heart of china s highly secret in incarceration. includes details of the sheet kill policy. the murder of this toddler. the boyfriend is jailed. west ham defender pleads guilty to kicking and slapping a cat under offences under the animal welfare act. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. speaking for the first time, insiders who attended gatherings in downing street during covid lockdowns have told bbc news that they would arrive at work to find bins overflowing with empty bottles from the night before, and that parties were routine. they say staff sat on each other s laps at a leaving do in november 2020, where the prime minister has now been pictured, and that security guards were laughed at when they tried to stop one party from taking place. borisjohnson is facing fresh questions about his attendance at the leaving party, and the metropolitan police are facing calls to explain why the prime minister wasn t issued with a fine. 0ur political correspondent ben wright has
7018, for sunshine and showers. temperatures 70 18, for many, not sunshine and showers. temperatures 7018, for many, not feeling too bad if you re out in the breeze in that strong may sunshine. 0n if you re out in the breeze in that strong may sunshine. on thursday were looking at a river bank moving into central regions of the uk. it could go further northwards or southwards. to the south east of that it should be dry with quite a bit of cloud but some sunny spells, and for the north west, sunshine and showers and breezy conditions once again. temperatures 13 15 for northern areas, but still around 19-20 northern areas, but still around 19 20 towards the south east of england and then high pressure is set to build in into the weekend with the weather predominately becoming driver sunny spells, but the wind coming down from an north westerly direction so a tendency for it to turn a tad cooler. , . , ., ., , cooler. chris, many thanks. that is all from the cooler. chris, man
the premier league approve a £4 billion takeover of chelsea football club by a consortium led by la dodgers co owner todd boehly. manchester united and england. marcus rashford s debut book wins stock prizes. we ll be talking to the co author at 8:45pm. good evening. welcome to bbc news. there are more questions for the government tonight over behaviour in downing street during covid lockdowns. for the first time, insiders who attended gatherings there have told the bbc that parties were routine and they would arrive at work to find bins overflowing with empty bottles from the night before. they say staff sat on each other s laps at a leaving do in november 2020, where the prime minister has now been pictured, and that security guards were laughed at when they tried to stop one party from taking place. borisjohnson s spokesman says he takes the accusations very seriously . the prime minister remains under pressure over his attendance at the leaving party a year and a half
Let me bring you two new lines coming in in the last few moments. Reuters news agency reporting that alerts are being sounded in more towns in northern israel. Warnings of incoming aircraft, i say aircraft, the thought is we are talking about drones. That is happening in the north, alerts in more towns in northern israel with warnings of incoming aircraft. We are keeping an eye on that, we have been talking to our correspondent on the borders with lebanon so well get the latest on that line. And diplomatically the Afp News Agency reports that china has urged, quote, an immediate ceasefire in a call with palestinian officials. That is coming from the Foreign Ministry in the last few seconds. If there are more details we will obviously return to those. Time for a look at the Business News now with ben thompson. Thank you, matthew. We will look through some of those top Business Stories right now. Economies around the world are assessing the potential fall out of the conflict between isra