18/06/2016 BBC Weekend News

The man charged with the murder of MP Jo Cox has appeared in court

When asked his name, 52-year-old Thomas Mair replied

"Death To Traitors, Freedom For Britain."

Our home affairs correspondent Daniel Sandford is at Westminster

Yes, the first court appearance can be a routine affair, the idea is to

identify the person in custody and decide if they should stay in prison

until their trial. But today was not a routine affair. The man in the

dock is accused of the brutal, possibly political murder of a young

MP and the moment of drama came when he was asked his name.

Driven down from Yorkshire in a police convoy, Tommy Mair

was brought to the most important Magistrates' Court in London

for his first appearance since being charged with the murder

He was accompanied in court by two dock security officers.

He wore a grey, police-issue tracksuit.

Balding, he had short, light grey hair and a neatly trimmed

beard, and stood up when asked to do so.

When asked his name, the man in the dock said,

"My name is Death To Traitors, Freedom For Britain."

Asked his address, he remained silent.

Asked his date of birth, he again remained silent.

He's charged with the murder of Jo Cox, the young, popular,

pro-EU Labour MP for Batley and Spen.

She was repeatedly stabbed and shot three times,

in a killing which has shocked politicians and the public alike

and led to the suspension of campaigning in the EU referendum.

Thomas Mair is also charged with grievous bodily harm

against a bystander, Bernard Carter-Kenny,

who tried to save Jo Cox, and with possession of a firearm

He was driven from court in another police convoy and will be held

in prison until his next court appearance, which will be

Daniel Sanford, BBC News, Westminster Magistrates' Court.

The British astronaut touched down safely in Kazakhstan

in the last couple of hours, after six months on board

He described the journey back as "the best ride of his life"

and said he was looking forward to a pizza and a beer.

Our science correspondent Pallab Ghosh was watching

Carried from his capsule, Tim Peake returns a hero.

Then, a call to his family, just ahead of Father's Day,

A welcome return to Earth after a thrilling

His journey home began just a few hours earlier.

The Soyuz space craft undocks, drifting gently away from

the Space Station that's been his home for so long.

Then, after orbiting the earth, the space craft

begins the trickiest part of the mission.

It has to slow itself down to re-enter the earth's atmosphere.

It turns on its thrusters for five minutes.

Mission Control announce that it's gone well.

The capsule slows down from four times the speed of

Thrusters fire to slow it down even more, for what's called a soft

landing, but it feels like a car crash to the astronauts inside.

The capsule itself landed on its side.

He's just orbited the earth at five miles a second and fallen 150 miles

Now, the journey home to his wife and two boys.

Pallab Ghosh, BBC News, at mission control just outside Moscow.

He looks as happy as a man who has just had to walk in the Park!

Extremely relaxed, remarkably so given what his body had been

subjected to. Not only the six months in orbit but that hugely

high-speed descent, the plummet, really, from outer space back down

here to Earth. But, his body obviously weakened by the

experience, Tim Peake, like all of the astronauts, was helped out of

the capsule and carried through the Steppe of Kazakhstan because it is

difficult to walk through something like that. But he was extremely

relieved, it was the ride of a lifetime as he described it. All

three crew members brought outside and wealth to the Steppe of

Kazakhstan. We are expecting them all now to come by helicopter, each

one in a separate helicopter, do here in Karagandy, about a two-hour

helicopter ride. We expect them to come back here for further medical

checks, then there will be a formal welcome ceremony here and we will

get a chance to speak to them. They were speaking a bit at the

Kazakhstan as you heard but they will be speaking more here if they

are feeling well. Finally, from here, Tim Peake will be heading home

to what I'm sure will be an extremely emotional and very

relieved reunion with his wife and children.

Indeed. Sarah, thanks very much. Leaving the European Union

would force the UK into recession in 2017 and prompt GDP to shrink

by 5.6% by 2019. That was the warning today from

the International Monetary Fund. Its annual report on the UK economy

said the impact of Brexit was likely The campaign group Economists

For Brexit say the IMF's And the former Chief

of the Defence Staff Lord Guthrie, who earlier this year signed

a letter supporting Britain's place He says he now favours

Britain leaving the EU, because he's worried by the prospect

of a European Army. The Government says it has a veto

over joining any such force. You can see more on all of today's

stories on the BBC News Channel. Hello. We have got outdoor events

galore this weekend, it is that time of year, and the weather has been

kind so far. Rather more of us seeing skies like this through

today, especially in the north and west of the UK where the cloud is

breaking up nicely. Further east, the cloud lingers but we have lost

the heavy downpours we have seen in recent days. One or two light

showers but most places will miss those completely. A closer look

through this afternoon reveals lots of dry, sunny weather to come across

Scotland, Northern Ireland, increasingly across northern England

as well. Not particularly high temperatures but the light wind and

sunshine will feel quite warm, warmer than the numbers would

suggest, and sunshine breaking through for Wales and south-west

England as well. The Midland into eastern parts, cloud likely to

linger, just thick enough for some patchy rain and a cool breeze on

eastern coast as well. We should get away with a dry afternoon at the

tennis at Queen's Club, not too warm, 70 degrees with grey skies and

a northerly breeze. Colder still overnight across eastern areas as

the cloud melts away. Clearing skies, light winds, temperatures

into single figures in some rural spots by the end of the night. Here

is the next change come out west, the dry and sunny weather

tomorrow, and quite a bit warmer on eastern coasts. A pulse of heavy

rain sweeping through on Sunday night, lots of isobars so it will

stay