Places on wednesday, it will turn wet and windy towards the west, heavy rain at times, temperatures are starting to rise even though eastern areas still only three or 4 degrees. A wet weather pushes north becoming more extensive through thursday and friday. Strengthening wind across the too. Hello, this is bbc news with martine croxall. The headlines the labour leadership says sorry over the heavy defeat in the general election. Jeremy corbyn wants the process of deciding how to elect a new leader to begin swiftly so his successor can be in place by the end of march. Nicola sturgeon renews her call for a second referendum on scottish independence, saying the people of scotland mustnt be kept in the union against their will. A british man has been killed and his step son wounded, after being shot during a suspected robbery in buenos aires. A marathon un Climate Summit in madrid ends in a compromise leaving many delegates unhappy. Around 2,000 properties are still without water in and ar
Dangerous driving. Hampering the christmas get away, flooding caused a close to the m 23 in sussex as parts of southern england are inundated. Ina in a moment time for sports day ballistic a look at what else is coming up this evening here on bbc news. We will get reaction from mps after they backed a brexit deal at 7pm in the house of commons earlier today. Were also going to be looking back at how the frontiers of science and space will push this yearin science and space will push this year in review 2019, the year in science, that is at 8 30 p m. And then at 10 a0pm and 11 30 p m. , we ta ke then at 10 a0pm and 11 30 p m. , we take a look at tomorrow mornings front pages in the papers and all reviewers tonight, i have the author and journalist and Lucy Beresford and journalist and Lucy Beresford and broadcaster and psychotherapist. That is all coming up on bbc news but first hear a sports day. Hello, and welcome to sportsday. Im Lizzie Greenwood hughes. Heres what we have have comin
So, weve bought the food, hopefully, but how much is left on shop shelves . About 260,000 tonnes end up in the bin every year. Ill be looking at how we can reduce that. And in sport, tottenham say their initial findings into the alleged racist abuse of Antonio Rudiger are inconclusive, but a chelsea fan has been arrested for allegedly abusing son heung min. Good morning. It is Christmas Eve and we are going to bejoined by the singers all morning. We have rain that were clear. Heavy thundery showers and windy across the south with some sunshine in the forecast. I will tell you where in about 15 minutes. A very good morning to you. Its tuesday, december the 24th. Our top story the queen will use her Christmas Day message to say that 2019 has been quite bumpy. It comes after a year of intense political debate over brexit, as well as a number of personal events affecting the royal family. Heres our royal correspondent nicholas witchell. It has been a year which at times may have felt quite
Times. We are now to day 105 of this bushfire emergency across New South Wales. The Community Really Needs to stay alert and understand what they are going to do as we are threatened by fires. The government approves the takeover of uk defence and aerospace specialist cobham by an American Company. A man who confronted the fishermongers hall attacker with a narwal tusk describes his deep hurt that he couldnt save the two people who died. Prince philip spends the night in hospital in london, to be treated for whats being descrived as a pre existing condition. And coming up dateline london looks at the effect impeachment could have on Donald Trumps support base thats in half an hour here on bbc news. Good morning and welcome to bbc news. Emergency services in austrialia have described conditions as catastrophic as hundreds of fires burn across the country threatening every major city. Firefighters in New South Wales issued the highest possible warning, telling some people its now too lat
Hello, and welcome to sportsday. We start with russia, and a significant ban thats been handed to them by the world anti doping agency. Theyre barred from all major sporting events for the next four years, so there will be no russian flag or anthem at next years Olympic Games in tokyo. Itll be the same at the Winter Olympics in beijing in 2022, and also at the world cup in qatar later that same year. Our reporter Alex Capstick has been in lausanne where wadas executive committee made their decision today. Leading members of while thes executive committee have explained to us in this hotel in central notts and the reason they came to this decision to ban russia for four yea rs decision to ban russia for four years is because russia are repeat offenders. They have found to be covering our positive drug tests. As to the punishment, they think they have the balance right, that ape like ban and the world calls for ape like ban and the world calls for a total ban on athletes and officials, t