Good morning welcome to breakfast, with rogerjohnson and Rachel Burden. Our headlines today a clean break harry and meghan will drop their hrh and end all royal duties under a new agreement with buckingham palace. The queen says they remain much loved members of herfamily. The couple are expected to spend most of their time in canada and will pay back taxpayers money used to refubish their windsor home. New powers to help protect potential stalking victims while Police Investigate allegations are due to come into force. After the calls for big ben to bong for brexit well look at the debate over whether britains church bells should chime too. Saracens are relegated the premiership champions will play next season the second tier of english rugby, after paying too much in wages its pretty cold out there this morning. Some widespread frost. Otherwise its going to be a dry day and we will have some sunshine as well. Its sunday, january the 19th. Our top story. A deal has been agreed on the
This is bbc world news today. Im Lewis Vaughan jones. Our top story. The queen says prince harry and meghan will no longer use their royal titles as they step down as working royals. The couple will pay back more than 2. 4 Million Pounds of public money spent on refurbishing their residence Frogmore Cottage in windsor. They will also stop receivng public funding for royal duties, and harry will resign from his official military appointments. Hello and welcome to world news today. Prince harry and meghan will no longer use their royal titles, and will no longer recieve public funds to carry out royal duties. This has been confirmed by Buckingham Palace. In a statement her majesty the queen said. Harry, meghan and archie will always be much loved members of my family. Our royal correspondent Daniela Relph has more from Buckingham Palace. Hugely significant. It is taking the past week or so to really drill down how this is going to work and there have been various meetings going on at the
Clears away from the eventually clears away from the south east of england and then we get some sunshine. The weather sta rts get some sunshine. The weather starts to come down a little bit, get some sunshine. The weather starts to come down a little hit, it wont be as windy and temperatures down to eight or nine degrees. A brief rest but on wednesday because on thursday we have got the next weather system arriving, the new area of low pressure. Another band of rain and this could be quite heavy as we saw on monday. It is again the western side of the uk which will see the strongest of the winds. Gales are likely here. Pretty windy elsewhere and it is a milder wind, temperatures easily into double figures across much of england and wales. Some wet and windy weather pushes back in on thursday. That weather front then gets swe pt thursday. That weather front then gets swept away and the area of low pressure slowly retreats away from northern scotland. Here, it is still going to be quite
This is bbc news. Im simon mccoy. The headlines at 9am thousands of people seek refuge on the beach and in the sea to escape bush fires in Australia Military helicopters and the navy are deployed to help them. Its gut wrenching. You dont know whos back there and whos not. You know, i cant. There was homes that i knew people in and ijust couldnt even hear to watch. Former nissan boss carlos ghosn flees to lebanon, despite being under house arrest in tokyo on financial misconduct charges. The National Living wage is to rise in april by 6. 2 four times the rate of inflation. Heterosexual couples in england and wales will be able to enter into Civil Partnerships from today, giving them similar rights to people who are married. The government says it will raise concerns with the cypriot authorities, about the fairness
of a trial of a british woman convicted of lying about being gang raped. And join me, andjoin me, sarah and join me, sarah campbell, for a look back at a busy royal year. Ther
But getting closer to double figures across parts of scotland and northern ireland. This High Pressure is still with us on wednesday. Its not going anywhere at all. Last time we saw such a lengthy dry spell was back in september. But it will be introducing some quite moist air. So for the middle part of the week, once again, quite a bit of cloud around. Best chance of any sunshine will be for eastern counties of scotland and england. Temperatures starting to come down by day to 8 9 celsius the high on wednesday. So to sum up the week, a dry spell for many, some frosty nights at first gradually turning a little bit milder, but also further mist and fog by. Hello. This is bbc news with lukwesa burak. Well be taking a look at tomorrow mornings papers in a moment. First, the headlines the queen says she hopes harry and meghan can now build a happy new life after the agreement on theirfuture. They will end official royal duties which means less scope to champion causes and projects. World l