Of low pressure working its way gcioss of low pressure working its way across the uk today. Thats going to bring some very strong winds, with just potentially up to 80 mph for parts of southern england. Some heavy rain and the forecast as well. Ill have all the details in the next half an hour. It is saturday 2 november. Our top story the wait is almost over. In just a few hours time, england will take on south africa in a historic Rugby World Cup final injapan. Thousands of england fans have made the journey to the stadium in yokohama, with millions more expected to watch and listen to the game here. It is the first time england have reached the final since 2007. Adam wild reports. It is the games guest prize. Both england and south africa knowjust what victory feels like. Both desperate to go there again. The teams of 2019 now carry that weight of hope and of expectation. England, on the other side of the world, with a chance to showjust how far they have come. Weve had four years to
Good morning welcome to breakfast with Nina Warhurst and jon kay. Our headlines today. A chance to make sporting history as england take on south africa in the Rugby World Cup final. They sing. Is thousands of venues open early. After four yea rs of prepararoion to get them here, the world cup finaljust getting under way eddie jones says england are ready for their South African test. Fracking is to end in england after the government orders a halt because of fears of earthquakes. Good morning. Weve got a deep area of low pressure working its way across the uk today. Thats going to bring some very strong winds, with gusts potentially up to 80 mph for parts of southern england. Some heavy rain in the forecast as well. Ill have all the details in the next half an hour. Its saturday the 2nd of november. Our top story. One of the biggest sporting events of the year has just kicked off in japan, as england take on south africa at the Rugby World Cup. Thousands of fans have been arriving at
Some of you had warmth and sunshine. Same areas continue to see the rain tonight, parts of the south east and the midlands into towards north east england and scotland and into Northern Ireland keeping the odd rumble of thunder along those weather fronts. To the rumble of thunder along those weatherfronts. To the north east some warmth to the sunshine, a humid night, fresher, temperatures down to single figures. Sunday, we will do it allagain, single figures. Sunday, we will do it all again, wetter in the north east of Northern Ireland, more persistent rain in the north east midlands, but brighter towards the south east corner and while we stick with some humid and sunny conditions in the easterly wind through northern scotland, a greater chance of one or two heavy showers. Temperatures into the 20s in scotla nd temperatures into the 20s in scotland and still in the 20s in the south west with sunny spells continuing into the afternoon. Beyond that, some warmth and sunshine on monday in
Dont forget you can get more on all our stories on our website, just log onto our website bbc. Co. Uk. And im on twitter, im lvaughanjones now on bbc news, live to singapore for Asia Business report. Us stocks recover as china take steps to stabilise its currency, the yuan, with asian markets follow suit . And the formula physics success. Suit . And the formula physics success. We catch up with a young female asian entrepreneur on a mission to promote women in science. Hello, and welcome to Asia Business report. Im sharanjit leyl. We start with the markets and it is a mixed picture here in asia. Japans nick ayers opened and australian stocks are currently flat stop japans nikkei, not taking cues from us stocks which opened up overnight. And the yuan is now at a slightly higher rate to the us dollar, after sliding beneath the us dollar for the first time in ten years. A lot of a nalysts the first time in ten years. A lot of analysts are citing a lot of uncertainty in the market regardin
As the countdown to brexit continues talks about whether the uk can do a trade deal with the worlds biggest economy, the United States is among the Top Priorities. The uk foreign secretary dominic raab is in washington today to meet his opposite number mike pompeo. Total trade in goods and services between the worlds first and sixth largest economies was worth 262. 3 billion last year. Two weeks ago President Trump said after a phone call with borisjohnson that could be multiplied three to four, five times under a post brexit trade deal but gave no details on how. At the moment the eu accounts for almost half of all the uks imports and exports, thats more than three times as much as the usa which at almost 15 has the biggest share for an individual country. A trade deal could close that gap but the unresolved question about how irish border will be kept open could make it difficult to get it through congress. The us is one of the guarantors of the good friday Peace Agreement and many p