let s stay with the subject of whether it s breaking news coming to us today from the uk health security agency. it has issued a weekend heat health alert. the heat health alert has been erased from yellow to a more severe amber, with warnings in three different regions of england, the midlands, eastern and southern england. the amber alert which is more severe than what we had before comes into effect from 9am on friday and indicates that high temperatures could affect the whole population and perhaps more importantly could also affect the health service. now this is what the weather watchers have been calling an iberian plume, a plume of very warm weather that has come in from the spanish peninsula. we will not last especially long and probably will be over by sunday but it comes and cuts across spain and portugal, bringing across spain and portugal, bringing a lot of high pressure and with it temperatures that could at some point touch 30 degrees, which may be normal for p
the police are very much out in force and many areas around the university are still cordoned off by police were advising people to stay away. at a press conference, please confirm the shooter was a student at the universities faculty of arts at charles university where the incident happened. it is near a very famous tourist site, the 14th century bridge at the heart of historic prague, just a stone s throw away from the town square and very popular tourist but is the christmas markets in the christmas season where it really sees the number of tourists increasing and people in the programme on a holiday and also speaking to a couple who were in prague on their honeymoon who said were told by police to get away as quickly as possible. when the event happened, the building they warn people around the area to stay away. and they been reissuing people that is not in danger and it s not connected to international terrorism in any way and the president does express to shock and sen
obese when she died at the family home in october 2020. and bp announces record profits of £23 billion, more than double that of the year before. and, the great british fighting plane, one of the most famous from world war two, known as the mosquito, could soon fly again in the uk thanks to a group of volunteers. good afternoon, and welcome to bbc news. more than five thousand people are now known to have died after yesterday s devastating earthquakes that hit turkey and syria. many more have been injured, as thousands of buildings collapsed. the homeless are now having to endure freezing temperatures without shelter, as rescue teams and local residents scramble to free others trapped in the rubble, with some people being heard crying out in pain for help. the uk hasjoined dozens of countries in promising aid for turkey s gaziantep province, near the epicentre of the quakes. with more, here s richard galpin. almost 36 hours after the huge earthquake struck this region, survi
attacks targeting schoolgirls and in the past few weeks hundreds of girls have been hospitalised and aid agencies say they may have been singled out by religious groups. this is bbc news. now on bbc news witness history. hello. i m ben boulos. thanks forjoining me at the queer british museum in london for this edition of witness history. i ll bring you important moments from the past as told by the people who were there. in this episode, we re focusing on lgbt history, stories about lesbian, gay and trans people from all over the world. coming up: we hear how lesbian activists broke through bbc security to stage a protest on live tv. plus, the fight for lgbt rights in uganda where being gay was punishable by death. how the balkans war inspired a groundbreaking film about trans sex workers. and the fight to use the word 0lympics for the very first gay games. but first to san francisco, and the aids memorial that would make headlines all over the world. activist cleve jones
hello and welcome. less tha n less than two hours before we expect donald trump making that unprecedented appearance in court in manhattan to become the first burton who served as a us president to face criminal charges. let me take you through the light pictures coming m, in, so many in, so many cameras in, so many cameras being pointed at different elements and aspects of this story in new york. the helicopter first charting every bit of the movement that we will see from the former president from trump tower on fifth avenue to the courthouse itself. there at trump tower where the former president has been holed up with his legal team, we were hearing from gary 0 donoghue a short while ago talk about a late minute bid from the legal team to move the trial out of manhattan perhaps to staten island. that request likely to go in and those are pictures from the helicopter of the park opposite the courthouse. we have also been showing pictures on the grounds it we will get that