Good afternoon. Demonstrations are taking place across the uk in protest at Boris Johnsons decision to suspend parliament for five weeks in the run up to brexit. The government insists its acting properly, but critics say its an attempt to by pass democracy. Tens of thousands have taken to the streets from sheffield to swansea, belfast to london. Heres our home editor, mark easton. We will shut down the streets calls for direct action from protesters outside downing street. Several thousand people gathered in whitehall, many to voice their opposition to borisjohnsons move to shut down parliament ahead of britains scheduled exit from the European Union on october 31. Stop brexit the crowds were diverse, cutting across class, age, ethnicity and Traditional Party politics. Todays protest is a reminder of how arguments over brexit represent a reshaping of political discourse in britain. Bankers and corporations. Who get richer while the workers get poorer. As well as london, there were sim
Hello and welcome to bbc news. Five people have been shot dead and 21 others injured after a gunman opened fire from a vehicle in the us state of texas. It happened on a road between the towns of midland and odessa. The gunman has been shot dead by the police. Our north america correspondent peter bowes has this update. The latest information is that the Police Believe although it is not definitely confirmed, but they believe that this gunmam was acting alone. Since he was tackled and killed by the police, there have been no further reports of shooting. At one stage, there was concern, in fact, many reports that there could be a number of gunmen responsible for what was happening. It seemed like multiple shootings over quite a wide area. It seems now it may simply have been the work of this one gunman, and the police are stressing that this information that they are giving us could still change. Its a fluid situation, they are still checking out reports and making sure that the area is
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an eyesore and an expensive problem fly tipping. it happened more than a million times in england last year but what can be done to stop it? a five goal thriller in the fa cup, with nottingham forest needing extra time to see off league one blackpool in their third round replay. good morning. further heavy snow to come across northern scotland today with blizzards and also drifting. across northern ireland, uk will see snow showers as we well across some of our coasts. in between, there will be sunshine. all of the details later on in the programme. it s thursday, 18th january, our main story. the prime minister has succeeded in getting his key rwanda bill through the house of commons, after a conservative rebellion failed to materialise. it s been called a major step forward in the government s plan to stop migrant boats crossing the channel. 0ur political correspondent peter saull has more. the ayes to the right 320, the noes to the left, 276. a government victory in th