detained. a powerful arctic storm sweeps across swathes of the us and canada. more than 200 million people are under weather warnings, with temperatures dropping to minus 45 degrees celsius in some places. travel disruption in the uk due to border strikes union chiefs say the walkouts could go on for six months unless the governmentjoins pay talks. china is continuing to grapple with a major covid outbreak following a lifting of restrictions with growing questions about the government s official death tally. george cohen, who was part of england s 1966 world cup winning team, has died aged 83. more in sport later in the bulletin. clashes have erupted in the french capital paris after a fatal shooting at a kurdish centre. capital paris after a fatal shooting three people were killed in the incident and three others injured. these are live pictures from the scene in the tenth arrondisement where crowds of angry protesters almost immediately filled the streets. riot police h
Militants have continued to fire rockets into israel, towards tel aviv and other areas in the south. The World Health Organization has condemned israels evacuation order; it says forcing Hospital Patients to relocate would be a Death Sentence. President biden has spoken with the israeli Prime Minister, benjamin netanyahu, and urged him to provide safety for civilians amid the bombardment. Diplomatic efforts to prevent the violence from spreading have been stepped up, with mr biden s secretary of state, antony blinken, visiting cairo. Hes expected to press egyptian officials to restart talks on getting aid into gaza through the Border Crossing. The us is sending a second Aircraft Carrier to the Eastern Mediterranean near israel. The Uss Eisenhower will lead a group of ships aimed at deterring further attacks against israel in particularfrom iran or the lebanese militant group, hezbollah. We start the hour with this report from our middle east correspondent, yolande knell. Sirens wail. R
in the centre of pyongyang. the two leaders signed what the russian president called a breakthrough agreement. so what does that mean for global security? good evening. the scottish national party has launched its election manifesto in edinburgh today, putting independence and the nhs at the forefront of their campaign. the first ministerjohn swinney said he would push for a second independence referendum, if his party won a majority of seats in scotland at this election. he claimed that future independence would allow scotland to re join the european union. among other pledges, a commitment to end the two child benefit cap and to abolish the house of lords. here s our scotland editor, james cook. applause. the snp leader, john swinney, promised independence would be front and centre of this manifesto, and it is. at the very heart of our beliefs is the principal that decisions is the principle that decisions about scotland should be made by the people who live in scotland. no
but for us, it s the opening game. four team section, three matches. we know what we have to do to qualify, and that is all we are focused on. the enormity of the opening game and whatever, that s a little bit of a sideshow. and hopefully we don t get too involved in that. one of the mantras i ve always had is respect everyone and fear no one. so we ve come here with a lot of respect with the host nation, we know they re a good team. but hopefully on the night, we can show that we re a good team as well. well, england begin their campaign against serbia on sunday in gelsenkircken, and some good news out of the camp. all 26 of their squad trained today, including john stones, who was missing yesterday with illness. so a boost to gareth southgate s plans. meanwhile, conor gallagher says defeat in their final warm up game to iceland last weekend was a real wake up call for the whole squad to make sure they start well in germany. in tournament football, just during the first thin
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