another var intervention. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. more than 1000 homes are underwater in england this lunchtime, after storm henk brought with it a week of heavy rainfall. a major incident is still declared in nottinghamshire there are serious delays for travellers in many counties, with roads and railway lines flooded and about 300 flood warnings are still in place across england and wales. we ll talk more about the damaging weather in a few minutes, first let s go to our correspondent danjohnson who s in longford in gloucestershire. along the river severn. they were not expecting the start of 2024 with another dell use of flooded homes. not every property has been. i am not every property has been. i am sorry about not every property has been. i am sorry about the not every property has been. i am sorry about the line, not every property has been. i am sorry about the line, the weather, of course, having an impact in so many ways. let s
prepared for death . i was watching the sunset. i had very much made peace with all. and then a helicopter i heard a helicopter. and for the first time, british scientists use satellite images to count the entire global population of the endangered northern royal albatross. good evening. welcome to bbc news. it s five o clock our main story. the duke of edinburgh has announced he will stop carrying out public engagements this autumn. buckingham palace says prince philip made the decision with the full support of the queen, who will continue to carry out a full programme of official duties. the duke of edinburgh, who will be 96 next month, is the longest serving consort in british history. the prime minister said she offered him the country s deepest gratitude and good wishes. our royal correspondent nicholas witchell‘s report contains flash photography. it is an image to which the nation has become accustomed over many decades. the queen and the duke of edinburgh side
first official event as president elect of france less than 2a hours after the polls closed. he joined president hollande at a world war two commemoration in paris. monsieur macron beat marine le pen convincingly in yesterday s presidential run off vote but in his victory speech last night said he wanted to unite the country. that s got to the french capital and aiming dramatic asjoins us now from paris. good afternoon. emmanuel macron has already begun the work of preparing to take power on sunday, discussing with his advisers what is best that should be entered as prime minister s choice should be. earlier he was here, celebrate his marking the anniversary of victory in europe today and we had a powerful image, there was the outgoing president francois hollande side by side with the incoming mr dramatic music. mr holland had plucked mr mata from obscurity to bring him into his government and make him becoming minister. mr mata. every time ahead of the election, james re
numbers. i will give you an example. in 1984, we had about 17journeys per day between london and manchester. now we have 47. we have the busiest train lines in europe. about 20% more journeys than france, 60% more than germany. about 20% more journeys than france, 6096 more than germany. that is a response to demand. british rail tailored its demands and services accordingly in the same way. this is not actually a fact that you can point to to say, it is because it is private and it has done better. it is nearly gone merely grown because of endogenous factors. is nearly gone merely grown because of endogenous factorsm terms of the practicalities of this, people may come to this neutral and say, i can remember what british ra i lwa ys say, i can remember what british railways were like, i know what the ra i lwa ys railways were like, i know what the railways are like now. if i am a southern rail customer, i might not like the fact that there have been so like the fact th
whether angela merkel can remain chancellor when germans go to the polls later this year? and behind the scenes at the white house. we ll speak to a reporter about his dinner with the president, and finding out donald trump s favourite modern invention. welcome to the programme. i m katty kay in washington. clive myrie is in london. we are learning a lot today about the firing of the head of the fbi and we are hearing it from the president. mr trump hasjust called mr comey a showboat and a grandstander . he also revealed he was determined to fire the director anyway, whatever the justice department recommended. mr trump also reasserted the claim, that mr comey told him three times that he personally wasn t under investigation over ties to russia. mr trump made those comments in an interview with nbc news that s just been released. he isa he is a showboat. he is a grandstander. the fbi has been in turmoil. you know it, dynamic, everybody knows it. you take a look at the fbi