rory cellanjones, bbc news, nevada.y with figures showing that the growth in retail sales slowed last year. it wasn't a great christmas either with sales down 1.5% in december compared with the previous month — which was boosted by people taking advantage of black friday offers. emma simpson reports. in the carpetright sale, it's half price on selected carpets and beds... it should be the busiest time of the year for britain's biggest floor coverings retailer. trouble is, it's been anything but. carpetright‘s prices may have been cut by half. unfortunately, its share price almost did the same today after it warned its profits were going to tumble. carpetright says falling consumer confidence is behind what it describes as a sharp deterioration in trading. in other words, shoppers are holding back from buying these big—ticket items. there wasn't much to cheer about for bonmarche either. sales in its clothing shops were down by nearly 10%, compared with the previous year, causing its share price to plummet, too. we are st

our technology correspondent rory cellanjones is here.ty flaws in computer chips made by a number of leading manufacturers. the defects could allow hackers to steal personal data from nearly every modern computing device and smart—phone which have the chips fitted. our technology correspondent rory cellanjones is here. in theory many millions of people will be affected. the bugs meltdown and sceptre, are in chips, which power complete, smartphones and all other devices. the flaws were discovered some time ago and the industry has been working to find a cure, they reckon they are nearly there in many cases, that the new defence, new security updates should be in place soon. they wanted it kept secret for as long as possible because they wanted to fix it before it became known to hackers. it is a big dangerous in theory in practise, there has been no evidence anybody has been affected so far and the industry will certainly hope it can get those defences shored up in time to stop that happening. 0k. thank you. thank you. our top story this l

rory cellanjones, bbc news, nevada.eir child in june, after which she planned to take a six—week break. ms ardern is now set to be the second elected world leader to give birth while in office — and the first to do so in almost 30 years. i‘m not the first woman to work and have a baby. i know these are special circumstances but there‘ll be many women who will have done this well before i have. i acknowledge those women. i‘m about to sympathise with them a lot as i sympathise with all women who‘ve suffered morning sickness. you have my sympathy. time for the weather with nick miller. hello. another cold one tonight with widespread frost and icy conditions. heavy snow showers still for a time in parts of scotland, where there is a met office amber warning until 10pm, but they will slowly ease through the night. travelling remains difficult with the new snow we‘ve seen. fewer snow showers by the end of the night, but icy. we will see some wet weather coming into the south—west later in the night. rain, perhaps a bit of sle

rory cellanjones, bbc news, nevada.announced that she is pregnant. ms ardern said she and her partner, clarke gayford, were expecting their child in june, after which she planned to take a six—week break. ms ardern is now set to be the second elected world leader to give birth while in office — and the first to do so in almost 30 years. i'm not the first woman to work. i know daisy are special circumstances but many women will have done this well before i have. i acknowledge those women. i am about to sympathise with them a lot as i sympathise with them a lot as i sympathise with them a lot as i sympathise with all women who sober morning sickness. —— suffer morning sickness. hello. another cold one tonight with widespread frost and icy conditions. heavy snow showers still for a time in parts of scotland, where there is a met office amber warning until 10pm, but they will slowly ease through the night. travelling remains difficult with the new snow we've seen. fewer snow showers by the end of the night, but icy. we will

earlier i spoke to our technology correspondent rory cellanjones and askedif correspondent rory cellanjoneshat data had been stolen already. the uk national cyber security centre has put out a statement saying it is aware of these flaws in these chips which power millions of devices around the world, but so far, there is no evidence that they have been used by hackers to get access to the data. this is a serious design flaw because it potentially allows programmes are hackers to get into the very heart of a computer, where information is kept which is not usually available to any other part of the computer. that information could include passwords and other sensitive information. or any of these companies saying anything by way of explanation about how this floor happened ? way of explanation about how this floor happened? this is interesting about how this emerged. yesterday, we thought it was just a problem that intel. a security news site found evidence of this. then it became aware that when google put out a security blog that it affected a whole range of companies. what has been happen

we'll be live at the ces tech show in las vegas where our correspondent rory cellanjones has been followinghe intel story. a warm welcome to the programme, briefing you on all you need to know in global news, business and sport. and you can be part of the conversation. with so many gadgets on offer at the ces show that say they will solve all sorts of problems, we are asking what would you like technology to do for you? do get in touch, just use the hashtag bbc the briefing. there's optimism at the start of the first talks between north and south korea in more than two years. the discussions are limited in scope, but north korea has agreed to send a delegation of high—ranking officials, athletes, and a cheering squad, to the winter olympics next month. tensions on the korean peninsular are at their highest in decades, following a series of nuclear and missile tests by pyongyang, and not forgetting the war of words between donald trump and kim jong—un. live now to the seoul in south korea and our correspondent sophie long. some progress today. tell us more about these talks. yes, the meeting

let's get more on this with our technology correspondent rory cellanjones.it seems like we have a programme. one for us, two for intel. let us talk about us first, have we got a problem, how big is it? i love the fact that cyber security industry calls these two meltdown and spectre. nothing to scare anybody at all. this is, this is very serious, the industry has known about it for some month, what happens is they are discovered and there is a race to fix them before they become public, so, they are annoyed it has come out. what this is, isa annoyed it has come out. what this is, is a flaw which could enable somebody with malicious intent to get into the heart of a computer, places where you are not supposed to be able to get, where secure information such as passwords, the crown jewels are kept, information such as passwords, the crownjewels are kept, so information such as passwords, the crown jewels are kept, so that is why there is such concern. but there has been this effort goes on over many months to fix this flaw, in all of these different chip desig