however, it was a slightly different story in newquay and cornwall.lk on the beach. and that cloudy, murky story will continue into christmas day for many of us. but it will also continue to stay mild for this time of year. and that's because we're under this influence of high pressure. the wind direction is south—westerly, feeding in that cloud from the ocean, and thick enough for some drizzle. this weather front here still continuing to produce some outbreaks of rain and still windy. so through this evening, we'll have some showery rain into the far north west of scotland with gusts of winds 40—50 miles an hour. we keep that blanket of cloud, though, preventing temperatures from falling too far, so it will be a very mild start to christmas morning for early risers. temperatures sitting at around 7—10 celsius. again, the cloud thick enough for some drizzle, misty, murky first thing in the morning. hopefully that will lift, and we'll see, once again, some breaks in the cloud from time to time. more persistent rain into the western isles and northern i

cornwallis is the uncle of charles cornwallis, who will be gates's nemesis in the battle of camden a few decades down the road. this is a pattern you see throughout gates in his early life. he recognizes soone from a middling background that if he's going to advance of the british military it'sgog to be establishing connections through more inflntl patrons and people have more power and influence than does. one of his earliest relationships is to ilthis connection with cornwallis, which allows him memilitary advancement early on. in nova scotia he will rv and father and meet his wife, elizabeth phillips, who comes from a well-to-do nova scotia family. you can see a miniature of her on the right on the screen which belongs to the new york historical society. they will have one son by the name, robert, who they call, bob. he is promoted to captain and ends up being sent to fight in the french and indian war. he partakes in the braddock expedition, which everyone here knows does not go well for the british, which would be an understatement. it goes very poorly. so many officers are eith

of cornwall land which will be used to build 2a homes with wraparound care, specifically for peoplehomeless. they cheer november and, in south africa, the green carpet was rolled out for the earthshot awards ceremony. its founder, prince william, in a sustainable blazer and biodegradable trainers. these are the game—changers. these are the innovators. - these are the inventors that are going to make the world a better place for us in the future. - what about at home? your own environmental strategies at home? what can you tell us? yeah, well, every family tries to do what they can _ to sort of help - with the environment, and we go through all| the basics of recycling and making sure - we minimise wateruse and turning off lights - when you leave the house and stuff like that and making sure we're just sensible - with what we do around the environment. - and i think every familyj has those conversations and you just try- and do what you can. the earthshot prize has got to be a bit more global than that. - we're trying to do big—scale - ambition and big—scale business to tackle some i

and on a sunny trip to cornwall in may, as well as some beach volleyball, he visited the site on duchy land which will be used to build 2a homes with wraparound care specifically for people who would otherwise be homeless. november, and in south africa the green carpet was rolled out for the earthshot awards ceremony. its founder prince william in a sustainable blazer and biodegradable trainers. these are the game changers. these are the innovators, these are the inventors that are going to make the world a better place for us in future. at home, your environmental strategies at home, what can you tell us? yes, well every family try to do what they can to sort of help with the environment. we go through all the basics of recycling and making sure we minimise water use and turning off lights when you leave the house and stuff like that, and making sure we are just sensible and what we do around the environment. and i think every family has those conversations, and i think you just try to do what you can — the earthshot prize is got to be a bit more global than that. we are trying to do

he is a champion of the extraordinary potential of cornwall, particularly clean energy aspirations by030. next week we will publish a paper sitting out our ambitions to move energy transitions from westminster to all parts of england. >> liberal democrats. >> thank you, mr. speaker. while they are rejoicing over the brutal overthrow of the assad regime, people around the world are worried about what comes next as the prime minister said, with the threats of extremism, isis terrorism and unsecured chemical weapons. only an open political process can bring peace and stability, but that will require the full backing of the international duty. does the prime minister share my concern that president-elect trump said about trang, and i quote, the united states should have nothing to do with it. if america walks away and steps away, will he step up and work with other allies to provide british leadership over syria? >> prime minister. p.m. starmer: he is right. it is a serious moment. we all welcome the fall of assad , but i hope this can be a turning point for syria. that is by no means gua

a magistrate has ruled that devon and cornwall police can seize more than £2 million from the socialny in tax on £21 million of revenue from their online businesses, including sites such as only fan. the magistrate ruling that devon and cornwall police can seize £2 million from the social media influencers who are awaiting trial in romania for charges that they deny. westminster magistrates' court saying they had failed to pay a penny in tax on £21 million of revenue from their online businesses. lots more on our website and stay with us on bbc news. i will be back in a few moments, but let's get the weather with carol kirkwood. hello again! it's been a windy and a mild start to the day. we've also had some rain courtesy of this area of low pressure. the rain pushing northwards and eastwards and clearing, only to be replaced later by the next batch of rain coming up from the southwest. so as we go through the course of the afternoon, we will see behind the rain, some brighter skies developing, even some sunshine. a peppering of showers coming in across the northwest, and then heavier

he is a champion of the extraordinary potential of cornwall, particularly clean energy aspirations by030. next week we will publish a paper sitting out our ambitions to move energy transitions from westminster to all parts of england. >> liberal democrats. >> thank you, mr. speaker. while they are rejoicing over the brutal overthrow of the assad regime, people around the world are worried about what comes next as the prime minister said, with the threats of extremism, isis terrorism and unsecured chemical weapons. only an open political process can bring peace and stability, but that will require the full backing of the international duty. does the prime minister share my concern that president-elect trump said about trang, and i quote, the united states should have nothing to do with it. if america walks away and steps away, will he step up and work with other allies to provide british leadership over syria? >> prime minister. p.m. starmer: he is right. it is a serious moment. we all welcome the fall of assad , but i hope this can be a turning point for syria. that is by no means gua

devon and cornwall police says it prioritises attendance where violence is involved or a shoplifter is hopes that government actions, such as making it a criminal offence to assault a shop worker, will mean he's no longer seen as a soft target. yeah, ifeel desperate and ifeel like giving up. but if i give up the fight, eventually i'd probably have to give up the business as well. we will have more on all of the top stories injust we will have more on all of the top stories in just a moment. now we have the weather forecast. hello. it's been a very mild day and it is going to be a very mild night, but it's also going to be a wet and a windy night in places thanks to this curl of cloud, this area of low pressure, which is going to be passing across the north—west of the uk. and notice the white lines, the isobars, squeezing together. that shows that we are going to see some pretty brisk winds, the strongest winds through the evening found around some of these western coasts — gusts of 50mph or more could well cause some disruption. we will also see outbreaks of rain pushing northwards an

showers in the south and east and channel islands instead pick them up across southern devon and cornwallday to day, but it will be another cold feeling day on wednesday despite the sunshine. by thursday, we might start to pick up more moisture and thicker cloud coming back in across central and eastern parts of england into the east of wales, and perhaps a bit more cloud by then for northern ireland and the far north of scotland, slightly less cold as a result, but still theissue of some fog around. then come friday, our weather front starts to push its way southwards. we change our air mass and that will clear out the fog. we get a brisker wind going into the weekend, not strong winds, but a brisk wind and therefore a return to an atlantic wind direction. and it's a bit milder by then, but until then, some frost and fog by night. live from damascus, this is bbc news. i'm lyse doucet. top headlines. israel says it has destroyed syria's naval fleet as it continues its attacks on syrian military installations for a third day. turkey's president erdogan welcomes the capture of two syrian to

who who was another early patron, and is the is the uncle of charles cornwallis, who will be gates is a nemesis of the battle of camden and the decades down the road. this is like a pattern you see throughout gates in his early life. is that he recognizes that a somebody somebody a pretty middling background if he is going to advance within the british military establishing it's going to be through establishing connections through the more influential patrons people who have more power and infle than he does. and sonef his earliest relationships to build this build this connection wi cowais which allows him allows some military advancement early on in novscia is going to serve father the looters war is to need his his his wife ilps who comes from a fairly well-to-do nova scotia family. you can sea miature her on the right there on the screen that is in the villa belongs the new york historical society. and together they're going to have one son who the name robert who they call bob. he's promoted to captain, ends up being sent to fight in the french and indian war. he partakes in the

however, it was a slightly different story in newquay and cornwall. taking an afternoon walk on the beach. and that cloudy, murky story will continue into christmas day for many of us. but it will also continue to stay mild for this time of year. and that's because we're under this influence of high pressure. the wind direction is south—westerly, feeding in that cloud from the ocean, and thick enough for some drizzle. this weather front here still continuing to produce some outbreaks of rain and still windy. so through this evening, we'll have some showery rain into the far north west of scotland with gusts of winds 40—50 miles an hour. we keep that blanket of cloud, though, preventing temperatures from falling too far, so it will be a very mild start to christmas morning for early risers. temperatures sitting at around 7—10 celsius. again, the cloud thick enough for some drizzle, misty, murky first thing in the morning. hopefully that will lift, and we'll see, once again, some breaks in the cloud from time to time. more persistent rain into the weste

devon and cornwall police says it prioritises attendance where violence is involved, or a shoplifter government actions — such as making it a criminal offence to assault a shop worker — will mean he's no longer seen as a soft target. yeah, ifeel desperate and ifeel like giving up, but if i give up the fight, eventually i'd probably have to give up the business, as well. good to have you with us. i will see you again tomorrow. hello. it has turned into a mild day across the uk, but we've also got some outbreaks of rain and some increasingly strong winds. 0n the satellite picture we can see this hook of cloud, an area of low pressure, and as this swirls to the northwest of the uk, you can see the isobars, the white lines squeezing together, indicative of some pretty strong winds, those winds increasing through the afternoon, gusting to 50mph or more around the coast of southwest england. wales up through the irish sea, northern ireland, southwest scotland. bands of rain moving northwards and eastwards as well, although the further east you are a decent amount of dry weather to take us.

the odd showers still around the irish sea and quite grey and murky for some in cornwall and the islesr or five degrees into the afternoon across parts of eastern scotland and north east england, with the cold air in place with rain falling across the hebrides and the highlands to end the day. as well as northern ireland, it hits the colder air across the highlands, the grampians. you can expect to see some snow here for a time this evening. that will gradually clear, though the rain that we do have will push its way southwards and turn into showers across northern england, midlands and also wales. southern areas will stay dry, but as skies clear to the north of it, temperatures will take a drop. again not quite as cold as last night, but it will be cold enough for some frost and potentially some icy conditions considering we have had some rain earlier in the night. but lovely bright start, a dry start to the day for the vast majority. always a bit more cloud through wales, parts of central southern england. a few spots of rain likely here first thing, but many will stay dry. bigger ch

from here, rail services down to devon and cornwall, the midlands, the north and london as well as south of those services between bristol and cardiff have been delayed, or now cancelled the most of the rest of the day. specific lines themselves, no trains, gwr says, between plymouth and penzance until at least one o'clock today. between bristol temple meads and portsmouth, no services because of debris on the line near westbury. those delays are likely to get worse as we hear about more blockages on the line in the next few hours, gwr, the operator which runs trains throughout this area, has been persistently saying passengers should, wherever possible, try to rearrange their travel plans or not to travel at all. we have spoken to people who are hoping to keep their plans this weekend, one a man who hasn't seen his daughter in many months and is trying to get to swindon today but doesn't hold out much hope in getting there and is worried about the journey back evening, even if he does make it there. we spoke to someone else who is trying to see their daughter at university in london, th

showers in the south and east and channel islands instead pick them up across southern devon and cornwallfeeling day on wednesday despite the sunshine. by thursday, we might start to pick up more moisture and thicker cloud coming back in across central and eastern parts of england into the east of wales, and perhaps a bit more cloud by then for northern ireland and the far north of scotland, slightly less cold as a result, but still the issue of some fog around. then come friday, our weather front starts to push its way southwards. we change our air mass and that will clear out the fog. we get a brisker wind going into the weekend, not strong winds, but a brisk wind and therefore a return to an atlantic wind direction. and it's a bit milder by then, but until then, some frost and fog by night. live from damascus. this is bbc news. israel says it has destroyed syria's naval fleet as it continues its attacks on syrian military installations for a third day. turkey's president erdogan welcomes the capture of two syrian towns in the north which had been under kurdish control. in damascus, the

storm darragh with amber weather warnings for widespread disruption covering southern scotland, cornwall wales and along the bristol channel, where a rare red warning for strong winds has been issued, meaning a danger to life. the government says about 3 million people have received a siren—like alert on their phones warning them of the expected high winds. 0ur wales correspondent tomos morgan reports from porthcawl. right from penarth to porthcawl — along the welsh coastline, businesses have been busy planning and preparing for more bad weather. at the moment, the plans are to be in because we've got deliveries for our customers and stuff like that. some are elderly, so we need to get out to make sure they get stuff. but other than that, that's all i've got on the cards at the moment. although towns on welsh coastlines are familiar with bad weather, having to close shops and cafes on a saturday so close to christmas will undoubtedly affect businesses. metres away from the seafront is piccolo's cafe, who earlier made the difficult decision to close tomorrow. sea defences keeps the water

problems than anyone else, other passengers have, nothing running on the local wines in devon and cornwalle. furthermore, if you are travelling on that line, great western railways urges you not to, you should expect to be delayed because of speed restrictions. that is the story across the country, putting in restrictions in case they encountered debris that has been blown onto the track or indeed trees and there are loads of these mile away from here. lots of problems to portsmouth.— here. lots of problems to portsmouth. good to talk to ou, portsmouth. good to talk to you. thank _ portsmouth. good to talk to you. thank you _ portsmouth. good to talk to you, thank you very - portsmouth. good to talk to you, thank you very much, i you, thank you very much, simon. let's get the latest on how the roads have been affected from rac spokesperson simon williams. the impact of the storm on drivers isn't too bad in many ways, because lots of drivers are heeding the warnings and not venturing out. and of course, that's the thing to do in this kind of situation. 0nly drive if it's absolutely essentia

from if met office for potentially damaging winds across the west coast of the uk from ayrshire to cornwallwales and south—west england. we will have more from our weather team later in the hour. the head of south korea's governing party has urged the swift removal from power of president yoon suk yeol, who caused outrage earlier this week by declaring martial law. these are the live pictures from seoul outside the parliament today. you can see a large crowd has gathered with protestors and the media present too. south korea's main parties are holding meetings amid reports mps could bring forward a vote to impeach the president. meanwhile, south korea's defence ministry says it has suspended three senior commanders involved in the martial law operation. i spoke to our chief presenter, steve lai who was outside the national assembly with our asia correspondent, rupert wingfield—hayes. it has just it hasjust gone it has just gone past 6pm in sole. you mentioned the leader of the ruling people power party, han dong—hoon, he has withdrawn his support for president yoon. he did that this morn. h

west of penzance, nothing going west of cardiff to swansea and carmarthen and all the devon and cornwallroblem is speed restrictions, but if you're going by train to date there is a very good chance there will be speed restrictions put in because of the risk of daybreak being on the lines of fallen trees. that means for the line from bristol into london, you've got delays typically of 45 minutes because the trains are going slower which is in turn leading to extra cancellations. right up and down the country, lner, northern, or reporting problems in locations and i'm afraid while the talking about flooding, with the build—up of water, we could see over the rest of the day and into sunday and maybe even the start of next week, problems on some of the lines. , , , next week, problems on some of the lines. , , ., the lines. just tell us about how long — the lines. just tell us about how long these _ the lines. just tell us about how long these disruptions| how long these disruptions could continue for. qm. how long these disruptions could continue for.- how long these disruptions could cont

however, it was a slightly different story in newquay and cornwall.. and that cloudy, murky story will continue into christmas day for many of us. but it will also continue to stay mild for this time of year. and that's because we're under this influence of high pressure. the wind direction is south—westerly, feeding in that cloud from the ocean, and thick enough for some drizzle. this weather front here still continuing to produce some outbreaks of rain and still windy. so through this evening, we'll have some showery rain into the far north west of scotland with gusts of winds 40—50 miles an hour. we keep that blanket of cloud, though, preventing temperatures from falling too far, so it will be a very mild start to christmas morning for early risers. temperatures sitting at around 7—10 celsius. again, the cloud thick enough for some drizzle, misty, murky first thing in the morning. hopefully that will lift, and we'll see, once again, some breaks in the cloud from time to time. more persistent rain into the western isles and northern isles and the fa

any power line near throckmorton avenue and cornwall street and pg e vehicle blocking the entry way for safety. even if downed power lines are not giving off. electrical sparks. that doesn't mean danger is off. the table says jeff smith, the operations communication manager for pg e if you see an outline all the other 9-1-1, or pg. >> and some of get out there to make the situation safe, but assume it's live and stay away from it because it can be extremely mill valley police reported at least 8 separate incidents that involve down trees. power poles affecting residential properties, roadways and vehicles. in a statement mill valley, police say they are actively working to secure affected areas and restoring services. >> at this time, our emergency services in crews have resolved most incidents during stormy weather pg e says there is always a chance of power outages and safety tips like having a flashlight or having your cell phone fully charged helps to receive emergency notifications. and those that may be a more remote areas, for example, in the santa cruz mountains and things like

devon and cornwall police says it prioritises attendance where violence is involved or a shoplifter isions such as making it a criminal offence to assault a shop worker will mean he's no longer seen as a soft target. yeah, ifeel desperate and ifeel like giving up. but if i give up the fight, eventually i'd probably have to give up the business as well. charlotte cox, bbc news. the time is 18:17. our top story this evening. the father and stepmother of ten—year—old sara sharif are sentenced to life in prison for her murder. still to come... i'm here on the red carpet, as the stars arrive for the bbc�*s sports personality of the year. and coming up on sportsday in the next 15 minutes on bbc news — next stop, the ashes. england's women, they're too strong for south africa, storming to victory in the one—off test in bloemfontein. across syria, people are slowly starting to re—build their shattered country after the fall of bashar al—assad, including in the city of homs. it saw some of the worst fighting, and the first of the sieges known as "surrender or starve", one of the regime's weapon

yorktown washing curtain had requested that to earthen fortifications on the extreme left flank of cornwallis line were to be taken and being that this was a joint operation betwixt french and american forces, one would be assaulted by the french without nine and one by the americans without ten. even though i am a frenchman, i had the honor and privilege of commanding american soldiers and i had so selected as the battalion commander to make that assault, not alexander hamilton, but instead another frenchman in american uniform. his name colonial jima, but alexander wanted that command more than any one. if you know his nature, that is his habit. so he did what we call in military circles. he went over my head and went to washington and begged and pleaded that he might have the honor and privilege of the attack. and of course, i don't think washington could deny hamilton anything at all. so under cover of darkness, unloaded muskets, making the men their trust in the bayonet. alexander stormed redoubt ten, and took it with such great dash and fire in the end, how could i be mad at him for? it

of a threat to life from the storm and widespread disruption all along the west coast scotland to cornwallted to bring heavy rain over the weekend, across other areas. tomos morgan reports from porthcawl. before we go to that, we can listen to that alert. alert blares in fact, we understand that is the largest ever use of the emergency alert system since its inception, so that has just run out to millions of people on their phones. let's get this report now from thomas morgan. from penarth... to porthcawl, along the welsh coastline, businesses have been making plans in preparation for the bad weather. at the moment the plans are to be here, because we've got deliveries for our customers and stuff like that. some of them are elderly so we need to get out to make sure they are getting stuff. other than that, that's all that's on the cards at the moment. although towns on welsh coastlines are familiar with bad weather, having to close shops and cafes on a saturday so close to christmas will undoubtedly affect businesses. it's normally park run on saturday morning, but they'd cancel that as we

a magistrate has ruled that devon and cornwall police can seize more than two million pounds from thefluencer, andrew tate, and his brother tristan. westminster magistrates court heard that they had failed to pay a penny in tax on £21 million of revenue from their online businesses between 2014 and 2022. syria is not stable enough for a large—scale return of refugees, according to a warning by the head of the un's international organisation for migration. speaking after a visit to damascus, amy pope said about a 100,000 people had already returned. 0ur middle east correspondent lina sinjab who's in damascus, gave us the latest on the challenges for refugees getting back to syria. the country has suffered 13 years of war and its economy has collapsed. the assad regime is a corrupt regime, depleted all its resources for his own benefit and the benefit of its own, you know, group of loyalists. and, you know, to have the thousands of or hundreds of thousands of refugees to come back. that's a big challenge because most of their cities, towns, streets and homes have been destroyed by assad

showers in the south and east and channel islands instead pick them up across southern devon and cornwalloisture and thicker cloud coming back in across central and eastern parts of england into the east of wales, and perhaps a bit more cloud by then for northern ireland and the far north of scotland, slightly less cold as a result, but still the issue of some fog around. then come friday, our weather front starts to push its way southwards. we change our air mass and that will clear out the fog. we get a brisker wind going into the weekend, not strong winds, but a brisk wind and therefore a return to an atlantic wind direction. and it's a bit milder by then, but until then, some frost and fog by night. spiralling debts and a worsening pollution crisis at thames water. it supplies a quarter of the uk's population, so will the governments be forced to wait in? succession of setbacks, rupert murdoch loses a legal bid to hand control of his media empire to his son. but his lawyers vowed to continue the fight. an expensive espresso, a warning for coffee lovers as prices hit record highs. and

there's a reason why david cornwall, ian fleming, morm, graham green, john buckham, they had all been in the spy service at some point. yes, that was my introduction. that is sort of how it started. i was briefly recruited by mi6 when i was at university. >> how did that go? >> well, not very well, really. i enjoyed it. i i wanted to be recruited. so i sort of hung around the particular tutor i knew was the recruiter. eventually he sent me off to meet the man in white hall. i did it for a brief while. it became clear quickly, as demonstrated, i can't keep a secret. i don't really like keeping secrets. i like revealing them. it's much more fun. so, it left me with a long fascination for that world. i think it's a wonderful world. it has built into it a kind of moral -- a central moral conundrum. spies do bad things sometimes for good reasons. >> who's your favorite among the novelists? and who comes the closest to getting it right? past or present. >> past, john lecarie. he was also a friend of mine. he was incredibly helpful to my writing. you mentioned "a spy among friends," that sto

anyone else, or at least their passengers have, nothing running on the local lines in devon and cornwallh to penzance. furthermore, if you are travelling on that line, and great western railways urges you not to, then you should expect to be delayed because of speed restrictions. and that's the story pretty much across the country, putting in restrictions in case they encounter debris that's been blown onto the track or indeed trees. and by the way, there's loads of those about a mile away from here at london waterloo. lots of problems getting to portsmouth. that was simon calder at waterloo station. let's get the latest on how the roads have been affected from rac spokesperson simon williams. the impact of the storm on drivers isn't too bad in many ways, because lots of drivers are heeding the warnings and not venturing out. and of course, that's the thing to do in this kind of situation. 0nly drive if it's absolutely essential. and obviously, from an rac point of view, we normally do around kind of 7000 plus breakdowns a day in the week, but the weekends tend to be quieter anyway becau

here in the uk, a shopkeeper in cornwall says he's carried out over 50 citizen's arrests amid an onslaughtis to protect his livelihood with police becoming harder to get on site. across england wales last year, incidents of shoplifting saw an increase of nearly thirty per cent. well, i'm very pleased to say martin gaunt isjoining us now. good to see you. we will get onto your — good to see you. we will get onto your heroic _ good to see you. we will get onto your heroic actions - good to see you. we will get onto your heroic actions and | onto your heroic actions and just a moment before us can you describe shows what an ordinary day is like in your shop and what you have to deal with when it comes to shoplifters? actually, we have made a big improvement because about a year ago, we sort of stepped up the idea of making several arrests ourselves and it is really reducing the amount of repeat shoplifters we have in because they know if they come to us it will not be as easy as going to somewhere that does not step up. going to somewhere that does not step urn-— going to somewhere that does