A warm welcome to the programme, briefing you on all you need to know in global news, business and sport. And you can be part of the conversation. The ryanair strike is going ahead today, but the airline says it has drafted in more pilots to keep the busy Holiday Schedule running. Are you affected . Are you stuck at the airport, do you have any sympathy with the people striking or not . Let us know what you think. Let us know, just use the hashtag bbcthebriefing. The british Prime Minister Boris Johnson is on his way to paris today to meet president emmanuel macron. What will mr macron make of britains demand to change the Withdrawal Agreement that johnsons predecessor, theresa may, has negotiated with the European Union . And in particular, the so called backstop, a kind of insurance policy to ensure theres no return to a hard border in ireland. On wednesday the british Prime Minister met the german leader Angela Merkel in berlin. Ben wright reports. After dinner with Angela Merkel, i
Prices are rising. Good morning in sport, a 500 metre dash for glory and gold. Team gbs Elise Christie competes in the womens short track speed skating event later but can she claim a first british medal in pyeongchang . Were discussing the changing faces of clowns as we mark the 250th anniversary of the first ever circus. I think things have changed a bit. Matt has the weather. Good morning. After yesterdays sunshine, much more cloud around today with some wind and rain and across Northern England and scotland, some heavy snow as well. Forecast coming up in the next 15 minutes. Good morning. First, our main story. British holidaymakers are heading back to tunisia this morning, more than two years after a terror attack killed 38 people, 30 of them britons at a beach resort. Thomas cook is the first british tour company to resume flights to the country. 200 passengers are due to take off from birmingham in the next 15 minutes. Breakfastsjohn maguire is there. Good morning. We are in fac
County are investigating what theyre calling a murder suicide. A family of five was found dead in a home in Sinking Spring just outside of reading. The berks County District attorney identified the family as mark short, his wife megan and their three children. The District Attorney says they died of gunshot wounds. Their bodies were discovered yesterday afternoon in a house on Winding Brook drive. Police plan to release more information about the investigation later on today. New this morning, police tell us a man was shot while driving a car with his two kids inside in west philadelphia. This happened just after 1 00 this morning near the corner of 55th and spring street. According to authorities the man was shot in the face. Right now hes in critical condition. A short time after this shooting in an unrelated incident, a 36yearold man died. He was shot in southwest philadelphia. Police tell us two shooters approached the man as he was putting gas in his motorcycle right here at the b
If you dont have breathing problems, its hard to breathe. Its hard to breathe already. Temperatures are already warmer. Philadelphia, the suburbs, new jersey and delaware are going to see that high humidity. Today through sunday, the first alert has been issued for very hot and humid conditions. Going to feel like 100 to 100 degrees this afternoon. And well see that poor air quality that tracy mentioned. Right now, were seeing a few light showers in chester county. Were about to get a few rain drops but nothing more than that. No storms this morning. 81 degrees in philadelphia. Also 81 in the suburbs. Upper 70s for the Lehigh Valley and delaware. New jersey its 80 degrees right now but warming into the 90s this afternoon. Isolated showers and thunderstorms. Lehigh valley, in the suburbs, steamy conditions will feel like its over 100 degrees this afternoon for philadelphia. Ill walk you through it hour by hour, when i come back in a few minutes but first, Jessica Boyington has the first
When she went down, i looked her in the eyes. I saw the english. Witnesses describing the tragic last a minute of we are talking to people inside that classroom. We are live in punta gorda ticking for new details. Reporter it all happened here in the Police Department behind me. That citizen Mary Knowlton was attending a police academy. The officer involved pointed a blanks. It was not. I do not know what i am doing. This is going to be fun. Those are the last things that heard from her. Reporter those were her last words. The Training Session was exclusively for their members. She was not even supposed to be in the scenario. One woman raised a hand that she had been hit picked. Reporter that is how fate placed her in front of the officers revolver. She was playing the intruder. He squeezed this trigger and fired three rounds into hurt just. When she went down, i thought that she was in english. I did not know why she was in that situation. Why wasnt there another cop playing the role.