also this lunchtime: huge crowds gather for the funeral of ashling murphy, the primary school teacher killed while out running in county offaly in ireland. aerial footage from tonga shows the devastation caused after a volcanic eruption triggered a tsunami. three people are now confirmed dead. a five set thriller in melbourne andy murray wins through to the second round of the australian open on a good day for british players. and yours for hundreds of millions the 16th century roman villa up for sale, complete with a ceiling mural by caravaggio. and coming up on the bbc news channel, both england and wales named their squads for the six nations, which starts next month, with owen farrell and dan biggar as captains. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. in the last few minutes, the prime minister has dismissed claims by his former chief advisor that he misled mps about a drinks party in the number ten garden during the first coronavirus lockdown. he insisted
the sunday times has calls from the commons speaker and other mps to clean up parliament s reputation. the paper quotes proposals from sir lindsay hoyle and dame andrea leadsom to overhaul working practices, amid allegations of sexual misconduct and bullying. elsewhere, the express claims britain s security services are on high alert overfears that russian saboteurs may target the uk. and the sunday mirror has an exclusive interview with a woman who says she had a secret child with the man who killed milly dowler. the paper says levi bellfield fathered the child weeks before he murdered the teenager. a quick look and flavour of the front pages. so let s begin. matthew and aletha, lovely to have you with us this evening aletha, you will care because of this evening. the observer is our first paper and the headline at the disgraced mp broke the law. what have you learned? it broke the law. what have you learned? . , , ., ., learned? it has been another extraordinary learned?
it s important for the bbc anyway, because you know, this audience that maybe will be coming off the back of rupaul s drag race, or we re at half time and the africa cup of nations. so we re picking up a hard to reach audience for news. so we re kind of getting to them by stealth and hoping that, you know, they ll stumble across us, and actually, we ll be a good add on, tell them something they didn t know, and then, you know, bring people back into news and make a lifelong habit, hopefully. i love that stumbling onto it because it moves around, doesn t it, in the schedule? it does, yeah. younger viewers, i think it s fair to say, have generally been deserting traditional broadcast news bulletins in droves over the last few years. and i wonder if you think you can really persuade a generation that really does get its news mostly online, usually social media, to sit down and watch on a on a regular basis. do you think that move will ever happen? actually, the evidence is that
waiting to be discovered. rebecca morelle, bbc news. the headlines on bbc news. downing street insists borisjohnson is still in control after another tory mp calls on him to go, and the resignation of a fifth downing st adviser. a spectacle in beijing to mark the opening of the winter olympics but fewer world leaders attend because of claims of human rights abuses by president xi s government. a court orders checks on food and agricultural goods from britain to northern ireland must continue for now. now on bbc news, it s time for newswatch. hello, and welcome to newswatch with me, samira ahmed. bbc three is back on tv can its new show, the catch up, persuade young adults back into watching news bulletins? enough colleagues to rescue your premiership. and guess what the subject was at the first question to the prime minister at this press conference in ukraine? in the face of strong protests, bbc three disappeared as a broadcast channel in 2016, though it continued to exi
exactly, bbc one taken over for three hours. the only thing we would ever have in common withjoe rogan. serious subject first. we have an inquiry out today, or the first part of an inquiry, that was looking at how wayne couzens, the serving metropolitan police officer who murdered sarah everard in 2021 in london, could ever have been a metropolitan police officer. what was it like for you, as somebody who has got political oversight of that force, reading that report? because in every single page there was something really bad that had gone wrong over decades? can i begin the conversation by speaking about sarah, sarah everard and her family, her parents and her siblings? it is important to remember her in the context of this conversation. i remember vividly the days after sarah disappeared because i live not far from where sarah disappeared from, and it was during the pandemic and my wife and daughters would go regularly for walks in and around that area. so it brings it all