The police ban on protests by the Climate Group Extinction Rebellion across london last month, is ruled unlawful in the high court. Nicola adams has announced her retirement. And the weather. We have been looking at the latest climate statistics. And also the forecast over the next few days with particularly heavy rain for england and north wales. Thanks, chris. Also coming up anger as firefighters responding to an out of control bonfire are attacked by a gang of young people throwing fireworks. Idid not i did not define what young actually meant there. We will talk about that later on. Hello, everyone this is afternoon live. Its not what anyone would want minutes before they launch their Election Campaign. As borisjohnson prepared to address voters from downing street the news that a cabinet minister was resigning. Welsh secretary alun cairns quit following claims he knew about a former aides role in the collapse of a rape trial. Certainly not the best start for a campaign which was l
Children, 100,000 children. And, as sadly so often is the case, children who are on free school meals, the poorest children, and children with special Educational Needs fare the worst in the situation. And excitment builds as the Rugby World Cup gets underway in japan. Good morning. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. Large numbers of british schoolchildren are joining millions of people in a worldwide protest against Climate Change. Around 5,000 demonstrations are planned across 150 countries. Many will involve young people staying away from school, university or work. Those involved are calling for more urgent action from governments to halt global warming. The demonstrations come ahead of a un summit on Climate Change in new york on monday. This was the scene outside westminster where thousands are expected to gather for one of the strikes getting under way shortly. The first protest began in the Pacific Island of vanuatu where rising sea levels threaten communities. In dehli, children an
I will be back with you at 8pm. Now on bbc news, its time for sportsday. Hello and welcome to sportsday, with me holly hamilton and jane dougall. The headlines this evening. The champions Manchester City make a great start to the defence of their title but var is the talking point as two major decisions hinge on the new technology. Aston villa give tottenham a scare but a harry kane double sees spurs take the three points. In the scottish premiership, a ruthless celtic are victorious in a seven goal thriller against motherwell. Also coming up on the programme, ireland comfortably beat italy in their warm up match, but concerns forjoey carbery ahead of the world cup who went off injured. And we meets Nabila Tejpar the british rally champion driving to be the best in the world. Hello and welcome to the programme. Manchester city have certainly laid down a marker in their opening game of the season. The champions thrashed west ham 5 0 at the london stadium. Raheem sterling took centre sta
If you want some in the garden, not necessarily a bad thing. Targeting Northern Ireland and western scotla nd Northern Ireland and western scotland tomorrow with occasionally heavy rain and may be rumbles of thunder, pushing over scotland during the day and into wales and western parts of england and the midlands, but much of Eastern England will remain dry. The further south you might not see much rain at all. Still warm in the hazy sunshine in Eastern England but elsewhere it will feel cooler with the rain and the breeze. The big picture again, wednesday night into thursday, the weather system approaching its way south and it will have some rain across parts of the eastern and south east of england, clearing two sunny spells, and behind that the showers following to Northern Ireland and into scotland, heavy and possibly thundery, baby a few of those reaching towards north west england, may be. Another wet weather system coming our way on friday into friday night and for the weekend a
Fatal crashes that have grounded the 737 max around the world a warm welcome to the Programme Briefing you on all you need to know in global news, business and sport. And you can be part of the conversation a new study shows online usage is growing so we want to know how much time do you spend online and does it worry you . Tell us what you think just use the hashtag bbcthebriefing. A huge rescue effort is underway, after a cruise boat with more than thirty people on board capsized on the river danube in the capital, budapest. At least seven people have been killed and more than a dozen are missing. Gareth barlow has the latest. The incident happened late on wednesday evening on a popular so part of the river close to the hungarian parliament. Local news reports say the boat, the mermaid, was the mermaid, carrying a group of south korean tourists when it collided with another vessel. They found the same boat on the danube river so they found the details in the little parts of the boat.