england and sharper ones on the sharp south coast, but across south eastern counties we could see ice first thing on wednesday and the west of scotland also looks chilly. more cloud around elsewhere and it should hold the frost at bay, plenty of cloud spreading across the uk and through wednesday and onto a north easterly breeze with grey skies, despite the temperature being average for the time of year, so highs of eight or 9 degrees and it will feel on the cooler side. step outside, and it will feel closer to five or six. for thursday, and the changes are subtle, there is the high, keep an eye on the isobars in the gaps between them and the gap opens up and the winds become lighter and that is the change for thursday. lighterwinds lighter and that is the change for thursday. lighter winds across the uk, so it might mean things will slightly be less cold but we are still sitting under a lot of cloud, so don t expect temperatures to alter dramatically and we are still look
the uk today for the first time since the russian invasion of ukraine. the first stamps featuring king charles the third had been unveiled by the royal mail. and lebronjames has become the nba s all time leading scorer, passing the 39 year old record. hello and welcome. more than 9500 people are now known to have died following two devastating earthquakes which hit turkey and syria. the death toll is likely to rise significantly as rescue workers and civilians continue to search the rubble and survivors trapped beneath it succumb to their injuries and the bitterly cold weather. the earthquakes were the biggest in the region since 1939, and they have triggered dozens of after shocks along the east anatolian fault line. it is one of the world s most active areas for seismic activity. we can show you the scene live now at one attempted search and rescue operation. this scene, replicated throughout turkey and, indeed, northern syria. rescuers still hope to find survivors beneath
of newsday: a us jury finds the oscar winning actor gwyneth paltrow was not responsible for the injuries sustained by a man during a ski slope collision, in 2016. live from our studio in singapore this is bbc news. hello and welcome to the programme. we begin with breaking news donald trump has become the first us president in history to be charged with a crime. he ll be charged in new york over alleged hush money given to porn starjust before the 2016 presidential election. mr trump, who s running again for president, has repeated he s innocent, and called the indictment political persecution and election interference . his son eric said it was the opportunistic targeting of a political opponent in a campaign year. the bbc s nada tawfik s outside the court in new york. we can speak to her. great to get you on the programme. in the first instance, your reaction to what is happening today. reaction to what is happening toda . . , i reaction to what is happening today.
hello and welcome. the french president emmanuel macron and the president of the european commission, ursula von der leyen, are in beijing, where they re holding talks with the chinese leadership. the trip is the latest push by europe to engage with china, and they re expected to urge china to use its influence on russia to halt the war in ukraine. after meeting with china s premier li qiang preident macron has met president xi xingping in the last half hour. in his first comments, mr macron said the visit would focus on economic ties as well as international stability. joining me from the newsroom is our asia pacific editor, michael bristow. thank you for being with us. tell us how significant this meeting is. it is very significant, you have seen the pomp and ceremony of the welcome xijinping has given emmanuel macron and it starts on a note of something like optimism. president macron said his meetings with the chinese premier, president macron said this was a chance f
through his controversial pension reforms. we start with increasing warnings from western governments over the use of the chinese social media platform, tiktok. today the british government banned it on all government and civil servants devices. take a listen. we re also going to ban the use of macro when devices. we will do so with immediate effect. mr speaker, this is a precautionary move. we know that there is already use of tiktok across government, but it is also good cyber hygiene. on the face of it the app might not look like a threat to national security. it s exploded in popularity as a platform to share short videos of viral dances and comical voice overs. and has become a part of today s youth culture. tiktok claims to have more than one billion monthly users worldwide. and last year it was the most downloaded app in the world. the app is owned by the chinese company byte dance. and that s what s worrying governments. because the app can collect data stored on t