Things its the first day of big school, isnt it . Tonight the Prime Minister has announced 2 cabinet appointments simon hart becomes the new welsh secretary, while retiring mp nicky morgan becomes a life peer, retaining her brief as culture secretary. In belfast, new talks get under way to try to restore the devolved government in Northern Ireland. At the high court, victory for the postmasters who say their lives were ruined by a faulty Computer System. More protests in india against a new citizenship law seen to discriminate against the nations muslim minority. Around £50m worth ofjewellery is stolen from the home of formula one heiress tamara ecclestone. A tough draw for english clubs in the Champions League Manchester City and liverpool take on madrid rivals real and atletico, while chelsea and spurs face german opposition. And at 11 30, well be taking an in depth look at the papers with our reviewers, the former director general of the cbi lord digbyjones and the journalist and a
Around £50 million worth of jewellery is stolen from the home of formula one heiress Tamara Ecclestone. Sleep in heavenly peace and no longer on his own the man who spent 20 christmases alone finds plenty of friendship at last. And coming up on bbc news. Manchester city face tough opposition in the last 16 for the Champions League theyve drawn real madrid. Three other english teams tottenham, chelsea and defending champions liverpool are also involved. Good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. Boris johnson is preparing to address his new mps, who have been arriving in westminster before they go to the house of commons tomorrow. Some of the 109 new mps are from labour strongholds which had never voted conservative before. Later this week, the government will set out its plans in the queens speech. Its then expected to try to pass crucial brexit legislation on friday. Meanwhile, the fallout from labours defeat continues with Party Officials saying they are expected to meet ear
At the end of the month. The home secretary calls on facebook to rethink plans to encrypt messages across its platforms. Walking out former conservative leadership contender rory stewart resigns from the party and plans to stand for mayor of london coming up on afternoon live, all the sport with olly foster. Encouraging progress for andy murray. He was quite chipper today, he says hes been playing his best tennis yet on the singles comeback trail. Thats despite a quarterfinal defeat in china today. And theres been a big win for south africa over italy at the Rugby World Cup. Thanks olly and helen has all the weather. Wet conditions set to continue. U nfortu nately, yes, unfortunately, yes, thats right, martin, as storm lorenzo is approaching quite rapidly, we look for the next significant rainmaker coming up. I will have the details just before the bottom of the hour. Hello, this is afternoon live, im martine croxall. A damning report has strongly criticised the metropolitan police for
power, but some residents in remote areas may be cut off for 48 hours. aruna iyengar has the latest. storm gerrit swept across much of scotland, bringing heavy snow, flooding homes, causing power cuts and travel misery for many. the major a9 route has reopened after it closed in the highlands for several hours. meanwhile, thousands of homes across scotland have suffered power cuts. scottish and southern electricity networks said they d restored power to more than 25,000 homes but at least 16,000 are still cut off. for some customers especially those in rural areas it could be up until friday before power supplies are reconnected. but it is far too early for us to say at the moment, with scottish and southern electricity continuing to cause damage to the power network. 0n the railways, lner which runs services up the east coast from london to scotland is warning of major disruption this morning, with some services arriving several hours late. this tree fell on the li
performance ahead of europe league cups match. there are growing hopes of another truce in gaza with the potential release of more israeli hostages. the united states says serious negotiations are taking place to secure a pause in the fighting between israel and hamas, designated a terror organisation by the uk government. the british foreign secretary, lord cameron, is in egypt today, calling for what he calls a sustainable ceasefire . meanwhile, israeli forces say they ve uncovered of hamas tunnels in the heart of gaza city with entrances connected to the homes of the organastion s leaders. here s our middle east correspondent yolande knell, and just a warning that you may find some of her report upsetting. in khan younis, drones and shelling are the soundtrack of this war. a new day in gaza brings no escape from the relentless bombardment. for little riyan, the attacks have taken a cruel toll. her uncle now cares for her in a local hospital. when herfamily s home was hit