Well have the latest on that cobra meeting, and well be speaking to a Church Warden in fishlake, one of the worst hit communities. The other main stories on bbc news at 5. The labour party says its foiled a cyberattack on its campaign, from hackers based in russia and brazil. Im in Bishop Auckland, a town that has voted for labour since 1935 but is it about to change . A warning from one teen who almost died after using e cigarettes and is now urging people not to take up vaping. And Raheem Sterling is dropped from the england team ahead of a euro 2020 qualifier after a bust up with his team mate joe gomez. Its 5pm. Our main story. The Prime Minister is chairing a meeting of the governments Cobra Emergency Committee to discuss the flooding in yorkshire and the midlands. Earlier, Jeremy Corbyn accused the government of failing to act quickly enough and said the response from ministers had been woeful. About 400 homes have been flooded and 1,200 properties evacuated. Five severe flood wa
Low pressure sitting around here, spiralling around that we have kyle jameson outbreaks of rain, the stripe of culture sitting in place, not moving anywhere quickly, so the wettest weather continue across parts of lincolnshire and the north midlands, wet weather to merseyside, north east wales, dangling down into cornwall. The same areas will see cloud and persistent rain through the rest of this afternoon. Where it was so wet in the south east yesterday, we see sunshine but also some heavy, fungible shallots. Light winds here, pretty brisk winds elsewhere. You will notice the strength of the north easterly winds and you can see gusts of a0 mph or more, 11 degrees in birmingham, 12 in hull. Northern ireland, the far north of england and scotland predominantly dry with some sunny and scotland predominantly dry with some sunny spells and a few showers in the far north of scotland. The band of cloud and rain moves erratically North West Woods overnight, some rain into north west england a
Dozens of survivors and relatives of victims of the grenfell fire are taking legal action in the us against three firms they blame for the tragedy. And at 11 30 well be taking an in depth look at the papers with our reviewers, dia chakravarty, the brexit editor at the telegraph, and the broadcaster, david davies. Stay with us for that. Hello, a very good evening to you. Theresa may is set to announce that the government will set itself ambitious new targets to cut Greenhouse Gases to net zero by 2050 to tackle Climate Change. In what will be one of her last major policies as Prime Minister, the uk will become the first major economy to set a zero target in law. Details of the policy will be outined tomorrow. 0ne senior climate negotiator has described the move as historic. But critics say the action is being taken too late and fear the target will never be met. Lets get some Immediate Reaction to that news which is just a breaking. Joining me now from salford is Craig Bennett from frie
Least twelve ranger refugees drowned ten of them children as another boat capsizes trying to cross from me on mt to bangladesh the red cross dramatically cuts its operations in afghanistan after a series of attacks against its members. And spains government called in the National Police to guard casamance key court as it increases pressure on regional leaders to back down on independence. A diplomatic dispute between washington and ankara is intensifying after reports that turkey has issued a detention warrant for a second u. S. Consulate worker last week another american consular employee was arrested in istanbul over allegations of links to last years failed coup in turkey the turkish lira has dropshot reasons both countries suspended Visa Services for each of his nationals. Mohammad reports. In the latest sign offering diplomatic relations between two nato allies the us say it was suspending the issuing of visas to turkish nationals twenty four hours later turkey retaliated through
Kevin is a licensed battlefield guide at the Antietam Battlefield. And hes coauthor of an upcoming book for the emerging civil war series about the maryland campaign. Hes going to talk to us a little bit about what he considers to be a great defense, robert e. Lee at antietam. Its my pleasure to introduce one of the great emerging voices in the field, kevin pollock. Good morning, everyone, thank you to chris for that humbling introduction and thank you all for being here at my Bachelor Party. I think we might set Virginia State record for the largest Bachelor Party in all of state history. Its about to get a little crazy in here. Talking about robert e. Lee at the battle of antietam. Even before last years symposium when a letter was sent out asking for topic ideas for great defenses of the civil war there was a caveat left in the email that allowed us to quote think outside of the box. And the topic that i propose is the one that im proposing or presenting to you now, robert e. Lee at