Uk and around the world on bbc world news. Welcome back. Yes, it is welcome back, just two months since welcome back, just two months since we last gathered in this very room inside the palace of westminster for the state opening of parliament. Back on the 14th october Boris Johnsons government with no parliamentary majority put forward, lets say, a rather thin programme. Today, the queen will present a legislative programme from the conservative government with a big majority in the house of commons following last weekss election. We are politically in a different world. A world in which the parliament, the government and the monarch have been in sharp focus, a course of some tension as well. And a year dominated once again by the brexit question and process. What will the queens speech tell us about the governments other priorities, apart from brexit, for the year ahead . This is Boris Johnsons second queens speech in the sake space of nine weeks. Boris johnson has been resident at n
He ends his International Career more rain for us, look how its been second only to Chris Patterson on the all time points list turning better across south west for scotland, with 714, mostly from kicking. England and wales, some heavy rain here, ive seen pictures of flash flooding in cornwall so some very laidlaw will continue to play club rugby with difficult travelling conditions. As Clermont Auvergne in france. This pushing north and west evening rush hour in Northern England. Even englands world cup winning captain, where the weather clears there will eoin morgan, has landed an ipl contract of more than half a million be heavy thundery showers and strong pounds, hell be joining gusty winds in the south coast of the kolkata knight riders. England. The rain thatjust was meanwhile english batsman alex hales Northern Ireland, southernmost parts of scotla nd helped his sydney thunder side beat Northern Ireland, southernmost parts of scotland later this afternoon, its a mild day, most o
It has been a day of high drama and declaration. 0n the floor of thousand representatives. What is at sta ke thousand representatives. What is at stake is Donald Trumps legacy. In all likelihood, he will be known as the president who was impeached. 0nly the president who was impeached. Only the third in american history. The president himself is called impeachment an ugly word. Impeachment is no less than accusing the elected president of the United States of what the constitution calls high crimes and misdemeanors. But a skilled life to the floor thousand representatives. This is the scene as people are debating this is what they have been debating. 0ne republican laying out their case in defence of the president and then a democrat accusing the president and back and forth on this of power and abuse of congress. It has been going on all day and by most estimates, there been about two more hours to go before they vote on those articles of impeachment in congress and will be 11 capitol
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
High office. He says the very soul scattered shop showers into the of our nation is at stake. In the north west. 10 12 degrees. Letter, talks about howjewish something colder in the north east, people feel in the uk. He says he aberdeen only seeing highs of six may even feel frightened. Its celsius. A northerly wind kicks in something that labour absolutely has by the end of the working week. As to reflect on seriously. The truth we move into friday, that northerly is, for months now, there have been wind could trigger off showers to the north sea coast but elsewhere it very serious concerns expressed about how labour deals with isa the north sea coast but elsewhere it is a quite story. Dry and sunshine coming through but temperatures are anti semitism, and there was an really subdued, five seven enquiry into this, a while back, a lot of people in thejewish degrees. Overnight, on friday, community thought that was a widespread hard frost on thursday. Whitewash. Youve seen female jewish