lunch met king herald and having lunch with him, met king harald and having lunch with him, quite a family occasion, they are distantly related, close ties between the norwegian and british royal family is. ties between the norwegian and british royalfamily is. what ties between the norwegian and british royal family is. what will they be talking about? as royals they be talking about? as royals they don't do politics but there is a strong political context to do with anything concerning britain and europe. we shouldn't forget that all of these visits are commissioned by the british foreign office, lots of visits by the british royalfamily to european countries in recent yea rs. to european countries in recent years. the purpose is to emphasise the depth and breadth of the relationship with britain, william talking about that in stockholm last night. norway, of course, interesting, not part of the eu but pa rt interesting, not part of the eu but part of the single market, a very rich country, one of the richest per capita in europe, indeed in the world, so a country with which the united kingdom will want to have even stronger links in the future. interesting, thanks very much, nicholas witchell, in a very chilly looking oslo. let's look at our own weather prospects. i thought we'd start with a quick

look at yesterday's super blue moon, this picture taken from the richmond area looking over the london city skyline. today we are going to keep largely clear skies, for a number of people some sunshine but showers will continue to affect northern and western areas and we have a clump of showers working down from the north york moors where they could be sleet and a bit of snow over the tops, the clu b and a bit of snow over the tops, the club of showers working at east anglia through the afternoon. it feels colder this afternoon on account of the brisk and gusty north and north westerly winds, continuing to blow around coastal counties over night to night. we could see one or two icy patches developing overnight as the road temperatures dipped below freezing. but in the towns and cities we are looking at lows of 2-4d. cities we are looking at lows of 2—4d. tomorrow the winds will be a bit lighter but there will be plenty of sunshine around so it went the us chilly. they will be showers in the morning through the afternoon across eastern scotland and eastern areas of england but they will thin out as the day goes by and one or two

showers for parts of western wales and cornwall. otherwise it is largely dry, temperatures between five and 8 degrees. looking q; ~ we .=w to ‘ across ‘.’%§%“‘ fotii”?‘:’ic?i‘:“f‘?c"%“’ "* rain will ,7 w. ‘.’%§%“‘ fotii”?‘:’ic?i‘:“f‘?c"%“’ "* fig will turni ‘.’%§%“‘ fotii”?‘:’ic?i‘:“f‘?c"%“’ "* fig will turn to sleet, or ‘.’%§%“‘ fotii”?‘:’ic?i‘:“f‘?c"%“’ "* gaig will turn to sleet, or a elf iii? féifi. fiiii iuffi. fl? iiééfg iii? é of- developing elf iii? féifi. fiiii iuffi. fl? iiééfg iii? é of - developing through the bit of snow developing through the afternoon, perhaps lower down across parts of the midlands and southern england, although i think amounts of snow will be very small if that happened. by sunday we have quite a bit of dry weather, but a lot of cloud for england and wales, the best of the sunshine for the north and west for scotland and northern ireland. the wind is picking up in the south—east will make it feel pretty chilly. now i'm going to skip

ahead to development is through monday night into tuesday because a band of snow could be on its way moving across the country, the main uncertainty is how far eastwards it will push across but it could bring a significant spell of snow, monday night into tuesday, and it's something we are watching very carefully. jane. thank you very much, chris. a reminder of our main story this lunchtime: theresa may says britain and china are enjoying a golden era in their relationship on a visit to beijing. 28 russian athletes who were banned from the olympics for life, have today had their suspensions overturned by the court of arbitration for sport. eight days ahead of the start of

the winter olympics in south korea — ii more athletes had their appeals against the international olympic committee's ban ‘partially upheld.‘ our sports news correspondent alex capstick has more. this goes back to the sochi winter games in 2014, allegations in reports russia operated a widespread conspiracy that covered up cheats, dirty samples swapping with clean ones inside the anti—doping laboratory at sochi in 2014. the ioc looked at this last year and charged over a0 athletes with cheating. 39 of them were given lifetime bans and they went to the court of arbitration for sport last week to appeal the bank and 28 of them have had that upheld. in a statement cas said there wasn't enough evidence to prove they had cheated.

so those 28 are cleared, they are allowed to compete, the results have been reinstated. the sochi results have been reinstated. the other 11 have had their lifetime ban reduced, they are still banned and found guilty, but most of them will not be able to compete in pyeongchang. a record breaking january transfer window came to a close last night with a total of 430 million spent by premier league clubs. in fact it's more money than spent in the top leagues of france, italy, spain and germany over the past month combined. earlier on the programme we spoke to danjones from accountancy firm deloitte — who told us why england had such an advantage... it's just in proportion to how well those leagues are doing financially. england is now so far ahead of birth of a world in terms of the scale of the premier league and the depth, there are big clubs in the other countries, but the strength and depth of the premier league stands out. that spending is consistent with their standing as the leading league in world football. it was a busy night

on the field last night — with seven games in total. the third fastest goal in premier league history was scored by tottenham's christian eriksen at wembley. inside 11 seconds, it set up a 2—0 win over manchester united, who are now 15 point behind manchester city, they beat west brom 3—0. bournemouth manager eddie howe called their 3—0 win away away at defending champions chelsea their best win in the top flight. chelsea drop to fourth but the cherries are once again holding their own in their third premier league season. they move into the top half.. west ham united have suspended their director of player recruitment after a national newspaper reported he had said that they wanted to limit the number of african players at the club because ‘they have a bad attitude‘ and ‘cause mayhem when not selected‘. well in a statement today the club confirmed... kyle edmund is set to miss

great britain‘s davis cup tie against spain in marbella which starts on friday. the 23—year—old developed a hip injury during last week‘s australian open semifinal defeat by marin cilic. he said yesterday that he "intended to play" but in the end wasn‘t named in the singles or doubles. bundee aki and jacob stockdale will make their six nations debuts when ireland face france in paris saturday. ireland bossjoe schmidt has picked an experienced side for the stade de france clash, with rory best captaining a side containing 11 british & irish lions. you can find more on all those stories on the bbc sport website. i‘ll have more for you in the next hour. let‘s ta ke

let‘s take a look at some of the day‘s other stories. the fbi has "grave concerns" about the accuracy of a confidential memo that alleges the agency is biased against president trump. the white house is expected to publish the memo later — which accuses the fbi of abusing its surveillance powers during the election campaign. the democrats claim the document is an attempt to discredit the fbi‘s investigation into russian meddling in the us elections. our washington correspondent david willis has more. the fbi, in a rare statement, has said it does not think it is a good idea for this memo to be released, expressing grave concerns over what it says are omissions which therefore render the document itself inaccurate. all

the democrats say the memo is selective and is aimed, by the republicans, at discrediting the investigation that has been undertaken into collusion, russian collusion in the 2016 election by the special counsel robert mueller. obviously the department ofjustice and the fbi feel that this is an extraordinarily reckless step to take because the information has not been vetted and they have not been able to do research on the sources and methods. while that analysis is supposed to go on, they say the president has not read the memo. he believes releasing that memo might be a pretext for donald trump to sack the special prosecutor robert mueller and the man who appointed him, the deputy attorney general, rod rosenstein. the danger for all of this, aside from the obvious dangers of politicising the intelligence process, is that it sends a message to the white house that they can fire rob rosenstein and they can

fire robert mueller, and there are gop members that are so vested in his presidency that they will roll over. and that would cause a constitutional crisis. owing to the sensitive nature of the memo, the white house has to sign off on its release. there are reports it is looking to do so, possibly as early as later today, thursday. it‘s a trial that has horrified audiences around the world, for its harrowing and powerful testimony from survivors of sexual abuse. the entire board of usa gymnastics has resigned over its failure to protect young athletes from the convicted doctor, larry nassar. more than 250 victims have now come forward. for 20 years nassar preyed on young girls, under the pretence of giving them medical treatment.

bill hayton reports. another day in court for larry nassar, the former gymnastics coach exposed as a prolific paedophile. now time for some of his victims to break the use of silence. now time for some of his victims to break their years of silence. i lost all motivation as i was overwhelmed with the truth of your abuse, but that ends today. you are the most vital, disgusting creature i have ever met. scum of the earth is too high of eight title for you. i hope you realise that you will never have any power over anybody for the rest of your life. nassar get medical treatment to hundreds of young girls. there are now more than 265 victims. he has already been sentenced to 175 years injail. but first he must listen to the

agony he has caused. it is imperative that we as a society do not view this as an isolated incident. he was prolific because running authorities allowed him to be. because the gymnastics were allowed him to be. because, still, women are not perceived to be credible. many are now suing him for damages and usa gymnastics and other institutions that they accused of ignoring their earlier allegations which they say allowed larry nassar to continue to abuse girls for more than 20 years. to continue to abuse young girls for more than 20 years. for the first time since the second world war, mps look set to move out of the palace of westminster, while major renovation work is carried out. they voted in favour of the move last night. the repair programme will cost billions of pounds. simonjones reports. it may be a palace but one that‘s in desperate need of repair. anyone who‘s had building work done on their home will know it can be stressful, but mps are now facing the prospect of moving out for several years while it is carried out.

it will cost billions, with both the commons and the house of lords having to up sticks, most likely to another part of whitehall. many mps say it‘s the only option. the building‘s crumbling, it needs rewiring and it‘s just not safe. one even said conditions were even worse than down in the pit. there‘s some steel props holding the roof up. it looks like the workplace i used to work in before i came into this building, that was maltby colliery. other mps are reluctant to go, arguing the work should be done around them. there are also concerns about the cost. the lords still have to give their approval and with the proposed departure not until 2025, that is after the next general election, the next parliament may take a different view. simon jones, bbc news. a controversial bill has been passed in poland to outlaw any suggestion of polish complicity in the holocaust. nazi death camps were built and operated after germany invaded poland — home to europe‘s largest jewish community

at the time, in 1939. israel says the law could stop people from speaking the truth about the holocaust. the bill has yet to be signed into law. russell trott reports. "arbeit macht frei" — "work makes you free". the sign in german above the entrance to the auschwitz death camp in poland. 6 million jewish people and others were murdered here and elsewhere in the holocaust. poland has long insisted it was blameless and these camps were run entirely by occupying german forces. now a controversial bill has been passed by polish lawmakers to ban any suggestion of polish complicity in the nazi holocaust. and make it illegal to describe the death camps in poland as polish. the polish government says the legislation aims to stop the polish people or state being blamed for nazi crimes. translation: talking about the past

and analysing this past, even the darkest, shameful part of the polish past, is not threatened in any way. poland is a democratic state, respecting the freedom of public debate, respecting scientific research, respecting the right to criticism. at a memorial ceremony at the united nations, 73 years after the end of the war, holocaust survivors remembered its victims. israel, which has honoured more poles than any other nation for saving the lives ofjewish people, has objected to the draft law. it says poland is trying to rewrite history. some historians say others were complicit in nazi crimes, crimes that a diminishing number of veterans of the war never want the world to forget. in a moment a summary of the business news

but first, the business headlines. the headlines on bbc news: theresa may says the uk and china are enjoying a "golden era" of their relationship, as she meets the country‘s president. during her trip, the prime minister says she‘ll fight eu plans to give its citizens who come to the uk residency rights during the brexit transition. stroke patients are getting younger. figures from public health england show the average age at which people have a first stroke has fallen in the last ten years. in the business news... facebook users spent less time on the site even before it announced major changes to its news feed injanuary. measures such as showing fewer viral videos cut time spent on the social network by about 5% in the last three months of 2017 — and for the first time the number of daily active users in the us and canada fell.

however, facebook still reported better than expected results. in the last hour, morrisons has revealed plans to cut 1,500 shop floorjobs as part of a restructuring drive — and simultaneously create 1,700 juniorjobs. the supermarket giant said the shake—up would see more customer service staff and fewer managers. betting firms including ladbrokes and william hill have agreed to change online games promotions after pressure from the regulator. the competition and markets authority said players must be able to cash out when they want, and not have to play more to release winnings. the changes will apply to all promotions. how wealthy are you? we‘re notjust talking about what comes home in your monthly pay packets, or savings in your bank account — wealth includes everything from property, to family heirlooms and your pension pot. figures out today from the office for national statistics say the number of british households that could consider themselves millionaires rose by nearly a third in two years — the median average wealth

per british household, after borrowing was just under £260,000 byjuly 2016. joining us now is sarah coles, personal finance analyst at hargreaves thanks forjoining us. the figures suggest that overall, the average world is up about 15% in the umaga yea rs world is up about 15% in the umaga years 2014—2016, what is driving it? a couple of things, pensions are a huge driver of wealth in this country so pensions again, responsible for the lion‘s share of the growth of 53%. that is a strange thing that the pensions promise value, when we look at a defined benefit pension, we take a dropout, other things. yields felt erratically which automatically increase the value of them. what was really unusual in this set of

statistics was the contribution made by london property. that was 30% of this period, if you remember back to 2006 of the runaway house prices time is building this figure. you mention pensions and what about automatic enrolment, has that made a difference? you'd think it would give the number of people affected that when you look at the overall wealth it‘s a small drop of the ocean of pension wealth. the vast majority of pension wealth is held by people with defined benefit pensions who were retiring or already retired. about a third of the wealth is held by people with defined benefit pensions currently being paid into. the auto enrolment, the vast majority goes to defined contribution schemes it‘s only made up contribution schemes it‘s only made up 40% small amount of overall wealth. he mentioned the issue of london, were

there any other regional differences? the property and was the difference, if you look at the proportion of wealthy borehole, in london the property makes up much of the wealth, was swept pensions in —— elsewhere pensions is driving it. in scotland it is 30% or less of overall wealth. there is a real disparity depending on where you live and how much your house is worth. thank you. the northern powerhouse was launched to redress the economic imbalance between the north and south of england. but four years on, a new report has found that children in the north are on average one gcse grade behind comparable pupils in the south. our economics editor kamal ahmed met lord jim o‘neill, former treasury minister and architect of the northern powerhouse, to ask whether it is still a priority for the government. for the past couple of years, the north west part of the northern powerhouse has been outperforming the whole country. whether that‘s because of policies

to do with northern powerhouse, i suspect some of it is, or other stuff, is obviously debatable. i suspect it is. but it is really an encouraging basis for so many of the things to build on, to take us to this long—term holy grail of closing the productivity gap. which, importantly, in a national context, it is notjust important from those from the north and passionate about the north, it would change the game for the economy nationally. but how important is that for the general strength of the uk economy? london is a huge contributor, financially, to the rest of the country. it‘s not really, ultimately, that good for london or the rest of the country if we are dependent on hand—outs 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 through. ebay plans to drop its

long—time partner paypal — instead hiring dutch company adyen for its payments business. ebay said the shift will result in lower payment processing costs for merchants. paypal shares plummeted by 10% after the news was announced. sales have climbed at scottish fizzy drinks firm ag barr despite a decision by the firm to cut the sugar in its drinks. in an update, the irn bru—maker said it expects to report sales of around £277 million for the 12 months to 27 january — up 7.5% on the previous year. let‘s ta ke let‘s take a look at the market, shall have good figures but the share prices down almost 2%, feeling that investors were looking for news of buy—back. royal mail have reached an agreement with the communication workers union, over a ten month long dispute on plans for pensions. more on that in the next hour. happiness at school is more important than academic qualifications — and should even be factored into the curriculum. that‘s the conclusion of a major report by lord richard layard from the london school of economics, who used data from more than 100,000

people to conclude that wellbeing as a pupil is a great indicator of happiness in later life. tim muffett has been to a secondary school in dartford that has made weekly lessons in having a healthy mind — a number one priority. the pathway through childhood, adolescence and beyond. going into year 11, there‘ll be a lot of exam stress. take a step back and think about what you should to do next. it can be paved with challenges, exams, friendships, social media, self—esteem. many people of our age, they deal with mental health issues and they‘re very scared to come out about them. who can tell me what catastrophising means? at the lee academy in dartford in kent, the curriculum has been changed to try and help. can you think of all the different types of emotion that maybe you have within school or maybe in your home life? four years ago with 30 other schools it introduced a new subject, healthy minds.

the students have one lesson per week and that's dedicated for one hour when they come to their healthy minds lesson, look at things like relationships, resilience, things like mental health. i think they're really important in building character and helping us develop as children. if you got a problem you been taught, like, how to solve it or what to do. it's all good going to maths, english, science lessons, they build your brain but i think healthy minds build characters. a huge study of mental health, well—being and happiness is about to be published. it‘s analysed data from 100,000 people and it shows that schools and teachers can have almost as much impact on a child‘s happiness as they can on their academic performance, and that the impact lasts a long time. the best predictor of whether an adult will be happy is not what qualifications they get from their school but how happy they are while they‘re at school.

some will say, though, that good academic qualifications will bring about happiness, will lead to a better job and a better life? happy children learn better, so there‘s no conflict between these objectives, they are complimentary to each other. don't be aggressive, don't be passive, just be assertive. professor layard want more schools to follow lee academy‘s example and ensure mental health is a key part of the curriculum, even if that means less time studying traditional subjects like maths and science, which is what happens here. the healthy minds curriculum, yes, it takes a lesson away from the core curriculum but it's important because it makes the students have a greater well— being, stronger relationships. we've seen stronger reduction in bullying and higher numbers of older students supporting younger students as they gone through the course. benefits that should last long into adult life. tim muffet, bbc news. time for a look at the weather.

lets join chris fawkes for the forecast. we will take a look at some of the weather photos from yesterday‘s blue super moon. it is. it‘s showing a rather pink colour, as it was rising behind the skyline in london, beautiful picture and show you will agree. today we started with largely clear skies, chilly start to the day, plenty of sunshine. clouds and towards cambridgeshire, is not out of question with this area of rain could clip in as we go through the afternoon, turning wetter out of the eastern coast, read getting well into norfolk, suffolk and probably essex before swinging to the near continent. elsewhere, showers across northern and western areas, temperatures june 5—7. northern and western areas, temperaturesjune 5—7. but northern and western areas, temperatures june 5—7. but feeling colder on account of these brisk north—westerly wind. overnight, the

winds feed in across northern and eastern areas with risks of icy patches on untreated roads as road temperatures dipped below freezing. towns and cities look at 2—4dc. friday morning start with showers, across northern eastern scotland, running down the north sea to affect eastern england as well, through the afternoon the showers become less widespread and away from that, more sunshine and light winds, it should start to feel less on the chilly side. 5—83dc, a few showers will develop because west wales and into cornwall. looking to the weekend, we have rain and paul will be some snow to contentment on saturday, it will be cloudy this weekend, and there will be cold wind developing across the south east as the weekend goes by. saturday before the weather charts, the weather front pushes in across the uk becoming slow—moving.

we are likely to see a spell of snow in the hills of scotland, across the pennines and the high ground of wales. initially starting a cold rain on low levels, but things turned sleety for a time formerly a bit of snow across parts of midlands and southern england as the afternoon goes by but hopefully not causing too many issues. by sunday that out of the way, we are left with cloudy skies for england and wales, feeling chilly, particularly in south—east england with strong winds. northern ireland and scotland have sunshine tour than skipping ahead to next week. monday night into tuesday, a band of snow moves in across the uk, the main uncertainty with this seems to be how fired gets crossed the country, but nevertheless we are looking that potential significance now from money into tuesday and will keep you posted. hello, you‘re watching

afternoon live — i‘m simon mccoy. today at 2: we‘re entering a golden era with china. the prime minister‘s message as she talks trade with president xijinping. meanwhile, she‘s talking tough with the eu — saying she‘ll fight proposals to give residency rights to european citizens who arrive in britain during the brexit transition period. stroke patients are getting younger. the average age at which people have a first stroke has fallen — it‘s now 68 for men and 73 for women. west ham united suspend recruitment boss, tony henry, after he allegedly said that african players "can have a bad attitude" and "cause mayhem". coming up on afternoon live, all the sport... 28 russian athletes have had their doping bans overturned today by the

court of arbitration for sport. they claim this could have a serious