Good morning. It is going to be fairly cloudy and wet today across the central swathes of the uk. To the central swathes of the uk. To the south of that mostly dry and mild. In the north, blustery showers with gales in north west scotland. Details later. Good morning. Its wednesday, 13th march. Rishi sunak is facing calls to hand back millions of pounds donated to the Conservative Party by a businessman accused of making racist comments about the mp, diane abbott. Tech boss frank hester is reported to have said ms abbott made him want to hate all black women, and that she should be shot. The Prime Minister called the comments racist and wrong. Our Political Correspondent Hannah Miller has more. Hello, rishi. How are you . Very nice to see you. When rishi sunak made this visit to a mill near leeds in november, his Helicopter Ride had been provided by one of his partys biggest donors, frank hester, Who Last Year donated £10 million to the Conservative Party, now alleged to have made com
White to make with the problems with automation and pictures. We start with Breaking News in gaza with more details emerging of an explosion at a Un Relief Agency warehouse, in rafah in southern gaza. The Hamas Run Health Ministry says, five people have been killed, with more wounded. These are pictures verified by the bbc filmed at a nearby hospital, where casualties were taken. Israel has not commented so far on the incident. It comes as the us and others continue to urge israel not to launch a full scale assault on rafah where over a million palestinians have taken shelter in recent weeks. Let me show you pictures of the warehouse itself that were talking about. These taken in the immediate aftermath. This the scene inside, a lot of the images are too graphic to broadcast. Unrwas Director Of Communications isjuliette touma. Welcome to the programme. Tell me what you know. Welcome to the programme. Tell me what you know welcome to the programme. Tell me what you know welcome to the p
Apologies for problems with the automation and pictures there. We start with Breaking News in gaza, with more details emerging of an explosion at a Un Relief Agency warehouse, in rafah in southern gaza. The Hamas Run Health Ministry says, five people have been killed, with more wounded. These are pictures verified by the bbc, filmed at a nearby hospital, where casualties were taken. Israel has not commented so far on the incident. It comes as the us and others continue to urge israel, not to launch a full scale assault on rafah, where over a million palestinians have taken shelter in recent weeks. Let me show you pictures of the warehouse itself that were talking about. These taken in the immediate aftermath. Those were the pictures from inside. A lot of the images are too graphic to broadcast. Lets speak to unrwas director of communicationsjuliette touma. Welcome to the programme. Tell me what you know. Welcome to the programme. Tell me what you know welcome to the programme. Tell me
Technology boss frank hester who donated £10 million to the Party Last Year is said to have made the comments in 2019. Our Political Correspondent Hannah Miller has more. Hello, rishi. How are you . Very nice to see you. When rishi sunak made this visit to a mill near leeds in november, his Helicopter Ride had been provided by one of his partys biggest donors, frank hester, Who Last Year donated £10 million to the Conservative Party, now alleged to have made comments that the Prime Ministers spokesperson has described as Racist And Wrong. Its like trying not to be racist. But you see diane abbott on the tv, frank hester is reported to have said in 2019, and you just want to hate all black women because shes there, and i dont hate all black women at all, but i think she should be shot. Mr hester has apologised and said that he abhors racism. In a statement he said that he accepts that he made comments that were rude about diane abbott, but said his criticism had nothing to do with her
arrested in connection with the incident. you can see the tweets there from gloucestershire constabulary. they tweeted saying that the school had been locked down because of the ongoing situation. we don t know if the school is still in lockdown now. it is at the tewkesbury school on ashchurch road. a teenage boy has been arrested with the incident and an adult has been taken to hospital with a suspected stab wound. they were called at 9:10am this morning with reports that a people had stabbed a teacher. the bbc is meeting with london s metropolitan police today to discuss allegations that one of its presenters paid a teenager tens of thousands of pounds for sexually explicit photos. the male presenter, who hasn t been named, has been suspended, but the young person s family is said, by the sun newspaper, to be upset by the corporation s latest response. let s just take a look at the chain of events. the family first complained to the bbc about the presenter s behaviour on 19