we thought michelle 0bama or david beckham, but the queen, people thought it was a joke until they sawin the flesh. 91 years old. with a brand new award for supporting new names in british fashion. apparently she spurned this season ‘s trend, she didn't wear a trenchcoat. henry, it has been great to have you. thank you for your company. thanks for watching the briefing, from me sally bundock and the rest of the team, goodbye. stay with us on the bbc, we will up a year at the top of the hour on the latest. —— update. thanks forjoining me. time we updated you on the weather prospects for the whole of the british isles over the next few days or so. fairly slow change, i would've thought, over the next few days, simply because we are developing an area of high pressure, which has rather strangled the life out of the old weather front, which provided quite a veil of cloud sometimes through eastern parts of the british isles through tuesday, but with the development of the high pressure close by to the british isles, that, as i say, has the effect of killing off that front. a veil of cloud,

much reaction to the official portraits of former president barack 0bama and former first lady michelle 0bamar breaking away from previous traditions of conservative presidential portraiture by embracing more colourful abstract themes. so let's begin. with me is rolake akinkugbe, who's head of energy at fbn merchant bank. welcome back. thank you. we are starting with the japan times. we're looking the developing situation with north korea. what is there an analysis of developments? with north korea. what is there an analysis of developments7m suggests that the us is pivoting away from its hard—core stands. —— stance. donald trump did a tour of asia. he had criticised rex tillerson's less ha rd—core asia. he had criticised rex tillerson's less hard—core approach. they said they would welcome talks. they said they would welcome talks. they have also defined it as a strategy of maximum pressure and engagement at the same

but i don't think that this picture of michelle 0bama looks like at all. i'm with you. she's not going say she doesn't. if we think of all the sitting she must of had and all the time, to manage to produce a portrait that actually doesn't look like this woman? i think that is a fail. these are going in the smithsonian, right, in the national portrait gallery? the great thing is it is the first time obviously that a black president has been there by definition, so it is a breakthrough in that sense. we have two corletto day there. thank you so much rejoining us. come back again —— we have to call it a day. that is it for the paper tonight. don't forget, you considerfront pages for the paper tonight. don't forget, you consider front pages online, for the paper tonight. don't forget, you considerfront pages online, on the bbc news website, seven days a week. if you missed the programme you can watch it later on bbc iplayer, any evening. hello. there is some snow in the forecast through the next 2a hours. in fact, enough snow to cause some disruption in places was that we h

barack 0bama and michelle 0bama have attended... the former president's portrait was painted. y in his family had ever had a portrait done before. mrs 0bama's portrait done before. mrs 0bama's portrait was done by a lady whose work often addresses socialjustice. it has been 50 years since the boeing 747 made its debut today world in 1968, the bbc took one of the first ever pilots to fly that aircraft back to london heathrow for aircraft back to london heathrow for a check on how things have evolved. let's see if we can take a look. this is a big change. flatbed seats. you have no idea, for the first landing, how high you are up on the ground. it really was like landing a block of flats. this is what you want to come and see. this is all screens, we had a clockwork instruments. we have got flight plans, we can get weather divisions. —— divergence. plans, we can get weather divisions. -- divergence. engine failure were fairly routine. there were occasions when it didn't work very well. we a lwa ys when it didn't work very well. we always managed to get away, we managed to get awa

portraits of barack and michelle 0bama have been unveiled at washington's national gallery, and immediately't all complimentary. while mr 0bama said that his was "pretty sharp", social media was soon awash with jokes about him being stuck in a hedgerow. he said the portrait of his wife captured her "hotness", although many reacted to say it looks nothing like her. it's an honour that the gallery gives to past presidents, but let's just say that these were in stark contrast to the more traditional presidential portrait. they are, aren't they? its time they we re they are, aren't they? its time they were brought up—to—date? they are, aren't they? its time they were brought up-to-date? it's always interesting seeing portraits because when you know someone really well, it's always interesting seeing a portrait of them. you don't necessarily agree with the artist. is that the official unveiling? 0h, it's so amazing! it's never really good getting a port had done. it's a bit like you get them done. the beachfront and the caricatures. after the beach, you will would have got it cheaper as well. we

at the national portrait gallery in washington, the official portraits of president 0bama and his wife michelleof hers simply 'wow'. among those in attendance were former vice presidentjoe biden and hollywood luminaries like stephen spielberg and tom hanks. the portrait gallery's tradition of commissioning presidential portraits began with president george hw bush. hello. tuesday's weather is a wet, windy, and for some of us, rather wintry tale. the culprit — an area of low pressure swinging in from the atlantic that will bring some disruptive snow to the northern half of the uk. some wet and windy conditions further south. so here it is — this weather front pushing in from the west. a low—pressure centre to the north. the low itself will keep the winds up right the way across the british isles. worst of the snow will be through the morning in time for rush hour, sadly, across scotland with 5—10 centimetres possible across the highlands. a good few centimetres possible through the centre belt, making for a dangerous rush hour. northern ireland, perhaps the worst of the snow pulling away by 8am,