rescued from the irish sea after drifting for more than 30 hours clinging to his board. he was described by the aircraft crew as being very cold and suffering from hypothermia and being out overnight and all of that following day in the water. he was in surprisingly good condition. the german chancellor, angela merkel, holds talks with president putin, in the black sea resort of sochi. they ve discussed the conflict in ukraine which has strained relations between moscow and berlin and the war in syria. and paula radcliffe says she feels hurt by proposals which could see top athletes losing their world records. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. the labour leaderjeremy corbyn has defended his shadow home secretary after she appeared confused over the cost of the party s plans to put an extra 10,000 police officers on the streets. mr corbyn insisted he wasn t embarrassed in the slightest by diane abbott s difficulties with the numbers for what is one of his flagship elec
inside the arena described a stampede as panic spread. we have been treating this as a terrorist incident and we believe at this stage the attack last night was conducted by one man. right now the prime minister is chairing a meeting of the government s emergency committee, cobrament her home secretary, amber rudd described it as a barbaric attack. screaming, shouting, just people mad, chaotic rush to the nearest exit. suddenly something really hot just flew over us and landed behind me and my mum and my sister and then we all like dropped to the floor. this morning we are live in manchester and we will be talking to people who were at that concert. those young people, those teenagers, who were targeted by a suicide bomber. a lone man at this stage, as far as the police know, who exploded a device in the foyer of the manchester arena just after ariana grande finished her concert. we ll get reaction from the police and from local politicians and from people who live and work i
billion take over of formula one and remove bernie ecclestone as chief executive, ending his a0 year reign in charge of the sport. a surge in cyber crime pushed the cost of fraud above £1 billion last year. and it s getting worse despite attempts to tackle it. i m looking at why and what more needs to be done. and we re going to be talking about the happiest children in the world. studies suggest they live in the netherlands. but what makes them so happy? we ll meet two mums now living there who ve been trying to find out. carol is always happy and she has got the weather. good morning. across england and wales, dense, patchy fog. some spots of reasoning. scotla nd patchy fog. some spots of reasoning. scotland and northern ireland, much more mild. patches of rain but later, some sunshine. good morning. first, our main story. the supreme court will rule today on whether it s up to parliament or government to start the process for exiting the european union. the government arg
good morning from westminster. the bill giving theresa may the power to trigger the formal process of leaving the eu has cleared its final hurdle in parliament, and will now become law. the brexit secretary, david davis, said the uk was on the threshold of its most important negotiation for a generation. our political correspondent chris mason reports. contents, 118, not contents, 274, so the not contents have it. with those words the government achieved what the supreme court told ministers they had to, parliamentary approval to start brexit. the debates here in the house of lords and in the house of commons are, for now at least, done. one thing came out very clearly in all the debates. it is uncertainty that is bad for business, it is uncertainty that is bad forforeign nationals in the uk, it is bad for uk nationals resident in eu countries. i think the quicker we get on with this process the better. the house of commons had overturned two suggested changes to the plan s n