lewis hamilton could wrap up his fifth world title at the us grand prix in texas later today. he only needs eight points more than sebastian vettel to win the title and he has the advantage of starting the us grand prix from pole as nick parrott reports. some sporting rivalries can be better but this one is cordial. bitter but this one is cordial. it would appear that the briton is to win a fifth world title in texas in the lone star state he has no equal, hamilton has won the last four races in austin and looked unbeatable again in qualifying. he was so relaxed during the first session he had time for oscar winner matthew mcconauhgey, he, perhaps getting advice on acceptance speeches the award ceremonies to follow. when he got down to the real business, he said the new track record to claim pole. vettel was a very close second but because of a penalty picked up in practice, he will start from fifth. i didn t know how close it was going to be once we got to qualifying but i
in the forecast. join me later for the details. good morning. it s sunday the 21st of october. our top story: president trump has said the united states will pull out of a landmark nuclear weapons treaty it signed with russia more than 30 years ago. the nuclear forces treaty led to the destruction of hundreds of tactical weapons but washington has accused the kremlin of breaching the agreement. here s our north america correspondent chris buckler. the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty were seen as a landmark accord when it was agreed by russia and the us 30 years ago. it led to the destruction of hundreds of missiles by both countries but the white house in this that russia has ignored the cold era treaty by testing and deploying band cruise missiles. president trump now says he is no longer prepared to let the kremlin violate an agreement that america has honoured. we are not going to let them violate the nuclear agreement and go out and do weapons and we are not allo
welcome to bbc news. the chancellor has taken a bit of a gamble with his budget. that s according to the economic thinktank the institute for fiscal studies, which says it could lead to higher borrowing and debt in coming years. and despite his claim that austerity is coming to an end, philip hammond has acknowledged there will be no real terms increase in public spending apart from on the nhs. our economics editor kamal ahmed has been looking at looking at the impact of the budget, the spending pledges and the changes to income tax. picking the best fruit and veg in leeds the day after the budget. and who, if anyone, is looking forward to those tax cuts the chancellor announced just a day earlier? he promised to leave people with a little more to spend. i;m a teacher on £29,000 a year, so it will help me about £10 a month, but overall i think, with the cost of food and whatever, it will probably mean that i m no better off. i think it s a good thing. you know, the more t
the rain from oscar will be in the north and west, not much from central, southern and eastern england and look at the temperatures, the mid teens for many but it s very windy. oscar on sunday pulls away to the north, another area of low pressure coming in, not as windy as this one. the north and west will see most of the rain from it. as i superimposed the jet stream and look at next week, what was a jet stream coming right at us through oscar comes meandering again. notan through oscar comes meandering again. not an active weather pattern, not going to see vigorous areas of low pressure coming our way but occasional weather systems from the atlantic. when the arm of the jet stream coming in from the south west, that s a mild direction. for much of next week, we will be on the mild side of the jet, for much of next week, we will be on the mild side of thejet, right now we are on the cold side so next week things will feel different. milder, hardly any frost, a sunny day, som
the scottish first minister, nicola sturgeon, has said her mps would vote in favour of another referendum on eu membership, if that proposal was put forward at westminster. speaking at the start of the snp conference in glasgow, ms sturgeon also suggested scottish independence was inevitable . the snp leader said the party s mps would oppose any brexit deal that falls short of staying in the single market and customs union. we cannot have a situation of fire or frying pan. in those circumstances, mps of all parties should come together and look at the alternatives, no doubt a second referendum would grow in those circumstances and i have said before that we would not stand in the way of a second referendum or a people s vote, snp mps would vote for this. 0ur correspondent nick eardley spoke to us from the conference. nicola sturgeon had always been clear that the snp wouldn t stand the way of another eu referendum, but this morning, she has gone further. in that clip, she sa