Children, who drowned in a spanish resorts Swimming Pool say they are devastated by the news. Restoration work on big ben will pause for one night only, so its famous bongs can ring in the new decade in london. The mayor of sydney says the city s famous new years eve fireworks display will go ahead despite a call for the event to be cancelled because of the bushfire crisis affecting parts of australia. More than a quarter of a Million People have signed a petition urging the authorities to spend the money on fighting the blazes instead. tx more than 80 fires are still raging across large areas of new south wales. Tens of thousands of people in the australian state of victoria have been told to evacuate amid worsening bushfire conditions. Officials are warning that temperatures of over a0 celsius, combined with strong winds, thunderstorms and a change of wind direction mean that the danger of fires will be particularly high tomorrow, with some areas facing a catastrophic risk. A warning
Celsius. Into the evening, the cloud will continue to beginning to the west with outbreaks of rain beating eastwards. The rain is courtesy of these weather fronts. Friday is looking like a fairly unsettled job. But also going to dragon some milder hour. Thursday night, the temperatures will drift away, particularly for scotland, parts of Northern England but we will see the temperatures recovering. Noticeably milder start to the day. A very different looking day across the board. Some missed and merc over high ground. We will see spells of rain as the day progresses. Temperatures of a maximum around 914, 1216 temperatures of a maximum around 9 14, 12 16 across the south. A noticeably milder day to come on friday. Into the weekend, a bit of uncertainty in the detail. Low pressure will be in charge. The positioning of the centre of that low will affect where the wettest weather and the strongest winds are. At the moment saturdays looking u nsettled. At the moment saturdays looking unsett
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
League. Tens of thousands of pro democracy demonstrators have taken to the streets in hong kong in defiance of a police ban. Petrol bombs were thrown at officers, who responded to the protesters by firing tear gas and water cannons. The event was called to mark five years since beijing ruled out fully democratic elections in the territory. Our correspondent Stephen Mcdonnell gave this update from hong kong. I am beside a couple of officers here. You can see water cannon is being deployed. People here are ducking down beneath the parapet to also avoid tear gas which is being fired. You can see from above. To the right here, you can see the protesters coming in and they are moving forward towards the government headquarters, where they may be able to throw molotov cocktails at closer proximity to the police at times. There goes one now, catching fire on the barricades. This is the violent showdown people predicted when permission was denied to have this march today and also follows the a
Good evening. Demonstrations have taken place across the uk, in protest at Boris Johnsons decision to suspend parliament for five weeks in the run up to brexit. The government insists its acting properly but critics say its an attempt to bypass democracy. Tens of thousands took to the streets from sheffield to swansea, belfast to london. Heres our home editor, mark easton. If you shutdown parliament. Well shut down the streets calls for direct action from protesters outside downing street. Several thousand gathered in whitehall, many to voice their opposition to borisjohnsons move to shut down parliament ahead of britains scheduled exit from the European Union on october 31. Stop brexit the crowds were diverse, cutting across class, age, ethnicity and Traditional Party politics. Todays protest is a reminder of how arguments over brexit represent a reshaping of political discourse in britain. Bankers and corporations who get richer while the workers get poorer. As well as london there w