with the murder of nine year old olivia pratt korbel, who was shot dead in her home. brazil s presidential election on a knife edge there ll be a run off between the far right incumbent jair bolsonaro and his left wing challenger. king charles and the queen consort visit dunfermline on their first official engagment since the period of royal mourning ended. and the 9,000 year old footprints giving us clues about the story of our coastline. and coming up on the bbc news channel. we ll bring you the outcome of the women s champions league draw as we find out who arsenal and chelsea will face in the group stage. good afternoon. it has been the sharpest of u turns the government is dropping its plans to abolish the 45p top rate of income tax for the highest earners. amid growing opposition to the policy, kwasi kwarteng, the chancellor, said it had become a distracton. we get it, he said, we have listened . but the plan is being ditched less than 2a hours after the prime mi
here s nick miller. an amazing show of the aurora borealis has been captured in northumberland. different there is more cloud around so limit your expectations. cloud and rain from the north west and more wind and rain as the week goes on. northern ireland has seen the rain so far, this afternoon that will ease. it is into western scotland and will push across central parts of scotland. most of england and wales will stay dry, maybe a few showers in the south west later. but it is a mild afternoon with hazy sunshine at times. tonight, we are going to bring another spell of rain across northern ireland. look at the bright colours it will be heavy, particularly into western scotland late at night and into glasgow tomorrow with up to 50 millimetres of rain that could bring disruption. a milder night. we start wet tomorrow, particularly in scotland. the rain will move south across northern england, wales into south west england and then ahead of that east anglia and the south e
ago, when the sea reclaimed expanses of land and humans settled by the coast, that changed dramatically. it was a sort of irish sea basin serengeti. it was a biodiverse landscape with lots of animals. so what s really interesting is that we see a biodiversity hotspot and a very distinctive coastal habitat has gone, as a response to rapid sea level rise. but also as a response to human changes, such as the development of agriculture. so we have been able to track a major ecosystem change, solely from looking at the footprint record. these fragile muddy beds form one of the largest collections of prehistoric animal tracks on earth and, as the coast here changes, erosion uncovers more undiscovered layers of footprints beneath. with sea levels rising, these tell a story of how coastal wildlife hotspots around the world could transform thousands of years into the future. victoria gill, bbc news, formby beach.
reclaimed expanses of land and humans settled by the coast, that changed dramatically. it was a sort of irish sea basin serengeti. it was a biodiverse landscape with lots of animals. so what s really interesting is that we see a biodiversity hotspot and a very distinctive coastal habitat has gone, as a response to rapid sea level rise. but also as a response to human changes, such as the development of agriculture. so we have been able to track a major ecosystem change, solely from looking at the footprint record. these fragile muddy beds form one of the largest collections of prehistoric animal tracks on earth and, as the coast here changes, erosion uncovers more undiscovered layers of footprints beneath. with sea levels rising, these tell a story of how coastal wildlife hotspots around the world could transform thousands of years into the future. victoria gill, bbc news, formby beach. time for a look at the weather,
in and day out studying these things. they would know best. the climbtologist dr. kevin threnberth said what we can say with confidence is hev he precipitation events often associated with thunderstorms have been linked to human changes in atmospheric composition. all i know is we had a really mild winter that seemed a little bit odd. it wasn t mild. climate change or not, the climate is changing. and it doesn t seem like it s a good thing. this is one of those things when we talk about immigration reform, we talk about climate change, energy reform that has died as far as expecting real change and i would say leadership from the white house on these issues. who is prepared to make a lifestyle change for this for americans in this economic climate? that s the real problem. it s not fronts and center in the political discussion till there s a better economy. it s fair to say you could say that about health care reform, too. the president chose to pursue a particular priori