a hearty good evening to you how long it warms last Christmas of course kicks off here in the late show with me Russell the late night friend of a fresh week his hey if you and I with a whole bunch of stuff I have to stuff is the best word for it because it s it s you know ovarian quality is that something that is of extremely high quality and I m really looking forward to this tonight we begin a new story though b.b.c. Look Norths looks me go pal reading a Christmas carol. In a wood base she was brilliant doing the a growl and poke bait over so we thought we d have a back in for Christmas and that the 1st week lies ahead of us and it ll take has through the Christmas week itself one of the classics for the ages if you don t know the story you re in for right treat if you do all of the hit series it either dope or houses. She has some really good voice work as well so it looks me is going to be reading that and the 1st episode in a matter of minutes. In the notes and. I must say hi t
That. Is. Our. RINGBACK Interests b.b.c. Radio Manchester b.b.c. Radio one to share with us. And welcome to the program if you ve just joined us here on b.b.c. Radio Manchester and b.b.c. Radio Lancashire with me tell it for a koala now in India this weekend there have been more violent demonstrations after a new citizenship bill passed through parliament the ruling government has said it is designed to give sanctuary to people in neighboring countries who are feeling persecuted critics say it s an attack on the human rights of India s 200000000 strong Muslim communities well to discuss this further I m joined on the line by Dr Ronan Li He s a visiting scholar at the international state crime initiative which is based at Queen Mary University of London and welcome to the program. So Ronan this is an interesting one it s quite a complicated story so what does the citizenship bill actually say. Well in essence what these changes do are they relaxed the rules for citizenship for some peo
With Brussels by the end of next year the former Conservative turned Independent m.p. Dominic Grieve is I m sure Mr Johnson will find Brix it that easy the prime minister has a much working majority to do anything he likes but what does get me and it getting done means that diminution in the living standards of the Britain finding itself internationally isolated Hi Will people respond to that both Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell have apologised for Labour s defeat in the general election which saw the party lose $59.00 seats the shadow chancellor said he accepted responsibility but also suggested media coverage played a part the Wigan m.p. Lisa Nandy told the B.B.C. s Andrew Barr she was contemplating entering the race to succeed Mr Corbin early next year the labor m.p. Stephen Kinnock indorsed her saying she understood how to lead the party forward when you look at what Lisa s position has been on the 2nd referendum and the way in which she talks very convincingly about labor needin
Their faith remembrance of the day was held it s a rainy solemn day here at Newtown Congregational Church the names of the 20 children and 6 adults killed on December 14th 2012 were read aloud this morning as a bell chimed After each name Newtown resident leash will came to the service it still feels pretty raw to be honest with you I don t think there s a day that goes by always for me where I don t think about the events some people wore shades of green one of the school s colors that has come to represent unity and promise within the community for n.p.r. News I m Brian Lindsay in Newtown. A state of emergency has been declared in New Orleans as officials deal with a cyber attack phishing attempts and suspicious activity were discovered in the city s network yesterday morning prompting the city to power down servers and computers as a precaution officials say ransomware was detected but so far no ransom has been demanded New Orleans mayor Latoya Cantrell we are in recovery mode ther
Passengers are being advised to check before they travel as from tomorrow many train times are changing Robert Nisbet from the rail delivery group told us they had learned lessons from what happened in 2018 obviously we learned our lessons from what happened last year it didn t go well it went very badly we ve learned our lessons and we put together like a task force an assurance task force looking at punctuality and reliability if we think that services could could dent that in any way where pulling them out police in New Zealand say divers have regime searching the waters near White Island volcano in an effort to retrieve 2 remaining bodies 16 people are believed to have died in Monday s eruption from Sydney Film ports police and Navy divers have resumed their search for a body seen in the sea off New Zealand s White Island the day after the eruption the all far to say they re facing unique and challenging conditions another victim is thought to be near the crater but recovery teams