A warning for patients in england about the risk of getting medication online. It isa it is a stitch up, stab victims pay vets to mend their wounds to avoid the police getting involved. Also. Votes are being counted following yesterdays Assembly Elections in Northern Ireland. Im any to mcveigh at the Titanic Exhibition Centre in belfast. With the future of the devolved government at state, signs that tyner with the future of the devolved government state, signs that turnout is up as much as 10 in some constituencies. And celebrating the centenary for the Imperial War Museum, founded when the First World War was still being fought. Good morning. Its friday, the 3rd of march. Im rebecca jones. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. Theresa may has strongly attacked the snp, saying it was obsessed with independence regardless of fact and reality. Speaking at the scottish conservative conference in glasgow, the Prime Minister accused the snp of neglecting and mismanaging Public Services in scotland
Who are facing famine across africa and the middle east. The United Nations says the crisis in nigeria, south sudan, yemen and somalia threatens to be the worst in 60 years. In somalia, conflict and corruption has made the effect of a two year drought even worse. Our correspondent Andrew Harding is in baidoa in the countrys south west. You may find some of the pictures in his report distressing. This is baidoa, a town besieged by two unforgiving enemies. The soldiers are here to guard against al shabab, the militant islamists controlling the countryside in this corner of somalia. But its the second enemy, drought, that is now far more dangerous. Nine year old ali has just been carried into the local hospital. He is unconscious. But its not from hunger not yet. After three years of failed rains, clean water is hard to find. The doctors here believe they are battling a sudden outbreak of cholera. Inside, weak from diarrhoea, dozens of new cases. Many families have walked miles get help.
Sam warburton is ruled out for six weeks, but the man favourite to be Lions Captain is expected to be fit for this summers tour to new zealand. Good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. The american Secretary Of State, Rex Tillerson, has arrived in russia ahead of tomorrows talks as tensions between the two countries continue to grow. Hes urging President Putin to withdraw his support for the assad regime in the wake of last weeks Chemical Attack on a rebel town in syria. He flew out from italy, where g7 Foreign Ministers had been meeting. They rejected a british call for new sanctions to be imposed on syria and russia. Meanwhile, President Putin has claimed that enemies of the syrian president Are Planning Future Chemical Weapons attacks to discredit the Syrian Government. This report from our Diplomatic Correspondent James Robbins contains some distressing images. Americas top diplomat, arriving in moscow, doesnt accept this is mission impossible. Rex tillerson still hopes he
Hes met the president of china, as well as the general secretary of nato. Hes also launched an airstrike against the Syrian Government. But what does this tell us about how his policies have changed since his inauguration . And more violence has broken out between European Football fans tonight, the start of the match between besiktas and lyon had to be delayed. Well have the latest in os sport. We can speak withjeremy bowen, the bbcs bbc middle east editor now. Im soyuz all the interview with President Assad, what did you make of it . I watched the whole Interview Andi of it . I watched the whole interview and i read the transcript as well. Ina way, and i read the transcript as well. In a way, he is very consistent in the line he has always taken, which is that he is fighting a conspiracy, directed from abroad, that has sent terrorists, and he never makes a distinction between different groups, hejust distinction between different groups, he just calls them terrorists, who are out to
Hes met the president of china, as well as the general secretary of nato. Hes also launched an airstrike against the Syrian Government. But what does this tell us about how his policies have changed since his inauguration . And more violence has broken out between European Football fans tonight, the start of the match between besiktas and lyon had to be delayed. Well have the latest in os sport. We can speak withjeremy bowen, the bbcs bbc middle east editor now. Im soyuz all the interview with President Assad, what did you make of it . I watched the whole Interview Andi of it . I watched the whole interview and i read the transcript as well. Ina way, and i read the transcript as well. In a way, he is very consistent in the line he has always taken, which is that he is fighting a conspiracy, directed from abroad, that has sent terrorists, and he never makes a distinction between different groups, hejust distinction between different groups, he just calls them terrorists, who are out to