moving into a new place is a whole other thing. it has to be something i can turn into a home. we'll discuss housing and the public enquiry with a solicitor representing 13 families and an expert in how to run housing like this. also tonight, brexit will be great for animals — declared the environment secretary today. of course we must do more, and we will. we will make sure that in law there is appropriate protection for animals which recognises that they are sentient, that they can feel pain, and that it's our responsibility to make sure their welfare is protected. why are the tories so keen to prove their love of our four legged friends. and what does it say about the party's political positioning? we'll discuss. and... the lastjedi will dominate the papers tomorrow. what did they really think of the latest star wars incarnation? we have the first reviews. six months ago, after the fire at grenfell tower,

i interviewed the prime minister. she promised the residents they would be rehoused within three weeks. two weeks before christmas, more than a hundred households are still in hotel rooms. so where have things gone wrong? the council has allotted huge sums of money for rehousing — kensington and chelsea have set aside £235 million to secure accommodation for the people made homeless by the fire. so why is it is stalling? justice for grenfell! nojustice! no peace! this protest outside the council offices last week was only a fraction of the size of the ones in the summer. they are living a second trauma because they're not considered

worthy enough to be given housing... the focus of this is to demand permanent new homes for the survivors. there are still people stuck in hotels with their children. their children are in a room next door. it is not an adjoining room so the children will sleep with the parents. so then you may have a family of five in one room. because actually they don't want their children in the next room, they want to keep an eye on them. it is a really horrible way to live. christmas is coming, they're going to spend christmas in hotels. not much has changed on the tower itself, but what has the council done for the residents who survived this disaster? one fact that has hugely complicated matters for the council is that the number of houses or flats they are looking for has gone up by more than 50% since the tragedy. as groups of people who were housed in one unit inside the tower have elected to be rehoused in two or sometimes more units outside. that means what was originally a search for 138 new houses or flats has become a search for 210.

of that total just 45 households are now in new, permanent homes. 5a are in temporary accommodation. and 111 are still in emergency accommodation. that is typically hotel rooms. that figure includes antonio roncolato. he was one of the last people to be rescued from grenfell. he was trapped on the tenth floor of the burning tower for five hours. he shared his flat with his adult son. they will now be rehoused separately. in terms of finding permanent accommodation, it's not easy. and obviously we have had our assessment with the council, with my housing officer. and there are some requirements that we have requested and i understand that it takes time and it takes a little bit of... we have to be patient. and also considering that moving into a place is one thing, moving into a place which will have to become your home

is another thing. so it's like, ok, if i move into a place, it has to be something that i can turn into a home. and i will be there for the rest of my life. so therefore i might have to turn down one, two or three. i don't know how many. are the council putting any pressure on you to accept anything? no, you know, they're lately, for the last two or three months, they have been very active in showing, in trying. and i must say i appreciate that. but in the sense of pressure, no. it is understandable that antonio and other grenfell survivors don't want to be rushed. according to one housing charity, this is straining a system not used to providing choice. we have a real crisis in affordable housing in this country. and we have a social housing system that doesn't give people any choice. once you actually start asking people what they want, you then have to deal with the fact that actually it can't be delivered. so i think what we are seeing

is a system that is not used to any element of choice and is very disempowering. suddenly when you're trying to empower people within that system and give them some choice, the system simply can't cope. to provide choice, the council has put aside £235 million to buy new houses and flats for the survivors of grenfell tower. that works out at £1.7 million per original household. this doesn't include the cost of hotels, new furniture, resettlement grants and writing off rent and service charges in the new homes untiljune 2019. these are being paid for from another budget. this is the living space and the kitchen. and then through here you've got two bedrooms... the council showed us this place that they bought for a grenfell survivor. it's in a low—rise block of privately owned flats not far from the tower. the director of housing wouldn't

tell me what they paid for it, but similar flats seemed to go for around £850,000. we still do have people in hotels, that's true. we've got 28 families with children under 18 in hotels. now, 16 of those have accepted something, so they will be moving on and we are trying to support them at the moment to do that as soon as possible. but we have got 12 families who haven't accepted an offer. so we're working as hard as we can with them to try and get something that meets their needs and their preferences. because of what people have been through, most people want to live at lower floor levels. most people would like a bit of outside space. a lot of people want to be in the north kensington area, not everybody. and we have got to meet all of those desires with the properties that we are acquiring. but that doesn't include residents of the surrounding blocks who were evacuated during the fire. the blocks themselves were undamaged although the heating and hot water systems were destroyed. they have now been replaced and two thirds of the residents have returned to their homes.

but 109 households don't want to go back. some of them don't feel ready to return. for example until the tower is wrapped or some of those kind of decisions. so what we're saying to those people is we will rent you a property in the private rented sector locally in kensington and chelsea for you to move into whilst you take stock of what you want to do next. and then we will work with them quite intensively over the next few months to see what they want to do. do they want to return home. 0r obviously we have got a consultation out at the moment around awarding people points for priority on the housing register. so actually if they feel that they can't be on the estate, that they've got the opportunity to move. but that is not enough of an assurance for thomasina hessel. she shared a hotel room with her son jesse for six months. she doesn't want to go back to her flat near the base of the tower, but doesn't feel there is enough certainty of what will happen in the long—term to move out of this hotel room into a temporary flat.

they have not made me any offers, first of all. and they have made some of my neighbours offers and insisted that they make decisions based on this draft housing policy that they have going. and i think that is unfair because it is a draft policy. anything can change so anyone making a decision now is making it on something that may not exist in a months time. so that is unfair. their reason for doing that in my view is because a, it saves them money to get people out by christmas. and b, it makes them look good. is part of the problem though, that in the initial rush to help, residents were led to believe that rehousing would take place at an ultra fast pace? here's the prime minister on this programme injune, two days after the fire. other things we will do as well to provide support for people, to ensure they are rehoused within three weeks... today a group of survivors and the bereaved from grenfell arrived at downing street to remind the prime minister

of this commitment. we were given promises by theresa may that they would be housed in three weeks. it is coming up to christmas, it is six months. thursday will be a telling day. you know, if she is coming to the memorial service, we hope that she comes with a message of positivity and you know, things that have been accomplished rather than empty promises. nothing can change what happened here six months ago. rehousing those who lost homes and loved ones is only the start of trying to repair the damage. but it is clear there is still a long way to go, even on that limited objective. david grossman there. let's get some reaction to what we've just seen and look ahead to the inquiry which has been meeting for the first time to discuss the parameters and how best to effect it. emma norris works at the institute for government and has been working on how public inquiries can be carried out most effectively, cyrilia davies knight is a solicitor for 13 of the grenfell tower families.

what do you understand from your families is the hold—up with the housing right now for them? good question. actually i'm unclear as to what the delay is with the housing. a lot of my clients whom i represent remaining hotels, in temporary accommodation, and it's a lot of my clients whom i represent remaining hotels, in temporary accommodation, and it's unclear what the issue is with rehousing them. the money is there. this huge sum of £235 million which has been put aside by the council. are the people you are representing very keen to get into their new houses? where is the delay, do you think? certainly my clients are keen to get into their new houses. i represent vulnerable, some bereaved, and some survivors, and indeed they would like to be rehoused as quickly as possible. however, they are not prepared to accept accommodation that is

inadequate or substandard to what they had. do you think they are being offered... it was very hard to see... the apartments we were seen inside of, something around £850,000, they looked incredible, but you think what is being offered is substandard ? there needs to be a thorough means tested assessment. so that the clients i represent are given appropriate accommodation for their needs. many of my clients, as i said, are vulnerable and traumatised. and the delay in being rehoused isn't helping them. i'm not sure what the delay is but i do know it is unhelpful. david was explaining the numbers. what started off as 138

families needing to be rehoused has now become a search for 210 households because they have splintered off. antonio said his son wanted his own house. some people want to move out from parents or other relatives. was that always going to be part of the process? how does that work in terms of these increasing numbers? i can only speak for those i represent. what i would say is that it is absolutely paramount that those affected by this disaster are rehoused as quickly as possible, as promised by our prime minister. emma, look ahead for us to the enquiry, there is a lot of momentum at the beginning of these things. i guess the key is that some of that actually drives through to results, right? i think that's right. you've picked up on one of the key issue straightaway. a successful enquiry isn't about what happened at the beginning of an

enquiry or during, but afterwards. often that is where some of our institutions are at their weakest. we need to see the up with a powerful set of recommendations for change. but we also need to see the government act upon them, and that is often where enquiries fall down. as an enquiry got a dual role? i wonder how much of an enquiry is catharsis and how much you need to see things... good question. the enquiries are there to answer three questions. what happened, who is responsible to some extent, and what can we learn from what happened. those first two questions speak to that emotional catharsis you mentioned. at the moment the community is understandably mistrustful of the enquiry process. it got off to a rocky start. there are some signs

things are getting better. the chair has appointed a community engagement specialist to the panel. but we know from past enquiries the dangers of failing to listen to victims and families. hillsborough, for example, examples of when there were failures to put the victims at the heart of the process. you've seen enough of these enquiries to know that they often don't deliver, right? how many times do we get to the end of an enquiry, the victims seem unhappy, the public doesn't trust them, there is no sense anything is going to change. do they work? public enquiries are one of the only tools we have to look independently as some of the worst tragedies that we experience as a society. we need to seek government be far better in setting out how to implement recommendations and parliament following up on that. looking back at the 68 enquiries that have taken place since 1990, only six have received full follow—up by parliament. we need to do better than that. looking at what is coming

in and yourfamilies, is there a sense of expectation? i think my clients are distrusting and expectations are quite low. i have to say. i think that housing is one of the key points that needs to be addressed first and foremost in order to help rebuild the trust and confidence in the process that they are subjected to. i think other things can be done to help rebuild that trust. there needs to be a commitment to psychological one of our fire and well—being. psychological welfare. this needs to start sooner rather than later, the enquiry. there needs to be equality when the enquiry comes to start. i wonder if you also think that the enquiry is up against a particular difficulty

when social media can spread a sense of not trusting the right person or questioning the judges or the figures. it can be very useful tool but also exacerbate worries and concerns or perhaps they do not know. that is why it's important to make sure you're involved in the community and with the victims properly. looking at the hillsborough inquest, they gave the brive the opportunity to talk about the people they had lost as part of the inquest process and i think adopting a similar process in this enquiry would make sure that the victims are at the heart of it. so there is a sense of them and us, are you going into this thinking you're doing battle almost? i would not say we're doing battle. i think it is clear and it has been made clear that my clients feel

they have been, their voices have gone unheard, they have not been listened to or properly engaged thus far. there are distrusting. they want the truth, they want justice and accountability, they want the answers. there are many ways that can be achieved. that could be achieved through disclosure, disclosure needs to take place quickly of documents from the tmo, from the council, so they can feed into the process. they have lived this, this is their lives, their reality. thank you both very much. and more on grenfell tower six months on over the next couple of nights. environment secretary michael gove has promised to make brexit work not just for citizens but for the animals we love too. the conservatives have been talking about animals a lot recently.

the beavers that will be released into the wild. the puppies that will no longer be smuggled. the rare sea birds to be saved by an extension of the blue belt. today mr gove promised higher sentences for animal cruelty, and to reflect animal sentience — their response to pain — in law. so why this concentration on animal rights, right now? is it about more than just, well animals? some people call us the nasty party. when theresa may spoke of the danger all those years ago of being perceived as the nasty party, she struck a chord notjust with voters, but with those in her own party who realised that perception of niceness was paramount. it was no coincidence that david cameron as he rose to power spent time with husky dogs in the polar regions. the conservatives, you see, were modern and compassionate and environmental. they even knew about veganism. they were, the theory ran, more palatable to younger, more liberal metropolitan voters as well as their rural base.

but the austerity years took care of all that. the huskies were put out into the cold again, in came badger culling, a free vote on fox hunting, the green went true blue. the viral story of the last election was a failure by the conservatives to effect a manifesto promise of a ban on ivory imports. and last month a misunderstanding got reported and shared by millions, suggesting the conservatives did not believe animals could feel pain. had even voted against it. even though the story was quickly disproved, the damage had been done. the tories were back to being in some voters' minds the nasty party again. the damage control was instant. and in the last weeks and months we've seen defra roll out policy after policy that shows the conservatives' love of animals. none so enthusiastically perhaps

as michael gove who sincejune has announced he will be saving trafficked puppies, freeing beavers, looking after animals in slaughterhouses. the list goes on. so does the party seem more caring? are those younger, metropolitan liberal voters even listening? or is the old image of the tory out hunting to attempting to move on? i'm joined by deborah mattinson the founding partner of the research and polling organisation britain thinks and jack elsom who is the chair of the london universities conservatives. lovely to have you both. what is going on, does being nice to animals actually win votes? i'm a young conservative voter but it would be pretty foolish of me to come on here and say the conservatives do not have a problem attracting young people. deborah bull tell you that i'm sure in a minute. but in my conversations notjust in conservative circles that universities but with labour and lib dem friends, it is not the hot topic of debate at universities. it is mainly towards brexodus tuition fees. so do you mean that people think about it but not at the top, or do not talk about it at all?

really not at all but i do think having said that what michael gove said today will be able to unite students whether it is recognising that animals can feel pain or good news for animals about how sentences for maximum abuse... well this is interesting, in university talking about these things and yet we are told that the stories that went viral during the election, that is the story about not fulfilling the pledge on the ivory ban and this one on the sentience of animals, how are we getting this wrong. to say is not the hot topic is the understatement of the century, it has never made more than 1% of the issues... as any people tell you you have a small number of people who care a lot about animal rights. in a way what is not to like but actually it is not what drives younger voters or older

voters for that matter. but the point about the election, fox hunting for example, the reason why that was noticed was because it struck a chord and it spoke to the tory brand and is said to people this is what i believe the tory brand to be about. back to nasty. unfortunately which i guess they're now trying to unpick again at the moment. bad blood at the time people noticed that and people notice things when they sure up something they already believe. so is michael gove, as the young conservative is he right to go on about the animals now to try to chase people like you if you're already on board or if you do not really care.

is he wasting his time or will he bring people in? i do not think is wasting his time. it may not be the hot topic of debate at universities but i think it is important and students may not care as much about it as something like brexit or tuition fees but i think there would be a big concern since among students about recognising the sentience of animals. and great news in terms of that sentencing for up to five years for the worst abusers. do they trust the tories to maintain the message, if you think back to david cameron and the symbolism of the tory party was the green oak tree and now with brexit there is no green. well we ran focus groups in the election and we asked people to think of the main party leaders and who would you trust most to look after your house on holiday. they said theresa may but they would not trust her to look after their pet! just bring up the page of the i newspaper tomorrow,

tories go green to win back the voters. is that a strategy that you would say would be worth adopting again because david cameron tried that and arguably it worked. it partially worked and i think the rebrand worked partially for a number of reasons and that was one of them, a striking photo opportunity. well young voters in particular care about housing, they care about the economy, aboutjobs. the environment generally and animal rights in particular are very low on that agenda. so if you do care about animal rights and clearly there is a passionate constituency of people who do. are they never going to vote tory anyway, we'll always be green voters or labour voters? they're never going to go first to you. not at all, it is not at the top of the agenda in terms of what young

people really care about but i would not say no when is going to like these policies or dislike them. i think students will get behind the fact that michael gove is putting animals of the top of his agenda. that might not be top of the student agenda which is more brexit or tuition fees, but i think they could get on board with this. is it done with conviction? i think there are other fish to fry, you are unusual as you know, just 15% of 18 to 24—year—olds say the conservative party is the party for me. and i think there are much bigger challenges than this is able to meet. thank you both very much. after an ill judged comment on a radio show, the brexit secretary david davis has spent today trying to reassure top eu negotiators that britain is not trying to wriggle out of a deal they agreed last week. mr davis has invited the eu to work with him to convert the conversation into a legal text as soon as possible.

tomorrow, things move on to the question of whether mps will get the final say on the overall brexit bill. the former attorney general dominic grieve is hoping to attract enough support to defeat the government in a vote on his rebel amendment in the commons. nick watt our political editor is here, explain what mr grieve is hoping to do? do you think you will defeat the government? well we have a government that is very nervous it could be about to suffer its first defeat on the eu withdrawal bill because the rebels led by dominic grieve the former attorney general are digging in on their call for that meaningful vote on the deal figures out of the eu. so tomorrow we will get some warm words from the government and of course i will say we will not dream of using the powers in this legislation to sneak through that deal without consulting parliament. the rebels saying not good enough. you have got to amend this bill and if you do not like the wording of dominic grieve you can fiddle around with them at the later report stage.

i'm hearing the rebels saying the government is behaving in a cack—handed and bizarre ways so tonight we have this band. the chief whip jordan smith follows the example of never losing a vote so it is losing difficult, do a deal. but does dominic grieve have the numbers, he has nine tory mps signing his amendment plus others on his side. the rabble view is if they have ten they're getting there, if they have 15 they are in business. also quite stern words from michel barnier to david davis, is there a sense that he is really upset, that he has upset his european partners. i think there is some irritation with michel barnier and in germany about this statement from david davis that this was more kind of a statement of intent and michel barnier saying no backtracking. michel barnier also said the best that can be hoped for in these

brexit negotiations over the next two years is that you get a withdrawal agreement, you get an agreement on a transition and get the beginnings of a future trade deal and a kind of political statement of what that would mean. which is not quite what david davis is saying, he's saying i appreciate they cannot do a future trade deal in that article 50 but they could do it at one minute past midnight. michel barnier saying no way and that raises questions about the british approach, nothing is agreed until everything is agreed. david davis tonight saying i know what michel barnier is like, he uses time as a pressure point. thank you very much. time for viewsnight now — the programme's place for opinion. tonight it's christopher snowdon — the head of lifestyle economics at the institute of economic affairs and author of ‘killjoys'. he asks if we really need so many public health bodies telling us how to live our lives.

let's kick out the killjoys. smokers are virtually second—class citizens. tolerance is out. coercive paternalism is back in and this time it calls itself public health. never in history have we had less reason to panic about help but barely a day goes by without some moral entrepreneur warning us goes by without some moral entrepreneur warning us about imaginary academics and timebombs. the endless tide of nanny state regulation doesn't seem to be making us regulation doesn't seem to be making us any healthier and it's certainly not making us any happier. it cannot be good for our collective mental health that drinking a pint of beer a day is hazardous drinking or a

whiff of tobacco smoke is a mortal danger. this is not healthy. but then, it's never really been about health. fast food, fixed odds betting terminals, cheap alcohol, cigarettes, sugary drinks. what do they all have in common? they are all more popular with ordinary working people than they are with a wealthy. current public health groups say it is the latest in a long time ——a long line of attempts by middle—class killjoys to oppose their tastes on the masses. that's not thejob of their tastes on the masses. that's not the job of government get the new breed of puritans has been funded by a taxpayer money. a vast network of state funded busybodies to regulate our lives. this has to stop. the nanny state injury should be defunded and money saved spent on healthcare. britain is becoming a joyless a nd healthcare. britain is becoming a joyless and oppressive place to live. it's time to kick out the puritans. tomorrow's times will hail the new star wars movie

as the best one yet, calling it a film of wit and wonder and frequently devastating emotional power. the franchise has come a long way since the much criticised prequels — not least in terms the revival of its much loved original characters — at the lastjedi's very centre — the actress carrie fisher who died a year ago and its creation of new powerful female roles. something inside me has always been there. and now it's awake. and i need help. i've seen this raw strength only once before. it didn't scare me enough then. it does now. joining us now is the film critic anna smith and, from los angeles,

is annalise ophelian, who is behind the documentary looking for leia. one has seen the film, one hasn't, so we must be very careful. what are you hoping for? i know you are going to a screening once you have finished here. what will you look out for? i'm excited to see where the story goes. that desire to see the next chapter is the sign of good storytelling. star wars has really good storytelling. do you think she will get that? she is in luck, definitely. i was pleased with the latest instalment in the series. it's thrilling, exciting, good mainstream blockbuster. lots of characters jostling for space but they are well developed, especially the female characters, as you alluded to. i was pleased to see lots more female characters and lots more diversity. when you were coming out, were the critics you were with, or the audience, pretty unanimous?

was there divergences? there was applause at the end, which never happens, which is a good sign. some were strong on it than others but it has been a good, critical response. what is it about star wars that set you off on your documentary that takes people's childhood memories and really can play with fire what it does with them? well, looking for leia is the phenomenon of the fandom, especially among girls. i am the class of 1977. i saw the original film in the theatre when i was four. star wars has always been a part of my life. it's one of the central come across cultural mythologies, i think we can all read ourselves into this story, escapism, and adventure of outsiders fighting their way in. there is something for everyone.

every generation has a star wars story. because we have a0 years worth of films. it is intersected with so many different generations, childhoods, now into adulthood is. it's amazing when you think of it as a0 years. —— adulthoods. there have been disasters in the middle of that. is this a love letter to the fans? absolutely. it stays true to the original. the director has done a good job of putting his stamp on it but has also remained faithful. there is something for fans and people knew to the series, as well. —— people who are new. you can see that the merchandise is already out. for you it has a strong female message. does it ever feel like all of the branding of it get in the way? star wars is so interesting, especially now, it is the intersection of cinema and pop culture.

we are notjust audience, we are also consumers. i think star wars fans are acutely aware of that. in the united states, at least, on the 13th of december we are having what the internet is calling the take your merchandise to work today. but then star wars created the phenomenon of movie merchandising. it only makes sense they would be the best doing it. i won't be asking you if you will be taking your stuff to work tomorrow. what we haven't touched on yet is carrie fisher, who, sort of, appears from beyond the grave in this film. does it do herjustice? it does. it is poignant to see her. it brings an extra layer to the film, knowing what subsequently happened, but it is a wonderful tribute and it is attributed to her in the end. she has an important part to play in this film, as well. you have seen the strength of the female

characters right the way through. from the class of 77 onwards. as you say. for a lot of women this will be a change. in the early days it felt like something of a man's world, star wars, do you think it is gender free now? do you think it still plays to weigh more man's imagination than a woman's? —— plays more to a man's imagination. we are seeing the cultural permission to expand on the shift. i'm talking to all of these women who consistently tell me their stories about their lifelong fandom but it is only recently something which is socially sanctioned and acceptable to show it off. there is something exciting about having more and more characters to identify with, as well. great to have you both here.

thank you both very much indeed. that's almost it for tonight. but before we go, a letter written by charles dickens in 1865 was auctioned for over £5,000 at sotheby‘s today. it details personal trauma after being involved in a rail accident while travelling with his mistress — and her mother! dickens escaped and tended to the wounded and the dying. he administered water in his top hat and passed around his own bottle of brandy. but after remembering he had left that month's episode of ‘our mutual friend' on board, he climbed back up the side of the viaduct to rescue his copy. dickens was never the same after the crash. the letter is evidence, some say, that dickens struggled with what is now known as post traumatic stress disorder in later years. to play us out, here is the actor and dickens biographer simon callow reading an excerpt from that letter. my dear madame viardot, i take the opportunity of chorley‘s coming near you to thank you for your kind and affectionate letter received after my escape from that terrible accident. the scene was so affecting

when i helped in getting out the wounded and dead that for a little while afterwards i felt shaken by the remembrance of it. but i had no personal injury whatsoever. my watch, which is curious, was more sensitive physically, than i. for it was some few minutes slow for some few weeks afterwards. except that i cannot yet travel on the railway at great speed without having a disagreeable impression, against all reason, that the carriage is turning on one side. i have not the least inconvenience death. will you tell chorley how i can best send you a book next october? it will be our mutual friend, which i'm now finishing with great pains. and which i hope will interest you half as much as it interests me. believe me, always affectionately yours, charles dickens.

wednesday will not start as cold as tuesday did. last night we saw the lowest temperatures of the season so far, down to —13 celsius in places. different tonight, a band of brain spanning different tonight, a band of brain spanning across different tonight, a band of brain spanning across the country. as that glitters away, temperatures are likely to fall the clearing skies before the next main band comes in. close to freezing. there could be a risk of ice to parts of wales and england and central and eastern scotland. likely to cause some disruption. a dry start to this —— to tomorrow morning across the east. the next weather system moving in bringing a pretty yucky morning to parts of scotland and northern ireland in western england. snow over the higher ground. around 4—

seven degrees. a milder start than recently. similar in north—west england and wales and the south—west, some snow melt as well so south—west, some snow melt as well so this combined with the rain bringing some water. take care of that morning commute. eastern areas, cold and dry. the rain across western areas will spill its way eastwards during the course of the day. some of it could be quite heavy in places. conditions improving in the afternoon. blustery, wintry showers into scotland and northern ireland. to the south, fairly mild. still quite chilly in the north. the wednesday night, a whole rash of showers and outbreaks of rain. again, quite breezy and chile. this rain on the cusp of snow. maybe snow down to lower levels. thursday morning, some issues on the higher

roads of central and northern england. with that ice as well, it could cause a bit of disruption through thursday morning. a bit cooler than wednesday. plenty of showers across the north and west. we could be looking at some significant snowfall. stay tuned to the forecast. things are set to turn cold when this area of low pressure pulls away. moving south right across the british isles. a return to some sunshine but also wintry showers and overnight frost as we head on through friday and into the weekend. but take care tomorrow morning with the risk of any ice. good night. on the bbc. i i'm rico hizon in singapore. out of stories. as the polls close in a one—hour, all eyes are on alabama where the republican

candidate roy moore is trying to shake off allegations of sexual misconduct. the us secretary of state rex tillerson says the us is ready to open talks with north korea without preconditions. i am babita sharma in london. also on the programme. the world is losing its fight against global warming. france's president issues a stark warning at a major climate summit in paris. ona warning at a major climate summit in paris. on a red carpet far, far away, in london. the latest star