nick higham, bbc news.tar cristiano ronaldo has turned down an offer worth £85 million a year to play in china, according to his agent. the deal would have been a major coup for the emerging chinese super league and would have smashed the world transfer record in the process. joe wilson has the story. china wants football, it wants footballers. earlier this year, bbc sport filmed at one of china's first designated football schools, two hours east of beijing. but the country can't simply wait for its grassroots to grow. in the meantime, there is money. whipped across, and ronaldo's met it. according to his agent, cristiano ronaldo turned down £85 million a year, offered by a club in the chinese super league. well, maybe, but the relocation is already happening.

nick higham, bbc news. we will take a look at the weather forecast. good evening.ed to clear and colder conditions behind this weather front which will slip its way southwards over the next couple of days. bringing some rank with it. behind that we are seeing colder air heading our way. ahead of that there has been extensive fog once again. you can hardly see across the thames at kingston earlier this afternoon. a met office weather warning in force for dense fog patches across the southern half of england in particular. disruption more than likely, a slow on the roads and we may see further delays at some of the airports. overnight it will turn quite cold in the south—eastern corner and a touch of frost developing. some of the fog in the south—east may well be freezing fog. further north and west, no such problems with temperatures up around 10 degrees for glasgow and belfast. into the morning, some of the four will be quite dense in places. bear that in mind if you are heading out will be quite dense in places. bear that in mind if you are he of ng out further so

nick higham, bbc news. time for a look at the weather. good morning., for example, yesterday. it was cold and foggy in the south—east pretty much all day for some of us. temperatures just a couple of degrees above freezing, and not much to be seen from the london eye. by contrast, into the south—west, it was a beautiful afternoon with plenty of sunshine, as seen by this weather watcher's photo in st ives. 12 degrees the high here, and it was mild in the north and west of scotland as well. but it is going to turn increasingly wet and windy. high pressure, though, into the south just hangs on, and so fog certainly going to be an issue. it is certainly worth bearing in mind if you are out and about on the roads early on, there could be further disruption to travel, as that fog may well be dense in places. so temperatures struggling just a couple of degrees above freezing, and it will be a pretty murky start. mild to the north—west, but that rain is on its way. but let's concentrate with the fog across east anglia, down into the south—east corner, and to t

nick higham, bbc news. the real madrid star cristiano ronaldo has turned down an offer worth £85 million a year to play in china, according to his agent. the deal would have been a major coup for the emerging chinese super league and would have smashed the world transfer record in the process. joe wilson has the story. china wants football, it wants footballers. earlier this year, bbc sport filmed at one of china's first designated football schools, two hours east of beijing. but the country can't simply wait for its grassroots to grow. in the meantime, there is money. whipped across, and ronaldo‘s met it. according to his agent, cristiano ronaldo turned down £85 million a year, offered by a club in the chinese super league. well, maybe, but the relocation is already happening. here's carlos tevez, once of manchester united and city, saying goodbye to his beloved buenos aires, to begin the new year in shanghai, apparently becoming the world's highest—paid footballer. £32 million a season in the csl, it's ru

this report from nick higham contains some flashing images.t beauty, but she was never a great actress. i know everything — i heard the verdict. it's dangerous for you to come here. i must take that risk, and so must you. her screen career was undistinguished, though it did include camp classics like the truly terrible queen of outer space. if you must go, promise me you're going to come back to me. her greatest role was as herself, one of the first professional celebrities, famous for simply being famous. she was rich, she was gorgeous, she was outrageous and she ate men for breakfast. her last marriage, in 1986, was her eighth, or ninth, if you include an illegal ceremony conducted at sea. women don't even get married any more today. theyjust have love affairs. i was raised in a convent. they said you have to get married, legalised, which was dumb but now ijust leave myself to live in sin, it's wonderful. girls, don't get married. it's insanity. you have to become their servant! you have to look after their house and they cheat on you. who t

nick higham, bbc news. let's ta ke let's take a look at the weather forecast.n england, it'll be thickening through the evening and quite dense places overnight into the morning. disruption to travel more than likely. local radio will keep you up—to—date if you're on the move. very poor visibility overnight and some of the fog in the south—east will be freezing. no problems further north, more of a breeze, no for problems. quite mild, 10 degrees at glasgow and belfast. rain in northern scotland slipping south through the day on new year's eve. south of that fog should lift into low cloud, quite grey for many there something bright in the afternoon, parts of northern england, north wales, 9—10d through the evening the weather front moves south. across northern england, parts of wales, south and east of that it should be dry, mild, and cloudy. to the north, increasingly cold with some wintry showers. hello, this is bbc news. the headlines: donald trump has called vladimir putin "very smart", after the russian leader rules out a tit—for—tat response to president 0

nick higham, bbc news. offer worth £85 million a year to play in china, according to his agent. the deal would have been a major coup for the emerging chinese super league and would have smashed the world transfer record in the process. joe wilson has the story. china wants football, it wants footballers. earlier this year, bbc sport filmed at one of china's first designated football schools, two hours east of beijing. but the country can't simply wait for its grassroots to grow. in the meantime, there is money. whipped across, and ronaldo's met it. according to his agent, cristiano ronaldo turned down £85 million a year, offered by a club in the chinese super league. well, maybe, but the relocation is already happening. here's carlos tevez, once of manchester united and city, saying goodbye to his beloved buenos aires, to begin the new year in shanghai, apparently becoming the world's highest—paid footballer. £32 million a season in the csl, it's rumoured. trevor watkins, a sports lawyer who's worked in ch

nick higham looks back at his life. they seem sad, like trees in november.ed film and made its creator a millionaire. not bad for a story about intrepid rabbits originally devised by a civil servant to entertain his children in the car. watership down was a fantasy, but one as compelling as the classical myths its author loved, and its setting was authentic. richard adams had grown up near the real watership down in hampshire. in one respect, the book is anything but fantastic because the topography and landscape in which it takes place is completely real. this is the country where i was born and where i grew up, and i know it all like the back of my hand, and everything in the story, down to very often individual gates and trees, is perfectly real. the novel's phenomenal success sent its author into tax exile in the isle of man. he wrote more books. none quite matched the success of watership down, but one grew out of his passion for animal welfare and hatred of vivisection. it was called the plague dogs. it featured animals which escaped from a research la

the policy led to rioting, and was a key factor in her downfall, as nick higham reports.career, the poll tax causing violence, even riots. the files show her normally self—confident government on the defensive. these are loyal files dealing with the poll tax over 18 months. hundreds of pages of documents. an indication of how much time mrs thatcher spent worrying about the problem, how complex it was, how difficult it was to find a way out of the mess. many of the documents are covered in her characteristically spidery handwriting. at one point she floated the idea of letting councils put an extra penny on a gallon of petrol to raise extra cash. the poll tax was meant to forced labour councils to spend less. instead the government got the blame when millions found they were pay more. mrs thatcher realised it was fitting her this natural supporters, the natural supporters, the conscientious middle. this letter came from a voter in norfolk, he and his wife were paying twice as much under the poll tax. he accused mrs thatcher of acting like a dictator. michael portillo was t

nick higham reports.ost secure military establishments in britain. or so you would think. yet in october 1983, three anti—nuclear demonstrators broke into the base at night and got aboard a nuclear sub. documents released at the national archives show the prime minister was appalled. when mrs thatcher was first told of the security breach, the thing that evidently horrified her most was that the intruders had managed to get into the control room of a polaris submarine. her adviser charles powell wrote, "had there been armed terrorist the consequences would have been incalculable". and mrs thatcher herself noted at the top of the page, "i am utterly horrified. we could all have been put in grave danger." polaris was the forerunner of today's trident. the vessel was hms repulse. this is me. philjones, then a young peace activist, was one of the demonstrators. he says they were astonished at how easy it was, and shocked. when the commander of the submarine came into the control room, and he was shouting at u

this report from nick higham contains some flashing images.abor may have been a great beauty but she was never a great actress. it's dangerous for you to come here. i must take that risk and so come here. i must take that risk and so must you. her screen career was undistinguished, although it did include camp classics like the truly terrible queen of alker space. her greatest role was as herself, one of the first professional celebrities famous for simply being famous. she was rich, gorgeous and outrageous and she ate meant for breakfast. her last marriage in 1986 was her eighth, or ninth, if you include an illegal ceremony conducted at the. women don't even get married any more today, they just women don't even get married any more today, theyjust have love affairs, i was raised in a convent so affairs, i was raised in a convent soi affairs, i was raised in a convent so i had to get married. now i believe myself to live in sin, it's wonderful, girls, don't get married, it's insanity, you have to become your servant, you have to look after th

this report from nick higham contains some flashing images.he was never a great actress. i know everything — i heard the verdict. it's dangerous for you to come here. i must take that risk, and so must you. her screen career was undistinguished, though it did include camp classics like the truly terrible queen of outer space. if you must go, promise me you're going to come back to me. her greatest role was as herself, one of the first professional celebrities, famous for simply being famous. she was rich, she was gorgeous, she was outrageous and she ate men for breakfast. her last marriage, in 1986, was her eighth, or ninth, if you include an illegal ceremony conducted at sea. women don't even get married any more today. theyjust have love affairs. i was raised in a convent. they said you have to get married, legalised, which was done but now ijust leave myself to live in sin, it's wonderful. girls, don't get married. it's insanity. you have to become their servant. we have to look after their house and they cheat on you. who the hell needs th

this report from nick higham contains some flashing images. heard the verdict. it's dangerous for you to come here. i must take that risk, and so must you. her screen career was undistinguished, though it did include camp classics like the truly terrible queen of outer space. if you must go, promise me you're going to come back to me. her greatest role was as herself, one of the first professional celebrities, famous for simply being famous. she was rich, she was gorgeous, she was outrageous and she ate men for breakfast. her last marriage, in 1986, was her eighth, or ninth, if you include an illegal ceremony conducted at sea. women don't even get married any more today. theyjust have love affairs. i was raised in a convent. they said you have to get married, legalised, which was dumb but now ijust leave myself to live in sin, it's wonderful. girls, don't get married. it's insanity. you have to become their servant! you have to look after their house and they cheat on you. who the hell needs that? in 1989, she was brieflyjailed for hitting a h

nick higham reports. he was the biggest political misjudgement of her career, the poll tax causing violenceensive. these are loyal files dealing with the poll tax over 18 months. hundreds of pages of documents. an indication of how much time mrs thatcher spent worrying about the problem, how complex it was, how difficult it was to find a way out of the mess. many of the documents are covered in her characteristically spidery handwriting. at one point she floated the idea of letting councils put an extra penny on a gallon of petrol to raise extra cash. the poll tax was meant to forced labour councils to spend less. instead the government got the blame when millions found they were pay more. mrs thatcher realised it was fitting her natural supporters, the conscientious middle. this letter came from a voter in norfolk, he and his wife were paying twice as much under the poll tax. he accused mrs thatcher of acting like a dictator. michael portillo was the governments that are who had the job of trying to make the poll tax work. he says there are lessons to learn to date. there are lessons to be

nick higham looks back at his life. they seem sad, like trees in november.me a worldwide bestseller and animated film and made its creator a millionaire. not bad for a story about intrepid rabbits originally devised by a civil servant to entertain his children in the car. watership down was a fantasy, but one as compelling as the classical myths its author beloved, and its setting was authentic. richard adams had grown up authentic. richard adams had grown up near the real watership down in hampshire. in one respect, the book is anything but fantastic because the topography and landscape in which it takes place is completely real. this is the country where i was born and where i grew up, and i know it all like the back of my hand, and everything in the story, down to very often individual gates and trees, is perfectly real. the nover and trees, is perfectly real. the novel's phenomenal success sent it up novel's phenomenal success sent it up into tax exile in the isle of man. he wrote more books. none quite match the success of watership down, but one grew o

this report from nick higham contains some flashing images. was never a great actress. i know everything — i heard the verdict. it's dangerous for you to come here. i must take that risk, and so must you. her screen career was undistinguished, though it did include camp classics like the truly terrible queen of outer space. if you must go, promise me you're going to come back to me. her greatest role was as herself, one of the first professional celebrities, famous for simply being famous. she was rich, she was gorgeous, she was outrageous and she ate men for breakfast. her last marriage, in 1986, was her eighth, or ninth, if you include an illegal ceremony conducted at sea. women don't even get married any more today. theyjust have love affairs. i was raised in a convent. they said you have to get married, legalised, which was done but now ijust leave myself to live in sin, it's wonderful. girls, don't get married. it's insanity. you have to become their servant! we have to look after their house and they cheat on you. who the hell needs that

nick higham reports.me to britain's nuclear submarines and one of the most secure military establishments in britain. also, you would think. yet in october 1980 britain. also, you would think. yet in 0ctober1980 83 anti— nuclear demonstrators broke into the base at night and got aboard a nuclear sub. documents released at the national archives show the prime minister was appalled. when mrs thatcher was first told of the security breach the thing that evidently horrified her most was that the intruders had managed to get into the core group —— control room of the polaris submarine. adviser charles powell wrote, had there been armed terrorist the consequences would have been incalculable. and mrs thatcher herself noted that the top of the page, i am utterly horrified. we could all have been put in greenwich —— grave danger. pilares was the forerunner of today's trident, the vessel was hms repulse. philjones, then a young peace activist, was one of the demonstrators. he says they were astonished at how easy