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and, yeah, we realised it was a gigantic millipede in the middle of this rock. time for a look at the weather. here s matt taylor. farfrom a tropical far from a tropical climate today, really wintry. it is the winter solstice, the days start to draw out a bit more fun today. but we saw temperatures well below freezing across the highlands and they will not write a great deal more through the rest of today. some sunshine across the highlands at the moment, some through wales and increasingly to southern parts of england and the channel islands. more over you will see most sunshine developed through the afternoon, but the vast majority know the story, it is cloudy and will stay cloudy and will stay rather chilly with some spots not getting above freezing and dropping quickly below as you head into the evening and overnight. overnight we expect more clouds breaks to develop, some lingering cloud. the temperatures from developing too much but a more widespread frost across ....
in other news, desperate attempts to get aid to those hit by typhoon rai in the philippines. more than 375 people are now known to have died. a court in london has ordered the ruler of dubai, sheikh mohammed, to pay his ex wife around £550 million. it s thought to be the largest divorce settlement in british history. and how about this for a creepy crawly nightmare? fossil evidence of the eight foot long millipede that weighed 50 kilos and was the size of a car. the chancellor rishi sunak is expected to give more details of government support to businesses hit by the spread of the omicron variant. it follows reports that the business secretary kwasi kwarteng is meeting businesses today to discuss the challenges they re facing. but there s still no further clarity on whether the government is going to impose more restrictions to combat covid in england ahead of christmas. meanwhile the number of covid infections in the uk continues to rise rapidly. there were another 91 ....
the stewards on the night ruled the incident to be accidental. however, todayjudge karen walden smith ruled that, on the balance of probabilities, gibbons actions during the race were undertaken in reckless disregard for the safety of mr tylicki . there s more details of all those stories on the bbc sport website. we will have more for you later on. this is bbc news, the headlines: the omicron variant is making up nearly three quarters of new covid cases in the us. president biden will outline his response later including 500 million free tests and military help on standby. the uk chancellor announces a £1 billion grant for the hospitality sector in england as it struggles with a collapse in bookings because of a rise in covid cases. the high court in london has ordered the ruler of dubai to pay more than $700 million in a divorce settlement to his ex wife princess haya ofjordan. now on bbc news, it s hardtalk, with stephen sackur. welcome to hardtalk from ma ....
now on bbc news. at a key point in the pandemic, the government signed a £107 million deal to buy ppe from a northern ireland sweet company. lyndsey telford investigates what happened next. it might not look like much, but last year, this box was worth an awful lot of money. during the global scramble for ppe in the early stages of the pandemic, the cost of protective gear shot up astronomically. this box is part of a ppe deal worth over £100 million. this involved a northern irish sweet company. people were dying. it was almostjust buy as much as you can. it may not be worth its weight in gold any more, but today this box gives us a window into the pandemonium that surrounded ppe purchasing last year, because it arrived in the uk at such great expense, health officials could not even agree what these items were or how they could be used in hospitals. government thought it was buying a rolls royce but it was getting a ford fiesta. perhaps that is why a box from the ve ....
for a not so miniscule sum of money. hello and welcome, borisjohnson says the british government is reviewing the rise in omicron cases, hour by hour and reserves the possibility to implement further covid restrictions. after almost two hours of cabinet discussions today, the prime minister emerged to tell us things would be left as they are for now, but the current situation he says is extremely difficult . here s our deputy political editor, vicky young. the decorations are up, and some of the presents are wrapped. the streets of bristol were busy today, but christmas during a pandemic comes with huge uncertainty. at the back of everyone s mind, will ourfestive plans again be thrown into disarray? after a two hour meeting with his cabinet, borisjohnson said the arguments were finely balanced. we agree that we should keep the data from now on under constant review, keep following it hour by hour, and unfortunately, i must say to people, we will have to, to reserve t ....