the sunday times, and the journalist and author shyama perera. an urgent review of the licence conditions of every convicted terrorist who has been freed from prison has been launched by the government following the attack at london bridge on friday. usman khan, who killed two people and injured three others, before he was shot dead by police, had been released halfway through a 16—year sentence he was serving for his role in an al-qaeda inspired plot. he was out on licence and wearing an electronic tag when he started attacking people at a conference on prisoner rehabilitation. john mcmanus has this report. running across london bridge, members of the public pursuing usman khan, determined to stop his stabbing spree. moments before, he had attacked people at a rehabilitation conference inside fishmongers' hall. as armed police arrived, the realisation that khan is wearing what appears to be an explosives vest. moments later, he is shot dead. yesterday, one of his vic

sian lloyd, bbc news, shropshire.acism within a hardcore group of fans, but the club has been trying to change its image, and its new owner has taken on unruly fans. our sports correspondent, alex ca pstick, reports. match night at the teddy stadium, home to beitarjerusalem, one of the biggest clubs in the country, with a loyal, passionate following. they come from all corners of the land, with a hardcore of fans who go by the name of ‘la familia'. they're raucous, but they've also earned a notorious reputation for being racist — proud their team is the only one in israel's top division that has never selected an arab player. their behaviour was a huge problem, but this man took them on — his style, confrontational. the way that i chose was to sue personally for damages, of damaging the reputation of the club. i've zero tolerance for racism, absolutely zero. the scale of the challenge was laid bare when fans disrupted a pre—season open day at the training ground. these protests aimed at new signing ali mohamed, a chri

with me are the talkradio presenter daisy mcandrew and sian griffiths, education & families editor ate already in. the government's ‘radical‘ queen's speech. borisjohnson‘s smile contrasting sharply with jeremy corbyn‘s stony expression. that same striking image dominates the guardian — with attention drawn to the dismay felt by labour mps at the significant changes made to the brexit withdrawal bill since the tory election victory. the mail's reports a demand from the health minister for all nhs staff to get the flu vaccine — revealing that one in four health workers haven't yet had it. the metro carries the tragic story of a 47—year—old woman who died on the pavement from a cardiac arrest after falling over and waiting six hours for an ambulance to arrive. and the ft‘s front page is dominated by its report that former head of the financial conduct authority andrew bailey is favourite to replace mark carney as governor of the bank of england. the times says that the bank fo england faces scrutiny over a security breach that gave traders early access to market information. and the sun

daisy mcandrew and sian griffiths will be back at half past eleven for another look at the papers.good evening to you, the rain for many of us has felt relentless today and has just kept on coming. low pressure poked itself to the west of the british isles and can see the swell of cloud on the satellite picture and around that, pulling the various pulses of rain that have already been flooding in place in the ground is very wet. some more rain in the forecast and there will still be some flooding into the first part of tomorrow, particularly across england and parts of wales. they will update you on all the flood warnings as they are updated. through the night, lucy ran across scotland some showers and some dense fog forming here and here is our next batch of rain moving into central and eastern parts of england by the end of the night. a little bit cooler than it was last night, generally between five and 9 degrees. it is going to tomorrow, a real unpleasant rush—hour to parts of the midlands and eastern england, a lot of rain falling, some big puddles, surface water and spread, t

morning's front pages in the papers. 0ur reviewers tonight are talkradio presenter daisy mcandrew, and sianffiths, education & families editor at the sunday times. that's all ahead on bbc news. now on bbc news, it's time for sportsday. hello and welcome to sportsday — i'm jane dougal. is it on or is if off? don't ask manchester city — they say they don't know! what exactly is happening with arteta and arsenal? we'll bring you the latest. he led his country out more times than anyone else. but scotland captain greg laidlaw has played his last international game. he steps down after 76 caps. and, almost losing her sight forced nicola adams to give up boxing, but you'll never guess what she plans to do next. play in the movies or something, i don't know, i don't know. you will have to watch. we will. also coming up in the programme... water and anti—doping. we will be speaking to our correspondent about russia's appeal. and, is ita bird, is ita plane? no, it's ronaldo — but he's airborne. a ridiculous leap from the striker to score forjuventus! good evening. welcome to the programme. it's been

she spoke to our correspondent, sian lloyd.an area at the centre of a child sexual exploitation scandal going back decades stopping the extent of the abuse still isn't non—stop girls who we re abuse still isn't non—stop girls who were trafficked and sold for sex and the surrounding area and were taken further afield copy for men have now been sentenced to between four and a half years and eight years in prison for their part in the rape and indecent assault of a girl who was aged just 13 at the time. it has taken 17 years before she felt able to talk about what happened to her. my to talk about what happened to her. my life was ruled by them every day getting picked up, taken here, there, and everywhere. meeting so many men, i can't even put a number on it. it was living how. and she believes that young girls are still being abused in telford. it makes me feel sad that some girl on many girls could be out there now feeling the way i did, going through what i did. i know how it feels and i know how scared they must feel, but the

sian lloyd, bbc news, shropshire. possess military—style semi—automatic firearms. new zealand swiftly banned the weapons after the mosque attacks in christchurch earlier this year when a gunman killed 51 people at friday prayers. there was a nationwide amnesty for those willing to hand in their guns. so far, more than 50,000 have been destroyed. from christchurch, danny vincent. a community struggling to grieve. this is not only a place of worship but also the scene of an attack that shocked the world. friday prayers bring a moment of reflection. but also pain. what happened here changed new zealand. with unity came a warning of the need to guard against extremism. on the 15th of march, a lone gunman walked into this mosque armed with semiautomatic military—style weapon. he killed 51 people and injured dozens more. new zealand is now determined to make sure nothing like this ever happens again. and this is what they are doing about it. new zealand plans to destroy nearly all high—powered semiautomatic assault rifles.

the co—leaders of the green party jonathan bartley and sian berry have rung an alarm bell outside parliament emergency. the leader of the brexit party nigel farage, has said he fears brexit will be sold out by borisjohnson if the conservatives gain a majority — which he says is likely. plaid cymru are ending their campaign by proposing a law which would make it an offence for politicians to tell lies. it would see elected politicians in the european, westminster and devolved parliaments face criminal charges if they knowingly mislead the public. in today's other news, a ninteen—year—old drug dealer has been found guilty of the murder of 14—year—old jaden moodie who was knocked off his moped and stabbed repeatedly back in january. the court heard jaden was killed amidst a violent turf war between drugs gangs in east london. adina campbell has more. another young life cut short, caused by knife crime in london. jaden moodie was just 14 years old when he was murdered. the final moments of his life captured on this shocking cctv footage. while on a moped, he is rammed into by a stolen black merc

and we'll be taking an in—depth look at the papers with our reviewers daisy mcandrew and sian griffiths if an end to the rain where you are can't come soon enough, there is dry weather in the forecast but actually it is going to arrive last we currently it is wettest across southern parts of the uk. it looks like all of us next week will get a spell of dry weather, though it will feel a bit colder compared with how it is out there at the moment. right now, still low pressure in control, but look into the weekend, these weather systems just focused the rain towards southernmost areas. this is where it has been wettest, there are flood warnings. elsewhere it does tend to be drier over the weekend with sunshine and showers. more on the weekend in the moment does make in a moment, we still have to get through friday. more rain affecting lingual —— england under. mainly dry in the west, a few fog patches that are slow to clear in northern ireland. soggyin slow to clear in northern ireland. soggy in north—east england and midlands into the afternoon, it will feel colder but it isn't as windy.

at some of the day's other election news: the co—leaders of the green party, jonathan bartley and sianrm bell outside parliament as a warning, they say, for the climate emergency. the leader of the brexit party, nigel farage, says he fears brexit will be sold out by borisjohnson if the conservatives gain a majority, which he says is likely. plaid cymru are ending their campaign by proposing a law which would make it an offence for politicians to tell lies. it would see elected politicians in the european, westminster and devolved parliament face criminal charges, if they knowingly mislead the public. well, in scotland, there are 59 seats up for grabs, many of them marginal. brexit and the possibility of a second independence referendum are key issues for voters. our scotland editor sarah smith reports. hi, aladdin. you might come to the pantomime to try and escape the election, but even at the rehearsals for aladdin in glasgow's maryhill, politics loom large. in scotland, that means both brexit and independence. probably since the independence. probably since the independence referendu

the co—leaders of the green party, jonathan bartley and sian berry, have rung an alarm bell outside parliament for the climate emergency. the leader of the brexit party, nigel farage, has said he fears brexit will be party, nigel farage, the conservatives gain a majority — which he says is likely. the plaid cymru leader adam price is ending his party's campaign by proposing a law which would make it an offence for politicians to tell lies. it would see elected politicians in the european, westminster and devolved parliaments face criminal charges if they knowingly mislead the public. as campaigning comes to an end on the eve of the general election have you made up your mind about who to vote for in the polling booth tomorrow? our deputy political editor, john pienaar, has been to the election battleground of watford — a constituency that voted to leave the eu and a tory marginal — hello, children. it's time to believe, or try to. how are you? believing comes easily to some. the rest of us are promised billions for the nhs and schools, thousands more police. everyone knows what they want. i wa

the co—leaders of the green party, jonathan bartley and sian berry, have rung an alarm bell outside parliamenty say, for the climate emergency. the leader of the brexit party, nigel farage, says he fears brexit will be "sold out" by borisjohnson if the conservatives gain a majority, which he says is likely. plaid cymru are ending theircampaign by proposing a law which would make it an offence for politicians to tell lies. it would see elected politicians in the european, westminster and devolved parliaments face criminal charges if they knowingly mislead the public. in their election campaigns, both the conservatives and labour have been targetting key marginal seats that could determine the overall outcome. our chief political correspondent, vicki young, takes a look now at the electoral landscape for both parties. six weeks ago, borisjohnson called this election, fed up with the hung parliament that he said was trying to stop him delivering brexit. so will his gamble pay off, or willjeremy corbyn do enough to deny an outright conservative victory like last time? after all the campaigning, so

good morning, sian, bore da.ight? what would you pick out for us? bore da, huw. we are virtually the last people still standing here, because all the counts here have finished and we have all the results. as we two were saying, those north—east seats are very symbolic. we were talking about them just before midnight, when we were discussing the exit poll. some of those seats have been conservative in the past, the vale of clwyd, and wrexham does stand out because it has never had a conservative mp. reeta also mentioned ynys mon, and it is worth pointing out that that has been a three—way marginal for quite some time, and actually it was held by the conservatives back in the 19805. that was keith best. so only now we have the only labour seatin only now we have the only labour seat in north wales in deeside, where there had been lacklustre. but again, it is a lever voting area, and those seats were marginal. some of them on very tight margins. we spoke about gower earlier as well, and labourdid spoke about gower e

sian lloyd, bbc news, shropshire. at two mosque in christchurch in mosque —— march. a nationwide and if the hissing of a 50,000 firearms destroyed across the country since that. and events has more. a community struggling to grieve. this is not only a place of worship, but also the scene of an attack that shocked the world. friday prayers bring a moment of reflection, but also pain. what happened here changed new zealand. with unity came a warning of the need to guard against extremism. on the 15th of march, a lone gunman walked into this mosque, armed with a semi—automatic military—style weapon. he killed 51 people and injured dozens more. new zealand is now determined to make sure nothing like this ever happens again. and this is what they're doing about it. new zealand plans to destroy nearly all high—powered semi—automatic assault rifles. centres like this one have been set up across the country, and tens of thousands of gun owners have been forced to hand in their firearms as part of an amnesty. in the centre we

protests in libya against a war load, forces a strike to target the two easy and border -- tuni sianorder. a family grieves for those killed during the protests in india over the controversial citizenship law. launching one of the most powerful rockets. ♪ good to have your company. the united nations is warning of devastating consequences for civilians in idlib, serious last rebel controlled province. have fled,000 people the area after two weeks of heavy bombardment by russian and syrian government forces. fuel shortages are stopping families from getting away. as syrian troops have been moving, the president has vowed to recapture look rebel held areas and intensified the military offensive despite a cease-fire in august. idlib is home to 3 million syrians, many of whom are already internally displaced. eight agencies have been forced to suspend operations in the area and there are few errors -- fears humanitarian supplies will stop entering the region unless the fighting ends. >> today, the areas have become disaster areas. they should be dealt with accordingly. they should not ex

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sian countries and african countries. so dr. jambeck, you know in your is how much of the waste entering the oceans from china, ietnam and other southeastern asia countries. can you tell us, is this the origins of of the the waste? can you tell us more about the full impact of the united in contributing to oceans debris. and plastic weight and has that been partially hidden by our exporting our waste to primary asia. -- you kind of give us respond to that. that's how it was framed. big question, a but certainly when we first did those calculations of the global input of plastic into the ocean, we couldn't take into account import-export aspect, and so what we did see were these so really factors, rapidly developing economies wherein from a structure to that comes he waste with the increased waste generation that comes with conomic growth, that infrastructure was lagging behind. that have been referred to here, many of those rapidly developing economies is we saw the most leakage but as i mentioned in our testimony, our per perso

sian, thank you very much. we will talk to you a bit later.nservatives back to labour in 2017 and now it looks like it is neck and neck again. the story in wales is fascinating. questions from sian about labour, people saying it is all aboutjeremy corbyn. so on that theme i want tojoin all aboutjeremy corbyn. so on that theme i want to join andrew once again. thank you, we're going to go to stoke—on—trent in the west midlands. the candidate therefore the labour party is gareth snell, defending a majority of almost 4000. how is it looking for you tonight? it is disastrous. the exit poll is a catastrophe for the labour party. obviously i suspect my seat will be pa rt obviously i suspect my seat will be part of the list of seats that fall to the conservatives this evening, and this is one of the worst results the labour party could ever have imagined, and you know, it is all well and good saying that we have made some gains here or we have managed to keep the lib dems at bay there. the fact is, in stoke—on—trent, we are going to have another five

sian elliott is the women‘s equality 0fficer at the trades union congress.eally slow progress on this issue. and the gender pay gap is at the heart of this. it is not right that it is going to take us so long before we can actually close that pay gap between men and women. we wa nt that pay gap between men and women. we want to see this government take meaningful action on this issue as a matter of priority. the top ten countries are topped by scandinavian country. they are all well known for being very equal based countries. what are they doing that we are not? they are taking meaningful action on the gender pay gap. for example, iceland enforces fines on those who don‘t close it. and that is something we are calling on the uk government. we want them to require employers not only to tell us what the pay gap is but explain how they are going to close it. at the moment they are not required to do so. we wa nt to they are not required to do so. we want to see fines for those who do not take that action. we also know in scandinavian countries that there isa in

trump, under pressure from the --sians, changed the gop well, when they were going during the election, the gop's platform was changed because of russian pressure. they were going to have some things against the russian invasion, pressure from russians, he took it out and asked for russian help and got russian help. he's asking for foreign interference again, blatantly in our faces, he is getting it. this whole deal about the money was going to be released. ,rump has violated so many laws you don't know what this guy is going to do. the other thing is, he didn't want an investigation. all he wanted was the announcement of an investigation, to smear biden. trump really, after helsinki and the disgrace there and his love-fest with putin should have been looked at for treason. republicans need to get their act together. this guy is bad for our country. i know the economy is booming, but president obama saved the economy. it was on the rise anyway. it trump had to do was ride out and not screw it up. this guy is bad for our country. i'm sorry for the whole country, and i pray president tru

she spoke to our correspondent, sian lloyd.ken further afield. four men have now been sentenced to between four and a half years and eight years in prison for their part in the rape and indecent assault of a girl who was aged just 13 at the time. it has taken 17 years before she felt able to talk about what happened to her. my life was ruled by them, every day getting picked up, taken here, there and everywhere. meeting so many men, i can‘t even put a number on it. it was a living hell. and she believes young girls are still being abused in telford. it makes me feel sad that some girl or many girls could be out there now feeling the way i did, going through what i did. i know how it feels and i know how scared they must feel but they must tell somebody. the help is there now, not like it was back then. an independent inquiry is scrutinising both the extent of child sexual exploitation in this area and how the authorities responded. it is expected to take at least 21 months. in a moment we‘ll have all the business news, but firs

signed up to go fight the war and we were inspired by kennedy, the race to the moon against the --sians together together everybody in america gathered together and they had such a swell of pride and again in 9/11 when we were attacked, we all gathered together. there was not no partisanship. everybody was an american and it seems like that swell we get when we have our flags that -- flags out and signs in our front yard, we do better those times and i hope everybody can get together and try to be not so partisan about this and just think it through logically, what we need to do at this point. , i think impeachment our representatives know the difference. in the mueller report, we can all agree the russians did propaganda to split us apart and .et us fighting like this they have propagated it to where itmp is trying to promote and we are so divided, we cannot get together on anything and i hope somehow we find a way to get back together and one last thing, just put one thought in gorebody's head, if al would not have gotten cheated out of that election in florida, he would have spent tr

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lord faulkner, charlie faulkner, a former cabinet minister and craig oliver and sian berry from the greenou are the main opposition party, you are the main opposition party, you only make progress if you have an argument about what the future will look like that convinces the public and what we had here was a situation where we not only lost all the traditional conservative labour marginals with a few exceptions but we also lost our most heartland support in the midlands and the north—east in the north—west and that was because just as in scotland in 2015, that heartland support said you are offering us nothing and you don't connect with us anymore. just as the scottish labour party and those who had voted for us in the yea rs before those who had voted for us in the years before 2015 decided to abandon us, the big question is, what do we do to start having a conversation again, both with the people in the marginals, the vote —— the floating voter which could be one or the other but also our heartland. and if we don't do it quickly, it will be too late to put it together again. jeremy, wh