of incarceration of uyghurs and other minorities it includes evidence of a shoot to kill policy. the uk s withdrawal from afghanistan last year was a disaster, says an inquiry by mps, which will damage the nation s interests for years. the murder of three year old kemarni watson darby his mother s boyfriend is jailed for at least 2a years, after subjecting the toddler to weeks of beatings. good morning everyone and welcome to the brand new elizabeth line service. and the train pulling in is three years late and £4 billion over budget crossrail opens for business, as the first passengers catch the elizabeth line. it was a long wait but, you know, it s here now, and we are on it. the journey time between canary wharf and whitechapel blew my mind. and coming up in sport on the bbc news channel: gareth southgate is set to announce his squad for next month s nations league games, when england will take on hungary, italy and germany. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc new
scaled back, but transport for london insists it is still needed. this railway is not built for today or tomorrow but for the next 100 to 150 years, we believe it is a catalyst propose pandemic recovery. you can see the reaction of customers are wild by the railway, we think it will drive customers back onto the railway.- we think it will drive customers back onto the railway. there was a celebratory back onto the railway. there was a celebratory atmosphere back onto the railway. there was a celebratory atmosphere as - back onto the railway. there was a celebratory atmosphere as the - back onto the railway. there was a | celebratory atmosphere as the new railway arrives with a promise to transform travel across london on the south east. it is not clear when something like this might be built again. katy austin, bbc news. time for a look at the weather. here s stav da naos. probably best to stay below ground today, don t be fooled by the sunny spells, the ominous sky behin
minister. he wasn t there saying this shouldn t be happening, he| this shouldn t be happening, he wasn t saying can everyone break up and go home because my cable and socially distance? and everyone put masks on? no, he wasn t telling anybody that. he was grabbing a glass for himself. pressure coming on the uk government from a number of fronts more detail has emerged about the lockdown parties in number 10. there s confirmation energy prices will rise sharply later year as the cost of living crisis deepens. and an inquiry by mps has concluded that that the uk s withdrawal from afghanistan last year was a disaster . we re going to look at all three across this first half an hour. let s begin with the parties because, for the first time, insiders who were at some of the events have talked in detail about what they saw. they ve been talking to the bbc s laura kuennsberg and in this clip a staffer described the culture in noio during at the time. they were every week. the event
Railway got up and running. i turned up really early, i have been waiting for nearly ten years for this thing to open. just shorter travel for me, - very convenient for me, yeah. once in a lifetime opportunity. a transport line, in a city like london, opening, it probably won t happen again in my lifetime. the journey time between canary wharf and whitechapel blew my mind. the line links reading in berkshire with shenfield in essex, via central london. it is initially running in three separate parts. from today, the newly built section between paddington and abbey wood will run monday to saturday with a train every five minutes. seamless end to end travel will come later, by may next year. we are on board one of the new elizabeth line trains, they are pretty state of the art and 200 metres long. each one can carry up to 1,500 passengers. the crossrail project is opening three and a half years late. one new station, bond street, still is not ready, and its budget