Good morning. A swathe of cloud across eastern england, through the midlands, Northern England come into the south west and that is producing a bit of rain at the moment and either side of that is sunshine and a few showers today. I will have all the details throughout the programme. Its wednesday the 15th of may. A major manhunt is under way in france after two Prison Officers were killed in an ambush on a police van. The attack happened at a toll booth near rouen in normandy, and police said the man who was freed has links to a gang in marseille. Our europe correspondent, nick beake, has the latest. An unremarkable tollbooth in northern france, and the scene of a swift and brutal ambush. Cctv Footage Shows the Moment A Dark Car Veers into a white prison van, and at least two masked attackers start shooting. Terrified passengers on a passing bus throw themselves to the ground as the bullets ring out. One assailant is seen strolling calmly among the other vehicles on the motorway. Then
Coming up in sportsday later in the hour on bbc news this is where celtic can win the Scottish Premiership title tonight. But theyve already lost twice at kilmarnock this season. Good evening. Slovakias Prime Minister, robert fico, is in a life threatening condition in hospital after being shot a number of times this afternoon. The attack happened in the central slovak town of handlova, where a Government Meeting had just been held. A man whos said to be 71 has been detained by police. The 59 year old Prime Minister has been a divisive figure a leader who is widely viewed as authoritarian and russia leaning. Jon donnison reports. Just moments after being shot, Prime Minister fico is dragged out of a flower bed and bundled into a car by his security team. Eyewitnesss Report Hearing three or four bullets being fired. A few metres away, amid the panic, police wrestle a suspect to the ground. Translation i heard three shots it was quick, one by one, like if you throw Fire Crackers on the g
house. we are going to stay here. there we go, let s have a listen to resident biden. president biden. mundy during the fifth 1944, the evil third reich was devastating the world, nancy germany had subjugated the once free nations of europe through brute force. lies, and twisted ideology of racial superiority. millions ofjew, in the holocaust, millions of others killed by bombs, bullets, bloody warfare. hitler and those with him fought thought democracy was weak and the future belong to dictators. here, on the coast of normandy, the battle between freedom and tyranny would be joined, here, on that morning in june, president emmanuel macron, secretary antony blinken, distinguished guests, most of all, our honoured veterans who met that test, the test of aegis in that moment 80 years ago. 80 years ago today. on behalf of the american people, as commander in chief, the highest honour to salute you in normandy once more. all of you, god love you. applause winston churchill
The babies who die before 2a weeks and their parents who are denied a birth certificate. Asa as a mother, you want to protect your children. And we could not. We had no choice. Good morning. You could be paying to get money out of thousands more Cash Machines if banks and Atm Operators fail to reach an agreement over fees. Ill be taking a look at why. In sport, its a happy birthday forJose Mourinho. Manchester united reach the league cup final, with an aggregate victory over hull, so theyll face southampton at wembley next month. And carol has the weather. Good morning. A cold and frosty start to the day. Once again, pockets of fog around. Cloudy. Summer rain. The sunshine hanging around for the longest in the far north of scotland like yesterday. And ill have the rest of your Weather Forecast details in 15 minutes. Thanks, carol. Good morning. First, our main story. Theresa may will meet President Donald Trump at the white house this afternoon. Shell be hoping to prepare the ground fo
had on a number of the species is becoming apparent to the rangers who monitor and help the birds here. the rock base over there, there would normally be double the guillemots over there. you know, you wouldn t won t actually see the the rock because there d be so many. despite the good news that there s no sign of the bird flu, we have had some quite catastrophic declines in some of our other seabirds. many of them were late in arriving because of a cold early start to the season. our shags in particular, they ve done really badly. we ll be down 85% on last year. we found only 31 shag nests and last year, it was over 200. guillemots also, we reckon we re probably down by 46% as well. more than 9,000 birds were lost to avian flu on the farne islands, and the disease, combined with the pandemic, means a full census of the breeding birds here hasn t been carried out in five years. so, this year s count means they can hopefully now work out a fuller picture of the impact on species like t