Authority Andrew Bailey is named as the next governor of the bank of england. Without question, he is the right person to lead the bank as we forge a new future outside the eu and level up across our great country. Trains and road travel is severely disrupted on one of the busiest travel days of the year gatwick services are affected and theres disruption in devon and cornwall. Australias pm apologises for going on holiday while the countrys bushfire crisis worsens , fire continues to ravage parts of the country. And the us moves closer to putting its astronauts back into orbit as boeing prepares to launch its new starliner capsule. Good morning and welcome to bbc news live from westminster. Mps will vote on the Prime Ministers brexit plan this afternoon which will take the uk out of the eu by the end of january. Its thought the Withdrawal Agreement bill will easily clear its second reading in the house of commons with the conservatives having won an 80 seat majority at last weeks gene
Days of rainfall across the uk. It is basically the story of autumn and early winter so far as rain sweeps north across the uk. This is yesterday, no one escaped that. This has brought flooding across parts of south east england today. The west about rain has pushed north, but more rain in the forecast of the next couple of days. For some of us, turning drier. But right now, we are dealing with that flooding and disruption, particularly into parts of south east england. So much rain the past couple of days, of a 60 millimetres, the wettest part of the brecon beacons. In east grinstead, over 50 millimetres. A large part of the december rainfall in such a short time, which is why there are so many flood warnings from the environment agency. More rain in the forecast. Go to our website for details of the flood warnings and the met Office Weather warnings. It isa the met Office Weather warnings. It is a bit dry aware it has been wet today, but heavy showers moving in. This rain this aftern
Uk and around the world on bbc world news. Welcome back. Yes, it is welcome back, just two months since welcome back, just two months since we last gathered in this very room inside the palace of westminster for the state opening of parliament. Back on the 14th october Boris Johnsons government with no parliamentary majority put forward, lets say, a rather thin programme. Today, the queen will present a legislative programme from the conservative government with a big majority in the house of commons following last weekss election. We are politically in a different world. A world in which the parliament, the government and the monarch have been in sharp focus, a course of some tension as well. And a year dominated once again by the brexit question and process. What will the queens speech tell us about the governments other priorities, apart from brexit, for the year ahead . This is Boris Johnsons second queens speech in the sake space of nine weeks. Boris johnson has been resident at n
Hello. This is bbc news, with ben brown. The headlines australias Prime Minister apologises for holidaying in hawaii as wildfires continue to sweep across three states. I get it that people would have been upset to know that i was holidaying with my family while their families were under great stress. Tesco suspends Christmas Card production at a factory in china following allegations of prisoners being forced to pack them. The parents of harry dunn the teenager killed in a Road Accident in northamptonshire in august are due to meet the home secretary today for talks. Nearly 90 flood warnings are in place across the midlands and south of england after another day of heavy rain. A nativity scene by banksy appears at a hotel in bethlehem in the west bank. And coming up well take a look at the sunday papers with our reviewers anne ashworth, property and personal finance commentator, and the independents features writer, james rampton. Before the papers sport, and for a full round up, from
All the sport katie shanahan. Hello, simon. Arsenal and everton are edging closer to appointing their new managers. Arsenal are in talks with their former captain, mikel arteta. While everton are hoping to secure their number one target, Carlo Anchelotti. Thanks, katie. And darren has all the weather. Thanks very much. Good afternoon. Our weather is a fairly quiet right now, more overnight frost tonight and fog around, too. On the other side of the atlantic the weather has much more energy, some storm damage to look at in the United States later in the programme. Thanks, darren. Also coming up and how pop star Ellie Goulding came to the aid of a driver being shunted sideways by a lorry. Hello, everyone this is afternoon live im simon mccoy. He boris he johnson has held his first Cabinet Meeting borisjohnson has held his first Cabinet Meeting since his election victory and promised to pass a law ruling out any extension to the Brexit Process beyond the end of next year. The uk is schedu