Killed by us special forces. Vigils are held in vietnam by families who fear their loved ones are among the 39 people found dead in a lorry in essex. Here in yokohama, after englands victory yesterday, now it is wales turn. Can they make it into the first Rugby World Cup final . Manchester city are still hot on the heels of liverpool in the premier league. The gap is now down to three points. That is after a 3 0 victory for city over aston villa. Good morning. We are heading for a sparkling sunday, a much better day than yesterday right across the country. Lots of sunshine to be had, but it is also going to feel colder. All the details coming up shortly. Its sunday the 27th of october. Our top story the white house says President Trump will make a major statement later, following reports that the leader of the so called Islamic State group, Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi has been killed in an operation by us forces. Mr trump tweeted that something very big had just happened, although he gave no
to give a lecture reads the guardian. the telegraph also leads with the stabbing of salman rushdie reporting that he was airlifted to hospital. and the daily express describes the attack as frenzied . some other stories featuring this evening the ft leads with the news that the new prime minister will face a public finance crunch, with debt payment and the nation s welfare bill set to soar. a picture of a very dry field is on the front of the i warning that drought will shrink food crops in the uk. but the star has a positive slant on the drought story reporting that rivers that are home to beavers are less likely to dry up. so, let s begin. with salman rushdie. it s like a holding statement of the moment from the newspapers. the police in new york say really what we ve been taught now for about five hours is that salman rushdie is in surgery and that is all we know. the front of the telegraph is perhaps the biggest selection of images and although the images appear
Of the south east. It does change into sunday, Bank Holiday Monday, the Weather Front crosses the country. We will still have sunshine around, but heavy showers, may be thundery once on sunday, pretty much anywhere as we head into a Bank Holiday Monday it looks like the heaviest of the thundery showers were moved to northern areas. Quite a bit of sunshine in the south, still quite warm into the new week, staying quite unsettled with sunshine at times, but showers or even longer spells. Thanks, stav. And thats bbc news at six. Now its time to join our colleagues for the news where you are. Goodbye. Hello, im olly foster. Heres whats coming up on sportsday fantastic phil we hear from the Manchester City and england star on a stellar season that could get even better. Lookman lights up dublin well look back at the Europa League final on a memorable night for atalanta and their london born forward. No luck of the draw for andy murray hes got a tough start at the french open. Also coming up
Perhaps, we were going to have a job support scheme from today but that has been overtaken by events in england because of the National Lockdown, and furlough being continued, would it help if the government said, look, were going to leave this in place until say, the end of march as denmark and we might tweak the amounts according to how many businesses need it and the scale but basically, you will have the reassurance of knowing if you go into another lockdown, let say in january or february, that scheme will still be in place . It would be welcome to see more certainty from the government in terms of economic support theyre offering for businesses. Now there has been four changes in about a month to the support. The job support scheme was introduced and then tweak and now thejob support scheme was introduced and then tweak and now the Job Retention scheme is back. Thejob support scheme, the chancellor said that would be in place for up to six months. Having some clarity on how long