Particularly cross keys departs of the country, but right across the board because we have a big area of High Pressure. Dry across the board. This area will be more of a player as we head into Christmas Day, particularly across parts of scotland. Now, dry and somewhat cloudy weather. Cloud and the fog around the coast and hills of the west. The cloud is big enough to produce outbreaks of rain across the north west of scotland, eastern scotla nd north west of scotland, eastern scotland in drawing the lines share of the sunshine through the afternoon. Parts of Northern Ireland and northern england, quite grey and murky. There are some clear spells breaking through, particularly anywhere to be is the firebrand. A bit of sunshine for the likes of lincolnshire down towards kent too. Slightly thicker cloud further west into devon and cornwall and across wales. For north wales, we should seek some clear spells into the evening. Through this evening and tonight we see the cloud thickening up t
Ensuring that when he is in russia he will be speaking in a very hard headed he will be speaking in a very ha rd headed way with he will be speaking in a very hard headed way with the russians about the concerns that we have about the concerns that we have about the concerns that we have about the activity, but also about the engagement that we want with them. So, what can we ecpect to come out of it . We will have analysis and reaction. The british passport is going to change back to its original colour after brexit, a move being championed among some people as a victory. Hello. Welcome to the programme. Were live until am this morning. Do get in touch on all the stories were talking about this morning. We are going to be talking about those passport covers. You bothered what they are like . Also, tell us whats going on with the cheating in your childrens schools, are the vacancies which cant be filled with the teaching in your childrens schools. Use the hashtag victorialive. If you t
Bottles and free Drinking Water fountains, to protect the seas from plastic debris. Millions are expected to be on the move today as the christmas getaway begins. Music and in the race to christmas number one can ed sheeran hold off competition from eminem and wham to make it a perfect christmas . Well speak to a music journalist later this hour. Good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. The foreign secretary borisjohnson has acknowledged there are serious difficulties in the relationship between russia and the uk hes on the first visit to moscow by a British Foreign secretary for more than five years. In a tense press conference, the Russian Foreign minister Sergei Lavrov rejected suggestions that russia had behaved aggressively towards the uk, but agreed that relations are at a very low level. Our moscow correspondent Sarah Rainsford reports. The first handshake looked warm enough, but borisjohnson came here promising to talk tough, to warn russia to stop what he called its destabilisi
Deposit for a plastic bottle . Mps say that it would reduce waste and help protect the ocean from pollution. Hello, a very good morning to you. It is friday the 22nd of december. Welcome to bbc news. The foreign secretary, borisjohnson, who is in moscow has insisted that britain cannot ignore issues such as cyber activity, the treatment of gay people in chechnya. He said that he wa nts people in chechnya. He said that he wants relations to improve. He went to meet Sergey Lavrov. It is the First Official visit from different secretary for five years. They warned that they are read willing to retaliate on Cyber Attacks, but want to cooperate on International Track challenges. In the last hour, the two men appeared in a News Conference. They said that the two countries showed why together despite their difference. The recent form the length of my absence, is of course that this is a difficult time in the relations between the uk and russia, and Sergey Lavrov himself has just russia, and S
Of murder ofjodie willsher. Now on bbc news its time for sportsday. Hello and welcome to sportsday. Hello im olly foster at the bbc sports centre, heres whats coming up on sportsday this evening. The festive fixtures are upon us, wholl be top of the tree and whos next for the sack . Its not always the season of goodwill. Its a Blue Christmas for englands cricketers but one player could be ready to make his mark in melbourne. And driving home for christmas, and hooking and slogging. Records tumble in indias t20 win against sri lanka. Good evening, for many of you, your christmas break has started but if you can call it work, this is the busiest time of the year for a professional footballer. For the next fortnight, most teams in the top five divisions will be cramming in five matches. Averaging a game every three or four days, and it all starts tonight at the emirates, arsenal against liverpool, and there for us is Conor Mcnamara withjermainejenas. We are looking forward to arsenal vers