Good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. Senior members of the democratic party in the united states have backed the current vice president, kamala harris, to stand against donald trump in this november s election, after the current president, joe biden, withdrew from the race. It s emerged that some of mr biden s closest aides were only told of his decision to step aside one minute before he made the announcement on social media. There had been weeks of speculation about his health. Ms harris says she now intends to earn and win her party s nomination for the white house. From washington, this report from tom bateman. Us vice president kamala harris is seeing a surge of support as she moves to secure the democratic presidential nomination. Despite the weeks of mounting pressure on him to step aside, joe biden had been holding firm. But he abruptly abandoned his campaign on a sunday afternoon. With reaction tojoe biden dropping out of the race. As news channels went into over
One medical source saying that more than 50 people had been treated so far, and the nature of some of their injuries means that the number of dead could well increase. Now, this operation in the city of khan younis started about a week ago. The israeli military say they ve been carrying this out. We know that tens of thousands of people have fled the fighting there. This recent operation that started in terms of what happened tonight, the israeli military say they re looking into reports, but what we ve seen is four attacks on schools in the past four days. And in the previous three cases, the israeli military acknowledged that they hit these particular places, saying that they were home to hamas fighters, hamas politicians and also hamas police officers, the israelis saying that they seek to minimize civilian casualties in all of their operations. Hamas is saying that this sort of operation and the number of people dying means that it s really undermining prospects of a peace deal, a
Night the showers fade away and cloud develops in the south west. Low pressure moving in so by the end of the nightjust pushing towards the southern fringes of northern ireland. Temperatures holding up so not a cold start to thursday but a change in the story of the low pressure moves in. It brings some heavy rain and unseasonably strong wind especially to the southern flank of the local area so that could have quite an impact. The main moving to northern ireland into southern scotland, north west england through the day. Fairly showery through central and southern parts of but the wind is gusting 30, 40 parts of but the wind is gusting 30, a0 miles an hour and perhaps in excess of 55, 60 unexposed south west coasts. So with the cloud, wind and rain temperatures will be down a good three or a degrees on today. The low pressure continues to drift east and grinding to a halt across the north of england tomorrow. Still plenty of strong went to the south of that and that drives and more we
She s learned from school, something they ve been talking about, then she ll teach me. And a 24 year old student from glasgow survives the black chair, becoming the youngest ever winner of mastermind. The prime minister is coming under increasing pressure after several allegations over his personal conduct in office. Today there are renewed questions, over who paid for the redecoration of his downing street flat. A spokesman has again declined to say whether boris johnson received a loan from the conservative party to cover the costs, but insisted he has fully complied with all guidance. The prime minister chaired a cabinet meeting this morning as he attempted to shift the focus away from personal controversies. Here s our political correspondent, helen catt. The government is keen to dismiss a number of rows, including how borisjohnson funded a revamp of his home in downing street, asjust a bit of westminster curtain twitching that doesn t interest the world outside. This morning, he
a public inquiry begins into the post office horizon scandal. hundreds of sub postmasters were wrongly accused and evenjailed for theft and fraud because of computer errors. we ll hear from one former employee hoping for answers. why not dream, says david moyes. are west ham title contenders? they beat liverpool in a five goal thriller at the london stadium to move up to third in the premier league table. it isa it is a chilly start in central and eastern areas. we have clear skies and we will see sunshine here first thing about cloud and rain in the west will move eastwards, accompanied by brisk wind in the north and west. all the details later. it s monday, the 8th of november. our main story. mps will hold an emergency debate on parliamentary standards later, as the government continues to come under fire over allegations of sleaze and corruption. ministers have been criticised for the handling of the case of conservative mp, owen paterson, who resigned last week about