Sportsday has the latest action from the fa cup weekend fifth round ties, along with the highlights from todays winter olympics. Good evening and welcome to bbc news. Team gb is celebrating its most successful day in winter olympic history. Lizzy yarnold won gold in the womens skeleton becoming the first briton ever to defend a winter olympic title. There was a bronze too in the event for her team mate laura deas, and a bronze in the ski slopestyle for izzy atkin. But there was disappointment for the medalfavourite Elise Christie who crashed in the semi final of the 1500 metre speed skating and was taken to hospital. David ornstein reports from pyeongchang. Guiding Great Britain to unprecedented glory, Lizzy Yarnold and laura deas turning dreams into reality, rewriting the record books. Commentator Lizzy Yarnold next, the olympic champion, can she make history and win it again . Yarnold went into her final slide in second place, but conjured an imperious display and the fastest time an
About the gunman nikolas cruz. Houses in wales shake as an earthquake of 4. 4 magnitude hits the epicentre just north of swansea. Good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. Lizzy yarnold has won team gbs first gold medal at the Winter Olympics in south korea. Shes won the womens skeleton, making yarnold the first british competitor to defend a winter olympic title. Yarnold headed into the final run 0. 02 seconds behind leaderjanine flock, but a poor finish from the austrian saw her drop out of the medal places. Our sports correspondent, David Ornstein, is in pyongchang. An extraordinary day here, one that will live long in british olympic memory. The most successful in british winter olympic history. Thats largely because of Lizzy Yarnold winning the gold medal here in the skeleton and defending her title. Her parentsjoin me now. Clive, can you sum up your emotions . Its unbelievable emotion, that lizzy has achieved what she said she would. She has done it and it is mind blowing. It would
Here to do. Anjane an jane hill live at westminster where we continue to follow that debate as it emerged dozens of tory mps have signed a letter warning the government not to keep the country in the eu by stealth. Ill also be discussing all of your questions about the bill at half past. Also in the next hour the crisis in myanmar continues. Tens of thousands of Muslim Rohingya refugees continue fleeing the country to bangladesh after nearly two weeks of violence and Prince George starts his first day at school with a handshake, escorted by his father prince william. His mother is too ill with morning sickness to accompany them. Good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. One of the most powerful storms on record Hurricane Irma is continuing to devastate parts of the caribbean. It has almost completely destroyed the islands of barbuda and st martin ten people, including a child, have been killed and its feared that number will rise. The storm has now moved past puerto rico, where it knocke
To politics europe. Your regular guide to the top stories in brussels and strasbourg. 0n todays programme Angela Merkel and Martin Schulz fight it out in the closing weeks of the german election campaign. What will the outcome mean for the future of the eu . Never mind brexit, lets push on with the european project that was the message from the president of the European Commission. Is he right, that britain will regret leaving . And brexit will leave empty seats in the European Parliament. What should the remaining 27 countries do with them . So, all that to come and more in the next 30 minutes. Joining us today are journalists toby young and anne mcelvoy. First up, heres our guide to the latest from europe in just 60 seconds. Jean Claude Juncker took centrestage in strasbourg with his state of the union speech this week. But meps also discussed diesel gate, the volkswagen emission scandal, debating new testing regimes in germany and austria introduced earlier this month after a parlia
Your regular guide the top stories in brussels and strasbourg. On the days programme, the eu is preparing the ground work for a new trade deal. Not with britain, but with australia and new zealand. So could the plans be a template for a future deal with the uk . The European Parliament has been debating what can be done to halt Sexual Harassment, with many staff in brussels saying they have been victims themselves. And, as the eu votes to bring in tougher border controls, we will look at whether they will be enough to deter illegal emigration. So all that to come, and more, in the next half hour. And joining me for all of it, we have jenni murray from the times, and the telegraphs tim stanley. Thank you for coming. Here is our guide to the latest in europe injust for coming. Here is our guide to the Late European ie in just for coming. Here is our guide to the Late European commission outlined the European Commission outlined plans that would reduce the veto power of Member States in t