Theresa may is in the us tonight. Charming Senior Republicans with a speech in philadelphia and stressing the historic ties between the uk and the us. Her messages on leadership, free trade and shared values went down well with her audience. Tomorrow the diplomacy might get trickier. In the commons before she left for philadelphia, politicians of all stripes were queuing up to offer her advice, but she has to walk a tightrope. If shed listened to the majority of them she would have a list of grievances in her briefcase, everything from human rights to Climate Change to misogyny. In fact, the new president has offered the hope that we might have a closer relationship than over the last eight years after all, he wants a new trade deal and hes a big fan of brexit. Our diplomatic editor mark urban is here. What was the tone of her speech . It was reaching out for what a lot of people in Downing Street Sea as a big political opportunity in the uk, but problematic as his reputation may be, h
Face a Mental Health problem at some time in ourlives, face a Mental Health problem at some time in our lives, but is business doing enough to support its staff . Im here at the rather grand Institute Of Directors, it represents thousands of companies, to find out if they could be doing more. In sport, im at a golf club to find out how proposed major rule changes could affect the game. And British Cycling admits serious failings as they are criticised by the uk anti doping agency. After the biggest blunder the oscars has ever seen, two accountants behind the mix up are told theyll never work there again. And carol has the weather. Good morning. Currently we have a band of rain, sleet and snow in the central swathe of the uk, fading through the morning. A lot of dry weather and sunshine around today and wintry showers in the north, and the gusty winds weve had in the south will also slowly ease. More details later on. Carol, thank you. Good morning. First, our main story. Victims are be
Victims are being let down and suspects left untracked by some Police Forces in england and wales according to a report out today. Her majestyS Inspectorate of constabulary found a third of forces needed improvement. It said a small number were putting the public at unacceptable risk by rationing services as they struggle with cutbacks. Heres our home affairs correspondent, dominic casciani. The cornerstone of british policing the bobby on the beat. But are these Vital Community posts being eroded as forces juggle their priorities . Thats one of the warnings in a stark report from her majestyS Inspectorate of constabulary. After five years of budget cuts, some forces arent making the right tough calls over how to use their resources. Its raised what it calls a red warning flag to those struggling forces. Some have been downgrading 999 calls if theyre short on officers. That means they dont have to respond as quickly. The hmic also says Domestic Violence calls to some forces have been d
Casts, is enormous, but how do you maintain that once it moves on to the next city . How do you keep the good times going . That is future planning and the legacy programme. We have spent over a year not planning for this year but beyond 2021, because we are City Of Culture for four years, but we are determined never to look back, to look forward and look at opportunities, and we are going to do that and that is what you need to do. You certainly need the public behind you. We had 80 of the public when asked by the judges that they knew about the City Of Culture and that they wanted that title. Tomorrow we will have the first of the regular bbc News Channel Programme beaching the highlights of the year as britains City Of Culture. That at 8 30pm on friday and across the weekend. The top stories. Us Attorney General, Jeff Sessions is to respond to calls for his resignation over undisclosed meetings with the Russian Ambassador. Well bring you that News Conference live from 9. The Police
our way as well. whilst many places could start the day dry with some sunshine, we have showers in northern scotland, we will see the clouding reason, the wind picking up from the south west, some rain moving northwards and eastwards through the day. tuesday could turn out to be quite chilly. temperatures typically 10 13 . a lot of uncertainty over night and into wednesday. the models are differing with the depth of the area of low pressure and the position. but for a while it could be quite windy across southern parts of the country. that signals this change to more unsettled weather over the weekend. showers or longer spells of rain, and temperatures by day on the low side for this time of the year.