Underwater motorways heavy rain and floods put the brakes on the christmas getaway. Buckingham palace confirms that the duke of edinburch is in hospital. Coming up on afternoon live all the sport with connie. Waiting for announcement from arsenal . Were waiting for confirmation that mikel arteta is the new arsenal manager. Up until this week he was assistant coach to Pep Guardiola at Manchester City and in the last hour or so hes confirmed that arteta has left the club and hes in london. Chris has all the weather parts of the country flooded . We will be looking at how much rain has fallen over the last couple of days, bringing flooding seems like these, but also crucially as the Christmas Holiday getaway gets under way, we will be looking at what the weather has in store over the next few days. Thanks, chris. Also coming up. Three, two, one and lift off a new era in human space flight. Could this capsule one day take paying passengers into space . Hello, everyone this is afternoon liv
A look atjohn bercows most memorable moments as he stands down as house of commons speaker. And england name an unchanged side to face south africa in the Rugby World Cup final on saturday. Good morning and welcome to the bbc news at nine. Campaigning has begun for the next general election to be held on december 12th. The labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, will launch his partys campaign this morning. Hell say the election offers a once in a generation chance to transform the country and will promise to go after tax dodgers, dodgy landlords and big polluters. Borisjohnson is due to make a series of campaign visits of his own, highlighting what he calls the peoples priorities education, the nhs and crime. The Prime Minister suffered a blow on wednesday evening as one of his cabinet ministers, nicky morgan, became the latest tory mp to decide not to stand for re election. Today was of course the day the uk was due to leave the European Union. Nick eardley has more. Get used to scenes like th
Andi he knows exactly what he has done and i hope he comes clean about it. Thank you. Documents discovered by the bbc suggest the government, and h52, knew the High Speed Railway was over budget and behind schedule years ago. And would you be prepared to feed your pets insects . Vets say it could help fight climate change. And at half past 11 well be taking an in depth look at the papers with our reviewers brexit commissioning editor at the telegraph, asa bennett and author and journalist, rachel shabi. Stay with us for that. Good evening. Opposition parties have agreed to Work Together to try to stop britain leaving the European Union without a deal. The labour leaderJeremy Corbyn, says mps will take the first steps towards trying to pass a law blocking a no deal brexit when parliament returns next week. The greens, the snp and the lib dems were among those who pledged to Work Together today they also said a vote of no confidence to bring down the government remained an option. Downin
cheering thank you for putting your faith in me to thank you for putting your faith in me to lead thank you for putting your faith in me to lead our great conservative party liz truss will become prime minister tomorrow what s her answer to some major questions facing the uk? i will act immediately on bills and on energy supply. he ll have to leave number 10 first have we heard the last of him? he will be a great loss to politics, but hopefully it ll only be a temporary loss. and will prime minister truss be able to unite her party after all of this? £40 billion more borrowing. i that is the country s credit card, i it s on children and grandchildren. it has been a busy summer and a busy first day back. i m joined by gerard lyons, wes streeting, sebastien payne and isabel hardman. we ll bring you all the developments as they happen. first let s show you how the results looked. just over 57% to liz truss, just over, actuallyjust under 43% to rishi sunak. and let s l