on aggregate to secure their place in the stockholm showpiece, later this month. we are live at manchester s beautiful, glorious, historic victoria baths. the pool has been refilled, ready for the first public swim in 2a years. we will have more on the plight of britain s glorious historic pools and the fight to save them ina historic pools and the fight to save them in a little while. and matt has them in a little while. and matt has the weather. good morning. another dry day., but for the rest of you there will be the smell of fresh rain in the air and maybe eight thunderstorms later. dry day for scotland. good morning. first, our main story. thousands of weapons have been seized in schools across england and wales. they include swords, axes and airguns. some of the cases involved children as young as five . police chiefs said there had been a worrying increase in young people carrying knives. andy moore reports. some schools have taken to using metal arches to make su
use her meeting with president trump to tell him to stop insulting women. good evening, and welcome to bbc news. hundreds of thousands of people joined protest marches today across the world to voice their concern over the new us president, donald trump. the aim was to highlight the rights of women and minorities, which protesters say are under threat from the new administration. tens of thousands of people joined the rally in london and other cities across the uk. the biggest, though, was in washington, as the bbc‘s katty kay reports. they came in their thousands. children, men, and women. lots of women. i came from hawaii to be here today. i am women. i came from hawaii to be here today. iam here women. i came from hawaii to be here today. i am here to represent all the people that cannot be here. today. i am here to represent all the people that cannot be harem gives me hope for our future. it was a really dark day when the electoral results came in. it is not that we ha
skies blue. glad you could join us. it is a them in singapore, midnight in london, and seven in the evening in washington, dc, web president donald trump has finally signed his replacement executive order on immigration. it really imposes travel restrictions on six muslim majority nations. but it admits iraq but admits iraq and allows people who already have green cards and lives a ban on syrian refugees. nick bryant reports. there was applause when president trump signed the first executive order, but it caused anger, chaos and confusion at america s airports as the travel ban on entrants from seven mainly muslim countries was hurriedly put into effect but the us courts blocked it opening the borders, delivering an embarrassing rebuke to president trump. so today he signed a revised ban with unusually little fanfare. the washington press corps not invited to witness it and this photograph taken instead by a white house staffer. he left it to a senior administration off
it told us that it was releasing false southern part one inside the cia s global hacking force and it was claiming the thousands of documents it has put online have shown us how the cia conducts hacking. vault seven. shown us how the cia conducts hacking. vault seven. the bbc contacted the cia and it said we do not comment on purported intelligence documents. let me show you what gordon corera, our intelligence correspondent, said. they claim to be from the cia centre for cyber intelligence, leaked documents about the cia s technical ability to carry out hacking into electronic devices, things like android phones, iphones, even in one interesting document samsung smart tvs , interesting document samsung smart tvs, so it could make it look like the tv is off and actually on and collecting audio from the room and sending it back from a joint operation with britain s mi5, it is claimed. extraordinary claims about the capabilities of the cia has for hacking into electronic d
of parliament in westminster. plans to make britain an independent, sovereign nation will be published this morning just one day after theresa may started the process of brexit. the great repeal bill will outline how the government plans to repatriate more than a0 years worth of powers from the european union and convert thousands of eu rules into british law. yesterday, theresa may described britain s departure from the eu as an historic moment from which there can be no turning back . eleanor garnier reports. cometh the hour, cometh the moment, in westminster, belfast, edinburgh and cardiff the exact moment the uk took a new and different course. this is an historic moment from which there is no turning back. the letter, hand delivered by our man in brussels, telling the eu we are on our way out. written in a deliberately conciliatory tone. but a hint, too, of the steel in mrs may s stance. no overt threat to walk away, but a serious warning, as she wrote a failure