Dancing on ice, is to feature a same sex couple as contestants, when it starts its latest series this evening. The steps singer Ian H Watkins is teaming up with professional dancer matt evers. Our correspondent lizo mzimba reports. Dancing on ice is one of tvs most popular shows, often producing memorable moments of all different kinds. Ian h watkins and matt evers have been rehearsing for weeks and when the programme returns tomorrow night, theyll be the first same sex couple seen competing on a prime time british show like this. Its about time. If we had Something Like this when we were children, maybe i wouldnt have felt so isolated. I wouldnt have run away from home. You know, in everyday life we see gay couples and we see same sex couples. So it should be no different with what we are trying to do. It something that has already been embraced in other countries on similar shows. Israels dancing with the stars featured a same sex celebrity couple back in 2009. Last months strictly h
Aborted mission to the International Space station. The craft is the First American spacecraft capable of dissent to land. Now on bbc news, one of the most striking stories of 2019 from. Two twin girls who were bornjoined at the 2019 from. Two twin girls who were born joined at the head and then brought from pakistan to london for highly complex operations. Fergus walsh followed them through the dangerous nine months process. A warning that his programme contains images of surgery. Safa and marwa are identical twins joined at the head. Their family, from pakistan, want doctors to separate them. Great 0rmond street in london is one of the few hospitals in the world with the expertise to do it. This is safas brain, thats marwas brain. What we need to achieve is to effectively untwist the brains, and that is difficult, pretty difficult to do just in your head. But it is perilous. The pads are on and they are ready to shock if we need to. 0k. The bbc was given unique access to chart the co
0k . Others from falling through the cracks. Down . Ceara thacker was found dead in her room in may 2018, three months after an earlier suicide attempt, which her parents marwas heart begins to fail. Were never told about. From the inquest in liverpool, we are not stable, heres our education editor, branwen jeffreys. But we are less unstable. Good enough for me. At liverpool university, new students are starting. The anaesthetists manage two years ago, ceara to stabilise the girls thacker was among them. So the operation can continue. The 19 year old struggled with because marwa is clearly the weaker anxiety, depression and self harm. Twin, the surgeons decide she asked for help many times. To give her a key shared vein. Today, her parents the operation lasts 20 hours. Called for change. She approached every Service Available to her. Every one of those services let her down. At every turn, she was failed. I cant imagine how frightening that so im relieved, im relieved. I mean there was
At 10pm Kate Silverton will have a full round up of the days news. First, time for our world which this week focuses on twin girls who were born joined at the head then brought from pakistan to londons great ormond street Childrens Hospital for a series of highly complex operations. Safa and marwa are identical twins joined at the head. Their family, from pakistan, want doctors to separate them. Great ormond street in london is one of the few hospitals in the world with the expertise to do it. This is safas brain, thats marwas brain. What we need to achieve is effectively untwist the brains, and that is difficult, pretty difficult to do just in your head. But it is perilous. The bbc was given unique access to chart the complex medical and ethical choices made. This is the day, the moment of truth, and everything hasjust got to be perfect. In the hope of giving the girls independent lives. Safa and marwa are 21 months old, and were born in pakistan. They have come to londons great ormon
The labour Leaderjeremy Corbyn has addressed his partys conference in brighton a day earlier than scheduled in response to the Supreme Court ruling. Mr corbyn called on borisjohnson to resign as Prime Minister and insisted that labour was more than ready with a range of policies for government. 0ur chief Political Correspondent vicki young reports. 0h, jeremy corbyn. He wants to be Prime Minister. Theyre desperate for him to be Prime Minister. And many here think that day has just come closer. Its been a difficult conference forjeremy corbyn, but today he got plenty of new material for his hastily rescheduled speech. Tomorrow, parliament will return. Cheering the government will be held to account for what it has done. Borisjohnson has been found to have misled the country. This unelected Prime Minister should now resign. Cheering and there was more. He thinks hes above us all. Hes part of an elite that disdains democracy. I will tell you this. I dont think he is fit to be Prime Minist