hello and welcome to a special programme in which we ll be featuring some of the winning stories from this year s bbc young reporter competition. more than two and a half thousand young people aged 11 to 18 submitted their ideas, and 30 national and regional winners were picked from across the uk to film their own story with some of the bbc s programme makers. this year, there were three categories me and my world, coronavirus stories and uplifting stories. well, the winners were told they d been chosen by some of the competition judges, and here s some of their reactions. i m not calling you to find out more about your idea. i ve come with some good news. are you ready? i m delighted to say that. you are one of the winners. ..for this year s bbc young reporter competition! laughter. all right, thank you so much. you have won. wow! i m speechless, it sjust. it s amazing. yay! congratulations! thank you! hope you re ready to chat about it. yeah, i m ready. congratulations, h
weather front at the moment and that s how it s going to stay, broadly speaking, across most of the uk. for many of us it s going to be chilly actually, that s not entirely true because in one or two spots across the country it has turned very mild, even warm, despite most of the uk being shrouded with cloud. what s happening is high pressure is located just to the west of ireland. it is influencing our weather. the winds are coming in from the north but the clouds have been breaking up across parts of eastern and south eastern scotland, so this is where we ve had the highest temperatures. in fact, around perth at the moment, it s around 17.8 celsius, making it the warmest day of the year so far for scotland. elsewhere you can see much thicker cloud, colder, temperaturesjust cloud, colder, temperatures just about cloud, colder, temperaturesjust about into double figures this afternoon and this evening the cloud will thicken and produce some rain, just like in the last 2a hour
Biggest Resignalling Scheme on the networks history will close the line between Cardiff Central and the valleys, and several stations including paddington and london will either be partially or completely shut for several days. Our Transport Correspondent has more. It is going to be the biggest rail upgrade ever taken on, and it all starts late tonight, hitting services across south wales, london and manchester. The lack of trains will make the roads busier. This was the m6 today. And it is a popular time to fly away for the holidays. Here is sta nsted. So why do they always pick christmas to close the railways . We have a huge programme of works that we have to deliver, as part of our Railway Upgrade programme, and some of that work just cant be done on a live railway. We have to shut the railway. And so christmas is the best time to do it, because its one of the quietest times of year. 2a,000 engineers will work on 200 sites across britain. Well, one of the biggerjobs they are doing
Kills dozens, including children. Can they avert an all out ground war . The Vice President gets a closeup look at the ravaged jersey shore while hundreds of homeowners are told for the first time, their homes cant stay. And for shoppers this year , the battle starts earlier than ever. And they call it turkey town. Our visit to the place where turkey isnt just a meal, its a way of life, 365 days a year. Good evening. There are millions of people in israel and the gaza strip who are spending this night living
in fear of rockets and missiles raining down on their homes and neighborhoods as outside parties hurriedly work behind the scenes to stop the exchange fire. Huge explosions rocked gaza with one strike killing at least 11 people. Israel says the targets were palestinian militants, but several of the dead included women and children. But with palestinians continuing to fire rockets into israel and tel aviv in their crosshairs, israel says it is preparing to expand its attacks. Were o