let s stay with the subject of whether it s breaking news coming to us today from the uk health security agency. it has issued a weekend heat health alert. the heat health alert has been erased from yellow to a more severe amber, with warnings in three different regions of england, the midlands, eastern and southern england. the amber alert which is more severe than what we had before comes into effect from 9am on friday and indicates that high temperatures could affect the whole population and perhaps more importantly could also affect the health service. now this is what the weather watchers have been calling an iberian plume, a plume of very warm weather that has come in from the spanish peninsula. we will not last especially long and probably will be over by sunday but it comes and cuts across spain and portugal, bringing across spain and portugal, bringing a lot of high pressure and with it temperatures that could at some point touch 30 degrees, which may be normal for p
is a british national and another is a dutch national. a man was arrested near the scene, the moment of his arrest was captured on camera. take a look. the man in this video injured whilst being arrested, police say he is a syrian who has refugee status in sweden, with no known links to islamist groups. he has a child who is apparently the same age as the little chldren he attacked. this all happened in the town of annecy, in the french alps. the children, all aged three and under, were on an outing to a park, some in pushchairs. the attacker also stabbed an elderly man walking nearby, before he was overpowered by police. phone images taken by witnesses show a bearded man in black knee length shorts and top, wearing a bandana and sunglasses. france s president has tweeted. emmanuel macron says. the french prime minister, elisabeth borne, says the country has been shaken by the attack and has given more detail about the suspect. translation: we are talking | about a syrian nat
the victims are as young as three, according to french reports which say two children and a man are in a life threatening condition. one of the children attacked is thought to be a british national and another is thought to be a dutch national. a man was arrested near the scene, the moment of his arrest was captured on camera. take a look. the man in this video injured whilst being arrested, police say he is a syrian who has refugee status in sweden, with no known links to islamist groups. he has a child who is apparently the same age as the little chldren he attacked. this all happened in the town of annecy, in the french alps. the children, all aged three and under, were on an outing to a park, some in pushchairs. the attacker also stabbed an elderly man walking nearby before he was overpowered by police. phone images taken by witnesses show a bearded man in black knee length shorts and top, wearing a bandana and sunglasses. france s president has tweeted. emmanuel macron s
live now to mark devenport, a freelance journalist and broadcaster based in county down in northern ireland. did you get a sense of shock in dublin and across the country, don t you? i suppose also from the police over what has happened. that you? i suppose also from the police over what has happened. over what has happened. that is exactly the over what has happened. that is exactly the situation. over what has happened. that is exactly the situation. i over what has happened. that is exactly the situation. i think - exactly the situation. i think people in dublin are shocked seeing this date of the capital city today. they haven t had rights of this nature for many decades. we saw this ugly stabbing with schoolchildren being seriously injured, then the spreading of erroneous, unsubstantiated rumours on social media around that, which led to a protest which quickly developed into violence, with far right groups in an opportunistic way using this stabbing in order to s
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