of reaching a five year old boy who s spent four days trapped in a well. and the queen hosts a reception at sandringham house for members of the local community ahead of the 70th anniversary of her accession to the throne. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. the government is strengthening the law to force social media companies to take down illegal content without waiting for it to be reported by users. under the online safety bill, firms will have to remove a number of categories of illegal material with several more now being added, including drugs and arms dealing, and forums that encourage suicide. sanchia berg reports. the online world can seem like a lawless space.
stressed that nato must be united in the face of russian aggression and say they are continuing to work together to develop a package of sanctions that would come into force immediately should russia further invade ukraine and, as well as ukraine, they also talked about the issue of illegal migration in the channel and they said that their commitment, borisjohnson be commitment, boris johnson be emphasised commitment, borisjohnson be emphasised their commitment to work together with france to deal with the challenge of the legal migration in the channel. the government is strengthening the law to force social media companies to take down illegal content without waiting for it to be reported by users. under the 0nline safety bill, firms will have to remove a number of categories of illegal material with several more now being added, including drugs and arms dealing, and forums that encourage suicide. sanchia berg reports. the online world can seem like a lawless space. this bill a f
forced people to leave their homes for safety. a yellow weather warning for widespread strong winds has been in place for most of the uk but has now been lifted. there are still 157 flood warnings across england, wales and scotland, and danger to life alerts were issued in greater manchester, as the river mersey reached its highest ever level. storm franklin comes days after storm eunice killed three people and left 1.4 million homes without power 33,000 are still waiting to be reconnected. sanchia berg reports. the third major storm in less than a week, battering the coast of northern ireland this morning. storm franklin, like eunice and dudley, is driven by an active jet stream, a current of air, five miles above the earth. in mid wales, high winds and rain caused flooding. roger hicks went to check on his elderly mother in the village of llandinam. i came round to the back of the house, and by the time i got round there, within two minutes, there was a foot, at least, of water,
storm franklin comes days after storm eunice killed three people and left 1.4 million homes without power 33,000 are still waiting to be reconnected. sanchia berg reports. the third major storm in less than a week, battering the coast of northern ireland this morning. storm franklin, like eunice and dudley, is driven by an active jet stream, a current of air, five miles above the earth. in mid wales, high winds and rain caused flooding. roger hicks went to check on his elderly mother in the village of llandinam. i came round to the back of the house, and by the time i got round there, within two minutes, there was a foot, at least, of water there, it had come in so suddenly. so, of course, we had to rush then to get her out from here and we carried her out into my car. she s fine now, yeah. moving on to england,
after storm eunice killed three people and left 1.4 million homes without power. 30,000 are still waiting to be reconnected. sanchia berg reports. the third major storm in less than a week, battering the coast of northern ireland this morning. storm franklin, like eunice and dudley, is driven by an active jet stream, a current of air five miles above the earth. in mid wales, high winds and rain caused flooding. roger hicks went to check on his elderly mother in the village of llandinam. i came round to the back of the house and by the time i got round there, within two minutes, there was a foot at least of water, it had come in so suddenly. so, of course, we had to rush then to get her out from here and we carried her out into my car. she s fine now, yeah. moving on to north west england, storm franklin brought more floods. swelling rivers like the aire