Of the antarctic, has been re measured, and now takes top honours. And trouble in the tunnel. Milk and water thrown at mourinho in a clash with celebrating city players after yesterdays derby. Its monday the 11th of december. I many mcveigh and welcome to bbc newsroom live large live parts of the uk are continuing to suffer large parts of the uk are continuing to suffer from the effects of heavy snow that fell over the weekend. Many schools are closed, homes are without power and freezing temperatures overnight have led to fears of black ice on the roads. The deluge of snow was compounded with freezing temperatures overnight. Minus 12 was the coldest, in the appropriately named chillingham barns in northumberland. Amber weather warnings have been issued by the met office for much of england, scotland and the whole of wales and Northern Ireland. More than a thousand schools have been closed across the uk, including more than 450 schools in wales, every council run school in birmingham,
It is the monday after a particularly tumultuous weekend in the trump administration. The journalist whose book prompted the president to insist he is really smart and a very stable genius has defended his reporting on tv. Michael wolff said mr trump may not have realised their conversations were going to be included in the book. Mrtrump has received an apology from his former aide steve bannon, now known by the president as sloppy steve. Mr bannon says he regrets his remarks to mr wolff but he doesnt deny their accuracy. I have spent about three hours talking to the president over the course of the campaign, the transition, and in the white house. But the important point i want to make is that this book is not about my impression of the president. I came into this with no agenda, i continued to have no political. Fairenough, but there continued to have no political. Fair enough, but there is a running narrative. As you say, you were a semipermanent fly on the wall in the white house,
Complaints. The video assistant referee is being used tonight as chelsea host arsenal in the first leg of the league cup semifinal. Good evening and welcome to bbc news. At least 15 people have been killed by mudslides and flash floods in southern california. Rescue workers are now mounting a desperate search for survivors, fearing that dozens of people might still be trapped. Many of those affected now are the very same people who last month fled from wild fires. The extreme weather has hit carpinteria, Santa Barbara and montecito from where our correspondent james cook reports. On californias Pacific Coast, ordeal by the elements continues. First, they endured the largest fire in the states history. Next came torrential rain, more intense than anyone here could remember. Then, within minutes, destruction, caused by an unstoppable wall of mud and debris. This 14 year old survived. Even she does not know how. Firefighters using rescue dogs heard her screams and worked for hours to pull
In the california mudslide. At least 20 others are missing and dozens of homes have been destroyed. This is the town of montecito. Rivers of mud flowed down the street. Now, this area was also hit by wildfires last month its thought the scorched earth those fires created prevented the rain from being absorbed into the ground. As you can see in this photo, it wasntjust mud and trees that was washed away so were huge rocks. And all of this has blocked roads and railways. This is Santa Barbaras county sheriff. The only words i can really think of to describe it, was it looked like a world war i battlefield. It was literally a carpet of mud and debris. As always with natural disasters, there have been stories of terrible loss and of survival. Trees are just coming down. We trees arejust coming down. We ran into the house, and right then the boulders blustered through our house. We got upstairs and we got to about eight feet, nine feet up the stairs and we crawled out a window to the roof.
Today, uk chancellor Philip Hammond and brexit secretary david davis are in germany trying to win support for a favourable post brexit trade deal, especially when it comes to Financial Services. The Financial Sector is the uks biggest exporter, accounting for 10 of the entire economy and 2. 2 million jobs. But the uk argues the city of london is also important for europe. Mr hammond and mr davis will remind germany its firms need access to londons Financial Markets. The bosses of barclays, insurance giant aviva and Goldman Sachs international are thought to be among up to 15 top finance chiefs meeting Prime Minister theresa may later. She will be trying to reassure them the uk will remain a vibrant Financial Sector after brexit. There will be tough talks ahead. The eus chief negotiator, michel barnier, has been clear britain cannot cherry pick which benefits of eu membership to keep, and there will be no special deal for its Financial Sector. It is a concern echoed by the head of the G