And northern ireland, occasional showers. An north of england is, that rain spread its weight southwards, heavy bursts in places. When is what the south east corner, temperatures drubbing away, even with sunshine and a scattering of showers through the afternoon. Six hours is the best we can hope for. Colder air pushing its way across in the evening, gales for northern scotland. Briefly milder midweek, then warmer next week, then snow for some. Hello. This is bbc news with me, martine croxall. The headlines at 8. 30 israels Prime Minister blames the Islamic State group for a deadly lorry attack in jerusalem. Four Israeli Soldiers were killed when a truck drove into them and then reversed to hit them again. We know that there has been a series of terror attacks. There could be a connection between them from france to berlin and nowjewison. The former president of iran, Akbar Hashemi rafsanjani, has died in tehran at the age of 82. He was one of the countrys leading moderates. And the qu
Information and updates as we are able to do so. And once again thats coming from the White House Press pool. So the president no doubt has his mind on what is happening across the world in brussels, belgium, but he certainly has a big speech today. This is be the culmination of a historic trip that he has made here to havana, cuba. After arriving on sunday just after 4 00, but then on monday, he laid the wreath at the jose marti memorial and then soon after that we heard the starspang el barn banner by two of them back to back with raul castro at the revolutionary lace. There they talked about a number of issues from strayay and commerce to counter narcotics to the environment and also about cuban doctors, about how cuban doctors are able to help not only the people in haiti but folks around the world. But a number of other issue that the first meeting in more than a half century betwewe the two leaders, and then on from there it was the news cference that everyone is talking about. T
In Hampton Roads we can be the port city of the future and i specifically astro if he thinks there is a race issue in portsmouth. He says he believes some members of council are trying to make race an issue but he doesnt believe leader should be taking this city back to times like the nineteen fifties and encouraging that kind of division. Laura geller thirteen years now and it is a three way race for portsmouth mayor john rowe will compete against current mayor kenny wright and local business person. Shannon glover. Shes also running when asked to comment on the race glover told us quote john wrote and kenny wright are the architects of the public distrust we have in portsmouth today lets get over here to jeff because of wet weather is headed our way tonight adjust your tracking the rain and theres some now including over top of us i was just fiddling around with the camera here and you can actually see some of the snow falling and not reaching the ground or number of things you can s
Before we start lets take you to the white house now and show you these live pictures were receiving. It is just about 11 at night there, as you can see, a lot of protesters out there. Interesting things have been happening, at first we have got people wondering whether President Trump was planning another walkout to Lafayette Square, but in fact what happened just a couple of hours ago is that all the press were suddenly removed from the white house grounds at almost no notice and with no explanation. That is very unusual, there has been speculation that the president was again being moved to the bunker below the white house, although none of that is confirmed. Certainly there are quite a few practice there, there is suggestion on social media that there have been attem pts media that there have been atte m pts to media that there have been attempts to remove the statue of Andrew Jackson which is just now at the white house, well known for many things among others and perhaps most val
Good to have you with us. Within the past couple of hours protesters and police have clashed near the white house after demonstrators attempted to tear down a statue of former president Andrew Jackson who owned slaves and a plantation. Protesters attached chains and ropes on the top of a statue of andrewjackson on a horse, in a latest bid to remove images of historical figures considered racist or divisive. But they failed to take it down after police formed a protective ring around it and deployed pepper spray on them. Andrew jackson was the seventh us president , and has been long criticised for signing into law the indian removal act that forced native americans to march west, in what was described as the trail of tears during the mid nineteenth century. And lets take you live to outside the white house now this is the scene. There are still protesters there. Interestingly, earlier, there. Interestingly, earlier, the press was removed, given very little notice and no reason, which i