And a landing on the martian surface what a year for science its going to be. Merry christmas good morning. Welcome to breakfast with victoria fritz and Nina Warhurst. Our headlines today calls for an independent inquiry after a new years honours data leak. The addresses of celebrities, politicians, and Police Officers appeared online. Five people have been stabbed after a man forced his way into the home of a rabbi in new york. Three, two, one a quarter of a Million People sign a petition calling for sydneys new years eve fireworks to be cancelled and the money spent on fighting bushfires. Andy murray is out of next months australian open. He says hes gutted after failing to recover from a pelvic injury. And another manager sacked. West ham have dismissed Manuel Pellegrini just hours after losing to leicester city. Good morning. It has been an exceptionally mild night across the uk, ridiculously for scotland where temperatures have been into the mid teens. All due to being tucked in u
Holiday plans are under threat. To be bold and concrete in the pledges. And the u. N. Appeals for urgent help for refugees as their number reaches an all time high. And im santa homeless with all the sporty talian Football League is facing a renewed and intense public backlash for its handling of racism syria have used images of monkeys or any new campaign to tackle the problem causing even more controversy. But we begin where violence has again broken nights in the capital over a controversial new citizenship law police fired tear gas and hit protesters with the tones out of vehicles and shops were damaged in new delhi now theres widespread. Anger against the law that office minorities from neighboring countries indian citizenship bots excludes muslims well earlier students from the Jamia Millia Islamia University Also in new delhi staged another rally after they were told by the Supreme Courts to take their accusations of Police Brutality to the high courts that comes after a crackdo
Brazils controversial former president needed to silva gets a heros welcome after hes released from prison saying hes free and ready to fight. And just many marks 30 years since the fall of the wall in a world that many say is more divided than ever before. And im were hearty in doha with sports a record crowd is in attendance as the england womens Football Team played germany in a friendly at wimberley. Welcome to the news al top story demonstrators in iraqs capital have fled a barge of gunfire and tear gas a Security Forces move in to clear protest sites the Iraqi Human Rights Commission is saying that at least 4 people have been killed and more than 100 injured antigovernment protest as have been on the streets for weeks now say. Theyre fed up with corruption and a struggling economy and hashim going to reports from baghdad. On saturday evening Security Forces from baghdad to basra and karbala confronted protestors in baghdad there were reports of gunfire and tear gas at a square an
Hello and welcome to bbc news. The first of the victims of fridays terror attack in Central London has been named as jack merritt, a cambridge graduate who was helping coordinate a conference on prisoner rehabilitation near London Bridge. He was one of two People Killed by 28 year old usman khan, a former prisoner whod been convicted of terrorism offences, and released from prison on licence last year. Khan, whod been invited to the conference, was shot dead by police after members of the public tackled him. Heres our Home Affairs Correspondent daniel sandford. 25 years old and with the sense of adventure, jack merritt had a masters from cambridge university. His father said today he was a beautiful spirit who always took the side of the underdog. Yesterday, he was stabbed to death in a frenzied attack by a former prisoner at a conference that hed helped organise. His killer was taken on by people from the same conference, including otherformer prisoners and by a passing policeman in c
Rail passenger groups have criticised a decision by Train Companies to increase fares by an average of 2. 7 injanuary. It means some commuters face rises of more than a hundred pounds in the cost of their season tickets. Rail firms say the extra money will pay for improvements to the network. Heres our business correspondent, katie prescott. Christmas is coming and for commuters on South Western Railway that means almost a month of scenes like these as strikes on the line start on monday. So the news that train fares will rise again next year, above the standard rate of inflation, has not gone down well with these passengers in bristol. I think the rail service probably needs to be improved nationwide before they can think about putting up fares. Ive just come over from cambridge and it would have been cheaper for me to go to paris. Todays announcement means many commuters face an increase of more than £100 in the annual cost of getting to work. For example, a season ticket from eastb