they have been moments of high emotion today because tom eva ns, high emotion today because tom evansourned for a short time because of the high emotion and when everyone came back thejudge, mrjustice hayden, said to mr evans that he knew how difficult this must be and that he had noticed, in fact, people in court wearing t—shirts that say alfie‘s army on them, there to support alfie and the judge said we are all in alfie‘s army and all want the best ultimately for alfie but it will be up to the judge to decide what happens. thank you, judith moritz. facebook has reported a big jump in profits despite users spending significantly less time on the site. it comes after the social network announced changes designed to prioritise posts from friends, at the expense of content from businesses and media companies. our business correspondent theo leggett is with me. fiola, you‘d better explain what the changes are and why there has been all of this change on facebook. when you log onto facebook what you see is chosen for you by facebook‘s computers based on what the company thinks you will fi

alfie evans's father, tom evans, sobbed uncontrollably. his son's life—support would now be withdrawn this friday. they had hoped to take their son alfie to italy where doctors there potentially were going to see if they could prolong his life by providing treatment but that of course will not happen. the life—support will be withdrawn on friday. this is what alfie's father tom evans had to say outside court earlier. this is not over. this isjust the start. i'm going to take this nhs down. i am not giving up. my son ain't giving up. no one, i repeat no one, in this country is going to take my boy away from me. no one. they are not violating his rights and they're not violating my rights. my son is two years of age and he is being sentenced to the death penalty. how wrong is that? alfie's parents are now coming to the end of this legal process. we do believe they are going to appeal this decision. but of course the life—support machine is expected to be turned off this friday and with time running out theyjust have three days to go. the lab

this is what alfie's father tom evans had to say outside court earlier.o take this absolute nhs down. i'm not giving up. my son ain't giving up. no one, and i repeat, no one in this country's taking my boy away from me, no one. and they're not violating his right, and they're not violating my right. my son's two years of age and he's been sentenced to the death penalty. how wrong is that? alfie's parents are now coming to the end of this legal process. we believe they are going to appeal this decision, but the life support machine is expected to be turned off this friday and with time running out, they have just three days to go. the time is 6:15. our top story this evening: the oxfam scandal in haiti — the charity reveals it's investigating 26 more cases of alleged sexual misconduct. both at home and abroad. and still to come, the local council that's going to start giving thousands of kids a free meal, every day of the year. coming up on sportsday on bbc news: chelsea have the unenviable task of stopping barcelona as the two sides meet in the last 16 of

this is alfie, with his father, tom evans.te. he has a neurological condition that's still not been definitively diagnosed. lawyers acting for alder hey children's hospital in liverpool argue that more treatment would be unkind and inhumane. but alfie's parents want doctors to continue treating him. the hearing continues tomorrow. the family of khader saleh — the prisoner stabbed to death in wormwood scrubs in west london yesterday — have told the bbc he had complained to them about violence in the jail, in the days before he was attacked. four men — who are also inmates — have been arrested on suspicion of murder. 28 russian athletes given lifetime bans for doping have had their suspensions overturned by the court of arbitration for sport, because of insufficient evidence. in total, 43 russians were banned for life from the olympics, following an international olympic committee investigation into state—sponsored russian doping at their home games in sochi in 2014. the ioc warned the decision "may have a serious impact on the

carla and tom evans walk every day here at the community center. today it was no different, for them, at least. even when the temperatures dropped into the low 20gs. >> we have the same regulars. which is good. >> as long as i can keep my upper body warm, my shoulders warm and my head warm, i'm fine. >> reporter: several warming centers and shelters are open because of the freezing cold temperatures. for more information on that, you can go to our website abc7news.com. >> and you too can keep track of the blustery cold temperatures on our abc7 news app. >>> survivors of last week's deadly school shooting in florida are now rallying for stricter gun laws but they're already feeling a sense of disappointment, some of the teenagers cried after to -- >> reporter: students across south florida are joining the fight against gun violence. >> i myself registred to vote yesterday and anyone that i feel, any senator, any representative and that includes the president, i will work against them if they are working against me. >> reporter: demanding that someth

tom fallis was at the evans police station, answering questions. >> i don't know what's going on. ve no idea and that's why i'm asking to speak with you. >> reporter: it was 2:00 a.m. and tom was still wearing blood stained clothes. the ones a sheriff's deputy thought said should already have been bagged as evidence. >> how is your relationship with your wife? >> really good. >> reporter: but tom said ashley was devastated when she miscarried the very day of her new years eve party. >> it was hard for ashley, it was hard for me, but i didn't think that there was getting to this point. >> reporter: still, at the party, said tom, she seemed allo right. they got on fine, until the argument about the marijuana. tom admitted he was furious at ashley's family. said he was trying to protect her -- and they weren't. >> i told ashley. i was like, you don't need to get high. i was like, if whatever happened today with the miscarriage, i was like it happened, i was like you know what [ bleep ] your mom, [ bleep ] everybody. >> reporter: so there was no love lost between tom and ashley's paren

tom fuentes, evan perez, our justice correspondent says law enforcement sources say it's a ar-15 style firearm used in this mass shooting, at least 16 people now dead according to our sources. the atf is tracing the firearm. talk a little more about this. >> a standard ar-15 has normally a 20-inch barrel. the cost is between $800 and $2500. the 223 round which has a speed of over 2,000 feet per second when it's shot, so it's a horrific round, is the same caliber bullet that the military has in an m-16. a standard capacity would be about a 30-round magazine. some are longer and more compact but standard is 30 rounds, single fire. so as quick as you can pull the trigger you can be shooting. with a 20-inch barrel you're going to have a fair amount of accuracy. that's why you'll see not just sprayed bullets like from a pistol but pretty accurate fire into the individual victims. that's what makes this weapon so dangerous. it's a military assault-type rifle. >> how many rounds can you shoot before you need to reload? >> if you have a standard magazine, it's 30 at a time. you fire 30 rounds,

his parents tom and kate evans want to take their son to italy where a doctor has agreed to treat himanything we carried. it was like a euro millions lottery win, having a child like daisy. she was born very prematurely. just before christmas in 2004. not long afterwards, she was diagnosed with costello syndrome and we were told that was a life—limiting condition. the doctors couldn't tell us how long she would live for, but we knew she wouldn't live until adulthood. it was clear, as the years went on, that she clearly had a very extreme form of the syndrome and was clearly quite unwell. she was in a hospice for many years. with children's hospices, she was referred to the hospice when she was six months old. the hospice provides respite care. it's very different to adult services. they were very much showing the path with us, are community nurses came out and helped with some of the medical interventions. she would go there and she would have respite stays. and what she called sleepovers. we were able to have some family time there. we also knew the reason we had been referred to the

evan, stand by. i want to bring in our correspondent tom foremen to brake down some of this a bit further. tom, let's start from the very beginning when they first applied for this warrant in the investigation of russian influence in the election. update us on that. >> this is a situation where really what matters here is in the investigation of the russia influence, carter page became a flashpoint. not because this one-time trump adviser had long ties to russia, nor because he traveled there during the campaign. we know that's true. but because some republicans claim the justice department improperly used a fisa court to get permission to wiretap page. that's what this memo is all about. fisa stands for foreign intelligence surveillance act. fisa courts are where investigators can ask a judge for legal permission to spy on a person on american soil if, after further review, they show probable cause the target is a foreign agent or may be. by some accounts the swrus department did just that. basically what they did, they went and applied to the fisa court. paperwork had been approved at th

evan, what do we know and how did this come about? >> reporter: we've been waiting for this the last week or so. rick gates and his attorney tom green have been in talks with the special counsel trying to reach an agreement. we heard multiple times that they were close to an agreement and that they fell apart. as recently as yesterday, some of rick gates' own family and friends were encouraging him to keep fighting, but now we're told that there is -- they've reached a deal with the special counsel for him to plead guilty to criminal charges. we don't know the details of what exactly he's going to plead to and what exactly are the terms, but this is a big deal for the government. with rick gates on their side now, with him pleading guilty, he's expected to help in their case against paul manafort. as you alluded to earlier, yesterday the government added 32 counts and charges that were filed across the river in alexandria, virginia. that's in addition to 12 counts that were filed in october here at this courthouse here in washington. so now you have two cases against paul manafort and rick gates. we expect that as soon as late

tom burridge, bbc news. the high court judge the high courtjudge has ruled that doctors can stop providing life—support treatment to 21—month—old alfie evanscatastrophic and unreadable. the judge said at this point the best step for the hospital would be to withdraw life support and move alfie to palliative care which is against his parents‘ wishes. they wanted him to be transferred to a hospital in rome links to the vatican but the judge pointed out there was a real risk he could die travelling to the hospital and that would not be the right way forward. alfie suffers from a degenerative neurological disease but that has never been officially diagnosed so doctors are still do not really know exactly what is wrong with him. they say this condition will ultimately be fatal and at this point he is only being kept alive by a ventilator. thank you. we will take you now to the house of commons whether there is a statement about the political situation at stormont. a number of challenging decisions will have to be taken. ultimately that is the responsibility of good governance and public services. as the head of the northern ireland civil servic