Was workg around the clock club. Jesse the judge is still talking im not sure if you got the punch line, bret. Bret can i wait for the rest of the Chicken Story good evening, welcome to washington. Im Bret Baier. Were following two big stories this evening. Israel takes out another high Ranking Hezbollah Commander as its forces step up Retaliation Rocket attacks. We will take you there. On the campaign trail, Vice President Kamala Harris renews her opposition to the Senate Filibuster over the issue of abortion. A position not that popular with several of her democratic colleagues. One democrat turned independent says he is not endorsing her over it. And another calls harris push, quote an absolutely terrible shortsighted idea. Senior white House Correspondent Jacqui Heinrich has that story live from the north lawn, good evening. Jacqui. Jacqui good evening, bret. A Vice President holding a position she staked out before diverging from other progressive issues where she has flip flopped
of the usual volume of passengers for the last two years. we really needed the boost of a good christmas season to carry us through into 2022, which has to be our comeback year. so this is a big hammer blow for us as a business. for french hoteliers, cancelled city breaks and ski trips are hard to swallow. we had a lot of cancellations since this morning. almost 80% of the guests from england had cancelled their booking, so it s a very big change for us and quite dramatic economically. flights and ferries are expected to be busy tomorrow as passengers who can try to beat the friday night deadline. for others, long awaited festivities just lost their sparkle. katy austin, bbc news. department for transport and our political correspondent is reporting
northwards, closer to iceland that means they could see some cooler northeasterlies picking up certainly on sunday. for the short term, though, for friday, we re still in the fairly mild air mass, another rather grey and gloomy day for most of us, limited sunshine, perhaps the best of it again across the northeast of the uk. temperatures a little bit lower across the north than what we had on thursday double figure values across the south and west, maybe a bit breezier here, too. friday night, we hold onto a lot of the cloud, clearer skies across scotland, parts of northern england so it s here where we ll see the lowest temperatures, a touch of frost there, but further south, it will be milder with more of a cloud and more of a breeze. so for the weekend, we re onto a blocking area of high pressure very little change, it stays cloudy and mostly dry, and it will be turning cooler, like i mentioned. saturday, probably the best of the sunshine will be across scotland, northern en
for french hoteliers, cancelled city breaks and ski trips are hard to swallow. we had a lot of cancellations since this morning. almost 80% of the guests from england had cancelled their booking, so it s a very big change for us and quite dramatic economically. flights and ferries are expected to be busy tomorrow as passengers who can try to beat the friday night deadline. for others, long awaited festivities just lost their sparkle. katie austin, bbc news. the bank of england has announced an unexpected increase in its main interest rate to a quarter of one per cent. the move surprised many economists and will add to the costs of homeowners with tracker or standard variable rate mortgages. here s our economics correspondent, andy verity. with correspondent, andy verity. gas bills up by 28%, ii
us through into 2022, which has to be our comeback year. so this is a big hammer blow for us as a business. for french hoteliers, cancelled city breaks and ski trips are hard to swallow. almost 80% of the guests from england had cancelled their booking, so it s a very big change for us and quite dramatic economically. flights and ferries are expected to be busy tomorrow as passengers who can try to beat the friday night deadline. for others, long awaited festivities just lost their sparkle. katy austin, bbc news. six more premier league matches have been called off because of outbreaks of covid. leicester s match with tottenham tonight is off while manchester united s game with brighton on saturday has also been postponed, along with four matches at the weekend. a number of clubs have called for the fixture programme to be paused, but the premier league says they ll continue. the government is calling on retired teachers in england to return