Rules eased after earlier lockdowns. Making a splash the swimmers braving winter waters to help scientists in the battle against dementia. And coming up on bbc news, more criticism of var, particularly after the Merseyside Derby which saw a goal controversially ruled out and no punishment for pickfords tackle on van dijk. Good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. The Welsh Government has announced it is introducing a Short National lockdown. What theyre calling a firebreak will begin at 6pm on friday evening and will run until the 9th of november. People in wales will be asked to stay at home and all non essential retail will close. Pubs, bars and restaurants will be restricted to Takeaway Service only and households cannot mix in any location. The first minister Mark Drakeford said the objective was to break the chain of infection. Our wales correspondent tomos morgan has the details. As autumn turns to winter, theres a sense of deja vu in wales today, as the prospect of anot
Security council and germany met iranian officials in almaty, kazakhstan. They want leaders in tehran to scale back their nuclear ambitions. Catherine ashton chaired the twoday talks. The iranians sent their top nuclear negotiator, saeed jalili. The delegates said they will ease economic sanction it is iranian scientists stop enriching uranium to 20 purity. Beyond that, its just short step to weaponsgrade uranium. The proposal is positive and constructive. Hes calling on nations to lift sanctions on iran. He says hostile sanctions should cease and confidence building should be promoted. Details of the proposals have not been revealed. The delegates agreed to meet again in midapril in almaty for further talks. They also said theuld get experts together next month in istanbul, turkey, for technical discussions. Pope benedict xvi has bade an emotional farewell to his final public audience at st. Peters square in the vatican. The outgoing pope made his last public appearance on wednesday m
Didnt anybody tell her didnt anybody see sundays look forward to Mondays Tuesdays to me imus in the morning gas up again and the word recession is back on the table. Good morning, everyone. Can our economy handle whats happening at the pump . Good question. Youve seen it every day for more than a month and theyve changed the signs at the gas station and prices have gone straight up. Today, triplea says regular costs 3. 74 a gallon. Were closing in on a 50 cent gain just this year. Four big population states are at or very close to 4 a gallon already. All right, now shall the impact. Every penny that gas goes up takes 1. 2 billion dollars from consumer spending, like a tax. And it comes on top of other tax increaseses that cut everybodys paycheck and will slow a weak economy and some say brings recession that much closer. Watch out. Varney company is about to begin. [ male announcer ] at his current pace, bob will retire when hes 153, which would be fine if bob were a vampire. But hes n
Might be. Coming up, were going to get to the midterms. T minus two days and talk about why network tell advievision ha ignoring the races. Next, one of the biggest crises we face, Climate Change, and the media war over that crisis. Climate deniers, people who believe Climate Change is not happening in any meaningful way are sometimes painted in the media as fringe characters, as kooks. So this might shock you. A man who cofounded the Weather Channel thinks Climate Change is a hoax. His name is john coleman. Before launching the Weather Channel in the early 1980s, he was the original weatherman on Good Morning America and after launching the channel, he was also a local weatherman in new york, chicago, and san diego. Now hes retired, but his recent open letter saying that Climate Change is, quote, not valid, got a lot of attention and landed him in prime time on fox news. So what did the Weather Channel do . It very publicly disavowed him. After all, for those who believe that the clim
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