Rain to come for some before our attention turns to heavy snow in eastern scotland, i will have the details. Could freelancers finally be brought in to Government Support schemes . The covid emergency measures faces heavy criticism and is given six weeks to turn things around. In sport, they couldnt again, could they . Leicester city top the premier league this morning, five years after they won it against the odds. Its wednesday 20th january. Our top story. After a controversial four years, Donald Trumps presidency comes to an end later today, with the inauguration of the 46th president , joe biden. On the eve of his inauguration, mr biden spoke of the need for the nation to heal, as he led a Memorial Ceremony paying tribute to the 400,000 americans whove died with covid 19. Heres our washington correspondent nomia iqbal. Church bells rang out from the National Cathedral to remember the victims of covid 19. The reflecting pool at the National Mall was lit up for the 400,000 people who
This is bbc news. The headlines at 103m. Iran admits unintentionally shooting down the Ukranian Airlines passenger plane, killing all 176 people on board, because of human error. The Northern Ireland assembly will today sit for the First Time Since the collapse of power sharing three years ago. Keir starmer the shadow brexit secretary today launches his Leadership Campaign in the race to lead the labour party. Today he defended anti austerity policies. Sometimes when you lose an election there is a tendency to say that everything must go. That is wrong in my view. In the sport, more var controversy
after west hams injury time equaliser is denied due to an accidental handball picked up on the cameras. Coming up, cutting your train fares we look at how split ticketing can save you money, as its rolled out by a major ticketing firm. And at 10. 30 transporting you to outer space, in northern spain. An other worldly experience, in the travel show. Good morning. Iran has admitted that it uni
This is bbc news. The headlines. Iran admits unintentionally shooting down the Ukranian Airlines passenger plane killing all 176 people on board because of human error. The Northern Ireland assembly will today sit for the First Time Since the collapse of power sharing three years ago. Keir starmer the shadow brexit secretary officially launches his Leadership Campaign in the race to lead the labour party. Today he defended anti austerity policies. There is sometimes a tendency to say that everything we put on a ma nifesto that everything we put on a manifesto and everything we believed in the last four years has got to go. Wrong in my view. Coming up,
foreign correspondence giving is the latest on developments in iran in dateline. Iran has admitted that it unintentionally shot down a ukrainian passenger jet because of human error. He said the plane was misidentified asa he said the plane was misidentified as a Cruise Missile. 176 people died in the accidentjust hours after iran had fir
The headlines. The Top Senate Republican leader, Mitch Mcconnell, has directly blamed donald trump for the riot at the us capitol two weeks ago. Mr mcconnell said the mob was fed lies and provoked by the president. On the eve of his inauguration, us president Electjoe Biden has led a tribute to the a00,000 plus americans lost to the coronavirus, as he arrived in washington. Donald trump is expected to issue dozens of president ial pardons, on his last full day in office. Hes reported to be planning to grant clemency to the rapper lil wayne and a former speaker of the new york assembly, sheldon silver. Italys Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has won a confidence vote in the senate, but without the absolute majority he achieved in the lower house on monday. The votes were triggered when one of mr conte s Coalition Partners quit the government. Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me are the broadcaster david davies, and anna mikhailova, d