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And andy murray heads home after pulling out of the Australian Open with an ongoing hip injury. And coming up in the sport on bbc news england let slip their advantage over australia in the final ashes test, as they lose late wickets in sydney. Good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. A Record Number of people called the nhs 111 number during the festive period, according to figures published this morning. There were nearly half a million calls to the advice line in the last week of de...

Pulled out of the Australian Open because of this long term hip problem. He is contemplating surgery now. What effect could it have on his future career . We will talk to you later. In the weather, darren, its been wet and windy and now its going to get cold. Yeah, we are going to get cold. Yeah, we are going to get cold. Yeah, we are going to look at the extreme weather we have been seeing in north america in the next hour. Here at home we are going to replace the cloudy wet and windy weather w...

Hello im maria this is al jazeera live from london also coming up. Egyptian president sisi else is he will run for a second term in office. Is the gulf crisis a pretext to seize castles well thats the claim of a country royal who is seen as a saudi ally. In the poconos native in peru but he conscious control of a sea on his south american told. Turkey has fired artillery into a kurdish controlled on clay the northwest syria across the border bombardment of a free and comes off the days of threat...

Syrian fighters known as the white b g ill go iffy as the establishment of a kurdish corridor along its border has been deploying troops and tanks that are in preparation for a ground assault Stephanie Decker has more from antakya. The situation around the fitting is heating up there is been an increase in shelling from turkey into africa and also hearing reports that around fifteen thousand Free Syrian Army fighters these are the rebels inside syria supported by turkey are mobilizing towards th...

We have been here since the beginning of time this is not the commonwealth of australia this is the it in g. Territory. It always has been always will be. Going to walk down through the community and then were going to just pull people who want to come and do it recovering. You know. What were doing today which is really i think people know that theres a different government here now call it sovereign in the government. And then a company. But always working in Holland House i say to realise tha...

What i felt as a former professional diplomat for thirty years and i was an ambassador to poland but they were mothers postings. I felt i had a certain responsibility to my own society to say look we are being fed. Bad fantasies about russia the real russia is not what were being told about. I want to go and i want to see what its like and my process of disenchantment from the western Propaganda Machine against russia it really began pretty much in interest thousand and fourteen with the events ...

Time surfing and i know its a typical but i think its a nice mental picture to get you through the long russian winter but i suspect when you say russia and theres trial and contacts. The associations are probably not so positive are they. They can be quite negative unfortunately weve been fed a diet of cliches about russia. Russia is still very much seen through a post soviet lens. Of success the state to the soviet union and somehow or other. Of starvation in the countries of extreme cold disc...

Interest thousand and fourteen with the events new crime and the way in which they were being reported now i hope we will go into the ukrainian events a little bit later on into the program but. You mentioned the this negative image of russia and russia is definitely not an easy country its a very complex society its sometimes a very contorted country and i think we the russians are the first to you know and experience that and i think that actually goes to the very notion of russian patriotism ...

In global news, business and sport. And you can be part of the conversation. Today were asking as the uk celebrates 250 years since the first circus opened near waterloo in london, are circuses still relevant and entertaining, or outdated and outmoded. Would you still go and see one . Tell us what you think, just use bbcthebriefing. Momentous changes appear to be taking place in south africa. Its being reported that the ruling anc party has formally requested president jacob zuma to step down. I...

President wants to divvy up more than four trillion dollars plus investigators are still searching for the cause of a plane crash in russia which killed seventy one people on. South africas embattled president has been delivered a deadline state media reporting that jacob zuma has been given forty eight hours to resign by his party the African National congress that follows a mountain meeting to discuss his fate president serve is understood to have met to the main person to inform him of the pa...