Three months afterjournalist leera mckey was killed, no arrests have been made. The russian Opposition Leader Alexei Navalny has returned to prison from hospital, after the doctor treating him said he may have been poisoned. And trapped up to his neck in water for several hours, the man who got stuck in rocks as the tide came in and had to be freed by firefighters. When i arrived on scene, he was getting hammered by a pretty severe tidal wave. Its five oclock. Our top story borisjohnson says he is very confident a new brexit deal can be reached with the eu, despite the government ramping up its preparations for no deal. The Prime Minister made the comments while visiting the Faslane Naval base in scotland. He added that he believes there is scope for a new deal if there was good will and common sense between the uk and eu. What we want to do is make it absolutely clear that the backstop is no good. It has got to go. They Withdrawal Agreement is dead, it has got to go. But there is scop
Hello and welcome to world news today. We begin in syria where, according to the United Nations, air strikes by the governments armed forces and its allies have killed at least a hundred people in the last ten days. 26 of them were children. The uns human rights chief, michelle bachelet, has accused the International Community of treating the violence with, as she puts it, apparent indifference. The fighting has been taking place in idlib provice, in the north west of syria, which is one of the last strongholds of the rebel groups which rose up against president bashir. Imogen foulkes reports. Five year old, trying to desperately save her baby sister from an air strike. Hours later, maria jett died from injuries. This is the last area of the serious deliverable hands, also tell him to millions of civilians. United nations has warned for months that a battle here would come at a huge cost to civilian life. The area is supposed to be a de escalation zone. But in recent weeks, Syrian Forc
Between demonstrators and police in hong kong, after another large scale protest against chinas increasing control over the territory. The Jodrell Bank Observatory in cheshire, which has been at the forefront of astronomical research, is declared a unesco World Heritage site. The Foreign Office has begun an investigation, into who leaked emails from britains ambassador to washington, which described the Trump Administration as being inept and uniquely dysfunctional. In the memos, obtained by the mail on sunday, Sir Kim Darroch, says despite his shortcomings, President Trump shouldnt be written off. Heres our washington correspondent, nick bryant. Inept, insecure, incompetent. In secret cables obtained by the mail on sunday, britains top diplomat in washington, Sir Kim Darroch, used the most undiplomatic of language to describe the chaos of the Trump White House and the personality flaws of the president himself. He spoke of donald trump radiating insecurity and delivered a withering as
Stories coming up in a few moments but let s pause and have a look at the sport. Each of the rugby word cup quarterfinals pits a Northern Hemisphere team against one from the south. And it s so far argentina who have started things off well for those from the southern hemisphere. Now new zealand can join them in reaching the last four in france. The three time winners are playing world Number One Team ireland in paris. 1310 is 13 10 is the latest score in favour of the all blacks. They have played just under half an hour at the stad to france. So the winner of that match will face argentina, who beat wales, coming from behind twice to make the last four. Wales led 10 6 at half time and looked in control, but argentina fought back in the second half to lead 12 10 and then 19 17, before securing victory with a second try late on to win 26 17 and reach the semifinals for only the third time in their history. Argentina are tough, they stayed in the fight and i ve got to give them credit, c
The Israeli Military has confirmed there are 126 hostages in gaza but there are fears that number could be as high as 150. A Military Spokesperson also said the bodies of some hostages have been found on the edges of the gaza strip. Our correspondent Frankie Mccamley has been speaking to families of some of those missing. Posted online, this video of shiri and her baby, surrounded by militants. You can just about see nine month old kfir in her arms, believed to be one of the youngest taken hostage. And this is 84 year old ditza heiman, one of the eldest, still missing. Her niece debbie says her aunt was hiding in her safe room, on the phone to her family, just before she was taken. When her phone was answered, this time, it was answered by a man speaking arabic, and he said, hamas, hamas. They later heard from a neighbour of hers in the kibbutz that hed heard her crying for help, and hed rushed out of his home and hed seen her surrounded by gunmen, being led away. The aftermath, follow