We begin in niger, where the Breaking News in the last half an hour is the military leaders who staged a coup say they have closed the countrys airspace over what they called the threat of intervention against them. The announcement came as a deadline expired for them to restore the ousted president or face the possible action from the west African Regional grouping known as ecowas. Earlier thousands of people gathered in nigers capital to support the militaryjunta, despite International Condemnation of the soldiers actions. Some neighbouring countries including mali, burkina faso and guinea have voiced support for the coup leaders. And algeria, which Borders Niger to the north, has said it is categorically against armed intervention. France says it will support efforts by ecowas to restore nigers elected president. Nigers Prime Minister was in paris on saturday, meeting lawmakers and greeting protestors outside the countrys embassy. He has dismissed that pro coup protests are taking p
a fox news alert. donald trump has one rival left and her home state of south carolina is where they will go head-to-head against next. his message, get out. hers i m all in. you are in the faulkner focus. voter turnout in new hampshire set a record. trump is the first republican presidential candidate to win contests in iowa and new hampshire since both states began leading the election calendar in 1976. despite back-to-back losses, though, nikki haley is making the case that she is the one with the momentum. trump disagrees. when you win iowa and you win new hampshire, they have never been a loss. we won t be the first. we ll win this. we have no choice. this race is far from over. there are dozens of states left to go. i m a fighter. [cheers and applause] and i m scrappy. we still have a ways to go, but we keep moving up. harris: today s new york post with this cover. don it again. very cute. fox news voter analysis of new hampshire republicans showing 74% say it
for northern ireland, the same across wales. as we head across thursday, a repeat performance. more cloud across northern and eastern areas. furtherwest, cloud across northern and eastern areas. further west, the best of the sunshine. again, the low 20s. we could see temperatures coming down a bit towards the end of the week. always out west we will see the high temperatures, most of the sunshine is we head through friday on the weekend. a little bit cooler and easier towards the east coast. take care. thanks, stav. and that s bbc news at ten there s more analysis of the days main stories on newsnight with victoria derbyshire, which isjust getting underway on bbc two. the news continues here on bbc one as now it s time to join our colleagues across the nations and regions for the news where you are. today s daytime strikes on kyiv mark a change of tactics as does using so many missiles in recent days. there were a0 air launched cruise missiles and 35 drones launched yes
might s ancient sequoias as wildfires close in. i m standing right in front of the grizzly giant and we ve got a sprinkler system set up in front of it. i m pamela brown in washington. you re live in the cnn newsroom. we want to take you right now to mariposa, california as evacuations are under way as fires threaten the ancient sequoias. our nick watt has just arrived on the scene. nick, how serious is the season there, and what are they doing to protect these incredibly special trees? reporter: well, we just have heard that the fight is going in the right direction, but it is still a huge fight. the flames are within a mile or two of mariposa grove which is home to about 500 of these giant, beautiful, ancient sequoia freeze, so the way that they are trying to contain the fireworks the way they are trying to keep those trees safe, they have 360 personnel on the ground, including hot shot cruise who are digging trenches around mariposa grove, a kind of break to try to
their first ever major tournament. welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. our top story for you today: scientists say there s compelling evidence that a market selling live animals in the chinese city of wuhan was the early epicentre of the covid 19 pandemic. it s a significant contribution to what s always been the dominant theory that the outbreak began with the coronavirus spreading from animals to humans at the so called wet market . this is the seafood wholesale market in wuhan. one of the studies just published in the journal science says genetic information suggests there were two crossover events where animals infected humans in late 2019. a second study also in science shows the earliest known cases in the city were clustered, around that market. i spoke to dr michael worobey, one of the lead authors of that study and professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the university of arizona. he took us through the resea