The trade secretary liam fox. The other main stories on bbc news at 5. Deutsche bank starts to make the first of eighteen thousand job cuts including in london as part of a radical reorganisation. A life sentence for a life taken the parents of a child killed by a hit and run driver take their fight for tougher sentences to parliament. British airways faces a record £183m fine for last years breach of its security systems. The airline says its surprised and disappointed and 15 year old coco gauffs wimbledon dream is over, as she loses in straight sets to former world number one simona halep. Its 5pm our top story. Theresa may has insisted she has full faith in the British Ambassador in washington, Sir Kim Darroch, after the leak of emails hed written describing the Trump Administration as uniquely dysfunctional and inept. President trump has complained that sir kim has not served the uk well but mrs mays spokesman said the uks strong relationship with the white house would continue. A
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So. So. To be joined by competitive panel this evening, the journalist and broadcaster Michael Craig and the director of the Free Speech Union, toby young. As always, you know, i want to hear from you. Its a crucial part of the programme. Email me, mail at gb news dot com. Now its time for the com. But now its time for the news of the day with Aaron Armstrong. Armstrong. Very good evening to you. Im Aaron Armstrong in the gb newsroom. Birmingham city council has effectively declared itself bankrupt. Europes largest local authorities admitted its unable to meet an equal pay claims dispute of £760 million. The council has already paid £i. I million. The council has already paid £1. 1 billion to settle historical claims. All new spending with the exception of protect Vulnerable People and statutory services, will stop immediately. More onshore wind immediately. More onshore wind farms are expected to be built as a result of new rules announced by the government. Projects supported by l
Of the antarctic, has been re measured, and now takes top honours. And trouble in the tunnel. Milk and water thrown at mourinho in a clash with celebrating city players after yesterdays derby. Its monday the 11th of december. I many mcveigh and welcome to bbc newsroom live large live parts of the uk are continuing to suffer large parts of the uk are continuing to suffer from the effects of heavy snow that fell over the weekend. Many schools are closed, homes are without power and freezing temperatures overnight have led to fears of black ice on the roads. The deluge of snow was compounded with freezing temperatures overnight. Minus 12 was the coldest, in the appropriately named chillingham barns in northumberland. Amber weather warnings have been issued by the met office for much of england, scotland and the whole of wales and Northern Ireland. More than a thousand schools have been closed across the uk, including more than 450 schools in wales, every council run school in birmingham,
Into the cold air there is a risk of icy stretches and even some smoke as the wet weather moves in across the northern half of the uk where it is still very cold. We may even find snow falling in scotland, that will lift onto the hills by the evening. By lift onto the hills by the evening. By this stage the wet weather has cleared away from northern ireland. Snow over the pennines into the cumbrian fells as well. Further south, more rain. Whilst we are seeing increasing cloud, it is still called this evening and frosty with a good covering of snow around as well. So icy conditions likely through this evening as the wet weather pushes eastwards. It will sweep across the whole again. Sufficiently close to zero to bring the risk of more ice, and the greatest risk of disruption due to icy weather may well be across scotla nd icy weather may well be across scotland and Northern England. Through the morning tomorrow, we will see cloud and showery outbreaks of rain pushing eastwards across al