Well get to all those stories in a moment. But we begin this hour with the escalating between u. S. President ial candidate donald trump and fox news. The republican frontrunner plans to hold a fundraising event for military veterans instead of taking part in thursdays debate. Hes feuding with knock news anchor megyn kelly, who hes called biased. Trump spoke with her colleague bill oreilly, who tried to convince him not to skip the debate. Watch. I think you should be the bigger man and say you know what, i didnt like it, and you should make that case all day long. But im not going to take any action against it. You know, dont you think thats the right thing to do . It probably is. But you know, its called an eye for an eye i guess also. You could look at it that way. No. Thats old testament. No, no, no, no. Bill, you are taking it if youre a christian the eye for the eye rule goes out. Heres what it is. Turning the other cheek. Youre taking this much more seriously than i am. Im not t
To tackle the growing problem of fly tipping. The local Government Association says there were more than a million offences last year, but only 5 of fines were above £1000. Richard galpin reports. This cctv footage captures the moment a lorry starts illegally dumping huge amounts of waste in the middle of the night. The premises of a small company, used by the fly tippers to get rid of the rubbish. In recent years, fly tipping has been getting steadily worse, blighting the environment, causing pollution and threatening Public Health and wildlife. It tends to be businesses trying to avoid paying the costs of disposal. Of course, the rural areas tend to be the areas that are particularly badly affected, private landowners or public land. People will find quiet places to dump sometimes quite large loads. Fly tipping in england was at a comparative low ofjust over 700,000 incidents back in Financial Year 2012 13. But by 2018, there had been a sharp rise to more than a million incidents, p
Those are the headlines on bbc world news. At 10 oclock, Mishal Husain will be here with a full round up of the days news. First, its time for our world fighting for lapland. Lapland is europes great last wilderness. Last great wilderness. It stretches across norway, sweden, finland and russia, way above the arctic circle. The far north of finland is the home of the sami, europes only indigenous people, who still live off the land. But the life of the sami people is changing. Climate change is affecting the arctic more than any other part of the earth. You cant rely on that you know how nature acts or how animals act because everything seems to be changing. The melting ice is opening up opportunities for shipping routes and there is talk of a new railway. Its the Worst Nightmare we are facing at the moment. Which could threaten the sami peoples way of life. How can you put a price tag for a culture . We have come to lapland to talk to sami women about the challenges they face. Nature g
After much speculation, Jess Phillips has confirmed she will run. On a visit to grimsby, the mp for birmingham yardley, said the party needed a leader who could take on borisjohson, and who was willing to try something different. And wigan mp lisa nandy has also joined the race and said the job should go to someone from what she called the neglected areas of labours heartlands who could win back the trust of the partys traditional voters. Political correspondent nick eardley has more. The wigan mp was another one of those people who had said over the Christmas Period that she was considering whether or not to stand and tonight she is confirmed, in a letter to her local paper, the wigan post, that she is indeed throwing her hat in the ring to be the next labour leader. Her argument is that labour needs to focus on winning back its heartlands, areas that had voted labour for decades and stopped doing so back in december. Let me just read you one paragraph on what she says. She says, im s
This documentary series about an anti-oil protest gone wrong is absolutely gripping. It features guns, helicopters and nearly drowning while in mid-air