Penalties for corruption. And the town of tadcaster in North Yorkshire will be reunified today when its only road bridge reopens, more than a year after it was destroyed by severe flooding. Good morning. Its friday 3rd february. Im annita mcveigh. Welcome to bbc Newsroom Live. First to paris where there has been an attack at the Louvre Museum in the heart of the city. Its been described the french Prime Minister Bernard Cazeneuve as being of a terrorist nature. Police say a man carrying two machetes and two backpacks shouted allahu akbar and tried to enter the underground Shopping Area outside the museum. A soldier opened fire and the man was seriously wounded. The backpacks did not contain any explosives. A huge Security Operation is underway, and the louvre has been evacuated. Its the latest Security Alert in a city which has become well used to them. The Louvre Museum houses some of frances most famous works of art, and is one of pariss most iconic landmarks a place which is a must
snow. furthersouth, in, turning showers increasingly to snow. further south, some rain in the south west of england, overnight frost for scotland. elsewhere we should see temperatures holding up any mid range of single figures. there we are again, monday daytime with that arctic air gradually running its way south. you can see some milder air clings on to the south and that is tied in with this area of rain moving across from wales and the south west into the south east for the afternoon. that northerly wind really adding to the cold feel as the arctic air pressure then. we will still see temperatures in double figures to the south of the uk but we are looking at a highs ofjust 6 degrees in aberdeen but we have to factor in that strong wind, especially monday afternoon and for monday it is going to feel closer to freezing and for aberdeen. the wind perhaps a little lighter as we look towards tuesday and wednesday and that comes into play for monday night, as the winds become lighter
picking up in the east. as we head on in the evening, the rain continues to move northwards, we have the next batch coming across northern ireland and western scotland, and we will see further rain in the south west of england. tonight will be a mild night than it was last night. as we head on into tomorrow, once again we are pumping in this mild airfrom the tomorrow, once again we are pumping in this mild air from the south west, moving across our shores but you can see from the weather fronts, it will not be a dry picture. we still have the rain across northern ireland, pushing north, the rain in the south west is also pushing north, in between there will be limited brightness and the rain picks up again across wales and south west england. blustery conditions across the south and the west. temperatures on wednesday peaking at about 15 or 16 degrees. thursday is a mixture of bright
west skies are clearer, those showers turn to fade away. winds are falling lighter and temperatures could be down to about 7 or 8 degrees. the winds will be lighter tomorrow for the london marathon which is good news, but there will be a lot of cloud and they could be some rain around, particularly in the morning. should become drier, maybe a bit brighter into the afternoon as well. this is where we have the rain first thing across southern england and into south wales. get out and heavy bursts of rain in the south west of england in the morning was of a lot of that rain becomes lighter and more patchy as it thinks its way a little further south. way from here, lots of sunshine around, some patchy cloud and the odd lighter shower i think in the north west of scotland. certainly fewer showers than today. maybe not quite as warm as today through the midlands and east of england, where averages of 17 or 18 degrees. it could turn pretty chilly overnight into monday morning thanks to that h
what do we have in store? we have a bit of everything. it is all changing. happy new year to you. on new year s day, 16.3 celsius in london, record breaking for new year s day. this week will turn colder. temperatures will be closer to where they should be. and when you add in the wind chill, it will feel colder again. we have rain in scotland with snow mostly in the hills. rain in northern ireland, showers in northern england, thundery showers in wales and rain in the south west of england. this will be on and off during the day and getting into the channel islands at times. behind it, colderair cuts in and increasingly we will see snow showers even at modest levels in parts of scotland and it will carry on into the southern uplands and by evening the northern half of the pennines. dry weather between. windy