is at its lowest level for almost 50 years, according to figures released this morning. the chancellor kwasi kwarteng will meet the treasury select committee to bring you his economic plans. we will have updates about shortly. a hearing is under way at the supreme court on whether scotland can call an independence referendum without the consent of the uk government. there is at the wreck of the mary rose. it has come to the surface and it s exactly a0 years since henry viii s flagship the mary rose was raised from the bottom of the solent after 437 years under the sea. we can now go straight to the nato secretary generaljens stoltenberg to his reaction on those russian strikes in ukraine yesterday and today. we strikes in ukraine yesterday and toda . ~ . today. we will further increase the -rotection today. we will further increase the protection of today. we will further increase the protection of our today. we will further increase the protection of our critical p
live from london. this is bbc news. child killer lucy letby guilty of murdering seven babies refuses to face the families of her victims at her sentencing at manchester crown court. a state of emergency is declared as southern california is hit by torrential rain in the first tropical storm there for 80 years. saudi arabian border guards are accused of killing hundreds of ethiopian migrants trying to cross from war torn yemen. hello, i m lucy hockings, welcome to bbc news now, three hours of fast moving news, interviews and reaction. we start with the sentencing of nurse lucy letby the most prolific killer of children in modern british history.
in one of the video link cells where it is much more easy for the prison officers it is much more easy for the prison officers to it is much more easy for the prison officers to take some physical control officers to take some physical control rather than take them up and stares control rather than take them up and stares into control rather than take them up and stares into the docks, so not the ideal stares into the docks, so not the ideal solution. but that is the potential way forward so that is why the ability potential way forward so that is why the ability to have the victim impact the ability to have the victim impact statement is so important. thank impact statement is so important. thank you impact statement is so important. thank you forjoining us. we have been bringing you some of those really distressing and harrowing victim impact statements that have been delivered in court this morning, both by the families themselves, and person in some cases and also in
nine year old school garg 0livia pratt korbel who was shot by a masked gunman inside her home in liverpool, her mother said the fact that the family had to relive the pain of 0livia s death but the offender could choose to opt out of the sentencing was in her words kick in the teeth. then it was 28 year old sabina nessa who was murdered in a park in south east london. she was a primary school teacher and her older sister called the murderer who refused to appear a coward. this is something which of course has really attracted a lot of public attention because the whole point of a trial in front of a jury of one s peers, the point of sentencing victim impact statements, sentencing victim impact statements, sentencing remarks, when you hear later on thejudge mr sentencing remarks, when you hear later on the judge mrjustice goss address those sentencing remarks he will speak as if lucy letby was in the dock to hear them but she won t be and that means there has been
damage generally to do anything that will damage the institution. being transparent sounds great on paper but if transparent sounds great on paper but if you transparent sounds great on paper but if you are an institution it can be enormously unhelpful and certainly for something like the health certainly for something like the health service, already facing huge challenges, enormous difficulty, and a period challenges, enormous difficulty, and a period in challenges, enormous difficulty, and a period in which they find themselves having to repeal all the problems themselves having to repeal all the problems that exist under the surface, problems that exist under the surface, that in itself can make things surface, that in itself can make things worse for a time above the counter things worse for a time above the counter argument has to be that if we really counter argument has to be that if we really want our institutions to behave we really want our institutions to b