Walk on by. Applause mary poppins. I have to say i have been issued with a very severe instructions from the bbc bosses that i have to hold it together right now but i do say, i m going to push my luck a little bit tell you why your other family here at newsnight and beyond love you and admire you so very much. There are about a million reasons why we think like that but i m going to highlight three of them. In the first place what we saw in that film, you are a brilliant and a remarkable journalist. Your excitement every day as the excitement you would have had on the date you started in journalism. The second reason is that you have extraordinary pastoral care for young journalists. Every day that a young journalist starts on this programme, without fanfare, without fuss, kirsty will walk up and say, what are your interests, how are you doing, please keep in touch. You walk around this building and people say, do you work with kirsty wark, she has been so magnificent to me. The final
a bbc investigation finds british rubbish is being illegally shipped to romania and dumped. new zealand plans an innovative scheme to stop the younger generation from ever buying cigarettes in their lifetime. and, england s cricketers have it all to do, after a long, hard day in the field, on day 2 of the first ashes test. welcome to bbc news. the health secretary sajid javid says new restrictions in england are needed to buy time in order for people to get their boosters and protect against the spread of the omicron variant which he said could overwhelm the nhs if left unchecked. but the government faces a mounting backlash to the plans from its own mps with a substantial tory rebellion expected when the plans come to a vote in the commons next week. one tory mp suggested it was a diversion from allegations over downing street christmas parties during restrictions last year. plan b restrictions mean that from friday, face masks will be required in more public settings
i think we can move swiftly the weather. he has chris fawkes. red sky in the morning? yeah, that works today. here comes the cloud streaming in off the atlantic, is where the front on the way. the front is going to be bringing outbreaks of rain ultimately but we have some slightly milder air along with this friend pushing into the far south west of the uk, so as the rain arrives it will start to turn a bit milder whereas further north we don t really have any of that milder air so as the rain moves in scotland there will be a short lived spell of snow in the hills. it will turn back to rain eventually though. those temperatures then, picking up across the south west so southern wales and south west england, 10 11 this afternoon, but for many others are fairly cool feeling day, temperatures typically around 6 8. overnight tonight our band of rain pushes eastwards slowly clearing away from the east coast of east anglia and kent. what follows is some showers and clear spells. an
ban on buying cigarettes, under a law to be enacted next year. england s dismal start in the ashes continues as australia s batsmen pile on the runs. and coming up on the bbc news channel: questions over the fitness of england s ben stokes, who appeared to pick up a knee and coming up on the bbc news channel: questions over the fitness of england s ben stokes, who appeared to pick up a knee injury on a tough day against australia in the first ashes test. good afternoon and welcome to the news at one. the government has confirmed the investigation into a party in downing street last december will also look at two other gatherings, allegedly held while restrictions on meeting indoors were in place. the inquiry was announced yesterday with regard to an event on december 18th. now a second downing street party in november and a gathering in the education department will also be considered. the health secretary, sajid javid, denied the government had lost credibility by breaking t
alarmed democrats in panic mode after joe biden appears confused and unfocused in last night s presidential debate. if we finally beat medicare he did beat medicare. he beat it to death. it was a slow start. no question about that. but i thought it was a strong finish. turning your back because ofç one performance? what kind of party does that? they talk about a relatively small number of people that went to the capital, and in many cases were ushered in by the police. mostly lying, and without much fact checking. after the debate he got more and more manic. i just won two club championships. to do that you have to be quite smart. i didn t have sex with a porn star. you would think the candidate who during the presidential debate said i didn t have sex with a porn star. who is the leader of that? donald trump isn t just a convicted felon, donald trump is a one-man crime wave. if that joe biden shut up last night there would be no question today.