see and handle them for the first time, idid see and handle them for the first time, i did feel slightly faint. they re incredible beautiful objects, so beautifully made, incredibly made. melted down, this gold would fetch more than £10,000, but it s worth much more than that. 0nce valued, the land will be chaired between the landowner and the metal detectors. scary but nice. happy days. time for a look at the weather. in north west england this morning, this was one weather watcher view from scotland, similar views in manchester, stockport, north wales, stretching towards the peak district as well. plenty of showers, still plenty out there at the moment drifting south east ward, but sleet and snow tending to be on higher ground, at lower levels more hailand rain. higher ground, at lower levels more hail and rain. thunder and lightning have pushed through the midlands, into east anglia and the south east. there are showers feeding into northern scotland of a wintry flavour.
for the dow in the us. we ll talk you through all you need to know. we will be getting the inside track on how our cities might look in the future when we meet the head of the world s largest property fair. today we wa nt world s largest property fair. today we want to know, do you love snatch at, or do you have no idea what it is? at, or do you have no idea what it is? snapchat. welcome to the programme. the programme is jam packed day, so we will make it as snappy as we can. we start on wall street where investors are gearing up for what could be the biggest and certainly the most hyped technology flotation since twitter in back 2013 or even facebook the year before. in a few hours‘ time shares in snap the owner of photo messaging app snapchat will begin trading on the new york stock exchange. will it end up a stock market giant like facebook or like twitter a bit of a flop? the flotation has been hugely oversubscribed, allowing snapchat to up the pri
are now the subject of criminal investigations. the new favourite, emmanuel macron, says he has a plan to clean up french politics. and, saddle up cowboy. the new us interior secretary arrives for the first day at the office on his horse! i m katty kay in washington, christian fraser is in london. allegations of inappropriate links between the trump campaign and russia just don t go away. today, president trump s attorney general, jeff sessions, has been accused of lying under oath after he failed to disclose to the senate that he d had two meetings with the russian ambassador during the election campaign. a growing number of senior republicans are demanding jeff sessions withdraw himself from overseeing any investigation into the administration s links with russia, while democrats are calling for the appointment of a special prosecutor and even a criminal investigation. this is how this story unfolded. mr sessions joined the trump campaign last february. injuly, he attende
it is not a great service as it is. when things like this happen, it only makes it worse. the diplomatic row between turkey and the netherlands shows no sign of abating, with ankara accusing the dutch of breaking the vienna convention by expelling a visiting turkish minister. netherlands upholds a general election this week. holds. good morning. welcome to bbc newsroom live. the queen is launching the commonwealth games baton relay today at buckingham palace. the relay marks the start of the countdown to the games which will be held in april next year. over 388 days, the baton will visit all 71 commonwealth countries, before arriving at the australian gold coast for the opening of the 2018 games. and later, members of the royal family will attend a service at westminster abbey to mark commonwealth day. let s join simon mccoy now, who s in canada gate. thank you very much. i m keeping an eye on the flag behind me because we are expecting the queen to arrive here at buckingh
also: where s the evidence? congress s house intelligence committee demands from the president that his phones were wiretapped just before the election. after turkey s ministers are blocked from attending some european rallies, president erdogan threatens to take the netherlands to the european court and accuses germany of supporting terrorists. diplomatic freeze. blizzards in america s north east forces german chancellor merkel to reschedule her trip to the white house. i m katty kay in washington, christian fraser is in london. it is 53 days since donald trump took office, it s 233 days since britain voted to leave the european union. so much has happened since then and yet nothing at all has happened at least in terms of the formal brexit negotiation. but things are about to hot up. tonight, the uk parliament takes its final vote on the brexit legislation, which should clear the way for the prime minister to begin the process. it has just rejected both of the amendments.