nearly 100,000 homes across the uk remain without power this afternoon after gale force winds created by storm arwen. properties in parts of scotland, wales and northern england are affected. power companies say they hope to restore supplies to the majority of homes later today. european ministers minus the uk home secretary priti patel crossing the channel. and coming up ros atkins and guests discuss the big that s in the media show at 3.30. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. the health secretary sajid javid says the government could not have acted more swiftly in its response the the new 0mnicron coronavirus variant. he s called on people to come forward for booster vaccinations and is urgently considering widening the booster programme. two people who tested positive for the new variant remain in isolation as our health correspondent anna collinson reports. the borders have already been breached by 0micron with two cases of the heavily mutated covid variant
community apart. in the past few minutes the deputy assistant commissioner of scotland yard said the attack was an attack on london and all londoners. barry cavan free is at the scene. you can see the police cordoned just behind me, the police cordoned just behind me, the police vans and all the officers have been here since the early hours. the local community here in finsbury park, extremely upset and worried, some of the people i ve been speaking to, telling me they cannot believe it happened on their part, where they live. home secretary amber rudd describing this asa secretary amber rudd describing this as a terrorist incident, you can feel in the community here are the anger and shock from all of the residents and everyone. barry caffrey reporting. a nationwide one minute silence will be held at ”am this morning to remember the victims of the grenfell tower fire. it comes as police said they will give a revised figure for the number of people presumed dead, which curr
technology of sound with brian eno. the click team. good morning and welcome to bbc news. four men and two women have been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a young asylum seeker was attacked in south london. police say they re treating it as a hate crime. the 17 year old victim suffered severe head injuries but his life is not now believed to be at risk. andy moore reports. the young man, believed to be kurdish iranian, was waiting at a bus stop late on friday night with two friends when he was approached by a group of about eight people. he was attacked after telling them where he came from. we believe it is a hate crime. prior to the attack taking place the young person was asked where they were from and when they said that they were an asylum seeker that is when that frenzied attack took place. police say the gang chased the young man around the corner into the street where they kicked him in the head and left him on the floor unconscious. after that a nu
massive ordnance air blast, but most people in the pentagon call it the mother of all bombs, america s largest non nuclear weapon, and today it was dropped on a tunnel network held by islamic state in afghanistan. no one knows how many militants were killed in the attack on nangarhar province, in the country s far east. our north america editor jon sopel has more. here is what the white house press secretary had to say about it earlier today. this is the gbu as, also known as a moab, a massive ordnance air blast, or as it is more commonly known, the mother of all bombs. and today, for the first time ever, it was used in combat, the largest non nuclear weapon ever deployed. the target so called islamic state in afghanistan. we targeted a system of tunnels and caves that isis fighters used to move around freely, making it easier for them to target us military advisers and afghan forces in the area. the united states takes the fight against isis very seriously, and in order to