hello, i m christian fraser. you re watching the context on bbc news. a late morning commute with a twist rail passengers in newjersey are delayed due to a bull on the tracks. just a couple of lines of breaking news. we have just heard from the la department of medical examiner that the friends star matthew perry s death has been ruled an accident from the effects of kata mean. you will remember his body was recovered from the jacuzzi in his la home. the examiners are saying that he was suffering acute effects of ketamine. he long talked about his drug problems and addiction, very open about that. we heard from some of his co actors on friends, they said they d spoken to him in the morning he died and he was in fairly good spirits. so something obviously went wrong between that moment and when he was found the next day. and he seemed to have ketamine in his system. and from the bbc, question of sport which has been running for 53 years has been axed due to funding challenge
arsenal are going to nick it by one goal. it was city who struck 1st. kevin de bruyne pouncing. then in errorfrom edelson and arsenal the penalty for the fans desperate for an intervention. but bukayo saka didn t need it. prayers answered. the second saw city take charge. setting up a translate jack grealish. and they are talisman erling haaland made sure of the win. it finished a convincing 3 1 sending manchester city to the top of the sending city to the top of the read and arsenal questioning their title chances. chelsea have still only won once in 2023 after losing the first leg of their champions league last 16 tie at borussia dortmund. despite having a host of chances in germany, chelsea were beaten by karim adeyemi s solo effort on the counter, getting the better of new record signing enzo fernandez as graham potter s side failed to win for the fourth game in a row. the second leg is next month. there was only one english side involved in the champions league tonight,
well, they will, because nicola sturgeon will be remembered as one of the most successful politicians of the most successful politicians of her generation in terms of what she delivered at the ballot box, a string of landslide victories for the snp, and if you take a step back to see where she came from, she talked about the 1980s, growing up in ayrshire, and it could have been pretty lonely in those days to campaign for scottish independence when labour was dominant in scottish politics. to go from there all the way to a scottish parliament and to run the government here for eight years is no small achievement, to say the least. but she has always beenin say the least. but she has always been in politics for one thing above all, and she has not delivered to scottish independence, which leaves her successor with big challenges. first of all, immediately on the issue of gender, what to do about westminster blocking the bill that was passed to try to make it easy to legally cha
most right wing government since world war ii. a man has died after a fire in a block of flats in bristol. eight other people are currently being treated in hospital while authorities try to find alternative accomadation for residents. hurricane fiona slams into canada s eastern coast with heavy rains and huge waves washing away homes and cutting power to tens of thousands of people. there are warnings of a potential threat to life and property as super typhoon noru makes landfall in the philippines with forecasted winds of up to 200 kilometres an hour. good afternoon. sir keir starmer has said a future labour government would reinstate the 45% top rate of tax which the tories have announced they re cutting, but keep the 1p cut in basic rate tax also proposed by the conservatives. as the labour party conference got under way sir keir said the party would take a very different approach to economic growth. he dismissed the government s strategy, announced on friday, of cutting