Good morning. Are we all going on a Summer Holiday . Its been a terrible year for travel, but businesses have told breakfast bookings are being boosted by the vaccine. What do you need to consider before you spend your money . Good morning. Weve got three zones of weather. In the east, cloud and rain. Behind that, a drier and brighter slot with sunshine. In the west, more rain later. Full Weather Forecast in ten minutes. Good morning. Its wednesday, 9th of december. Our top story. Borisjohnson will fly to brussels this afternoon for face to face talks with the head of the European Commission, in whats being seen as a last ditch attempt to make a breakthrough in trade negotiations. The two sides have until the end of the month to agree on a new relationship between the uk and the eu after brexit. Our Political Correspondent, jessica parker, has more. Borisjohnson is going to brussels, that as negotiations have stalled, and phone calls with the European Commission president ursula von der leyen, have failed to find a way through. So tonight dinner, face to face. With just over three weeks until the brexit transition period ends, an 11th hour effort to give these trade talks a high level political push. There is a deal to be done. If its not done then that will be a failure on the part of the European Union, a failure on behalf on the part of the United Kingdom and a failure and the part of the personalities that have been negotiating. Nobody wants that failure, and its in nobodys interests to have that failure. So you have to hope and believe that, as i said, albeit late in the day, a deal will be done. Progress tonight, said a uk government source, may allow the negotiations to resume in the coming days. But they added it was important to be realistic, an agreement might not be possible. The sticking points remain fishing rights, competition rules and how a deal would be enforced. I truly hope, of course, that we will not go for the worst Case Scenario. But we cannot speculate. But it is very important that we get clarification on whatever deal its going to be, because customers and citizens are waiting for answers. Meanwhile, separate discussions on specific trade arrangements for Northern Ireland did Reach Agreement yesterday. Further details are expected to be set out in the commons later. Jessica parker, bbc news. Our brussels correspondent nick beake joins us now. Morning tunic. Neck. How optimistic are people about tonight and the prospect of a deal. Good morning. Not a and the prospect of a deal. Good morning. Nota huge and the prospect of a deal. Good morning. Not a huge amount of optimism in brussels today. They are calling at the end game of the endgame. In london downing street says it is the last roll of the dice. This meeting that is happening tonight, a dinner, is taking place at the official residence of ursula von der leyen, the European Commission president. That is because the bars and restaurants are still shut here in brussels. It is taking place next to her work offers. She doesnt have far to commute every day. In terms of what she will be talking about, these three big issues they cant seem to solve. Fish will be on the menu some form. The idea of competition rules and how you police a deal. We are being told that once theyve had their coffee and they have finished, they want to be emerging with a deal, with a piece of paper saying, look what we have signed and sealed. But the hope is if they get on and see areas for compromise, and this is the first face to face meeting the two leaders have had this year, if they make that sort of compromise it might restart, it might give a boost to the talks, so their chief negotiators can get together in the coming days and maybe, just maybe, they can get this deal sorted. Not a huge amount of confidence or optimism here. We heard yesterday with they thought it was tilting towards a no deal. By the end of tonight maybe it will be clearer what things will look like. Thank you very much indeed. Well be speaking to the cabinet minister, michael gove, at half past seven. The car maker honda is stopping production at its plant in swindon today, because of a shortage of parts. It told its employees that its experiencing vessel delays and congestion at uk ports, caused by the pandemic. The companies responsible for transporting shipping containers are warning there could be further disruption when the brexit transition period ends injanuary, as emma simpson reports. The honda car plant in swindon. Like all the other car manufacturers, the parts arrive when they are needed, a just in time supply chain. But its been hit by delays caused by congestion at the ports. Its production line wont be running today as a result. Gary runs an online toy company and hes had weeks of delays at his busiest time of the year. Were particularly affected by things that we are importing coming in from china on containers. Theres lots of congestion at the ports. The ports cant cope. And some boats are being turned around and sent back to holland. Others are being diverted to other british ports. Every company is the same. Every company is in complete and total chaos. But christmas will go ahead. We will get there and we will not let anyone down. So whats gone wrong . Containerships are the arteries of global trade. Covid i9 has disrupted the flow, especially from china. Ports around the world are now having problems. Felixstowe, britains biggest container port, has been hardest hit here. Its battling with a surge in containers ahead of christmas, as well as brexit stockpiling, and it had a backlog of ppe containers too. And it had a backlog a perfect storm. And it had a backlog and the congestion has spread to other big ports too. The ports say things are improving, but volumes could remain high for months. The whole supply chain now wants the government to look at ways to improve capacity to keep these containers on the move. Emma simpson, bbc news. The coronavirus vaccination will continue to be given out across the uk today, after thousands of people received the first jabs yesterday. The Health Secretary, matt hancock, has said the nhs now faces a Herculean Task as it embarks on the largest programme of mass vaccination in its history. People aged over 80, care home workers and some health staff are currently the highest priority for the vaccination. It will mean that i can go out more, because at the moment i have been completely confined at home, i have had hardly any social life at all. And now i will feel as though im a bit safer. I wont be so scared about going out. Meanwhile, the Us Supreme Court has rejected a lawsuit brought by allies of donald trump, seeking to overturn the results of the president ial election in pennsylvania. The Court Dismissed the request to discount more than 2. 5 million postal votes, without stating any reasons. Its the latest of dozens of legal cases brought by the Trump Campaign to have failed in the courts. We all need to eat less meat, avoid booking too many flights and change the way we heat our homes to help cut greenhouse gasses. The committee on Climate Change has produced what it calls a route map to net zero, which says that if the uk wants to meet its ambitious carbon cutting targets, everyone is going to have to change the way they live. Heres our chief environment correspondent, justin rowlatt. You probably didnt notice the big reduction in Carbon Emissions the uk has already made. Thats because a 41 cut in 1991 emissions were largely achieved by closing coalfired power stations, and replacing them with gas and renewables. Getting all the way to net to zero emissions will require us all to help out. Heres how the committee on Climate Change says that needs to happen. It reckons technology will get us around 40 of the way. This is mostly about switching to Renewable Power and once again will happen without us doing anything. Another 40 or so will be a combination of Behaviour Change and technology, so think switching to electric cars, insulating our homes better and finding new ways to heat them. The remaining i6 will be pure Behaviour Change, so eating less meat and flying less. Chris, im sitting here in my kitchen, and youre saying i need to eat less meat and fly less. How are you going to make me do that . Youre right, its a set of changes to behaviour that do underpin our analysis of the uk as a whole getting to this big challenge of net to zero by 2050. Its worth saying, its not all about Behaviour Change but that really helps. So the kind of changes were talking about are reducing the amount of meat that we consume, perhaps flying a bit less. Thats a real strong signal to government that needs to start thinking about those things and the policies that theyd put in place. Some changes will be easier than we think, the committee says. It expects electric cars to become so much cheaper and better that we choose to buy them anyway. Home heating is more of a challenge. The committee assumes well stop using natural gas completely by 2033. 0ur homes will need much better insulation and by 2030, it expects a million electric heat pumps will need to be being installed every year at £10,000 each. It says the government needs to find up to £4 billion per year to help us cover that cost. The good news is, the committee thinks the overall cost of decarbonising the entire uk economy will be much lower than was thought, just half a percent of annual output per year. A small price to pay, it says, for doing our bit to protect the world from Climate Change. Justin rowlatt, bbc news. We will bring you all the very latest from the papers in a couple of minutes. But first, lets visit carol for our first of minutes. But first, lets visit carol for ourfirst child of minutes. But first, lets visit carol for our first child of the morning. Morning. Good morning. This morning we are looking at a chilly start to the day. Not quite as cold as it was yesterday for some of us, although having said that, temperatures close to freezing at the moment in hampshire. More rain arriving in the west later. First thing this morning across parts of Northern Ireland and wales, there might be some slippery surfaces that have not been treated. We start on a relatively bright note, but there is a lot of cloud around. Rain in parts of the east. It will move into the north sea. A brighter slot where well see some sunshine. Full stop cloud are built in from the west. Then we have the rain by the end of the afternoon. You can also see it is going to be fairly gusty around about for example dumfries and galloway. Through this evening and overnight they will be clear skies in parts of they will be clear skies in parts of the north east and the east. Then the north east and the east. Then the cloud will come across. The weather front sinks southwards. Heavy rain on the southern edge. Temperatures six to eight towards the west but still pretty nippy out towards the east. So we start off on thursday with a lot of cloud. Some brighter breaks. A weather front draped across the far north west. That would produce some rain. Read about moray, for example, aberdeenshire, we may see some sunshine. A more active area of low pressure and its weather front two will come in across the west and they will introduce some rain. Through thursday into friday that rain will move east whipping across assault. Thank you, carol. We will talk to you in half an hour. Carol would be here throughout the morning. Lets take a look at todays papers. The times looks ahead to the Prime Ministers visit to brussels for brexit trade deal talks, quoting one government source as saying, we must be realistic that an agreement may not be possible. The telegraph headline is a quote from sir patrick vallance, warning that the public may have to wear masks for another year because of a lack of evidence that the vaccine prevents transmission. 0n the front page of the guardian, the story that rugby player Steve Thompson, who has been diagnosed with early onset dementia, is joining a group of ex players who are proposing to bring legal action. That is something we are going to be talking about later this morning with alex popping, one of those by with alex popping, one of those rugby players. The news in the uk has been dominated by Margaret Keenan and William Shakespeare, two of the first people in the uk to get the pfizer vaccine, but the huffpost has the story of 91 year old martin kenyon, who has been charming twitter users in the us, after giving an off the cuff interview to cnn. Have you seen it . It was absolutely brilliant. The only thing is, if you are. My wife is married to an american, so im allowed to say that. Sorry, your wife is married to an american . Sorry, that was amys truth my brother is married to an american. We havent got one of those relationships, all right . thank you for that my brother is married an american. There is a certain type of american who feels that all british people are dickensian characters. 0r hugh grant. Exactly. He talks about the vaccination being nothing of too much significance. He talks about having a nasty lunch at the hospital. 0h, having a nasty lunch at the hospital. Oh, dear. Talking lunches, 110w hospital. Oh, dear. Talking lunches, now i have put my foot in it with the family, brits are spending a record 12 billion on festive treats to try to make up for covid 19 at christmas. £1. 5 billion more spent on grub and booze compared to last year. People trying to make 2020 a memorable christmas, even though they cant all be together. I suppose it is one of the things you can do. You can have a lovely time in your own home with your bubble, wherever you are allowed to be, and push the boat out a little bit. Extra christmas pudding. I have already ordered mine. Nearly all ready even mine i keep looking at it in the cupboard. Have you got a home made christmas pudding . No, but it. At least you are honest. Totally sharp bot. I love this story in the daily telegraph. Dogs will respond to nonsense commands, as long as they look a little like the real ones. When hejust seems they look a little like the real ones. When he just seems to they look a little like the real ones. When hejust seems to respond to the tone of my voice. The only embarrassing thing is my wife walks the dog more than i do. When he only responds when i go high pitched. When i am inbee park i have to shout any high pitched voice. When i am ina park. Any high pitched voice. When i am in a park. And i look like an idiot, again. Are you all right . If the evidence of google searches is to be believed, we spent the year working out why. 0ne believed, we spent the year working out why. One of believed, we spent the year working out why. One of the believed, we spent the year working out why. One of the top google searches this year was how to make hand sanitiser. And also, kfc. 0r quite random. Have you made bread . No. Years ago. Not this lockdown . When we sold our house i made bread. To make it smell nice . Exactly. Its cliched but it did work. You know William Shakespeare . Not personally, but yeah. Bill. Did you see the magnificent ponds online yesterday . William shakespeare was the second person to get a b vaccine in the uk. The best of them all, taming of the flu. Whoever came up with that is an actual genius. Very good. Can i show you one very scary thing for parents out there . Go on then. Olympic gymnast matt whitlock, with his gorgeous baby, on a trampoline. 0h, my word. Can you see ninas reaction . No. You think thats all right, dont you . Ithink reaction . No. You think thats all right, dont you . I think he is very safe. Of course. And he knows what hes doing. I would not it myself. Safe. Of course. And he knows what hes doing. I would not it myselflj wonder hes doing. I would not it myself. wonder what that babys mum said. Stomach turning. Its terrifying. Dont try that at home. Im sure he knows what hes doing but it takes one little thing to go wrong. Morning, sally. It ruined my day yesterday i saw it. So we talk about something a bit brighter. Holidays we have missed them so much. Its been terrible. Could the Coronavirus Vaccine be the ticket to travel lots of people have been waiting for . We cant talk about the hope for some summer sun without a reminder of just how awful this year has been for holiday makers and travel firms. Between april and june last year, we tookjust under 19. 5 million trips abroad. This year over that period a massive dip fewer than a million. Perhaps that isnt a surprise but it has a huge impact on businesses and on all of us because we have missed their chance to chill out and recharge the batteries. But things are looking up. Weve spoken to some of the uks leading Holiday Companies who all told us that, since the news of effective covid vaccines broke, theyve seen steadily rising enquiries and bookings for summer 2021. And the staycation also looks set to make a stronger comeback. Over the summer this year, around ten million brits took a nights holiday away from home in the uk. Thats fewer trips than last year, but bookings are expected to rise significantly in 2021. Among the businesses who have already seen rising demand is the caravan Holiday Company haven. Next year is looking really strong already. We are about a third book for the whole year. About 40,000 bookings ahead of where we would normally expect to be. Thats before we go into our really important time injanuary and we go into our really important time in january and february. We go into our really important time injanuary and february. And in the back of all the recent announcements on vaccines, we can expect that to further strengthen. We spoke to a number of travel agents and experts yesterday. They said the good news is lots of Holiday Companies will be super keen to get us back on board, so there could be discounts to be had. The top destination tip . Montenegro is t