The opening of londons crossrail project is delayed until 2021 as europes biggest infrastructure scheme is set to go another £650 million over budget. Authorities in australia say an unprecedented number of emergency level bushfires are threatening the state of new south wales. So he moves in here with his gameiro leg and the first time. And the good liar pits sir ian mckellan as a conman who targets a wealthy widow played by helen mirren. Find out what mark kermode thinks of that and the rest of the weeks top releases in the film review. Good evening. A woman has died after being swept away by floodwater, as parts of the midlands and Northern England were battered by a months worth of rain in one day. The womans body was recovered from the River Derwent in derbyshire this morning. In yorkshire, people have been evacuated from their homes and theres chaos on the road and rail network. There are now more than 100 flood alerts in place across england and six severe flood warnings meanin
good evening. after his conviction on multiple counts of falsifying business records, donald trump today went on the offensive delivering a rambling 30 minute off the cuff monologue during which he attacked among others thejudge and the district attorney involved in his prosecution. president biden called his words dangerous and irresponsible. mr trump is due to be sentenced injuly he says he will appeal. also injuly is the republican party convention where he is expected to be confirmed as the party s presidential candidate. he still faces three other criminal trials. let s go live to new york and our correspondent, gary o donoghue. reeta, just a few hours ago donald trump left this building, headed for one of his golf courses, after what has been a turbulent 2a hours for the former president. his one appearance today, he took aim at pretty much everyone and everything, even wandering off into a tie raid about electric cars. the appeal is, of course, will come after
The Prime Minister has defended her governments handling of the nhs, as she set out her plans for the coming year, including a Cabinet Reshuffle due tomorrow. Theresa may insists the nhs has never been better prepared for winter pressures, and described thousands of postponed operations as part of the plan to cope. Tomorrows reshuffle, prompted by the forced resignation of the first secretary of state damian green, was described by labour as a pr exercise. Our Political Correspondent Eleanor Garnier reports. A new year, perhaps a fresh start after a torrid 2017 in which theresa may lost her majority in the general election, faced a rebellion from some of her own mps, was forced to deal with cabinet resignations and even had to sack her second in command, damian green. It means she starts the year with a reshuffle. Well, no prizes for guessing, andrew, that obviously, damian greens departure before christmas means some changes do have to be made. Speaking exclusively to the bbc, the Pri
We are talking to edward st albert about his new novel, dunbar, the story of a media mogul whose life becomes a retelling of the tragedy of king lear. Coming up, on meet the author. King lear. Welcome to bbc news. Good evening. For the second time in a week theresa may has been forced into a mini reshuffle of her cabinet. Penny mourdaunt has been appointed as the new International Development secretary replacing priti patel. She resigned last night, admitting she had not been transparent enough about high level meetings with israeli politicians while on holiday. Like her predecessor, penny mourdaunt backed the leave campaign in the eu referendum. Heres our political editor, laura kuenssberg. One for sorrow, two for joy. One brexiteer cabinet minister departs through the back door and another is about to arrive. Even the driver of the shiny ministerial car was expecting Penny Mordaunt as the favourite but neither he all we knew for sure, until gates opened up. So a little bit before hal