Heavy snow fell across much of the uk today, causing disruption on the roads, to air travel, and on the railways. Hundreds of flights were cancelled or delayed at a number of airports, including at heathrow, stansted, and in belfast. There were problems for rail passengers too, while the police warned motorists to travel only if absolutely necessary. The met office says its the heaviest snowfall to hit parts of the uk in four years. Tomorrow, hundreds of schools in the midlands, gloucestershire and shropshire will be closed. The forecast is of freezing conditions. Our correspondent Richard Lister is in beaconsfield in buckinghamshire for us tonight. Much of britain looked like a Christmas Card today. Scotland and Northern England had been expecting snow, but this was buckinghamshire, and on the ground, it wasnt pretty. Breakdowns and blizzards on the m25 near Gerrards Cross made for slow going, in slippery conditions. On the asa near newbury, two stuck lorries meant the southbound carr
In the manchester derby. As guardiolas men set a new premier league record, to go 11 points clear at the top of the table. At at 11 30, well bring you the paper review with the parliamentaryjournalist tony grew and journalist and broadcaster caroline frost. Good evening and welcome to bbc news. Heavy snow fell across much of the uk today, causing disruption on the roads, to air travel, and on the railways. Hundreds of flights were cancelled or delayed at a number of airports, including at heathrow, birmingham, and in belfast. There were problems for rail passengers, while the police warned motorists to travel only if absolutely necessary. The met office says its the heaviest snowfall to hit parts of the uk in four years. Tomorrow hundreds of schools in the midlands, gloucestershire and shropshire will be closed. The forecast is of freezing conditions. 0ur correspondent Richard Lister reports from beaconsfield, in buckinghamshire. Much of britain looked like a Christmas Card today. Scot
Sackur. Today im in oslo to meet the winners of the Nobel Peace Prize in this year, the award goes to the international the award goes to International Campaign to abolish Nuclear Weapons. Two women from very different generations who have worked tirelessly for nuclear disarmament. They believe they have embarked on a campaign which will ultimately lead to the elimination of all the worlds Nuclear Weapons. But are they changemakers or wishful thinkers . Beatrice fihn and Setsuko Thurlow, many congratulations on winning the Nobel Peace Prize. Of course, welcome to hardtalk i want to begin by asking both of you how you felt when you heard this news is that you had won the Nobel Peace Prize. You are the executive director of ican, International Campaign to abolish Nuclear Weapons. Did you expect it . Thank you to having me here. We did not expect it at all. We have been so not expect it at all. We have been so preoccupied with the treaty and had it concluded in the summer. The treaty to p
As israels capital could jeopardise middle east peace efforts. Israels Prime Minister, benjamin netanyahu, says the sooner palestinians accept the decision the sooner there will be peace. But the change in us policy has been met with widespread anger across the arab and muslim world, and as our middle east editor sebastian usher reports, the protests have been escalating. Tear gas was fired into a crowd of around 1,000 protesters in beirut as they tried to reach the us embassy this morning. Effigies of President Trump and us flags were burned by angry groups of Palestinian Refugees and lebanese activists. Translation we are here to tell the us embassy, the embassy of the aggressor, thatjerusalem is arab, it was arab and it will stay arab. Large rallies have been held in the moroccan capital, rabat. And in cairo too. As protesters try to build momentum across the region against President Trumps decision. In istanbul, thousands turned out to hear president erdogan launch a blistering att