london was a very different picture. what scotland doing that london isn't doing, and by? sorry, scotland, going back some years, but why is it working in scotland and why not in london? we are looking at scotland and have learned the lessons there, many of the things as part of that strategy in investing in mental health services, putting youth workers into a&e departments, but one of the key things they have done in scotland is invested in services, in services for young people, mental health services and work in schools, and it really is very difficult to really do that, the wide strategy of public health they are doing in scotland, if we don't have the investment from the government who are cutting the crucial services... so your point is it is the central government cuts, to your budgets, that are going to be responsible for the difference between london and scotland in the performance on this really significant measure? so central government cuts to local authority budgets or the nhs budgets, obviously 32 local authorities in london, they are making it very difficult

the data shows one london street alone had over 300 offences. mopeds gangs on london streets brazenly stealing from pedestrians, some going to any lengths to take from their victims. indiscriminately the assault and threatening innocent people with the capital's busiest streets offering rich pickings.” streets offering rich pickingsi noticed something moving out of the corner of my eye and as i turned towards that i realised it was a mopeds but they still hadn't realised what was happening. they snatched my phone and drove down the road. it wasn't helplessness, it was definitely anger. he is one of many mopeds victims last year. new figures show that mopeds assisted deaths under robberies have increased six fold over the last two yea rs. increased six fold over the last two years. the data shows it as here on 0xford years. the data shows it as here on oxford street where most offences took place last year with 291 compared to sa took place last year with 291 compared to 3a the previous year and 13 in 2014-15. compared to 3a the previous year a

have already left for london, taking those ea rly—morning commuters. have already left for london, taking those early—morning commuters. but at the moment they are waiting for the first departure. trains are running later and finishing earlier this evening as well, because there is more snow forecast. it is not just greater anglia who run trains from the east of england into london, but also great northern, greater transport for london and they are all suffering problems because of the weather. it is the engineering problems snow and ice can cause to trains when they are running. points can freeze over, branches that are laden with snow can fall onto overhead power cables. trains that are running often have to run more slowly because of speed restrictions imposed by network rail. that is the company that manages the rail infrastructure, the tracks and the power supplies to the trains that are running. difficulties for commuters and decisions were taken early. perhaps, you might think the snow hasn't been as bad as forecast, but nonetheless, the companies cannot take any chances. thank y

. in london. in away from the south—eastern corner into the north sea. corner into the north sea. the it will brighten up. will brighten up. the midlands, into east anglia, yorkshire and lincolnshire. yorkshire and lincolnshire. the heavier ones could be in the levels. levels. temperature wise, still feeling cold. feeling cold. they will clear and then it's going to be a cold night. to be a cold night. active weather front coming in across the north—west. across the north—west. introduce windier conditions and rain and also some snow. rain and also some snow. it's a cold night, so the risk of ice again. night, so the risk of ice again. pick the system up tomorrow as it continues to move eastwards. continues to move eastwards. especially in the south, with gusts of up to 50 miles an hour. of up to 50 miles an hour. not particularly cold. look at the temperatures. ten and 11 in the south. south. southern scotland and northern england and rain for the rest of us. england and rain for the rest o

london needs me alive. the mayor of london launched a campaign last year to stop young londoners carrying knives. he has promised £15 million for the police to tackle knife crime. my thoughts and prayers are with their families. i'm afraid it's not the first time where i have sent condolences to the victims of knife crime. my worry is that it won't be the last time either. i have asked the prime minister and the home secretary to meet with the commissioner and myself to discuss a way forward, not to name blame, but to see if we can work together to grapple with this issue that is causing huge misery to londoners. yesterday, the head of the met, cressida dick, was in glasgow speaking to police there. scotland's murder rate has nearly halved in the last 13 years. could their model work in london? some are sceptical. meanwhile, campaigners in london say action needs to be taken now. violence isn't inevitable. we've had knife crime falling before and we need to start taking action quickly to have that happen a

last year, more than 4.5 million people used london city airport, which is close to london's financial district. our news correspondent andy moorejoins me now. welcome. this is the closest airport to the city of london. 16,000 people use it everyday. tell us about how many will be affected. 16,000 people will be affected today. something like 200 flights. the airport is used a lot by the business community. a lot of people would have been flying to go to work at ca nary wharf have been flying to go to work at canary wharf or in the city. this world war ii bomb was found early yesterday morning. the work at the airport continued as usual. the airport continued as usual. the airport closed last night. the decision was taken to get rid of the device. an exclusion zone was declared, about 200 metres or more. roads were closed, some homes were evacuated. the operation to get rid of the bomb has been ongoing overnight. question is, how long will it take? for the rest of the day, all flights in and out cancelled. some airlines are making alternative arrangements. city jet, for example, which

it really doesn't feel like central london today. we woke up like central london today. we woke up to an impressive amount of the white stuff, and if you cannot get into work or school, then there's only one thing to do, get involved with the fun. cheering in wales, there were tips on twitter about walking safely in the snow from carefully counselled. —— from caerphilly council. in dublin panic buying has left empty showers. this was buckingham palace this morning, breathtakingly beautiful and cold. and this, the scene outside the bbc studio. let's get the latest from oui’ correspondence. wwe'll talk to ben ando who is by the ai near cambridgeshire near peterborough, and our transport correspondent victoria fritz who is at waterloo station in london. but first let's speak to phil bodmer who is in thornton—le—dale in north yorkshire. how are people getting their? it might look pretty but behind the picture postcard image there has been disruption on the edge of the north york moors overnight. they had six centimetres of snow on top of four centimetres lafell yes

i'm driving around central london with lincoanopp. but instead of sitting back and enjoying being credible city skylines, i can't quite rest easy because the app we're using for navigation is also telling us how much carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide our car is spitting out in the real—time. it's called air.car and lincoln is part of the team behind it. n0x is a silent killer. it's far worse than c02 and everything we can do in order to reduce the amount of nox people emit into the air is good for the nation's health, good for the environment and we think that we can help people to reduce the amount of nox they produce as they drive. the app works by plugging in a small diagnostics device into the car. this takes data points from the engine and runs algorithms that have been designed by scientists at imperial college london. what we're looking at here is essentially an engine you would find in a car? that's right. it's a relatively old diesel engine by today's standards, but it's been updated with a lot of technology to measure what'

london needs me alive so i don't. it's too late for my heart stabbed to death at a north london party attended by hundreds. last summer the police who have very few ethnic somali officers are again struggling for information this community is disproportionately affected but a mother's despair well that's universal i love my son you love each other it's mummy boy he's good boy awful good. to be phillips al-jazeera london. an ancient acropolis has been discovered near the nile valley city of minya in egypt the large salmon cemetery is located on the edge of the country's western desert and is home to a range of family tombs and graves archeologists a one time contains over a thousand statues as well as jars holding the mummified remains of their owner it was thought to be a high priest egypt hopes the discoveries will boost its vital tourism sector which was hit hard by political turmoil after the twenty eleven uprising a museum in washington has dedicated an exhibition to iconic human rights movement ignited by martin

london demonstration against gentrification buses british charity stands accused of everything from sex crimes to lavish lifestyles why did government not listen to one tory lord it was a long war about in geo accountability and in a week of constant mccarthyite hearing in the british press against the leader of western europe's largest socialist movement i couldn't care less about the press gallery the speaker a journalist the pm all the support going on but today's going underground but first in the past few days one of the richest multinationals in the world apple has been seeking to secure key resources to respond to the electric co a boom that is speeding up around the world apple is moving to secure its supply chain the company is in talks with cobalt mines to buy the metal directly from them with no middleman apple is worried that demand for cobalt in the electric vehicle batteries could threaten its own supply which it needs for its i phones and i pads not as much news has been around about amnesty international's recent report on with cobalt his mind we believe. the companies h

ben ando is at scotland yard in central london. these latest accusations were made late last year but have onlyjust come to light. in one, a woman alleges that she was attacked by harvey weinstein in the republic of ireland in 1991. in another, a different woman alleges that she was attacked in london in 2011 and in an unnamed foreign country in 2010. now, this all comes as the actress uma thurman has given an interview in the united states in which she says that after the release of the film pulp fiction, which was produced by harvey weinstein, she accuses him of trying to attack her in hotel rooms in london and paris. she said she managed to wriggle away. a spokesman for harvey weinstein said that any incident that happened was a result of him misreading her signals, and has also said that harvey weinstein unequivocally denies any accusations of nonconsensual sex. president trump says a declassified memo vindicates him — and his campaign team — in the investigation into russian involvement in the us election. the republican�

today's london protests against gentrification the daughter of revolutionary u.k. politician peter rhee known for his work with militants in one thousand nine hundred but we speak german for the house of lords about why no one listened to him when he exposed charities dirty tricks two years ago well the symbol coming up and going underground. to everybody i'm stephen. hollywood. proud american first of all i'm just george bush. this is my buddy max famous financial guru little bit different. when combined. with all the drama happening in our country i'm rude have fun. every day americans move moment and hopefully start to bridge the gap this is the great american pill which. was going on knowledge is only for the same. bumble delusional fears it doesn't have any meaning unless it leads to real kids which can be. you know guaranteed only by the most pristine of presentation. welcome back today the northeast of britain's capital london sees demonstrators gathered to oppose policies from a council run by jeremy corbin's labor party the posies concerned so-called socia

but like london where this kind of. cover a range meant is is is tacitly accepted by the or far it is and i think it's extremely difficult for the british or thought has given the transparency they've insisted on interesting like the cayman islands they have a double standard not to apply the same level of transparency with regard to. places like london where these proceeds are actually loaned the special interest in this the charas because they don't seem to be losing much they're only gaining as i said i think if that scheme is implemented at the end of the day the british government will be the ultimate beneficiary of all those ill gotten assets because it can claim it for itself. maybe maybe not i mean a government will claim it maybe the british government will have to hand those money so if the money laundering occurred for that if you need to cleanse ahmed rashid nation and that goes for years if not take it and they're also political issues involved so it's easier to keep it for yourself and for your budgets and

our transport correspondent victoria fritz is at london bridge station. one of the busiest stations in the country. how are things there? it has been a busy day at many of the main hotspots for travel because resource has been chucked at the arterial routes in and out of major cities, london being one. as we've been hearing, the bulk of the snow has been hitting the eastern flank of the country so the services that have been affected the most are in essex, kent, sussex and surrey, for example. some of them come through here at london bridge. there have been services disrupted and cancelled. lots of customers coming and saying, what is the fuss about? surely, this is just and saying, what is the fuss about? surely, this isjust the and saying, what is the fuss about? surely, this is just the great british flake out, rather than the beast from the east, to quote a newspaper this morning. the real problem is the cold weather, not necessarily the snow. although d rifts necessarily the snow. although drifts and falling icicles do cause problems. the low tempera

london rules isa background to the book. london rules is a thriller and dramatic events happen, but the political backdrop is the one we have all lived through. the other thing finally about this book and the others is that you resist very deliberately the idea that on the last page everything can be neatly tied up. it is all over. maybe something has happened that avoids a cataclysm, but the idea that khan has been restored is not really one of your things, is it? we live in a period of continuous tension, and that cannot be ended in the final chapter. so you are saying do not relax, it is not all over. yes. nick heron, author of london rules, thank you very much. sunshine was much more limited today, there was a very different look to the weather out there. cloud has come in from the west bringing rain and drizzle. we do see a few breaks in the cloud and those could emerge in western parts of the uk tomorrow. in those breaks in the cloud we have got this milder air and temperatures could get up to 13. mild night tonight, s

. drive in central london. that's on top of the £1150 already in place. in place. this piece of tech could be a fairer system for drivers. in place. ” always think... always think... the centre of london and we had to drive. drive. there was no alternative solution that we could have taken. solution that we could have taken. should have the opportunity for paying less. they think this is the future. future. given financial incentives for doing so. given financial incentives for doing so. so. not driving in sensitive areas, such as near hospitals or schools. as near hospitals or schools. imperial to come up with an estimate of how a charging system could work. of how a charging system could work. what happened now is he has a charge of around £5. of around £5. it said a lot less than the £10 would be. than the £10 would be. still £5 when he leaves the congestion zone today. he leaves the congestion zone today. streets, it will be at slight air. air. capitalise on the decisions being made. hello and welcome to the week in tech. tech. announced its banning all

actually, now, before i speak, we have a gift for london. i'll bring it down to you. we have the boys signing this for you, uh-huh. and we have this for you. there you go. [applause]. >> all right. it's thank you for -- for this. i was telling them earlier, when we came in 2013, we didn't have this. we had upstairs in a quick meeting, we had a picture here. when i first walked in, and i saw this, i was impressed. are you guys impressed? i just want to say, for me, as a coach, you're right. when people ask me, did you ever think you'll win a state championship? no, not in my lifetime. i thought i could help build a program leading up to the state championship. i knew we had a chance to win the city championship, but to move on two more games and win the state championship -- i had a player who always asked me after the day is over, how do you feel, coach? i feel excited. big norcal game, i'm excited. state championship, i have no words. and it's the fact that you guys, you don't feel it yet, but you guys are part of a tradition at gal, a part of a family at gal. you gu

in london but across england and well. metropolitan police are doing everything they can, using all the powers they have in tackling rising crime. the mayor of london is also investing in the police to make sure they have the resorts is that they need. the problem is that we have a government stepping back, cutting money going to the metropolitan police and cutting money going to use services, schools and mental health services. when you say that we have an issue with knife crime in london, what exactly do you mean? last night, tragically, two young men lost their lives on the streets of london. although the new year, four young men lost their lives. we have an increase in knife crime and an increase in people using knives. it isa an increase in people using knives. it is a real problem and concern. it is happening in london but also across england and wales. maier sadiq khan today called on the prime minister for the government to take their responsibilities seriously and step up and resource things properly. wind the gov

the next day, osborne drove to london. his original target, this pro—palestinian march, where he says he hoped to kill as many muslims as possible and jeremy corbyn. but road closures meant he couldn't get near, so he ended up in finsbury park looking for a mosque. just after midnight he came down the seven sisters road, swerving across the bus lane at speed, and impacting the group of worshippers just here. his foot hard down on the accelerator. he ran three people down, knocking several more to the side, and then smashed into the bollards at the end of the street. his radicalisation complete, he had achieved his aim — to kill. mohammed mahmoud, the imam who saved osborne that night, says his congregation were left fearful. it left people wondering, would there be more, what next? if a car can be turned into a weapon and cause multiple casualties in one go, in an instant, then could this be expected again in the future? the jury rejected darren osborne's bizarre excuse that a mysterious man called dave was driving at

iam in london. 0urtop welcome back. as for staying with us. i am in london. our top stories. 0nline critics of china's plan to allowed president xijinping extra time in office have found their censored. but just as time in office have found their censored. butjust as there will be a daily of five hour pause to the fighting in rebel held eastern ghoutta in syria from tuesday. a family narrowly escaped a fire in texas. by managed to get them out. this story is popular on bbc .com. let's ta ke this story is popular on bbc .com. let's take a look at some of the front pages from around the world. we start off with singapore's straits times. it looks at the jumps in salary. apparently, some former stu d e nts in salary. apparently, some former students took come for— $5,000 a month with the business and computing being the best earners. shifting now the page to the china daily and it features some colourful images taking place as part of the chinese lunar new year festival festivities. that includes of this snap ofa festivities. that includes of this snap of a fi

what hitler dab on london. when the battle of britain began to look for restricted itself to military targets like airfields and aviation factories. from the french coast where his bombers had taken up positions girling promised hitler that he would eradicate the royal air force the r.a.f. in two or maybe three weeks. but soon what may have been an accident would dramatically change the history of bombing. on august twenty fourth one thousand nine hundred forty a few german bombs fell on the city of london and the eastend in the heart of the english capital the fire department recorded seventy six hits. how would churchill respond to this decision was critical britain was not in a position of strength. within twenty four hours the prime minister nevertheless ordered the r.a.f. to strike a german cities including by their. to reach the german capital r.a.f. planes had to cross through one thousand kilometers of enemy territory. german defenses were for medical the mission almost impossible. intense anti aircraft

i don't know if you guys know london. but those types of people don't generally go over very well there. the british don't like the brash american bank district so bob diamond's resignation was a cause for celebration in the uk and it was finally the thing that got them on the front page of the american newspapers in the wall street journal. so that was a very exciting one for me. no one really understood how this libor thing happened. diamond wasn't really involved, it was just overseeing corrupt culture and needed to go as a result. one of the things i have been trained to do over a few years as a financial journalist is you try to tell stories as human beings, the human, not institutional actors, clearly not numbers . you want the way to make note stories is compelling is for them to have a narrative, or that you have an accident and a non-metaphorical sense so that people walking along, they're doing things and rather than than talking about nameless faces or institutions. so rthat's really still like that. until the

and manchester. trains for hamburg and cologne and berlin and london and manchesterlj berlin and london and manchester.” saved money, all the years that is. i don't blame her at the same way, it hurts so much. we are back home without seeing her again. it will be five years. ask to come down and do a solo. the joanne five years. ask to come down and do a solo. thejoanne to had started in early august in canada, the first of 40 early august in canada, the first of a0 shows in north america and then in september, she can't sort —— she cancelled tours and then postponed the european leg as she said she was in severe pain. those shows were scheduled to earlier this year but more gigs are off. with any major to like this, artists will have to obviously have to or insurance. health is one of those big issues, particularly when you are you're going on a tour that might stretch for 18 months. going on a tour that might stretch for18 months. lady going on a tour that might stretch for 18 months. lady gaga rose to fame in 2008 with hook laden songs and provocative fashion choices. she is st

this term affordable muddies the water and complicates the sort of development that eating up london at the moment and leading to mass displacement of working class people who can't afford to live in the areas that they were born in and lived in all their lives it's already happening all around the country and all around the world this idea of private public partnership in regeneration i mean i know you're in the socialist party i am in the notion what do you think of labor's record before germ. we had a meeting with a star couple weeks ago where john mcdonnell kind of very good meeting had a chance with exactly yeah and basically the how meeting with a discussion about the legacy of pay if i and the debt now that we have to pay as a consequence of a policy of by simply getting into bed with the private companies who are late now billions of the public sector we're still paying for these bad contracts. in schools and in hospitals i agree with corbin a mcdonald that we should abolish peer fi and we should only pipe compensation on the basis of proven need but the big business sharehol

in london. if you have your own local engine that is economically as powerful as london, it is a game changerfor the nation. do you think that theresa may and theresa may‘s government has the same commitment to the northern powerhouse that george osborne, when you were treasury minister, had to the northern powerhouse? i don‘t think it can be as strong as when i was there with george osborne, because it was sort of like my baby. and it became a huge, top five priority for the government. is it still? it‘s not as big. what i would say, more encouragingly, is if you go right back to the prime minister‘s first speech on downing street‘s steps, it is very clear that she is sympathetic to the whole goal of doing something like the northern powerhouse. royal dutch shell‘s profit more than doubled in 2017 — to 16 billion dollars. the anglo—dutch company benefited from stronger oil and gas prices. it also reported a sharp rise in cash flow as the effect of years of costs cuts filtered th

london. and time now for a quick pause for the promotional cause but stick around because when we return we talk market meltdown and exotic products and some related problems with the executive director of the healthy markets association tyler gold lash as we go to break the consumer price index for january rose half a percent higher than expected but u.s. markets mainly stayed in positive territory here are those numbers of the closing bell. applied for many flips over the years so i know the guy even saw god's. football isn't only about what happens on the pitch for the final school it's about the passion from the fans it's the age of the super money billionaire owners and spending student twenty million one player. it's an experience like no one else want to do because i want to share what i think what i know about the beautiful guy was great so one more chance with. the base it's going to take. in america a college degree requires a great deal. paying a decade's long debt. studying so har

it was enormously helpful and turned into the source of numerous stories exposing dirty london, the london financial world and came to trust me. he was desperate to have someone in his life who would listen to him and actually hear him and not judge him through the lens of this is an evil criminal. i am pretty empathetic usually, like most other journalists at the time i viewed him, and i loved the idea of cops busting as a journalist, nor bankers need to be locked up and i was a cheerleader for the idea and the irony is a banking criminal, and i was meeting with tom at least once a week. this guy is not the big party guy, really true, he loved me taking him out to tgi friday's where he would get something really fancy and didn't drink at all. eventually his wife found out we were secretly meeting and threatened to divorce him and if he continued and we had to develop a more clandestine way of arranging to meet. after a year of this, tom has not been on trial yet, he is awaiting trial, started cooperating with the british authorities to help build cases against alleged co-conspirators and

three men in their early twenties have been charged with murdering a prisoner at a west london jail. 25—year—old khader saleh died on wednesday at wormwood scrubs after being found with stab wounds. fellow inmates ahmed kyre, kalif dibbassey and enton marku will appear at the old bailey next week. a local council has taken the highly unusual step of imposing emergency spending controls as a result of severe financial challenges. the conservative—run northamptonshire county council says it's faced large cuts and a big increase in social care costs. here's our political correspondent matt cole. like so many others across britain, people in northamptonshire have watched their council manage multimillion—pound budget cuts since 2010, and now they've run out of cash, meaning a host of services from subsidised buses to libraries are threatened. i'll be absolutely devastated if it closes. we've been here forjust over a year and i was delighted that this is kind of ten minutes down the road from us. we just feel, i suppose, let down, and why wasn't anything in place to prevent this s

good morning from bbc london news, i'm victoria hollins. the high court is expected to rule today on whether a multimillion—pound housing project proposed by haringey council is lawful. hundreds of protestors gathered ahead of a council meeting last night in which liberal democrat councillors proposed a motion to drop the scheme. but labour councillors instead voted to delay a decision. the plan for estate regeneration known as the haringey development vehicle has caused divisions in labour, with the council leader announcing her resignation last week. the derailment of a train just outside of wimbledon last november happened because of defective track on a section of line repeatedly missed for routine inspection, according to investigators. 300 passengers had to be evacuated from the basingstoke to waterloo train. investigators believe the 120m section which straddled a boundary between network rail and london underground had not been regularly inspected by either crew, as official markers were in the wrong place. network rail said the i

in another, a different woman alleges that she was attacked in london in 2011 and in an unnamed foreign country in 2010. now, this all comes as the actress uma thurman has given an interview in the united states in which she says that after the release of the film pulp fiction, which was produced by harvey weinstein, she accuses him of trying to attack her in hotel rooms in london and paris. she said she managed to wriggle away. a spokesman for harvey weinstein said that any incident that took place was a result of him misreading her signals. and has also said that harvey weinstein unequivocally denies any accusations of nonconsensual sex. let's take a look at some of the other stories making the news. palestinian officials say a teenager has been shot dead in clashes with the israeli army in the occupied west bank. israeli forces say they entered the village of burqin to find a man suspected of murdering an israeli rabbi last month. the israeli military says it's checking the report. the kremlin has condemned the pentagon's announcement that it's to modernise america's nuclear arsenal,

after her majesty made a surprise appearance at london fashion week. the queen sat front row, of course, beside vogue's editor—in—chief and watched designer richard quinn's show before presenting him with a british design award. with me is henry bonsu who's a broadcaster and international conference host. is to be back to invite me to the event! —— it is nice. —— they didn't invite me to that event! they didn't invite me to that event! they didn't invite me to that event! they didn't invite me either. in the gulf news, there are headlined, a war of extermination. —— there are headlined. —— their headline. this quote comes from the main opposition to bashar al—assad, the national coalition and they think that there has been an international silence about the tragedy that is happening there. when we think of the syrian war... that is the politicians. we think about aleppo, but this is off the scale and some people are saying that eastern ghouta is turning into it and it seems that the president is determined to take this enclave bec

the next day, osborne drove to london. his original target, this pro—palestinian march, where he says he hoped to kill as many muslims as possible and jeremy corbyn. but road closures meant he couldn't get near so he ended up in finsbury park looking for a mosque. just after midnight he came down the seven sisters rd, swerving across the bus lane at speed and impacting the group of worshippers just here. his foot hard down on the accelerator. he ran three people down, knocking several more to the side, and then smashed into the bollards at the end of the street. his radicalisation complete, he has achieved his aim, to kill. mohammed mahmoud, the imam who saved osborne that night, says his congregation were left fearful. it left people wondering, would there be more, what next? if a car can be turned into a weapon and cause multiple casualties in one go, in an instant, then could this be expected again in the future? the jury rejected darren osborne's bizarre excuse that a mysterious man called dave was driving at the tim

here in london bridge, trains were cancelled, more than 100 between london and kent. southern and gatwick express, they are operating a reduced service earlier and they have largely gone back to normal but it has been the east bank and that has borne the brunt of the disruption on the train network. great northern for example, greater anglia trains and sea to sea. but it comes to greater anglia trains they have lifted all restrictions on that line after the snow actually fell about 20 miles further south than was originally predicted. when it comes to tomorrow, scotland is likely to see the heaviest snowfall and that means that scotrail is advising passengers that they could be last—minute changes to their schedules. why are there all these cancellations? the track and signals operator network rail tries to operate on the basis that it wants to provide the safest and most reliable network for the trains that do run to run and that means that compacted snow can turn into a ice which can affect the points and stop them working. we can see freezing temperatures, we do

good morning from bbc london news, i'm alpa patel. snow has arrived in many parts of london. it means trecherous conditions for many of us this morning. essex and kent have also received more snow. these suburban roads near chelmford are thick with snow making journeys slow. and in central london, this is regent street — as you can see snow and ice mean tricky conditions for drivers. the message is to leave extra time for yourjourney this morning and expect delays and disruptions. so let's take a look at the situation on the roads. this is the blackwall tunnel it's slow northbound from blackwall lane. on the m25 there are hazardous driving conditions in both directions, betweenjunction 25 for enfield and junction 23 for the a1. on the tube lots to tell you about. the central line is part suspended with no service between woodford, epping and hainault. the district line is part suspended with no service between earl's court and ealing broadway, and richmond and severe delays on the rest of the line. there's mionor delays on the overgournd. severe delays on the picadilly betw

this week he sent a message to young londoners who isn't here learned that you realise london means new life london needs me alive so i don't carry a knife. it's too late for my heart stabbed to death at a north london party attended by hundreds. last summer the police who have very few ethnic somali offices are again struggling for information this community is disproportionately affected but a mother's despair well that's universal i love my son. he's a mummy boy he's good boy good. to be phillips al-jazeera london an ancient necropolis has been discovered near the nile valley city of media in egypt a large cemetery is located on the edge of the country's western desert and is home to a range of family tools and ways archaeologists say one two contains over one thousand statues as well as jars holding the mummified remains of their owner who is thought to be a high priest in all of the gold salts egypt hopes the discoveries will boost its final tourism sector which was hit hard by political turmoil following the two thousand and eleven uprising. all eyes have been on the olympic venue

it's not just london. a couple of years ago, i heard it from new york, that the subway ridership had levelled off and was beginning to decline, bus ridership, in fact, had started to fall before that. and since then, we've seen this phenomenon on extended to london, probably to toronto, certainly levelling off on the paris metro. and it appears as if something more broadly is occurring to big city transport and the ridership on it. heads are being scratched in search of a definitive explanation. is it the uber effect, for example? people taking taxis rather than trains and buses? is it cycling? certainly, it can no longer be dismissed as an irrelevance in the big transport picture. is it terror keeping people away from the crowds? or is it that people shop from home these days and entertain themselves there too? i don't think this is — there's likely to be a single answer. it's more likely to be a complex one involving the way we live in and use big cities. it could just be something more than transport.

so in london the prime minister and members of parliament continue to bicker over snow when seemingly willing to own up to the fact that breaks it still means something that's hard to define or agree upon why is it so difficult this late in the game let me pull in my guests tonight david charter here to my right he's a journalist with the times and author of several definitive books on bragg's it's good to have you back on the show david and joining us from brussels tonight our correspondent barbara to both of you welcome barbara let me start with you mr barr and you made it clear today that a final divorce agreement is anything but clear has he been saying this all along i mean it kind of shocked people. it shouldn't have shocked people if they have really watched the negotiations and the progress or non progress that talks have made particularly since december when we reached the point in brussels where there was a certain political eagerness to say ok let's move on let's just sort of wipe some things away or put them aside maybe i should say and say ok we have a rough agreement on

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