A whole lotta albums vinyl sales hit a 25 year high in the era of streaming and downloads. And coming up in the sport on bbc news, swansea city have apointed Bayern Munichs assistant coach paul clement as their new manager, succeeding bob bradley, who was sacked last week. Good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. Britains top diplomat to the European Union has resigned. Sir ivan rogers leaves hisjob just months before the government is due to kick off formal brexit talks. Sir ivan found himself at the centre of a political storm recently when he told ministers a brexit deal could take up to ten years. Leave campaigners accused him of being unduly pessimistic, while others said he was simply reporting sentiment in brussels. Carole walkers in Downing Street. Carole. Thank you, well, sir ivan rogers resignation caught Downing Street and the Foreign Office by surprise. He was due to be our man at the eu until november to see through the first opening phase of those crucial brexit n
hello and good morning. this is bbc london, i m frankie mccamley. as strike action still affects our tube and rail networks this morning, londoners are being warned not to travel until later on. around 60% of services will run today. 0ur transport correspondent tom edwards sent this there won t be any tubes until eight o clock this morning, and on the trains, what the bosses there are saying is they won t be able to run anything until 7.30. and some stations on the network won t open until eight o clock. they re still only going to be able to run a sunday service. that s about 60% of trains. the advice there hasn t changed. don t travel on the trains unless it s absolutely necessary. the rmt union is due to meet train companies for talks to try and resolve its dispute. if they fail again today, national rail strike are due to start again at midnight. staying with the tubes,
failure. these are infrared images. what you re watching, those are actually people who are scrambling to save their lives on board that ship. now, right now, navy divers are using explosives to blast their way into the ship to search for others victims. perhaps survivors. you re going to want to hear what the captain said on the night of the disaster. we ve got that up for you in just a few minutes. and brace yourself. gas prices going through the proof again. that s right. gasmoney.com says some of us could be paying around $5 a gallon by the summer. prices already at record highs. according to aaa, the average price for a gallon of unleaded has jumped to $3.39. it is the highest january gas prices ever. 30 cents higher than a year ago. mitt romney s rivals are not letting up on the attacks on him. romney was the main target last night in myrtle beach, south carolina. his opponents are keeping it up again today. rick santorum stopped just short of calling romney a lia
rick perry and mitt romney taking off the gloves and turning up the volume. the gop heavy weights going toe to toe in the republican debate. sparring over social security and who is better qualified to create jobs. jim a costas live in los angeles. the sparks were were flying between romney and rick perry. yes, they certainly were. you can say that for sure. last nitric perot o owe rick perry showed he can hit back. rick perry and mitt romney stood side by side last night. first on the question of which governor created more jobs. michael dukakis created jobs faster than you did. george bush and his predecessor created jobs more than you did, governor. a newly aggressive john huntsman. i hate to rain on the parade of the lonestar governor, but we were the number one job creator. it switched to the healthcare plan and the mandate requiring residents to have medical insurance. what some republicans call owe bottom any care. an individual mandate in this country.