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our main story: police are expected to start searching the river thames this morning for the body of the man they believe carried out a chemical attack on a mother and her two children in south london. officers have been searching for abdul shokoor ezedi for nearly ten days but say they now believe he went into the river shortly after the incident, as sean dilley reports. chelsea bridge at 11:30pm wednesday night. this is the last known sighting of abdul shokoor ezedi. police believe t...

this cultural life. lets take you to the beginning. whats your earliest cultural memory? as a kid, we had, iwas exposed to pantomime, live theatre of various thoughts, circus, the circus was a big deal, variety, live variety, descendants of the music hall, including at the age of nine a trip to the ardwick hippodrome to see laurel and hardy live on stage on the famous tour, which i later realised was the famous tour, and the two important things about that were one, two extraordinary t...

and good morning. it is going to be another very wet day across the west of scotland. elsewhere, dry, cloudy, breezy. ill bring you all the details very shortly. and we have a winner — the strictly glitterball trophy is in new hands after a fabulous finale. its sunday, the 17th of december. our main story: after years of denials, the former conservative peer baroness mone has admitted that she stands to benefit from tens of millions of pounds of profit made from ppe that was sold to ...

the indian opposition leader rahul gandhi calls his disqualification from parliament politically motivated. and we have a special report on the mis spy who defied orders to help bring peace to northern ireland. hello and welcome to bbc news. security forces in france remain on high alert, after legislation to raise the state pension age caused massive protests. the dispute — and outbreaks of violence — forced the authorities to postpone a planned state visit by the british monarch,...

and a once—in—a—decade flyby, as an asteroid passes between the earth and the moon. hello and welcome to bbc news. security forces in france remain on high alert, after legislation to raise the state pension age caused massive protests. the dispute, and outbreaks of violence, forced the authorities to postpone a planned state visit by the british monarch, king charles. separate demonstrations are expected on an unrelated issue in western france, linked to concerns about water usa...

the dispute, and outbreaks of violence, forced the authorities to postpone a planned state visit by the british monarch, king charles. meanwhile, separate demonstrations have begun in western france, linked to concerns over water usage by large—scale agricultural producers. its feared the disputes could converge at a time of growing tensions. earlier i spoke to our paris correspondent bethany bell and she explained the background of the protests. the most dramatic one at the moment i...

i was skiing, and looking downhill, as you do, and was skied directly into by mr sanderson. and a once—in—a—decade flyby, as an asteroid passes between the earth and the moon. hello. security forces in france remain on high alert, after legislation to raise the state pension age caused massive protests. the dispute — and outbreaks of violence — forced the authorities to postpone a planned state visit by the british monarch, king charles. meanwhile, separate demonstrations hav...

a tornadoe has killed at least 23 people in the us state of mississippi, which is located here, in the south of the country. the authorities said twisters left a trail of damage for more than a—hundred—and—fifty kilometres. one of the worst affected towns is rolling fork, where trees and power lines have been torn down. at one point, debris was being pulled more than six thousand metres into the sky. you can see here the latest pictures which have just come through to us, of the ...

the authorities said the twisters left a trail of damage for more than 150 kilometres. trees and power lines were torn down, and tens of thousands of power outages reported. radar information indicated that at one point debris was being pulled more than six thousand metres into the sky. search and rescue operations are underway. our correspondent frances read is with us. you been a correspondence working in the us and on the west coast. talk us through exactly what has happened here. ,...

time for a look at the weather. heres darren bett. but so much in the west because we have this cloud spilling in. it is wrapped around that big area of low pressure, and the low itself will not reach us just yet but i had a bit, pushing well ahead of it, all of this cloud and that is beginning to arrive across parts of northern ireland, limiting the sunshine. further east, it has been a beautiful day, this was the picture at whitby in north yorkshire. we have seen one or two light sho...