the result of sabotage. the uk must prepare for a big wave of flu this winter, say health experts, as people are urged to get flu and covid vaccines. and the spotlight is on glasgow and liverpool, as they vie to host next year s eurovision song contest. and coming up on the bbc news channel, england s women will play their first ever stand alone fixture at twickenham next year. theirfinal six nations match against france will take place at rugby hq. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. the bank of england has made a surprise intervention to try to calm the financial markets, by launching a temporary uk government bond buying programme. it s an attempt to get long term borrowing costs down. they had been. since last week s mini budget. the emergency move is to stave off what the bank said was a material risk to the country s financial stability , given the turmoil that s followed friday s mini budget. the bank said its intervention was to restore orderly market
from military witnesses can to be used as evidence in the trial of solider f over bloody sunday in 1972. 13 people were shot dead when the parachute regiment opened fire on a civil rights march in londonderry. soldier f, who cannot be named for legal reasons, has been charged with two murders and five attempted murders. a drink driver, who killed a charity cyclist and then hid his body in a shallow grave on a remote scottish estate, has been sentenced to 12 years in prison. alexander mckellar was speeding when he hit 63 year old tony parsons, and left him to die on the a82 near bridge of 0rchy in 2017. mr parsons remains weren t found for three years. british police are investigating the deaths of 88 people in the uk who bought a poisonous substance from a man in canada who s accused of helping people to take their own lives. kenneth law was arrested near toronto in may,
demonstration in the bogside area of derry. back in 2019 prosecutors decided to charge one army veteran known as solider f with murder in connection with two of the deaths, of james wade connection with two of the deaths, ofjames wade and william mckinney. solider f also charged with five counts of attempted murder. last year though crown lawyers announced that they were planning to drop those charges. that decision followed the collapse of the trial of other former soldiers charged in relation to killing during the conflict in northern ireland. but the mckinney family took a legal challenge against the move to discontinue the bloody sunday prosecution. they won the challenge and prosecution lawyers reviewed the case and this morning a crown lawyer confirmed before a judge here in belfast that he was now in a position to recommence. so the next stage of the criminal proceedings against solider f will be a series
knowing it was notjustified. we concluded that he had seriously lied about what he was doing. lord saville s conclusion on solider f is damning. there was one voice amongst the paratroopers i spoke to, the company sergeant major, that dissented. he wished to remain anonymous. he came close to breaking ranks. how would he describe the military operation that day? chaos. after the initial deployment, it was chaos. did you see any gunmen? no. did you see any gunmen or weapons? no. do you believe 20 years on, they were gunmen, those killed? not at all.