so that commitment to the belfast agreement stands and we're committed to the belfast agreement and the institutions under the belfast agreement. he refers to this issue of devolved powers coming back from the european union, that was his reference. we have also given an absolute commitment to manneding clause 11 and that remains unchanged. my honorable friend has recently met with representatives of devolved administrations. he acknowledged he put forward a further proposal for them which ensured more powers are directly devolved to the scottish and welsh governments and in course with the northern ireland executive. it was acknowledged that that was a significant step forward. and i have to say to the right honorable gentleman, he talks about the continuity bills. the proposal being put forward are unnecessary. it would be rather more helpful if he were to concentrate on reaching an agreement in relation to withdrawal agreement because we want to ensure more powers are devolved to the devolved administrations. that's what we're going to deliver. >> mr. speaker, back in the real world,

from belfast. fed and watered, the couple brought their now familiar hands—on approach to their royal walkabout. these visits have partly been about introducing ms markle to the people, but also about giving her a greater understanding of the uk — the place she has chosen to call home. cardiff injanuary and mini harry and meghan gave their namesakes welsh love spoons. in london, they took part in a broadcast on a community radio station. and in edinburgh, a close encounter with a shetland pony. rain today in belfast, the final uk capital city left for meghan to visit, in her continuing journey from california girl to wife of a british prince. sarah campbell, bbc news, belfast. visitors to a dinosaur theme park in colorado literally saw a giant model tyrannosaurus rex blow its top as it burst into flames. the model started smouldering before being destroyed by the flames. it's thought the fire was caused by an electrical fault. no—one was injured in the incident. it is now extinct. this is bbc

so, that committment to the belfast agreement stands and we are committed to the belfast agreement and the institutions under the belfast agreement. returning from a jog in the snow, borisjohnson said what is going on at the moment is that the issue of the northern irish border, is being used politically to try to keep the uk in the customs union, effectively the single market. so they cannot really leave the eu. but mps wanted him to explain his views and what he had said in that leaked letter to them directly. so, straight after pmqs, the shadow foreign secretar,y emily thornbury, asked what's known as an urgent question about northern ireland's border, addressed to borisjohnson. but as you might be able to see on the very left of the picture, the foreign secretary stood up to leave, prompting quite a reaction. and when borisjohnson was gone and the cabinet office minister david liddington stood up to respond for the government, there was more shouting from the labour side. where is he, where is he? where is he? mr speaker, i have been asked to reply. this government has been consist

from belfast. weary time? fed and watered, the couple brought their now familiar hands—on approach to their royal walkabout. these visits have partly been about introducing ms markle to the people, but also about giving her a greater understanding of the uk, the place she has chosen to call home. cardiff injanuary and mini harry and meghan gave their namesakes welsh love spoons. in london, they took part in a broadcast on a community radio station. and in edinburgh, a close encounter with a shetland pony. rain today in belfast, the final uk capital city left for meghan to visit, in her continuing journey from california girl to wife of a british prince. sarah campbell, bbc news, belfast. she will have to get used to that brain! —— she will have to get used to that rain! don't forget, you can get in touch with me and some of the team on twitter. let's get the latest weather prospects now with stav danaos. hello there. this weekend is looking better than last weekend. certainly much warmer and on sunday, w

from belfast. fed and watered, the couple brought their now familiar hands—on approach to their royal walkabout. these visits have partly been about introducing ms markle to the people, but also about giving her a greater understanding of the uk — the place she has chosen to call home. cardiff injanuary and mini harry and meghan gave their namesakes welsh love spoons. in london, they took part in a broadcast on a community radio station. and in edinburgh, a close encounter with a shetland pony. rain today in belfast, the final uk capital city left for meghan to visit, in her continuing journey from california girl to wife of a british prince. sarah campbell, bbc news, belfast. a reminder of that breaking story this hour: a police officer hailed as a hero for swapping himself for a hostage in a terror attack in france has died in hospital. within the past few minutes a french minister announced that lieutenant colonel arnaud beltrame had died of his injuries. he had swapped himself for a hostage

agreement stands and we are committed to belfast agreement and the institutions under the belfast agreement those institutions are not working incidentally but the belfast agreement to end u.k. army slaughter of catholics and ira bombs in london are arguably not in the spirit of u.k. foreign policy today britain de facto supports what damascus calls terrorism it supports saudi bombing of yemen even inviting a saudi prince to london next week when it comes to oil interests in order to the pentagon it seeks the overthrow of governments one in particular venezuela the nation with the world's largest known resources of oil a march in support of president maduro is shed ewald in london for ten days time with dora's foreign minister.

sarah campbell, bbc news, belfast. a group of chefs in turkey are claimed a record for the world's largest baklava. a giant tray of baklava, weighing over half a tonne, was presented at a "gastronomy summit" in ankara. apparently the pastry had been in the works for six months and more than doubles the previous world record. now the weather with darren. pleasant sunshine today. cloud is coming in from the south—west. in northern ireland, clear skies, light winds, touch of frost and a few icy patches. much milder for england and wales under the cloud. many areas will stay mild and cloudy across southern parts of england. we might see some rain or drizzle. more sunshine arriving in the far north of england, sunny skies in northern ireland and scotland away from sharp showers in the northwest. a better day on sunday for england and wales. more sunshine and patchy cloud. most places will be dry. fewer showers in the north—west. some sunshine and feeling quite pleasant. the headlines: three people have been killed and a

sarah campbell, bbc news, belfast. jane: it has been more than a month since the deadly shooting at a high school in parkland, florida, that claimed 17 monthss -- l today, students from that school descended on capitol hill tote demand strgun control. it comes ahead of a massive protest they hav organized tomorrow called march for our lives. in a developnt they may not ve been expecting, attorney general jeff sessions is proposing a bill that win effectively mp stocks, the devices that allow semiautomatic weapons to fire like a machine gun. the bbc's paul blake was with some of the students turned activists and he joined me a while ago. a big day for them today, big day tomorrow. what is their mood like? paul: it is like a big school trip. having breakfast with a lot of them, i quickly realized m them had never been to washington before. on the bus to capitol hill today, they were not just taken aback by the gravity of thesi ation, but by the monuments and the architecture and theur gran of washington, d.c., and even w

still 10 degrees in belfast in spite of that. and easily around 12 degrees across the south where the sun comes out. the big picture, the jet stream is powerful across the atlantic. and what we will see in the next few days is low—pressure riding thejet the next few days is low—pressure riding the jet stream heading the next few days is low—pressure riding thejet stream heading in our direction. most of the brain and breeze will go across scotland and northern ireland, maybe even some sleet and snow across the hills. but to the south bright weather with just a few showers. and that takes us just a few showers. and that takes us into the weekend, looking a little bit mixed. not guaranteeing dry weather but we do expect a fair bit of bright weather around. it is going to be a bit cooler, just a suggestion of the wind coming from the north—west. just about double figures across southern areas. so to summarise the weekend, not bad at all. mostly bright with just a bit of rain from time to time. a reminder of our main story th

we are aboard hms belfast this morning. launched in 1938 by the wife of then pm neville chamberlain, immediately providing a blockade against germany. since then it has taken part in action on the arctic circle, the d—day landings, and before being scrapped, it was saved by the imperial war museum, put on display in 1971. we will look inside later on in the programme. this is the forecast. not bad. things will get much more cold this weekend. a bitter wind. temperatures plummeting with snow on the way. the snow is limited to parts of scotland, mainly on the hills in the grampians. elsewhere in eastern scotla nd grampians. elsewhere in eastern scotland and south—east scotland, outbreaks of rain at times. rain through northern ireland this morning. developing through the day. a dry spell across parts of northern england. at the moment in wales, the midlands, east anglia, clearing to allow some sunshine. sunny spells already developing in southern counties of england and wales. here is where we will see showers gradually d

we're not taking any powers away from belfast scotland and wales. more powers will be going to them. the only reason why there is a slight delay if we need to ensure we do not have come if you like, four different nations all doing errands in because that would undermine the single market in the uk. —— doing their own thing. if we have a situation where scotland and wales are all pursuing different agricultural policies, we will lose a single market in the united kingdom. that all sounds utterly and entirely reasonable and you will get the powers in the end, what is the problem? the uk government has had plenty of time to resolve these issues amicably with the welsh and scottish governments. the discussions have come to a stalemate at this time. the welsh government has had to set out a continuity built to try to keep things going because they have not come to this agreement. we do not want to be in this situation, back in the supreme court, arguing about these powers. the devolution settlement has been in place since 1999. wales has powers in t

we are not taking any powers away from belfast, scotland, nowhere else. no powers have been taken away and more powers will be going to them. we need to ensure that we don't have, if you like, four different nations all doing their own thing and that would undermine the single market in the uk and it is such an irony that all of these people, i respect steven doughty and labour mps who say we need to be a part of this single market. if we have a situation where they have different agricultural policies we will lose the single market in the uk. it sounds utterly reasonable. the uk government had plenty of time during this process to resolve the issues with the welsh and scottish governments. and the discussions have come to a stalemate at this time. the welsh government has had to set out a continuity bill to try to keep things going because they haven't come to this agreement and that is not the situation we want to be in. we don't want to end up back in the supreme court arguing about these powers. the powers that have been given to scotland and wales ha

sarah campbell, bbc news, belfast. it's sport relief today — with events taking place across the country to raise money for good causes. our entertainment correspondent colin paterson is in salford. hello, behind me be former republic of ireland goalkeeper shay given who is in the middle of a 12 hour penalty shoot out marathon. he is saving more than half but that one has gone in, one of the younger penalty takers. and i can speak to somebody also involved. jb, formerly ofjail somebody also involved. jb, formerly of jail less. somebody also involved. jb, formerly ofjail less. he is saving quite a lot. that was hisjob, i should hope so. “— lot. that was hisjob, i should hope so. ——jls. lot. that was hisjob, i should hope so. -- jls. you are playing 12 hours of five aside football in a row. tell us about that. it is full on, my tell us about that. it is full on, d tell us about that. it is full on, my body is hurting. i have been in gold. saving penalties. morale is goodin gold. saving penalties. morale is good

our ireland correspondent, chris page, is in belfast. two of the most high profile sportsman in northern ireland have beenin sportsman in northern ireland have been in court over the last nine weeks. eddiejackson was the island leading points scorer in the six nations last year and stuart olding, with older rugby for the woman accused them of raping her in an u psta i rs accused them of raping her in an upstairs bedroom at the house of paddy jackson after a night upstairs bedroom at the house of paddyjackson after a night out in belfast back injune 2016th of the time she was 19. but the pair strongly denied the charges jury in the past hour or so has found them not guilty of rape. eddiejackson has also been acquitted of another charge of sexual sword. two friends we re charge of sexual sword. two friends were charged in connection with the case, the michael were acquitted of exposure and rory harrison acquitted of perverting the course ofjustice. it took the jury three hours and 45 minutes to unanimously decides to clear a ll minutes to

we have a weather front bringing rain to belfast, cloudy skies here. in the east and south it will be dry and brighter. despite the rain in belfast temperatures up to around about 10 degrees. spring has kind of sprung. kind of. thank you. a reminder of our main story: two people were on board. the raf has said an engineer died in the crash. the pilot survived and is currently receiving medical care. that is the latest from the raf in the last few moments. that's all from the bbc news at six, so it's goodbye from me this is bbc news — our latest headlines. an raf red arrow hawkjet flying out from raf valley in anglesey has crashed. the raf have confirmed that one engineer has been killed. the pilot survived and is currently receiving medical care. a committee of mps has written to the facebook founder, mark zuckerberg, calling on him to give evidence to them following the latest revelations about the harvesting of users' data. a plane carrying russian diplomats has taken off from stanstead for moscow — after being ordered to leave the uk by the prim

institutions are not working incidentally but the belfast agreement to end u.k. army soldier of catholics and ira bombs in london are arguably not in the spirit of u.k. foreign policy today britain de facto supports what damascus calls terrorism it supports saudi bombing of yemen even inviting a saudi prince to london next week when it comes to oil interests not arguably allied to the pentagon it seeks the overthrow of governments one in particular venezuela the nation with the world's largest known resources of oil and a march in support of president maduro is shed yule in london for ten days time but there is foreign minister or hate joins me now thank you so much jeff foreign minister of a coming again on going underground first of all the news that general elections have been delayed one day since last year we've been talking with the opposition we had the day out of process in the main again republic it was working very well we had very important that vance's and finally when the opposition and the government had to saying we traveled to santo domingo the pr

even in the rain in belfast, 10 degrees, it shows you how much milder the air is. towards the end of the week the jet stream rushes in our direction, whenever we see these wobbles going up whenever we see these wobbles going up and down and up again, whenever we see these patterns in the jet stream, low—pressure we see these patterns in the jet strea m, low— pressure systems we see these patterns in the jet stream, low—pressure systems start spinning up and we can see one low moving across the country, perhaps even bringing sleet across the hills. more noticeably a stronger breeze across southern areas, with temperatures up to ii breeze across southern areas, with temperatures up to 11 degrees. back to you. a reminder of our main story this lunchtime. . .. the information commissioner is seeking a warrant to search the offices of a political consultancy accused of using the data of millions of facebook users to influence the us presidential election. that's all from the bbc news at one, so it's goodbye from me. and on bbc one, we nowjoin the bbc‘s news team

and then to lunch in one of the best—known pubs in belfast. on the menu, irish stew, washed down with a little liquid refreshment, of course. meghan markle had half a guinness, and half of another, to sample with lunch. fed and watered, the couple brought their now familiar hands on approach to the royal walkabout. these visits are partly been about introducing meghan markle to the people, but also about giving her a greater understanding of the uk. the place she has chosen to call home. cardiff injanuary, and they gave their namesakes welsh love spoons. in london, they took pa rt love spoons. in london, they took part ina love spoons. in london, they took part in a broadcast on a community radio station. in edinburgh, a closing counter with a shetland pony. rain today in belfast, the final uk capital city for her to visit in her continuing journey from california girl to the wife of a british prince. the headlines: a gunman who has taken hostages at a supermarket in south—western france has been shot dead by police. a policeman has been ser

from belfast. a 26 year—old british woman has been killed in northern syria, fighting alongside kurdish forces. it‘s understood that anna campbell — from lewes, in east sussex — died in the town of afrin, which has been the target of turkish bombing. our turkey correspondent, mark lowen, reports. from the calm of east sussex, anna campbell felt a calling to fight in syria. a 26—year—old plumber and human rights campaigner, shejoined the kurdish militia last year, dyeing her blonde hair to stand out less. she was killed reportedly in an air strike by turkey in its offences against the ypg kurdish fighters. her father called her ‘principled and brave‘. she was quite adamant about it. i said, you could be killed. and she said, i know, dad, there‘s nothing i can do to reassure you about that, but i have to do this because it‘s the most important thing for me. seven other british nationals have died fighting with the kurds in syria and iraq. anna campbell is the first british woman k

start in west belfast where i represent a number of people came from very hard as my people died over a period of days even trying to get the bodies home the families experience great difficulty trying to get the bodies their loved ones back from jupiter and i think that's how anybody calling for almost a for people who killed three on a. and people as well as more heartful i think people should think twice before they say remarks they got of course john didn't go for those particular three but in general your being go to human rights is a lot and the news of the move would have a practice that they said. operation flavius was not a conspiracy they were all killed as part of a reflex action well i don't know that there has been legal disputes over the years but the fact of matter is they were three on armed and the federals who were brutally killed and the straits of gibraltar sense that. has been saying quite explicitly now and casting doubt on the good friday agreement saying continues the way it is why should it be particularly a obstacle for the brics process and just for seeing t

rain today in belfast, the final u.k. capital city lt for meghan to visit in her antion. duncan: and finally, visitors to a dinosaur the park in colorado literally saw a giant model to run a source wrecks blow its tyrannosaurus rex blow its top. it smoldered before being destroyed by flames. the fire was caused by an electrical fault. no one was injured in the incident. that is the way it is looking this hour. t n't forget, you can touch with me on twitter. you are watching bbc world news. do stay with us. katty: make sure to join me and my cohostnd for "be00 days" on monday. we will focus onhe biggest issues impacting both sides of the atlantic, and provide analysis on how they are shaping our world. it over to seeing you then on pbs. >> national esentation for bbc world news is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> you are watching pbs ♪ >>> tonight on kqed newsroom, jackie speier weighs in on the latest news from washington. facebook under fire following a tamassive breach and growing questions aboutwhether the compan

paddyjackson and stuart olding had been accused of attacking the same woman at a house in south belfast injune 2016. the pair had always denied the charges. mrjackson was also acquitted of one charge of sexual assault. austrialia‘s cricket captain steve smith, and his vice captain david warner, have both been banned for a year following the ball—tampering incident against south africa. cameron bancroft, who carried out the cheat, was given a nine—month ban. cricket australia has now revealed that sandpaper had been used to damage the ball. from south africa, dan roan reports. cast into cricketing exile. australia captain steve smith, leaving johannesburg today, the best batsman in the world, sent home in disgrace. one of players banned as the damning details of the sport‘s ball—tampering scandal were laid bare. and cricket bosses got tough. do you honestly believe that only three men were involved in this plot? the investigation which was done by ian roy, our head of integrity, has found that there were only three players that knew of this plan. and we are absolutely satisfied

uttering disbelief at the way events of turned bertie ahearn was the man who flew up from dublin to belfast on the morning of his mother's own funeral to try and clinch that agreement he put years of effort without any electoral reward in the south people weren't voting in the twenty six counties of violence on the basis of what was happening in the north bertie ahearn wasn't doing it for you know vainglorious reasons he wasn't even doing it for domestic political reasons he put a lot of effort into the peace process for the good of ireland as a whole and of the middle of mcdonald very much the merging woman of politics if she's going to be a force to be reckoned with merriment on was obvious successes you carry on and she's very very smart intellectually she's very very well politically she will leitch in fane i'm sure to greater success you've got a lot where she come from first of all in one thousand nine hundred seven the year prior to the good friday agreement she only had a single member of the oil aaron you know twenty years on the vote there already up to twenty three t.d.'s on the

rain today in belfast, the final uk capital city. that's the way it is looking at this hour. plenty more on how website and i am on twitter. bye for now. this weekend is looking better than last weekend. certainly much warmer and on sunday we should see good spells of sunshine by cloudy on saturday and the reason for the is because of this low pressure to the south of the uk. to the north it should be clearer and as a result it will be a cold start to saturday. the cloud will be thick enough outbreaks of rain and across wales, central parts of england. where we have the cloud, it should be milder. scotla nd have the cloud, it should be milder. scotland and northern ireland with clear skies and a touch of frost. good spells of sunshine on the weekend, especially on sunday. temperatures around the seasonal average. through saturday morning, grey start for england and wales as the area of low pressure can then use to move southwards. scotland and northern ireland will have the best of the sunshine. a few showers, wintry over the high ground and the cloud thick enough to produce

starting in west belfast where i represent a number of people came from very hard as my people died over a period of days even trying to get the bodies home the family's experience great difficulty of trying to get the bodies their loved ones back from there and i think that's how anybody calling for almost a for people who killed three on a. people as well as more heartful i think people should think twice before they say remarks they got of course john didn't go for those particular three but in general your being go to human rights is a lot in the news of the boot of a prick said they said. operation flavius was not a conspiracy they were all killed as part of a reflex action well i don't know that there has been legal disputes over the years but the fact of matter is they were three on armed and the federals who were brutally killed and the straits of gibraltar sense that has been saying quite explicitly now and casting doubt on the good friday agreement saying in favor continues the way it is why should it be particularly a obstacle for the brics a process and just for seeing t

there will be rain for example in belfast, the western isles. eastern and southern britain should remain bright and relatively mild. you're watching beyond one hundred days. facebook lost control of its users' data and failed to tackle the vulnerabilities in its system. the man formerly in charge of policing data breaches at facebook tells a committee of british mps he had warned seniorfigures at the company — but was ignored. facebook approached data like it was "the wild west frontier" claims sandy pa rakilas, and the amount of data that left facebook he says was "vast". is russia's world cup games really comparable to hitler's munich olympics? borisjohnson says it is, prompting outrage from moscow. i think the comparison with 1936 is certainly right. also on the programme. the pornstar, the playmate, and the reality tv contestant — president trump could be facing three

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io celsius in belfast — a significant change here. a little rain on that weather front there pushes away, and then we get a more significant weather system coming in from the atlantic again on thursday. that's going to bring thickening cloud and outbreaks of rain. it could be a bit heavier, this rain, in the north—west over the hills of western scotland, some wet weather here. but again, not much reaching the eastern side of england. it's probably going to be dry and bright. a little bit of sunshine around. we are not going to be seeing so much frost because the air‘s a bit milder and temperatures widely 10 or ii celsius. mm! so, let's head into the outlook, and things will change again because a lot of that milder air gets pushed away. instead, you can see the swirl on the wind pattern there in the colder air with the jet stream. to the south of the uk, we've got an area of low pressure. and that means it's going to be very unsettled. as we head into next weekend, things slowly improving beyond then. but what we'll find is that,

sunshine, and a mild feel, temperatures into the low teens celsius, even ten degrees for glasgow and belfast. for the week ahead, fairly unsettled with a lot of cloud and quite windy. a bit of rain at times and then turning a bit colder, particularly towards the weekend as colder air moves in off the near continent. and hello, this is breakfast with louise minchin and dan walker. the entertainer sir ken dodd has died at the age of 90. # happiness, happiness. the liverpudlian comic famous for his epic stand—up shows and his tickling stick died in the home he was born injust days after marrying his long—term partner. we shall have one or two glasses of tickle tonic, and then we should go back up north to merseyside and i shall see the diddy men there, so i shall send your regards to them.

belfast, around 4 degrees breast thing. this is what we expect to happen during the morning, the cloud increasing across western areas. we expect rain in belfast at the time we get to the early afternoon. some rain also in the western isles. but the bulk of the country should have a fine day. hazy skies and temperatures getting up to around 12 or 13 degrees. the jet strea m around 12 or 13 degrees. the jet stream keeps on moving weather systems in our direction. this illustrates what the jet stream is, you have the warm and the cold side. the cold air always to the north. we will have temporarily some milder weather on thursday. maybe slightly cooler heading into friday. that shift in the wind direction coming out of the north west. so maybe some wintry showers across the hills of scotland. and single figure temperatures. in the south in the sunshine temperatures around 12 degrees. saturday a lot of bright weather, hazy across much of england but sunshine around as well. the showers continue across scotland, some of those w

and prince harry and his fiancee meghan markle head for a pub lunch on a visit to belfast.

tara in belfast. how has prince harry and meghan's first official joint visit to northern ireland been going? it has been a very successful visit, they are at titanic belfast, but they are at titanic belfast, but they started off at a peace initiative this morning. prince harry launched an initiative here back when he was a single man but this time he brought his bride—to—be and they met young people and they proved to be a hit. the focus of the initiative is on young people and deciding on a more peaceful way forward for northern ireland and the young people said they were honoured to meet them and they felt they were very down—to—earth. and that it was down to belfast, to ageing bar which is now a listed building, —— to a gym bar which is now a listed building, and the local couple were told about the drinks on offer. they we re told about the drinks on offer. they were told it takes 175 seconds to pour the perfect pint of guinness. it is understood prince harry had sausages and mash. me

million mark lives interview which in some senses personifies the peace process a teenager growing up in belfast when the trouble started role is to become president of ireland at a time basically of the peace process been established and of gloomy economic and social progress how rate issue to be worried about the brics at threat to all of that progress where you sense from the interview with mary mcaleese her frustration at the way that brags it threatens to derail a very carefully constructed peace process mary mcaleese was part of that peace process generation having lived through a conflict she came to appreciate greatly as did her children the benefits of relative peace in northern ireland and she seems monumentally frustrated at how briggs it threatens to derail that she seemed baffled by the fact that anyone could receive a carefully constructed process by an act of economic self harm from from a british point of view and from our point of view as she points out what about the good friday agreement that's the question has not been answered the good friday agreement is an international tr

you're looking at video from belfast. it's broken a record by going 228 miles on one charge. belfast's founder says we did in the cycle industry what elon musk did for the automobile industry. the e-bicycle will sell for $3,000 once it hits the market. >>> all right. you may want one of those today to get through the monday morning commute. not been an easy one. here's a look at walnut creek. southbound 680, a trail of brake lights approaching highway 24. no blocking incidents for you. but we're seeing things crank up to full volume here. a quick check of drive times for bridges. westbound 580, richmond-san rafael bridge, you look great at 7 minutes. the san mateo bridge, 13 minutes. dumb barton bridge. let's check in with meteorologist mike nicco. >> thank you, alexis. i want to jump ahead to wednesday morning. by the end of the commute, 2/3 of an inch of rain. as we head towards thursday morning, at the end of that, 3/4 of an inch of rain. traditionally our drier spot. more than an inch to 2 inches heading into the north bay by thursday morning. by friday, we'll start pushi

players, paddy jackson and stuart olding, have been found not guilty of rape, following a trial at belfast crown court. a viola player who suffered irreversible damage to his hearing has won a landmark high court judgment against the royal opera house and — thousands of fans of sir ken dodd joined friends and family at his funeral at liverpool's anglican cathedral. in a moment, it will be time for sportsday but first a look at what else is coming up this evening on bbc news... on beyond 100 days at seven o'clock, the team will be talking to the lawyer representing a former catalan minister — who's wanted in spain for alleged rebellion. she's been granted bail after turning herself in to police in scotland. we'll be talking to our technology correspondent, about the news that facebook has adjusted privacy settings to give users of the social media site more control over their information. journalist and author mihir bose and the former pensions minister baroness ros altmann will be reviewing the papers later. and we'll be hearing about the police dog that's going back on the beat after

belfast's founder said we did in the cycle industry what elon musk did for the automobile industry. it will sell for $3,000 once hits the market. >>> you're never more than seven minutes away from your accuweather forecast -- look at that. 2/3 of an inch in san jose. already an inch creeping into the peninsula, the coast, the east bay and into the north bay. remember, the heavier rain is coming in. by 9:00 wednesday evening, some that of green is taking over the peninsula. just about half of the east bay and then by 9:00 thursday, we're starting to get the inch totals into livermore and san jose. usually some drier neighborhoods. by the time we wind the system down by 9:00 friday, we're pushing an inch and a half in the south bay to 2.5 inches in the north bay. it's going to be a long week. alexis, not starting off good for you either. >> no, it isn't. major troubles in the oakland area. we've got a full closure of 880 both directions. northbound and southbound at 23rd due to downed wires. pg&e trying to get those removed. boy, this has been closed for almost an hour, since 4:00 thi

or do you not fascinating professor good to talk to you many thanks indeed michael semple there in belfast thank you will years of conflict in afghanistan have created one of the world's worst water crises less than a third of the population that has access to clean drinking water thousands of children die each year because of contamination and poor sanitation attorney pertly reports from kabul. the hindu kush mountain range a wonder of nature and a giver of life it has the highest concentration of snow in places outside the polar region and is afghanistan's main source of water. but it's under threat there has been a rapid retreat and melting of glaciers at the current rate they will disappear by twenty fifty. their water water's. sources of there is no life so with something happen something unfortunate happen of course does the loss of human. melting glaciers are not the only problem forty years of conflict and the gleg to take a toll on an antiquated water and sanitation system just twenty seven percent of the population has access to clean water only twenty percent in rural areas this

sunshine, and a mild feel, temperatures into the low teens celsius, even ten degrees for glasgow and belfast. for the week ahead, fairly unsettled with a lot of cloud and quite windy. a bit of rain at times and then turning a bit colder, particularly towards the weekend as colder air moves in off the near continent. this is bbc news. the headlines: votes are being counted in congressional elections in columbia. it's being seen as a test of a peace deal between the government and the former guerrillas of the farc, now a left—wing political party. conservative parties bitterly opposed to the peace agreement hope to win an absolute majority. satellite photographs released by the human rights group amnesty international suggest the myanmar military has been building bases in villages where rohingya muslims have been forced off their land. amnesty called it a "massive land grab." myanmar‘s government has not yet responded to the report. the veteran british entertainer, sir ken dodd, has died at the age of 90. his stage debut was in 1954 and he continued to perform until last year. he was famo

in west belfast today, parishioners were delighted about the plans. absolutely fantastic. if there was more people like him, it would be a beautiful, better world to live in. i'm sure everyone will turn out and welcome him with open arms. i think it's really great. pope francis will visit dublin in late august for two days. so far, no news as to whether he will travel north of the irish border. if he does, it would be the first ever papal visit to northern ireland. chris page, bbc news. more now on our top story: 0ver 1 million nhs workers in england are set to receive a pay rise worth at least 6.5% over the next three years. the agreement includes nurses, midwives and paramedics, as well as the lowest—paid staff, such as porters and cleaners, who are in line to get an increase of 15%. we were talking to the royal college of nursing earlier. in some cases, the lowest paid staff will get a bigger increase. mark dayan is a policy and public affairs analyst at health charity the nuffield trust, and is here with me in the studio. did have you with us, thank you. is ita did h

ten in london and belfast. it's turning milder over the week ahead and knows no. england and wales try and bright... borisjohnson dismisses russian claims that the nerve agent used to target the former russian spy in salisbury could have come from the porton down research laboratory. this is not the response of a country that believes itself to be innocent, this is not the response ofa innocent, this is not the response of a country which wishes to engage in getting to the bottom of this. snow and ice continue to cause disruption to road, rail and air travel in parts of the uk, forecasters predict temperatures will feel as low as minus ten today. my my god, i nearly died! a man is arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a car was driven into a nightclub in

the northern ireland border that's going to be a thing she's going to have to address in her visit in belfast today is going to be how are you going to make sure the trade between northern ireland and the republic of ireland is going to be able to continue in the same way as it does today across that border because there are no border controls and also the issue relating to peace in ireland where the european union was central to that issue so those two big issues britain's ongoing trade relationship and the northern ireland border issue we still even now one year into this brics a negotiation process we still are no closer to a solution to those two big issues and i fear we're going to be keeping on pushing that timetable forward which is going to be at the very last minute ultimately those issues are going to be solved if the top they said the tree survey is going to be trying to reassure brits that brags it is going to be a good thing what can she tell them to make them feel positive about this and to what degree are the positive benefits that were used the arguments that are used to sell