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A red alert in Scotland, as heavy
snow hits large parts of the UK. | 0:00:05 | 0:00:12 | |
It's the highest level
of weather warning, meaning | 0:00:12 | 0:00:14 | |
lives could be at risk. | 0:00:14 | 0:00:16 | |
People are told not to travel
in the affected parts of Scotland. | 0:00:16 | 0:00:19 | |
We wouldn't be advocating people
going out in this kind of weather. | 0:00:19 | 0:00:22 | |
Stay warm, stay safe,
and let us come to you. | 0:00:22 | 0:00:27 | |
Sub-zero temperatures have blanketed
the whole of the UK today. | 0:00:27 | 0:00:29 | |
Thousands of schools
have been closed. | 0:00:29 | 0:00:35 | |
There've been major problems
and long tailbacks on the roads. | 0:00:35 | 0:00:37 | |
In Nottinghamshire, the A1
was closed in both directions, | 0:00:37 | 0:00:39 | |
after an accident involving 16 cars. | 0:00:39 | 0:00:40 | |
We'll have the latest
from our correspondents | 0:00:40 | 0:00:42 | |
in Glasgow and Durham,
as well as the situation | 0:00:42 | 0:00:45 | |
across the rest of the UK. | 0:00:45 | 0:00:51 | |
And there is a lot of more snow to
come. | 0:00:51 | 0:00:53 | |
Also on the programme tonight: | 0:00:53 | 0:00:54 | |
Former Prime Minister Sir John Major
urges Theresa May to put country | 0:00:54 | 0:01:02 | |
country before party -
and possibly a second referendum - | 0:01:02 | 0:01:04 | |
on a Brexit deal. | 0:01:04 | 0:01:06 | |
Nobody can truly know what the will
of the people may then be. | 0:01:06 | 0:01:09 | |
So let Parliament decide,
or put the issue back to the people. | 0:01:09 | 0:01:14 | |
More than 5,000 jobs at risk,
as two big High Street names - | 0:01:14 | 0:01:17 | |
Toys R Us and Maplin -
collapse. | 0:01:17 | 0:01:25 | |
The Royal Four's first
official engagement, | 0:01:25 | 0:01:26 | |
as Prince Harry jokes that they're
stuck together for the | 0:01:26 | 0:01:29 | |
rest of their lives. | 0:01:29 | 0:01:30 | |
And coming up on Sportsday,
on BBC News: | 0:01:30 | 0:01:32 | |
Heading up Wembley way
for the first time in a decade - | 0:01:32 | 0:01:35 | |
League One Rochdale play Spurs again
in their FA Cup fifth-round replay. | 0:01:35 | 0:01:43 | |
Good evening and welcome
to the BBC News at Six. | 0:01:57 | 0:02:00 | |
The Met Office has
issued a red alert - | 0:02:00 | 0:02:02 | |
its highest weather warning -
across large parts of Scotland, | 0:02:02 | 0:02:06 | |
as heavy snow falls and the cold
weather intensifies. | 0:02:06 | 0:02:09 | |
It's the first red warning issued
for snow in five years, | 0:02:09 | 0:02:17 | |
and people in this area -
which stretches from Glasgow | 0:02:17 | 0:02:19 | |
to Edinburgh and up to Perth -
are being told to avoid all travel. | 0:02:19 | 0:02:23 | |
This is what temperatures looked
like first thing this morning | 0:02:23 | 0:02:25 | |
across the whole of the UK. | 0:02:25 | 0:02:28 | |
Everywhere was below zero,
with Farnborough, in Hampshire, | 0:02:28 | 0:02:31 | |
the coldest, at minus 11.7. | 0:02:31 | 0:02:35 | |
Snow has fallen across large parts
too, with more than 22 centimetres | 0:02:35 | 0:02:38 | |
in Boulmer, in Northumberland. | 0:02:38 | 0:02:40 | |
And many more schools
were closed today - | 0:02:40 | 0:02:42 | |
thousands across England,
Wales, Scotland | 0:02:42 | 0:02:43 | |
and Northern Ireland. | 0:02:43 | 0:02:45 | |
In a moment, we'll hear
from Danny Savage. | 0:02:45 | 0:02:47 | |
But first, to Lorna Gordon. | 0:02:47 | 0:02:52 | |
In Glasgow.
Yes, when that red warning came into | 0:02:52 | 0:02:59 | |
force, the areas affected in central
and Southern Scotland to all intents | 0:02:59 | 0:03:04 | |
and purposes have been grinding to a
halt. The trains here on out off in | 0:03:04 | 0:03:11 | |
Scotland's big city Glasgow, there
is now no public transport services. | 0:03:11 | 0:03:16 | |
And most roads, including the busy
motorways, they are almost empty of | 0:03:16 | 0:03:20 | |
traffic. Where they are not empty on
roads like the 80, drivers have been | 0:03:20 | 0:03:26 | |
stuck for hours. | 0:03:26 | 0:03:27 | |
At the tail end of winter,
the highest alert for snow. | 0:03:27 | 0:03:32 | |
The driving treacherous,
the disruption widespread. | 0:03:32 | 0:03:35 | |
Heading out in these
conditions not advised. | 0:03:35 | 0:03:38 | |
This, the first time Scotland
has had a red weather | 0:03:38 | 0:03:41 | |
warning of this kind. | 0:03:41 | 0:03:45 | |
In force for a large swathe
of the country's most | 0:03:45 | 0:03:48 | |
heavily populated areas,
frequent showers, drifting snow | 0:03:48 | 0:03:56 | |
and the extremely low temperatures
means some rural | 0:03:57 | 0:03:59 | |
communities could become cut off. | 0:03:59 | 0:04:05 | |
Is it OK to come in? | 0:04:05 | 0:04:06 | |
Hello, Marjorie. | 0:04:06 | 0:04:09 | |
In the village of Bishopton,
on the outskirts of Glasgow, | 0:04:09 | 0:04:11 | |
the local Minister has been looking
in on the elderly and formidable. | 0:04:11 | 0:04:15 | |
In this kind of weather,
it's good for everyone to look out | 0:04:15 | 0:04:17 | |
for their neighbours? | 0:04:17 | 0:04:18 | |
It is indeed, that is right,
and even the smallest | 0:04:18 | 0:04:21 | |
gesture can be a help. | 0:04:21 | 0:04:22 | |
Checking in on everyone
and just checking to see | 0:04:22 | 0:04:24 | |
they are safe is important. | 0:04:24 | 0:04:25 | |
We wouldn't be advocating people
going out in this kind of weather. | 0:04:25 | 0:04:28 | |
Stay warm, stay safe,
and let us come to you. | 0:04:28 | 0:04:31 | |
The weather today is brutal. | 0:04:31 | 0:04:33 | |
There's freezing temperatures across
pretty much the whole of Scotland. | 0:04:33 | 0:04:36 | |
And when the wind blows,
it feels much colder than that. | 0:04:36 | 0:04:44 | |
The school here in Bishopton
shut for the day. | 0:04:45 | 0:04:47 | |
Across Scotland, more than 450,000
children have been missing lessons. | 0:04:47 | 0:04:51 | |
I was meant to be working,
but Alistair is off school, | 0:04:51 | 0:04:54 | |
so he came with me. | 0:04:54 | 0:05:02 | |
Take Your Child To Work Day,
but for weather reasons? | 0:05:03 | 0:05:05 | |
Yeah. | 0:05:05 | 0:05:06 | |
I wouldn't normally be off
but the schools got closed, | 0:05:06 | 0:05:09 | |
I couldn't get to work,
so my boss told me to stay at home | 0:05:09 | 0:05:12 | |
and work from home if I could,
but we ended up sledging. | 0:05:12 | 0:05:15 | |
In Perthshire, these deer
coming down from the hills | 0:05:15 | 0:05:17 | |
in search of shelter or food. | 0:05:17 | 0:05:19 | |
One measure, perhaps, of just how
extreme this weather has been. | 0:05:19 | 0:05:22 | |
It is pretty unusual in Scotland, we
do have some severe weather but snow | 0:05:22 | 0:05:27 | |
on the scale whilst not
unprecedented is unusual. We would | 0:05:27 | 0:05:29 | |
have to go back a number of years to
see an event like this. | 0:05:29 | 0:05:33 | |
At least one skier took to the
streets, not the slopes, to get | 0:05:33 | 0:05:37 | |
about. And with conditions so
difficult, there are warnings | 0:05:37 | 0:05:40 | |
tonight drivers could be stuck on
some roads for several hours with | 0:05:40 | 0:05:44 | |
even the gritters struggling to get
through. | 0:05:44 | 0:05:47 | |
The snow and ice has
caused serious problems | 0:05:47 | 0:05:49 | |
across most of the UK today. | 0:05:49 | 0:05:51 | |
In Lincolnshire, the emergency
services called on the Army to help, | 0:05:51 | 0:05:54 | |
after dozens of road incidents. | 0:05:54 | 0:05:57 | |
Many police forces are urging people
not to drive tonight with problems | 0:05:57 | 0:06:01 | |
on a number of major roads -
some of which have been | 0:06:01 | 0:06:04 | |
completely closed. | 0:06:04 | 0:06:05 | |
The worst affected areas
in England have been Kent, | 0:06:05 | 0:06:07 | |
East Anglia and North-East England. | 0:06:07 | 0:06:08 | |
Danny Savage is in Durham. | 0:06:08 | 0:06:14 | |
Day three of this Siberian blast
and things just got worse. | 0:06:14 | 0:06:17 | |
This was Cumbria early this morning,
but it could have been virtually | 0:06:17 | 0:06:21 | |
anywhere in Northern
and Eastern Britain. | 0:06:21 | 0:06:24 | |
Hundreds of vehicles -
on many different routes - | 0:06:24 | 0:06:26 | |
ended up getting stuck. | 0:06:26 | 0:06:30 | |
The A46 Lincoln bypass was
blocked by stranded lorries. | 0:06:30 | 0:06:34 | |
Further south, in Norwich,
it was gridlock in rush hour, | 0:06:34 | 0:06:36 | |
as the journey to work took hours. | 0:06:36 | 0:06:38 | |
The poor night girls
are still on shift. | 0:06:38 | 0:06:40 | |
They've been there since
half past seven last night | 0:06:40 | 0:06:42 | |
and no-one can get in. | 0:06:42 | 0:06:44 | |
We should have just stayed
at home really, but someone's | 0:06:44 | 0:06:47 | |
got to keep the world
running, haven't they? | 0:06:47 | 0:06:51 | |
On the East Coast main line,
linking London and Scotland, | 0:06:51 | 0:06:54 | |
there were numerous
cancellations and delays. | 0:06:54 | 0:06:55 | |
The snow, the travel,
it's been a nightmare. | 0:06:55 | 0:06:59 | |
It's been, yeah,
it's been a journey. | 0:06:59 | 0:07:03 | |
It is the 2:38 train
and it has been delayed by, | 0:07:03 | 0:07:07 | |
like, a couple of hours.
So 17:15 is the current time. | 0:07:07 | 0:07:10 | |
Thousands of schools
were closed for the day. | 0:07:10 | 0:07:12 | |
Of course, that meant fun
in the snow, but you needed | 0:07:12 | 0:07:15 | |
endurance in the biting wind chill. | 0:07:15 | 0:07:18 | |
If you took a spin down
a country road in Yorkshire, | 0:07:18 | 0:07:22 | |
this is what it looked like.
Beautiful, but treacherous. | 0:07:22 | 0:07:26 | |
Come on!
Come on! | 0:07:26 | 0:07:31 | |
In rural areas, much has to be done,
regardless of the weather. | 0:07:31 | 0:07:36 | |
All these ewes are pregnant. | 0:07:36 | 0:07:39 | |
They'll begin lambing
in less than three weeks. | 0:07:39 | 0:07:41 | |
Farmers want this freeze
to be over by then. | 0:07:41 | 0:07:46 | |
Sometimes, the weaker lambs
would just freeze to death in it. | 0:07:46 | 0:07:49 | |
That's where most of
the problem would lie. | 0:07:49 | 0:07:52 | |
And the farmer himself getting
round the sheep to find | 0:07:52 | 0:07:54 | |
which ones are in a corner. | 0:07:54 | 0:07:58 | |
They don't always lamb
where you want them to. | 0:07:58 | 0:08:00 | |
And so you'd have to be out looking,
finding them in the snow? | 0:08:00 | 0:08:04 | |
Yes, yeah. | 0:08:04 | 0:08:06 | |
Up the road, Sunderland was
one area badly hit this morning. | 0:08:06 | 0:08:08 | |
All the buses stopped
running at one point, | 0:08:08 | 0:08:10 | |
as blizzards swept through. | 0:08:10 | 0:08:12 | |
On the way in, we found Steve
trying to free his car, | 0:08:12 | 0:08:15 | |
which ended up off the road. | 0:08:15 | 0:08:16 | |
There was a lorry stuck
there, so we were sort | 0:08:16 | 0:08:19 | |
of like stuck behind a vehicle. | 0:08:19 | 0:08:20 | |
And it was just like a sheet of,
well, you can see virtually | 0:08:20 | 0:08:23 | |
in front of you really. | 0:08:23 | 0:08:24 | |
A white-out?
It really was. | 0:08:24 | 0:08:27 | |
Even Cornwall got a covering. | 0:08:27 | 0:08:35 | |
An opportunity for a different kind
of boarding in the South-West. | 0:08:37 | 0:08:42 | |
South-East England ended up
on the receiving end as well, | 0:08:42 | 0:08:44 | |
adding to the accumulations in Kent
and neighbouring counties. | 0:08:44 | 0:08:46 | |
The capital received
its heaviest snow | 0:08:46 | 0:08:49 | |
for several years,
with canals freezing over. | 0:08:49 | 0:08:51 | |
The reality again is that the
severity of snowfall varied widely. | 0:08:51 | 0:08:53 | |
There is no sign of things
getting better yet. | 0:08:53 | 0:08:59 | |
Much of the attention over the next
24 hours is going to be on Scotland | 0:08:59 | 0:09:03 | |
with that red weather warning in
place. But there is still a very | 0:09:03 | 0:09:07 | |
serious situation in other parts of
England and Wales. The critical | 0:09:07 | 0:09:11 | |
incident declared by the Chief
Constable of Lincolnshire police, | 0:09:11 | 0:09:14 | |
calling in the Army to help with
medical work and getting people to | 0:09:14 | 0:09:19 | |
and from hospital. There has been a
major accident in Nottinghamshire, | 0:09:19 | 0:09:28 | |
on the A1, 16 vehicles involved.
Schools in South Wales, many will | 0:09:28 | 0:09:32 | |
not open until next week because of
the severe weather. Transport | 0:09:32 | 0:09:36 | |
networks not quite paralysed, but it
is really in places and the rock | 0:09:36 | 0:09:40 | |
last train to London from the room
was three hours late. It shows how | 0:09:40 | 0:09:46 | |
difficult the situation is for
people getting around in the UK at | 0:09:46 | 0:09:49 | |
the moment.
From Durham, thank you. And there | 0:09:49 | 0:09:54 | |
are warnings that the West is not
over yet. More to come in the next | 0:09:54 | 0:09:58 | |
two days and we will have a full
weather forecast late in the | 0:09:58 | 0:10:01 | |
programme. | 0:10:01 | 0:10:06 | |
The Prime Minister has come under
pressure over Brexit at home and in | 0:10:07 | 0:10:12 | |
Brussels. Sir John Major criticised
the handling of the proceedings and | 0:10:12 | 0:10:17 | |
a document was revealed proposing
keeping Northern Ireland in a | 0:10:17 | 0:10:22 | |
customs union and like the rest of
the UK if no deal can be reached. | 0:10:22 | 0:10:25 | |
Theresa May said the idea could not
be agreed to. We will hear from so | 0:10:25 | 0:10:30 | |
John Major in a moment, but first,
our Europe editor in Brussels and | 0:10:30 | 0:10:35 | |
her report does contain flash
photography. | 0:10:35 | 0:10:38 | |
In the historic process
in which the UK leaves the EU, | 0:10:38 | 0:10:41 | |
this is a big moment -
the first legal draft | 0:10:41 | 0:10:48 | |
of the UK's exit treaty. | 0:10:48 | 0:10:49 | |
So how is it possible,
you might ask, to have a draft | 0:10:49 | 0:10:52 | |
withdrawal agreement already
when Brexit negotiations | 0:10:52 | 0:10:53 | |
are still ongoing? | 0:10:53 | 0:11:01 | |
Well, this 120-page document
is the European Commission's | 0:11:01 | 0:11:03 | |
understanding of what has been
agreed to date with the UK and of | 0:11:03 | 0:11:06 | |
what it still wants to be agreed. | 0:11:06 | 0:11:09 | |
So in here, we see that divorce
issues which were discussed, | 0:11:09 | 0:11:11 | |
but not finalised, before Christmas. | 0:11:11 | 0:11:12 | |
The rights of EU citizens
within the UK and UK citizens | 0:11:12 | 0:11:15 | |
in the EU after Brexit. | 0:11:15 | 0:11:16 | |
Also, the financial settlement,
the so-called Brexit Bill. | 0:11:16 | 0:11:18 | |
And to the Irish border. | 0:11:18 | 0:11:25 | |
Also in here, the transition
agreement, but no details | 0:11:25 | 0:11:28 | |
of a future EU-UK trade deal,
because those talks | 0:11:28 | 0:11:31 | |
haven't even started yet. | 0:11:31 | 0:11:33 | |
The document's paragraphs
on Northern Ireland | 0:11:33 | 0:11:36 | |
are particularly controversial. | 0:11:36 | 0:11:39 | |
The EU's chief Brexit negotiator
came out today to defend them. | 0:11:39 | 0:11:47 | |
We have applied imagination
and creativity, to find a specific | 0:11:47 | 0:11:50 | |
solution to the unique challenge
that Brexit poses for the protection | 0:11:50 | 0:11:53 | |
of the Good Friday Agreement. | 0:11:53 | 0:12:01 | |
Mr Barnier said three options had
been agreed with the UK to avoid | 0:12:02 | 0:12:05 | |
the reintroduction of a hard border
between Northern Ireland | 0:12:05 | 0:12:07 | |
and the Irish Republic,
but he said the UK hadn't yet come | 0:12:07 | 0:12:10 | |
forward with details. | 0:12:10 | 0:12:14 | |
So his backstop solution involves
Northern Ireland remaining | 0:12:14 | 0:12:17 | |
in a customs agreement with the EU
and in parts of the single market. | 0:12:17 | 0:12:21 | |
You must also be aware
of the potentially explosive | 0:12:21 | 0:12:27 | |
effect in the UK of this
Northern Ireland protocol. | 0:12:27 | 0:12:29 | |
Is this perhaps
intentional, on your part? | 0:12:29 | 0:12:32 | |
TRANSLATION: I'm not trying
to provoke or create shock waves. | 0:12:32 | 0:12:38 | |
I want these negotiations
to be a success. | 0:12:38 | 0:12:40 | |
But let me remind you that it was
the UK's decision to leave and, | 0:12:40 | 0:12:43 | |
as I've said from the beginning,
nobody should underestimate | 0:12:43 | 0:12:45 | |
the consequences of this action. | 0:12:45 | 0:12:47 | |
But the Prime Minister
was having none of it. | 0:12:47 | 0:12:54 | |
The draft legal text
the Commission have published | 0:12:55 | 0:12:57 | |
would, if implemented, | 0:12:57 | 0:12:58 | |
undermine the UK Common Market
and threaten the constitutional | 0:12:58 | 0:13:00 | |
integrity of the UK by creating
a customs and regulatory border down | 0:13:00 | 0:13:03 | |
the Irish Sea, and no UK Prime
Minister could ever agree to it. | 0:13:03 | 0:13:08 | |
The Prime Minister and the EU
do agree a hard border | 0:13:08 | 0:13:11 | |
between Northern Ireland
and the Irish Republic must be | 0:13:11 | 0:13:14 | |
avoided, but the Prime Minister's
negotiating position is complicated | 0:13:14 | 0:13:17 | |
by the Government's reliance
for Parliamentary support | 0:13:17 | 0:13:18 | |
on Northern Ireland's Democratic
Unionist Party. | 0:13:18 | 0:13:25 | |
If we didn't leave the EU to oversee
the break-up of the United Kingdom, | 0:13:25 | 0:13:28 | |
it would be catastrophic
economically, never mind | 0:13:28 | 0:13:30 | |
politically, for Northern Ireland
to cut off from its biggest market. | 0:13:30 | 0:13:34 | |
But this is not
where the story ends. | 0:13:34 | 0:13:38 | |
This document is a first draft,
to be amended by EU member states, | 0:13:38 | 0:13:41 | |
then negotiated with the Government
- which has plenty to say about it. | 0:13:41 | 0:13:46 | |
Katya Adler, BBC News, Brussels. | 0:13:46 | 0:13:53 | |
The former Prime Minister Sir
John Major has called | 0:13:53 | 0:13:55 | |
on Theresa May to offer MPs a free
vote on the final Brexit | 0:13:55 | 0:13:58 | |
deal, with the option
of putting it to the public | 0:13:58 | 0:14:00 | |
in a second referendum. | 0:14:00 | 0:14:01 | |
Sir John, who campaigned
to remain in the EU, | 0:14:01 | 0:14:03 | |
criticised the UK's approach
to Brexit and said many of its red | 0:14:03 | 0:14:06 | |
lines are unrealistic. | 0:14:06 | 0:14:12 | |
But a leading Brexit-supporting
Conservative MP has described his | 0:14:12 | 0:14:14 | |
speech as "riddled with errors". | 0:14:14 | 0:14:15 | |
Our political editor,
Laura Kuenssberg, reports. | 0:14:15 | 0:14:23 | |
Stop Brexit! Stop Brexit. The
freezing protesters who have taken | 0:14:24 | 0:14:30 | |
up a permanent place in Westminster
might have a new ally. The former | 0:14:30 | 0:14:35 | |
Tory Prime Minister Sir John Major,
who says MPs should be allowed to | 0:14:35 | 0:14:40 | |
approve or to block the final Brexit
deal will give you second | 0:14:40 | 0:14:44 | |
referendum.
Nobody can truly know what the will | 0:14:44 | 0:14:50 | |
of the people may then be. What the
will of the people may then be. What | 0:14:50 | 0:14:54 | |
the will of the people may then be.
Or put the issue back to the people. | 0:14:54 | 0:14:58 | |
I don't enjoy being out of step with
so many of my party. And I take no | 0:14:58 | 0:15:05 | |
pleasure at all in speaking out as I
have today. But it is as necessary | 0:15:05 | 0:15:13 | |
to speak truth to the people as it
is to speak truth to power. This | 0:15:13 | 0:15:17 | |
decision is far more than a party
issue. It is about the future of our | 0:15:17 | 0:15:23 | |
United Kingdom and everyone who
lives in it. His case, Theresa May | 0:15:23 | 0:15:29 | |
is trapped by her Brexiteers, the
current plot has a bad ending. | 0:15:29 | 0:15:35 | |
She is boxed in by people setting up
hurdles that it is very difficult | 0:15:35 | 0:15:39 | |
for her to jump and very difficult
for the European Union to jump. And | 0:15:39 | 0:15:43 | |
the end product of this no doubt in
the minds of those setting those | 0:15:43 | 0:15:47 | |
hurdles is that the European Union
will say no and it will be said, we | 0:15:47 | 0:15:51 | |
have no agreement because these
wicked Europeans and therefore we | 0:15:51 | 0:15:55 | |
leave with no agreement and a very
hard Brexit. That is not in the | 0:15:55 | 0:16:00 | |
interests of this country. There is
a risk from what you have said | 0:16:00 | 0:16:03 | |
today, it sounds like someone who
was on the losing side of the | 0:16:03 | 0:16:06 | |
document and you don't want to
accept it. That is a cheap response | 0:16:06 | 0:16:10 | |
to anything that is said. The 60
million people who were deeply upset | 0:16:10 | 0:16:16 | |
that we voted to leave the European
Union expected to be absolutely | 0:16:16 | 0:16:21 | |
silent and accept everything that is
said by other people even when they | 0:16:21 | 0:16:24 | |
believe it to be damaging? That is
not real. That is absolutely not | 0:16:24 | 0:16:29 | |
real. Of course they must speak up.
We are a democracy. But is democracy | 0:16:29 | 0:16:34 | |
not also respecting the result of
the referendum. Nobody knew in any | 0:16:34 | 0:16:39 | |
detail what the outcome of the
referendum really meant. The Prime | 0:16:39 | 0:16:43 | |
Minister relies on the support of a
vocal group of Brexit backers. But | 0:16:43 | 0:16:48 | |
she, like they, has no truck with
another vote. | 0:16:48 | 0:16:52 | |
The Government has given Parliament
the right to say whether they agree | 0:16:52 | 0:16:56 | |
with what we negotiated or not and
that will be it. And I think that is | 0:16:56 | 0:16:59 | |
the right thing to do. We have the
lead because the British people have | 0:16:59 | 0:17:03 | |
said we should leave.
Ministers may gnash their teeth at | 0:17:03 | 0:17:06 | |
this intervention. But it has
cheered the other Tory rest of | 0:17:06 | 0:17:11 | |
troops.
John Major is right, we should have | 0:17:11 | 0:17:13 | |
a free vote. And it is absolutely
the will of the people, then this | 0:17:13 | 0:17:16 | |
process that was begun by the people
of this country must be finished by | 0:17:16 | 0:17:20 | |
the people of this country.
But is he really helping? Did he not | 0:17:20 | 0:17:25 | |
complain his predecessor was a
back-seat driver? | 0:17:25 | 0:17:28 | |
Why should Theresa May tolerate what
you're doing this afternoon? | 0:17:28 | 0:17:32 | |
This is the first occasion I have
spoken on this many months. Unless | 0:17:32 | 0:17:35 | |
my memory serves me ill, Margaret
spoke on a weekly basis, not once in | 0:17:35 | 0:17:41 | |
many months. Hard to believe now the
referendum was meant to end Tory | 0:17:41 | 0:17:48 | |
fights, with the year to go, the
future shape of the country at | 0:17:48 | 0:17:52 | |
stake, there are plenty of scores to
settle. | 0:17:52 | 0:17:56 | |
There was frustration at surge on
major's intervention at the moment | 0:17:58 | 0:18:01 | |
when Theresa May gets striving to
hold together an uneasy truce in the | 0:18:01 | 0:18:05 | |
Tory party, but on his point of
view, he chooses his interventions | 0:18:05 | 0:18:10 | |
and words carefully, and rarely.
Clearly, for those inside the Tory | 0:18:10 | 0:18:15 | |
party, and around the country that
don't think this whole battle is | 0:18:15 | 0:18:19 | |
over, they may well give some
comfort. But we will see how to read | 0:18:19 | 0:18:23 | |
and make answers this amount and the
rest of the very, very long list of | 0:18:23 | 0:18:28 | |
them being put to her door in her
own big Brexit speech on Friday. | 0:18:28 | 0:18:39 | |
The time is just after 6:15.
Our top story this evening: | 0:18:39 | 0:18:42 | |
A red alert in Scotland as heavy
snow hits large parts of the UK. | 0:18:42 | 0:18:45 | |
It's the highest level
of weather warning,meaning | 0:18:45 | 0:18:47 | |
lives could be at risk. | 0:18:47 | 0:18:48 | |
And still to come: | 0:18:48 | 0:18:49 | |
Worried about plastic pollution? | 0:18:49 | 0:18:50 | |
This is the first supermarket in
Europe to open a plastic-free aisle. | 0:18:50 | 0:18:55 | |
Coming up on Sportsday on BBC News: | 0:18:55 | 0:18:56 | |
Ben Stokes is back making
the difference for England. | 0:18:56 | 0:18:59 | |
His man of the match display helps
them to a big win over New Zealand | 0:18:59 | 0:19:02 | |
in the second one day international. | 0:19:02 | 0:19:05 | |
They've been big high street names
for more than 30 years, | 0:19:11 | 0:19:19 | |
but now Toys'R'Us and the electrical
chain, Maplin have both collapsed, | 0:19:20 | 0:19:28 | |
putting more than 5000 jobs at risk.
Toys R Us has 3000 staff. | 0:19:31 | 0:19:35 | |
Maplin employs two and
a half thousand people. | 0:19:35 | 0:19:37 | |
Both firms have been struggling
with poor sales and increasing | 0:19:37 | 0:19:39 | |
competition from online retailers. | 0:19:39 | 0:19:40 | |
Here's our Business
Correspondent Emma Simpson. | 0:19:40 | 0:19:41 | |
# With toys in their millions | 0:19:41 | 0:19:43 | |
# All under one roof | 0:19:43 | 0:19:44 | |
# It's Called Toys'R'Us!...# | 0:19:44 | 0:19:45 | |
It was a force to be reckoned with,
pulling in shoppers | 0:19:45 | 0:19:50 | |
with its American-style megastores.
Today, the magic's long gone. | 0:19:50 | 0:19:53 | |
Some stores were already
closing to cut costs. | 0:19:53 | 0:19:55 | |
But it wasn't enough. | 0:19:55 | 0:19:56 | |
It's a shame, but it's not
probably a great surprise. | 0:19:56 | 0:19:58 | |
It's been on the cards for a while. | 0:19:58 | 0:20:04 | |
And people tend to buy
online these days, I think, | 0:20:04 | 0:20:07 | |
because it's cheaper. | 0:20:07 | 0:20:08 | |
Because I've four children,
grown up now, but we always used | 0:20:08 | 0:20:10 | |
to come here for their toys,
so it's a shame. | 0:20:10 | 0:20:14 | |
So what went wrong for Toys'R'Us? | 0:20:14 | 0:20:19 | |
They are too reliant on
these large out-of-town stores. | 0:20:19 | 0:20:24 | |
But a lot of their problems
are actually self-inflicted. | 0:20:24 | 0:20:26 | |
They overlooked the importance
of online, where about 40% | 0:20:26 | 0:20:28 | |
of toy sales take place. | 0:20:28 | 0:20:30 | |
And perhaps more importantly,
they've neglected their stores. | 0:20:30 | 0:20:38 | |
Toys'R'Us has been struggling
for years, a business weighed down | 0:20:40 | 0:20:42 | |
by huge amounts of debt. | 0:20:42 | 0:20:43 | |
Its American owners filed
for bankruptcy protection | 0:20:43 | 0:20:45 | |
in the States last autumn. | 0:20:45 | 0:20:48 | |
And today, this toy story ended
with the UK chain effectively | 0:20:48 | 0:20:50 | |
running out of cash. | 0:20:50 | 0:20:55 | |
And tonight, the man tasked
with rescuing it told me | 0:20:55 | 0:20:58 | |
that wouldn't be easy. | 0:20:58 | 0:20:59 | |
Whilst we're going to make every
effort to sell the business, | 0:20:59 | 0:21:02 | |
I think realistically
there is a small chance that | 0:21:02 | 0:21:04 | |
someone will come through. | 0:21:04 | 0:21:06 | |
And if they do, it will be
for parts of the business, | 0:21:06 | 0:21:09 | |
and certainly not for the business
as a whole, and certainly not | 0:21:09 | 0:21:12 | |
in its existing format. | 0:21:12 | 0:21:15 | |
Maplin also collapsed today
with more than 200 stores. | 0:21:15 | 0:21:20 | |
It blamed a slowdown in
consumer spending and higher costs. | 0:21:20 | 0:21:22 | |
It's been a bleak winter
for many retailers. | 0:21:22 | 0:21:26 | |
Today, two big casualties,
and thousands of jobs on the line. | 0:21:26 | 0:21:29 | |
The shops are still trading,
but for how much longer? | 0:21:29 | 0:21:32 | |
Emma Simpson, BBC News. | 0:21:32 | 0:21:38 | |
Russia has been readmitted to
the International Olympic Committee | 0:21:38 | 0:21:41 | |
following its suspension
from the recent Winter Olympics. | 0:21:41 | 0:21:43 | |
Russia was banned from
the Pyeongchang Games over | 0:21:43 | 0:21:47 | |
state-sponsored doping,
and its athletes had to compete | 0:21:47 | 0:21:49 | |
under a neutral flag. | 0:21:49 | 0:21:52 | |
Two tested positive for drugs
but the IOC chose to lift the ban | 0:21:52 | 0:21:55 | |
after the remaining tests
came back negative. | 0:21:55 | 0:21:59 | |
Pupils have made an emotional return
to the school in Florida where 17 | 0:21:59 | 0:22:03 | |
pupils and teachers died
in a shooting a fortnight ago. | 0:22:03 | 0:22:08 | |
Students were embraced by police
officers as they entered the Marjory | 0:22:08 | 0:22:10 | |
Stoneman Douglas High School
to resume classes. | 0:22:10 | 0:22:14 | |
A 19 year old former pupil
Nikolas Cruz has been charged | 0:22:14 | 0:22:16 | |
with 17 counts of murder. | 0:22:16 | 0:22:19 | |
Huge crowds have attended
the funeral of the Bollywood | 0:22:19 | 0:22:24 | |
superstar, Sridevi Kapoor,
who died at the weekend in Dubai. | 0:22:24 | 0:22:28 | |
Thousands of fans lined the streets
of Mumbai where she was cremated | 0:22:28 | 0:22:30 | |
with full state honours. | 0:22:30 | 0:22:34 | |
Police in Dubai say
the 54 year old drowned in a bath, | 0:22:34 | 0:22:37 | |
after losing consciousness. | 0:22:37 | 0:22:38 | |
She was one of India's
best known film stars, | 0:22:38 | 0:22:40 | |
and had appeared in about 300 films. | 0:22:40 | 0:22:48 | |
There is more pressure on retailers
and consumers to cut down on the | 0:22:48 | 0:22:51 | |
amount of plastic we use. One
supermarket in Amsterdam has become | 0:22:51 | 0:22:56 | |
the first in Europe to open a
plastic free I'll. And Johnson went | 0:22:56 | 0:22:59 | |
along to find out more. | 0:22:59 | 0:23:05 | |
On these shelves, all is not what it
seems. At first they claim, and I'll | 0:23:05 | 0:23:10 | |
wear all the packaging is plastic
free. This looks like plastic and | 0:23:10 | 0:23:15 | |
feels like plastic. But it isn't.
It's just biomaterials and it will | 0:23:15 | 0:23:20 | |
compost completely. And quickly?
Within 12 weeks. This is the | 0:23:20 | 0:23:24 | |
supermarket boss opening plastic
free aisles across the Netherlands. | 0:23:24 | 0:23:30 | |
It is what the consumer wants. What
you want as a citizen and for your | 0:23:30 | 0:23:35 | |
children for the next generation. It
should be just as simple as that. | 0:23:35 | 0:23:40 | |
This is the future... Back in
Britain, Iceland has taken a lead, | 0:23:40 | 0:23:46 | |
promising to cut out plastic within
five years, starting with paperboard | 0:23:46 | 0:23:49 | |
ready meal trays. At that is still
not entirely plastic free. Not | 0:23:49 | 0:23:54 | |
entirely plastic free because we
have a lining on this material to | 0:23:54 | 0:23:58 | |
protect it, and also for sealing it.
We are determined to remove that | 0:23:58 | 0:24:03 | |
quickly. But the packaging industry,
there is the plastic free I'll, but | 0:24:03 | 0:24:09 | |
it is a chance to catch up with
supermarkets. There are huge changes | 0:24:09 | 0:24:13 | |
in all sorts of things. I'm not
sure. Plastic free implies stripping | 0:24:13 | 0:24:20 | |
it all away. And as we found with
the Dutch situation today, plastic | 0:24:20 | 0:24:26 | |
is still there, it's just comes in a
different name. They are talking | 0:24:26 | 0:24:30 | |
about reducing plastic, there are
plenty of targets, but there is a | 0:24:30 | 0:24:34 | |
big debate about the best way to
kick our habit. | 0:24:34 | 0:24:38 | |
Meghan Markle has joined
Prince Harry and the Duke | 0:24:38 | 0:24:40 | |
and Duchess of Cambridge
for their first official | 0:24:40 | 0:24:42 | |
engagement together. | 0:24:42 | 0:24:43 | |
They were setting out
their charitable vision | 0:24:43 | 0:24:45 | |
for the future through the work
of their personal | 0:24:45 | 0:24:47 | |
charitable organisation -
the Royal Foundation - | 0:24:47 | 0:24:52 | |
amd Ms Markle will officially
join after her wedding | 0:24:52 | 0:24:54 | |
to Prince Harry in May. | 0:24:54 | 0:24:55 | |
Our Royal Correspondent
Nicholas Witchell reports. | 0:24:55 | 0:24:58 | |
They are the foursome who will
take the Royal family forward | 0:24:58 | 0:25:01 | |
for decades to come. | 0:25:01 | 0:25:03 | |
And on stage together
for the first time, | 0:25:03 | 0:25:05 | |
they talked
about their mission. | 0:25:05 | 0:25:08 | |
William said it was to
build on what his parents | 0:25:08 | 0:25:10 | |
and grandparents had achieved. | 0:25:10 | 0:25:13 | |
Hold on to the values that have
always guided our family, | 0:25:13 | 0:25:16 | |
but seek to engage in public life
in a way that was updated | 0:25:16 | 0:25:20 | |
and relevant for our generation. | 0:25:20 | 0:25:21 | |
Attention inevitably
focused on the newcomer, | 0:25:21 | 0:25:24 | |
Meghan Markle underlined
the relevance of her agenda | 0:25:24 | 0:25:26 | |
talking about female empowerment. | 0:25:26 | 0:25:30 | |
You'll often hear people say, | 0:25:30 | 0:25:31 | |
"You're helping women
find their voices." | 0:25:31 | 0:25:33 | |
And I fundamentally disagree
with that, because women don't | 0:25:33 | 0:25:35 | |
need to find a voice. | 0:25:35 | 0:25:36 | |
They have a voice, they need
to feel empowered to use it, | 0:25:36 | 0:25:39 | |
and people need to be
encouraged to listen. | 0:25:39 | 0:25:42 | |
And I think, right now,
in the climate that we're seeing | 0:25:42 | 0:25:47 | |
with so many campaigns,
I mean, Me Too and Time's Up, | 0:25:47 | 0:25:51 | |
there's no better time
than to really continue to shine | 0:25:51 | 0:25:55 | |
a light on women feeling empowered,
and people really helping to | 0:25:55 | 0:25:58 | |
support them, men included in that. | 0:25:58 | 0:25:59 | |
Meghan said she was looking forward
to hitting the ground running | 0:25:59 | 0:26:02 | |
after her wedding. | 0:26:02 | 0:26:03 | |
Sitting next to her,
her future sister-in-law. | 0:26:03 | 0:26:05 | |
So how is it working as a foursome? | 0:26:05 | 0:26:09 | |
Working as family does have
its challenges, of course it does. | 0:26:09 | 0:26:12 | |
The fact that everyone's laughing
means that everybody knows | 0:26:12 | 0:26:14 | |
exactly what it's like.
LAUGHTER | 0:26:14 | 0:26:19 | |
But, look, you know,
we're stuck together | 0:26:19 | 0:26:21 | |
for the rest of our lives, so...
LAUGHTER | 0:26:21 | 0:26:23 | |
This is true.
Togetherness at its finest. | 0:26:23 | 0:26:25 | |
Togetherness, yeah, yeah. | 0:26:25 | 0:26:26 | |
Together and seeking
to make a difference. | 0:26:26 | 0:26:30 | |
Nicholas Witchell, BBC News. | 0:26:30 | 0:26:33 | |
Time for a look at the weather.
Here's Louise Lear. | 0:26:33 | 0:26:38 | |
Subzero temperatures across the
whole of the UK first thing this | 0:26:38 | 0:26:41 | |
morning but it feels colder. | 0:26:41 | 0:26:45 | |
It has been really miserable,
temperatures on your thermometer | 0:26:45 | 0:26:48 | |
felt like this, 1 degrees, but
factor in the wind chill, the beast | 0:26:48 | 0:26:52 | |
from the East we have been talking
about, and it probably felt like | 0:26:52 | 0:26:57 | |
more -6, wind gusts 30-40 mph, so it
is miserable and will spay cold for | 0:26:57 | 0:27:03 | |
the next few days. You can find
these on the BBC weather Web page, | 0:27:03 | 0:27:12 | |
issued by the Met office, the
weather warnings which we don't talk | 0:27:12 | 0:27:14 | |
about national, that means to be
aware four issues. The Amber weather | 0:27:14 | 0:27:21 | |
warnings, be prepared, some
disruption and the red warning, we | 0:27:21 | 0:27:26 | |
only get one or two of these issued
a year. The last time we had a | 0:27:26 | 0:27:30 | |
weather warning, red warning, full
slow was in 2013, this means take | 0:27:30 | 0:27:37 | |
action. Take note that the weather
forecast is going to be really | 0:27:37 | 0:27:40 | |
hideous. We are likely to see more
snow as well in these areas, 10-20 | 0:27:40 | 0:27:47 | |
centimetres, perhaps, as we go
through the night. Don't travel in | 0:27:47 | 0:27:51 | |
these areas unless you have to. It
will be a bitterly cold start to the | 0:27:51 | 0:27:56 | |
day with temperatures well below
freezing, any lying snow will freeze | 0:27:56 | 0:28:00 | |
over. Through the day, we run the
risk of showers across parts, and | 0:28:00 | 0:28:05 | |
down into the south-west, cloudy
with outbreaks of snow developing as | 0:28:05 | 0:28:09 | |
well across the Channel coast into
Wales and may be behind it and we | 0:28:09 | 0:28:14 | |
have freezing rain. It will develop
into Friday, with significant snow | 0:28:14 | 0:28:21 | |
across the south-west into Wales and
Northern Ireland. You need to keep | 0:28:21 | 0:28:24 | |
abreast of the forecast for the end
of the working week if you have | 0:28:24 | 0:28:29 | |
significant travel plans. The
emphasis could still change | 0:28:29 | 0:28:32 | |
slightly. Amber weather warnings, be
prepared for some disruption across | 0:28:32 | 0:28:36 | |
the south-west, the snow will
continue to track north and east as | 0:28:36 | 0:28:41 | |
we go through the day. That said, it
should be a slightly quieter story | 0:28:41 | 0:28:45 | |
across much of eastern Scotland,
still a few showers but not be | 0:28:45 | 0:28:49 | |
significant showers we see in
comparison, and a better day across | 0:28:49 | 0:28:53 | |
the north-east of England. Still
wintry grip across the country in | 0:28:53 | 0:28:56 | |
the next few days, keep watching the
weather forecast. We will update | 0:28:56 | 0:29:00 | |
you. | 0:29:00 | 0:29:05 | |
That's all from the BBC News at Six
-- so it's goodbye from me - | 0:29:05 | 0:29:12 |