North and south korea as the Winter Olympics come to a close, pyongyang says it will now sit down for talks with the United States. On meet the author this week my guest is sirjohn tusa, broadcaster and man of the arts whose own story, making a noise, is also a portrait of modern britain. Good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. Labour would keep britain in a Customs Union with the eu according to the partys brexit spokesman. Sir keir starmer told the Bbcs Andrew Marr show that a new treaty, replicating the existing customs arrangement, would be best for the economy and would respect the referendum result. The Prime Minister is committed to leaving both the Single Market and the Customs Union shes expected to outline the governments position in more detail this week. Our Political Correspondent emma vardy reports. After months of uncertainty over labours position, now the party is moving decisively away from a so called hard brexit. It has been unanimously agreed, according to the shado
Bitterly cold started tuesday morning, well below freezing, and the met office had issued in amber warning. Thats for the threat of disruptive is no particular about a beast in england on tuesday. The parts of yorkshire, lincolnshire, east midlands and down towards kent we could see several centimetres i committing, and likely to cause disruption to travel. There could be School Closures as well. Topic is not getting above freezing for many of us all day. Further snow showers filtering on the brisk easterly wind tuesday night and into wednesday. Further heavier cumulative snow from any part of the country on wednesday. And Eastern England and eastern scotland where it will be bitterly cold once again, particularly when you add on the wind chill. Even further we could see snow showers down towards wales and the west to. Snow is likely to cause disruption over the next few days. Low pressure could bring blizzard conditions to the south later in the week. Stayjune. This is bbc news. Our l
Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me are the journalist and author Shyama Perera and the Political Editor of the sun on sunday, dave wooding, thank you for being here. Heres the front pages. The isolation period for people who come into contact with anyone infected with covid 19 could be halved, over fears of noncompliance with the test and trace system thats according to the telegraph. The mail leads with what theyre calling a major covid breakthrough plans are being drawn up for front line nhs staff to receive a Coronavirus Vaccine within weeks. The sunday times says elderly people were excluded from hospitals and intensive care during the height of the pandemics first wave. The observer reports that thousands of britains doctors have condemned the government for its refusal to fund free meals for disadvantaged children in england over the School Holidays. Ministers fear people will not follow covid restrictions over christm
This month Mark talks about life in Sweden; Patricia weighs up the benefits of returning to Ireland and Claire notices a lack of Friday after-work drinks in Munich