Heres helen willets. Simon, thank you. Good afternoon and if you are in leek in staffordshire you are looking up to blue skies or you have been so far today. Unfortunately the cloudier skies are to come tonight and tomorrow and some nor more snow. Its a different picture this afternoon, still waterlogged in parts of suffolk as you can see and overcast and grey. You see that on the Satellite Picture in southern england, wales and Northern Ireland. Snow showers but good spells of sunshine. We have Rain And Hill Snow in Northern Ireland and almost a line of that picture is where we have that milder atlantic air trying to get in but that cold air is reluctant to relinquish its residency is. Which means we will continue to have issues with whether it is going to rain or snow. Snow melt as the rain adding to the risk of further Flooding Melt as the rain adding to the risk of furtherflooding and melt as the rain adding to the risk of further flooding and december eruption is likely. So for th
pro iranian militias. the strikes were in response to a drone attack on a us military base, killing three american soldiers. a third successive week of protests against the far right in germany. more than 100,000 people demonstrate in berlin. now on bbc news newscast. so earlier this week we were chatting slogans with our fellow newscasters after an email that we received. and the question was, if we were a political party, what would our slogan be? that is fantastic, because in this year of one heck of a lot of slogans, we ve got to up our game, haven t we? we ve got to think of them. and we ve had some suggestions. we have, we ve had john on email who says our slogan would be oozing truth and stamina. and js on discord says, make britain ooze again, which i do like, apart from it s not farfrom make britain snooze again, is it? which is a perennial concern. well, we re going to start this episode of newscast now, and you can decide which is the more apt! hello. it s ja
cities celebrating as well, so shall we show you some live pictures from rome as well, in italy? where we can see, again, fireworks. amazing work there as well. also, we can also show you some live pictures from berlin germany. amazing pictures, again, isn t it? so, many european cities welcoming the new year, of course many cities here in asia have welcomed 2024 about six, seven hours ago. of course, will we will bring you more on new year s celebrations around the world later in the programme. the us military says its helicopters have destroyed three small boats in an attack on a container ship in the southern red sea. it s the second assault by iran backed houthi rebels on the ship within 24 hours. the us says the gunmen who launched the raid from yemen attacked in four boats, coming within 20 metres of the vessel. the fourth craft fled the area. the houthi rebels say their actions are in protest against the gaza war, where there ve been more air strikes by israel. 0ur
and play scottish traditional music. and of course he left school at the age of 1a and immediately started working on farms, and he was the youngest of 13. my mother, on the other hand, she could read music, but she didn t have a very good ear, so in a way it was the opposite. and i remember when she told the story whereby she was asked to play in the village, or if she would help out for the village church and play the organ there, because she was really kind of the only one who could maybe play a few hymns. and she said, oh, no, i really don t want to be doing this i m far too busy, and so on. and. but they pleaded with her and she said, well, i lljust do one sunday , and 36 years later she was still there. i went to a primary school that had 36 pupils in the entire school and two teachers, so it was a tiny, tiny country school, but every friday a music teacher would come in and we would be given a general music lesson. so by the time we left primary school at the age
political persecution like something straight out of a fascist or communist nation. this is southern israel and that is gaza, and the war here has dominated the news agenda since early october. tragic and polarising, it s one of the biggest stories of 2023 and one that i have followed here and reported on throughout, speaking to people in israel and in gaza about how they re living through it. the year has seen many important and profound stories, from the war in ukraine to donald trump s legal affairs in the us and for india, a successful moon landing. i m going to bring you just some of those moments. we begin in turkey and syria and the devastating earthquake that struck early on the sixth of february. these images show the moment the first quake hit. with a magnitude of 7.8, it destroyed hundreds of buildings and killed thousands of people. a second powerful tremor hours later increased the death toll even further. i was one of the firstjournalists to reach the epicentre,