Area of low pressure linked with the low pressure area of low pressure linked with the low pressure across area of low pressure linked with the low pressure across iceland, giving some exceptional weather, potentially two metres of snow and hurricane full swings. It is very wet and windy, severe gales are probably the top for us. You can see a band of rain, a cold weatherfront which will enhance the rain through the rest of the afternoon. Winds gusting widely to a0 or 50 mph, a steady gale, another to bring down some trees and affect high sided vehicles. Those gusty winds along the weather fronts combine, making some pretty atrocious conditions through the rest of the afternoon and evening. A consolation prize is it is relatively mild, but a brief relatively mild period, because this cold weather front has colder air behind it, so the rain plays this evening and overnight, showers into the north and west in particular, the north and west in particular, the winter enough to prevent a fi
before. let s start this a half hour with the latest from sudan. so many through the course of the day let s start with the british nationals getting out because the foreign office said more than 300 british nationals have embarked on flights leaving sudan at the end of the date there will be eight flights. the airstrip being used in sudan, north of khartoum, is beginning to break up. that is what the bbc has been told, sparking fears over how long that runway will last. some of that detail has come from the most senior british commander in charge of that operation in sudan, brigadier dan reeves and had been talking to the bbc about so many different aspects of the operation from the runway to haul full the flights are to those questions around who actually gets on. it s here in the of that interview. some other countries have acted more quickly, some countries like france in particular have escorted his people out. people are terrified. is not the right thing to do? this peo
fire. forthe responsible for the effects of the fire. for the first time, counsel has admitted they knew that the building was defective. the infected blood scandal of the 70s and 80s thousands of surviving victims should receive immediate six figure compensation, rules a judge. and coming up in half an hour, foreign correspondents based in london give an outsider s view of events in the uk in dateline. hello, welcome to bbc news. it is good to have your company this evening. rebekah vardy has lost her libel case at the high court. in what had become known as the wagatha christie trial, the wife of the former england footballerjamie vardy had sued coleen rooney after she accused vardy of leaking private information about her to the tabloid press. in a statement after the verdict, coleen rooney said she was pleased with the judgment, but added that the case should never have gone to court. rebekah vardy said she was extremely sad and disappointed , and that it wasn t the
difficult in speaking to joint news conference emergency war cabinet members, benjamin that now describes it as israel s second war for independence and they said that israel would win they said that israel would win the war and bring every effort to bring the hostages home and israel said it s to bring the hostages home and israel said its latest night time attacks hit one edge of 50 targets and killed some key figures within hamas which is designated as a tour group by the us and many other western nations. it first comments since the war began, hamas in the gaza strip is offered to release the hostages being held in gaza in return for the freeing of all hamas prisoners and israeli jails in the statement they say that we are ready for immediate exchange including the release of all prisoners and the zionist enemy in exchange for the released prisoners of the resistance. a member of israel foreign affairs and defence committee and he shared with the bbc is reaction to hamas