Determined today as staff vote on changes to their pensions. If the deal gets the go ahead, it could secure the companys survival in the uk. In sport, it was a weekend full of shocks in the fa cup action. Two non league sides are into the fifth round. Sutton united beat leeds yesterday. The emotional impact of the city. One mans Exploration Of Urban Britain and how it affects the way we feel. And carol has the weather. Good morning. A cold and frosty start in scotland this morning, temperatures currently in the highlands 8 or 9 but here there will be some sunshine. For the rest of the uk, cloudy, damp, some hill fog around as well and weve got Rain Sweeping in from the south west. Ill have more details a little earlier this morning at 6 13am. Thanks for the reminder. See you then good morning. First, our main story. President trump has insisted that his temporary travel ban on people from seven Middle Eastern and african countries is not about religion but terrorism, and protecting ame
moderator. and this grand theater, the venetian, will be filled by an invite only crowd of about 1400 guests for the big night. all this as trump s national poll numbers are reaching heights in political pundits thought they would never reach. making him a target tonight. he was also a target of protesters last night. outrage overnight during his rally in las vegas. tensions high just hours before tonight s debate of 2015. multiple protesters forcibly removed while trying to interrupt the front runner s speech. trump taking shots at his republican competition. the other candidates should be thankful. because i m giving them a chance to make total fools om of themselves
voters in iowa and new hampshire are going to whittle the field significantly and. things after christmas are going to look quite differently where voters are going to finally start getting down to looking at these candidates as presidents and evaluating them as presidential material. you have ted cruz up in some polls in iowa. chris christie up in some polls in new hampshire. trump leads in polls national and in some polls in iowa. so what should we make of this race? well i would focus on the early states and not the national polls. so in iowa we ve seen that ted cruz has been moving up fairly quickly. and the republican electorate in iowa is largely dominated by conservative evangelicals and cruz has been doing quite well there and their support for ben carson has been dropping. move to new hampshire, a
a reporter: and bashing the media. i ve learned how smart the people are and how bad and dishonest the press is. trump s gop rivals going after the billionaire businessman who for the first time has topped 40% in a monmouth university poll of likely gop voters. that is more than the next three competitors combined. and trump towering 23 points above his closest rival in this new washington post abc poll. i cannot imagine donald trump becoming president because he would never win. he would never win. hillary clinton would clean him. this as texas senator ted cruz surges into the second place in polling and tops trump in several polls in iowa. god bless the great state of iowa. reporter: which means all eyes will be on center stage to see if the two former ally wills go after each other. they are both strong and very decisive and someone who would
candidate that many analysts say is on the rise. and that would be chris christie. so might chris christie take on donald trump? because he s just as combative. he could. and it is interesting. you are right to point out they are very similar personalities and both very strong. chris christie is going to have a hard time. because if you look at the tempo of this race it is a conservative race. one like we ve never seen before. john mcmaine couldn t win. jeb bush couldn t win in this climate but a ted cruz can. and the chris christie is going to have a hard time catering to that conservative base that is eager for a true conservative candidate. so mercedes we have to talk about the muslim question. who might criticize trump s