at the next election. and coming up at 8.30 who are sport s environmental champions? a special programme from the inaugural bbc green sports awards. good evening and welcome to bbc news. police in the republic of ireland have named the ten people who were killed by an explosion at a petrol station in a village in county donegal. the victims include a 39 year old woman and her 13 year old son, and 50 year old man and his five year old daughter. police also confirmed that a man in his 20s remains in hospital in a critical condition. seven other people who were injured in the explosion are still being treated in hospital and remain in a stable condition. our ireland correspondent, chris page has been at the scene. this has been a day when this community has been contemplating the scale of the losses that occurred here in a split second on friday afternoon. as you could see behind me the petrol station where the explosion happened is less busy, they are now just two there are
as inflation continues to leave us worse off, we speak with the businesses struggling with rising costs and recruitment. how andy s conjured some of that old murray magic in his opening match of the australian open. good morning. once again it is a cold and frosty start. the risk of ice on untreated surfaces. but for many it will be dry with winter sunshine. however, there is snow in the forecast. i will tell you where later. people say, television in the morning? that s disgusting. a disgusting idea! what is happening in this country? people even used the word immoral. but we re still here a0 years later! we re celebrating a special birthday on the programme this morning, good morning. it s tuesday, the 17th january. the metropolitan police force is investigating a thousand allegations of abuse involving around 800 of its officers. it comes after pc david carrick pleaded guilty to 49 offences, including dozens of rapes the worst ever case of a serving police officer. met
translation: to be with its own | people to be with it s motherland. meanwhile an attack on a civilian convoy in one of the four annexed regions, zaporizhzhia, leaves at least 23 people dead. a bbc investigation has found big regional differences in the number of fines issued to parents whose children missed school in england without a valid reason. some local authorities handed out thousands of fines in the last academic year, in other areas there were none. when we sign up to train with the dogs we know one day this day is coming. saying good bye to sammy, the story of a retiring guide dog and how hard it is to get another one. and coming up later in the hour viola davis the are among an all star cast in the women king. find out what mark kermode thinks of that and the rest of this week s big cinema releases in the film review at 5:45. a coroner has found that unsafe content on social media platforms her own life five years ago. the inquest into molly s death had heard she
meanwhile, an attack on ukraine s zaporizhzhia region leaves at least 23 people dead. a mounting death toll in florida after hurricane ian, president biden says it could be deadliest storm ever to hit the state. and saying good bye to sammy the story of a retiring guide dog good afternoon. welcome to bbc news. let us go back to moscow, where we have been listening to president vladimir putin officially, in his view, agreeing to the annexation and signing in the annexation of four regions of ukraine. this follows so called referendums that have been held in those four regions. in the east were talking about dunne esque in law hunts, donetsk and lou hanscombe dott. luhansk, hanscombe dott. lu ha nsk, zaporizhzhia. hanscombe dott. luhansk, zaporizhzhia. these areas supposedly wanting to rejoin russia. i think we might have some pictures of these signing ceremony, which took place in the kremlin in front of members of president putin s government. as you can see there, a
few spots of rain left over here and towards the north west of the uk the weather is beginning to deteriorate. another band of rain starts to move its way and across scotland and you can see the rain working into western counties of northern ireland right now and that rain will continue to edge its way in over the next few hours but that still leaves large areas of wales, the north midlands, northern england, eastern scotland, with glorious weather and plenty of sunshine and for many of you it continues to be pretty mild. temperatures 14 17 for england and wales, about 12 13 for scotland and northern ireland, temperatures a bit closer to average for the time of year. overnight quite a bit of cloud, a few mist and fog patches, a few patches of light rain and drizzle here and there as well but not desperately cold, temperature is about 9 12. tomorrow, a changeable kind of weather day. this is a band of rain, cold front, that will be bringing wet weather across northern ireland,