live from london, this is bbc news. israel launches airstrikes on gaza and lebanon, calling it retaliation for several dozen hamas rockets fired at israel. northern ireland on high alert police warn republicans could provoke violence as the country marks 25 years of the good friday agreement. as emmanuel macron and ursula von der leyen wrap up their trip to china, have they got what they wanted from xi jinping? hello and welcome. let s get more on passengers travelling through dover being warned they ll face delays, as millions of travellers are expected to make the crossing between france and the uk this weekend. contingency plans have been put in place to avoid a repeat of last week, which saw drivers waiting more than 1a hours. earlier i spoke to our correspondent simonjones, who started by telling us how things are looking in dover. it s already very busy this morning at the port of dover. we re told traffic turning up at the moment will face a wait of around 90 minutes
for the coach industry to change their itineraries, but i m very pleased with the results of that so far. today, we re processing really well. we ve opened up a new facility for coaches, an additional one, and that s been fully operational during the day and the coaches have been travelling through there well. it s a busy day for cars though as well, with about 4,800 scheduled to go through the port. we re probably about half way through our busy period now for the cars, which is, and the coaches, which is from about 10:00 this morning through to through to about two in the afternoon is where we ll get the busiest. so is there much delay, then, for either coach or car passengers? right now, it s taking probably between 60 and 90 minutes to get through border controls once you re here in the port. we do have our freight traffic backed up a bit. but as soon as the tourist traffic starts to die down, in about an hour, an hour and a half, we ll start to be bringing more freight t
in the last few days but still some showers interspersed with sunshine. you can see where those showers have been congregating scotland and east anglia and the midlands. through the rest of the afternoon some heavy showers across the eastern side of england remaining. feeling warmer than yesterday in the mid to high teens. much of the showers fade away leaving clear skies for many some patchy rain in the far west of northern ireland and through parts of eastern england and south east england. temperatures dropping down to as low as three or 4 degrees overnight in some places. the moral dominating much of the uk. still some outbreaks of rain through northern ireland. plenty of sunshine to start from any tomorrow. that will fade through parts of western scotland and northern ireland as the rain pushes east. most of us having a dry day and warmer across england and wales with temperatures getting up and wales with temperatures getting up to 21 degrees. at thejubilee weekend it w
With two days to the election, Younger Voters have been sharing their views on security, housing and the future of the nhs. At 11pm, well take a look at tomorrow mornings front pages, including the daily telegraph, which says the third named london attacker, Youseff Zaghba, was on an International Watch list of suspected terrorists. Well bring you the political leaders in Northern Ireland debating with each other, in front of a studio audience. Good evening and welcome to bbc news. All three men who carried out the Terror Attack at London Bridge have now been named. During the day the Prime Minister announced that a review would be undertaken by police and mi5, following concerns that previous warnings about two of the attackers had not been followed up. The third attacker was named as 22 year old youssef zaghba, an Italian National of moroccan descent. The italian Authorities Say he was stopped from travelling to syria last year, and his name was shared with the british authorities. A