Becomes, in the next few hours. Showers easing, some coming in and the wind becoming lighter and many areas seeing the afternoon sunshine. Despite that, with the wind, it still feels cold. This is the calm before the storm, i am afraid. A deep area of low pressure across the British Isles later this evening and overnight. Bringing widespread gales. But also perhaps more concerning greek, further snow. Rain, sleet and snow for Northern Ireland into the small hours and a focus for southern scotland and Northern England once again. The met office had issued an amber warning for the weather. Perhaps the worst of it is a way for the morning rush hour. This is six a m. , before many get up and about, still very difficult weather across the north east. Blizzard conditions potentially and drifting snow. Further south, a windy start and a fine start across the south east and east anglia. The south west of east anglia. The southfwestof east anglia. The southfwastof strong east anglia. The southfwestof strong winds and high tides england, strong winds and high tides could get problems on thursday. Particularly with a risk of coastal flooding. Scattered showers first thing in wales, in risk of ice as temperatures dipped through the small hours. A risk of ice in Northern Ireland and Scotland First thing on thursday and wintry showers for Northern Ireland. 6am in scotland, clear skies, like winds across the northern half and a very different story to what we have seen in recent days. That low moves through and by the time the majority are up by eight a m. , it it is into germany. And thursday, back to square germany. And thursday, back to square one, a germany. And thursday, back to square one, a chilly wind, a little lighter, still showers, but a chilly quite a lot of winter sunshine. Temperature is deceptive, these are the thermometer values and with the wind, it feels closer to freezing. Ryder, similar story, chilly wind and a decent amount of winter sunshine. The outlook for the next couple of days, remains distinctly wintry, but the flag up that risk of Severe Weather later on this evening and overnight. Strong winds across a large portion of the British Isles and that snow in southern scotland and that snow in southern scotland and Northern England once again. Thank you. A reminder of our main story this lunchtime angry exchanges in the commons as it emerges that build Construction Company carillion owed more than £1 billion. Labour accuses the government of negligence. As the ruins of carillion lie around her, will the Prime Minister acted to end this costly racket of the relationship between government and some of these companies . |j relationship between government and some of these companies . I might first of all remind the right honourable gentleman that a third of the carillion contracts with that comment were created by the Labour Government. Thats all from the bbc news at one. So its goodbye from me. And on bbc one, we nowjoin the bbcs news teams where you are. Good afternoon. Im Hugh Woozencroft with a look at the days sports stories here on bbc news. And we start with cricket, where ben stokes has been cleared to play for england again. Its a decision that may raise some eyebrows. The all rounder missed the ashes series defeat not considered for selection as he was under Police Investigation for an incident outside of a nightclub back in september. He was charged with affray two days ago and the england and Wales Cricket board have now decided to allow him to return. In a statement they say. Our reporter ade adedoyin says the plan is for stokes to join up with england for t20s in new zealand next month. Tuesday the 13th of february, there is a t20 in new zealand followed by five 50 over matches and two test series. There is every possibility that on the 13th of february he will be back playing for england in new zealand. As far as playing on english soil at lords, england have a test series against pakistan in may. Depending on how the Legal Process plays out he could be in action at lords in may. Englands rugby union head coach, eddie jones has signed a contract extension to stay in the role until 2021. But he wont go on beyond that. Jones took overjust over two years ago, and has won 22 of his 23 tests in charge. His original deal was due to end after next years Rugby World Cup injapan. British number 2 kyle edmund is through to round 3 of the australian open. He barely gave Denis Istomin a chance in the 6 2, 6 2, 6 4 victory overnight. Alex gulrajani reports. Shade is seldom found on the outside courts in melbourne. But maybe this is kyle edmunds moments to step out and embraced the limelight. With a certain andy murray out injured, edmund gave an early indication that he belongs in the latter stages of grand slams against Denis Istomin. He raced to take the first set inside half an hour with the pace seemingly too much for istomin to take. A medical time out is needed, but it did not help. Nothing could stop the british number two on his quest towards the third round set to wrap it up again in quick fashion before the match and victory was sealed not long after. A quick work out in the australian sunshine and great preparation for his next game on friday when the temperature and the pressure will step up. Number three seed Grigor Dimitrov survived a big scare. The bulgarian struggled against american qualifier mackenzie macdonald, but came through to take a fifth set decider 8 6. He had looked beaten at one point as he lost the fourth set 6 0. Rafa nadal came through his second round match comfortably. The number one seed won in straight sets against argentinas leonardo mayer. He reaches round 3 for the 12th time in his career. On the womens side of things, former world number one Caroline Wozniacki had an incredible three set win against jana fett of croatia. She saved two match points and came back from 5 1 down in the deciding set to make it into round three. But what about this for a story 15 year old qualifier Marta Kostyuk is the youngest player to reach the third round at a grand slam in more than 20 years. The world number 521 came past Olivia Rogowska in straight sets to face her fellow ukranian the fourth seed Elina Svitolina in the last 32. Thats all the sport for now. I will be back with more in the next hour. You are watching bbc news. Much more to come, we will talk about Prime Ministers questions, where there was so ministers questions, where there was so much talk about carillion. The Business News is coming up in a moment with rachel. A reminder of the latest headlines. The government denies labour accusations of negligence, following the collapse of the construction and services giant carillion. More nurses left the nhs in england than were recruited last year. The government says there are more nurses working now than in 2010. Heavy snow causes travel disruption in parts of scotland, Northern Ireland and the north of england. In the Business News. The boss of the gmb union has described the governments response to the carillion crisis as inadequate and inept. The construction giant went bust on monday putting thousands ofjobs at risk. The support for private sector firms that were working with carillion is due to end today. Shares in rival services and Construction Firm interserve slumped by more than 9 this morning, its now recovered a bit. Its down around 2. 9 . It happened as reports suggested interserve could also be in financial difficulty. But the company has said they expect 2017 performance to be in line with expectations and 2018 operating profit to be ahead of current market expectations. Three fifths of new cars should be electric by 2030 if the uk is to meet its Greenhouse Gas targets. The committee on Climate Change says homes also need to be built with better insulation. The uk has cut emissions sharply but the organisation says the uk will fall short of its ambitions unless ministers do more to turn pledges into reality. The new boss of edf energy is visiting perhaps his greatest challenge today; the construction site of Hinkley Point c Nuclear Power station. Simone rossi was brought in last november as ceo to oversee the £19. 6 billion project and make sure its built on time and on budget. He has a toughjob on his hands, with the Company Warning last summer it estimated the cost of completing the new plant will be nearly 10 more than expected. Our west of england Business Correspondent dave harvey, is at Hinkley Point in somerset. They have really ramped up the work rate here. Last time i was here it was all bulldozers and rubble and today we have concrete. You see a disc of concrete down in the somerset sunshine, and that will be the base for Hinkley Points new Nuclear Power stationary actor. There will be two here. Beyond it, the sea water that will cool the power station. Nuclear power station reactor. You can see what a hive of activity the place has become with around 3000 people working around the clock, on europes biggest building site. Simone rossi, the italian, former chief Financial Officer and now chief executive of edf energy. He came through the park and i spoke to him awhile ago. Originally they wanted the place up and running by 2017. The previous boss had said we would be cooking 2017turkeys from it. I asked would be cooking 2017turkeys from it. Iasked him would be cooking 2017turkeys from it. I asked him when we would be working. 2025. I realise thats later than intended. We have used this time to be ready and get off to a great start. All this is now on plan. Everything is going according to plans. There are 3000 people here. You cant see everyone of them because the site is huge. Thats the target, december of 2025. Very bullish and happy to nail his colours to the mast, by 2025 they say Hinkley Point will generate 7 of the uks total electricity. An awful lot of the work here is being done by british and somerset contractors, partly down to this man, chris langdon, from the Somerset Chamber of commerce, pulling together small and medium companies. How big is this for somerset . We are promoting the south west supply chain for this project. There are probably 4000 people registered on that portal interested in working on Hinkley Point. We have a whole series of Service Suppliers and around £400 million worth of contracts awarded. In the last 12 months we have looked at around 18 big constructing contractors and we think we have found contracts for around 135 suppliers, £110 million worth of supplies. This is pretty big for the british industry. This is a 10year project and in the first year we can start to see engagement with both technical and nontechnical suppliers. You talked about the severn estuary being out there a moment ago. We have been looking at some cupronickel welding suppliers for the sea bed. We have been talking to test rig in four meshes for the cooling water. Its clever stuff. And the guys who make the bacon sandwiches to feed these people. And very good bacon sandwiches they are as well. They assemble a small town to make Hinkley Point. A lot of local suppliers and a lot of technical stuff as well, and south west suppliers are getting some of the action. Thanks very much indeed. The other thing in the new boss said, will there be another one in suffolk . He said, you bet. And it will be cheaper. All the arguing over finances for this one, new boss simone rossi reckons that will make the next plan over in suffolk some 20 cheaper. Still be argument rages, can we afford it, is it too expensive, and what about the waste . But he at Hinkley Point in somerset, they are clear about the answers to their questions. They are on budget, on time, and they are not stopping for anyone. Thank you, dave harvey. In other Business News. Cineworld has announced plans to raise as much as £1. 7 billion from investors to finance its purchase of regal entertainment. The company will issue more shares to raise the extra cash. Nestle is selling its us sweets and chocolate business to the Ferrero Group for 2. 7 billion swiss francs thats about £2bn. The swiss food giant said it was offloading brands such as crunch and nerds to focus on other products. Italys ferrero, which makes nutella spread, tic tac and ferrero rocher, will become the uss third biggest confectionery maker. And australia has filed a trade complaint that accuses canada of placing discriminatory rules on the sales of imported wine. The formal objection, lodged with the world trade organization, follows a similar complaint made by the us last year. Australia says regulations in canada unfairly disadvantage wines produced overseas. Canada is australias fourth biggest wine market. On the markets, the ftse 100 on the markets, the ftse100 down slightly. We mentioned interserve, their price dropped around 9 this morning with people concerned they we re morning with people concerned they were facing similar issues to carillion but they have come out to say that expected earnings for 2017 are as stated and 20 team is ahead of expectations. The share price has recovered but still down two point 996. Recovered but still down two point 9 . One of the uks biggest engineering firms making parts for aerospace and cars. Melrose, turnaround company, has tabled a hostile bed who want to take over gkn. The board of gkn rejected the initial offer and say they will turn it into a hostile bid and approached shareholders. Korea thats all the Business News. Theresa may has come under pressure in parliament this lunchtime over the future of the collapsed construction giant carillion. At Prime Ministers questions the labour Leaderjeremy Corbyn accused the government of being negligent the Prime Minister said she understood its a difficult time for people worried about theirjobs. Our assistant Political Editor norman smith is in westminster. It was always going to be carillion, carillion and more carillion today. Thats because of the impact on many thousands of people left in limbo as to whether they will still have the job. Its been painted as a parting of the ideological waves with team corbyn presenting it as a moment, when perhaps Public Opinion is shifting on the whole idea of contracting out Public Services to the private sector. Thats certainly how he painted it at pmqs. These corporations, mr speaker, need to be shown the door. We need our Public Services provided by Public Employees with a Public Service ethos and a strong public oversight. As the ruins of carillion lie around her, will the Prime Minister act to end this costly racket of the relationship between government and some of these companies . Not much more detailfrom mrs may as to what will happen for those carillion workers employed in the private sector, or indeed in the supply chain, but she responded in kind over the key ideological argument over whether it was right to co ntra ct argument over whether it was right to contract out services. What labour oppose isnt just what labour oppose isntjust a role for private companies and Public Services, but the private sector as a whole. The vast majority of people in this country in employment are employed by the private sector. But the shadow chancellor calls business is the real enemy. Labour wants the highest taxes in our peacetime history. Labour policies would cause a run 011 history. Labour policies would cause a run on the pound. This is a labour party that has turned its back on investment, on growth, onjobs. A labour party that will always put politics before people. A little taster of pmqs. Im joined by conservative mp vicky ford, the snps by conservative mp vicky ford, the Snps Tommy Sheppard and labours stella creasy. Stella creasy first, is this a moment where the debate changes and the dial shifts in terms of Weather Services should be contracted out to the private sector . I certainly hope so. I was extremely worried to hear the Prime Minister talk about how we are just customers of carillion. Were not just customers, we are borrowing with carillion. I would like a Prime Minister who understood the kind of deals we have got into over the last 30 years and over the last seven years especially, a 135 increase in outsourcing. Carillion gets a lot of business from the Public Sector and bankrolls its business on the notion that the Public Sector will always a step in, as it will have to do in this case to ensure hospitals, schools and motorways keep going. Would you buy jeremy schools and motorways keep going. Would you buyJeremy Corbyns bike and that there is a philosophical and that there is a philosophical and ideological point here that services for the Public Sector should be run by the Public Sector and the private sector should be kept out . We know the private sector might be involved in building things, for example, but its clear we dont have proper oversight and profits have driven decisions to put contracts out. People are paying the consequences and its vital we stop and rethink this. The first in to do is get a domesday book, who do we owe what to and for what services . The treasury cant even tell us that right now. Tommy sheppard . Since 2010 the orthodoxy in government has been private is good and public is bad. Today might have seen the pendulum swing back. I dont know how fundamentally Public Policy will change, but now the private sector will be under much more critical scrutiny than it has been before. Its amazing that given a three profit warnings from carillion since la st profit warnings from carillion since last summer, ministers continued to sign cheques to a company that was continuing to go bust with many millions of pounds of taxpayer money. That was either negligence or procedures were not in place for adequate scrutiny. If nothing else, i hope thats putting forward going forward. Vicky ford, we now have Mega Companies like g4s that are almost beyond failing and get contracts. First of all, lets think about the situation now. The First Priority is to make sure Public Services are delivered and we look after employees, apprenticeships and subcontractors. We need to stop turning this into a political football and remember that at least a third of the contracts we re at least a third of the contracts were awarded under the last Labour Government and successive conservative governments have brought in more transparency on these contracts and better purchasing. The government cannot run everything. It is a right that there is a mixture of public and private contracts. As regards recent contracts, they have all been double wrapped, a joint venture, all bar one of them. So that other suppliers step in. Thats what the treasury has said and thats what i want to see happening. I am focused on making sure the contracts in my constituency, like the present, work well. Thats what we should be focused on. What about the moral argument in terms of the bosses because they have walked away with sizeable bonuses and salaries. If they have broken the law, then yes they have broken the law, then yes the money can be clawed back, but otherwise, not much can be done. The Prime Minister made it very clear at the dispatch box today that the bonuses that have been paid is not just to the current management team, but previous management team, need to be investigated. I think its absolutely vital that we do not bail out private investors in this scenario. Thats what labour did with the banks, using. What about the bosses . Absolutely, if they have taken money the bosses . Absolutely, if they have ta ken money incorrectly the bosses . Absolutely, if they have taken money incorrectly when they shouldnt have got it, it needs to and should and will be investigated. Your government has been bailing out these companies because it has been giving them contracts even though they knew they were in trouble. One of the things that worries me, you talk about party politics, but in june last year, with the Royal Liverpool hospital, the nhs must have known carillion was in difficulty because of delays to the project but in july difficulty because of delays to the project but injuly the department for transport still gave them the hsz for transport still gave them the hs2 contract. Either one arm of government isnt talking to the other, and thats a conscious choice of the treasury, or they bailing them out. Neither good. Please stop them out. Neither good. Please stop the Party Political ding dong because Labour Leeds Council announced they wanted to award contractsjust announced they wanted to award contracts just before hand. Announced they wanted to award contracts just beforehand. They hadnt signed it but they announced it. We all know you announce it and then have the formal signing later. When will you get a grip of this . The contracts that have been signed recently, my understanding for what the Prime Minister said today was all bar one have had this double wrapping. Thats by accident rather than design. My understanding is that has been considered. |j than design. My understanding is that has been considered. I want to comment on your thing about the bosses. Its ridiculous it seems that no matter how big a failure, the people at the top always walk away in clover and that has to change. We have to have a managerial culture in this country where if people are paid executive salaries understand they will be penalised for failure, rather than rewarded and they have to take responsibility. We need to do more than investigate. These bonuses needs to be clawed back. Thats exactly what the conservative government have introduced when it comes to banking bonuses and maybe we should look at that process. Thats why the Prime Minister has said this is being investigated. Except that will not wash because in 2012 is your government announced a review of these every contracts and introduced pf2 which was meant to change the way were done. Due change the way these were done. Due diligence was not done so these companies will take on the risk. We could see two or three contractors going bust and we have already seen i nte rse rve going bust and we have already seen interserve being served with profit warnings. Its not just interserve being served with profit warnings. Its notjust a Party Political point. Its clearly not been worth the risk and we need to change that. I will not take lectures from conservatives that somehow they were on top of this last year. They clearly were not, otherwise they wouldnt have issued these contracts. Its very important we continue to be able to deliver first class Public Services. That to me is the top priority right now, making sure the hospitals are cleaned, my prison maintenance is donein cleaned, my prison maintenance is done in chelmsford, that we are getting people their school dinners. The First Priority is looking after employees, contractors, apprenticeships, thats the priority. We need to have Public Sector supported by the private sector. We also need to rethink government services. We have got to a situation where fully one third of all Government Spending is now contracted out. I think the public understand why you need a private company to build the flyover or a bypass. They dont understand why their local school meals need to be done by carillion when they could be done by carillion when they could be done by carillion when they could be done by a Public Company or in house. Done by a Public Company or inhouse. One slightly bit better news for carillion, we learned this lunchtime that the Insolvency Service say they have contacted all the private sector contractors and 90 of them say they hope to continue paying their staff. At least in the short term there is some slightly better news and a little bit of reassurance for carillion workers in the private sector. Studio norman smith, thank you. Ido sector. Studio norman smith, thank you. I do wish you would tell your guests you. I do wish you would tell your gu ests to you. I do wish you would tell your guests to say what they really think norman smith in westminster. Much more coming up after 2pm. The weather very important for so many people at the moment. The latest details where ever you are in the uk. For many, today has been a day to stay at home. Schools have been out and people have made use of the time. A gorgeous snowman in east kilbride. If you have headed anywhere, the conditions have not been great and we have been struggling with the legacy of the snow and ice from the last 24 hours. But the weather itself becomes quieter in the next few hours with lighter winds and more snow showers to come, but not as thick and fast as yesterday afternoon. Sunshine to the south. Still feeling chilly because we have a keen wind. This is Something Like the calm before the storm, look whats heading our way through this evening and overnight. Tonight, under the spell of strong wind with widespread gales. But more treacherously, more snow. Turning heavier for treacherously, more snow. Turning heavierfor a while treacherously, more snow. Turning heavier for a while through the rush hour. Lookslikel and fit . 6am, and we 2 z7 t e 6am, and we will 7, f e 6am, and we will still. 7 f is 6am, and we will still like we have falling snow and strong wind at this point. Perhaps blizzard conditions and drifting. The south west of england, the picture looks simpler on the face of it but strong winds and high tides will combine to give some big waves. Significant coastal flooding is a risk. Showers for Northern Ireland and there will still be the risk of the showers turning wintry on thursday. Scotland, quite liked winds to the north of the low overnight. Widespread frost first thing thursday leaving us with ice in the morning rush hour. Difficult conditions to start thursday. The low is keen to get off to the continent and we should see the weather improved dramatically as the day goes on. The story for thursday, pretty similar to what we had earlier this week, still a chilly wind but perhaps not as strong with decent amounts of sunshine and wintry showers in the north and west. Despite being cold, for many its a good looking day. A similar story on friday. Chilly with quite a cold breeze and wintry showers to the north and west. The story generally gets quieter through the latter pa rt generally gets quieter through the latter part of the week but beware tonight with difficult weather on the way through the latter part of the way through the latter part of the rush hour and heavy snow across southern scotland, Northern England, and widespread gales as we head into the small hours. Hello, youre watching afternoon live. Im simon mccoy. Today at two. Theresa may faces angry questions from Jeremy Corbyn in the commons over the collapse of building giant carillion. As the ruins of carillion lie around her, will the Prime Minister act to end this costly racket of the relationship between government and some of these companies . I might first of all remind the right honourable gentleman that a third of the carillion contracts with the government were let by the Labour Government. Fresh warnings of persistent heavy snow for many northern parts of the uk after hundreds of drivers spent the night stranded in their cars. Haemorrhaging nurses new figures show one in ten leaving the nhs in england each year, meaning there are now more leaving the profession than joining. I want to give my patients my best, but i feel like i cant do that