Donald trump is also in the state and will be speaking a little later in the day to his crowds. So, its big moment ahead of the midterms, just three days away. Youre watching bbc news. Its been a pretty soggy day today across the uk thanks to a slow moving Weather Front which brought patchy rain and drizzle. That rain will become confined to the southeast corner of the country for part two of the weekend. Elsewhere, its looking brighter with sunshine, scattered showers and it will be windy for pretty much all areas. So this area of low pressure is responsible for bringing the unsettled weather this weekend. That set todays Weather Front becoming confined to the southeast. All those showers out west ready to push in through tonight and tomorrow so it stays cloudy, damp across southern and eastern areas. The rain starts to pep up here. It becomes heavy and maybe some rumbles of thunder. Elsewhere, after a dry starts, the blustery showers will get going. Some of these could be quite heavy
Now on bbc news, south korea the halloween disaster. A warning this programme contains fashing images. Contains flashing images. Oh, my god. This was a night of true horror. Thousands of young people went out to celebrate halloween in the neon Lit Alleyways of itaewon, seouls Popular Party district. Within hours, 156 people had been crushed to death and many others injured in one of the countrys worst ever disasters. The night had been planned for weeks. So how did this tragedy happen . Itaewon is one of the most popular neighborhoods in seoul, a multicultural area known for its nightlife and restaurants. But on halloween eve, it was a scene of unimaginable horror, as 100,000 people packed onto the streets to celebrate, a narrow sloped alleyway became so crowded, people couldnt move an inch. By the end of the night, bodies lined the streets. Others were carried into ambulances, lifeless. Some barefoot, the chilling sign of people whove struggled to escape but not been able to. Witnesse
the us midterm elections are just days away incumbentjoe biden, his ally barack obama and donald trump all take their campaigning to pennsylvania thousands gather in seoul to remember the halloween crush victims many are demanding the president resign. now, on bbc news. it s time for sportsday. hello and welcome to sportsday i m gavin ramjaun. 30 wins in a row and they re into the world cup final. now england s women face their biggest test against holders new zealand. england s women win again in the rugby league world cup and the men are into the final four papua new guinea no match today. and holding their nerve just as england s cricketers book their place in the semi finals of the t20 world cup. also coming up in the programme. new zealand are too much for wales the all blacks with a comprehensive win, in the first of their autumn internationals. and goals galore plus lots of late drama in the premier league. as manchester city snatch a win, to go t
we start in the uk, where police say the firebombing of an immigration processing centre in kent was motivated by extreme right wing ideology and met the threshold for a terror incident. 66 year old andrew leak carried out the attack at the site in dover last sunday. two members of staff were left with minor injuries. jon donnison reports. an act of terror this is the moment andrew leak threw one of up to three makeshift firebombs in a drive by attack on a migrant processing centre in dover last sunday. today, police said leak was motivated by terrorist ideology. in a statement, tim jacques, the senior national coordinator for counterterrorism policing, said. the suspect, andrew leak, is thought to have taken his own life shortly after the attack which police say was likely motivated by extreme right beliefs. it led to around 700 migrants being transferred from the dover processing centre to this one at manston, which was already overcrowded. the home secretary flew into ma
and also donald trump all take their campaigning to pennsylvania. and thousands gather in seoul to remember the halloween crush victims many are demanding the president resign. you are watching bbc news. now, politicalthinking with nick robinson. hello and welcome to political thinking, a conversation with rather than an interrogation of someone who shapes our political thinking about what shapes theirs. in a new cabinet dominated by public schoolboys and oxbridge graduates, the new education secretary stands out. gillian keegan s old school, a comprehensive in knowsley called st augustine s, was nicknamed st disgusting before it was shut down a couple of years after she left. like most kids at her school, gillian left at the age of 16 and went to be an apprentice at a car factory. now, that was a springboard as we ll hear for a very successful business career. she went on to be the commercial director at mastercard, chief marketing officer at a big travel firm called trave