Hello, welcome to the Bbc News at ten. Tens of thousands of people have gathered on the streets of Paris Tonight to watch the Opening Ceremony of the 2024 paralympics. 4,400 athletes from 184 delegations will compete over the next 11 days of competition with these games featuring a Record Number of delegations and of female athletes. Our Sports Correspondent Andy Swiss is watching in paris. A perfect parisian evening and a paralympic Curtain Raiser like no other. Welcome to paris at Place De La Concorde an Opening Ceremony exploring attitudes towards disability. French Star Christine and the queens with a modern take on an Edith Piaf classic. And soon it was time for the athletes. Parading down the champs elysees, more than 180 countries united by a commonjoy. And here comes great britain. The british team, led by Terry Bywater and lucy shuker, were welcomed by the Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer. Paralympics gb have 215 athletes competing here and after finishing second in the Medals
Thats what we were. I know thats what we were. It needs a good man to get us up to that. Yeah, arteta takes over after saturdays match against everton. Rangers are nowjust 2 points behind leaders celtic at the top of the scottish premeriship, after a 3 0 win over hibernian in a fiesty encounter at easter road. Rangers were two up at half time through ryan kent and joe aribo beforejermaine defoe sealed it after the break. The match took an ugly turn, though, when hibs Ryan Porteous was dismissed for a reckless challenge. The bad temper spilled over to the dugout as well, with hibs coachjohn potter and his rangers counterpart tom culshaw sent to the stands. And hibs are reviewing cctv footage after reports that a glass bottle were thrown at their defender borna barasic. Middlesbrough moved six points clear of the championship relegation zone after a crucial 2 1 win over stoke city. The visitors had led at the riverside, but boro got themselves level before this goal from lewis wing seale
Morning. Not fighting for the title. Looking at a much brighte day morning. Looking at a much brighter day with more sunshine but it will feel cooler outside today. Meanwhile, the north of the uk, will continue to see some scattered showers. Join me for a full forecast a little bit later on. Its sunday november the 22nd. Our top story a plan to lift englands lockdown on december 2 will be finalised by government ministers today. The Prime Minister is planning to replace the National Lockdown with a stricter version of the three tiered system of restrictions, with more areas facing tougher rules, although pubs maybe allowed to stay open until beyond 10pm. Our Political Correspondent leila nathoo reports. What will christmas look like this year . We will soon find out. Tomorrow, borisjohnson will confirm to parliament that glenda is coming out of National Lockdown on the second of december and going back into three tiers of coronavirus restrictions. England is coming out. More areas unde
Hello, youre watching afternoon live. Im simon mccoy. Today at 2pm British Airways files a complaint with the European Commission over the government bail out of struggling Airline Flybe. Ba says its a blatant misuse of public funds. The government isnt in the market to bail out private companies. What we do on a case by case basis is look to see whether a business is viable. In the case of flybe, it is a viable business. The duchess of sussexs father, Thomas Markle, is prepared to testify against meghan in her legal battle with the mail on sunday. At least 60 people many of them children are treated for breathing problems and skin irritation, after a passenger plane dumps fuel over schools in la. Coming up on afternoon live, all the sport with katie shanahan. Good afternoon, simon, and some of tenniss biggest stars have raised over £2. 5 million in a Charity Event to help those affected by the australian bushfire crisis. And the weather has stepped in. Yes, we will look at what has b
Weather on thursday. Back to today and we had a lingering band of rain down towards the south east, heavy and persistent. That is clearing away gradually. Through the afternoon we have some showers around for parts of South West England and wales but the focus gcioss england and wales but the focus across scotland, some of these wintry of a higher ground. In between something brighter, breezy in the southern half of uk but still blustery in the northern half and feeling fresher down towards the south. Tonight we had that developing area of low pressure in the atlantic which will start to make inroads but for many areas it will be a fine end to the date with lengthy clear spells but it east. Still some showers spreading into scotla nd still some showers spreading into scotland and they gradually ease as the system starts to edge into Northern Ireland and eventually western scotland as the night progresses accompanied by a strengthening wind. It is going to get quite chilly in some pocke