This is bbc world news today. Im Lewis Vaughan jones. Our top story. The queen says prince harry and meghan will no longer use their royal titles as they step down as working royals. The couple will pay back more than 2. 4 Million Pounds of public money spent on refurbishing their residence Frogmore Cottage in windsor. They will also stop receivng public funding for royal duties, and harry will resign from his official military appointments. Hello and welcome to world news today. Prince harry and meghan will no longer use their royal titles, and will no longer recieve public funds to carry out royal duties. This has been confirmed by Buckingham Palace. In a statement her majesty the queen said. Harry, meghan and archie will always be much loved members of my family. Our royal correspondent Daniela Relph has more from Buckingham Palace. Hugely significant. It is taking the past week or so to really drill down how this is going to work and there have been various meetings going on at the
This is bbc news. The headlines at 8pm a state of emergency is declared in south east australia amid warnings of more bushfires. Its the largest forced evacuation New South Wales has seen as thousands flee the path of the flames. The fireball just came through at about 80 kph. Hit the house and we ran into the lake and all the embers and everything were hitting us, burned our hair little bit. Theres anger over the governments handling of the emergency, as the Prime Ministerfound out when he toured the area. How come we only had four trucks to defend our town . Because our town doesnt have a lot of money, but we have hearts of gold, mr Prime Minister. Delays and cancellations on the railways, but fares still go
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Clears away from the eventually clears away from the south east of england and then we get some sunshine. The weather sta rts get some sunshine. The weather starts to come down a little bit, get some sunshine. The weather starts to come down a little hit, it wont be as windy and temperatures down to eight or nine degrees. A brief rest but on wednesday because on thursday we have got the next weather system arriving, the new area of low pressure. Another band of rain and this could be quite heavy as we saw on monday. It is again the western side of the uk which will see the strongest of the winds. Gales are likely here. Pretty windy elsewhere and it is a milder wind, temperatures easily into double figures across much of england and wales. Some wet and windy weather pushes back in on thursday. That weather front then gets swe pt thursday. That weather front then gets swept away and the area of low pressure slowly retreats away from northern scotland. Here, it is still going to be quite
A very warm welcome to bbc news. My names mike embley. Our top stories Queen Elizabeth backs new roles for harry and meghan, though she says shed have preferred them to stay. A new climate warning british Scientists Say australias bushfires would be the new normal in a world thats 3 degrees hotter. Iam in i am in the philippines standing in front of taal volcano which continues to belch steam and ash into the sky. They could be a hazardous eruption within hours or days. And there are plenty ofjokers in the oscars pack the film leads the nominations for this Years Academy awards. Its becoming clear details of how britains prince harry will create a new life with his young family are unresolved, despite the blessing of his grandmother Queen Elizabeth. Justin trudeau, the Prime Minister of canada where harry and meghan will spend much of their time has said there is still much to discuss. In a statement after an emergency meeting with harry, the queen says the duke and duchess of sussex h
But getting closer to double figures across parts of scotland and northern ireland. This High Pressure is still with us on wednesday. Its not going anywhere at all. Last time we saw such a lengthy dry spell was back in september. But it will be introducing some quite moist air. So for the middle part of the week, once again, quite a bit of cloud around. Best chance of any sunshine will be for eastern counties of scotland and england. Temperatures starting to come down by day to 8 9 celsius the high on wednesday. So to sum up the week, a dry spell for many, some frosty nights at first gradually turning a little bit milder, but also further mist and fog by. Hello. This is bbc news with lukwesa burak. Well be taking a look at tomorrow mornings papers in a moment. First, the headlines the queen says she hopes harry and meghan can now build a happy new life after the agreement on theirfuture. They will end official royal duties which means less scope to champion causes and projects. World l