The 30 year plan to revolutionise transport in the north of england but it gets a rather mixed response. Iceland becomes the first supermarket to say that plastic will be eliminated from its own Brand Products within five years. A new National Health service starts, providing hospital and specialist services. And the changing role of nurses in the nhs we talk about the challenges they face. And coming up on sportsday on bbc news. Could leicester overcome jamie vardys former club, fleetwood town, in tonights fa cup third round replay . Good evening. Thousands of workers and small firms facing an uncertain future, are demanding answers from ministers following the collapse of carillion, the construction giant which went into liquidation yesterday. Ministers have ordered a fast track investigation into the firms directors, but labour wants an independent assessment of the potential costs facing the taxpayer. Carillion, the uks second biggest construction firm, employs 20,000 people in the
Biggest local stories. We will start in washington. Donald trump says he wants immigrants from everywhere. This came when he was pressed by a reporter in the oval office during a photo opportunity with the president of kazakhstan a short time ago. Did you say you wanted more people to come in from norway . Did you say that . Thank you very much. I want them to come in from everywhere. Thank you very much, everybody. Thank you very much, everybody. Thank you, everyone. Out. Thank you. The president has always given the impression he wants immigrants to come in from everywhere. Most recently there was controversy at the end of last week over allegations the president used the word shithole to describe african countries and 80. And haiti. Anthony zurcherjoins me from washington. It simply isnt true, he has been saying directly the opposite for the last few years. The way they have tried to say this is talk about merit based immigration. The current system, one of which is a green card lot
And 4pm in vancouver, where Foreign Ministers from 20 countries are meeting to try to exert concerted pressure on north korea to give up its nuclear ambitions. The group is made up solely of countries which were involved in the korean war more than half a century ago, which means that two Key International players, russia and china, are not there. Barbara plett usher has the latest from canada. Members of an exclusive and its your club have gathered again. These other states that sent troops and aid to help the un effort in the 19505 aid to help the un effort in the 1950s korean war. Now they want to show solidarity in the face of a modern day korean threat. Missing from the guest list was china, an enemy in the 1950s war, but now a crucial ally in confronting pyongyang. The absence left many wondering what could really be achieved. And recent talks between north and south korea have eased tensions on the peninsular so the question was how ministers here would respond. The us took a to
Central pennsylvania, and then just now, starting to make its way in to portions of our region. Poconos and Lehigh Valley and portions of berks county seeing snow right now. Notice how it is not movinge, but just streaming from, southwest, to northeast, and along that same line, through the next couple of hours. So steady snow right now is just starting to push into lehigh county, down into berks county we are seeing snow in the poconos and right along 476 that is where the slowest commute is this evening. That is where winter storm warning has been issued for poconos, that goes now until 11 00 oclock tomorrow morning , Winter Weather advisory until early tomorrow morning. Philadelphia and points southe , no watches or advisories for us, this snow will take its time getting in. So 9 00 oclock tonight it is still in the same exact spot and mount pocono right down through portions of the Lehigh Valley and berks county. Finally by later tonight we will see this coastal piece of energy tak
Glad you could join us. Its 8am in singapore, midnight in london, and 4pm in vancouver, where Foreign Ministers from 20 countries are meeting, to try to exert concerted pressure on north korea to give up its nuclear ambitions. The group is made up solely of countries which were involved in the korean war more than half a century ago, which means that two Key International players, russia and china, are not there. Barbara plett usher has the latest from canada. Members of an exclusive club have gathered again. These are the states that sent troops and aid to help the un effort in the 1950s korean war. Now they want to show solidarity in the face of a modern day korean threat. Missing from the guest list was china, an enemy in the 1950s war, but now a crucial ally in confronting pyongyang. The absence left many wondering what could really be achieved. And recent talks between north and south korea have eased tensions on the peninsula, so the question was how ministers here would respond.