The impeachment inquiry into donald trump the u. S. Top diplomat in ukraine testifies behind closed doors in sport its a huge night for round madrid in the Champions League the 14 time when its currently bottom of their group. To fight the right. Lets get going to accuse president wretch up type are the ones in the russian for city of sochi for talks with lot of me a putin mr repeated his threat to restart his military operation against kurdish fighters in northeastern syria the leaders are expected to discuss the turkish cease fire that was brokered by the u. S. Which is due to expire in a matter of hours the Kurdish Syrian Democratic forces the pulled out of some areas along the border but not everywhere as agreed under the terms of the truce before heading to sochi is what mr had to say. Vladimir putin and i will discuss all the steps to be taken in order to maintain the territorial integrity of syria and to cleanse the northern parts of syria from terrorists and terrorist organizat
Hello this is bbc news. The headlines the mother of the teenager harry dunn, who died in a crash involving the wife of a us diplomat, says the government must put pressure on her to return to the uk. Democrats leading the impeachment enquiry into President Trump issue a legal order demanding the white house hand over more documents. Dozens of people are injured, eight of them seriously, after a double decker bus overturned in devon. A british australian woman and her boyfriend are released after more than three months in an iranianjail. Now on bbc news, its time for sportsday. Hello and welcome to sportsday, with me olly foster and jane dougall. The headlines this evening england are the first team through to the Rugby World Cup quarterfinals six tries against argentina secures another bonus point win. Fighting for the title liverpool leave it late against leicester as they make it eight wins out of eight in the premier league. There are more british podium hopes on the final weekend o
Nairobi, paris and new york. The other main stories on bbc news at 5. New brexit talks in brussels but is a deal any closer . The boyfriend ofjodie chesney tells a court of her last moments as she collapsed in his arms after being fatally stabbed. A race against time for thomas cook the holiday firm must find 200 Million Pounds to stay in business. And at 5 45 find out if Jason Solomons thinks brad pitts new astronaut film is out of this world that and more coming up in the film review. Its 5 oclock our main story is that children around the world have stayed away from school to take part in a global day of protests calling for action on Climate Change. Thousands of separate demonstrations are taking place in 150 countries, including the uk. The protestors are demanding more action from both governments and businesses to cut emissions. This is the scene in new york where more than a Million Students from 1,800 Public Schools have been allowed to skip school in order to protest. The env
An extra hour in school for some pupils in wales as heads try out changes to the Academic Year. The Winter Olympics torch relay kicks off in beijing as chinas capital gears up for the games. Good morning. Quite a lot of Cloud Producing Light Rain in the north and east. Not as windy as it has been but it is still going to be mild. Details later in the programme. Good morning. Its wednesday, the 2nd of february. The government will today set out its long delayed Manifesto Plan to level up the lives of millions of people across the uk. The proposals include a series of pledges to improve education, Public Transport and housing in some of the most disadvantaged areas of the country. Labour have dismissed the project as more slogans and strategies. Our Political Correspondent Jessica Parker reports. We are a government committed to levelling up. It is absolutely what levelling up is all about. What were doing is levelling up. Level up across the whole of the uk. Ministers have talked about
An extra hour in school for some pupils in wales as heads try out changes to the Academic Year. The Winter Olympics torch relay kicks off in beijing as chinas capital gears up for the games. Good morning. Quite a lot of Cloud Producing Light Rain in the north and east. Not as windy as it has been but it is still going to be mild. Details later in the programme. Good morning. Its wednesday, the 2nd of february. The government will today set out its long delayed Manifesto Plan to level up the lives of millions of people across the uk. The proposals include a series of pledges to improve education, Public Transport and housing in some of the most disadvantaged areas of the country. Labour have dismissed the project as more slogans and strategies. Our Political Correspondent Jessica Parker reports. We are a government committed to levelling up. It is absolutely what levelling up is all about. What were doing is levelling up. Level up across the whole of the uk. Ministers have talked about