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and thousands of extra police. the city of hull becomes the uk s second city of culture, we re there live to see how organisers plan to transform it. it all starts right here at 4pm this afternoon and this evening there will be a firework display with biggerfireworks than will be a firework display with bigger fireworks than the ones last night in london. meanwhile, they are getting ready to sing, dance, shake and much our way into 2017 with the massive london new year s day parade. in sport, premier league leaders chelsea beat stoke. the blues have now equalled arsenal s record of 13 consecutive wins in a single season. and matt has the weather. 2017 opened up cold and sunny to the northern half of the uk, cloudy, wet and increasingly cold further south. 0n the details coming up in a few minutes. good morning. first, our main story. at least 39 people have been killed, and many more injured, in an attack on a nightclub in the turkish city of istanbul. at least a dozen ....
millions say they feel lonely but won t admit it a campaign s launched to tackle it, in memory of murdered mpjo cox. and a legal battle over whether parents should be allowed to take their children on holiday during term time is under way at the supreme court. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. parliament has just announced a date for mps to debate donald trump s invitation for a state visit to the uk. it s scheduled for monday 20th february. nearly 1.7 million people have signed a petition calling for the state visit to be downgraded. another petition calling for the visit to go ahead has been signed by more than 100,000 people. james robbins told us controversy on this scale in relation to a state visit has not been seen before. i don t think there has been a row on this scale about a state visit ever. it s clearly unprecedented. but then this is shaping up to be an unprecedented state visit. why do i say that? well, partly because the scale of public oppositio ....
elections and the future and one woman this morning was just crying because she couldn t believe the amount of violence that she was seeing yesterday against older people and women as well was really heartbreaking to see all right emotions running very high there mentally. in harare thank you very much. now some other stories making news around the world authorities in the democratic republic of congo say four more people have tested positive for the a bowl of virus in the country s northeast the outbreak in north kivu province close to the ugandan border has already claimed twenty thousand lives the cases come just days after another outbreak in the northwest of the sea was declared over . and the u.s. has announced sanctions against to talk turkish officials over the country s detention of an american pastor turkey accuses andrew brunson of aiding the failed coup attempt against turkish president won in two thousand and sixteen the u.s. is demanding bronson s immediate release. ....
verifying the vote was more complicated than expected the commission chairwoman said the unusually high number of candidates was causing delays in the verification process. but a spokesman for the opposition said the situation was unacceptable and suggested that something unusual was going on it is everyone citizens right to demand that the results are produced in reasonable time ok the fact that the results far right is central that it s just next door to zach had not been released by off by by midday today is inappropriate and suggests that something wrong is opening we ve been here before. as tensions remain high in the country the international community is becoming increasingly concerned with governments calling for restraint on all sides. well for more tonight i m joined by eddie cross he is a member of zimbabwe s opposition party the movement for democratic change and he is a former parliamentarian mr cross it s good to have you on the program tonight the opposition you ....
said the unusually high number of candidates was causing delays in the verification process. but a spokesman for the opposition said the situation was unacceptable and suggested that something unusual was going on it is every citizen strike to demand that the results are produced in reasonable time ok the fact that the results far right essential that it s just next door just have not been released by upright by midday today is inappropriate and suggests that something wrong is happening we ve been here before. as tensions remain high in the country the international community is becoming increasingly concerned with governments calling for restraint on all science. well for more tonight i m joined by any cross he is a member of zimbabwe s opposition party the movement for democratic change and he is a former parliamentarian mr cross it s good to have you on the program tonight the opposition your party is claiming that this long delay in releasing the presidential results is a ....