Flags are lowered over Downing Street and borisjohnson describes captain sir tom as a National Inspiration, and a beacon of hope for the world. The uk variant of coronavirus has mutated again the Health Secretary says hes seen cases of concern in bristol and liverpool. Meanwhile, 80,000 people in england are tested to stop the spread of the Virus Variant from south africa. Scotland is to introduce Travel Quarantines for overseas arrivals and plans are put in place to open scottish schools later this month. Travel disruption in parts of the north of england and scotland as heavy snow brings chaos. Good afternoon. In the last hour, its been announced that captain sir tom moore has died. Captain tom, who was 100 years old, and had raised almost £33 million for the nhs, was taken to hospital earlier this week, with coronavirus. The army veteran, originally from keighley in West Yorkshire, came to prominence by walking 100 laps of his garden in bedfordshire, during the First National lockd
reaches the third round of the world darts championship. good morning from the cotswolds. this is a reindeer herd, we are surrounded by christmas trees. today is less windy than yesterday, some rain in the forecast and some snow largely in the hills of the north east of scotland but at lower levels in the northern isles. all of the details throughout the programme. it s friday the 22nd of december. our main story. the czech republic has declared a national day of mourning tomorrow after a gunman killed 14 people and injured 25 at a university in prague. police say the gunman was a 24 year old student at charles university and was later found dead. police were already looking for the gunman, after they discovered his father s body hours earlier. our eastern european correspondent sarah rainsford reports. the centre of prague was suddenly transformed into a major crime scene. armed police rushed towards a university building as a gunman stalked the corridors there. at this poin
huskies howl. ade: finnish lapland is as close as it gets to a winter wonderland. more than one million tourists come here each year in search of the northern lights, santa, and his reindeer. the sami are the indigenous people who live in this part of the world from northern norway, sweden, finland, and the far north part of russia. there s around 6,000 samis left in this part of finland, and here, they re known as the inari sami because most of them live around lake inari, which is 250km north of the arctic circle. i ve never been so far north. i m here! after landing in the town of ivalo, just an hour and a half flight from helsinki, i meet my first inari friend. hello! hey! welcome to finland and ivalo. thank you! i m ade. nice to meet you. nice to meet you, i m johanna. nice to meet you look at your outfit! oh, thank you! you look amazing. thank you. is this our transport? yeah, it s going to be our transport for this trip. and we ve got so many things planned for y
hello and welcome to bbc news. police in the us city of nashville say a former student who killed three children and three staff at a private school, had carefully planned the attack. they said the 28 year old who was later killed by officers had left behind a manifesto which suggested there were also going to be shootings at other locations. this cctv footage has emerged of the attacker named as 28 year old audrey hale arriving at the school, and then entering by shooting through one of the security doors. the footage then shows hale walking into the school, armed with several weapons. not long after this, they started shooting. among the victims three children, aged eight and nine. and three adults, all in their 60s. this footage emerged of children being led to safety shortly after the shooting. the covenant school is a private christian school for children, aged between 3 and 11. police say that hale had no previous criminal record. they were carrying two assaul
argyll and bute in the last hour with the snow coming down heavily, we have seen snow in worcestershire, big chunky flakes, temperatures were a bit above freezing which helps the snowflakes stick together. through this afternoon, wintry showers for scotland, northern ireland, north wales and north midlands, some heavy enough to bring snow to sea level but there could be some accumulations of snow, a centimetre or two across and higher hills but it will feel cold wherever you are. showers move across the midlands, east anglia and south east england overnight before clearing skies follow. it will be a cold night with a widespread frost, temperatures in towns and cities 22 6 but colder in the countryside and there is a risk of icy showers as we start the day 2, 2 6. tomorrow the frost melts away, then figure cloud in outbreaks of rain into northern ireland, snow mixed in for a time before milder air pushes in. temperatures in belfast eventually climbing to about seven cels