markel surround herself with fresh faces including a cabinet job from one of her fiercest critics also coming up you. know responding in syria despite a unanimous u.n. vote for a cease fire the bombs keep raining down on the people of eastern kentucky. i'm michelle henery welcome we begin with some breaking news british police are responding to what they're calling a major incident in the city of leicester video posted on you tube appears to show a fire in a building in a residential street local media oakland witnesses who say they heard a large explosion authorities are vices people to avoid the area. for more on this story let's bring in detail because big of mosques in the british capital. what more can you tell us about this reported explosion in leicester. well it is something that was first reported just over a couple of hours ago and it's something that the police have not confirmed what it is just that it is a major major incident and that it appears that all the local fire and rescue services are at the scene social media of course has a lot of eyewitnesses also pictures and

fresh faces including a cabinet job for one of her harshest critics also coming up. no letup in the bloodshed in syria despite a unanimous u.n. vote for a ceasefire the bombs keep raining down on the people of eastern ghouta. and desperation in the democratic republic of congo with militia violence on the rise and people desperate for the president to step down the report on the catholic church is increasingly political role. with. a michele henery thanks for joining us german chancellor angela merkel has announced her cabinet picks to solidify a grand coalition with the social democrats pending the s.t.d. east final approval of that coalition merkel says she's put together a young dynamic team which represents a new start for her conservative party and it includes her most prominent critic from within the c.d.u. . after weeks of speculation and rumor around the new cd you cabinet mescal says she's blending fresh faces with wise heads. it's been a moment there i instigated the at the moment i'm the only one who's passed the age of sixty all others a younger in some v

faces including a cabinet job for one of her fiercest critics. i'm michelle henery welcome the former leader of the main syrian kurdish political party known as the p y d has been arrested in prague at the behest of turkey has been seeking sell a muslim after turkish court charged him with sedition turkey launched a military offensive last month in serious afferent region against his party's armed affiliate which it perceives as terrorists celeb muslim spoke to earlier this week host sarah kelly asked him if his party had links to the p.k. k. a kurdish movement outlawed by turkey. well let's just ask you turkey says that the why peachey and that the people id that these are terrorist organizations. they say that they are no different from the p.k. k. which we know that many governments around the world have classified as a terrorist organization the links are strong aren't they know it's not true i mean war where you yourself though once with the p.k. know i was with them civilian and you know and so there. was an injury and remember what is it t

newsline from berlin german chancellor merkel names her new cabinet the german chancellor surrounds herself with fresh faces including a cabinet job for one of her fiercest critics look at the latest from conservative party headquarters in berlin also coming up if you don't. know risk by in syria despite a unanimous u.n. vote for a cease fire the bombs keep waning talent on the people of eastern time. and the olympic flame has been extinguished bringing the winter olympics that beyond chang to a close we take a look at the game's final day which saw fireworks both inside and outside the venue so. i'm michel henery welcome german chancellor angela merkel has announced her cabinet nominees to solidify a grand coalition with the social democrats pending their final approval merkel's choices will determine the future direction of the cd u.s. political compass and several senior politicians in her party have been outspoken about wanting to tip the party's politics to the right as expected merkel appointed yen spawn as health minister the end dishes john conservative has been an outspoken critic

new cabinet. absolutely in fact journalists offenses so often the line joins me now and you out one example together with the chancellor of the continuation of a potential new cabinet if the social democrats agree to it german chancellor also merkel took on code one of her harshest critics within the party did she have to or did she wants to she wanted to she is free to decide and she wanted to take a very different friendship and it set off a set up of people into her cabinet more women younger ones own different much directions we have in the party so it was good to see that this is a broad approach to have a representation of the different tendencies we do have in the party what age is consent and what gender is concerned does this mark a shift more to the conservative rightist count within the party back to that conservative group that many have criticized the shots for longer having continued having shifted too far to the said hello no i think. what it shows is that our party consists alpha h

the home secretary insist that rests within the cabinet have been exaggerated and says the uk will continue to seek a bespoke deal with the eu. at least two people have been killed and more than 100 injured in a rail crash in the us state of south carolina. south africa's president jacob zuma is being urged to step down as leader of the anc. 0n meet the author of this week, my guest has a book that is a creepy thriller that turns into a contemporary horror story. welcome to our look ahead. many of the front pages are already in, we have been looking through, the metro uses have been looking through, the metro uses a musketeer analogy to describe the comments of amber rudd on cabinet relations. theresa may is appeasing tory brexiteers by scrapping plans to remain in the customs union, meanwhile the times says a cabinet compromise on the customs union is on the cards. then a top bank of england official warns against post—brexit banking regulations. the guardian has an exclusive on a secret fraternity of freemasons which is continuing to operate in westminster. lloyds is becoming the first

meeting. —— at this weeks cabinet meeting. —— at this weeks cabinet meeting. ina in a moment we'll hear from in a moment we'll hearfrom our reporter adam fleming in brussels — but first vicki young is in vienna. are we getting any clearer about what the government will ask for in the final settlement?” what the government will ask for in the final settlement? i think we might be, today, with david davis, this was very much about reassurance, it seemed really a far cry from some of the argument is made by people in the conservative party and in the cabinet, over the yea rs party and in the cabinet, over the years and decades when they have made the case for leaving the eu, saying, we have got to break away the red tape, stifling british competitiveness, was not what was being said today, raising some rules, saying that britain had helped shape them. the message from him, and from theresa may, when she made a security speech, was very much about continued cooperation. they both say things will change but you are getting the impression that things will not ch

side of the cabinet picks and her own c.d.u. party is still trying to recover from the fact that merkel in those late nights ago she is handed over the key finance ministry now with un spawn and we're not hearing anybody denying this joy in her cabinet she will have somebody at the table who is on the record of could not just criticizing her but also through actually without really courtenay to with the german chancellor forced himself through votes into the upper echelons of the c.d.u. party system real competition there the social democrats we've seen really having not just lively debates it's really internal fights not something angela merkel had under control until now recently after these elections which are also seen as a kind of defeat for the christian democrats who also lost in these polls and who are now trying a very very hard indeed to get this so-called grand coalition together with the social democrats whose party grassroots will have the final vote where they would actually happen. let's go back to you and sean fo

had german chancellor angela merkel is set to announce her cabinet picks today to cement defy a grand coalition with the social democrats merkel's pics will determine the future direction of the city's political compass and several senior politicians in her party have been outspoken about wanting to pivot the party's politics to the rice merkel is tips to appoint stan as the health minister that's the thirty seven year old who is the outspoken critic of her welcoming refugee policy and the choice would signal a shift to the rice and it could also appease calls for fresh talent in the party as would the replacement of you your collection there as the minister for agriculture now the forty five year old is known as a loyal ally of markel and the face of another ally the current defense minister ursula on the lion is also on certain the chancellor may allow her to keep her position despite a series of gaffes in the bundeswehr on july and has been tipped by the way as successor to merkel. well for more on this now we're going to cross over to. the used political correspondent at the c.d.u

and half of all her cabinet posts will be filled by women . facing the critics will be the task of the cd hughes future general secretary on a great comic con and by our she was elected by an overwhelming majority of american allies she promised to restore the party's prestige it is not about whether individuals shine and the c.d.u. it's about the party itself being brilliant we have to work for this we need your cooperation for this i ask for your trust. her speech by contrast through enthusiastic applause there was appreciation also for two ministers leaving office outgoing interior minister thomas de month. and health minister hammond go there the message the party leader on give america was clear the party may follow her but it's not quite convinced. and here's some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world the u.s. president has suffered a setback after the supreme court rejected his bid to get it to intervene in the case of the dreamers there the children of illegal immigrants to the united states and they've be

the only thing keeping her cabinet together is the vagueness thatis cabinet together is the vagueness that is allowing people on both sides to still think they have got something in the game and there is everything to play for but i think this'll everything to play for but i think this‘ll be a very difficult and period ahead. and nowjacob this‘ll be a very difficult and period ahead. and now jacob rees mogg is emerging as rebel in cheek, but we knew that already. could he'd bea but we knew that already. could he'd be a prime minister in waiting? —— could he be. he is emerging as a serious prime minister candidate, people are starting to say that he is one of the few people on the tory side around brexit who is saying what they think and it harks back to the leadership contest regarding labour and the leadership contest regarding labourandjeremy the leadership contest regarding labour and jeremy corbyn, where it did matter what he said, because he said what he thought, and jacob agrees mogg has got the same thing regarding the conservatives, so maybe people should not think of

she has to get that signed by the cabinet very quickly. i think that is what the meeting at chequers is all about morning, tried to get the cabinet to agree on the big picture. then the negotiation will begin with the eu. that is where this gets really tough, because the eu have maintained all the way through this pi’ocess maintained all the way through this process that the uk cannot pick and mix the best bits from the single market in the future, it can't cherry pick, and the integrity of the single market cannot be threatened. i think there are those in brussels now to suspect that what the uk is about to put in the table something that looked exactly like that. good to talk to you. ben wright, our political correspondent in westminster. police forces could face new legal action by victims of major crime if the police investigations are found to be "seriously defective". judges at the supreme court gave the ruling, under human rights law, in a case brought by two women who say they were victims ofjohn worboys, the serial sex attacker.

her new cabinet will determine. just me and she can confirm that there will be new faces in the government can we expect real changes in policy with these additions. or we can expect a different kind of tone what she did is she brought in someone who is completely unknown really on the broader political scene and a car to check she's an m.p. who comes from the same region as you and smart who says very prominent critic of german chancellor angela merkel who is now taking over is set to take over the health ministry and if this coalition comes together because that's by no means in the end the social democrat party those grassroots will get to vote on this but if it does this means somebody who's an open critic of merkel taking over from how much who for many years has been a very close ally of the epitome of loyalty within her own party and this shows really that there isn't just a change of tone really there but that merkel feels she has to react to criticism and she has to open the door to those in the party criti

prior to the convention merkel had presented her picks for a potential new cabinet which will include one of her harshest critics the thirty seven year old m.p.g. and span half of all posts for the c.d.u. will be held by women these decisions helped to silence most of the critical voices . let's get them they've got to know what this gives the whole thing today a really good movie so i'm very satisfied. it's a new team it reflects the c.v. i did it's interesting for people to mention but still most of the party's applause today went to two ministers who will no longer be in office interior minister told most of is year and health minister how much the message to party. you don't blow america was clear the party may follow but it's not quite. our political editor michel because there has been a covering the party convention today for us and she joins us jaime fairly good to see you so the city who has approved of this coalition deal that was largely expected were there any dissenting voices today. they were some dissenting voices but not much of the criticism remaining that we've heard

the cabinet is more united than the brexiteers think, says amber rudd, ahead of a crucial few days for the negotiations. we meet in the committee, we meet privately for discussions. i think we will arrive at something that suits us all. two people have been killed and more than 100 injured, after two trains collided with each other in the united states. south africa's president, jacob zuma, is being urged to step down as leader of the anc, during a meeting with top party officials. political limbo continues in germany, as angela merkel‘s party fails to form a coalition government. talks continue tomorrow. also this hour, england get their six nations campaign off to a winning start. their italian hosts had their moments, but eddiejones‘ side scored seven tries, to run out easy victors in rome. good evening and welcome to bbc news. in a crucial week for talks with the eu over future trade arrangements, the home secretary says the uk will not ‘surrender too quickly‘ in its bid for a bespoke deal. amber rudd also hit out at the brexiteer conservative mps, saying the cabinet was mo

one cabinet minister told me it was a deliberately provocative negotiating ploy. the power to shape brexit may well be spreading beyond downing street. for the moment, though, the ball sits with its current inhabitants. our political editor nick watt there, and nick is with me. you must have more intel on what inside the crucial meeting today? interesting speech this evening by the prime minister to the conservative black—and—white ball, she said ever since the british people delivered their vote in the referendum, i have had no doubt about what our new relationship with the eu must mean, control of our money, control of our borders and control of our laws. what's she doing there? she's knocking on the head the idea that she does not have an idea for brexit. i have to say i am hearing some pretty gloomy accounts, one source close to a cabinet minister said to me there was a dreary reading out of preprepared scripts. another source said the only thing they could agree on is that they disagree, but i have to say theresa may loyalists are saying they do not recog

and you think that is still the genuine case inside the cabinet? it is not a question of, actually, we don't want to reveal everything, we don't want to reveal our hands to the public or indeed to anyone in brussels? you think there is still, despite the fact we are meant to have had this cabinet meeting where some of these things were thrashed out recently, theyjust can't reach agreement? i think we have got to be careful of exaggerating that because the cabinet has moved a long way since the brexit referendum 20 months ago, so they are agreed that the uk is leaving the european single market, agreed that it is leaving the customs union, which it has to because that is in the european treaties. there is an argument about what nature of free—trade agreement they should try and seek with the eu and if the eu would allow the uk to have such a deal. the primary sticking point is customs arrangements and whether the uk signs a replacement for the existing customs union, something like turkey has because turkey is a member of a different customs union

the zooming arrival of the cabinet's cars — that's what. darting into chequers, hoping perhaps the rural peace for more than a year, this group have been attempting to hammer out a compromise. but for decades, arguably, the tory party has been trying and not always succeeding. so, can they find one today? they were at it for eight hours. the prime minister, surrounded by her close colleagues and advisers — some who were pitted against each other during the referendum. next week she wants to tell the rest of the world more of her brexit plan. but the inner cabinet has struggled to agree how closely we should stick to the eu after brexit. some compromise perhaps today, but not a dramatic breakthrough. if you look at what happened back before the december european summit there was a lot of speculation that the cabinet would not reach agreement. we all agreed a position that the prime minster took to brussels, and got a successful outcome. and all of us in the cabinet are determined to get the best possible deal for every part of the united k

it appears that the - is it appears that the cabinet is broadly behind an approach. but it is the lowest common phenomena to approach and it is an approach which the european union has said isn't going to run a. that the uk will manage diversions and conform to eu rules when it wants and will divert when it wants. as far as the eu is concerned, it is an other cherub picking approach which they have rejected this topic we can deal with each individual issue which will go on forever, but it are some sort of mutual recognition of our positions, we can work with that, but don't tell us what is right and wrong and what we can and cannot do. that is right. the problem is from the eu's point of view, mutual recognition doesn't cut it. to have a proper single market you need to have a common way of enforcing whatever is agreed and you have to make sure that you keep up—to—date as change. the way that works is to directives, regulations and the european court ofjustice. if we are going to say we want to have the same fairness, we want to have the same fairness, we won't h

, she has borisjohnson, cabinet itself, we were talking, she has boris johnson, michael gove, cabinet itself, we were talking, she has borisjohnson, michael gove, in her cabinet she has this huge issue and the pressure is on her again. she needs to keep it to one side because if anyone of them see themselves as pure brexiteers, supporting the leave campaign, were to resign, that could be curtains to her. the number that have signed this would be enough to trigger a leadership election if they were to do so. the person leading this charge is jacob rees mogg, a former hedge fund manager and is quite respected by the grassroots and he is determined to get as clean and as pure a brexit as possible. in this letter he wants the uk to have an implementation period based only on wto principles, i.e., it must be completed by march 2019, no chance. and to have full regulatory autonomy, no alignment and that could have implications for an omission of a whole range of eu organisation. —— admission. it will be difficult, that is by david cameron resigned! we predicted that this would be genera

this is the detainees live from berlin chancellor merkel names her new cabinet the german chancellor surrounds herself with french fries and then sitting at how can this job for one of her most prominent critic look at the latest live from the conservative party headquarters in berlin also coming up. no rest fight in syria just spicy unanimous u.n. votes for us these fires the bombs keep it was raining down on the people of eastern cuba. and as the curtain closes on the berlin film festival actor bill murray picks up the best director award for his friends where i understand and it's a prize winner maybe a director i did it in t.v. takes home the golden bear for her pelham terms we know. you're a man. i'm honors on a welcome to the program well german chancellor angela merkel has announced her cabinets to solidify a grand coalition with the social democrats merkel's choices that will determine the future direction of the cd used political compass and several senior politicians in her party have been outspoken about wanting to pivot the parsis politics to the rice that was no surprise

prior to the convention merkel had presented her picks for a potential new cabinet which will include one of her harshest critics the thirty seven year old m.p.g. and spam half of all posts for the c.d.u. will be held by women these decisions helped to silence most of the critical voices . in the work this gives the whole thing today really could be so i'm very satisfied. it's a new team it reflects the c.v. i do it's interesting for people. but still most of the participants today went to two ministers who will no longer be in office interior minister who must be busy and health minister come on through the message to party leader was clear the party may follow but it's not quite convinced. now at some other stories making news around the world britain's opposition leader german corben has outlined a more flexible approach to immigration after brags that the prime minister theresa may he said his labor party would guarantee permanent residence for european union citizens living in britain and the right to bring their families to join the. british police say at least four people were

people, had more access to cabinet leaders in the last months than in the past eight years, cabinet leaders are the ones who make it happen for state like us so i would say focus that signal, lots of other stuff goes on in dc that is noise and that gets the headlines, the signal is we have cabinet leaders helping make our state better every day. up north we have this border with canada we don't even talk about, 310 miles long, 18 border crossings, canada is our number one trading partner and in ag and in energy it has been quite a year on that front, we had a chance this last summer to meet prime minister justin trudeau and i give a shout out, my daughter jesse, today is her 22nd birthday so happy birthday, jesse. [applause] >> lower left, canadian ambassador david mc not, had a chance to meet them three times, outgoing premiere of rat wall, the premier of saskatchewan and brian and his wife esther, premier and his wife of manitoba. you can tell from that picture they were both collegiate basketball players. brian is also a fast pitch softball player who has been to 20 tournaments i

executive who's at the party convention here in berlin i started by asking him if some of miracles cabinet choices signaled the party is shifting to the right. the c.d.u. is for a poxy of the political center in germany it will remain the political party of the center and germany because election germany one in the center of this is exactly where we belong i'm going to merkel announced a new cabinet members yesterday evening will become the new health secretary. on for many years and now he has a chance to show what he can do as a new minister there's a lot to do in this field ok let's take a listen if we could to what the chancellor had to say about her pets. it's been a moment the i instigated the at the moment on the only one he's past the age of sixteen oh now there's a younger in some very much younger than this and with this team we cannot tackle the challenges of the future and there are many this feeling. ok now are the new pals personalities that the chancellor named the ones that can bring back the voters that the c.d.u. has lost to the far right if the especially the ones who sa

the cabinet spends several days in long and heated discussions about what to do. stanton ardently argues that buchanan has to leave the troops there. he has to its support them. he has to defend the flag. stanton tells be cannon that, if -- tells buchanan that, if he , surrenders fort sumter, he will be as bad as benedict arnold, stranding another fort in another war. stanton was not a man to mince words. stanton was not only arguing with buchanan to his face. he was leaking to buchanan's political enemies. in particular to william henry seward, a leading republican senator and who would soon become lincoln's secretary of state. there is a great letter from seward to lincoln in december of 1861, which reads in part -- at length, i have gotten in a position which i can see what is going on in the councils of the president. it pains me to learn that things are even worse than is understood. although seward did not name his source, other letters make it clear it was stanton. we might not think it is a big deal. we are used to leeds. we think of lincoln is the good pr

the cabinet is split. it doesn't yet have an agreed negotiating position in terms of what it wants to ask the european union for in march when the next round of talks begin. which is obviously troubling the european union. the european union has its own problems as well, there are a lot of moving parts in this. it's turning almost into a crisis. but it is happening. it almost one year to go until brexit. i suspect there will be some deal at some point. britain is not doing its reputation for diplomatic skill any good at the moment, and it seems bizarre that this close to brexit the cabinet and prime minister, who is of course under a lot of pressure, and under pressure from some conservatives to 90, pressure from some conservatives to go, don't yet know that they what sort of relationship they want with the european union have to words. and you think that is still the genuine case inside the cabinet? or they don't want to reveal their hand to the public or anyone in brussels. despite the fact we have this

there's a crucial meeting this afternoon of the government's inner cabinet on brexit. the prime minister is holding talks with senior ministers at chequers, in an attempt to secure a common approach on britain's negotiating position with the european union. the meeting begins in an hour, but with significant differences to be resolved, it could go on until late into the evening. here's our political correspondent, chris mason. the official country residence of british prime ministers since 1921. checkers in the buckinghamshire countryside, hosting a meeting of the government's most senior figures involved in making brexit happen. the chance for them to work out what they see our long—term relationship with the eu looking like. questions to the secretary of state for international trade. back at westminster, brexit dominates everything. liam fox faced questions this morning, as did the prime minister's de facto deputy, who tried to talk things down. this is one of a number of meetings of cabinet ministers to talk through how we approach the forthcoming negotiations. o

they unfairly won lucrative government contracts and even influence the choice of ministers in the cabinet. with zuma now gone many south africans are hoping fings will change major battles lie ahead for jacob zuma against the scandals hanging over him for the a.n.c. against south africa's economic hardship. and for some loudness is a high with new christine a moon deval whose joins me now from in the studio you bet the last twenty four hours i can see christine and tell me. what is going to happen the next couple of days all right so off to parliament elects so rebels as president he needs to be sworn in we are and we understand that could either happen later today or tomorrow they also indicated that he wants and they want him to present the state of the nation address tomorrow evening ok now this is really the end of the zuma era as we know it but there are many many corruption allegations against him do you think he's been given some kind of immunity from prosecution in return for him stepping don nelson a good christian image and a lot of people are wondering the same thing because in

the cabinet will meet tomorrow to approve the decision by the cabinet subcommittee, brexit subcommittee, to have the end state negotiations pursuing an ambitious managed divergences. that really is going to set the countdown, a three—week countdown to the opening council at the end of march, where hopefully guidelines will be agreed on the future, the nature of the future trading relationship. i asked michael howard what he thinks of that cabinet decision we are likely to get tomorrow and this is what he had to say. i do think it's realistic. it's realistic because the european union, at the end of the day, wants a deal, it wants a deal on goods and services because it sells more goods to us than we do to them. it uses london not because they love us but because it's the most efficient capital market in the world and they want the deal because they want our money, and without a deal, they won't get it. michael howard, thank you. i‘m nowjoined by one of those maastricht rebels who made john major‘s life in office a misery, sir bill cash. he rebelled the party whip 48 times during t

oppose those first choice cabinet he described this morning as a transitional cabinet to take the governing party from now until the next elections in twenty nineteen and it is to be hoped that term opposable there. on the new national executive from that point forward but having said that i think the clear signal that has come out of yesterday's reshuffle is that the economic cost of ministries finance public enterprises trade and industry and so on have been strengthened and that's a clear sign of the priority that drama policy is going to see his new government take and one fly in the ointment here is that zoomers ex-wife and courses on i mean who lost that leadership race. has surprisingly been given a cabinet job is that being seen as a way to heal the divide within the a.n.c. and is there a worry here she could be quite destructive to the new leadership and its policies . well i think it's certainly is an attempt at unifying at what has been a very divided party we saw at the national conference of the a.n.c. in december that the party was deeply divided opposed a triumph over courses

and newsnight, the cabinet committee is arguing about brexit. we will have an in—house gathering to thrash out those arguments. we agree we need big decisions, but can we agree on what? good evening and welcome to bbc news. some victims of the serial sex attacker, john worboys, have been given permission to challenge the decision to release him from jail. there'll be a hearing in the high court in mid march, and worboys will stay in prison until then. the parole board's been criticised after announcing he'd be freed after serving less than ten years. our home affairs correspondent daniel sandford reports. still in custody, at least for the time being, john worboys arrived at court in a prison van and was taken to the cells in handcuffs. convicted in 2009 of one rape, six other sex offences and 12 crimes of drugging customers, the london black cab driver is suspected of assaulting around 100 female passengers. and his victims hadn't expected him to be released ever. when we were told it was an indefinite sentence, it was just, well, justice has

this is philip hammond, the main remain a voice in the cabinets. people are saying they have to stand up to him. but he may be talking to the cbi who are saying that if we walk away, we don't know where we will sell our goods, we don't know if factories will close down. this can't be done without that other side, which is business. ultimately, it is all about business and livelihoods. but one about business and livelihoods. but u about business and livelihoods. but one group want to go alone and do it in isolation. do you sing she was sako chancellor? she might, but i get nowhere that will get her. that's this is about the facade and how it looks, or perhaps it is about indecision or being 50—50 in a situation when you can't decide. another story in the sunday telegraph. women given cancer all clear misdiagnosed by test blunders. that is the kind of story that makes people fearful. you go for those test and you assume that they are getting a clean bill of health. what is the story here, dharshini? this is the story here, dharshini? this is worryi

earlier today, merkel announced her picks for a new cabinet. most of the new cabinet is younger. there are also more women. >> an overwhelming majority voted in favor of a new grand coalition. only 27 of more than 900 voted against it. even so, given the skepticism of the ranks, and the merkel was at pains -- angela merkel was at pains. >> we are looking for the right answers. we are drawing conclusions from the election results. a new start for europe. reporter: michael speech drew just over -- merkel's speech drew just over four minutes of's -- of applause. many will interpret it as dissatisfaction for the chancellor. >> this result is not at all what we were hoping for. we all fought hard and were all disappointed beard we all want to do better next time -- disappointed. we all want to do better next time. brent: another coalition with the spd will do little to improve the situation. >> the chancellor has moved to placate her opponents. reporter: half of all her cognitive posts will be -- cabinet post will be filled by women. facing the critics will be the tasks of the general

the headlines on bbc newsroom live: theresa may and her cabinet collea g u es theresa may and her cabinet colleagues meet at chequers to find agreement on the way forward for the brexit negotiations. that number of eu citizens leaving the uk is at its highest level for a decade. donald trump suggests arming teachers might be a way to tackle school shootings in the united states. tea m states. team gb ‘s men are out of the curling at the winter olympics in south korea, losing 9—5 to switzerland in their play—off match. they failed to reach the final four and it means team gb lose another medal chance after winning silver in sochi four years ago. the russian curler and alexander krushelnitsky has been stripped of his bronze medalfrom has been stripped of his bronze medal from the mixed has been stripped of his bronze medalfrom the mixed curling event after being found guilty of doping. nathan hughes will start at number eight for england at this weekend boss mike six nations clash with scotland. he replaces the injured sam simmons with the propjoe marler returning on the bench. i will

what is this sense of what the cabinet is thinking and saying? and interesting juncture in all of this? ina and interesting juncture in all of this? in a sense we are a week or two early because this time next week the prime minister will be setting out her vision for our future relationship with the european union, her big speech, but asi european union, her big speech, but as i understand it what emerged from chequers yesterday from eight hours of discussions that the cabinet's subcommittee on brexit decided by and large have signed up to a recognition. what does that mean? it means a swathe of areas, proposals for the government where we draw our own rules and regulations after brexit and because they will be at the same level or higher than the eu then the government believes trade could continue unimpeded. as we heard, though, from damien, the eu may take a different view when the negotiations get under way. another potential spanner that might be put in the prime minister's works because to have a new customs arrangement, for example, that

and a cabinet reshuffle in south africa offers clues about the priorities of the new president cyril ramaphosa. after ten days of intense bombardment on syria's eastern goes where the fighting was supposed have stopped at least temporarily but both sides are accusing the other of violations russia ordered a daily five pause in the rebel held district on monday after days of international pressure russia says car doors would be set out to allow civilians to leave this is why for dean crossing between good and damascus the world health organization says more than a thousand sick. and wounded are on the list needing evacuation from there more than five hundred fifty people have been killed and hundreds more wounded in the past ten days on sunday opposition doctors reported a suspected poison gas attack more than four hundred thousand people chatter nice and good which has been under siege since twenty thirty in the deal fall short of a u.n. resolution calling for a thirty day cease fire we did badin lives in duma inside eastern good he says the assault on the area has continued despite

a cabinet committee will meet this week to discuss the government's approach to negotiations. here's our political correspondent, susana mendonca. watching the dragons in action on a trade trip to china last week, the prime minister was all too aware that her backbenchers at home were fanning the flames of division over brexit. centauri brexiteers have painted a picture of disunity on the government's front bench over the direction britain's negotiations with the eu should take, but now one leading cabinet member has pushed back. i have a surprise that the brexiteers, the committee that beats in order to make these decisions, meeting twice this week, as you rightly say, is more united than you think. we beat in the committee and also privately for discussions, i think we will arrive at something that suits us all. assessments this week which had suggested the options for a post—brexit trade deal with the eu would leave britain where staff have been at the heart of an argument in the conservative party. brexiteers have direct criticism at chancellor philip hammond on the trea

you travel a lot as a cabinet secretary. i would say this is not as egregious in the public ice east mind as price was forced to resign. but then you have inspectors general in three other agencies who have looked into -- well, ie yan zinke, the interior secretary who is underst ination now for travel that mostly involves mixing official interior events with political appearances. >> woodruff: right. >> you have e.p.a. secretary scott pruitt who on -- we just reported a few days ago pretty much always travels first class or business class wherever he's going, goes home to oklahoma a lot, that's under investigadion. then youteve mnuchin who -- a treasury secretary who the i.g. has alreadyeported in s case he took about $800,000 worth of military flights. >> woodruff: and that was cleared as we -- it was cleared, although the inspector general had some questions about it. >> woodruff: so, kathleen clark, how unusual is it? anmpare this administratio these investigations to previous administrations, how do they compare? >> this

they need to re brand essentially and go to the public and say we flee into house we've cleaned the cabinets look we've brought you so or i'm opposed to the markets have welcomed him he's going to clean up the corruption in cabinet he's one of the africa's wealthiest men so a lot of celebrities have the sense that he's not in this for the money so to say if you're an ally of jacob zuma are you worried today christine because we saw for example a bit earlier the police basically swooping in on the property of the good does that's one of south africa's richest families apparently there are allegations of corruption there between that family and jacobs and the himself are we going to see a charges being brought are we going to see arrests perhaps to the does the public want that the public once that the public also wants to see president jacob zuma himself see his day in court yet prisoners and eyes right now are a worried where they are it was clear this morning when we saw those rates essentially the timing of it was very interesting this investigation has been ongoing into the group has and

meanwhile the times says a cabinet compromise on the customs union, is on the cards. a top bank of england official warns against post—brexit, banking deregulation in the financial times. the guardian has an exclusive on a secret fraternity of freemasons which is continuing to operate in westminster. lloyds becoming the first bank to ban customers from using credit cards to buy bitcoin, is the telegraph's top story. the express says it's time to wrap up warm, describing the forthcoming cold spell as a "scandinavian freeze". and on the same story, the mirror says temperatures are going to plummet to minus 1a. that's the flavour of tomorrow's front pages — no real consensus on what the main story is, so let's see what's appealed to our guests this evening. i know you will kick us off with the eye and the woes of theresa may. she is there in china saying she is not a quitter and she is her own person. she is increasingly not. that does make me sad because she is a female prime minister and i think she needs to be much more gutsier. as soon as she returns here, someth

we started with our own cabinet. we challenged the cabinet to think about how to make tough decisions, how to drive change. the relentless pursuit of the exceptional. we put together a group of leaders, it was a mix of veterans with new. so, we've got eight new cabinet members, nine veterans that are in there. and it's a balance of institutional knowledge and fresh perspectives but this team meets multiple times a month driving through on the cross-cutting initiatives. and we have a great leadership team that's helping drive the core government agencies. one of the things that's important during the consult turl transformations is understanding peel on the front lines. you snowplow drivers, the school teachers, people doing counseling work on the front lines. we put out a survey that had nearly 4,000 state employees respond to it, coming back with their feedback. this is a word cloud that representing some of the feedback we got but this is just one of the tools that we want to start employing regularly to make sure

loyalty is a two-way street in a cabinet position. we know that. i'm sure the president knows that and the people that take those jobs know that. >> neil: the judge is with us now. he thinks the president is right to criticize his attorney general. maybe just not the way he went about it i. >> well, i wish the president had picked up the phone and said jeff, here's how i'd like you to do it. that's not this president's style. that was a great interview with senator shelby who knows senator sessions, attorney general sessions very well, far better than i know him. >> neil: are you surprised, judge? we touched on it before. that he's still sticking it out. >> yes. i am surprised. >> neil: why? we believe he's submitted two letters of resignation. both were rejected by the argument. the president's criticism today would be the impetus of a third one. i agree with you and i agree with senator shelby and the prevailing idea that he had too recuse himself. but it was known before he was appointed attorney general that the fbi and the doj were investigati

omb has worked with every cabinet agency. so it has been the president -- i think there were four cabinet meetings in a row where the number one topic was how are you doing on deregulation's? it is a priority and we are happy to help do that. [applause] deneen: so can you give us an idea of one of the most costly regulations you have come across like anything off the chart ridiculous? mr. mulvaney: the two big ones, the waters of the u.s., saying a roadside ditch is a stream, and the one the president talks about on clean power plants. that was an obama administration way to bankrupt the coal industry and the folks who work in that industry. those are the two big things. the stuff we did last year does not get the same amount of attention because it was smaller stuff. every new regulation he wanted to old ones. at the end of the year, the total was 22 to 1, 22 gone for a new one in. deneen: great. [applause] great. i wanted to ask you about that. it has been the media, there has been some discrepancy is it really 22, is that

the zooming arrival of the cabinet's cars — that's what. darting into chequers, hoping perhaps the rural peace might provide inspiration. for more than a year, this group have been attempting to hammer out a compromise. but for decades, arguably, the tory party has been trying and not always succeeding. so, can they find one today? they were at it for eight hours. the prime minister, surrounded by her close colleagues and advisers — some who were pitted against each other during the referendum. next week she wants to tell the rest of the world more of her brexit plan. but the inner cabinet has struggled to agree how closely we should stick to the eu after brexit. some compromise perhaps today, but not a dramatic breakthrough. if you look at what happened back before the december european summit there was a lot of speculation that the cabinet would not reach agreement. we all agreed a position that the prime minster took to brussels, and got a successful outcome. and all of us in the cabinet are determined to get the best possible deal for

coalition deal with the center left social democrats frankel also make some surprising picks for her new cabinet. also coming up russia orders a daily break in the bombing of eastern ghouta in syria to allow civilians to leave but for now the horror goes on with more than five hundred feared killed in the last week including many children. plus children in northern nigeria are too afraid to go to school after more than one hundred girls are kidnapped from a school by suspected boucle rahman stream s t w speaks to one family trying to find their daughter. i'm sumi so what's going to thank you for joining us. conservatives have voted overwhelmingly in favor of entering a coalition government with the center left the social democrats the s.p.d. will announce the results of their vote taken among its members next week at earlier medical announced her picks for her new cabinet a most of the candidates are younger and there are more women. it has become a tradition at c.d.u. conventions to applaud party leader and chancellor angela merkel after his speech as long as possible this time the delegates ma