in sport today, delight for scottish side darvel. how the sixth tier side upset all the odds to knock out premiership side aberdeen in what s being called the biggest upset in scottish cup history. 0k, set, and. . .action. and it s one of the biggest hits of the year so far. we go behind the scenes with star of happy valleyjames norton. there s an energy about tommy. there s a kind of animal, vital and unstoppable kind of force. and so when he s allowed to let rip, like he was yesterday, it s so fun. good morning. the northwest, southeast split in the weather once again today. the north and the west and cloudy with some patchy rain, and cloudy with some patchy rain, and the south has patchy fog and frost. it s tuesday 24th january. failings by the probation service left a serial offender free to commit murder, just days after he was released from prison, according to a damning watchdog report. the chief inspector of probation said a catalogue of errors led tojordan mcsweene
to south africa. and britain s prime minister orders an investigation into how the chairman of the governing conservative party settled a multi million dollar tax dispute. let s start with the war in ukraine. eu foreign ministers have been meeting in brussels amid an ongoing row about whether to send tanks. member countries are putting pressure on germany to provide some of its leopard two tanks, to help fight off russia s invasion. estonia s foreign minister has been at those talks in brussels he s been speaking to the bbc. decisions need to be implemented and the decisions need to be done and there is a moment of leadership which needs to be created. and my strong message is indeed, to all countries, who have weapons and stockpiles to give them immediately without any political caveats or any further considerations or hesitance of the russian s reaction. so let s take a closer look at germany s role in all this. the leopard 2 is operated by about 20 countries worldwide
everything, to investigate the matter everything, to investigate the matter fully. but labour says mr zahawi s position is untenable and he should be sacked immediately. also tonight. the choice of richard sharp as chairman of the bbc is to be investigated following allegations that he helped organise a loan for borisjohnson shortly before his appointment. alexa, kitchen lights alexa, kitchen li-hts off. alexa, kitchen lights off. a scheme that pays households in england, wales and scotland to cut their electricity use in exchange for discounts on their bills has gone live for the first time. deux, trois, quatre, cinq. and coming up on the bbc news channel: everton s managerial merry go round continues frank lampard is sacked after less than a year in charge of the toffees. good evening. there are clearly questions that need answering about nahim zahawi s conduct. that s the prime minister s view about the colleague he appointed as chairman of the conservative party an
of a blackmail plot. the midfielder, who left united forjuventus this summer, claims he s being targeted by an organised gang. it comes after his brother posted a video online in which he promised to publish great revelations about the player. french police are investigating. gibraltar can officially call itself a city, 180 years after it was first granted the status by queen victoria. the british overseas territory had bid to become a city earlier this year as part of the queen s platinum jubilee. but when researchers looked through the national archives, they found it had already been recognised as one in 1842. i m joined now by the head of the government, chief minister of gibraltar, fabian picardo. welcome, thank you forjoining us. this is an extraordinary turnabout in events? it this is an extraordinary turnabout in events? , ., , ., this is an extraordinary turnabout inevents? , ., , ., ., , in events? it is really not anything new. the gibraltar in events? it is re
the status by queen victoria. good afternoon. nasa is to launch a new era of moon exploration. later today the most powerful rocket it s ever built will blast off from the kennedy space center in florida. the artemis test flight will orbit the moon and it s hoped will help pave the way for a crewed mission to the lunar surface in three years. our science editor, rebecca morelle reports. it s almost time. standing on launch pad 39b, the same one used by the apollo missions, the most powerful rocket nasa has ever built is ready for liftoff. the rocket is simply enormous. and it s only when you re standing here that you really get a sense of its size. and this is the last chance we ll see it up close. the launch pad is closing and fuelling is about to begin. because in just a few hours time, this will be blasting off. the first step in our return to the moon for 50 years. we talk about moonshots as things that humans can do when we put our differences aside and we focus on the