ireland in memory of ashling murphy killed while running in broad daylight. the police say adam man has been arrested. a computer games company makes history as it is bought by microsoft for more than £50 billion. brilliant way to finish. and a stunning start for britain s emma raducanu at herfirst australian open. coming up on the bbc news channel, chelsea look to move back up to second in the premier league later. they re at brighton, on a night where covid again affects the fixture list. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. the prime minister has categorically denied being warned that a gathering in the downing street garden during the first lockdown was against the covid rules. his former chief advisor, dominic cummings, has said he raised concerns with borisjohnson about it at the time, and accused him of misleading mps. a today, mrjohnson again apologised for misjudgements, after days of criticism. here s our deputy political editor vicki young. prime edito
wants his legacy to be overturning those bereaved payment changes. we ll talk to campaigners before 10am. and found alive after 32 hours in the sea. the extremely lucky surfer who was rescued off the coast of belfast. hello. welcome to the programme, we re live until 11am. throughout the morning the latest breaking news and developing stories and, as always, really keen to hear from you. a little later we ll hear from paula radcliffe who says european athletics proposals which could lead to world records being rewritten are cowardly. the governing body wants to eliminate any doping doubts. it means radcliffe s marathon world record from 2003 would be wiped out under the plans. do get in touch on all the stories we re talking about this morning use the hashtag #victorialive and if you text, you will be charged at the standard network rate. our top story today. labour is promising to put 10,000 more police on the streets of england and wales if it wins the election. the
it will take f: l l its fi feeling it will take days and days before the water drops away sufficiently for people to get back into their houses. you stand here, you can smell the water. it s not dirty as such. it s fairly clean, but it has got kerosene in it because that is the heating fuel that all of the houses here use at this time of year, and there are thousands of litres of kerosene that have lea pt back thousands of litres of kerosene that have leapt back into this water, making it smell, giving it a film, flowing into the houses and causing more damage. people here are very upset, of course. in one one man told me it was heartbreaking. it will be awhile before they can it all. time for a look at the weather. here s darren bett. february was the wettest on record across the uk. march has started on across the uk. march has started on a quieter note, and through the rest of today and tomorrow, may be for the next few days, sunshine and
showers. a bit of cloud bubbling up at