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Hello, im lewis vaughanjones. Welcome to the programme. First this hour a deadline set by the west African Regional bloc ecowas for the militaryjunta to reinstate nigers ousted president Mohammed Bazoum expires later on sunday. Ecowas gave the coup leaders a week to restore the president or potentially face Military Action. Meanwhile, france says it will support efforts by ecowas. Nigers Prime Minister has been in paris saturday, meeting lawmakers and greeting protestors outside the niger embassy. He has dismissed pro coup protests taking place in his country. With the deadline only hours away, our correspondent chris ewokor reports from sokoto, North Western nigeria, close to the border with niger. They are ....
He did not commit. A man who was wrongly imprisoned for rape has welcomed a government decision to scrap rules which meant people who had been cleared by the courts could be charged for living costs incurred injail. Andrew malkinson told the bbc the change was a step in the right direction, but said more needed to be done to support people who were wrongly convicted. 0ur correspondent Sarah Campbell has this report. To add insult to injury, the rules, at this point, said he would have to pay back his living costs while wrongly imprisoned. I pay back his living costs while wrongly imprisoned. I thought, to a these wrongly imprisoned. I thought, to pay these peeple wrongly imprisoned. I thought, to pay these people for wrongly imprisoned. I thought, to pay these people for doing wrongly imprisoned. I thought, to pay these people for doing what l pay these people for doing what doing to me is the most sickening, abhorrent, repugnant ....
currently we have got some rain pushing across the south east, clearing through this morning. behind it, a mixture of sunshine and showers, some of the showers heavy and thundery in northern and central scotland. another breezy day. details later. the parents of a young person at the heart of allegations against a bbc presenter are standing by their account, according the sun newspaper, after a lawyer representing the individual said their claims were rubbish. the newspaper first reported that the unnamed presenter had allegedly paid a teenager for sexually explicit photos last week. our correspondent charlotte gallagher has the latest. after days of damaging headlines, allegations and rumours, this story of a bbc presenter allegedly paying thousands for sexually explicit images is still dominating front pages. now a statement on behalf of the young person at the centre of this. they ve called the allegations, by their mother, rubbish. their lawyer says, nothing inappr ....
glitches and problems and roll out. but campaigners say they are in denial. the off road bikes described as a a plague to society , causing misery for communities. we re never going to get peace. we re going to have to move. we might have to put this up for sale. in sport, england s leading points scorer and former captain 0wen farrell will move to france at the end of the season, ruling him out of selection for his country. good morning. it s tuesday, 23rd january. our main story. the us and uk have carried out more coordinated air strikes against houthi targets in yemen, in response to the group s attacks on commercial shipping in the red sea. the houthis claim they re targeting ships linked to israel because of its military operation in gaza. the defence secretary grant shapps said the strikes would deal another blow to the iranian backed fighters. 0ur north america correspondent david willis reports. royal air forcejets, armed with precision guided bombs, joined us forces ....