With every day that passes right now, it is becoming clearer that scotlands voice cannot and is not able to be heard within the uk on this question. We will have the latest on this Landmark Ruling and the reaction to it. In other news President Trump meets us car makers and tells them to keep manufacturing on american soil. The widow of a man killed in the Tunisia Terror Attack tells an inquest how she played dead as the gunman killed 38 people. City of stars, are you shining just me. And la la land tops the oscars race with a record equalling 14 nominations including best picture. Its five oclock. Our main story is that ministers will present a parliamentary bill within days to start the process of leaving the European Union following a ruling by the Supreme Court. The judges decided that ministers did not have the right to trigger the process of leaving without the approval of parliament. Labour says it will not block the Brexit Process, it wants what it calls a meaningful vote on th
Wednesday 25th january. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. President trump has promised a significant day ahead on National Security, including an announcement about his plans for a wall on the Mexican Border. He tweeted big day planned on National Security tomorrow. Among many other things, we will build the wall building a 2,000 mile wall along the Mexican Border was one of trumps key election promises. Hes said the wall would cost 8 billion and will be up to a0 feet high. The new president is also expected to approve Immigration Restrictions on seven mostly muslim countries in the middle east and africa iraq, iran, libya, somalia, sudan, syria, and yemen. And trump wants to make all us cities co operate to deport Illegal Immigrants a move aimed at so called Sanctuary Cities like san francisco, where local police do not help with most deportations. Our washington correspondent david willis has more. Were going to have our borders nice and strong. Were going to build a wall. Were going to
Of his record nine gold medals through no fault of his own. And coming up in the sport on bbc news, Serena Williams says britainsjohanna konta can be a future grand slam champion, after knocking her out in this good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. Theres been a sharp increase in the number of Homeless People with more than half the councils in england recording a rise. On a single night last year more than 4,000 people were Sleeping Rough thats according to the government figures. It amounts to a 16 jump on the year before campaigners say its an appalling rate. 0ur Midlands Correspondent sima kotecha reports now from birmingham one of the areas with the largest number of Homeless People. As the darkness creeps in, the wind chill begins to bite. Those who have nowhere to go look for shelter. Volunteers roam the streets, making sure nobody has died because of the cold. One of those workers is paul aitken. The young man there, im just checking that he is breathing and he is ok
Protection measures in sports clubs. We will bring you all the details, including the extra Background Checks you might have to go through if you work with children. Do get in touch on that, it would be really interesting to hear your views, two loopholes they are calling for the government to close immediately. I would be interesting to hear what it is like trying to get a Background Check now if you work with children. Do get in touch on all the stories were talking about this morning use the hashtag victorialive. If you text, you will be charged at the Standard Network rate. Our top story today. The us President Donald Trump has said he believes that torture can work to get information out of suspected terrorists. But he said he would seek further advice before deciding whether to bring back techniques such as Water Boarding. Speaking to the american abc network in his first televised interview since becoming president , he also repeated his pledge to make mexico pay for a wall alon
The government loses the brexit case in the Supreme Court, but seizes the initiative in parliament. I can confirm to the house that our plan will be set out in a white paper, published to this house. Ministers produce a brexit bill mps complain about a lack of debating time. I was astonished at the amount of time it that the leader of the house has given this parliament to debate it. And doubts over whether theresa may can stand up to donald trump. How confident is she getting a good dealfor Global Britain from a president that wants to put america first, buy american and build a wall between his country and mexico . Its been a particularly fast moving week for brexit. On tuesday, the government lost a legal battle over who should authorise starting the formal process for leaving the European Union. The government argued that it could use the Royal Prerogative a power left over from the days of medieval monarchs. But the Supreme Court thought otherwise. The president lord neuberger sai