Taxing takeaway boxes to tackle whats described as a global emergency. The chancellor is considering measures to help cut the 12 tonnes of plastic going into the oceans every year often found inside birds, fish and sea mammals. A rare ink picture of tintin and his dog snowy is expected to fetch more than £700,000 at auction. And made in china. The click team are looking at mobile phone production in shenzhen. Thats in half an hour here on bbc news. Good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. The main breaking story in the southern end of africa at the moment. Jubilant scenes are unfolding across zimbabwe capital harare this morning. These are the pictures. Protests demanding the resignation of president Robert Mugabe have turned to a celebration of the armys role in ending his grip on power. Meanwhile in zimbabwes second city of bulawayo, crowds can be seen cheering an army convoy. Mr mugabe has been under house arrest since a military takeover four days ago. The rally is supported by the
3 3 3 3 3 today in st. Petersburg a celebrity heads to court. For his tussle with a tabloid. At stake one hundred million dollars. 3 thats how much hulk hogan is asking for. In his civil suit against gawker media. The former wrestler is suing the gossip website, citing an invasion of privacy. Hogan took action several years ago, after online. Hogan says he never consented to the filming. Jury selection wrapped up on friday. So both sides can begin their case today. Expect some very revealing testimony. 3 in pasco county another trial begins today. For a man trying to overturn his twenty year sentence. Unfortunately for him. Hes already served almost half of it. 62yearold j j daiak has been in prison since 2006 for shooting at pasco county deputies. He says he mistook them for looters in his home. During hurricane frances. He fired several shots but the deputies were not hit. He was still charged with four counts of aggravated assault on a Law Enforcement officer. This new trial was all
Stroke at just eight years old. Dawn timmeney takes us to philadelphia where doctors are now guiding him along the road to recovery. Reporter 10yearold evan box lee of cherry hill, new jersey, is trying to master the trombone. Reporter its all new to evan but hes embracing his musical side. I learned a song called hot cross buns. Hes loud but i think hes doing pretty well. Reporter pretty well indeed. Especially considering evan loves sports especially soccer, but now thats limited to kicking the ball around in the backyard with his older sister mikayla. He can run track but no Contact Sports for fear of a head injury. A tough pill to swallow when youre in the fourth grade. The hardest thing is that i cant do certain thing like ride my bike and play soccer. Reporter the reason for the restrictions evan had a stroke at eight years old. It all started with severe headaches in august of 2013. He cep getting headaches, and he eventua eventually like withn of peek had multiple haag during t
Good evening. For more than two decades the image of the Catholic Church has been severely tarnished by sexual abuse scandals. Today pope francis some of some of those abused by priests scompessing sorrow and asking for forgiveness. He said the roman Catholic Church should weep and make reparations of these crimes which he compared to a satanic cult. Lets listen to what the pontiff had to say. Translator i ask for your forgiveness for the sins of a the leaders of the tchauch have not answered adequately for the allegations of abuse from the family members. And by those that were the ictims of abuse. Pope francis speaking a little bit earlier today. For now we go to our rome correspondent cima gupta. Cima, talk us through what happened there at the vatican today. Essentially pope francis did say those word during a homily during the mass celebrated with the victims inside the vatican this morning. Then after he said those dramatic words begging for forgiveness, he also met personally wi
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