Of the Uk Supreme Court says shes concerned about the lack of resources for legal advice in england and wales. Free hospital parking in england for some patients and visitors from april but questions are raised over how it will be funded. In a year that saw the planets hottest month on record, nick miller and Sarah Keith Lucas reflect on the most significant meteorological events of 2019 in weather world. This time on weather world, were in cambridge, where right here during 2019s record setting european heatwave, the temperature was the highest the uks ever recorded. At the uks hottest weather station, ill discover how you go about accurately recording temperature, and ill be finding out whats behind another year of record heatwaves. The science is overwhelmingly clear that the cause of this Climate Change is our activities as humans putting more and more Carbon Dioxide and other Greenhouse Gases into the atmosphere. And im at Cambridge University, where a new look at pioneering Data
And 2019 saw the hottest month on record. In half an hour on bbc news weather world looks back at some of the most significant meteorological events of the year. At least 16 people have been killed by a typhoon in the philippines which has left a trail of devastation through the centre of the country. Wind gusts reached 200 kilometres an hour tearing roofs off houses and leaving tens of thousands of people stranded at ports. The storm has been following a similar track to typhoon haiyan in 2013, the most powerful to hit the area in decades. Catherine karelli reports. A far from peaceful christmas in the central philippines. Typhoon phanfone has brought sustained winds of almost 200 kilometres an hour, terrifying local people. Woman screams. And leaving a trail of destruction. Heavy rain has left many homes flooded. More than 16,000 people had to spend the night in improvised shelters and at least 100 families have been left homeless. The typhoon, which has damaged infrastructure, stopp
Day programme of the decade. And coming up in half an hour on bbc news, amol rajan takes a look back at a year dominated by the power of social media, in review 2019 the media year. Spanish police have named a british holiday maker and his two children who drowned in a Swimming Pool on christmas eve. Gabriel diya had been staying with his family at a resort on the costa del sol. Police say the pool appears to have been working normally at the time. Emily unia reports. According to spanish police, gabriel diya, who was 52, died trying to rescue his nine year old daughter, comfort, after she got into difficulties in this hotel Swimming Pool. His 16 year old son praise emmanuel tried to help and also died. Postmortem examinations confirmed that all three drowned. A 14 year old girl, the childrens sister, raised the alarm. A british tourist whos staying at the resort told the bbc she spoke to the childrens mother. I noticed a woman was walking towards where i was. She looked really distrau
Heres our politics correspondent tony bonsignore. Three days awn, labour is still trying to work out what went so catastrophically wrong. Im just sorry that we let people down. In the observer today Jeremy Corbyn offers an apology. But the labour leader remains convinced that the campaign wasnt a total failure. He says. From the shadow chancellor is this morning, a fuller apology. Let me make it clear. It is on me. Lets ta ke make it clear. It is on me. Lets take it on the chin. I own this disaster. But again i believe that the core message was a good one, and other factors were also to blame. The core message was a good one, and other factors were also to blameli think it was brexit that did it. We we re think it was brexit that did it. We were on the horns of a dilemma, we couldnt move either way and we try to compromise and it didnt work. Thats the first thing. The second thing, the media did a number on jeremy, forfour years thing, the media did a number on jeremy, for four years s
As the showers work their way northwards and eastwards we could cic stretches particularly for parts of Northern England and southern scotland. Further south it should be frost free. Sunshine and showers on monday with most of the showers in Northern Ireland and western scotla nd Northern Ireland and western scotland with snow over higher ground. England and wales looking mostly dry with some sunshine. More cloud and a few showers towards a south east later on. That rain lingers first thing into tuesday but clears away with not a bad day on tuesday with some sunshine around and top temperatures of about 4 degrees. Hello, this is bbc news with me, ben brown. The headlines. The labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, has apologised to supporters, for his partys heavy defeat in the general election. As Boris Johnson prepares for thurdays queen speech, the government is to enshrine in law, a commitment to raise spending on the nhs in england. Nicola sturgeon has renewed her call for a second referen