Including the next olympics and world cup. Its the final countdown to the general election with one last push from all the parties. Im here in crewe hearing from voters about the issues that matter to you. It is the eighth most marginal constituency, won by labour last time around byjust 48 votes. Coming up on afternoon live all the sport. Yes, good afternoon, rebecca, and we will also be talking about the World Anti Doping Agency, and how they have a band russia from all major sporting events for the next four yea rs, sporting events for the next four years, including next years Tokyo Olympics and the 2022 football world cup in qatar. And we will have all the weather, and an unsettled week ahead . Yes, it really is, really was windy overnight, gusts in excess of 80mph over the isle of wight, a bit quieter today, but much more turbulent weather in the week ahead. I will tell you all about it. Also coming up. One of the last surviving pilots from the battle of britain has died at the ag
As they gather in brussels for the end of year summit. Also on the programme us regulators allowed boeings 737 max to continue flying even when they knew it could average one fatal crash every two or three years. And the christmas bonus that left these lucky employees an awful lot richer. Hello and welcome im katty kay in washington and Christian Fraser is in london. The talking is over. It is decision time. After five weeks of campaigning, the uk goes to the polls tomorrow, at a critical juncture in the brexit story. Such are the vagueries of britains first past the post system no one really knows where this will take us. The polls suggest the gap between the two main parties has narrowed in recent weeks, but still we could be looking at anything from a Hung Parliament to a tory landslide. The Party Leaders have been on a whistle stop tour of the country. We have plotted it for you, the conservatives in blue, labour in red. The Prime Minister began his day delivering milk to a voter i
That he holds no fear going into his highly anticipated rematch with andy ruinunior. I tell you, i am punching like a horse kicking back right now. My kinetic chain, my rhythm, theres no tension in my body. We say loose and heavy, loose and heavy. Good morning, and welcome to the bbc news at 9. With just a week to go until the country goes to the polls, the conservatives have outlined what theyll do in their first 100 days in office. Boris johnson has promised a tax cutting budget in february, as well as protections for some of the pledges already made in the campaign so far. On the health service, theyve promised to enshrine in law the extra £39. 9 billion a year they have promised for the nhs up to 2023. On crime, theyve promised a law to end the automatic release of serious violent offenders, like the man responsible for the London Bridge terror attack. And theyve promised to start recruiting the 20,000 police officers, and 50,000 nurses for the nhs theyve been talking about in the
The british empire. And england play montenegro tonight needing just one point to take them to the euros next summer, but theyll have to do it without star player Raheem Sterling who was dropped after his bust up with liverpoolsjoe gomez. Good morning and welcome to the bbc news at 9. The army is preparing fresh defences for flood stricken parts of South Yorkshire as more heavy rain is forecast across the uk. Forecasters are warning there could be a danger to life in the village of fishlake near doncaster where hundreds have been forced to leave their homes and businesses. A yellow weather warning for rain is now in force around sheffield, doncaster and nottingham, and will last until the early hours of friday morning. Tim muffett reports. The floodwaters are dispersing, but more heavy rain is expected here, so soldiers from the light dragoons cavalry regiment have been building barriers to try and protect fishlake. Youve got sandbags here. Yep. You have barriers as well. How does it w
Battle for a tiny piece of Literary History as a work by 14 year old Charlotte Bronte goes up for auction in paris. Good morning and welcome to the bbc news at 9 00. Police are surrounding a Hong Kong University campus after a violent overnight stand off with hundreds of protesters inside. Dozens of protesters tried to leave after sunrise but turned back as police fired tear gas and rubber bullets. At least a0 people have been arrested and police have been clashing with other protestors in the surrounding streets. Several hundred people are thought to remain inside the university. Lets go live to hong kong. Robin brant is there for us. What is the latest . The latest is, we now know Police Arrested 154 protesters. Most of them on the periphery of this University Campus, about a third of those were women, about a third of those were women, about two thirds were men. The youngest was 13, we are told. When we left this campus late last night we left this campus late last night we research