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caught up in the storm. also tonight, we report from cyprus, where signs are that reunification could be close. but in some quarters, wounds still run deep. i don't believe a solution will come in the next two generations, probably. if they start changing the education system, if they start changing the dhekelia, even now they are spreading hate instead of love. we ask the northern cypriot representative to the uk whether a deal can be struck. and we talk to choreographer wayne mcgregor about how science and dance collides. and even more crucially... do you think anyone can dance? everyone can dance. everyone does dance. some people like to dance when when no—one‘s looking and that's fine, right. i think what's interesting, everybody has a personal physical signature. good evening. a salacious memo, slapped down as fake news and vehemently denied
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by president—elect trump yesterday at his first news conference since july. today, he tweeted that the us intelligence service said it was phoney and falsely circulated. in fact, james clapper, the director of national intelligence, effectively distanced the us intelligence agency from the unverified video, saying it didn't leak it and hadn't made a judgement on its reliability. since then, the spotlight has been shone on the man credited with producing the memo — christopher steele, a former mi6 officer respected by british intelligence agencies, the cia and the fbi. he has since gone to ground. the focus is now on what british intelligence knew and whether anything made its way onto ministers‘ desks. but the wider question persists — is this a scandal of watergate proportions, or one of the biggest smears in the history of politics? here's our diplomatic editor, mark urban. we're learning more about the world of private intelligence gathering and how information gleaned
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from across the globe was assembled in the trump files, and what was done with them. there was a london connection. the offices of orbis, a small private firms set up the offices of orbis, a small private firm set up by a former company of mi6 officers, commissioned in this case by american paymasters to dig the dirt on trump. a series of reports was filed by orbis betweenjune and december last year. taken together, they presented such a serious catalogue of alleged wrongdoings surrounding mr trump and his campaign, that those in receipt of the reports decided they would have to be sent to the fbi. and people here, i've been told, kimberly conclusion that meant mi6 would also have to be put in the picture.
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the reports were put together by christopher steele, who had served as an mi6 intelligence officer in russia and france. he and a partnerfounded orbis business intelligence when he left the service in 2009. he is reported to have provided information on the fifa corruption case to the fbi. so evidently, they regarded him as sound. yesterday, though, trump trashed several of the most extraordinary claims in the memos. i think it's a disgrace that information would be let out. i saw the information, i read the information outside of that meeting. it's all fake news, it's phoney stuff, it didn't happen. but while donald trump yesterday claimed james clapper had denounced the report, today the director of national intelligence without a public statement saying something quite different. leaving aside the private intelligence gathering
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with all its apparent faults, the official us intelligence community view, presented at trump tower last week, was of a gross violation of american democracy in favour of the trump campaign by russia. a verdict that his own nominee to run the cia endorsed today. everything i've seen suggests to me that the report has an analytical product that is sound. but as mr pompeo and the other inductees move into position, trump supporters expect the way intelligence is presented to change. it is very convenient for them to delegitimise again donald trump. they don't like him, they don't want him, they want mrs clinton
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and they want barack obama, who appointed them. but remember, you are gonna have a whole new group of people running these agencies as soon as his appointees are confirmed by the senate. with that happening, you are good to see a change with that happening, you are going to see a change in tone and temperament. what did mi6 do with the reports it received? the government today was remaining tight—lipped. but one person familiar with the service's procedures told me that mi6 wouldn't normally circulate such material if it wasn't aware of the identity of sources from which it was drawn. so the answer seems to be, they kept it largely to themselves. i think it would have been a pretty borderline case if the material was not well sourced, if the source wasn't identified,
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and if the source couldn't be assessed in terms of reliability or access and credibility. i think the agency is quite likely have been pretty cautious about putting it out. since the butler report, since the chilcot report, they have become much more rigorous, much more prudent in the way they present intelligence. as for the fallout from this, the former mi6 man, christopher steele, was not at home to chorus today. christopher steele, was not at home to callers today. the focus is shifting, back from the credibility of his reporting, to the bigger question about the spies and how they deal with trump. let's talk to our political editor nick watt, who has more details on the uk side of this story. good evening. christopher steele passed this on to mi6. what happened next? i can only echo what
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was said in the film. i understand these documents were not passed on to ministers, neither were ministers briefed about them when they were passed over. whether they have been briefed in recent days, that is another matter. you might have thought that if a report like this ends up at mi6, it would end up on the desks of senior ministers and at the white house. but what happened was a judgment was made that these reports were not really compiled to the standard you would expect of mi6, and with that in mind, mi6 had to make a judgment about whether it would be helpful or unhelpful to brief ministers. clearly they reached something of a politicaljudgment based on those procedures mark was talking about, that it was best to put some distance between ministers and these reports. what is the feeling in whitehall that you are sensing about what has been revealed? it's a bit sniffy, really. what i'm hearing is he is not
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an intelligence agent. he is a businessman. he runs a business model. he is essentially saying to clients, i can dig deeper and find lots of information about rivals or political opponents. there is a feeling that the reports are showing off. that there is one sensational claim after another. there are very few of the caveats you would expect in an official intelligence report. we know all about caveats. the butler report into the use of intelligence in the lead up to the iraq war said that the blair government, the joint intelligence committee, had perhaps stripped out some of the caveats in the intelligence presented. let me add my own little caveat. it's not a great surprise that officially we are finding a bit of a sniffy uk response. obviously britain needs to build bridges with the incoming trump administration. let's talk now to harry ferguson, who is a former mi6 officer. he's in brighton.
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thank you forjoining us. we were just hearing there that christopher steele is a businessman, a man respected by many intelligence agencies. your take on him? yes, i have met chris once at an intelligence and security conference. he always struck me as a very affable and very reliable sort of guy not given to flights of fancy. i also know him through mutualfriends. orbis is a reliable agency. chris was a strong middle ranking sas officer. i don't quite agree that this was a subpar report. it seems to me that chris has been quite careful to try to find as many sources as possible, but also to make it clear that these are stories and that what his report has at the moment, is it lacks that killer evidence.
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what kind of stories are there? joe public, we, don't see reports like this. what scale do we put it against, the national enquirer, or something akin to a government—led report? it's not quite the premier league that an sas report would be. it's more a leading championship side. one of the things that's missing from this report that you would normally find in an mi6 report is an indication ofjust how long these sources have been in contact, and how reliable their reporting has been in the past. that sort of caveat is missing. but the intelligence included in this document really falls into three parts. the first is to suggest that the russians have been feeding intelligence about the democrats to the trump campaign.
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the second is one particular incident which appears to have occurred in 2013, the one involving supposedly russian prostitute in moscow. chris has managed to dig up four different sources, because he wants to back that up. there is another story that the russians have been collecting compromising intelligence about trump for a very long time. that also has a certain amount of credibility. i think trump was surprised to become president now. i don't think he was thinking about it ten years ago. he is a wealthy man used to getting his own ways. chris has found these stories, tried to corroborate them and he has put them out there. but he does not have that final piece of evidence. the reason we have not seen either the sas, the caa or the fbi move on it is that they don't have it either. nobody can quite find the definitive story. if the information is out there but can't be corroborated, why wouldn't the intelligence services here have passed that to ministers, or is the implication
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that it has already been discussed? well, that's just it. chris worked in sas for 20 years. most of the sources he is using would be once he built up. you would assume that in the seven years since he left, other sources have recruited. he would have tried to add sources himself. sis should have already been aware that this information was out there. i was at a conference last week for intelligence professionals and there was a lot of gossip about this story before it broke. people said they had heard rumours last year at times. i think they looked at it and said, we haven't got anything new that we are not already reporting. it doesn't enhance what we have put out there. there is no need to let ministers know. they might have led the americans know what chris was working on. a question was made about not knowing what his sources were. they could have gone to him. they could have asked him. i suspect they already knew. harry ferguson, thank
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you for your time. someone else caught up in the trump memo scandal is rick wilson, a republican party strategist and trump critic. he was accused of being behind the trump memo, and of leaking it to the cia — a charge he has denied. rick nowjoins us from tallahassee, florida. thank you forjoining us. how did you get caught up in this? well, i've been a prominent person in the anti—trump movement and a critic of donald trump for well over a year now and when the online forum decided to claim that they had written the memo as a prank, they put my name into the chain of accusations, that they had leaked it to me and i had taken it to the cia and john mccain. it is risible and absurd but we live in an era,
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in americanjournalism, the post—fact era, so conservative journalists took off with the story, believing it verbatim, even though it came from an anonymous online forum, easily demonstrated to be false and my alleged role was easily demonstrated to be false, mainly because these folks don't understand how politics and media and journalism works in the us. how does politics and media work over there? you've denied any relationship to the memo and you've established that but the fact is, as a person who's worked in opposition research, yourjob is to dig dirt, isn't it, on the opposition, in order to sully their reputation, isn't that how it works? i'm actually the guy who hires the opposition researchers and yes, we use opposition research to establish a fact in a campaign so you can look at another candidate and say that their message doesn't fit with what they are claiming,
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their record doesn't fit with what they're claiming, their behaviour doesn't fit and to go after the predicates of their candidacy. now, donald trump claims to be a multi—billionaire, a successful international businessman but he's been very careful about hiding his relationships in the business community, so folks like me in the primary, well before this silly fabricated version came out, and well before the christopher steele report came out, we were looking at those relationships and that's where a lot of the pursuit was, looking at the secrets behind the opacity established by trump hiding his tax returns and going after the business relationships, overseas in particular. why do you think this has come out now? many said that there were rumours last autumn, last fall, as you might say, but why now? the first contact i had was a major investigative reporter for a tv network reached out and said,
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do you know anything, can you check with your people? this was in discussion last summer and there were rumours before that. even somejokes in pop culture on the howard stern show before that. why it popped now is simple. the intelligence community has been told by donald trump that they are one of his enemies, he has declared war on the us intelligence community, questioning theirjudgment, professionalism, and patriotism. this is something you're going to see when they are up against the wall like this. they will play with elbows out, and i don't blame them, he has put much more trust in vladimir putin and the fsb rather than the cia. has trump successfully batted this away? by dismissing it vociferously.
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it is the biggest political bet he's going to make, that he can bluster his way out of this, that there is nothing there, that at no time in his trips to russia did he engage in any behaviour that was caught on tape, and that's a big bet. if he's right, he's right, but if not it will have significant consequences for his credibility. thank you forjoining us. the pressure and strain that the nhs is under has been well documented over recent weeks. it's experiencing its worst ever winter crisis, the royal college of physicians and the royal college of nursing has warned. many patients are not receiving care when they need it. the government's target for a&e patients to be treated within four hours, hasn't been met for 16 months, a target that is speculated will be soon adjusted. beds are being blocked, causing much—needed operations to be delayed, with the head of nhs england calling for extra funding for social care so that patients can be released.
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chris cook, policy editor, is tracking the problems within the nhs. there's a documentary that is reflecting the challenges that nhs is facing. that's right, hospital, bbc two on wednesday, 9pm, it is excellent and we are going to show you a clip which illustrates the important challenge facing the nhs, the delayed transfer of care, called a detoc, meaning a patient who needs care, but the hospital would like to be delivered by somebody else, cannot be moved out because the next person in the chain of care is not ready to take them. these detocs are a serious problem because it means there are not enough beds in the hospital, the patient can get stuck in the wrong place and it can gum up everything. if you can't admit new patients, that is difficult for because the two to deal with and it feeds into the a&e problems. the case were about to see is from the documentary, a patient called dolly. 91—year—old dolly is waiting to find
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out if she can be discharged today. there we go. hello. mrs jackson, nice to see you again. when we saw you earlier on this morning, you were looking pretty unwell. as you know, we'd hoped to get you home later, well, not home, but to willesden community hospital this morning for a bit of rehabilitation and some convalescence. but i think given that you had your collapse this morning, we should probably keep an eye on you here. yeah, ithink i'd be better off. so what i think we're going to do is hang on to you for at least another 24—hours and then we'll send the referral again to the rehab hospital. but unfortunately, because they've given the bed up to another patient this morning, we might end up having to keep you in here for a few more days while we wait for it to come up again. 0k.
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thank you. nice to see you, bye bye. the problems that we face can only be solved really by social services creating spaces for people in accommodation, be that for homeless drug users or for people awaiting rehousing orfor nursing homes. there's a big disconnect between the nhs and social services and the nhs gets blamed quite a lot for problems in the community which are rarely slightly outside of our remit and outside of our control. you can see the concern. it is on the consultant's face. i wonder how big a problem this is and how it is reflected in the nhs. this morning we got a big dump of data from the nhs which included the results of the monthly survey they do, one night they go around and check how many detocs are happening across nhs england. we can show on a graft. this is the number of delayed transfers of care on that night each to cope and 40% is the internal problems within the nhs. thank you forjoining us.
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no doubt we will talk about this again. cyprus is a country that has been split since 1974 — an island that many of us know as a popular holiday destination bathed in mediterranean sun — not overshadowed by a history of conflict and division. un peacekeeping forces estimate that 165,000 greek cypriots fled or were expelled from the north, and 16,000 turkish cypriots from the south, during the conflict — others say the figures are much higher. greece and turkey are now working towards the reunification of the island, with talks in geneva bringing the two sides tantalisingly close to a deal. but there will be many sticking points during the negotiations. there is something very eerie about this place. this used to be the main international airport in cyprus. now it's been abandoned for over a0 years. i'm in the middle of the buffer zone.
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to the south, there's greek cyprus. to the north, turkish cyprus. in between, wasteland. nicosia is europe's the last divided city. its ghost airport, a monument to the scars it bears. in 1974, a greek inspired military coup in the south was met with a turkish invasion of the north. the war didn't last long. ef»5?i§é‘1§%i§é€r§§éré “hr“ ,, ,,, the 60s and 70s saw hundreds of thousands forced to relocate.
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abdullah was one of them. moved north in a population exchange. you are taken from your house, from your village. you are being moved to some unknown town. of course it was a tragedy for us. like many people living in morphe he was given a house that used to belong to a greek cypriot family. the geneva talks could see the town change hands and people like abdullah forced out. despite nearly half a century here, he's remarkably philosophical. i can't say that i will be so sad to give the house to the real owners.
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i don't want my children to live the wars that we have lived. so it is more important to find a solution, to have peace, than to move from one house to another. he tells me, "if i have to move out from here, i will have another garden in the new home that i make." but his attitude is not shared by everyone in morphe. for some, any change will be painful and bitterly opposed. we came here looking for soldiers. a few miles down the road, at an orthodox cemetery, there is a reminder that many lost more than their homes. here, greek and turkish cypriot archaeologists work side—by—side, digging deep trenches to find and identify people who went missing during cyprus's atrocities. they have already dug out the remains of 25 people from unmarked graves. it's a big deal for both communities.
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greek cypriots and turkish cypriots. and by finding these people you are delivering them back to the family so they can have a proper burial, they can have their family visiting the grave. and so this trauma will close, it will heal. 0nce bodies are found, they are brought here. at the lab at the committee of missing people, the process of identification continues. the skull was very fragmented. sometimes it takes a long time to reconstruct it from small pieces. at the end, i think we have a good result. so far we have identified about 720 individuals on both communities. and the total number of the missing people is about 2,000. so we're almost halfway. but that means over 1,000 still lie in the cypriot soil. if there was not a coup, was there an invasion?
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one of them is one victim's younger brother, george. he was killed on the front line. he was a very peaceful man. he was a nice, good—looking young man. 2a years old. this is a very deep wound which will stay there. the wound may close but the big scar will stay there until the affected people die. i don't believe a solution will come in the next two generations probably. if they start changing the education system, if they start changing things, even now they are spreading hate instead of love. but hope does remain. so what we have here is exceptional, if you think of what this country has been like in the past. half of this table is turkish cypriot and the other half, greek cypriot.
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they are drinking their traditional drink and toasting to the future of their country. this is not the last chance for peace. we, the new generation, we create the piece. i am waiting for this all of my life. i'm so excited and the same time, emotional. this time, they woke up from the ten years sleeping and now it's time for us to have a change in our island. in geneva, a game of diplomacy is on, which move to make? what to give, what to take. here in cyprus, the hope is neither side loses. we are joined by the north cyprus representative to london, zehra basaran.
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we did ask the cypriot government for an interview, but they were not able to give us anyone. welcome. we have just understood that the talks finished a short time ago in geneva without agreement. they will reconvene on january 18. there seem to be some sticking points. what do you think they might be? i think right now the turkish cypriots side is determined to continue with the talks in geneva until we reach a final solution. what would be the sticking points? there may be more than one sticking point. each and every item will be considered. let's talk about one that has been brought up. grease once its territory increased. it would mean that turkey's portion of land would be diminished. is that realistic to expect the turkish cypriots side to agree to that? i think the turkish cypriots side is there to negotiate the issue
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of territory as well as any other issue. and yes, both sides will make their demands. i think the turkish cypriots side really wants to do a minimal uprooting of people when the issue of territory will be discussed. how much of an effect would 6% have? i wouldn't be able to tell you that. but we know there will be percentages discussed and with they will reach a mutually agreeable solution. but the most important thing for turkish cypriots is to have a minimal number of people uprooted from their current homes. the reason i ask you about this is that president erdogan has been quite reluctant to exceed any land or change this percentage and this will be a sticking point. we don't want this, surely, to be this the state of play moving forward?
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i think the turkish cypriots side really wants to move on because the negotiations have started in 1968. 4118 years, we have been negotiating, to reach a final agreement, a settlement agreement, which will hopefully be taken to a referendum by both sides simultaneously. before we talk about the referendum and when they may take place, there are 30,000 troops come turkish troops, patrolling the north. how open is the negotiating table from the turkish cypriot side to them being removed, being made part of the un peacekeeping force? as you know, the un peacekeeping force arrived in march 19 64. turkish troops came in 197a. things have happened between the two dates.
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if any issue of troops is going to be discussed, i'm sure it will be discussed. what do you think the likely conclusion is? i cannot guess. no one can guess. i'm sure even people in geneva cannot guess. it's a question of discussions. people may have expectations. but when you are doing negotiations, you are trying to reach something mutually agreeable. how likely do you think there will be success? there is a specific timetable. there is hope the referendum can take place by the end of april. is that likely to happen? if things continue in geneva, why not? it's all a question of intent. so we could see a reunified cyprus by the end of this year? i hope so. if possible. thank you very much forjoining us. thank you.
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wayne mcgregor has now been resident choreographer at the royal ballet in london for a decade — the first person in that role to come from a contemporary dance background. a high accolade, on top of his already impressive international career. he has collaborated with high—profile musicians such as the white stripes, paloma faith and radiohead's thom yorke. he's also choreographed films including fantastic beasts, the latest tarzan and harry potter. our special correspondent, katie razzall, has been hearing from wayne mcgregor. according to him, there is a dancer in us all. what's amazing about dance is it's connected to everybody because everybody has a body. as likely to work with radiohead as the royal ballet, at his best wayne mcgregor‘s choreography fuses dance, philosophy, science and art. lovely.
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wow! that's lovely. not bad for a boy from stockport who found early inspiration from disco. what was it aboutjohn travolta that got you into this whole thing? i think it was just his passion for dancing. hejust kind of came alive on the dance floor. and you see this physical kind of vitality. it's just amazing when you see somebody kind of live out their passion. so i started ballroom dancing lessons, disco lessons then in the 70s. and just went on from there. do you think anyone can dance? everyone can dance. everyone does dance. some people like to dance when no one is looking. that's fine. i think what's interesting is everybody has a personal physical signature. so when i came in the room and met you today, i already have a sense of something about you,
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the way in which you greeted me, the way in which you had eye contact, the way in which your body orientation was in relation to me. how far or how distanced you started to communicate, actually that transaction of energy. in a way choreography or dance making is about that. it's about that transaction of energy. there's just something primal about ideas of physicality thatjust rests inside us. a one—time research fellow at cambridge university, mcgregor‘s fascination with science and technology has seen him collaborate with neurologists to understand more about how mind and body interact. and what that means for the creative process. it is partlyjust a fascination of what happens cognitively when you are moving. in the olden days we would have this idea that the brain and body were totally disconnected. this kind of sense that we're all just walking heads, walking brains. but actually we know, and we know this because of in—body
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technology, the way in which we are using technology now, that actually the whole thing is connected. and i'm just interested to find out more about that. what does it mean to think about something? what is physical thinking? we do it all the time. if i'm about to reach and touch your shoulder, already i've got a sense of how far i have to reach before i touch you, what kind of velocity i would need. all those things happen intuitively in my brain before i do it. and that's a version of physical thinking. and what we're doing as dancers is doing a more expert version of that. a decade into his role as resident choreography at london's royal ballet, mcgregor is rehearsing a revival of his woolf works writings. yeah. what are those sounds? what are they? if i said to you, if i went... there you go, there you go, you do it. you instinctively do it. you already have a kinaesthetic response to that. that sense of sound shapes the dynamic.
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myjob in a way is to recognise what that special signature is, what that feel is, and use it to develop something that says something about our ideas, that says something about you. nice, guys. what are you trying to say about the world? are you trying to make sense of it? i think i'm trying to say that the world isn't complete. it's not tied up with a bow. it's a partial view, it's fragmented. ballet and dance isn't one thing. there are no rules. there are literally no rules. there are a lot of those old —fashioned traditional ballet people who might think there are. they can keep thinking there are, but why would there be? there are no rules. and we don't want an art form that is dying. we want an art form that truly vibrant and alive, and open to new discoveries. are you political? i mean, are there issues you care about? i think i am political. i think making art is political in itself. education is political, empowering people to think creatively and challenge the system is political. this is one of the big challenges of the stem argument, this reduction of arts
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education in schools. it's really important first of all to get those young people in school. one of the drivers to get them into school is very often arts activities. and then to see the crosstalk between maths and music, rhythm and mathematics, organisation and spatial organisation, really important terms of geometry. there are some important ways in which these disciplines crosstalk. in his quest for crosstalk, mcgregor has collaborated with a whole host of musicians and artists. from mark wallinger and the white stripes, to mark ronson, paloma faith and radiohead's thom yorke. he's a phenomenal dancer. and he has an amazing ability to be really real and just be himself. that's why you get this amazing raw physicality. i guess when you're working with somebody like that, myjob is to recognise it, find it, and just help it on its way. it's not to go, "well,
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let's move like this." and the chemical brothers video? that's a totally different process. the technological process of that is very different. that pushes some of your buttons, doesn't it? it certainly does. and it was one shot, you probably noticed. so the camera shows four and a half minutes. and then that really, really long technological process. please join me in welcoming the lovely ladies... then there are the films. as movement director on this harry potter, the choreography element is obvious. but there's a wayne mcgregor signature to alexander ska rsgard's performance in the legend of tarzan, if you look carefully. and his latest endeavour was fantastic beasts. when you're working on something like the obscurus in fantastic beasts, how can you make some physical activity that then is motion—captured that then becomes animation? but it's also about
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characterisation, finding small physical detail, and so there is a huge amount of choreographers working in film, or movement directors in film, who are doing this all the time. what we do physically and constantly, we get into habits. we live our lives in a very habit—formed way. i think to remain curious and open to the world, you really have too actively change something about yourself, whether that's watching the kinds of films you never normally watch, whether that's going to a gig you never normally go to, whether that's watching dancing the way that you wouldn't, whether that's picking up poetry, it doesn't really matter. and i think that keeps you really engaged and alive, and all your senses completely attuned. and i think that's what we always want in life, to be highly attuned. and you can watch katie razzall‘s full interview with wayne mcgregor on our youtube channel. that's all for this evening. james o'brien will be here tomorrow night. goodbye.
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sadly there's no input from rain mcgregor in this particular production, but the weather has been on the move today and how! initially it was wet across the southern half of britain and then we tucked in the cold air, converted some of the rain to snow and how in some locations across southern britain and all the while there were plenty of wintry showers across northern and western parts of the british isles through the day, but you'll notice now that particular system is moving towards the near continent. they're very welcome to it. the additional hazard for them is there's some very strong winds on its southern flank indeed, disruptively strong winds at that. friday is going to start cold so whatever has fallen from your skies
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today, it's going to be frozen overnight i suspect unless it's been significantly treated and there will be new snow showers on the northerly and north—westerly wind into northern scotland to start the day. 0ne northern scotland to start the day. one of our additional concerns about friday morning is the strength of the wind, undoubtedly you've heard about the high spring tides and the wind, a storm surge and the threat of flooding on eastern coastal fringes and in the run of that wind there is another feature setting up there is another feature setting up the rain and snow in time for your rush—hour or school run on the eastern side of england. but once it's gone it will be a decent enough day. plenty of sunshine around i would have thought, still a peppering of showers for northern and western parts but despite the sunshine my word it will feel war, especially in eastern areas where you will have the strongest of the winds. bear that in mind. saturday morning again, highs could be an issue where the surfaces are pretty wet and saturday, a decent day,
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still showers flicking in north norfolk and showers in north—western exposures but down the spine of the country, a lot of fine weather. not many issues for the premier league, undersoil heater ingle do for the frost here but the lower league matches and your park match could have an issue with a frozen pitch —— will do. saturday into sunday, we're beginning to change things. no longer those northerly breezes, it comes back into a westerly but we buy that rise in the temperature and the general feel of the day being somewhat milder with increasing amounts of cloud and eventually it turns out to be a dank old day and still on the cool side for east anglia, where we do make those figures get into double figures across some western parts. take care for tomorrow morning. hello, everyone. iam rico hizon hello, everyone. i am rico hizon in singapore. the headlines. to use solemnly swear... donald trump's choice to lead the cia praises the
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