the boss of british gas joins us to talk about that, and to answer your questions. jordan henderson cuts short his stay in saudi arabia. the england midfielder has arrived in amsterdam tojoin struggling dutch giants ajax afterjust 19 games in the middle east. cold today. could it change at the weekend? we are about to go from snow to storms. all the details in breakfast. the indian steel company, tata, will confirm plans today to cut up to 3,000 jobs in the uk. most are expected to be at britain s biggest steelworks in port talbot, at britain s biggest where two coal fired furnaces are set to be closed. unions called it a crushing blow and the worst case scenario. 0ur reporter, lucy vladev, has more. after years of questions about the future of steel making, the answers being provided for workers here are about as bad as they get. both blast furnaces in port talbot will close, as part of major changes to the way tata produces steel. jobs will go across the uk, but south w
welcome to the programme, we start middle east. welcome to the programme, we start in the middle east. a suspected israeli air strike has hit a residential building in the syrian capital, damascus. iranian state media says four members of iran s revolutionary guards were among those killed. they include two high ranking military advisers one of whom is reported to be the head of the force s information unit in syria. iran is blaming israel for the strike. iranian advisers have played a key role in keeping president assad in power during the civil war in syria. with me is issam ikirmawi, who is a correspondent with bbc arabic. good to see you. just talk us through at the moment what we know what we think we know that what is happening. we what we think we know that what is ha eninu. ~ ~ ., ., what we think we know that what is ha enin~.~ ~ ., ., ., happening. we know from syrian forces that happening. we know from syrian forces that an happening. we know from syrian
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the end of the fighting in gaza but israel has already made it clear it won t tolerate a palestinian state once the guns go silent. prime minister benjamin netanyahu has said that if it s a question of israeli security or palestinian sovereignty, he will opt for the former. but that s at odds with the two state solution which washington favours and unlikely to go down well in the rest of the middle east. also ahead tata steel has confirmed that 2,800 jobs will go when it turns off its blast furnaces at port talbot. the company says it will greatly reduce carbon emissions other voices are worried the uk will be dependent on imports for a vital resource. and a newborn baby has been found abandoned in a park in east london. we ll look at how the uk and the us are tackling issues like this we will get reaction to all of that. our panel this evening, joining us from miami, the democratic strategist hilary rosen, and in london, the chief political commentator from i newspap
the sister of two year old bronson battersby tells the bbc she doesn t blame social services after the toddler was found dead alongside his father. they were both found working very peaceful, and that is the only consolation i can take from that. looking very peaceful. measles will spread rapidly in some parts of the uk unless more children have the vaccine a warning from senior health officials. and djokovic dominant down under the defending champion sails into the fourth round of the australian open. and coming up on bbc news coming up on bbc news, jordan henderson returns to europe from saudi arabia, joining the dutch club i axe. hello and welcome to the bbc news at 0ne. there have been more developments in the post office it scandal, in which hundreds of sub postmaters were wrongly convicted. in which hundreds of sub postmasters were wrongly convicted. the european head of the technology firm fujitsu has described as shameful the apparent editing of witness sta