13th March News Today

Boy fell into a well. The United States says it did everything it could to minimise civilian casualties during a raid in syria in which the leader of the Islamic State group was killed. The president said that Abu Ibrahim Al qurayshi, also known as Hajji Abdullah, blew himself up, along with four members of his family, as us specialforces approached the building. 13 people, including children, were killed, but no us casualties were reported. The bbc� S State Department correspondent Barbara Pl...

Good morning. It is going to be fairly cloudy and wet today across the central swathes of the uk. To the central swathes of the uk. To the south of that mostly dry and mild. In the north, blustery showers with gales in north west scotland. Details later. Good morning. Its wednesday, 13th march. Rishi sunak is facing calls to hand back millions of pounds donated to the Conservative Party by a businessman accused of making racist comments about the mp, diane abbott. Tech boss frank hester is repor...

we are live in ukraine as the country marks a year to the day since russias invasion. we have a special report on the battle for one strategic town. a t20 world cup semi—final. on bbc london: a year after the war in ukraine began — and coming up in sportsday later in the hour on the bbc news channel... harry brook breaks another test record to put england on top in the second test against new zealand. action for three days, its got a pretty difficult to deal with across the nhs. t...

before going down the ice waterfall in svalbard, norway. he described the experience as "like kayaking on another planet". we might all have some words for it. time for a look at the weather. heres helen willetts. have we got some of that weather? certainly we have some wintry weather. some of the coldest november nights for about 12 or 13 years and is leading to some ice and snow issues and freezing fog will just add to the hazards as well. the rain and the snow that we had through de...

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communications plan for coronavirus, thatis communications plan for coronavirus, that is what that reference was recording hancock and co. and also, as you know there is an e—mail from, on 25th february, i was saying where are all of these red teams, where is this testing and what not that hancock promised us existed, where are the documents and we at number ten were starting to get a feel for the absence of things and a feel for the absence of things and a feel for the fact that the...

infrastructure to do it, never mind for a pandemic. infrastructure to do it, never mind fora pandemic. so, first infrastructure to do it, never mind for a pandemic. so, first of all, there wasnt the capability. second, we were told, even if we had the capability it would only delay things by a relatively trivial amount and third, of course, people at that time, the reaction from a lot of people was closing the borders is ray cysts, you wren when the supermodel cap price said why arent ...

a lesson in primate parenting — bonobos have been seen for the first time adopting babies outside their family groups. well hear from the scientists behind the research later this afternoon. a number of eu countries have started using the oxford astrazeneca covid vaccine again — after the european medicines agency confirmed it is safe and effective. germany, france, italy and spain are among the countries that halted its use earlier this month, after concerns about blood clots. but...

grand slam today, while hoping england do them a favour by beating france. and it has been pretty unsettled of late but as we look towards the next couple of days, high pressure is building, something brighter and drier on the horizon, i will be back with all the details. its saturday 13 march. our top story: a metropolitan police officer will appear in court today, charged with the kidnap and murder of sarah everard, who went missing while walking home in south london ten days ago. wa...

Sir philip green agrees to pay over £350 million to workers pensions at bhs. A call to spare jail for paedophiles who view indecent images but arent thought to be a physical threat to children. The Metal Detectorists who struck gold, and found iron age jewelry last worn 2,500 years ago. Coming up in sportsday later in the hour on bbc news. Back on court for the first time in five weeks, andy murray is into the second round of the dubai 0pen. Good evening, and welcome to the Bbc News At Six. The...