Temperatures will be rising in the southwest, still quite a chilly one from the north and the east. So for boxing day, a band of wet and windy weather coming to our shores. But as it arrives, the milder air also arrives, turning very mild towards the end of the week. Hello this is bbc news with clive myrie. The headlines. A nine year old british girl, her 16 year old brother, and their father have died after drowning in a Swimming Pool at a Holiday Resort in the costa del sol. Prince philip is discharged from hospital after four days. The duke is now spending christmas with the queen in sandringham. The queen will use her Christmas Day message to say the past year has been quite bumpy adding that small steps can heal divisions. Now, take a front row seat as film critic mark kermode takes a look back at the big releases of the year in review 2019 the year in film. Hi, im mark kermode. Were here at the Cinema Museum in south london. Over the next half an hour, ill be looking back at some
At the best films of the year. Films from around the world from spectacular blockbusters to hidden arthouse gems. Thats all in review 2019 the year in film with me, mark kermode. Good evening, and welcome to bbc news. A british man and his two children have died after drowning in a Swimming Pool at a Holiday Resort in the costa del sol. Its believed a nine Year Old Girl got into difficulties in the water and her brother and father attempted to rescue her, but also drowned. Our correspondentjon donnison has more details. Whats the very latest we know about this . Well this happened at a resort at the tears also, a very popular. The owner is saying that three people were found unresponsive in that Swimming Pool. No Emergency Services attended and tried to save them, but they couldnt. The dead a nine Year Old Girl, a teenage boy of we think about 16, and we understand that the father and daughter are british citizens, the teenage boy is an american. We are just showing some pictures now t
This is a story about stubbornness and ingenuity, and yes, about speed, too. It is the story of a quest to design and build the worlds fastest car, and then to find a place flat enough, long enough, to actually drive it. There are not many spots on this particular planet suitable for racing faster than the speed of sound. You cant just pick a straight stretch of road. At 500, 700, 900 miles an hour, the wheels would rip apart mere tarmac, which is why we have come to a remote corner of south africa, close to the borders of botswana and namibia, to a place called the hakskeen pan, on the southern edge of the giant kalahari desert. So here we are, we have come to the hakskeen pan. Beautiful, flat, miles and miles of dried mud, this lake bed, surrounded by these low, dark, red brown hills. A stunningly beautiful place. We are 800 metres above sea level here, a lake bed of mud and salt that floods briefly, once every year or two, and those white tents on the lake edge, well, think of them
Were expecting to hear from the Prime Minister shortly outside number ten. Labour performed poorly, losing 59 seats, many of them in places theyve held for decades. Jeremy corbyn says hell stand down as leader early next year. I think the responsible thing to do is not to walk away from the whole thing, and i wont do that. I will stay here until there has been somebody elected to succeed me and then i will step down at that point. A strong result for the snp, who now hold 48 seats out of 59 in scotland. Leader Nicola Sturgeon says it sends a clear message for a second independence referendum. Liberal democrat leaderjo swinson quits, after she loses her own seat to the snp and the party fails to improve its position at westminster. Iam i am proud to have been the first woman to lead the liberal democrats. Iam even woman to lead the liberal democrats. I am even more proud that i will not be the last. We will go original this hour, looking at the West Midlands, where the tories had a good
To europe for a Climate Summit Scientists Say the last decade looks set to be the hottest on record. British pupils rise up an International League table for education, but teenagers here arent nearly as happy as those elsewhere. And coming up on bbc news, its been described as possibly the worst ever drop in test cricket joe denlys mistake, as england lose the test series in new zealand. Good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. Donald trump is not usually short of an opinion or two, but hes arrived in london promising not to get involved in our election. The president is here for a nato meeting but it wasnt long before he was asked whether the nhs would be on the table in any future trade talks with britain. He insisted he didnt want anything to do with it, but that hasnt stopped the argument between the major parties. In a moment, our Diplomatic Correspondent James Robbins will have more on the nato meeting, but first our chief Political Correspondent vicki young looks at how