Good morning. Its march seventh. A Rescue Operation is under way after an avalanche has hit the popular ski resort of tignes in the french alps. Several people are thought to be buried underneath. Initial reports suggest there may be many people missing. Our correspondent has the latest. This is an emerging picture. People are beginning to tweet, eyewitnesses are beginning to tweet, eyewitnesses are describing the scene as the Avalanche Engulfing skiers and it is thought many people have been caught up thought many people have been caught up in this accident. Rescue workers and sniffer dogs have been deployed but apparently conditions they are or that of pure visibility and what that means is that helicopters have not been able to go up so no Rescue Workers are going up into the skies and as you know, that is a key way in which these sort of accidents are dealt with so clearly some hindrance to the rescue efforts. There was a previous incident last february in tignes. Yes, judging the
John kasichs president ial hopes are still alive. But the nomination. Is now in reach for donald trump. Jessica brown joins us live with more on where both races stand. After the 5 primaries last night. Even though governor kasich won ohio. Donald trump is still leading when it comes to the majority of delegates. Take a look these numbers here to see where everyone stacks up. You can see donald trump is leading with 621 delegates. Senator ted cruz with 396 senator marco rubio with 168 and Governor John Kasich with 138. But take a close look at marco rubios delegates. We know that senator rubio Just Campaign after losing in his home so the question now is who will get his delegates . Short answerthey anyone anymore. And the majority of those free to support Republican National unless rubio tries to jump back in the 1,237 delegates to win the republican nomination for president. Now lets look at the Democratic Delegate count here. Hillary clinton with close to double what Bernie Sanders
The thing about the post dunkirk evacuations, one of the reasons why the story is not told, is because, for a lot of people, they dont think it has the romanticism of the little ships. Well, it does, and here is that romantic story. Here are those brave civilian seamen taking their small boats into the line of fire. Robert hall, bbc news, st helier. Time for a look at the weather. Heres chris fawkes. Over the course of the weekend, we had some big thunderstorms developing, mixed with rainbows, would you believe . With the same area of low pressure we had over the weekend with us for much of this week, we are going to see some further big thunderstorms. In the
last hour, we have started to see them break out. Todays heaviest storms will be across parts of wales, the north west midlands, north west england, south west scotla nd north west england, south west scotland and Northern Ireland. In the heaviest downpours, we could see around 15 25 millimetres in the space of an hour. Thats enou
In a bid to combat the spread of the coronavirus. This is not a financial crisis. This is just a temporary moment of time that we will overcome together as a nation and as a world. That decision by President Trump has caused Global Stock Markets to plunge the New York Stock Exchange was temporarily suspended after losses hit 7 . In other news. The pc harper murder trial jury hears the 999 call about a theft which led to his police car being sent to investigate, and to him being killed. Coming up on afternoon live all the sport with katie shanahan. Two senior formula one sources have told bbc sport that this weekends australian grand prix has been postponed due to coronavirus concerns. This comes after a mclaren team member tested positive for the virus. And helen will be looking at the weather for us. Showers had a wintry flavour to them today and that will continue this evening and overnight but perhaps a window of dry weather on the way tomorrow. I will have more on the weekend just