new york city. alex murdaugh in the initial hours now of what will be a lifetime behind bars. the judge piling on during sentencing calling the double murder defense an assault on the judicial system. we ve got a live report coming to you in just a minute. plus, reports that president biden has now tapped some of the most successful track governors in the country to help lay the groundwork campaign. and fury erupts again at a town hall in east palestine, residents whose patience is clearly being tested to the limit nearly a month after that toxic train crash. this has touched my family. this has touched my friends, and it will touch me for the cellular level when i get diagnosed with cancer, als or whatever is going to come down the road if i stay in this contaminated, toxic town. more on that and the failure of norfolk southern s ceo to show up, the second time he s avoided coming face-to-face with those residents. but we begin in south carolina with today s dramat
if climate change is not prioritised, we are all doomed, that is the dire warning from the head of the un. a sharp rise in the number of people crossing the channel in small boats more than 38,000 have arrived in the uk this year. and millions of children used to watch this every dayjust before the six o clock news. as the bbc turns 100, we look back at children s tv over the decades. and on bbc london. day one for prime minister rishi sunak coming on the bbc news channel, liverpool and tottenham in testing delicate touching distance of the knockout stages. good evening. rishi sunak has appeared before mps in parliament on his first full day as prime minister and announced yet more unravelling of liz truss s plans for growth. the ban on fracking in england is back in place after it was briefly lifted by the former prime minister. the government s economic statement due to be delivered on monday has now been pushed back by almost three weeks to november 17th. and the decis
change must be a priority again. as russia conducts drills by its forces president putin is on hands to personally observe them. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news, it s newsday. it s 6am in singapore, and 1:30 in the morning in iran, where security forces have opened fire on protesters in several cities, a0 days after the death of mahsa amini in police custody. our correspondent reports. chanting. day forty of iran protest and forty days since the death of mahsa amini, the young iranian kurdish woman who has become a symbol for iran s protest movement. this is the city of saqez, her birthplace. the authorities did everything to stop people attending her memorial day. they blocked the roads and closed all the schools and universities of kurdistan province. but they failed. and thousands of people marched to her grave. the violent crackdown of the protests have failed to stop them. videos show demonstrations in tehran, the capital and at least another 30 citie
has announced that all men will be required to serve one year s military service. she said the move is in response to growing pressure from beijing. here in the uk a murder investigation has been launched in birmingham after a 23 year old man was stabbed to death in a nightclub. police have named the victim as cody fisher. and another unexplained death involving russian oligarchs: the sausage tycoon pavel antov has been found dead at an indian hotel. at least 62 people have been killed in winter storms sweeping across north america. us officials are calling it the blizzard of the century , with an extra nine inches of snow expected during the day in new york state, where the city of buffalo has borne the brunt of the arctic conditions. the storm has affected a vast area, from canada in the north, down through the us, and reaching mexico. president biden has approved emergency measures, allowing financial support for new york state. let s for new york state. have a quick lo