the big names on the move. he is on his way to inter milan from manchester united. and welcome to edinburgh, where we have singers, we have acrobats. a little worried about them in their warmup this morning. 4 million people come to edinburgh throughout the month of august for the edinburgh festival. we have the red sofa here, all with the wonderful backdrop of edinburgh castle. good morning. today we are looking at another day of sunshine, and fewer showers than of late, but later, a deep area of low pressure is going to swing into the south west, bringing some heavy rain and strength ending when. i will have more in 15 minutes. strengthening wins. winds. it is thursday 8 august. our top story: a police officer is in a critical condition after being repeatedly stabbed with a machete in east london. the attack happened at around midnight. a man in his 50s has been arrested. let s get more from our reporter simonjones, who is at the scene in leyton. simon, what do we kno
using computers to detect disease. the nhs is to get £250 million to build an artificial intelligence lab. and it s set to be a busy transfer deadline day. manchester united have agreed to sell striker romelu lukaku to inter milan in a deal worth up to £74 million. good morning, and welcome to the bbc news at 9. police say an officer who was attacked with a machete in east london is seriously injured, but will recover. the policeman was stabbed several times after he tried to stop a van in leyton at around midnight. a man in his fifties has been arrested. our correspondent andy moore is in east london. andy, what do we know so far? this incident happened just behind me just before midnight last night. two officers in a marked patrol car were following a large white van, and we think it was not insured, which is why they were following it. they had the blue lights on and were trying to get it to pull over and it eventually did, just behind me and when the officers got out th
and are being failed by the authorities. should four year olds be tested as soon as they start school? this mother of four year old isla is going to downing street today to protest against plans to bring in new assessments next year which will ask four year olds simple questions like, how many teddies are in the box? here s why she s worried. if you ask isla today, how many teddies are in the box? she might say four. tomorrow she might say seven, because she ll double count them, or she might feel like saying something silly because she s having a bad morning. and, i am not a cheat that s what this foreign student says, even though the home office cancelled his visa after accusing him of cheating in an english language test. it came after this bbc panorama investigation five years ago which revealed some students were encouraged to cheat. i ll be going on quickly, i won t be stopping. so, if, in case, you miss one, carry on, we ll come back to it later. so, one, cat.
results programme on the us mid term elections. in the first big test of donald trump s presidency, the democratic party has taken control of the house of representatives for the first time in eight years. some results are still to be declared. but as you can see, president trump s republican party has consolidated its hold on the senate. let s have a closer look at the results. all 435 seats in the house of representatives, the lower chamber of congress, were contested. some results are still being counted, but this is the current make up of the chamber. blue for the democrats, red for the republicans. here, the democrats have gained more than the 23 seats they needed to take control. but in the senate, the upper house of congress, where just over a third of seats were up for election, the democrats have lost ground and the republicans have increased their majority. this is the current make up of the senate. some results are still to come there as well. president trump has b
with the surge in knife crime. wherever you are in the country, do join the conversation. good morning, we re live until 11 this morning. we re not naive enough to think we ll find the answers in the next hour, but with this group of people all of whom have direct experience knife crime in one way or another, we re going to try. here s annita with a summary of the day s news so far. the us democrats have taken control of the house of representatives in the mid term elections, dealing a blow to president donald trump. it s the first time in eight years that the democrats have controlled the lower chamber of congress, and will enable them to subject the president to more scrutiny than ever before. but mr trump s republicans are set to strengthen their grip on the senate. the president has called the result a tremendous success . our washington correspondent chris buckler explained more about the significance of the democrats winning the house. it does make a real difference