Al blackman was known as marine a he served more than three years in prison for shooting the taliban fighter in the chest at close range, and is here to tell us how hes now helping other ex Service Personnel. Huddersfield University Students tell Prince Andrew to quit as their chancellor. And the hollywood actor whos made allegations of abuse against movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, rose mcgowan, tells us she doesnt believe prince annrew. My my response to the interview Prince Andrew gave is one, like many, of shock and dismay, but also disbelief in my opinion. And facebook Vice President Nicola Mendelsohn defends the social media platforms decision not to ban political adverts. In elections, as you know, theres always been scrutiny about what politicians put out and discuss and debate. We think thats important, we think thats healthy. And we think freedom of expression is a very important part of what facebook is. In a democracy, we dont think its right that a private company should make
Greens will tackle the climate crisis, greens will remain and transform, greens will build a better britain. Borisjohnson and Jeremy Corbyn go head to head in the first tv debate of the Election Campaign tonight after the lib dems and snp failed in a legal bid to be included. And how will it all go down here in southampton . Its a key Battle Ground in the coming weeks. Were here on the latest of our visits around the uk to answer voters questions on the big topics, today were looking at education. And coming up,the renowned broadcaster Sir David Attenborough tells the bbc the world is beginning to tackle the threat of Plastic Waste. Its a bit of a litmus test to see whether, in fact, the population care about this sort of thing, and people do. And so i think its very encouraging. Good morning. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. Im joanna gosling. An alleged victim ofjeffrey epstein has appealed directly to Prince Andrew to come forward and give a statement to us investigators. The duke is f
We had the coldest night of the season so we had the coldest night of the season so far and, you may be glad to here, the coldest night of the week. 10 in parts of aberdeenshire, the milder able try to push in over the milder able try to push in over the next three days. Symbols stay below freezing in parts of scotland. Many in lower single figures into the afternoon. Ten to 12 degrees in wales, South West Wales and Northern Ireland, but cloudy skies and indices around penzance, the wind is whipping them up. Quite a breeze blowing, touching gale force around the coast, and we will see cloud and outbreaks of rain stop the far north will brighten up later. Into tonight, while many staff and i dry, we will see some further rain pushing on to other western areas, particularly western scotland, other parts of wales in the south west. Nothing too substantial. With the cloud in place and the breeze picking up, not as cold tonight. There will be thrust and ice across parts of scotland, norther
And they ask us to help, as i say, i think it will be very difficult to say no. We dont need unilateral action, we need to work through the un but, above all, we need to bend ourselves totally to getting a political settlement in syria. The government loses a court bid to delay publication of its Air Pollution Strategy until after the general election. New figures show a big rise in Violent Crime in england and wales with knife crime at its highest level for six years. And how readers are turning off their e books and switching back to paper, as publishers enjoy a record year. Good evening, theres been a major Security Operation in whitehall as armed Police Arrested a man suspected of Planning Acts of terrorism. A rucksack and several knives have been recovered from the scene, but no one has been injured. Its understood officers from Scotland Yards Counter Terrorism command moved in on the suspect as part of an Intelligence Led Operation. The Prime Minister was not in Downing Street at
Nasas cassini gets closer than ever before to the planet. Coming up in the sport on bbc news, in age, theres14 years between them, but today, Anthony Joshua and Wladimir Klitschko came face to face ahead of their world title fight. Good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. Another terror alert just yards away from last months deadly attack in westminster. Armed police have arrested a man under the Terrorism Act and seized knives he was carrying. Its now clear that the suspect who was captured on whitehall was under surveillance by Scotland Yards anti terror squad. Asjune kelly reports, theres been a High Profile Police presence in the area since Khaled Massood killed five people, including pc keith palmer, in march. Under arrest in the shadow of Government Buildings in whitehall. The man was detained by armed officers Near Parliament square. This was not a random stop search and arrest. It is understand the man was targeted by police as part of an operation by Scotland Yard coun