Reassure people worried about their sexuality or gender or religion. The five pence charge on plastic bags could be extended to small shops and businesses in england which are currently exempt. The boom in posh burgers could be over byron one of the best known high street brands is in trouble. Im looking at why and what it means. In sport, its not out of sight for bristol city. Manchester city needed added time to beat them with the second leg of the League Cup Semi finals yet to come. And he was once predicted to be the next Lewis Hamilton until he lost both legs in a racing accident but now billy mongers back behind the wheel. And carol has the weather for us. Good morning. Some fog around this morning across Northern Ireland. Extra ca re of morning across Northern Ireland. Extra care of your travelling further on. Rain pushing eastwards. But behind that, some sunshine. Good morning, first our main story. At least 12 people have died in mudslides and floods in southern california. Witnesses have described watching huge boulders bouncing down hillsides. Our north america correspondent, james cook reports from los angeles. The rains came suddenly, just before dawn. Torrential and terrifying. They coursed over the slick, scorched earth, gathering speed until mud was roaring down to the sea like an express train. The deluge smashed into the very homes which had just survived californias biggest recorded wildfire. The result utter devastation. We had a very difficult time assessing the area and responding to many of those areas to assist those people. The only words i can really think of to describe what it looked like, was it looked like a world war i battlefield. The communities hardest hit were montecito and carpentaria, on the Pacific Coast north of los angeles. These are some of the most exclusive neighbourhoods in the united states. Home to stars like Oprah Winfrey and the actor rob lowe. But no amount of money could stop this torrent. The mud roared down here with terrifying speed, sweeping everything in its path. The firefighters wont let us go up there any further, they say the situation could change in the blink of an eye and as you can see, this is how dangerous it is. Rescue workers are still scouring scores of damaged and demolished homes, searching for survivors. Police say the number of dead here is certain to rise. James cook, bbc news in southern california. The army is launching a new Recruitment Campaign which emphasises the emotional and physical support given to soldiers. A series of radio, television and online adverts addresses concerns potential recruits might have about issues such as their sexuality or religion. Theres been criticism from some former officers, whove accused the army of bowing to Political Correctness and going soft. Andy moore reports. The new ads pose a series of questions. Growing up, i had my heart set on the army. Another reassures would be recruits that religious faith will be respected. The army embraces that you come from a different faith. Even on exercise, there is always a quiet moment to go into a cabin and just sort of find a Little Corner and do your prayers there. Recruiting for the army is a constant battle. Every year, for seven years now, more soldiers have left the army than signed up. There is a lot of internal debate about how best it should be done. I love the idea of the army. The army says its belonging campaign has already sparked a significant surge in interest, but others say that this new series of ads panders to to Political Correctness and the so called snowflake generation. And the so called snowflake generation. Last month, the new defence secretary, gavin williamson, halted plans to ditch the armys be the best slogan which has been used for decades. An internal report stated it was datist, elitist and noninclusive. This new campaign does include the slogan, but it is not given the prominence it once had. Andy moore, bbc news. Thousands of tourists have been left stranded after heavy snow in the alps cut off towns and villages across switzerland, france and italy. Visitors are being airlifted out of zermatt, one of switzerlands most popular ski resorts, where around 13,000 people are stuck. A british skier, john bromell, from lincolnshire is still missing in france after bad weather hampered rescue efforts. Mr bromells friends say hes a very experienced skier and hope hes managed to take shelter. New measures to clamp down on Plastic Waste are to be announced by the government. Its part of a 25 year plan on the environment. Were joined from westminster by our Political Correspondent ben wright. Ben, what can we expect . Quite radical, some of these plans . The Prime Minister will be making a speech about this tomorrow, said the governments agenda for the next 25 is an environmental policy and trying to cut down on the use of plastic. 0f trying to cut down on the use of plastic. Of course, we have had plastic. Of course, we have had plastic bag charges for quite awhile. In england, they are introduced in 2015. 5p charge placed on single use bags. They employ more than 250 people. Since that charge has been introduced, a huge reduction in the number of plastic bags used and a lot of money raised for good causes. Tomorrow, the Prime Minister will say the government is going to consult on extending that plastic bag charge to pretty much all shops including the small Corner Convenience stores. With the aim of reducing further plastic bag use. That will be a consultation that begins tomorrow. Some exemptions. If you go to a pet shop, you will get a free plastic bag for your goldfish. That does make sense, after all. Thank you very much indeed. I dont know, you could put it in a jar or something. Its quite an image, isnt it . Walking out of a pet shop with a plastic bag. Passengers on thameslink, southern and Great Northern services have suffered the worst disruption of any rail franchise according to a highly critical report. The governments spending watchdog, the National Audit office, says the countrys largest rail operator has failed to provide value for money. It says industrial action has been a majorfactorfor delays but the department for transport has also made decisions which have negatively impacted on passengers. The government has admitted the disruption has been unacceptable and has called on the rmt union to end what it calls needless strike action. A 16 year old boy will appear in court today with the murder of a shop assistant in north london. Vijay patel was attacked in a row over the sale of cigarette papers outside his shop in mill hill on saturday night. He later died in hospital. Donald trumps former chief strategist, steve bannon, has stepped down from the right wing breitba rt News Organisation where he built his reputation. The move comes amid a row over remarks he reportedly made about the president s son. He described a meeting donald trumer held in new york with a russian lawyer during the 2016 president ial Election Campaign as treasonous. The search for Malaysia Airlines flight mh370 will resume today, nearly a year after efforts to locate the plane were officially suspended. The search for the aircraft, which went missing with 239 people on board in march 2014, was the largest in aviation history. It will now be resumed by a an American Company using unmanned submarines. 0ur South East Asia correspondent Jonathan Head joins us from bangkok. What exactly will they be searching for now considering there has been a huge process undertaken . To new developments. This company has much greater Search Capabilities than the previous company. It reckons it can search a much wider area and a much shorter time. Time is constrained because you have certain months of the year that you can search. The other is that there has been continual analysis of other dater including models of the drift patterns of the bits of the brief in the aircraft that have watched up in east africa, reversing nose and also looking at some satellite images that may possibly be plane debris from a french satellite. All of this new analysis was beginning to be available at the time they suspended the search which suggests there is a more promising area they havent looked at to the north. A new zone to look at now where there is some evidence that the plane might be. You have a much more effective search capability with this company. The company must be confident. They have taken this on. The malaysia government is saving, go ahead and search. If you dont find it, dont get paid. We will indeed. We have some more pictures. They are taken in the sahara. This is on the edge of the sahara. Snow is very rare in this part of the world. Even though the desert can be cold at night, there is rarely enough water in a port of any precipitation. But there is snow on the sand dunes, only the third time in a0 years. It didnt last long, and melted shortly after. We only saw still put it yesterday. Still we only saw still put it yesterday. Still footage. Sorry for passing on my cough. Hopefully, no one else will get it. Bristol did well, didnt they . Even on the bbc website, it said they were excellent, which i think is a ringing endorsement. Just in injury time winner which means bristol city lost the first leg. Manchester city had to come from behind in the first leg of their League Cup Semifinal against bristol city. The championship side have had a great cup run and their positive approach paid off they took the lead thanks to a bobby reid penalty. Sub Sergio Agueros late winner means Manchester City take a 2 1 lead into the second leg. After a controversial 12 months the fa say theyre to introduce new policies to address issues including Racial Discrimination, as suffered by the chelsea ladies striker eni aluko. The governing bodys bringing in the so called rooney rule, aimed at getting more people from black and minority ethnic groups into top jobs. As have really england will be withoutjoe marler for their opening two six nations matches. The harlequins props been given a six week ban for a dangerous tackle. Hell miss the games against wales and italy. And after his two goal fa cup heroics for nottingham forest, erik leehighs reward is a brand new dog. His wife kathryn had promised if he ever scored a hat trick theyd get one. But after pressure from players and fans, she finally relented to let gunner the puppy, join the leehigh family. Do know what they called it . It is a french bulldog. He is called gunner because they beat arsenal. It is a great name for a dog. I think he is either a boston terrier or a french bulldog. I cant really talk about this. I have a labrador called ruby. Waffle is not keen. Not terribly. They can be in the same room now, they have reached a truce. There is a bit of talk involved as well. Anyway, its good that they are making friends. This is lovely. Is a dog walking weather . Is it . Anyway, carol has the weather now. You are quite right. Its also quite nice as well put humans. This morning, once again, rain moving across the country. Brightest guys coming in. In scotland you can see this arc of rain. As the weather front which is drifting steadily towards the east. It then extends across parts of the pennines and into parts of the midlands. The whole lot is pushing in the direction of the north sea. Moving away from that, it is a cloudy start to the day to some. Its brightening up quite nicely. Many of us seeing a bit more sunshine. The odd spot of drizzle here and there. In local rule areas, you might see a bit of ice around. Local country areas. Maybe theyre in mind if you are travelling. There goes the rain heading towards east anglia. Eventually getting into the north to Northern Ireland in the far north east. Behind it, a lot of bright sky. A fair bit of sunshine. We are looking at nines and tens. In the north to, this band of rain, we have some relatively mild air. As we have some relatively mild air. As we head on through the evening and overnight, eventually we see this rain pushed away into the north sea. Behind it, with all the moisture around, a bit more fog once again across Northern Ireland who parts of wales. Excuse me. More widespread. As we head towards the end of the week, also foster first thing in the morning. Remember the fog first thing in the morning. Much of all of the day, but others, it will into cloud. Towards the west, something brighter coming in. If you are stuck in an area with fog, temperatures will be much more above freezing, looking at one or two degrees but if you are out of it, were looking at five, six, seven. Down a touch on today. For friday again, fairly quiet but a lot of dry weather around. Write with as well. Then we have a weather front coming in from the west. Some rain and strengthening winds. The course of friday to saturday, that weather front makes its way from the rest. Taking its rain with it. Again, you can see the isobars and were looking at gaels in land. 0n saturday, right in the east. You will notice the wind. Temperatures wise, 6 eight degrees. Thank you very much that. Sorry for passing on the bbc breakfast cough this morning. Its a nightmare, isnt it . How did you do that, dan . Carol, relax, ive got powers. There is going to it next . Who knows . Thank you very much. Hopefully not me. I think ithinki i think i recently gave it to you a couple of days ago. You were blowing that those for england, werent you . Lets look at the front pages of the papers. Here is the front page of the times. Top hospital cuts cancer ca re the times. Top hospital cuts cancer care due to lack of staff. And Meghan Markle is on the front page of virtually every newspaper. She and her husband to be, they visited and her husband to be, they visited a Radio Station in london yesterday. Lots of talk about what she was wearing. Apparently her top sold out in Marks Spencer immediately. They call her the queen of the airwaves. There she is, the front page of the Daily Telegraph as well. Their main story is about brexit. Angela merkel, the german chancellor, against a british plan for a so called managed a divergence from the eu. So called managed a divergence from the eu. Managed divergences of a talking about plastic bags as well. The administer is talking about art. The environment minister talking about that. This is a picture from a beachin about that. This is a picture from a beach in cornwall. As a result of the storm you can see, look, all the rubbish that has washed up. Plastics, so much of it. So many people now, i think, on the back of cap blue planet too, and increased coverage as well, they are really thinking about single use plastics. Back of blue planet ii. Meghan mania. The crowd shouting out wed love you. And the massacre of the middle aged men. Wed love you. And the massacre of the middleaged men. Lets go through some other ones quickly. Talking about lady lucan, who a p pa re ntly talking about lady lucan, who apparently took her life of the mistaken fears she had parkinsons disease. That is according to an inquest. And Meghan Markle on the front page of the papers, talking about cuts to cancer care. Front page of the papers, talking about cuts to cancer carelj front page of the papers, talking about cuts to cancer care. I did that one. Did you do you know what, i dont think ive ever done that. You cant put it down there we have a filing system. Is this because you are annoyed about my comment about blowing your nose . Put it over there we ironed on the morning, and then we bring them to you. There isa then we bring them to you. There is a system. I didnt know the system. Sorry. How long have you been here . I have a bit of nice news, actually. You know how i was talking yesterday about the tough time retailers had over christmas . 0xfam has done particularly well online. That is the story in the times this morning. Vintage and designer clothes for the party season, they were the online shops top search terms. They managed to do well. They saw their sales at the online shop jumped 33 well. They saw their sales at the online shopjumped 33 in the Christmas Trading period. Shoppers looking to gifts which also helped to fight oddity as well. That is quite nice. Fight poverty. Good to see people recycling their fashion stuff to help charity, that is quite a nice thing. Good to see their sales have gone up. This isnt business related at all, but i wanted to point this out to our bosses. Did you know that sleeping in is better than going to the gym for your health . No way yes way. What counts as a sleep in . Well, for us, it would be about 16. An extra 90 minutes in bed. Be about 6am. If we could ask to put the programme 90 minutes later. Would anybody mind if we started at 7 30am . So instead of getting up early and going for a instead of getting up early and going fora run, you instead of getting up early and going for a run, you should sleep in . Sally told me this. She was told bya in . Sally told me this. She was told by a doctor that actually, sometimes we think it is all about exercise, but sleep is just we think it is all about exercise, but sleep isjust as important. Rest. Especially if you have a stressfuljob. You dont want to go and exercise and keep the adrenaline pumping. We had some bodybuilders in last year. The worlds strong this man, and mr universe. They both said sleep is crucial for the man, and mr universe. They both said sleep is crucialfor the building of muscles. As much time as they spend in the gym, they spend more time recovering to make sure they build up recovering to make sure they build up their muscles. Look at my muscles. I am looking ahead to the winter olympics. Lots of the papers are. They begin at the beginning of next month. You are going, arent you .