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
A very good morning from inside the palace of westminster, where the queen will arrive in a short while to open a new session of parliament. But this is no routine event yes, well be able to enjoy all the usual colour and pagea ntry of the state opening, but it takes place at a time of great political and constitutional uncertainty where even the role of the crown in our National Affairs is being questioned. We were last here two years ago when theresa may was Prime Minister since when the Political Landscape has been turned upside down by the turbulent Brexit Process. Its Boris Johnsons first queens speech as Prime Minister he has no majority in the house of commons so there will inevitably be questions about his ability to deliver the pledges in the queens speech. We could indeed be back again before christmas. But lets deal with todays events first im joined by our Political Editor, Laura Kuenssberg. Good money, laura. Good morning, hew. It would be an understatement to say despite
On closer inspection, mr speaker, it is nothing more than fools gold. Lets get on with the proposals, with the measures announced in this queens speech. Lets get on with out queens speech. Lets get on with our vision. Lets get on with our vision for a britain where fairness and balance are at the heart of what we do. Well have the details, and well be asking if the queens speech could be rejected by mps, renewing calls for a general election. Also on the programme. Hundreds of colleagues, friends, and family attend the funeral of pc Andrew Harper, who was killed on duty in august. Syrian Government Forces take up positions within the range of turkish artillery, hours after striking a deal with the kurds. One of britains most notorious paedophiles, who abused as many as 200 children, has been stabbed to death in prison. Iam i am Rebecca Jones, here at the magnificent guild hall here in the heart of the city of london, where the great and good of the book world will soon be gathering to
Falling already on saturated ground, very wet the last few weeks and no surprise we have dozens of flood warnings out across england and wales and more rain to come which will exacerbate already existing flooding problems. It comes with this next area of low pressure moving up from the south west gradually but you will noticed across much of the north and east, not a bad start with sunshine around and apart from a few showers across northern scotland, mostly dry but the rain spilling in from the south west will become heavier across parts of South West England and wales over the next few hours and wales over the next few hours and push into southern portions of Northern Ireland but a apart from those shows across northern scotland, a cold breeze blowing down the northern isles, it is not going to be too bad, some hazy sunshine and temperatures mid to high teens celsius. We focus on the rain pushing northwards, much of Northern Ireland, central and southern scotla nd ireland, central an
And henry at home. And today, paddy, i think we ended up basically doing a lot of really similar things on the wireless and on the telly box, because we were asking if politics in the uk has a Racism Problem and you were asking. . Is politics a big stinking pot with the lid come off . Oh, so that was cheery then . Well, kind of. I mean, we spoke to a 19 year old who i first met on radio two when he was 16. Hes a member of the Youth Parliament called dev sharma. He says ive absolutely no desire to join this unsafe, illogical game called parliament. Over the past few years, weve seen it become i so immoralised, become so murky and just full of cheap political stunts. That doesnt really represent what we want. Youre 19. Do you want to go into politics in parliament . Not any more. So i represent. Im part of the Youth Parliament currently, and i speak to my fellow Youth Parliamentarians. And politics doesnt. Seem to reward sanity. It seems to reward a sort of radicalism or having to take a