the bill will mean uk parliament can then "amend, repeal and improve" the laws as necessary. it encompasses henry viii powers. it is likely to be one of the largest legislative projects ever undertaken in the uk. let's speak to lord kerslake, former head of the civil service between 2012 and 2014, now a cross—bench peer. he joins us from westminster. good evening, thank you for being with us. have ho long have we got to get all these laws transferred on the to uk statute books? the government have said they have to have this in place before we leave the european union, so it has to be done within two years and probably a bit before that, and what looks like a simple task, to simply take legislation that already existed in eu form and put it into uk form, is in fact anything but. it will be a mammoth task that will test

parliament and indeed the government and the civil service to deliver. 0k, do you think it can be done if two yea rs 7 0k, do you think it can be done if two years? i think it has to be, if we are going to keep with the timetable, by the scale is enormous, thousands of pieces of legislation, it is also very complex. it is not something where you can pick it up and put it into uk law, there will bea and put it into uk law, there will be a lot of challenges as to why changes aren't being made now, even if the government don't want that to happen. there is also an issue of how this sits with scotland, wales and northern ireland, and particularly scotland will say, we wa nt particularly scotland will say, we want the powers to come to us and not stay with the uk government, so what it looks straightforward will be very contested and time consuming. and is whitehall, do we have enough civil servants who are up have enough civil servants who are up to the task? i have a great

admiration for the civil service but i think they will be tested both in terms of the numbers of civil servants, and whether they have the skills to deliver this. it is not just about the two new departments, indeed government have moved quickly to create these departments. it is every pa rt to create these departments. it is every part of government that will be affected. and this is important to remember, the government will wa nt to to remember, the government will want to carry on with its domestic legislation as well. and so i think something will have to give and there will have been very hard decisions made about priority, particularly when it comes to come to stick changes. domestic changes, you mean other, other elements of the government's legislative agenda? absolutely. stuff through have to be tossed out for the next two years? government will from the to say what is the most important thing they want to achieve over the next few years, and

then, how will this sit with that demand on brexit. so it is going to have to be some choices made. what needs to happen in relation to health and care, we the deliver brexit and everything the government might want to do, with what is, after a ll might want to do, with what is, after all the smallest civil service sincing the second world war. the brexit secretary today, david davis said he wants a smooth and ordinary process , said he wants a smooth and ordinary process, do you think that is going to happen, given everything you have said? i think we will have to wait and see is the honest answer to that. everybody would hope that the negotiations go wet well for the sake of the country, that this bill can be navigated through parliament, but it does look as very tall order. do you think then, that we will have to go ona do you think then, that we will have to go on a recruitment drive to get a few more civil service mps to work on this thing? there is already

recruitment under way to recruit trade experts and others, so yes, we will need to recruit more civil servants, we will also i think have to think about some of the reductions that have been maids in the past and whether those will be able to stand, we are in the case of the civil service, we have actually seen something like a reduction by a fifth since 2010. 0k. seen something like a reduction by a fifth since 2010. ok. good to see you, thank you forjoining us and apologies for that weird noise going on in the background. but we got through it there. tb and stop it before it appears on line. she wants to make it easier for authorities to access encrypted whatsapp messages between suspected terrorist, tonight after met with representatives from the firms they

said they want to make their platforms a more hostile space for those who seek to do harm. in. seems as if this meeting went well?|j think as if this meeting went well?” think this is pretty predictable what was going to happen here, a lot of build up, a lot of, we will crackdown on companies, the government has been angry with what it has seen as a lackadaisical attitude by the major tech companies in allowing this terrorist content on to their platforms and saying, well, we are doing what we can, but the government not really believing they are doing enough. what has come out of this is emp a commitment set up out of this is emp a commitment set up another working party, some will not be that impressed but they say they will do more. amber rudd, what she said, she welcome what is the progress made, but what she says, she doesn't just want to progress made, but what she says, she doesn'tjust want to stop, doesn't just want this online

terrorist content removed, she wants them to stop it going up in the first place. that is quite a tall order, she will point to their success order, she will point to their success phenomenon removing child abuse images, that has been something that the government pressed for and there was action by technology companies to do that. to set up a database of images so that. to set up a database of images so they could be prevented from going up before they appeared and she appears to want something sieve haar. they have written her alert, saying we are making progress, we, we are going to set up this joint initiative, it is a pointed line in their letter saying their workers being —— work has been strengthened by the engagement with the european union. sort of stressing that will continue to be important. right. that is interesting you say, what she would like is the companies to stop videos or whatever being uploaded, before they get online. how is that possible? . it is very

difficult to imagine how that would work because for instance youtube says we have hundreds of hours of video being put up, they don't screen it in advance, they rely on users to alert them. but through is a method they have used to spot these child abuse images and there isa these child abuse images and there is a database of ones they know about. that doesn't help with new material, but it is difficult to see how they would deal with that. other line, they didn't talk about it much, that was the big issue at the weekend. the tech companies weren't really engaging on that, there is going to be another meeting but the home secretary said she reiterated how there should be no safe space for terrorists to be able to communicate online, that battle is going to continue and it is difficult to see how that will be resolved. thank you for that. is researchers at cardiff university

tested a series of measures to tackle coffee cup waste and encourage the use of reuseable cup, the report said some two—and—a—half billion disposable cups are used annualfully the uk. earlier i spoke to the chef hugh fearnley whiting stall. you would think so, with the phenomenal amount of coffee that is being drunk, 2.5 billion coffee cups a year, being thrown away and not recycled, why isn't it happening? there is not enough determination on the part of the big coffee chains, they have the resources, they are making a lot of money selling coffee and the technology exists to solve the problem. we featured in our programme war on waste a yes pan who has produced a fully recycleable coffee cup, he is trialling it. it

is possible some of the chains are having conversation who are trying to some solve the problems. they don't look like they are closing in ona don't look like they are closing in on a proper solution. the chain, do they make it clear their cups are not recyclable. they very often don't. they lie, they fib? untilwe made our programme, iam don't. they lie, they fib? untilwe made our programme, i am afraid a lot of people, and including me until a few months before we started filming, assume because our coffee cups filming, assume because our coffee cu ps are filming, assume because our coffee cups are made of paper they are recycla ble. cups are made of paper they are recyclable. it is not that simple. it suits the coffee companies very well for everyone to think that a paper cup that goes into a paper waste chain is going to get recycled. because if people think thatis recycled. because if people think that is happening people are not going to be you know, activated about it and want something done about it and want something done about it. now the cat is out of the bag. talking of bag, mine, here is the coffee cup. just outside before came in, i passed a bin outside the

bbc, this is an example of a bunch of coffee cups in the back of the bin that are not going to get recycled. and so a lot of that is going to landfill. how big a problem is this then, real will i? a 2.5 billion cup problem. it is a 2.5 billion cup problem. it is a 2.5 billion cup problem. it is a 2.5 billion cup problem, that is is a huge amount of paper. we need to start making inroads into that, and yes, there is a few trials going on, some of the chains have experiments, some of the chains have experiments, some of the chains have experiments, some of them are trying to recycle the existing cups through a very specialised process but they are managing to retrieve very few of them. now we have this conversation about the possibility of a tax or a penalty for using disposable cups, that would be a partial solution, motivating people to bring their own reuseable cups is a good idea. but all the research on that is showing that even if that was fully up taken, we would probably only save

300 million cups a year. is that worth doing. it is a lot of cup, comparing to 2.5 billion. it is just over i2%, so still not enough, and only i think, only a fully recycla ble only i think, only a fully recyclable coffee cup that can go into the waste paper stream and be recycled in the same way your newspapers and your magazines can, only that will be the correct solution to this ridiculous problem. so put a bit of pressure on the companies, might a boycott make sense? a boycott, the other way of doing it is rewarding the first coffee chain that comes up with a good solution, in the end #134b has to break ranks and say we have the recycla ble to break ranks and say we have the recyclable coffee cup. if they have and they have a solution, i would encourage people to choose them over other coffee companies who haven't got that. if right now one of the big chains did land the fully recycla ble cu p big chains did land the fully recyclable cup their sales would go

up recyclable cup their sales would go up massively. i think that is an extra excellent reason for them to crack on with it. we have a full hour of news coming up. now it is time for a look at the weather. todayis today is likely to be the warmest day of the next few, we have 22 degrees in the south—east, in the sunshine. sunshine. it it was significantly warmer in the north east of scotland. southerly breezes bringing notjust east of scotland. southerly breezes bringing not just warmth east of scotland. southerly breezes bringing notjust warmth but cloud and rain. on the western side into scotla nd and rain. on the western side into scotland we will see the rain becoming more extensive and heavier overnight. further east it should be largely dry but with a lot of cloud round, its will be very mild. ii or 12 degree, tomorrow, we have most of the rain in the west, a few showers will creep into eastern areas but many places will be be dry, the main focus of the rain moves away from wales, northern ireland, north—west england into scotland where it will be pretty wet, in the north of scotland, but to the south we get

some sunshine. it is fresher air temperatures. it should be a decent afternoon. for the first day of april we have april showers. sunshine as well. chilly overnight and afine sunshine as well. chilly overnight and a fine and dry day on sunday. this is bbc news. the headlines at eight: ministers unveil a repeal bill to transfer decades of european legislation into british law, the day after the formal brexit process got under way. we have been clear that we want a smooth and orderly exit — and the great repeal bill is integral to that approach. it will provide clarity and certainly for businesses, workers and consumers across the united kingdom, on the day that we leave the eu. but eu leaders, including angela merkel, warn that the terms of brexit need to be settled first, before a new trade deal can be discussed. in scotland, nicola sturgeon signs a letter requesting the powers for a second referendum on independence. five members of the same family die after their helicopter

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