hello, there. on thursday we are electing a new parliament. voters here will choose 18 new mps. we are live from belfast debating the big talking points that matter to go. joining us. gavin robinson, the leader of the dup. we invited the leader of the dup. we invited the sinn fein leader and the party tonight is represented by chris hazzard. colum eastwood is a leader of the sdlp and the leader of the alliance party is naomi long. and we also invited the of the ulster unionists, the deputy leader, robbie butler, completes the line up. on the order they are positioned in was determined by the drawing of lots. the questions come from our studio audience. largely made up of grassroots party supporters from across all parties standing in northern ireland. we also have a number of undecided voters. at home, join the discussion on social media. a hashtag is #bbcnidebate. i should point out the team of bbc news correspondents are fact checking this debate on the news nite website. l
Even awarding medals to these many athletes. that said for newsday, thanks so much forjoining us. hello. up until last saturday, northern ireland hadn t recorded a temperature above 31 degrees, but now it s happened three times in less than a week. once again on thursday afternoon, a new provisional record 31.4 degrees recorded at armagh. and northern ireland is going to be one of the slowest places to cool down over the next few days. this amber extreme heat warning from the met office across the south west of england, parts of wales and the midlands expires tonight, but this one across northern ireland continues to be in force throughout friday. and certainly very, very mild and muggy out there as we head through tonight. these are the midnight temperatures, 22 23 degrees in places, pretty uncomfortable for sleeping. through the early hours of friday morning, we re also going to bring more of this low cloud across parts of northern and eastern scotland, the eastern side of england.
For that, the city is also dealing with its highest number of daily covid infections for six months. the capital is confirmed nearly 2000 cases. you can follow that through the bbc sport website and the bbc news website, of course, remember, if you are in the uk and would like to see some of the longer analysis pieces from outside source, you can get them on iplayer in the news category. just go to different page and click on category, news can and you ll easily find them. you can also get audio versions of some of those pieces bbc sounds as well. we will see very soon. thanks for watching. all the best. hello. up until last saturday, northern ireland hadn t recorded a temperature above 31 degrees, but now it s happened three times in less than a week. once again on thursday afternoon, a new provisional record 31.4
When tram 2551 overturned. the driver also didn t appear at the inquest as he was too sick. this is where it happened, leaving tunnel, the driver briefly touched the brakes but it was too late. the tram was travelling at 73 kilometres an hour on the curve, the speed limit was 20. the court heard it was probable he lost awareness and had a micro sleep. he became disorientated in the tunnel. this is a reconstruction shown to the inquest. investigators found there were no speed limit signs in the tunnel. there are also no systems to automatically break or monitor driver fatigue, and all have now been implemented. the court also heard that fatigue management by the tram operator wasn t thought to be a factor as the driver said he wasn t tired.
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