Off tonight with arsenal looking for seasonal jeweller by off tonight with arsenal looking for seasonaljeweller by replacing liveable in the Top Four Champions League places. Seasonaljoy. Liverpool. Six breakfast presenters, what could possibly go wrong . And carol has the weather. The forecast for the next few days is mild. Rain at times. Also windy across the north west. The brightest conditions in the east and north east. Good morning. First, our main story. Hundreds of miles of roadworks have been suspended by highways england as the great christmas getaway begins. Today is predicted to be the busiest travel day of the festive period, with millions of extra vehicles taking to the roads. Theres good news for rail travellers as planned strike action on the west coast mainline has been called off. Our reporter Kathryn Stanczyszyn is at the racs headquarters in walsall. How is it looking . It looks like it might be the calm before the storm. Still looking pretty quiet out there. And in
Coming up in the sport on bbc news. Leg spinner mason crane can start what he hopes is a long journey in test cricket as england consider their options for the fourth ashes test. Good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. The foreign secretary borisjohnson has acknowledged there are serious difficulties in the relationship between russia and the uk. Hes on the first visit to moscow by a British Foreign secretary for more than five years. In a tense press conference, the Russian Foreign minister Sergei Lavrov rejected suggestions that russia had behaved aggressively towards the uk, but agreed that relations were at a very low level. Our moscow correspondent Sarah Rainsford reports. The first handshake looked warm enough, but Boris Johnson the first handshake looked warm enough, but borisjohnson came here promising to talk tough, general war on russia to stop what he called its destabilising actions. It was russias foreign minister who set the tone. Sergei lavrov said relations w
Particularly cross keys departs of the country, but right across the board because we have a big area of High Pressure. Dry across the board. This area will be more of a player as we head into Christmas Day, particularly across parts of scotland. Now, dry and somewhat cloudy weather. Cloud and the fog around the coast and hills of the west. The cloud is big enough to produce outbreaks of rain across the north west of scotland, eastern scotla nd north west of scotland, eastern scotland in drawing the lines share of the sunshine through the afternoon. Parts of Northern Ireland and northern england, quite grey and murky. There are some clear spells breaking through, particularly anywhere to be is the firebrand. A bit of sunshine for the likes of lincolnshire down towards kent too. Slightly thicker cloud further west into devon and cornwall and across wales. For north wales, we should seek some clear spells into the evening. Through this evening and tonight we see the cloud thickening up t
Ensuring that when he is in russia he will be speaking in a very hard headed he will be speaking in a very ha rd headed way with he will be speaking in a very hard headed way with the russians about the concerns that we have about the concerns that we have about the concerns that we have about the activity, but also about the engagement that we want with them. So, what can we ecpect to come out of it . We will have analysis and reaction. The british passport is going to change back to its original colour after brexit, a move being championed among some people as a victory. Hello. Welcome to the programme. Were live until am this morning. Do get in touch on all the stories were talking about this morning. We are going to be talking about those passport covers. You bothered what they are like . Also, tell us whats going on with the cheating in your childrens schools, are the vacancies which cant be filled with the teaching in your childrens schools. Use the hashtag victorialive. If you t
Bottles and free Drinking Water fountains, to protect the seas from plastic debris. Millions are expected to be on the move today as the christmas getaway begins. Music and in the race to christmas number one can ed sheeran hold off competition from eminem and wham to make it a perfect christmas . Well speak to a music journalist later this hour. Good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. The foreign secretary borisjohnson has acknowledged there are serious difficulties in the relationship between russia and the uk hes on the first visit to moscow by a British Foreign secretary for more than five years. In a tense press conference, the Russian Foreign minister Sergei Lavrov rejected suggestions that russia had behaved aggressively towards the uk, but agreed that relations are at a very low level. Our moscow correspondent Sarah Rainsford reports. The first handshake looked warm enough, but borisjohnson came here promising to talk tough, to warn russia to stop what he called its destabilisi