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good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. rishi sunak has appeared to rule out a spring general election. speaking on a visit to a youth centre in nottinghamshire, the prime minister said his working assumption is that there will be a general elction in the second half of this year. an election has to be held by january 2025. in his own new year speech, the labour leader sir keir starmer said he hoped the new year would give the country a chance to vote out the conservatives. let s go live now to our chief political correspondent, henry zeffman, who s at westminster. the prime minister appears to be rolling out a spring election, how much of a surprise is that? we are ust a few much of a surprise is that? we are just a few days much of a surprise is that? we are just a few days into much of a surprise is that? we are just a few days into 2024 - much of a surprise is that? we are just a few days into 2024 but - just a few days into 2024 but already in westm ....
there are literally hundreds at the moment of flood warnings and i suspect we will be adding to those this evening across southern england, as more heavy rain is expected. so keep watching the forecast, tune into your bbc local radio station for updates, but it s this swirl of cloud that s starting to push on from the south west and this will bring a spell of wet weather across southern england during this afternoon and then it s going to push its way east. elsewhere a case of sunny spells and scattered showers, blustery across the northern isles, here are a frequent rash of showers and it will be on the cold side, two or three degrees at the very best but generally for most of us we are looking at 7 9 c. let s zoom into the rain. on top of the rain we have gusty winds through the channel. the jersey met has issued for red warning for gusts in excess of 60 miles an hour. it s pushing through at pace, a couple of inches falling on saturated flooded areas could have an im ....
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cnn s blake is in taipei. blake, let s start with you. how much of a surprise was this, is this congressional visit? well, alex, look, these kinds of visits happen from time to time. and we don t often hear about them until after the arrival, and in this case, while taiwan s ministry of foreign affairs say the visit was aannounced, it s the timing that s perhaps the biggest surprise, especially after china reacted so strongly against speaker pelosi s visit. that reaction involved nearly a week of live fire drills surrounding taiwan with war planes and military vessels and missiles that flew over the self-governed island for the first time. this is the second time this month a surprise delegation has made this trip to taiwan here. two weeks ago, house speaker nancy pelosi. this time, a delegation led by ed markey during their two day visit, taiwan s foreign ministry says the group of u.s. lawmakers is going to meet with the democratic island s president, foreign minist ....
off that accomplishment in his very first game and more than 70 years. congratulations, we ll continue to watch his career. hello again, everyone, thank you for joining me, i m fredricka whitfield and we turn first to the unprecedented fbi search of a former president s home. court documents unsealed on friday are giving new details about what the department of justice removed from former president trump s mar-a-lago, florida home. and what potential crimes they are investigating. agents say they recovered 11 sets of classified documents. at least one was marked as top secret, sci. which is one of the highest levels of classification. the warrant also revealed some of the potential crimes officials are looking at, including violations of the espionage act, obstruction of justice and criminal handling of government records. at this point, no charges have been filed. cnn s evan perez is back with us with more details. so evan, we re learning more about this documents. o ....