a confident live performer who played glastonbury‘s introducing stage in 2019, 2020 will bring different pressures. there's an element that like now there's a heightened expectation, potentially, that you really want to make sure you live up to it. but ultimately, like i said, it is encouraging, so, yeah, it's cool. the new year will bring new music, which she hopes willjustify the industry's faith in her. lizo mzimba, bbc news. # from strangers to friends, friends and lovers...#. time for a look at the weather, here's lucy martin. thank you, good afternoon. quite a lot going on in the weather today. we have seen some wet and windy weather and for some of us, some snow. this photo sent in by ed in southern scotland. the radar picture

from earlier shows the rain and snow pushing its way east. the next band of rain already working on to the south—west, could be heavy at times. if we take a look at the pressure chart, here's why. the first area of low pressure clearing towards the east, the second one pushing eastwards as we move through this afternoon. through this afternoon, there will be outbreaks of rain, possibly heavy and thundery at times the southern parts of england and wales, replacing some sunny spells. elsewhere, a good deal of dry weather but the cloud could be picking up where we saw the rain earlierfor picking up where we saw the rain earlier for some picking up where we saw the rain earlierfor some rain picking up where we saw the rain earlier for some rain and picking up where we saw the rain earlierfor some rain and drizzle. some good spells of sunshine per northern and western scotland and northern ireland. 3—6 celsius across the north, getting into double figures in the south and east. we could see 12 or 13. as we go through this evening and overnight, the rain in the south pushes towards the east. we will see clear spells feeding in from the knob. a few showers for western scotland but under clear spells, it will be a chilly night in the northern half of the uk. could see a few ice patches

inafairly the uk. could see a few ice patches in a fairly widespread for us. temperature is cooler than they have beenin temperature is cooler than they have been in the southern half of the uk but staying above freezing. tomorrow brings a good deal of dry and bright weather. some good spells of sunshine. it will turn claudia into the late afternoon with rain pushing into the north—west, the wind strengthening here as well. the temperature is becoming more balanced across the board again, highs of 6—9 celsius, the taps reaching ten in the south—west. here is how it looks as we move into the weekend. we still have rain in the north—west but it looks like it could be quite heavy and persistent. through saturday, parts of argyll could see around 100 millimetres of rainfall, so the potentialfor some problems with localised flooding. very wet and windy in the north and west and further south and east, drier and brighter weather. the temperature is mild again, highs of around 13 celsius and it will be a blustery day across the board. these black circle showing the wind gusts but i think they could be a touch

higher than that in exposed spots. into sunday, the rain clears towards the south—east. sunday brings a day of sunny spells and showers. the showers could be wintry over high ground, particularly in the north and west. the wind is lighter than on saturday and the temperature is coming down again, with highs of ten or 11 possible in the south. lucy, many thanks. a reminder bra top story this lunchtime. the royal family are said to be "hurt" and disappointed by prince harry and meghan‘s decision to step back from royal duties. that's all from the bbc news at one, so it's goodbye from me, good afternoon. you're watching bbc news with me ben croucher with a round up from the bbc sport centre. james anderson says he hopes to be fit in a few weeks despite question marks

of his england future. he's been ruled out of the remainder of england's tour to south africa with a broken rib. he's onlyjust returned from five months out with a calf injury. former spinner phil tufnell told the bbc he'd be surprised if the 37—year—old hadn't considered retirement whilst anderson called the latest setback frustrating after taking seven wickets in the second test in cape town. meanwhile, there was some impressive fielding on display in the australian big bash this morning. aussie international matthew wade smashes the ball towards the boundary. it looks like it's going for six but matt renshaw tries to take the catch. momentum carried him over but as he parries the ball back — it's caught by a teammate. initially it was given not out but on review — as renshaw was in the air when he pushed the ball back to a teammate — the catch was legal and wade had to go. great britain have been knocked out in the quarterfinals of the atp cup by hosts australia.

it went right down to the wire too with a champions tie break in the deciding doubles rubber, with jamie murray and joe salisbury losing four matches points being slipping to defeat. joe lynskey reports. it is one of the sport's and oldest rivalries and a brand—new competition. in the final set of the deciding match jamie murray had this to settle it. for great britain at was one of four match points that would slip away. an atp cup climax that for the watching crowd and team—mates capped an extraordinary day. it was spectacularjust team—mates capped an extraordinary day. it was spectacular just seen nicholas in full flow who drew on his underarm serve once again. australia to press home, a semifinal place would be sealed with a win in the next singles match but britain's dan the next singles match but britain's da n eva ns the next singles match but britain's dan evans had other ideas. with

captain tim henman‘s support evans thrust his team back in the tie. it took on more than three others to seal this most gutsy win on a tie—break. and so the doubles would decided. evans' opponent went straight back on court and after that setback he had the slight touch. the winner said this match to a decider, first to ten points wins but for every chance britain created the home side would hit back. at 17-16 the home side would hit back. at 17—16 finally australia broke through. i try to bring as much energy asl through. i try to bring as much energy as i could and that was probably the most stressful time lick i have ever played. i will definitely try and have some red wine tonight. the atp cup sets

tennis upon its new season, it could be some year ahead. one bit of transfer news, and ashley young is to leave manchester united after nine years at old trafford. the winger—turned full back willjoin inter milan when his contract expires in the summer although he could still leave in january. that's all the sport for now. you can find more on all those stories on the bbc sport website — including all the latest transfer stories. john watson will have more in afternoon live. buckingham palace says it understands the desire of the duke and duchess of sussex to take what it describes as a "different approach" in future. the palace was responding to the couple's statement last night in which they said they intended to carve out a "progressive new role" within the institution. viscountess of hinchingbrooke — julie montagu says she predicted this would happen months ago. speaking to anita mcveigh on bbc news a short time ago, she said the british press has been

ruthless with meghan markle. i kept saying they are being pushed away, they can go to america any time and that is what is happening and there's nothing here that has to hold them here, it is an unwritten rule book the royal family and they do not necessarily they do not necessarily have to abide by it. he is sixth in line. do you think they have been put under extra pressure, this rather hastily. i think they are doing it so hastily that the even tell the queen or prince of wales who after all are going to carry on funding them whether they become

financially independent, their bills will still be met by the prince of wales when he becomes king. it has been very hasty and badly handled. i understand they are deeply unhappy with the royal predicament, they want to change that which is understandable, i do not subscribe to the view has been some sort of ruthless campaign, in that is what was said last year. there has been a very deal of positive coverage about what they do because to the wedding and 2018 it was the most amazing day, there was huge promise, we all wanted ads to work and effort hasn't what it is for a number of reasons and it is in everyone's interest to reach a happy conclusion but the way they have done it putting out there this is what we will do like lump it is not the way to do it. do you agree with that, julie? should they have handled it

differently and expected of them feeling clearly unhappy that there was a better way to do it that would allow them to step into this new role. look back at the queen mother's unofficial motto which was never complain, never explain they have broken that and from day one of they are all about complaining and explaining what they are complaining about. he is the biggest supporter of his wife as he should be and he has seen what has happened tragically to his mother when the press gets a hold of that and he has come out statement after statement trying to protect herand of course there was that small honeymoon ofa period when we saw the wedding when it was american and english past and present, modern and traditional, anglican and episcopalian and it was wonderful but very short—lived and then the press started to turn on them.

she cannot even step foot out of her door without somebody criticising what she is wearing. you as an american who has stepped into that lifestyle, do you think this transition has been more difficult for meghan than she anticipated? absolutely, i was posting something similar and i have a lot of followers in america and they are very supportive of the decision. it is really the british that are not but what is interesting is the comments i see coming through from the british are saying she knew about this, what she was getting herself into. no she did not. i can tell you as an american living into the aristocracy it is different, it is harder. the way in which this statement came out, the speed with which it came out giving that talks were ongoing with other royals who clearly thought the talks had a way to progress before any further announcements were made, does that indicate a worsening relationship

between harry and meghan and other senior royals? i think there has been a cooling inside the palace between the different households because people feel let down by the way this has been handled. there is a sympathy for the fact they are clearly very unhappy with the situation, people want to sort that out but as history has shown negotiating in public is a lot harder than in private. ultimately they need each other. they are a great asset, this idea somehow they should be forced to do things the royal way, there is a cinderella narrative i have seen on social media particularly in the us that this poor couple have been put upon

by the hidebound institution and ghastly media making their lives a misery and it is much more nuanced than that. the press have written things about them but it is not been a what are very positive, clear that they do not like the situation as it is and i think everyone should understand and accept that and they should be allowed to find a new way of doing it but you cannot carry on being royal, the duchy of cornwall paying for stuff and then doing duties when you feel like it. do you see them adopting this 0bama model where they become an international power couple and take on these couple and take on these charitable projects and can somehow that come to an accommodation with the rest of the royalfamily? it is a wait and see

what will happen but that is a way of doing it but also she is american, an american work ethic and it would not surprise me if she goes back to acting and that is properly one of the things i suspect they are trying to negotiate, i think they want to work and run the charitable entity but also go back and do what she loves so a wait and see. the headlines on bbc news... senior royals are said to be ‘hurt‘ by prince harry and meghan‘s decision to step back from the family — they will split their time between the uk and north america. a&e departments in england experience their worst month on record since targets for treating people within four hours were introduced. borisjohnson speaks by phone to the iranian president and calls for "an end to hostilities"

a ministerial inquiry which cleared former welsh secretary, alun cairns, of misconduct over what he knew about the role of his former aide in the collapse of a rape trial, has been dismissed as a ‘sham' by the victim. in an interview with the victoria derbyshire programme, the woman says she wasn't contacted as part of the investigation. she also felt subjected to a ‘smear campaign‘ by some members of the party from the moment she reported the rape — adding that the conservative party has work to do to make it ‘a safe environment for young women to work in‘. the victim worked for alun cairns at the time she was raped, and says she feels didn't take her concerns seriously. alun cairns resigned as welsh secretary last november over claims he knew a former aide, ross england, had been responsible for derailing a rape trial when mr cairns endorsed mr england as a candidate for the welsh assembly. a ministerial investigation eight days after the election concluded

there was no evidence alun cairns had breached the ministerial code. however, it did state it was unlikely that mr cairns would not have been told something about ross england's role in the collapse of the trial. the victim, who we're calling lucy, worked for alan cairns when she was attacked. the whole thing feels like a sham. what kind of investigation doesn't contact the person who is most affected? it makes me question how seriously it was actually carried out. this was not a genuine investigation into alun‘s truthfulness. it's understood the cabinet office did not feel it was necessary or appropriate to contact lucy. lucy also claims that members of the welsh conservative party made her feel like she was the one being put on trial. the only way that i can describe it is a campaign of hatred towards me that i'd had the gall to tell the police what happened and why would i notjust let it go. between that and the trials my life

has made absolutely miserable. was made absolutely miserable. it felt like a complete smear campaign, basically trying to spread about that i'd slept with certain people, and therefore i must have deserved what had happened. they were trying to say i'd lied about other things. alun cairns brought ross england in as his campaign manager, despite lucy claiming he'd been part of what she called a smear campaign, which mr england denied. when he brought him in i walked out and said, this isn't a case of me or him, but i can't work with him. therefore, if you do choose him, i'm gonna have to go. in april 2018, after lucy stopped working for the conservatives, the rape trial was derailed when ross england gave evidence about lucy's sexual history. mr england claims he was unaware that anything relating to sexual history had been ruled inadmissible prior to him giving his testimony. the anger that i felt, i thought this man feels like he's untouchable. and he was made to feel like that by the conservative party.

in a statement to this programme, mrcairns told us... now the conservative party in wales have said this in a statement. we are deeply sorry for the circumstances surrounding the collapse of the trial and the deep distress this must have caused the victim, her family and friends. the conservative party has a lot of work to do to make this a safe environment for young women to work in. i'm not saying it's an old boys club. it's just a boys club. as long as you're male, you'll be fine. an estranged husband has appeared in court charged with murdering his wife and her lover. rhys hancock, who's 39 from etwall in derbyshire, is accused of killing 39 year old helen hancock and 48 year old martin griffiths,

who were found fatally stabbed at a the former marital home on new year's day. mr hancock had three children with his wife, but the court heard they had seperated "some time ago" and that mr griffiths is her "new partner". mr hanock has been remanded in custody and will appear at derby crown court on monday. the canadian singer justin bieber has confirmed that he's been diagnosed with lyme disease. there had been speculation on social media that he had a drug problem, after he was photographed looking unwell with blotches on his skin. lyme disease is a bacterial infection caused by ticks. justin bieber said it had been a rough couple of years, but he hoped the right treatment would help him recover from the disease. two women who rescued a drowning dog whose lead was tied to a rock say the ordeal was "horrific" and "emotional". jane harper had been walking her dogs with herfriend joanne bellamy when they spotted bella — a belgian shepherd —

in the river trent in nottinghamshire. bella has been taken to a vet where she is recovering. a man and a woman were arrested on suspicion of animal cruelty offences and have been released under investigation. just by chance we were about 20 minutes into the walk and just the corner of my eye, ijust saw something and i wasn't sure if it was a hat or something swept up with the river. and when we looked closely, we just saw eyes. the face was so still that the eyes were just looking at us. the community all came together and i had a friend who dog grooms. and i thought she would know exactly who to phone and what to do. she was there within five, ten minutes with her husband. he took his jumper off and wrapped it round the dog. and it'sjust amazing how everyone dropped everything to come and help this dog. and the worst and the best of humanity, i think, in this story. jane, you waded in to try to pull

bella out of the river. now, i don't know if we have a picture of the actual rock that was tied to her. here it comes. yes, it is huge. we can see a police officer holding the rock that was attached to bella. it's a huge lump of stone. it must have been really difficult to pull her out because with that rock and she's a big dog as well. it was i mean, to be honest, i didn't know at first. ijust thought it was a dog that maybe had got lost and got itself caught in the river. and it was an awful feeling. when i realised that this... i couldn't see the bag on the rock because the water was very murky. so when i went in, i looked down and the dog hadn't got a collar on at all. and so i was trying to pull her up and i thought, why can't, you know, i'm pretty strong, why can't i move her at all. and then i saw that she got a harness. it was then horrific because i realized that somebody this wasn't a lost dog,

but this was somebody had tried to kill this dog. so when i saw the images online, you know, i could have burst into tears myself, as i'm sure many people could have. you know, she looked absolutely traumatized. but have you been to see her since? yes, we have. and she is recovering well. but she's she's still very poorly. she's not out of the woods yet. but the water was so cold, i think probably another even a few minutes, then i don't think she would have survived. and hopefully, joanne, hopefully she will recover and find a loving home. oh, yeah. i think so many friends and family, they would all take off. but we need to see what she's like and what what would suit her better as a dog. but yes, she seems a lovely, lovely. 0h, lovely dog. new gadgets and technology that could define the next decade have been on show in las vegas this week.as well as tech industry giants, such as samsung, google and sony, there are also thousands of start ups hoping to win financial backing for their big ideas. bbc click reporter chris fox

sent us this report. a very good morning from las vegas. i've spent the whole day at eureka park, which is the part of ces where you get the more weird a wonderful ideas on show. how do you like my tattooes that i got here? they are not real. this is "hello" in korean, but they're just from an ink printer that goes on your skin and gives you a tattoo just for a day. they promised me they would wash off in the shower. so we'll see how it goes. here are a few other things i've seen. samsung let me try a research project called selfie type, which let's you type on any surface, no keyboard required. it uses your phone's selfie camera to work out where your fingers would be landing so, if you can touch type, you can now type on any surface with no buttons. but it is just a research project so no plans to put that in a phone just yet. this is the wowcube, it's another prototype. it looks like a rubik's cube

but every single square is a screen so you can use it for all kinds of different games. there was a device i got to try earlier in the week, which really did impress me. you can think of it as like a reverse microwave oven — it cools down things really quickly. at the moment, in the prototype, you can put in one can of drink and it will cool down to really chilled in about 90 seconds. admittedly, at first i did think, this is a bit frivolous, why would you cool down just one can of drink at a time? why notjust put them all in the fridge? but the company told me it wants to replace the hotel minibar. if you think about all those thousands of hotels across the world that have hotel minibars that maybe people don't use very often, instead you can leave the drinks on the side and just cool down one or two drinks when you need them — that would save a lot of energy. well, i've got another whole day of ces ahead of me tomorrow so i better head off. you can see all our coverage on breakfast at the weekend, including click. a roman fort on hadrian's wall has been donated to the nation by its owner. carrawburgh roman fort in northumberland has been cared for byjennifer du cane's family since 1950, and has undergone little archaeological investigation —

in comparison to many of the other forts along the wall. the site will now be looked after by english heritage. mike collins is inspector of ancient monuments at historic england. he was at the site this morning and spoke to my colleague annita mcveigh. it is an amazing gift and we are extremely grateful for the philanthropy giving this site to the nation, an exciting opportunity in two really key areas, a chance to present and explain roman frontier to the public, being able to see a whole section across it with the fort, the civilian settlement and temples and defences but also a site that hasn't been extensively explored and there are so many questions to answer of hadrian's wall more generally but also at this site. there are few better days and i have had in myjob than today welcoming this site

and to the national collection. considering this was once the very edge of the roman empire, what was going through your mind? it was the responsibility that comes with owning this kind of site that jennifer and her family have looked after extremely well but have taken that decision to present to the nation and that responsibility we in historic and our colleagues in english heritage have no to not only protect it but explain it and bring it to life for people. it is a responsibility and an amazing and exciting opportunity and we are looking forward to it. when something like this becomes your responsibility to take care of for the future, it has been in private hands and they were in public ownership,

what are the first steps, what do you do to protect that? nor do you want to interfere with the site too much. we have a huge advantage and that the fort is in excellent condition, the stewardship provided over the last 70 years have left it in a fantastic state, it doesn't have problems of management issues we might find occasionally on other sites so we are in a good place already. now it's time for a look at the weather. a changeable weather pattern for coming days, we are saying goodbye to rain. the afternoon looks fairly

miserable in the south, brighter and drier further north but cold. as the sun goes down to purchase. —— temperatures will drop and we could have a late frost which means friday could dawn on a chilly note with ice. they should let and for many looks dry with rain holding off on two after dark but with strengthening wind. not quite so cold but not as mild for the south and come saturday or will have a speu and come saturday or will have a spell of windy weather and for many parts away from the south—east it is pretty wet as well.

hello, you're watching afternoon live, i'm simon mccoy. today at 2pm... where will they live? how will they pay for it? and what about their security? the dramatic announcement from harry and meghan which brings more questions than answers. what has been genuinely surprising is the way they have gone about making their intentions public. the fact that they didn't feel the need to inform the queen, the prince of wales, or prince william, before publishing that statement yesterday evening. a casualty crisis: last month was the worst on record for waiting times at a&e departments in england. borisjohnson speaks by phone to the iranian president, and calls for "an end to hostilities".