Especially for england and wales. Hello, this is bbc news. The headlines the Prime Minister pledges £2. 5 billion to create 10,000 new prison places and says all Police Forces will be given extended stop and search powers. The fbi is investigating the death of the multi millionaire businessman and convicted sex offenderjeffrey epstein, who was found dead in his new york prison cell. Police in hong kong fire tear gas at pro democracy protesters in the tenth consecutive weekend of Anti Government demonstrations. Now on bbc news, its time for sportsday. Hello and welcome to sportsday. The perfect start to the season for manchester united, and a dream debut for danieljames. England end wales unbeaten run and their chance to become world number one before the Rugby World Cup. Britains Jamie Chadwick becomes the first ever w series champion, after a tense final race of the season at brands hatch. Also coming up in the programme back to his best judd trump kicks off his season with a dominan
Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me are journalist and author, Yasmin Alibhai brown and former conservative advisor, mo hussein. Many of tomorrows front pages are already in. The i leads on a story weve covered today borisjohnsons promise to expand stop and search powers. Drug lords are luring children as young as seven into crime, by offering them free food thats according to the metro. Bankerjob cuts make the front page of the financial times. It says almost 30,000 job losses globally have been announced since april. The telegraph reports on a government crackdown on social media which, the paper says, will see tech giants heavily fined for showing harmful videos. And the guardian reveals that hundreds of people deported from the uk were restrained by methods including shackles and belts. That information was provided to the newspaper after a freedom of information request. So, a varied set of front pages lets see what our
Now on bbc news, click. This week, shutting down the net. Speeding up border checks. And completing the circle of life. Everyone, calm down. We are here. The best has arrived standby, please. Standby, Alexandra Palace. Switch out, regions, switch out. And back to the palace. This is Alexandra Palace, the but base of television. In november 1936, the worlds first High Definition Public Television service was broadcast from there. Tvjoined radio and the printed word in bringing us entertainment and information, to bring us together and broaden our minds. But these days, information has another way of getting out. Social media has given us all the power to say whatever we want and show whatever we want and that has caused several governments big problems. Some countries like china, iran and saudi arabia discussions about topics they dont want their people to hear about but many more countries will sporadically block social media sites, slow down internet speeds or even switch off net acce
Could Virtual Reality help women in the early stages of labour . Midwives in cardiff are encouraging expectant mothers to take part in tests to see whether the technology could help them relax, or even provide pain relief. If the trial is successful, the programme could be rolled out across wales. Tomos morgan has been to find out more. Iam sort i am sort of submerged within a herd of buffalo. Hannah is soon to be a first time mum. Of buffalo. Hannah is soon to be a firsttime mum. There is one right there. And when she had then to give birth at cardiffs University Hospital of wales you will be offered a Virtual Reality headset. It is not named as an alternative to medicine, but to provide a moment of calm and destruction. Even if it was useful in the very early stages, and then you decided ono, i want to be more present or i want to try something else, i think thats fine. Evenif something else, i think thats fine. Even if it helps for that 20 minutes, one hour, it is going to be a good
Gusts of wind, maybe 50 or 60 miles an hour, could cause disruption gcioss an hour, could cause disruption across england and wales. With lively and thundery downpours elsewhere, you will want to join lively and thundery downpours elsewhere, you will want tojoin me for the full cup full forecast here on breakfast. Its saturday, the 10th of august. Our top story the Energy Watchdog has demanded an urgent report from National Grid, after yesterdays massive power cut which affected nearly a Million People in england and wales. 0fgem has warned it could take enforcement action following the blackouts, which caused huge disruption to the rail network and cut electricity to hundreds of thousands of homes. Some rail passengers were stuck on trains until the early hours of the morning, as andy moore reports. Darkness at clapham station. The lights went out, the display boards died, even the ticket machines were com pletely died, even the ticket machines were completely dead. After four hours o