A russian opposition politician is arrested as protests flare up again in moscow thousands have been taking to the streets in the past month demanding that opposition candidates be allowed to run for city council. Im rebecca riches welcome to the program their brain renewed clashes in hong kong between police and prodemocracy activists placed fired tear gas at protesters who are holding an authorized demonstrations in 2 locations its the 10th straight weekend of protests that were triggered by opposition to a proposed law that would have allowed extradition from hong kong to Mainland China activists held a number of other protests earlier in the day that remained peaceful including a sit in at hong kong airport. At the airport protesters assembled for a 2nd day to greet passengers arriving in the city drawing international attend. To their cause saturday morning also saw a rather tranquil rally in support of the prodemocracy movement it brought together families demanding a stable and
As protests flare up again in moscow thousands have been taking to the streets in the past month demanding that opposition candidate steal lauterbrunnen election for the city council. And police in hong kong fired tear gas at prodemocracy protesters as they defied warnings to cancel a march fresh demonstrations come after the citys leader found not to grab the protesters any concessions. Im married to evanston its good to have you with us. The disgraced u. S. Financier Jeffrey Epstein has been found dead in his new york prison cell Officials Say his death was an apparent suicide of steam was jailed last month on sex trafficking charges and was being held without bail the f. B. I. Is now investigating the circumstances of epsteins death in federal custody. He had already been found injured in a cell a few weeks ago then the multimillionaire was found dead in the new york jail where he was awaiting trial an apparent suicide. The convicted pedophile was facing up to 45 years behind bars o
Leeds at Stamford Bridge, to reach the quarterfinals. Well have all the results. And on newsnight at 10 30. Well go deeper behind todays headlines and speak live to key players in todays big stories. Plus, a first look at tomorrows front pages. Good evening. Police scotland have apologised forfailings in a long Running Investigation that left a killer on the loose for almost 20 years. The hunt for the murderer of emma caldwell, who was 27 when she was strangled in South Lanarkshire in 2005, was one of the longest in scottish history. Today, iain packer, whos 51, was found guilty of her murder and jailed for life with a minimum of 36 years. He was also convicted of 11 charges of rape and multiple sexual assaults, against 21 other women, making him one of scotlands most prolific sex offenders. Lorna gordon has our top story. Emma caldwell, a vulnerable young woman who was murdered in terrifying circumstances. Her killer was this man, iain packer, who for a quarter of a century carried ou
Wait for the state of the nation address. Just a reminder that we will be covering this in full on bbc news live page with analysis of President Putins speech as it happens. You can watch our live stream of the speech there, just press the play button. The dignitaries arriving for the speech they are in moscow. Bbc news website to find complete coverage of this, or the bbc news app. Lets speak to olga ivshina, from the bbc russia service. Tell us about the speech today, what are we expecting . fine tell us about the speech today, what are we petting . Tell us about the speech today, what are we expecting . One thing has been stable over the are we expecting . One thing has been stable over the years are we expecting . One thing has been stable over the years for are we expecting . One thing has been stable over the years for putins stable over the years for putins addresses and press conferences. This year is no exception. He is late, but according to his standards, five or ten minute
One of lifes most underappreciated talents is to know when its time to move on to lives next chapter. So i stand before you today, was a president , and my colleagues, to say this will be my last term as republican leader of the senate. For more on both mcconnell s stepping down and the spending deal, heres our north america correspondent, gary odonoghue. After repeated attempts to get a spending agreement, it does look like leadership in congress from both sides of at least reached a partial agreement on some other Spending Bills that they have been arguing about. It looks now in the next couple of days that resolutions were put through senate and the House Of Representatives to extend one of the deadlines until next friday by which time they will pass Spending Bills on six separate departments. They havent reached an agreement on the other six departments but they are going to push the deadline for that back until march 22 so in some ways, this is progress being made and in some ways