On the campaign as the Party Leaders focus on their target seats in the last few days. Also tonight. British citizens are among eight people missing after a volcano erupted off the coast of new zealand five people have died. Joseph mccann, who carried out a series of sex attacks, is sentenced to 33 life sentences thejudge says he will always be a danger to society. Russia is banned again from all major Sports Events for doping this time forfour years. And one of the last surviving raf pilots who fought the luftwaffe in the skies during the battle of britain has died at the age of 101. And coming up on sportsday on bbc news. All the reaction from the london stadium, where arsenal were hoping to bring an end to their nine game run without a win. Good evening. With just three days to polling day, the state of the nhs is once again dominating the election campaign. Borisjohnson has been criticised after initially refusing to look at an image of a four year old boy with suspected pneumonia
2019 the media year. Good evening, and welcome to bbc news. We start with breaking news and three members of the same family, reported to be british, have drowned in a Swimming Pool at a spanish resort in the costa del sol. Our correspondentjon donnison is here with more details. What more do we know about this . Tragic story, it seems. This happened as a resort thats very popular with british families on the costa del sol. The resort says that three members of the same family we re three members of the same family were found unresponsive in a Swimming Pool, the Emergency Services attended but they were unable to save them. It has been reported it was a nine year old girl, a teenage boy, and their father. Any idea as to the circumstances regarding how they couldve ended up like this . No, there is a question as to whether one of them perhaps got into difficulty first, thats been reported by some of the papers, that the young girl may be gone to difficulties and the other two went into
Now on bbc news, a special programme from the team at our world. In lapland, temperatures are rising faster than anywhere else in the world, threatening the livelihood of its indigenous sami people. Erika benke has been to arctic finland to hear from sami women about their fears for the future. Lapland is europes great last wilderness. It stretches across norway, sweden, finland and russia, north of the arctic circle. The far north of finland is the home of the sami, europes only indigenous people, who still live off the land. But the life of the sami people is changing. Climate change is affecting the arctic more than any other part of the earth. You cant rely on that you know how nature acts or how animals act because everything seems to be changing. The melting ice is opening up opportunities for shipping routes and there is talk of a new railway. Its the Worst Nightmare we are facing at the moment. Which could threaten the sami peoples way of life. How can you put a price target fo
We pulled it off. We broke the deadlock, we ended the gridlock, we smashed the road block. The Prime Minister is now inside number 10 having pledged to earn the support of people who in his words may have lent him their vote. An awful night for labour losing 59 seats many of them in places the party has held for decades. Jeremy corbyn said the results were very disappointing. I want to also make it clear that i will not lead the party in any future general Election Campaign. I will discuss with our party, to ensure there is a process now of reflection. Borisjohnson pledges to work day and night to retain the support of labour voters who deserted Jeremy Corbyn as labour suffered its worst defeat since the dark days of michael foot. Jo liberal democrat leader jo swinson has quit after she loses her own seat to the snp and the party fails to improve its position at westminster. For millions of people in our country, these results will bring dread and dismay and people are looking for hope
For the yuletide celebrations. And later in the programme, private eyes editor ian hislopjoins the bbcs media editor amol rajan to look back on a fascinating year of front covers, cartoons and satire. Good evening and welcome to bbc news. A british man and his two children have died after drowning in a Swimming Pool at a resort in the Costa Del Sol. They were on holiday at Club La Costa world when its believed a 9 Year Old Girl got into difficulties in the water and her brother and father attempted to rescue her, but also drowned. Our correspondentjon donnison is with us now. We are getting a much clearer picture now of what happened. This was a big resort in fuengirola. We are getting some pictures, there we re are getting some pictures, there were several villas on this resort. The company that run it, Club La Costa world, they are saying that these three members of the same family were found unresponsive in the Swimming Pool. The Emergency Services tried to revive them, they we re s