In the Champions League draw. Arguably the draw wasnt the kindest to chelsea though theyll face five time winners barcelona. Well look at how others fared not a huge amount of snow. Temperatures falling away quickly. It isa temperatures falling away quickly. It is a we are worried about this evening and overnight and into tomorrow. I will have more later. Thank you, darren. Mount hope. It is now the tallest mountain in the country after being re measured. Hello everyone this is afternoon live. Snow and freezing temperatures are continuing to cause widespread disruption in many parts of the uk and across the channel. Heathrow airport is trying to clear a backlog of hundreds of flights, the port of calais is closed, while roads and rail have been affected. Its all making travel difficult and even hazardous. Tens of thousands of pupils are having an unexpected day off after the cold weather prompted local authorities to shut their schools. A large swathe of Central England and most of wal
Particularly cross keys departs of the country, but right across the board because we have a big area of High Pressure. Dry across the board. This area will be more of a player as we head into Christmas Day, particularly across parts of scotland. Now, dry and somewhat cloudy weather. Cloud and the fog around the coast and hills of the west. The cloud is big enough to produce outbreaks of rain across the north west of scotland, eastern scotla nd north west of scotland, eastern scotland in drawing the lines share of the sunshine through the afternoon. Parts of Northern Ireland and northern england, quite grey and murky. There are some clear spells breaking through, particularly anywhere to be is the firebrand. A bit of sunshine for the likes of lincolnshire down towards kent too. Slightly thicker cloud further west into devon and cornwall and across wales. For north wales, we should seek some clear spells into the evening. Through this evening and tonight we see the cloud thickening up t
Deposit for a plastic bottle . Mps say that it would reduce waste and help protect the ocean from pollution. Hello, a very good morning to you. It is friday the 22nd of december. Welcome to bbc news. The foreign secretary, borisjohnson, who is in moscow has insisted that britain cannot ignore issues such as cyber activity, the treatment of gay people in chechnya. He said that he wa nts people in chechnya. He said that he wants relations to improve. He went to meet Sergey Lavrov. It is the First Official visit from different secretary for five years. They warned that they are read willing to retaliate on Cyber Attacks, but want to cooperate on International Track challenges. In the last hour, the two men appeared in a News Conference. They said that the two countries showed why together despite their difference. The recent form the length of my absence, is of course that this is a difficult time in the relations between the uk and russia, and Sergey Lavrov himself has just russia, and S
Figures out this morning. England rugby team. Ill be finding out why. Working weekend. With edinburgh and carries nearly 38 million good about any of the stories were covering this morning. Passengers a year. Just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. Start to the working weekend. Means for passengers. Morning. A pretty chilly start of the day. Pretty chilly start good morning. Have been described. Of the day. I am here at rhs wisley in surrey. Knocked off course by strong pretty chilly start of the day. Here at rhs wisley in surrey. Winds. Have been talking about snowdrops this morning. This morning. The world of film conditions at the Winter Olympics are causing problems. Are causing problems. Have been getting earlier and earlier in recent decades. Earlier in recent decades. And entertainment. Fact we have seen some milder slope style went ahead as planned, but was that the correct choice . Winters. And matts admiring the snowdrops at rhs wisley. Winters. This winter has been around where it
Attack on a beach. And scientists rush to antartica to catch a glimpse of a giant iceberg before it melts. Good evening and welcome to bbc news. The deputy chief executive of oxfam has resigned following allegations the charity tried to cover up the full details of a sex scandal in haiti involving its aid workers. Senior figures in the organisation have been meeting the International Development secretary, offering assurances over the future handling of Sexual Misconduct allegations. The charity has been asked to produce all its evidence relating to what happened during the humanitarian relief effort after the haitian earthquake in 2010. Our special correspondent lucy manning has the details. Haitis red light district. Prostitution is illegal here, but that didnt stop some of oxfams staff. The charity now admitting it knew knew about concerns about its team and prostitutes, not just in haiti, but also in chad and that nothing was done. Widza bryant worked in Human Resources in haiti fo