first i would like to express my sincere condolences to the families of the deceased. and now the facts. now about the timeline. we will start in the town, yesterday at 12:26pm, a witness called the police saying herfriend 12:26pm, a witness called the police saying her friend sent her a suicide text and he was not responding to her calls. police units from the central region immediately, in a matter of minutes reacted to this call. the firefighters and the ambulances also were activated at 12:32pm. we found out that the suspect indeed has thoughts of suicide and that he is headed to the capital, prague. soon afterthat, police find that man in the town and in the following minutes, we find out that there is a device in the house that could be airborne. at around 1pm, we find out where the dead person is located, at 1:15pm. a nationwide search is launched. for this person. none prague police is invited to take part in the investigation and at 1:27pm there is a requirement from
I held him in the very highest regard because of what he gave to me. They gave me my england debut and set me on the road, and i will never forget that. Its 5 oclock. Our main story is the latest twist in Donald Trumps confrontation with the heads of americas Intelligence Agencies. Mr trump says the director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, called him last night to condemn a leaked report claiming the President Elect was vulnerable to blackmail by russia. But mr clapper has said hed made no judgment on whether the report was reliable and he rejected mr trumps suggestion that Us Intelligence was responsible for the leak. Our correspondent Christian Fraser has the latest. Eight days from now, donald trump goes into battle as the next commander in chief. But never before has an incoming president been warring on so many fronts. This morning, as is now the norm, he began the day with a tweaked in fa ct, began the day with a tweaked in fact, what mr clapper told reporters is that he
We are just about to change the month and we also about to change the weather. Quite a variety at the moment. We will see very much more of this over the coming days. This is the scene in south wales. This the scene in the western side of scotland, what a contrast. Through the rest of the evening, the cloud and rain will push away and skies will stay clear in scotland. A widespread frost with freezing fog developing. Quite a contrast to the temperatures. The eastern side of scotla nd temperatures. The eastern side of scotland could be 10. Watch out for that freezing fog which could linger in the central belt all day but a bit of brightness and in the east of the pennines as well. Increasingly dank and murky in northern ireland, north west of england, wales, the midlands and the south west but at least it gets to 12. Cooler on that site but we will eventually all get milder and cloudier and wetter and windier. 0h milder and cloudier and wetter and windier. Oh dear. Hello. This is bbc ne
covid in scotland are now believed to be the omicron variant. no one should be complacent about getting covid, says the first minister. and all of that again throwing up what we have discussed a lot in the last few days, the difference in approach in the uk, depending where you live, depending which nation you live in, in terms of different restrictions, as we edge up to new year. we will talk more about that in the coming hours. i am sure. right now, the time is 2:32pm, much more coming up from 3pm. now on bbc news, review 2021, the year in sport. the world of sport roared to life in 2021, as major events took place, and spectators returned. our sport presenter adam wild takes a close look at the highs and lows of a memorable year.