dozens of people have been hit with legal bills of thousands of pounds after this sheffield law company collapsed, despite signing up on a no win no fee basis. i ll have the details. a new national stadium in the north. that s the vision of this man the new manchester united co owner, sirjim ratcliffe, who ideally wants to knock old trafford down and regenerate the whole area. could this revolving restaurant make a comeback? one of london s most famous landmarks bt tower is being turned into a hotel. good morning. heavy and persistent rain accompanied by gael falls wins meeting across england and wales. for scotland and northern ireland, sunny spells and heavy showers. gale force winds. all of the details later on in the programme. it s thursday, the 22nd of february. the commons speaker, sir lindsay hoyle, is expected to hold talks with party leaders after last night s debate on a call for a ceasefire in gaza descended into chaos. more than 30 mps have signed a moti
an epidemic of drug driving. senior offers say some motorists seem to view drug driving as more acceptable than drink driving. our transport correspondent katy austin reports. 9am on a tuesday morning and merseyside police are out in central liverpool. today, they re particularly looking out for drink and drug driving. officers have been pulling over any vehicles that look like they re unsafe in some way or are being driven in an unsafe manner. and already, within half an hour this morning, they ve made three arrests after positive roadside drug tests. 927. those tests, called drug wipes, indicated the presence of cannabis, that gets them arrested and taken to the station for a forensic blood test. and the result of that dictates whether any further action is taken. how prevalent do you think drug driving actually is? so we ve seen quite a lot, it s really prevalent. over the last few years, we ve seen year on year increases of the number of people that were arrested for dr
is there. good evening to you, gavin. thanks, matthew. fast bowler ollie robinson is back in the england side for the first time since the third ashes test last summer. he s one of two changes for the fourth test against india, which starts tomorrow in ranchi. robinson comes in for mark wood while off spinner shoaib bashir is recalled for leg spinner rehan ahmed. the wicket could cause some problems for batters, with large cracks already appearing. we do like to look at the pitch two days out and one day out because that is how we like to pick our 11. you want to give yourself some idea about what 11 is going to give you the best chance. and looking at that, i think there is going to be assistance to the spin. we get asked a lot about the pitch and we give our opinion. but that doesn t mean that we are going in with too many preconceived ideas. if if it is, we will adapt. if it does do more, then we will adapt to that as well. the celtic and former england goalkeeperjoe hart
the following. he s a cnn special report december 5, 1989? it was a cold night in dresden, east germany and it would change the course of vladimir putin s life the berlin wall had just formed all over east germany angry crowds roamed the streets lashing out at symbols of communist rule that night in dresden they found a target. the local kgb headquarters a mob surrounded the building. as the hour grew later, the crowd grew larger inside, peering through the curtain this was a young kgb lieutenant colonel named vladimir putin he was terrified that they re going to storm the building putin was a junior officer but the boss was away. he was in charge the berlin wall had come down, policework going to help and he called for instructions desperate for help. putin diouf kgb headquarters in moscow over and over again. finally, one official told him simply, moscow is silent and i think it felt like a deep the trail vladimir putin was on his own he went
begin with developing news from the middle east. the syrian army says israel has struck a number of targets in homs province north of lebanon. state media said they shot down several missile the syrian observatory for human rights put the number of dead at four. since the war in gaza broke out in october, israel has escalated attacks on what it says are iranian backed mischa targets. we ll have more as it develops. hamas says it has given approval for a ceasefire hamas says it has given approvalfor a ceasefire in approval for a ceasefire in gaza. approvalfor a ceasefire in gaza. details have not been released but there are reports that there are be a truce in exchange for return of israeli prisoners. here s a little of antony blinken s statement. we had meetings already on this trip in riyadh. in cairo, and now today in doha, focused on ensuring that we can use any pause. to continue to build out plans for the day after in gaza, security humanitarian, all bringing challenges