More snow and ice on the way for large parts of the uk with freezing temperatures likely to cause travel delays. Stav will have the latest for us throughout the morning. Good morning. A wintry weekend for all. 20 of sunshine in the forecast. A few snow showers. Tomorrow, the potential of significant snow for some. Join me laterfor all potential of significant snow for some. Join me later for all the details. In sport, a massive blow for wales six nations hopes. Their captain Sam Warburton is now out for at least four months, after having knee surgery. Good morning. First, our main story. The foreign secretary, borisjohnson, is due to arrive in iran shortly, where he will express what he describes as grave concerns over the imprisonment of the british iranian woman, Nazanin Zaghari ratcliffe. The aid worker has been held prisoner in the country since april 2016, accused of trying to overthrow the iranian government a charge she denies. Mrjohnson is also expected to discuss britains wide
This week, a full body of kids favourites. A future head of state, and a bare bottom. Today we are in manchester, at the childrens global media summit, a meeting of those who make the content that our children will be watching in the coming years. Its an event with some very important speakers. Parents, like catherine and me, are raising the first generation of digitally immersed children. And this gives us many reasons to be optimistic about the impact of technology on childhood. And before the duke of cambridge gave his speech to the audience, i managed to grab a quick interview with one of the most talked about couples in the country. How are you finding the conference so far . Because, to be honest, my kids get more about the staff of the furcherster hotel than at the powers that the behind the scenes. But the discussions taking place here will shape the type of content that children will watch in the future and how content providers will meet the expectations of the next generatio
The government aims to encourage more students in england to sign up for shorter courses. Well hear why. And in sport, more than just bragging rights at stake todays Manchester Derby at old trafford is the biggest game in the premier league so far this season. Good morning. First, our main story. Heavy snow is hitting the uk. The met office has issued an amber weather warning for up to 10 centimetres of snow at low levels, with up to 20 centimetres on Higher Ground. Falling over the stage are you 0k . Flights have been temporally suspended at Birmingham Airport while they clear the runway. Simon clemison reports. We do not have that yet. It is all going wrong we can speak now to our news correspondent, Matthew Richards, who is in north wales for us this morning. It looks very cold and snowy. Matthew, how much snow has there been overnight . It started snowing about 5am and we have noticed the wins are starting to pick up as well which will cause problems for drifting. Birmingham airpor
Its newsday. Its 8am in singapore, midnight in london and 8 30am in pyongyang, where over the last our north Korean Leader kim meade has praised south korea as very impressive kim jong un. Said its important to boost the warm climate of reconciliation and dialogue with the south according to state media. He said. He also certain efforts made by seoul to prioritise the north korean teams visit to the Winter Olympics was very impressive and this came after his sister, kim yo jong, and other top officials returned from a landmark visit to the south for the winter olympic games. The South African president jacob zuma has reportedlyjust been given 48 hours to resign. Top officials from the governing anc have been discussing the future of the president , who is under pressure over corruption allegations. And local media have reported a late night visit by the partys new head Cyril Ramaphosa to mr zumas house. Our africa editor fergal keane has been monitoring events. Theres a sense of high P
Breaking news this evening from north london. 800 households in camden are being told to leave their homes tonight because of safety fears. We know that five residential blocks on the Chalcot Estate in camden are being evacuated after tests showed that the cladding was similarto tests showed that the cladding was similar to that used on the Grenfell Tower. Georgie gould is a leader of Camden Council. We have been doing everything we can to track the safety of our blocks. 0n everything we can to track the safety of our blocks. On wednesday we we re safety of our blocks. On wednesday we were first in the queue to check the safety of the cladding on our blogs. We found that most the installation was safely external cladding was not after the standard he wanted and was not fire. 0bviously he wanted and was not fire. Obviously this was disappointing. We share back news with residents. 0n thursday night we had a Public Meeting with local residents were they share the number of concerns about