big ben strikes midnight. it s europe s biggest fireworks display and as the countdown began, more than 100,000 people watched along the river thames as the london skyline lit up and the sounds of big ben chimed. you can actually smell the gunpowder the air, you can smell it. it is fireworks night here. big ben, the chimes have rung and we are now officially in 202a. the best show on earth. amazing, indescribable, no words. so worth it, i am loving it so much. this is my first time for london, coming here and seeing this. i i love it, it is so good. this year s theme is unity, a message played from the king. 0ur society is woven from diverse threads. and the london mayor, who thanked those working in the nhs, the police and the fire service. he said the event took months to organise. we have planned this sincejuly. there is a team of 75 who have been working over the last four days. one of our strengths as a city and country is our diversity. we will be celebrating our dive
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Eastern areas, cloud, Light Rain In The South East and a cool wind along the south east and a cool wind along the north sea coast. More later. Its tuesday the 23rd of april. Asylum seekers who enter the uk illegally could be sent to rwanda after a Government Bill finally made it through parliament in the early hours, after months of delays. It declared the african country to be safe. The bill will become law within the next few days and the Prime Minister has said the first flights will leave the uk in ten to 12 weeks. Human Rights Groups described the plan as shameful. Our Political Correspondent ben wright has the details. Long after most people had gone to bed, parliament carried on working, wrestling with the issue of sending Asylum Seekers to rwanda. The governments plan had faced strong resistance in the House Of Lords. They voted for changes mps kept rejecting. My lords, this bill has now been scrutinised a number of times. The government have rejected this amendment several tim
american officials argued such a move would be divorced from reality . every other member of the council backed the resolution apart from the uk, which abstained. there s been a chorus of outrage from other countries, charities and human rights groups. israel has thanked the us, saying a ceasefire would give hamas which is classed as a terror group by many western governments a chance to regroup. our middle east correspondent hugo bachega reports. in gaza, there s no safe place, says the un secretary general. the health care system is collapsing, hospitals have become battlegrounds, and palestinians have no shelter and everything else needed to survive, he says. this was the scene in khan younis in the south yesterday in the aftermath of an israeli airstrike as the military pushes ahead with its war against hamas. hours later, at the un in new york, the secretary general called for a ceasefire and had this warning. there is a high risk of the total collapse of t
But not last night. after a drought near the desert for this new club, al nassr, the 38 year old found an oasis, with a goals in a single match, cue his trademark celebration, and to mark reaching 500 league goals across his career, he got the referee to sign his match ball and also wanted a picture with the official. the official doesn t look like the most excited person, kind of why are you asking me? also his 61st hat trick. she s a european champion, queen of thejungle, and now former lioness jill scott has had a new football pitch named in her honour. it s the first of 23 pitches to be named after the team. alison freeman has the story. oh, good tackle. can you stop it? well done. back on the pitch she played on as a child, and now this ground at boldon near sunderland is being named afterjill scott