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good morning. for most of the uk it is a day of sunny spells and showers. some of those will be quite heavy. it is a different story for east anglia and the south—east, where it's going to be raining for most of the day with the threat of some localised flooding. they will have the full forecast for you a little later on. it's sunday, 6 november. good morning. our main story: the biggest ever strike by nurses looks set to go ahead, after a ballot of around 300,000 members of the royal college of nursing. the final results are still being counted, but the union says a large majority...

And coming up in the sport on bbc news, manchester citys manager prepares to face monaco tonight in the last 16 of the champions league. Good evening. A heterosexual couple have lost their court battle to have a Civil Partnership, rather than be married. Civil partnerships give relationships legal recognition, and are currently only available to same sex couples. Rebecca steinfeld and Charles Keiden claimed that was discriminatory. But today, the Court Of Appeal rejected their arguments, as our Legal Affairs correspondent Clive Coleman reports. Emerging from court, Charles Keidan and Rebecca S...

It was a busy day of action in the first round of the fa cup. 33 ties in total, and the pick of the upsets came from national league south side, chippenham town, as they beat league one side lincoln city 1—0. there are 78 places between the two sides, butjoe hanks' sensational finish was enough for the bluebirds to reach the second round for the first time ever. the magic of the cup continued as the lowest—ranked side remaining in the competition made it through. seventh—tier alverchurch shocked league one side cheltenham town 2—1. danny waldron's double sending his side into the secon...

after a standoff lasting nearly 24 hours, reuters is reporting french police have begun an assault on the apartment where a self-described al qaeda militant accused of killing seven people is holed up. just moments ago three loud blasts were heard at the site of the stand-off. the suspect apparently confessing to the killings of three french paratroopers, a jewish rabbi and three jewish children over the past ten days. dan rivers is live. dan, i guess you could hear the shots. what's the very latest you're able to figure out is happening? >> reporter: yeah, i mean we heard these thre...