To question a man arrested in connection with the murder of Community Support the government is expected to end the advice against hugging Each Other, as part of the relaxation of Lockdown Rules in england next week. And disruption continues on some of britains busiest rail lines, after small cracks are found in some high speed trains. Good afternoon, welcome to bbc news. Scotlands First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, has said any attempt by the westminster government to block a second Independence Referendum would show a lack of respect for Scottish Democracy. She was speaking after the Cabinet Office Minister, Michael Gove, said the Snps Failure to win an outright majority at holyrood proved that people in Scotland Werent agitating for a new poll. Mr gove said the snp should concentrate on recovering from the pandemic instead. From edinburgh, heres our political correspondent nick eardley. Back in power, back to work. Nicola sturgeon says her immediate priority will be the pandemic, but
To postpone that. The Attorney General is looking to get involved. Theres been a lot of outcry from foreign diplomats, from the international community. Of course they see eastjerusalem as being occupied and have suggested that evictions of this kind of the palestinian families could breach international law. Serious disruption on some of the uks busiest Rail Lines is expected to continue into next week after cracks were discovered in some high speed trains. Inspections on more than 180 trains are due to be completed today, but Great Western Railway and London North eastern railway have advised passengers to check timetables. Our correspondent, sean dilley, has this update from Kings Cross station. To describe the picture at Kings Cross, one of the major london terminals, there are people turning up for travel. Within the last couple of minutes there was one train on the platform coming behind us here, but there are plenty of staff trying to help people to make theirjourneys. The advic
Department of energy all investigating this as well as the Governments Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency but No One confirming the identity of the cyberattackers or saying what it is that they are demanding as worries over a prolonged destruction mounts and congresswoman is sounding the alarm. Unfortunately these sorts of attacks are becoming more frequent, theyre here to say and we have to work in partnership with businesses to secure secure networks to defend ourselves against these attacks. As it relates to colonial, the president was briefed yesterday with an allhands on Deck Effort right now. Griff the White House releasing statement saying the federal government is working to assess implications and Restore Pipeline Operations as quickly as possible. Now, across the political aisle republicans appear ready to assist in the allhands on deck call. The implications for this for our national security cannot be overstated and i promise you, this is something that republicans and
Morgan bug, who launched a battle with an app to make sure that her online avatar could look just like her. But we do want to start with that new report from the Washington Post and Shock Waves that it is creating. So, the Justice Department now confirming that during the Trump Administration, agents secretly obtained Phone Records of three Washington Post reporters for calls that they made while covering Russias Interference in the 2016 president ial election. Im joined now by the Washington Post reporter who broke this story, devlin barrett, also the author of October Surprise how the fbi tried to save itself and crashed an election. A big conversation for another day. But we want to talk about that shocking report in the Washington Post, the story that you, in fact, broke, and overall, the understanding is Attorney General barr needed to give essential approval for something like this. He was the Attorney General at the time. What do we know about Barrs Involvement so far . What are
After netanyahu spoke a short while ago he said This is just beginning. What does That mean, This is just The beginning . Usually in situations like This, people from The europe or The United States, oTher countries, come and They try to broker some sort of temporary crease fire. I dont know if The biden administration is engaged That Thoroughly right now. Well, The biden administration has already said That Their primary focus is a deescalation. We heard That from The white House Press Secretary earlier today, but, yes, No Doubt behind The scenes There are attempts to try to deescalate The situation but The violence seems to be feeding on itself. Of course, The cause, The spark, you like, of The violence That were seeing now was This Court Case That was due to come to The Supreme Court regarding The possible evictions of palestinians living in East Jerusalem, but weve kind of gone way beyond That now and weve also seen not just Rocket Attacks from The Gaza Strip from militants and Air