Heavy snow fell across much of the uk today, causing disruption on the roads, to air travel, and on the railways. Hundreds of flights were cancelled or delayed at a number of airports, including at heathrow, stansted, and in belfast. There were problems for rail passengers too, while the police warned motorists to travel only if absolutely necessary. The met office says its the heaviest snowfall to hit parts of the uk in four years. Tomorrow, hundreds of schools in the midlands, gloucestershire and shropshire will be closed. The forecast is of freezing conditions. Our correspondent Richard Lister is in beaconsfield in buckinghamshire for us tonight. Much of britain looked like a Christmas Card today. Scotland and Northern England had been expecting snow, but this was buckinghamshire, and on the ground, it wasnt pretty. Breakdowns and blizzards on the m25 near Gerrards Cross made for slow going, in slippery conditions. On the asa near newbury, two stuck lorries meant the southbound carr
In the manchester derby. As guardiolas men set a new premier league record, to go 11 points clear at the top of the table. At at 11 30, well bring you the paper review with the parliamentaryjournalist tony grew and journalist and broadcaster caroline frost. Good evening and welcome to bbc news. Heavy snow fell across much of the uk today, causing disruption on the roads, to air travel, and on the railways. Hundreds of flights were cancelled or delayed at a number of airports, including at heathrow, birmingham, and in belfast. There were problems for rail passengers, while the police warned motorists to travel only if absolutely necessary. The met office says its the heaviest snowfall to hit parts of the uk in four years. Tomorrow hundreds of schools in the midlands, gloucestershire and shropshire will be closed. The forecast is of freezing conditions. 0ur correspondent Richard Lister reports from beaconsfield, in buckinghamshire. Much of britain looked like a Christmas Card today. Scot
Decision to acknowledgejerusalem as israels capital could jeopardise middle east peace efforts. In israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahyu says the sooner palestinians accept the decision the sooner there will be peace. But the change in us policy has been met by widespread anger across the arab and muslim world and as our middle east editor sebastian usher reports, the protests have been escalating. Tear gas was fired into a crowd of around 1,000 protesters in beirut as they tried to reach the us embassy this morning. Effigies of President Trump and us flags were burned by angry groups of Palestinian Refugees and lebanese activists. Translation we are here to tell the us embassy, the embassy of the aggressor, thatjerusalem is arab, it was arab and it will stay arab. Large rallies have been held in the moroccan capital, rabat. And in cairo too. As protesters try to build momentum across the region against President Trumps decision. In istanbul, thousands turned out to hear president
As israels capital could jeopardise middle east peace efforts. Israels Prime Minister, benjamin netanyahu, says the sooner palestinians accept the decision the sooner there will be peace. But the change in us policy has been met with widespread anger across the arab and muslim world, and as our middle east editor sebastian usher reports, the protests have been escalating. Tear gas was fired into a crowd of around 1,000 protesters in beirut as they tried to reach the us embassy this morning. Effigies of President Trump and us flags were burned by angry groups of Palestinian Refugees and lebanese activists. Translation we are here to tell the us embassy, the embassy of the aggressor, thatjerusalem is arab, it was arab and it will stay arab. Large rallies have been held in the moroccan capital, rabat. And in cairo too. As protesters try to build momentum across the region against President Trumps decision. In istanbul, thousands turned out to hear president erdogan launch a blistering att
In global news, business and sport. And you can be part of the conversation. As we get the first big freeze this winter in europe, should we be marvelling at our Winter Wonderland, or raging at how the weather make our lives and our travel such a misery . Tell us what you think just use the hashtag bbc the briefing. Will you get to work today . Well, much of Northern Europe has been paying the price of snow blizzards, freezing temperatures as low as 10 celsius, and winds gusting up to 140 kilometres an hour, nearly 90 miles an hour. Tens of thousands of air passengers were stranded over the weekend as airports were closed or flights diverted. Sarah corker has the latest. Heavy snow and seriously low temperatures have grounded hundreds of flight across Northern Europe. Germanys busiest airport, frankfurt, was one of the worst affected. Despite efforts to clear the runways and de ice aircraft, 330 flights were cancelled, stranding hundreds of passengers. In france, 75 mph winds were the