it will be mild. all the details later. it s thursday the 25th of january. our main story. the families of the victims of the nottingham attacks will find out today what sentence the killer will receive. valdo calocane stabbed university students grace o malley kumar and barnaby webber, both 19, before attacking 65 year old school caretaker ian coates. his guilty plea to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility was accepted by the court earlier this week. our reporter navtej johal has spoken exclusively to ian s family ahead of today s sentencing. stubborn. yeah. taught me to fish, but said i was absolutely rubbish. same. fishing, football, family. the things that ian coates loved most. he wasn t the one to constantly say i love you. but we felt that love in the family household. on the 13th ofjune last year, ian, a 65 year old caretaker, was taken from his family in a morning of horror in nottingham that left three people dead. they can t forget the moment th
fails to elect a speaker in its opening session. no persons having received a majority of the whole number of votes cast by surname, a speaker has not been elected. and a mountain and a ski lift, but where s the snow? the record mild temperatures affecting europe s winter sports. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. russia s defence ministry says officials will be held accountable after ukrainian forces located and destroyed an army barracks in the occupied town of makiivka, killing dozens of troops. russia now says 89 people were killed. ukraine says the number was much higher. russia says the unauthorised use of mobile phones by russian troops allowed ukraine to target its troops because they were able to use the signal to find the soldiers location. here s some more of the russian military statememt. translation: circumstances of the incident are currently being investigated, but it is already obvious that the main reason, despite the restri
The only potential way to deliver humanitarian aid into gaza. Well have the latest on the aid trying to get into gaza in the next hour. In other developments in the conflict today, israel has confirmed that 212 people are being held hostage in gaza. Defence officials said israeli strikes overnight killed dozens of palestinian fighters, including the deputy chief of hamas rocket forces. Israel has been carrying out intensive aerial bombing of gaza since the hamas Attacks Inside Israel two weeks ago, in which 1,400 people were killed. The Palestinian Health Ministry Says about 4,700 gazans, mainly civilians, have been killed in the israeli air strikes. Israels military has warned civilians in gaza to keep moving south for their own safety, as it prepares to increase pressure on hamas, which is designated a Terrorist Origanisation by the uk, us and other western governments. The Israeli Defence forces said one of its aircraft also targeted a mosque in the palestinian city ofjenin, in the
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