You re watching bbc newsroom live its11am and these are the main stories this morning. The duke of sussex says there was really no other option in stepping back from being a senior royal. Prince harry speaks publicly for the First Time Since the new royal arrangments were announced. The decision that i have made for my wife and i to step back is not one i made lightly. It was so many months of talks after so many years of challenges and i know i havent always got it right, but as far as this goes, there really was no other option. Two men are arrested on suspicion of murder after three men were killed in North East London. Despite the best efforts of paramedics on the scene, they were pronounced dead on the scene. So, an absolutely tragic
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Week ahead with darren. We will see a change of weather type next week, as i will show you later on. It will probably make forecasting more straightforward because everything recently has been slow moving, its been difficult to get the cloud and the mist and fog right, but over the next few days we should be seeing a lot of cloud over more of the uk, milder conditions as well. Still got High Pressure in charge but cloudy skies should be moving down from the north, so sunshine much more limited on wednesday across england and wales. Probably the best of the sunshine across eastern parts of scotland. Damp and drizzly weather across the north of scotland, on the whole it will be dry but even then we are seeing more cloud across england and wales than we had on tuesday. Temperatures 13 in the sunshine in aberdeenshire, very mild for the time of year. During the evening we should keep cloudy skies, limiting the frost. As we head into thursday we still have the High Pressure in
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Theres been a growing number of Coronavirus Infections outside china, notably in the middle east. Theres been a sudden spike in cases in italy, linked to a bar. The head of the World Health Organization has warned that the window of opportunity to contain the virus is narrowing. The frontrunner for the democratic partys president ial nomination, bernie sanders, has told russia to stay out of american elections. Earlier President Trump dismissed as a hoax reports of warnings by Us Intelligence that moscow was helping mr Sanders Campaign in an effort to get mr trump re elected. A tentative seven day reduction in hostilities has come into effect in afghanistan, after an agreement between american and taliban negotiators. If the agreement holds, the two sides will sign a further deal on security guarantees next saturday. That could pave the way for new talks among afghan representatives. In a moment well have newswatch,
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This is bbc world news today. Im simon pusey. Our top stories iran has again rejected suggestions that one of its missiles brought down a ukrainian passengerjet killing 176 people. But the picture remains far from clear. New sanctions against iran, including action against eight senior officials involved in targeting us troops in iraq. We dont want war, we want iran to behave like a normal nation. A political breakthrough in Northern Ireland the main parties agree to restore a power sharing administration, after three years of deadlock. Tens of thousands of people join Climate Change protests across australia, as hot, windy weather threatens to fan new bushfires. Hello and welcome to world news today. Iran has again rejected suggestions that one of its missiles brought down a ukrainian passengerjet on wednesday killing 176 people. The the picture remains unclear but what we do know is that ani the flight took off from a tehran airportjust after 6 in the morning butjust two minutes late
The wet and eastern areas before the wet and windy weather pushes right across the country as we head through tonight. The mild air gets replaced by colder air as we move through sunday so its going to be a blustery day with showers and feeling chilly but this afternoon those temperatures pretty impressive for the time of year, 11 13d. Adding on the wind, it might not feel that mild, its going to be very windy, gusts of 40 50 mph around irish sea coast, the wet weather transfers to the eastern side of england by the end of the night and here it will be mild but further north and west turning chillier as the clear skies and the showers move in. So it could start quite wet and windy in the south east, sunday morning. That clears away and then it is a blustery day with quite a bit of sunshine around but also lots of showers particularly in the north and west, some heavy with hail and thunder, some winteriness over the high ground in the north and it will feel chillier for high ground in t