Good morning. Also this Morning Police and air accident investigators try and find out why two aircraft collided, leaving four people dead. 90 mp5 say patients in the Health Service in england are being failed by the system as they ask the Prime Ministerfor a cross party solution. In sport, the man who took wales to the semi finals of the euros has stepped down Chris Coleman has gone to manage the championships bottom side, sunderland. Jools holland has duetted with some of the biggest names in the business now hes back with a new double act. Hell be here withJose Feliciano. And philip has the weather. A bit of everything in the weekends forecasts. The bulk of the sunshine will be found over northern parts for saturday, cloud for more southern areas, more details in a couple of minutes. See you then. Jubilant scenes on the streets of zimbabwe where people are protesting against the president Robert Mugabe. State media has confirmed that eight out of ten regional branches of the governi
Grand slam quarter final, where hell take on the third seed, bulgarian grigor dimitrov. And in a bbc news special, the french president Emmanuel Macron talks to andrew marr about brexit and frances relationship with the uk. Thats at half past eight. Good evening. The authorities in afghanistan now say that m foreigners and four Afghan Nationals were killed in an attack on an International Hotel in the capital kabul. After heavy fighting that lasted 12 hours, Afghan Special forces took control of the intercontinental hotel, killing the gunmen who stormed it yesterday evening. More than 150 people managed to escape, or were rescued. The taliban says it carried out the attack. Our correspondent Zia Shahreyar reports from kabul. Explosion. The final moments of a fight that had lasted all night. Gunfire. Gunfire and explosions, as Afghan Special forces battle to regain control of the intercontinental hotel. One soldier throws a grenade. He moves away, then the explosion. Explosion. The room
And in a bbc news special, the french president Emmanuel Macron talks to andrew marr about brexit and frances relationship with the uk. hats at 11. 30. Good morning and welcome to bbc news. Afghan Security Forces have seized control of a luxury hotel in kabul, 12 hours after it was stormed by militants. Fierce battles raged through the night as special forces fought the gunmen as they moved around the six storey Intercontinental Hotel. Six civilians were killed, as were all the militants. 160 guests and staff were rescued, including 41 foreigners. The taliban has now claimed responsibility for the attack. Andrew plant reports. The Intercontinental Hotel in kabul at dawn on sunday morning, blackened and smoking after an 11 hour siege that has seen at least five People Killed and several more wounded. The shooting started after nightfall on saturday, several gunmen armed with grenades and automatic weapons. Translation at first, i heard some gunfire and then, after 15 minutes, a worker f
The European Commission has been widely criticised for its slow rollout of vaccination programmes (Image: GETTY)
One EU official told Ms Adler: It s like watching a car crash in slow motion. President von der Leyen is a medical doctor. She wanted to take over the mass purchase of vaccines for all the EU - as a high-profile exercise. Normally health issues are dealt with nationally. This hasn t been a great advertisement for handing over powers to Brussels. I think that s the lesson member states will take away from this.
This comes amid news that German Chancellor Angela Merkel will hold crisis talks with pharmaceutical executives, regional German leaders and European Commission officials later today.
This comes as the Met Office warned that as much as 40cm of snow could fall in some parts of Scotland on Wednesday.
Ms Kirkwood explained: Throughout this week there will be more rain and snow, some of that will be significant snow particularly so across Scotland. Talking about being cool, the temperature is as low as -10.1C in Scotland right now, so across parts of Scotland and England it is a cold start, a frosty start, and there is a risk of ice.
The Met Office confirmed that overnight minimum temperatures reached as low as -13C in Braemar, Scotland.