And coming up two arsenal stars are targetted in a carjacking attempt, by an armed gang in a london street. Good morning welcome to bbc newsroom live. More disruption is expected on parts of the rail network today, after yesterdays high temperatures caused extensive damage. Network rail feared rail lines would buckle in yesterdays extreme heat. But with speed restrictions in place that didnt happen. What did cause pandemonium yesterday, however, was damage caused by trains to overhead cables when they sagged in the heat, sparking some line side fires. This left some commuters stuck in london late into the night. Repair work has been ongoing but only half of the tracks north out of london st pancras have been fixed meaning a significantly reduced service is in place. And theres still disruption there today as well as other stations as seen here in leicester. East Midlands Trains has urged passengers not to travel to london st pancras from nottingham and sheffield. Its put an emergency t
Amount of time children spend on phones as hes visited a youth club today. The prince asked some of the children how long they spend on their phones, with one girl saying she spends up to 15 hours a day. The future king said grown ups were also guilty of excessive time and of excessive screen time and said weve all got to get better at managing it. He also poked fun at his apparent lack of artistic skills as took part artistic skills as he took part in decorating biscuits, in decorating some biscuits, saying wife is the arty saying that his wife is the arty one. And for the latest story, sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen or go to gb news. Com slash alerts. Now its back to. Patrick. The reality of what a car crash, a Labour Government would be is now unfolding before our eyes. They are getting away with things in opposition that will rip them apart in government. Labour put a muzzle on deputy leader Angela Rayner for around 42 days while she was fending of
Has Angela Rayner just has Angela Raynerjust lit has Angela Rayner just lit a fuse that will blow the labour party to pieces. Next . Party to pieces. Next . Good evening from the gb newsroom at 9 00. Your top story this hour. The Prime Minister has ruled out holding a general election on the 2nd of may, amid speculation he could choose to go to the polls early. In an interview with itv, rishi sunak was asked if there would be an election on the same day as the local elections, which takes place on the 2nd of may. He replied there wont be a general election on that day. Michael election on that day. Michael gove has named some of the groups to be investigated under a new definition of extremism, which he says will mean the government can express more clearly than ever who poses a risk to britain. Some of the groups included are alleged to have islamist views, with others described as neo nazi. Todays described as neo nazi. Todays new extremism definition will be used to assess whether s
On track. Latest headlines now on track. Latest headlines now with tatiana. Mark, thank you with tatiana. Mark, thank you and good afternoon. This is the latest from the newsroom. The Prime Minister newsroom. The Prime Minister says the american xl bully dog is a danger to our communities as it comes after a series of dog attacks in the past few weeks, injuring several people including an 11 year old girl, rishi sunak says the breed will be banned by the end of the yeah be banned by the end of the year. Its clear this is not about a handful of badly trained dogs. Its a pattern of behaviour and it cannot go on while owners already have a responsibility to keep their dogs under control, i want to reassure people that we are urgent working on ways to stop these attacks and protect the public dog. Meanwhile , a man has died meanwhile, a man has died following a dog attack in staffordshire. The person was bitten by two dogs in the village of stonnall yesterday. A 30 year old man from the li
Was booby trapped or if the explosion was simply an accident, but theyre saying it looks like some type of natural gas incident and the authorities havent said if the victim was the owner being convicted. They told us that the tenant had been there since 2010 and stopped paying rent in may. What are investigators saying . Is it possible that the victim could have died before the explosion . Its absolutely a possibility. Investigators cant say right now, if he died before or as a result of tex mroegs. Its certainly something theyre looking into. This is an unusual incident. Thank you. Now, to the jerusalem fire shows no signs at all of letting up. It doubled in size overnight to 12,000 acres, these are live pictures from sky fox, you can see the spoke burning from that fire. Its burning very close to the area where the rocky fire broke out late last month. We head now to ktvus walker who has been in the fire zone, what can you tell us . Ken, this is another really big fire, its been bur