ferdinand bongbong marcos jr, son of the late dictator ferdinand marcos, is set to be sworn in as president of the philippines. and novak djokovic cruises into the third round at wimbledon, but it s the end of the road for britain s andy murray, and emma raducanu is also out of the tournament. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. a french court has concluded the country s longest ever trial for the 2015 terror attacks by handing down prison sentences to 20 men. an islamist gang killed 130 people in paris in 2015. they targeted the bataclan concert hall, the national football stadium, bars and restaurants. the only gang member to survive the night, salah abdeslam, was handed a rare whole life sentence. mark lobel reports. guilty. facing a full life prison term, france s most severe penalty for criminals, the only survivor behind the gun and bomb attacks that killed 130 people in the biggest trial in modern french history following the country s wors
the only survivor behind the gun and bomb attacks that killed 130 people in the biggest trial in modern french history following the country s worst peacetime attack. it shook paris to its core in november 2015. as well as those killed, hundreds were injured during horrendous attacks on bars, restaurants, the national football stadium and the bataclan music venue. arrested in brussels four months after the attacks, salah abdeslam said he was a soldier of the so called islamic state group, but later apologised to victims and claimed he decided not to detonate his suicide vest on the night of the attack. but the court accepted evidence that the suicide vest was, infact, defective and there was no last minute change of heart. their full life sentence now leaves him only a small chance of parole after 30 years. the court convicted all 20 men put on trial, 19 of them on terrorism charges. the rulings can be appealed. translation: i m satisfied with the sentence and i think that
A moment. Things coming down through the day on friday, windy for a time across southern england. The main petering out and skies brightening up petering out and skies brightening upa petering out and skies brightening up a touch. But the area of low pressure, it is now closer to the uk and starting to arrive on saturday. A big area of low pressure bringing in strengthening wind and rain. The strongest when developing close to the south west across southern england, into west wales. Up to 50, 60 miles an hour. And some big waves in the south west as well. More showers around on sunday and temperatures a little bit lower. This is the weekend then and the area of low pressure, it is not a hurricane, were going to find strong to gale force winds, and it could be quite hazardous alongside some of the coasts particularly in the south west. Expect to get wet now and again, everything moving on fairly quickly because of the strength of the wind, but not a particularly promising weekend ahead.
Author, George Saunders, whos won the man booker prize for his novel lincoln in the bardo. Good morning. Its wednesday, the 18th october. Im annita mcveigh. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. The performance of hospitals has slumped across the uk with targets for cancer, a e, and planned operations now being widely missed, according to bbc research. Nationally england, wales and Northern Ireland have not hit one of their three key targets for 18 months. Only scotland has hit one of the targets. The findings are revealed as the bbc launches its online nhs tracker project, which allows people to see how their local service is performing on three key waiting time targets being seen within four hours in a e, cancer care beginning within 62 days of diagnosis, and planned operations taking place within 18 weeks in england and scotland. The target wait time is different in wales and Northern Ireland. To tell us more, were joined from nottingham by our Health Correspondent in the east midlands, rob
The Football Association has apologised to two female england players who were found to have been discriminated against by coach mark sampson. Im a human being, ifeel relieved it suggests that it was all worth it to go through the trouble to now have that vindicated. As concerns grow for hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Refugees who have fled violence in myanmar well have the latest from neighbouring bangladesh. And well be talking to the cia official who interrogated the former iraqi leader Saddam Hussein after his capture in 2003. Its 5 oclock. Our main story is that ministers have been forced to abandon charges for calling a helpline about the new universal Credit System after strong criticism from campaigners and mp5. The calls, often made by people in financial difficulty and facing long waits for the new benefit payment, currently cost up to 55 pence a minute. The announcement was made ahead of a commons debate about the implementation of universal credit, which labour says shou