another warning on energy bills half of all uk households could face fuel poverty this winter. a record day for channel crossings in small boats on monday nearly 1,300 people arrived in the uk. and man s emotional best friends how dogs can cry with joy. and coming up on the bbc news channel: after ellen white s retirement, jill scott is the latest lioness to call time on her football career after 20 years at the top. good evening. police in liverpool have named the nine year old who was shot dead in her home last night. olivia pratt korbel s death has sent shock waves through her community and beyond after she was shot in the chest by a gunman who was targeting a man who d run into the house. let s go straight ot our correspondent danny savage who s at the scene. danny. i think it was shocking enough for many people to wake up to the news a nine year old girl had been shot home, but then came the detail and i think this is the most tragic series of evends surround
touch with me. blackpool s jake daniels becomes the first current male professional footballer in more than 30 years to come out as gay. now ijust do feel like i m ready to be myself, be free and just be confident with it all. lying all the time is not what i wanted to do, and it has been a struggle. football manager wayne rooney is due to give evidence in his wife s libel trial, dubbed wagatha christie , as the multimillion pound case enters its final days at the high court. hello and welcome to bbc news. the foreign secretary liz truss is expected make a statement to parliament today, paving the way for making changes to the post brexit trading arrangements for northern ireland, known as the protocol. one of the main parties, the democratic unionists is refusing to enter power sharing at stormont unless the existing protocol is changed or scrapped. devolution in northern ireland mean nationalists and unionists have to agree to share power for a governemnt to be formerd. ir
The uk Home Secretary, has used a speech to a right wing us think tank, to say that multiculturalism has failed. And that a lack of control over migration poses an existential challenge to the west. Suella braverman also said that fearing said that fearing discrimination for being gay, or a woman, should not be enough to qualify for International Refugee protection. She questioned whether the application of the uns 1951 Refugee Convention is fit for our modern age. The Refugee Convention was drawn up following world war two, and has at its centre the principle that refugees should not be returned to countries where they face threats to their lifes or freedom. Heres part of the Home Secretarys speech. Illegal migration is notjust a cyclical problem, it is a permanent and structural challenge to the developed nations in general and the west in particular. Unless we act, it will only worsen in the years to come. Live now to our political correspondent, david cornock. A lot of different,
minister rishi sunak who says he is personally determined to get a grip of this issue and he says that since taking over, this is the issue he has spent most time looking at, apart from problems of the economy, so if numbers do not come down, and by quite a substantial amount, then there will be questions about what this money is being spent on, and whether it is a good use of british taxpayer money. the issue at the moment is that france are currently stopping about 42% of crossings, but the authorities are saying that relate that figure needs to be something in the order of 70 or 80% for its release that are affecting the business model of the people smugglers who were organising these crossings. you smugglers who were organising these crossinus. ., ., ., crossings. you mention the word expectation. crossings. you mention the word expectation, expectation - crossings. you mention the word expectation, expectation around | crossings. you mention the word . expectation, expectation a