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and on newsnight at 10.30pm we ll go deeper behind the headlines and speak live to key players on today s big stories. plus, a first look at tomorrow s front pages. good evening. the prime minister is resisting pressure for the conservatives to return £10 million donated by the businessman frank hester, who allegedly said the mp diane abbott made him want to hate all black women and should be shot. rishi sunak told the commons that the alleged remarks were racist but that mr hester s apology for making rude comments should be accepted. this evening, diane abbott attacked both the conservatives and labour for their response to the controversy. here s our political editor chris mason. will you give the money back, prime minister? the big questions ringing in the ears of rishi sunak today. would the party take more money from mr hester? ..after a morning in which two senior conservatives answered these questions rather differently. i would think about the company i ke ....
overnight, back into northern ireland and southern scotland the rain will track north. now to the north of that band of rain it could be quite chilly for a while in northern this programme continues on bbc one. published by michael gove tomorrow help stamp out extremist ideologies, as it claims? since october 7th, anti semitic and anti muslim hate cases have soared. the government says its new more precise defintiion of extremism will tackle the ever evolving threat of such behaviour in our country. will it? we ll ask the secretary general of the muslim council of britain and the policy director of a think tank called the counter extremism group which works closely with mps. also tonight, the labour leader drills down on the tory party being bankrolled , as he put it, by a businessman who reportedly said diane abbott made him want to hate all black women and that she should be shot. meanwhile, there are growing calls for labour to restore the whip to ms abbott ....
will benefit both sides. china says reunification with taiwan is still inevitable despite the vote, and mr lai s victory will not change the basic landscape of cross strait relations. my colleague, steve lai, has been following the day s events in taipei. polling began at 8am and it closed at lipm. eight hours is all it took, and four hours of counting, and we have a winner already. it s been quite a fascinating thing to watch and to be a part of, i have to say. let s cross now, though, to shaimaa khalil, because she is at the dpp headquarters and she s been listening to william lai make his victory speech. shaimaa, tell us more about what he said. william lai, the now president elect, has thanked people for turning out, thanked the supporters for voting for the dpp and giving them that record third term in power. but he was also very robust on the stance with china. he said it s his responsibility to maintain safety across the taiwan strait, but also he vowed to mainta ....
much guieter,,warmer weatherbut we looking to the atlantic and the are looking to the atlantic and the cloud is billowing our way, signalling a change, looking more signalling-a she agefleekingeeerei and bringing rain to threatening and bringing rain to western parts of the uk. as we have seenin western parts of the uk. as we have seen in glasgow already. further seen htglasggwfiglr eady. further seenhfilasggwalready; further in hampshire, basingstoke, the south in hampshire, basingstoke, the cloud has been thinner so we have had brighter skies and sunshine but it will become more milky through ! afternoon. further north in the afternoon. further north in glasgow, i colourful picture from glasgow, a colourful picture from oui’ glasgow, a colourful picture from our weather watcher but a wet scene. we will continue to get rain. that is the bigger picture across the uk. into scotland, not just is the bigger picture across the uk. into scotland, notjust rain but snow ov ....