Will have the latest from brussels. Oscar pistorius has had his murder sentence more than doubled by a judge. The South African athlete was jailed last year after being found guilty on appeal of murdering his girlfriend, reeva steenkamp, on valentines day 2013. Hello. Welcome to the programme. Were live until am this morning. Were going to be talking to two Primary Schools headteacher is about the difficulty of the teaching jobs with questions about whether the job is too stressful and worries about funding. We will also have the latest from zimbabwe as the new president is sworn in. Do get in touch on all the stories were talking about this morning, use the hashtag victorialive. And if you text, you will be charged at the Standard Network rate. Our top story today. Theresa may will meet the president of the european council, donald tusk, in brussels today, the first such high level encounter since the Prime Minister secured the backing of her cabinet to increase britains divorce payme
Following reports of gunfire at Oxford Circus underground station in the past few hours. Richard lister is here. Richard, for a while we did not know whether there was any substance to this, what police saying now . Yes, and there was high level of panic around atjunction in there was high level of panic around at junction in central there was high level of panic around atjunction in Central London. Police have given a clear readout of what happened. They say at 4 37pm there were reports on one particular platform of central line at Oxford Circus of a gunshot. British transport Police Responded to that saying people were all ready leaving the station as they came out they said what they thought had happened, that led to numerous 999 calls about reports of gunshots in Central London which they responded to as if it was a terror attack because the police in these times have to treat these kinds of reports as though they have happened. Armed police went to the scene, police were cordoning
Hello im Barbara Farah this is the news hour live from london thank you for joining us coming up in the next sixty minutes Gunmen Attack a crowded mosque in egypts sinai region killing at least two hundred thirty five people president sisi is vowing revenge. Urges zimbabweans to put the past behind them as hes sworn in as president. Im going. To live. Well. As the Saudi Led Coalition continues to block aid to yemen warnings that fuel will run out by the end of the week. And calls for Government Action after a beijing Child Care Center is accused of drugging and one less thing toddlers. And sport the tennis season isnt quite over for some of the biggest stars of the mens game the davis cup final is underway between belgium and france and its tied up why dont more on that story coming up later. Egypts military has carried out air strikes in the sinai region after Gunmen Attacked a mosque killing at least two hundred thirty five people and injuring dozens more the attackers better nature
Into the third day of the first ashes test in brisbane. Coming up on sportsday on bbc news, englands women make it two from two in world cup qualifying with a 4 0 victory over bosnia herzegovina. Good evening. Egypts president has vowed to respond with brutal force after one of the deadliest attacks in modern egyptian history. At least 235 people have been killed and more than 100 injured, many critically, after gunmen detonated a bomb and then stormed a packed mosque at the end of friday prayers. It happened in a remote town in egypts north sinai region. The mosque was popular with sufi worshippers. They follow a mystical form of islam which extremists regard as heresy. Just to warn you, there are some distressing images in 0rla guerins report. Sirens. A rush to save the wounded when a place of worship became a place of carnage. The attackers struck during friday prayers. For egypt, this was a grim new first a massacre in a mosque. Inside, worshippers lay dead where minutes earlier th
Telling egyptians their anguish would not be in vain and there would be decisive punishment. The sophisticated assault on the mosque was the latest attack by militants based in sinai. The state has been battling them for years. As egypt counted its new dead, analysts here warned that president sisi has already tried a hardline military response to no avail. The scorched earth approach that we have seen has failed to prevent this from happening, it has failed to prevent isis from continuing to operate in egypt and in sinai specifically. And its a reasonable question to ask, to what extent does this scorched earth approach actually help isis perhaps recruit further followers . The most deadly previous attack by is here was the downing of this russian aircraft in sinai in 2015, with a loss of 224 lives. In the past year, is have killed scores of christians in three attacks on churches, saying followers of the cross were their favourite prey. This time, militants in sinai have targeted the