the next general election. he ll be live on the sofa at 7:30am. the country s largest supermarket tesco is the latest to impose limits on certain fruit and vegetables, as shortages on the shelves continue. i ll have the latest. england s lionesses roar once more. they thrash belgium to retain the arnold clark cup and are now unbeaten in 29 matches. the cloud and rain across england and wales. all the details here on brick dust. breakfast. it s thursday, 23rd february. our main story. an off duty police officer is in a critical but stable condition after being shot at a sports complex in omagh in county tyrone. the police federation for northern ireland said the shooting happened at around 8 o clock last night while the officer coached young people playing football. our ireland correspondent, emma vardy reports. the shooting happened in front of young players, training at a football coaching session. it s thought the off duty officer was shot multiple times at around 8 o cl
really want to see do well? i would have to say the quiet girl la la - really want to see do well? i would | have to say the quiet girl la la and it has been nominated in the international category, an irish farm. if you have not watched it, please seek it out, if film and i hope that does go home with an tonight and i should also mention the first micro documentary, up for an oscar, it won the bafta and i would expect it to win and my goodness it deserves to. the navalny documentary. now on bbc news, the weather with chris fawkes. hello there. it s a much milder day today, thanks to south westerly winds. those winds have brought a big jump in temperatures. and for most of us, it was a cold day. today, temperatures widely into double figures, but that s set in place a rapid thaw. indeed, there s a lot of places that had snow yesterday where the snow is completely melted away, but it s still hanging on across northern scotland. monday, the worst of the rain clears through.
hello and welcome to the programme. we start in new zealand where, in the last couple of hours, chris hipkins has been sworn in as the country s new prime minister, after the shock resignation of jacinda ardern last week, who said she didn t have enough in the tank to continue in the job. mr hipkins was sworn in at government house in wellington, alongside carmel sepuloni, who becomes the country s first pasifika deputy prime minister. mr hipkins labour party will face a general election in october. 0ur correspondent, phil mercer, has more on this. this will be a big year for chris hipkins and his reshaped government. we are expecting a cabinet reshuffle in the next week or so and also a policy reset. the new prime minister says that inflation will be his key concern in the months leading up to that election on october leading up to that election on 0ctober1li, laterthis leading up to that election on 0ctober1li, later this year. cost of living pressures have been enormous i
welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. we start with the humanitarian crisis in afghanistan. ever since the taliban seized power again in 2021, millions of women and girls have lost access to education and other freedoms. the country is now facing a humanitarian crisis, with its coldest winter in a decade. temperatures are as low as minus 31 degrees celsius. the united nations estimates that 97% of afghans are living in poverty. some 20 million people are facing acute hunger. two thirds of afghans are in need of humanitarian assistance, including clean water and sanitation and, yet, the taliban is refusing to lift the ban on female aid workers. that ban was confirmed in a statement to the bbc today. our chief international correspondent lyse doucet has travelled to the salang in the hindu kush to see how bad things are. a winter wonderland of aching beauty, but brutal. we are travelling through the masses of the hindu kush, through the world s second h