Freddie ljungberg. After a relatively dry start on the east, wet and windy weather in the west will move across all areas today. The strongest winds in the north and the west. I will have more inis north and the west. I will have more in 15 minutes. Remember the ice bucket challenge. Tributes are paid to the man who inspired it, raising more than £150 million for charity. It is tuesday 10 december. Our Top Story Police in new zealand are launching a criminal investigation into the deaths of 13 people after a volcanic explosion at a popular Tourist Destination. White island remains too dangerous to access, but aerial reconnaissance flights have detected no further sign of life there. Doctors treating the 31 injured fear some have suffered burns so severe they may not survive. Our correspondent Shaima Khalil has this report. The Prime Minister on the sight of where those who were affected by the devastation were first taken, praising those who jumped straight into helper. They worked ti
Katie gornall, bbc news, manchester. Hello. This is bbc news with lukwesa burak. Well be taking a look at tomorrow mornings papers in a moment, first the headlines. Campaigning intensifies as politicians canvass in key battlegrounds with just days until the country goes to the polls. In india, at least a0 people are killed in a fire at a factory making schoolbags in delhi. A 13 year old boy is among three people detained for involvement in the murder of a woman, stabbed to death in northamptonshire. A man is arrested after video emerges of alleged racial abuse of Manchester United players during yesterdays derby. Ive got something wrong with me. That is what to know. I have threads in my head, man. Edward norton is a private detective with tourettes, tracking down the man who killed his mentor. That and more, in the film review just after 6. 45. Straight after the papers. Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me are the parliament
Manchester united are losing 2 1 to sheffield wednesday. Full details in sports day in half an hour, here on bbc news. Good afternoon. Borisjohnson has launched the conservative partys election manifesto, promising to get his brexit deal passed by parliament as soon as possible after the election, if he wins. In a speech in telford in shropshire, he offered what he called a route map to take the country forward. For the nhs in england theres a pledge to add 50 thousand more nurses and restore nursing grants thats on top of an existing promise to pump tens of billions more into the Health Service. He said thered be no rises in income tax, National Insurance and vat for 5 years. And he pledged to raise the threshold at which people start paying National Insurance, to £9,500, a saving of £85 a year, per person. Our political editor, Laura Kuenssberg was at the manifesto launch, and her report contains some flash photography. Ahead, but farfrom clear. Feeling optimistic . Tories out the
More on our web site bbc. C0. Uk news and the news app. Now on bbc news live to singapore for Asia Business report. Black friday all bleak friday . Whats in store from the Global Shopping bonanza for retailers and the environment . Indias economic slowdown. Officialfigures the environment . Indias economic slowdown. Official figures are today are expected to confirm the weakest growth in more than six years. Welcome to Asia Business report. Its friday but its notjust any friday. It happens to be black friday. It happens to be black friday today, the start of what retailers are hyping as the cyber weekend Global Shopping spree in the worlds biggest economy the united states, spending over the next four daysis states, spending over the next four days is expected to break the 29 billion mark by the time cyber mondays over. Companies are hoping for a sales boost ahead of the next round of tariffs on imports from china which are due next month. Of course, a lot of that spending is now on li
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