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round of the fa cup. it is thankfully a much drier week of weather ahead but it is colder, so we have some frost and fog and for some of us, some wintry showers. i will have all the details throughout the programme. its monday the 8th of january. our main story. thejustice secretary, alex chalk, will meet with the minister responsible for the post office today to discuss how hundreds of branch managers who were wrongly convicted in the horizon it scandal could be cleared. pressure is i...

tonight at 10pm... in the last hour, victory is declared for turkeys recep tayyip erdogan in the countrys presidential election. the man who has consolidated his grip on power over two decades now has another five years at the top. jubilation among his supporters — but the opposition leader ran the tightest race against him in years. you can see the reaction from his supporters. as he speaks about this presidential victory and also, what his vision for turkey would look like, five mo...

gilda hakim. a federaljudge in the united states has sentenced the founder of the far—right militant oath keepers, stewart rhodes, to 18 years in prison for seditious conspiracy and other crimes related to the storming of the us capitol on january the 6th, 2021. with the latest, heres our north america correspondentjessica parker. he was convicted at the back of last year, and now weve learned that a federaljudge has sentenced him to 18 years in prison. prosecutors had actually sough...

devastated in the early months of the war. # ill take the world apart to find a place for a peaceful heart... and we hear from yusuf cat stevens about music, faith and performing at glastonbury. its 7am in singapore, and midnight in switzerland where the government has reached an emergency deal with the countrys biggest bank, ubs, to take over its troubled rival credit suisse. the annoucement comes just before global financal markets open on monday, in an attempt to settle nerves in th...

here in the uk, this advert posted to the labour partys official twitter account is receiving cross—party criticism. it suggests the prime minister doesnt believe adults convicted of sexually assaulting children should go to prison. so far the labour party have stood by the ad. with me is our political correspondent, david wallace lockhart. david just tell us a bit more about this controversy.— this controversy. obviously, local elections coming _ this controversy. obviously, local...

live from our studio in singapore... this is bbc news. its newsday. welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. its six in the morning in singapore and 1am in sudan, where we begin the programme. british diplomats and their families have been airlifted to safety from khartoum, the capital of sudan, as fighting between rival military factions enters a second week. the ministry of defence in london confirmed that embassy staff had been brought out under c...

and turkey issues an international appeal for help. well be taking a look at how world leaders are responding. welcome to the programme. we begin in turkey and northern syria, where two powerful earthquakes have killed more than 2,000 people. many more injured and still missing. well look at the damage done and the rescue operations. first, lets see where this happened. the first earthquake had a magnitude of 7.8 — the epicentre in turkeys gaziantep province. there have been almost 3...

to the negotiation table over ukraine. the economy it was also high on his agenda and during his three—day visit deals have been struck including on green and nuclear energy. i spoke with a professor earlier from the business school we explained the balancing act that france needs to strike with beijing. what is happening is that president or an invited ursula von der leyen to come with him and they are looking at the different speeches that have been given in beijing. micron is play...

and thats crucial to moving toward our enduring goal of palestinians and israelis enjoying equal measures of freedom, security, opportunity, justice and dignity. president biden remains fully committed to that goal. we continue to believe the best way to achieve it is through preserving and then realising the vision of two states. as i said to the prime minister, anything that moves us away from that vision is in ourjudgment detrimental to israels long term security and its long term i...

200 marathons in the last year to highlight the issue of water overconsumption. hello and welcome to the programme. we begin today in israel, where mass protests have been taking place in several cities after prime minister benjamin netanyahu sacked his defence minister, yoav gallant. mr gallant was dismissed after he called for controversial plans to overhaul the justice system to be scrapped. (os)these are pictures of the scenes in tel aviv tonight. as you can see, protesters are gat...