Days alone Stop Today the Home Secretary will meet her french counterpart to demAnd more action to stop the crossings. Almost six years after the Paris Terror attacks which killed 130 People, 20 men will go on trial today. Good morning. ScotlAnd are victorious in vienna. The win of austria sees them take a huge step towards a place at their first World Cup finals in 23 years. It lost its funding just five years ago, but Wheelchair Rugby still managed to clinch gold at the paralympics. Two of the stars willjoin us here in the studio to tell us how they did it. And whilst it is another hot day for many can hear in parts of wales, south West EnglAnd And the Channel Isles when we got close to 30 degrees yesterday, signs of change And the risk of thunderstorms. The full forecast here On Breakfast. Its wednesday the 8th of september. Our top story. Mps will vote today on the governments plans to increase National Insurance contributions to fund health And Social Care in englAnd. Ministers sa
And Emma Raducanus Us Open Dream remains on course. The 18 year old british qualifier is through to the semifinal at Flushing Meadows. Live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. Its newsday. Its 6am in the morning in singapore, and midnight in singapore, and midnight in france where the trial began today of the 2015 attacks in paris. A night of indiscriminate Shooting And Bombing in paris that left 130 innocent people dead. It was frances worst attack since the second world war. It led to intensified French Military action against the extremists abroad and a Security Crackdown at home. Today, the trial began of the 20 men accused of involvement in those attacks. Our paris correspondent, lucy williamson, reports. The sirens sounded again in Paris Today for the men accused of terrorising this city six years ago. Sounds that once accompanied that fear and panic, now accompanying the defendants on their way to justice. It was a night when security felt uncertain, when no one in p
Through to the Us Open semis. Could we see a teenage final at Flushing Meadows . Live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. Its newsday. Hello and welcome to the programme. A man alleged to be the sole surviving gunman from the islamist gang which murdered 130 people in paris six years ago has told a court he is a fighter for the islamic state group. Salah abdeslam is one of 20 defendants in what is the biggest Terror Trial in modern french history. The prosecution says they were all involved in the shootings and bombings of november 2015, which targeted locations including bars, restaurants and the bataclan concert hall. From paris, our Correspondent Lucy Williamson reports. The sirens sounded again in Paris Today for the men accused of terrorising this city six years ago. Sounds that once accompanied that fear and panic, now accompanying the defendants on their way to justice. It was a night when security felt uncertain, when no one in paris knew where to run. As islamist g
To separate them. BIg bens bongs were last heard four years ago wIth the famous bell out of actIon for essentIal repaIrs. Well be fIndIng out how the project Is gettIng on. Hello and welcome to the programme. The leader of the afghan ResIstance Group wagIng an Intense battle agaInst the talIban In the PanjshIr Valley says he Is open to enter peace talks. Ahmad massoud saId he supported a plan, put forward by relIgIous clerIcs, for a negotIated settlement, and called on the talIban to end theIr offensIve. EarlIer, reports suggested the talIban had rapIdly gaIned ground In panjshIr takIng the provIncIal capItal, bazarak. The provInce Is the most promInent example of resIstance to talIban rule. MeanwhIle, across the country, people are adaptIng to lIfe under the new regIme. Our Correspondent Secunder KermanI has travelled from the capItal, kabul, to the provInce of logar, from where he sent thIs report. Theyve grown up along the Front LIne but theIr fIrst taste of peace Is bIttersweet. In
City of ghazni as the un warns of an unfolding humanitarian dIsaster. The Uk Economy grows by nearly 5 between april and june following the easing of restrictions. New zealand says it will keep its border closed until at least The End of the year to keep covid out. And more wildfires in italy, as Sicily Records what could be europes hottest ever temperature. And coming up thIs hour well talk to the new star of the track 23 year old Matt Walls who won Gold And Silver at hIs first olympics. Sorry about that delay. Good Morning. Good Morning. More than half A Million students in england, wales and Northern Ireland are receiving their Gcse Grades thIs Morning with record results predicted. For the second year running, the grades have been based on Teachers assessments, after exams were cancelled. Lets speak to elaine dunkley, our Education Correspondent, whos in dagenham. Have they got their results yet, or Is it imminent . Is it imminent . They have got the results. Is it imminent . They