So if you are just tuning in a slightly different look for a saturday morning, dont worry, it is saturday. I know normally in on a monday, but few people off sick and various other staffing issues. Weve stepped into the breach, havent we, martin . Yes. Delightful to be back here with you. Likewise. Well, our top story this morning. Were leading with the economy. Its good news. Its grown at the fastest rate in two years, outpacing both america and the eurozone. And that means that the uk is officially out of recession, with many hoping for tax cuts over the next few months. And this comes after the former labour leader, lord kinnock, has claimed that voters in britain are not in love with sir keir starmer, with some concerns emerging of a shock result in the upcoming election. Yeah, if you recall, back in 1992, neil kinnock was thought to have lost an election that was deemed unusable. Was deemed unusable. Well, joining us now is political commentator peter spencen political commentator
Employment are the findings of an audit on Racial Disparity. And over the volcano a new Scientific Mission in iceland to try to forecast the next major eruption. Good evening. Welcome to bbc news. I assume the mandate of the people for catalonia to become an independent republic the words of catalan president Carles Puigdemont to the Regions Parliament as he announced his intention to declare independence from spain. But he went on to say said that the declaration would not take immediate effect instead it would be suspended for some weeks to try to negotiate a settlement with madrid. Lets go over live now to barcelona and my colleague tim willcox. You join me live outside of the cata la n you join me live outside of the Catalan Parliament. The speech was delayed by more than an hour. And in the end Carles Puigdemont, the cata la n the end Carles Puigdemont, the catalan president , marched his supporters almost up to the top of the hill but not quite. And then he marched them back a li
Started for some last couple days. We are in a significant cooler pattern here especially today. It will bottom out today much bigger fog bank drizzle, rip roaring turbo charge delta breeze everything is in place. Cloud cover just pouring in on the low clouds, 60s, 60s, 70s. 80s but livermore will be a soft 80. Soft 80. Sal happy friday. Same to you steve happy friday. We are looking at some of these commute that is are doing very well to start off our friday we are hoping to get a little bit of a lighter commute. This is a look at the commute from vacaville, fairfield, vallejo, a nice looking drive all the way through down to the carcenas bridge. Heading out to the junction where a lot of traffic splits off. Looking at the commute driving on interstate 880 it is a very nice drive this is in oakland no surprises today traffic continues to look good at the bay bridge toll plaza you will see traffic is looking good getting into San Francisco now back to the desk. Thank you sal. New overn
Aung san suy kyi heads to a land slide victory in historic elections in myanmar hundreds of thousands of syrian refugee children missing out on an education moving art a major new exhibition by the master of suspended sculptures. Russia could be banned from olympic athletic competitions after a report from wada with allegations of cover ups. There has been money demanded to bury tests showing drug use. Russia appears to have been running a statesupported doping programme. A report implicates athletics the i. A. A. F. , saying that failures within the organization are preventing it catching drug cheats. Paul rees completes the coverage from geneva, where the study was released. In the swift sunshine a dark day for sporting athletics. Claims by wada of doping in russia returned its verdict. My recommendation is that the Russian Federation be suspended. Reporter if it doesnt fix the problem, no russian athlete at the rio 2016 olympic games. Theres a deeply rooted culture of cheating among
Indonesia are giving themselves up to detention centres. First, the Nigerian Military denied it was warned about the kidnapping of hundreds of school girls by boko haram. A military spokesman said it has to be categorically stated the kidnapping of school girls a month as soon as has affected nigerias education system. Nowhere is it more apparent than in borno, where some are pulling their children out of schools. Boko haram opposes western education and wants schools shut down. We have this report. Reporter a mother of four lost her husband to boko haram a few years ago. She dreamt of her children becoming doctors and lawyers. But boko haram attention in schools forced her to change her mind. I really wanted them to go to conventional schools, but abduction made me rethink. I pulled them out and put them in a koranic school. Theyll be safe. Its painful what the chibok mothers are going through. Her youngest daughter said it was a painful decision for them. Translation i feel sad when