police in pakistan say at least two people, including a police officer, have been killed in a suicide blast in the capital islamabad. protestors in afghanistan are arrested after making a stand against the taliban s latest prohibition on women and girls attending universities. tuesday s late night announcement has triggered international outrage. george cohen, who was part of england s 1966 world cup winning team, has died aged 83. a prosecutor in paris says a 69 year old gunman who opened fire at a kurdish community centre had previously been charged with racist violence. three people were killed in today s shooting in the tenth arrondissement, where witnesses say the gunman initially targeted the cultural centre before entering a nearby hairdressers, where he was arrested by police. this is what the paris prosecutor had to say at the scene a short while ago. translation: according to the latest casualty reports. translation: according to the latest casualty reports. i
detained. a powerful arctic storm sweeps across swathes of the us and canada. more than 200 million people are under weather warnings, with temperatures dropping to minus 45 degrees celsius in some places. travel disruption in the uk due to border strikes union chiefs say the walkouts could go on for six months unless the governmentjoins pay talks. china is continuing to grapple with a major covid outbreak following a lifting of restrictions with growing questions about the government s official death tally. george cohen, who was part of england s 1966 world cup winning team, has died aged 83. more in sport later in the bulletin. clashes have erupted in the french capital paris after a fatal shooting at a kurdish centre. capital paris after a fatal shooting three people were killed in the incident and three others injured. these are live pictures from the scene in the tenth arrondisement where crowds of angry protesters almost immediately filled the streets. riot police h
union chiefs say the walkouts could go on for six months unless the governmentjoins pay talks. and multiple arrests in afghanistan after protesters marched in outrage at the taliban s latest prohibition on women attending universities. george cohen, who was part of england s 1966 world cup winning team, has died aged 83. more in the sport later in the bulletin. serious street violence has broken out in paris after a fatal shooting at a kurdish centre, three people were killed and three others injured. these are the latest pictures coming into us, the prosecutor there has set a possible racist element is being investigated because the suspect has been arrested, the gunman, he had previously involved in racist linked incidents, but as you can see, since that shooting, there is now a stand off with ongoing violence on the street in that area, a central part of paris, where there had been, we understand from earlier pictures, some of the protest is possibly from the kurdish commu
34 there is any chance of a resolution. 3a years after the hillsborough disaster police forces across england and wales apologise formally for how the families of the victims were treated. the imf forecasts the uk will perform worse than any other major economy next year. the search continues for a woman who went missing during a dog walk in lancashire last friday. had phone was found still connected to a work call. and later we will have sportsday. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. prepare for significant disruption that s the warning from downing street with around half a million workers expected to walk out tomorrow in the biggest day of industrial action since 2011. teachers, university staff, train drivers, bus drivers and civil servants are among those who will go on strike. the strikes will affect more than 20,000 schools which have been urged to remain open. head teachers say they are struggling to plan because they are struggling to plan because th
members are on strike. and at 3.30pm on the bbc news channel, talking business with aaron heslehurst. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. the household energy supplier 0ctopus energy has reached a deal to buy bulb, which was one of the largest energy companies to collapse last year because of soaring wholesale gas and electricity prices. the government has spent billions of pounds keeping the company afloat since it went into administraton. the agreement means 0ctopus will take onboard bulb s one and a half million customers. our business reporter ramzan kamali has the details. bulb is the biggest - green energy company. it was the biggest energy company to go bust. last november, bulb found itself in administration. it was only kept going by the government, who pumped hundreds of millions of pounds into the business, but now a deal has been struck that it is hoped will give relief notjust to customers, taxpayers, but also hundreds of staff. today, 0ctopus were confident