bell tolls ay! baby moans baby cries speaks french baby moans phone pings # what a beautiful face i have found in this place # that is circling all round the sun # what a beautiful dream that could flash on the screen # in the blink of an eye and be gone from me # soft and sweet # let me hold it close and keep it here with me # me ee ee ee ee. # and one day we will die # and our ashes will fly. # hello there. it s been quite a mixed weather picture on friday. certainly for scotland and for northern ireland. we started on a rather grey and cloudy note. the rain that started on thursday lasted until the early part of friday morning, with accumulation of around 32 millimetres across parts of northern ireland. that s around about a third of a month s worth of rain, but from there the weather did at least get a little bit brighter. so, the weather front you can see that s across the northwest of the uk, tending to edge away through friday afternoon with brighte
specialist trained armed police, attended and carried out a thorough search. this search is both complex and meticulous in nature as we sought to ensure there were no further injured parties as well as seeking the arrest of the suspect. the academy was locked down and two neighbouring schools were asked to close their doors as a precaution. specialist resources including the national police service and plainclothes officers were deployed to the local area. and the suspect was arrested by firearms officers this afternoon. the national police air service. a knife was seized as part of the arrest. there were no further casualties and we can confirm no one else was injured in the attack. at this stage, the motivation behind the attack is unclear and at this time there is no evidence to suggest it is terrorism related but we are keeping an open mind of further while further inquiries are carried out. the suspect, a teenage boy from tewkesbury, was arrested on suspicion of a
chief says turkey s president erdogan has now agreed to support sweden s bid tojoin nato. that was a priority for us presidentjoe biden, who touched down in vilnius on the eve of the summit. it s clears the last major hurdle for sweden s accession. let s take a listen to what the nato secretary general jens stoltenberg, had to say. i think what we did today builds and we did in madrid because they agreed to invite finland and sweden to become members and the ratification process has been finalised or finland, finland is already a full member and now president erdogan has indicated they are ready to ratify sweden. our correspondent lewis vaughanjones has been following developments in vilnius. it seems this nato summit here in vilnius will be getting under way after a very significant concrete achievement. ian s stoltenberg, the head of nato, announcing that turkey had agreed sweden could start the process to membership. ,jens. why is that so significant? within nato, each a
aged 20 , has claimed via a lawyer that nothing inappropriate or unlawful has taken place, and that the claims that first emerged in the sun newspaper are rubbish , and an invasion of their privacy. the sun says it stands by its story. meanwhile, the metropolitan police say they are making further inquiries but there is currently no investigation under way. the male presenter, who has been suspended, has not been named. here s our media editor katie razzall. for the first time at the bbc we ve had our own person talking to the person involved in this. they told us that the story as reported by the sun is untrue. now the sun says there is something quite another. the pants had to stand by their account and an interview say we did this to help, and that the presenter has got into their loved ones had come as they put it. the claims tonight on behalf of that empress are not true and they accused the bbc of lying about what happened when they made their complaint. so where
by 11 of the 31 members of the alliance. uk prime minister rishi sunak is expected to urge nato allies to learn the lessons from russia s invasion of ukraine and invest more in defence. joining me now is hugo brennan, research director at the risk intelligence company verisk maplecroft. good morning to you, hugo. so, just talk us through the level of defence spending going on at the moment. because this has been a contentious issue for years within nato, hasn t it? it very much has been, yeah. i mean, the first thing to say is the question of who foots the bill to pay for the alliance? as you say, that s long been a question mark. you ll remember back to 2019, when donald trump made it very much top of the agenda. and again, it s going to be in this latest nato summit. as you said, we re expecting some sort of agreement that will make it a requirement for nato member states to spend at least 2% of their gdp on defence spending, which would build on that 2014 agreement you r