Thousands of nurses in Northern Ireland have begun so lets go live to capitol hill. A 12 hour strike over pay and patient safety. The house of representatives this is the chamber in the us in washington has started house of representatives. The process of impeaching the house has just been called President Trump. To order with a prayer, then the pledge of allegiance. 19 year old Ayoub Majdouline has been sentenced to life with a minimum term of 21 years for the gang murder of 14 year old jaden moodie. Coming up on afternoon things will kick off for the day of impeachment. For the first hour, we live, all the sport. Will hear debate about the rules of this process. This is from the rules european champions liverpool kick off against monterey shortly and the committee of the house, there are 13 clu b world off against monterey shortly and the Club World Cup out in doha, at stake people on that committee, nine for them is a place in the final democrats and four republicans, and against so
Children, 100,000 children. And, as sadly so often is the case, children who are on free school meals, the poorest children, and children with special Educational Needs fare the worst in the situation. And excitment builds as the Rugby World Cup gets underway in japan. Good morning. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. Large numbers of british schoolchildren are joining millions of people in a worldwide protest against Climate Change. Around 5,000 demonstrations are planned across 150 countries. Many will involve young people staying away from school, university or work. Those involved are calling for more urgent action from governments to halt global warming. The demonstrations come ahead of a un summit on Climate Change in new york on monday. This was the scene outside westminster where thousands are expected to gather for one of the strikes getting under way shortly. The first protest began in the Pacific Island of vanuatu where rising sea levels threaten communities. In dehli, children an
I nigel, thank you. Well, the top story tonight on gb news is that we can exclusively reveal 80 migrants are currently being housed at a former raf base in essex. Housed at a former raf base in essex. Its more than housed at a former raf base in essex. Its more than a month after the first group of migrants arrived there, the wethersfield base near braintree in essex is meant to house up to 1700 people. The home office says therell be a gradual increase in the numbers, but sources suggest the pace will be significantly slower than was first envisioned. The site has had problems with disease amongst the first group of arrivals and there are problems with the utilities not working properly and gb news can reveal 550 people have crossed the engush 550 people have crossed the English Channel in ten small boats over the last 24 hours. That brings the number of migrants whove made the journey this year to more than 17,500 uk border force say theyre on red alert during an extremely busy time
Good morning. It is going to be fairly cloudy and wet today across the central swathes of the uk. To the central swathes of the uk. To the south of that mostly dry and mild. In the north, blustery showers with gales in north west scotland. Details later. Good morning. Its wednesday, 13th march. Rishi sunak is facing calls to hand back millions of pounds donated to the Conservative Party by a businessman accused of making racist comments about the mp, diane abbott. Tech boss frank hester is reported to have said ms abbott made him want to hate all black women, and that she should be shot. The Prime Minister called the comments racist and wrong. Our Political Correspondent Hannah Miller has more. Hello, rishi. How are you . Very nice to see you. When rishi sunak made this visit to a mill near leeds in november, his Helicopter Ride had been provided by one of his partys biggest donors, frank hester, Who Last Year donated £10 million to the Conservative Party, now alleged to have made com