Has a new leader he is Edwin Poots, and he takes over from arlene foster, who stood down after criticism of her handling of brexit. Mr poots narrowly beat his opponent, the Mp Sirjeffrey Donaldson today, in the first Leadership Election in the dups 50 year history. Our Ireland Correspondent Emma Vardy has more. The new leader of Northern Irelands largest unionist party has made one thing clear opposing the new Brexit Arrangements for Northern Ireland, the northern Ireland Protocol, will be one of his biggest priorities. Edwin poots beat his rival, sirjeffrey donaldson, by 19 votes to 17. This party has been the authentic voice of unionism and will continue to be the authentic voice of unionism under my leadership. The northern Ireland Protocol has proven to be a massive challenge for us. And if we are to fight this, to ensure that everybody in Northern Ireland is not worse off as a consequence of the protocol, then its for us to do that together. Edwin poots had been viewed as the more
By her son, prince charles, and by camilla who, in scotland, are known as the duke and Duchess Of Rothesay. Provisional Clinical Trial results suggest an experimental drug for severe covid cuts the risk of hospitalisation or death by about half. And two new streams of lava pose a further threat of destruction as the la palma Volcano Forces thousands more to flee. Hello and welcome if youre watching in the uk or around the world. The uks Home Secretary has said police must raise the bar by taking the harassment of women more seriously. Priti patel said crimes such as flashing and verbal abuse should not be taken lightly. She said women should feel confident to call out such offences. Ministers have promised reform to the criminaljustice system, following the murder of Sarah Everard by a serving Police Officer. Simonjones reports. The death of Sarah Everard prompted an outpouring of public grief. Now the government says it is determined her murder will bring about permanent change in how
by the end the night. tomorrow, a bright enough start to the day with some sunshine, before it will be clouding overfrom the some sunshine, before it will be clouding over from the west and ultimately there will be some rain on the way. the wettest weather will be for northern ireland and western areas of scotland with the winds picking up during the day. it s another very mild day. 6 degrees above average for the time of year in london. and then we will have some strong winds tomorrow night. gales, even severe gales, affecting the north west of scotland. stay in quite blustery across scotland for friday as well but elsewhere a brighter day with much more sunshine. it is still mild air that we have with us and so on friday afternoon temperatures will be widely into double figures. friday night and into saturday, the area of low pressure i showed you is set to bring some heavier rain in which could cause problems across parts of england and wales, given that the ground is satu
are confident? yellow makar he will be all right, yeah. i think you will be all right, yeah. i think you will be all right, is that 0k? be all right, yeah. i think you will be all right, is that ok? we have got plenty of back ups. we have exceptional players so there is no risk for us. as for scotland, edinburgh flanker hamish watson will start in place of the injured john hardie. it s the only change to the starting 15 and means their backline stays the same for the trip to twickenham, a venue where scotland haven t won since 1983. that s all from sportsday. coming up in a moment, the papers. thanks forjoining us. hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are kate devlin, political correspondent at the herald and peter spiegel, news editor at the financial times. nice to see you both, waiting patiently so we can get on air! now for the front pages, starting with the guardian. it says that theresa may is putting off the