it's in the balkans, though, where the situation is far more urgent. we'll have that interview with a serbian official in a moment, but first, here's simon jones. the cold snap is tightening its grip. claiming more than 65 lives across europe. causing traffic chaos, power cuts and travel delays. this is sarajevo. the balkans have been particularly hard hit. temperatures have been as low as —15 for several days. there is major concern about the plight of refugees, particularly in serbia. some are being sheltered in reception centres.

it's in the balkans, though, where the situation is far more urgent. we'll have that interview with a serbian official in a moment, but first, here's simon jones. the cold snap is tightening its grip. claiming more than 65 lives across europe. causing traffic chaos, power cuts and travel delays. this is sarajevo. the balkans have been particularly hard hit. temperatures have been as low as —15 for several days. there is major concern about the plight of refugees, particularly in serbia. some are being sheltered in reception centres. but 1,200 are living in a derelict warehouse in belgrade, according to the unhcr. it's very cold, and we are just making fire. but still we can keep warm ourselves. we don't like to say here. we're trying to leave this country and go to european countries. but we are stuck because of the borders. there are calls for governments across europe to do more. it will only take one more snow storm or another cold snap and we're going to see some, some children, you know, in a very dire situation. children are particularly prone to

i imagine this can get you through a pretty rough balkan winter. and a nice balkan summer!dn't help but wonder how often a serb and albanian kosovar actually shared a drink these days. you guys seem pretty peaceful right now. we grew up in the same country. his friends needed more rakija for his bar. let's go. so we headed to his producer's house. a town renowned for its rich soil and production of rakija wine. here, we got a lesson in home—made distillation. we were greeted in typical kosovar fashion, with a warm handshake, something to drink and far too much food, which was quite literally farm to table. two hours now of eating and drinking home—made drink and food. life is good. sakib's story is common in the balkans. during the yugoslav wars throughout the ‘905, jobs became scarce. but there was plenty of fruit, and people used it to turn centuries—old family traditions into a business, supplying bars with home—made rakija. that is tasty. that day, sakib was making plum rakija, and friends, neighbours and the entire family rushed to help with the precision of a pit crew

the balkans have been particularly ha rd—hit.ow as —15 for several days. there is major concern about the plight of refugees, particularly in serbia. some are being sheltered in reception centres. but 1,200 are living in a derelict warehouse in belgrade, according to the unhcr. it's very cold, and we are just making fire. but still we can keep warm ourselves. we need to have certainty, but we don't like to stay here. we're trying to leave this country and go to european countries, but we are stuck because of the borders. there are calls for governments across europe to do more. it will only take one more snowstorm, or another cold snap, and we're going to see some children, you know, in a very dire situation. children are particularly prone to respiratory illnesses at a time like this. we do not want to see this happen. it's about saving lives, not about red tape and keeping to bureaucratic arrangements, at the moment. river traffic along the danube, one of europe's main waterways, has largely been suspended in eastern europe, du

but it's in the balkans where the situation is far more urgent.that interview with the serbian official in a moment, but first, here's simonjones the cold snap is tightening its grip. claiming more than 65 lives across europe. causing traffic chaos, power cuts and travel delays. this is sarajevo. the balkans have been particularly hard hit. temperatures have been as low as —15 for several days. there is major concern about the plight of refugees, particularly in serbia. some are being sheltered in reception centres. but 1200 are living in a derelict warehouse in belgrade, according to the unhcr. it's very cold, and we are just making fire. but still we can keep warm ourselves. we don't like to stay here. we're trying to leave this country and go to european countries. but we are stuck because of the borders. there are calls for governments across europe to do more. it will only take one more snow storm or another cold snap and we're going to see some, some children, you know, in a very dire situation. children are particularly prone to respiratory

the closure of the balkan route and the agreement with turkey. the circumstances have changed little. with 36%, the highest proportion of asylum-seekers came from civil war torn syria. 13% from iraq. a lot has happened in germany in the meantime. applications for asylum are being dealt with more quickly. the country's bureaucracy is much better prepared to cope with refugees. brent: time for business news with christoph. dieselgate could be in the rearview mirror? christoph: volkswagen is pleading guilty to three criminal charges and will pay a total of $4.3 billion in fines to settle the dieselgate candle in the united states. it is the largest find to be levied against an automaker in the u.s. in history. charges against vw as a group will be dropped but trouble for half a dozen executives may only be beginning. >> they were pumping illegal levels of nitro sock lights, more than 40 times more than the amounts permitted under federal law. these vehicles were equipped with software that mask the true amount of the pollutants the cars released. re

say broaderrities closures on the balkan route than a deal with turkey or behind it. first, donald trump has given his first press conference since he won the u.s. election back in november. he began by tearing into unverified reports that russia holds compromising information about him, including videos filmed by prostitutes. that information was reportedly leaked by intelligence agencies and published by the online news site buzzfeed. trump had tough words for them and also for the news channels -- news channels seen in -- news channel cnn. and he refused to let them ask a question. trump: not you. your organization is terrible. go ahead. quiet. she is asking a question, don't be rude. don't be rude. i'm not going to give you a question. you are fake news. go ahead. a u.s. politics expert, i ask what kind of relationship donald trump's america would have with latimer bruton's russia. russia.vladimir putin's >> it would be great if the two countries could get along, for sure. but we know it's not that simple because diplomacy is never simple. we know that john mccain

although britain has never had any interest at all in the balkans. nonetheless, this was a fear in the war department. marshall much preferred the more direct route to berlin via northwest france, which he hoped would result in a gigantic battle of the decisive kind that he had helped plan in the muse-argonne region 24 years before. indeed, he supposedly erupted in what was described as a rare but also rage when he heard in the spring of 1942 that brooke and churchill were not serious about an early invasion of europe, which he thought they had agreed to before that, when they came over to washington in december 1941. at least, churchill came over. brook stayed in britain, but he of course signed onto the policy before churchill left. marshall was sent to london to negotiate the strategy that july by fdr, who told him it is of the highest importance that u.s. ground troops be brought into action against the enemy in 1942. he didn't want an entire year to go by from the german declaration of war on america to the point where american troops were going

was to punish serbia after the assassination is to establish a -- and stabilize the empire in the balkans. this was encouraged by the german kaiser, initially hoping to localize the conflict. however, when this did not prove , plans had already been discussed to launch a preventive war against france and russia in the expectation that britain would stay out of the conflict. despot ofno sort of the unite states at that point, even though many german was nosman -- there thought of the unite states at that point, even the many german businessmen were aware of the enormous industrial power that had he committed in this country before 1914. -- had been accumulated in this country before 1914. , the nephew of the dutch who had warned against -- nephew of the one who warned against the war. after he had met his austrian laterrpart if you weeks -- a few weeks later, he had a pessimistic conversation with this diplomat. in a veryis meeting gloomy mood. here is what he recorded after of meeting with -- in march 1914. the futurects of seriously worried him. they will have our moments in two or three

during the balkan wars, there were great fears of a major war being just around the corner. the french banks began to hold gold. since bankers and entrepreneurs did not of the future, they rushed at any sign of detente in hopes of rationality prevailing in europe. still, money became tighter in these years. banks began to reduce their exposure, loans were given more and more on short call, long-term commitments were no longer deemed safe. the correspondence between a very influential and unfortunately, also neglected banker who was the cao of the second-most powerful bank after j.p. morgan in york, the national city bank and his french colleague in paris is a case in point. the letter reflecting the pessimistic mood in the french capital in these final years before the first one war. he thought that "few americans have begun to grasp the awful significance of the whole world of general european war." however, as i moved to my next point: the july crisis, it must be stressed that with a few exceptions when none of these -- few exceptions, none of these businessmen were pacifi

we projected stability beyond our borders and in conflicts in the balkans, kosovo, bosnia, fighting terrorismtan and we are adapting again. responding to a more assertive russia in the east. how do you adapt to a us president who believes nato to be obsolete? what i will tell him and what i already told him is that is that nato is changing because the world is changing. when i spoke to him, he was very committed to nato. he expressed a strong support to nato. i look forward to working with him in continuing to adapt to nato because i don't see any contradiction between saying that nato is important but at the same time saying that nato has to change, nato has to... i understand but let's engage with what he has actually said to the times newspaperjust a few days ago he said that in his new nato had become obsolete. i'm just wondering how you reacted to that. well, i will continue to tell the story about nato and an alliance which has proven, for almost 70 years, able to change when the world is changing. sure... then i will sit down with him and discuss concrete measures, concrete issues wher

the isobars are running around that high pressure, down across eastern europe, through the balkans andy and towards the black sea and the caspian, but it's that direction of flow and the strength of that flow which has just added to that winter chill and we suspect that through the course of the weekend, we will see more disturbed weather through the mediterranean and up across turkey on towards the black sea and off towards ukraine. that is the sort of temperature profile that people are experiencing just at the moment. there is some winter sunshine in rome but you will need a lot of layers to go with your sunglasses andi layers to go with your sunglasses and i don't think we will see a significant improvement over the next couple of days. temperatures in moscow might get to around —10 as we move towards tuesday. so a couple of degrees either side of —10 across the surface. closer to home, couple of degrees either side are plus 10 degrees but that relatively mild air comes at a price. less chilly than of late but much more cloud. sarah keith lucas has all the details in just a few min

the balkan roots close their doors to migrants, effectively sealing off their roots to germany.reliant on that migrant deal struck between the eu and turkey. it is a fragile deal, they don't know whether it will hold. it is doing so for the moment but it is precarious. as the world awaits whatever a trump presidency may bring, the obama presidency draws ever closer to its end, and so too does the work of an artist who has followed his daily life for eight years. rob pruitt has painted a single image for every day of obama's time in office. that's nearly 3,000 paintings. they are now on display at the gavin brown gallery in new york, where the bbc caught up with him. when he won, i thought to myself, i need a place to put all of this energy. you know, ijust can't go back to life as usual so i thought that i would commit to making one painting of him every day of his presidency as a visual diary. it's very rare that you see an image of the president driving a car. when i started to think about what this visual diary would be like, i started thinking about my hometown, which is was

much of the balkans really quite chilly, only about 1 degrees there the balkans really quite chilly,within 90 days and allegations of russian hacking. us intelligence agencies have been briefing hem on russian interference in the russian election. a woman in america has died of old being treated by 26 different antibiotics. this data is a warning of antibacterial problems that are resista nt to antibacterial problems that are resistant to biotics. i'll win and that was abducted 18 years ago as a baby has been found alive. she was taken when she was eight hours old. the women she grew up with has been arrested. the un refugee agency says that

. -- theye is designed by have the allegorical figure of balkan featured and then they have furnaces. so it is the steel industry at the turn of the last century and provided by the roman god of the forge. angelsre allegorical leading chains to the new world which represents pennsylvania as a bastion of religious freedom. of minimal ands industrial wealth for the commonwealth. oilthe spirit of life has derricks with angels holding flames above it. a you go up further you have railing and then you have the large eight tall windows that rise up. as you grew up there will be a lantern which is 270 feet in the air and has stars in the lantern and that is up with the commonwealth statue sits on top of the dome. most people ask about the green on the dome. red clay tiles but they have a green glaze. they came from a tile company in ohio. -- likes the green glaze instead of red terra-cotta style. we are in the senate chamber. of the pennsylvania state capitol building. there are three principal chambers in the building. the senate chamber was done in the french renaissance. each one has an a

it shows an allegorical figure with a sense of realism, a figure of balkan depicted, and , andave blast furnaces godided over by the roman that represents pennsylvania as a bastion of religious freedom. the spirit of light actually has oil there with angels holding flames above it. as you go up further you have a railing and then you have the large eight tall windows that rise up. as you go up, there will be a lantern which is 270 feet in the air and has stars in the lantern and that is up with the commonwealth statue sits on top of the dome. most people ask about the green on the dome. they are red clay tiles but they have a green glaze. they came from a tile company in ohio. joseph you shouldn't -- joseph houston liked the green glaze instead of red terra-cotta style. we are in the senate chamber. of the pennsylvania state capitol building. there are three principal chambers in the building. the senate chamber was done in the french renaissance. each one has an architectural motif that he keeps with. so it is part of the american renaissance. we have artwork here by philadelphia artis

across central and eastern parts of europe, and it really will be a very cold weekend through the balkans weekend. second part of the weekend, back on our shores, looks like the first part of the weekend, a lot of cloud, not much rain, but there will be some, and temperatures peaking at around about nine or 10 degrees. and then on into the early part of the coming week we start to see something a bit more unsettled developing, a weather front making its way south and east across the uk, and note on our isobars on the chart, it'll be quite windy, the rain starts in scotland and northern ireland and then a steady progress starts in england and northern ireland and then a steady progress south and eastwards across the rest of the uk. a very warm welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to our viewers in north america and around the globe. my name's mike embley. our top stories: america's top intelligence chief says there's no doubt russian cyber hackers tried to interfere in the us presidential election. i don't think we've ever encountered a more aggressive or direct campaign to interfere in our e

across central and eastern parts of europe, and it really will be a very cold weekend through the balkans—10, and that'll be daytime temperatures, so a big contrast across europe this weekend. second part of the weekend back on our shores looks a lot like the first part of the weekend, a lot of cloud, not much rain, but there will be some, and temperatures peaking at around about nine or 10 degrees. and then on into the early part of the coming week we start to see something a bit more unsettled developing, a weather front will be heading its way south and east across the uk, and note on our isobars on the chart, it'll be quite windy, the rain starts in scotland and northern ireland and then it makes a steady progress starts in england and northern ireland and then it makes steady progress southwards and eastwards across the rest of the uk. hello. this is breakfast, with louise minchin and charlie stayt. donald trump goes face to face with intelligence chiefs after weeks of speculation over hacking. they'll tell the president—elect why they think russia intervened in the us election campa

have been living here for months and these are the latest pictures from what was once called the balkanoute. >> it was cold and all of the people were around the fire. it was too cold. 5. was as bad as -1 the situation is bad and the snow is falling outside. >> there are 30 official refugee centers with -- in -- ais only allowing week. the hungry gary police and soldiers control on the far side. hungarian police and soldiers control on the far side. many people have forgotten how hard real winter can be. >> on tuesday night, obama world that the -- deliver his farewell address in chicago, claiming victory in a historic election up with the first african american in the white house. what will his legacy be? the special of reports, john looks at the domestic issues that defined his time in office. >> it was not just a hope when he came to office. problems -- era.t-racial no more black or white america. just the united states of america. lingering vestiges of the dream disappeared in 2014, in clouds of tear gas in ferguson. it was a pattern that became too familiar. walter scott have been

cities and migrants and refugees are still trying to ta ke and refugees are still trying to take the balkanand so on. there are remarkable weather conditions also on the black sea coast, with snow and ice along there. very difficult conditions in large parts of eastern europe today. i hope it is not that bad here. there is some snow in the forecast, but nowhere near as cold as what we are seeing in eastern europe. today, it was about rain, working southwards and eastwards. not pleasa nt southwards and eastwards. not pleasant for a time, but the worst of it has clear. it is being driven by this deeper area of low pressure to the north of the uk. this evening, you have low pressure in the western side of scotland. it is also very windy. elsewhere, there will be showers coming in on that wind from the west. many southern areas are doing reasonably well, but it will be quite chilly. there will bea it will be quite chilly. there will be a chill in the airfirst it will be quite chilly. there will be a chill in the air first thing on tuesday. some parts of eastern scotla nd tuesday. some parts of

conditionons wi improve in turkey, howevever, another round of snow is expected to move into the balkan peninsula, so we will see snowfall persisting in several places. now these are your expected highs on your wednesday. minus 6 in warsaw. it's a little warmer than what we saw on tuesday. minus 4 in vienna, 1 in berlin with a chance for snowfall and mild across the west like madrid, 16 degrees for your high on wednesday. very heavy snow is falling across more th acroross northern areas o of ja. the snowfall depth has reached 2.2 meters in parts of the region. now the coldest air of the season is blanketed in much of the north. and the cold air will ten to move down coverering most of th countrtry by your thursday. we'll see temperatures dropping for the next several days and also heavy snow will likely continue across the north and west. we could see up to 70 centimeters of snowfall for the hoe ckcue recue region. and there will be extremely hazardous driving conditions. tokyo will see minus 2 degrees on your sunday morning. so do bundle up. sapporo will see snowfall persisting into yo

tom: let's don't to this chart, this is the balkanization chart. data the bottom is the green line, bnp paribas and ubs and deutsche bank bringing up the ,ack here let's go to fortis b.n.p. paribas can pick up the pieces of fortis banking of belgium, why can't that happen now? >> in europe there are potentials, the ecb governors want mergers within the eurozone , the challenge is that you have a couple of things -- thanks talks are trading below book value, it is expensive to raise equity so what the emphasis from shareholders to do that? regulatory uncertainty is second, we should talk about, what a biggest inflections of 2017 is whether banks get more clarity on the rules and invest more confidence to put their money into banks. francine: thank you. we're talking about the banks and news on carmakers, breaking news from -- the paris prosecutor has opened a probe --o run no diesel emissions admissions, for fiat, it was admissions of file asians act was a stash accusations that were similar to we saw with vw. we are just getting the headlines, just

this has been bringing absolute rough weather across italy and extending back towards the balkan area. over 300,000 people are without power. traffic has been disrupted and a lot of these buildings are very fragile. you can see the cracks in them there. you get heavy snow on top that. the risk of collapse and not to mention aftershocks are there, too. this is a combination of mother nature really throwing several hardballs at this area here in the southern central italy and definitely a lot of problems still to be added. temperatures are frigid of course, too. rome, right around the freezing area, if we look at the forecast, the low is dragging towards the east. the peninsula sees gusty winds out of this and separate storm systems have coastal precipitation. take a look at your temperatures. rome with a high of 12. thunderstorms in your forecast but north of that, subzero temperatures across the board here. and then we take a look here across the americas. we do have one low here in the deep south. it's working across the north and causing flooding there and into parts of texas. this

wind reports down towards the balkan peninsula. >>> all right.ere's your extended outlook. >>> and that is all for this edition of nhk "newsline." i hope you're having a great week so far. thanks for joining us. >> welcome to "in good shape!" cong up -- voicebox spasms. doing a detox. and tattoos. the risk of getting inked in the pain of removal. and here's your host, dr. carsten lekutat. dr. lekutat: here in europe, many people love them. here in germany, one out of 10 persons have a tattoo. but when you grow older and you change your style, perhaps you want to remove your tattoo.

even the south of the balkan peninsula showedd heavy rainfal. want to show video from greece and turkey where heavy snow fell. parts of greece had more than a meter of snow on monday. a state of emergency was declared in parts of the country. istanbul had heavy snow since friday. snowplows attempted to keep roads cleared. many schools were closed on monday. now the cold vortex will continue to sit in the area. cold temperatures will likely stay for the next of days. athens your morning low will be minus degree on both wednesday and thursday. good news, temperatures are expected to come up on friday. japan, heavy snow is falling in northern portions of the country in the past 24 hours. 30 millimeters of snow has fallen in hokkaido. the cold of the season will blanket much of japan. quite cold companies and cold winds. we're looking at sea effect snow across japan. some areas may see 40 centimeters of snowfall. different story in other areas of japan, including tokyo. it will be staying quite dry. all right. here's the extended forecast. >>> thous

also toward the balkan peninsula we'll be seeing gusty winds too. the front will drift off there towards the east. still a potent storm system. it's not over yet. it really remains a little separated from the jet stream. that's why it's not moving very fast at all. now north of this we have exceptionally cool temperatures. we have a high of only minus three. berlin at 1. paris at 4. london you've been seeing significant fog out there. might see flight delays. just a high of 4 on tuesday. down towards the south things are warming up. now, take a look here across japan real fast. we've been talking about our heavy snow. hundreds of cars were stranded out here through the overnight hours. still 50 centimeters is expected. high pressure will drift in. minus one here. here is your extended outlook. >> that is all. thanks very much for joining us. >> welcome to a very special new years edition of focus on europe, i'm michelle henery. we are wrapping up 2016 by taking a look back at some of our best reports of the year. and what a year it was! we've seen j

also the balkan peninsula.a. because of that we had tornados reported there on mondayay.k for unstable weather to continue as we go through tuesday. hope you have a good day wherever you are. here's your extended outlook. ♪ ♪ >>> as winter begins to bite, it's not only humans who want to protect themselves from the cold, visitors to a zoo in western japan are enjoying the rare sight of wild monkeys huddling together for warmth. the zoo has about 500 wild monkeys. each year, dozens of them cudude up to withstand the cold, forming bundles in japan knownw as monkey dumplings. mothers holold their babies tightlyy in their arms. >> translator: i enjoyed seeing such big monkey dumplings. >> they can be seen until mid march when the chill eases up. >>> that's all happening here. i'm james tengan.qwueeewep >> goal -- a new positive constructive partnership between britain and the european union. we will be driven by some core principles. we will provide with as much certainty and clarity as we can at every stage. and we will take the opportunity to make britain stronger, fa

the countries on the balkan route closed their doors to migrants sealing off the major route throughurope into germany. awareers are painfully this reduction is reliant on the migrant deal struck between the eu and turkey. a fragile deal they don't know if it will hold. it is precarious. last night president obama returned to his hometown of chicago to deliver his farewell address. he looked back on his achievements and warned about what he sees as threats to u.s. democracy. the most emotional moments came and he paid tribute to his wife and family. nick bryant was there. of hishe poet laureate own presidency. he returned home to chicago to define and defend his legacy. pres. obama: if i had told you eight years ago that america would reverse a great recession, shut down iran's nuclear weapons program without firing a shot -- [applause] pres. obama: takedown the masterminds of 9/11, you might have said our sites were said a -- were set a little too high. but that's what we did. reporter: four more years became the chance. pres. obama: i can't do that. -- became the chant. pres. obama

implementing sanctions against russia for annexing crimea, working for peace and security in the balkans, or securing our external border, we will continue to work closely with our european allies in foreign and domestic defense policy, even as we leave the unit self. these are our objectives for the negotiation ahead. objectives that will help to realize our ambition of shaping that stronger, fairer global britain that we want to see. a new,e the basis for strong, constructive partnership with the european union, a partnership of friends and allies, interests and values. a partnership for a strong e.u. and a strong u.k. but there is one further objective. as i have said before, it is in no one's interest for there to be a cliff edge with business and a threat to stability as we change our existing relationship to a new partnership with e.u. of anl not seek some form limiting transitional status in which we find ourselves in a permanent political pretoria. that would not be good for britain, nor will it be good for the e.u. instead, i want us to have reached an agreement about our future

now another disturbance will move into the west coast of the balkan peninsula. we may see some severe thunderstorms, gusty winds and temperatures are going to be as follows. warming up across central and eastern europe. 2 degrees in warsaw, 2 degrees in berlin and out towards the west snow is expected on your last day of the business week in paris. here's the extended forecast. >>> be sure to watch newsroom tokyo at the top of the hour and you can download the nhk app and follow us wherever you aañyxñ >> what makes france and the french so unique? focus," "france 24, and france24.com. welcome. i'm molly hall. it is 1:00 p.m. in the french capital. fellowmpeo follows cabinet picks and disagrees with the president-elect on key issues, including russia. barack obama and special -- ends special immigration policy for cuba. havana welcomes the move. west

across central and eastern parts of europe, and it really will be a very cold weekend through the balkansd that'll be daytime temperatures, so a big contrast across europe this weekend. second part of the weekend, back on our shores, looks like the first part of the weekend, a lot of cloud, not much rain, but there will be some, and temperatures peaking at around about nine or 10 degrees. and then on into the early part of the coming week we start to see something a bit more unsettled developing, a weather front making its way south and east across the uk, and note on our isobars on the chart, it'll be quite windy, with the rain starting in scotland and northern ireland and then a steady progress south and eastwards across the rest of the uk. a very warm welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to our viewers in north america and around the globe. my name's mike embley. our top stories: america's top intelligence chief says there's no doubt russian cyber—hackers tried to interfere in november's presidential election. i don't think we've ever encountered a more aggressive or direct campaign to in

these are the latest pictures from what was once called the balkan route.h. last night, all people were sitting around the fire and it was to cold. i think it was minus 15. the snow is outside. the row 13 official refugee centres with around 7000 temporary residents. hungary is allowing in 1100 a week those on top of the week wait here. hungarian police and soldiers patrol on the far side. meanwhile, in italy there are christmas card sent a little after the event. 0nly christmas card sent a little after the event. only a few years ago, such images were commonplace but after five years of global warming, many people had forgotten how hard a real winter could be. singapore has demanded the immediate return of nine ahmed troop carriers that they were in pounded in hong kong. the vehicle were transported from taiwan were they were taken in november is not the singaporean government has described the seizure as illegal but beijing as a ready lodged a complaint against taiwan. fresh elections are likely in northern ireland after deputy first minister announced hi

for the balkan, germany and poland.he cold temperatures, so the weather across central europe could causing some disruption, particularly to fight flights as we head through friday and the weekend too. so that wintry weather is really the theme closer to home. the outlook in the uk, things are going to be turning colder, we have got sleet, snow in the forecast as well as some icy conditions to contend with on untreated roads and pavements for instance, through the course of thursday, snow showers across western parts of the uk, snow clearing away initially but we have another band of rain, sleet and snow moving down the east coast. by friday morning that leaves us with a lot of ice round so take care if you are exciting to work, ice it should clear away and a brighter day by the time we get to friday. some sunshine, still some showers in eastern and western fringes of the uk, highs of two to six. more details for the week ahead withjohn hammond in half an hour. hello, i'm ros atkins, this is outside source. let's look t

for the balkans there was no letup in the icy grip of winter, so far.ratures cause further misery. for the thousands of migrants stuck in serbia, the situation is dire. some have already died and now there is warning that more lives will be claimed by the temperatures. many are living in disused warehouses with no heating or electricity, waddling around fires and eating hot food to trying keep the cold at bay. officials here say they are doing everything they can to help the migrants but some are refusing any assistance. somehow they are distrustful towards is because they are afraid of deportation, in reality there is not a single real reason for them to be outside of the official asylum centres, provided by the state of serbia. serbian officials have set up areas where migrants can read charge batteries and the mobile phones as they wait to move further north. but that move is farfrom to move further north. but that move is far from easy with the free is affecting countries they either want to pass through or move to. this is austria, which again has