prison sentence in iran. is theresa may's grip on government seen too much through a brexit lens? we'll hear the view of britain from paris and ask the former deputy chairman of the tory party where they go from here. it was one of the most toxic relationships ever in politics. but in an interview to mark his memoirs, gordon brown insists their rows were all about policy and had nothing to do with personal ambition. i agreed that i would take control of economic policy, and he said he would step down in the second term. it's as simple as that, and that of course didn't happen. tilting at donald trump. as the president keeps his promise to blow away environmental restraint, the us states which are fighting back. the outcome of this contest will determine what the world's going to look like over the next 10, 20 and 30 years. and the set awaits russia today's new television star, the former first minister of scotland, alex salmond. i'll be asking him if vladimir putin will be calling the shots. good evening.

the prime minister may have her game face on and a new waxwork projecting resolve at madame tussauds. but is she in danger of having to take literally every decision while looking through the foggy lens of brexit? in brussels today, where brexit negotiations resumed, the view was yes — everything in britain is about brexit. the fact that theresa may has made a simple reshuffle and parachuted brexiteer penny mordaunt into the space left by brexiteer priti patel is not apparently being seen as "firm or decisive" or any of the adjectives associated with command of government. so is everything being seen through the lens of brexit? is the foreign secretary, borisjohnson, whose foot in mouth remarks and equally stumbling retraction over nazanin zaghari—ratcliffe, which may lengthen herjail sentence, safer than he would be otherwise? to lose another big brexiteer

and three cabinet ministers in the space of a week might haul theresa may's government below the waterline. here's nick watt. a great partnership... whichever way you look in british politics today, brexit looks back at you from every angle. a brexit—supporting cabinet minister resigns, and so a brexit—supporting replacement is called up. theresa may has been adopting a cautious approach in her many and enforced reshuffles, ensuring that she does not upset the delicate balance between brexiteers and remainers around the cabinet table because overall, she is performing a delicate balancing act in holding her divided party together. friends of priti patel told me, for example, that the prime minister took her time in firing the former cabinet minister because she did not want to upset such a prominent brexit supporter.

so theresa may knows that from the handling of her ministers to almost every policy decision she makes, brexit hangs over everything. and add in a dose of bad luck. who could have seen the butterfly effect from the other side of the atlantic of the harvey weinstein allegations here in westminster? and this fundamental question arises — is theresa may a member of that select group of prime ministers who find themselves controlled by events rather than actually shaping events? top of the list is anthony eden, who was broken by the suez crisis. like me or loathe me, don't bind my hands. four decades later, john major was paralysed by europe. nothing has changed. and then there is theresa may, who commanded the political landscape until that election. a critic of theresa

may believes there is scope for her to set her own agenda. i don't think it needs to be quite as paralysed as it appears to be. i think there are things that need to be done. i think there is an opportunity in the housing field which requires action. i think the question of an industrial strategy, on which i havejust produced a pamphlet, gives very considerable opportunities to meet urgent demands of self interest for this country, and it is particularly important in the brexit context to have an industrial strategy. ultimately, lord heseltine fears the prime minister may be unable to secure a brexit deal acceptable to his wing of the party. and the man who made his name attacking socialism... the red flag has never flown throughout these islands yet, nor for a thousand years... ..believes his supporters may face a painful dilemma about how to vote at the next general election. i don't have a vote, which is a copout i accepted once, but i know friends of mine

who certainly are conservative voters who are agonising over exactly that dilemma. and it is an irony. you made your name in the 1970s campaigning against everything jeremy corbyn believes in, and yet he may, on this fundamental question of britain's future, embody your views more than your party. that's a pretty horrific thought. a horrific thought, but an accurate, sensible thought? there is no doubt at all that a scenario that if, as i think, the public opinion will move and the labour party moves, there could be a situation where the only people left in favour of brexit are the right wing of the conservative party. and that will produce very difficult, traumatic challenges for voters in a general election. one loyalist says, don't write off this prime minister.

i would say the government are holding together well. no votes have been lost in the house of commons on primary legislation. nobody thought that was possible. jeremy corbyn was scampering around back in june and july and august, preparing for an autumn general election. well, it's very clear there's not going to be a general election this autumn, there's not going to be a general election until 2022. so the prime minister has done a greatjob steadying the ship in difficult circumstances, rising to meet the challenge of the times and dealing with it all in a very calm, professional manner. europe, the ever—dominant issue in our national life, will define theresa may's premiership. she will be hoping she is not drowned by it. nick watt is with me. you have more news on brexit? yes, there is an interesting intervention tomorrow by lord coe, the former head of the foreign office who is the official who wrote article 50, the process to take is outside the eu.

he says this can be revoked by the uk at any point within the two—year time frame. he is saying it was a voluntary agreement to give member states the confidence that they could leave. therefore, if we want to revoke it, we could. he is going to say we are not required to withdraw just because mrs may sent a letter. we can change our mind at any stage during the process. he is effectively saying the government is misleading people by saying that we can't revoke it. he says that is a political decision, not a legal decision. and interestingly, this comes as the prime minister writes a piece in tomorrow's daily telegraph saying she will write onto the face of the brexit build the date of withdrawal, the 29th of march, 2019, and in a message to the likes of lord kerr, she says, we will not tolerate any attempts to slow down or stop our departure from the eu. how are negotiations going? i am told there will be a chilly atmosphere tomorrow when david davis meets michel barnier for the latest

round of negotiations in brussels. essentially, the brexit secretary will say that the prime minister made a big gesture in florence on the money and citizens‘ rights. you haven't moved, and unless you show some sort of gesture, it is going to be difficult, because he will say the uk ain't keeling over. thank you very much. joining me from paris is writer and commentator christine 0ckrent. from where you sit, how do european politicians view theresa may's government? well, frankly, with a mix of compassion and surprise, because this is a very weak prime minister and it's not new. it seems that she has a very hard time with her own government, not only because two government members had to quit. it seems she is very secretive too in her way of handling her own cabinet, and that has

shown since the start of the negotiations on brexit. so there is a great deal of surprise at the weakness of this prime minister and her team. as nick watt was saying, when theresa may went to florence, she made the gesture on money and the gesture on people. do you think that following that, there are just some eu politicians who are intent on humiliating her?

no, i don't think there is an intention to humiliate her. mind you, florence was just a speech. if politics were made only of speeches, i think the french would be the kings of the world. it's not only a matter of making a speech. in that speech, the content was deemed insufficient by the european negotiators. as you have said, the discussions will resume tomorrow. there are rumours that will be progress on the figures at the british government would be willing to pay for the divorce car but i think there is always that extraordinary misunderstanding, in london at any rate. there is confusion between, let's get the horse, but let's think of the house we will build together afterwards. let's not even talk about the divorce, because we have just heard that lord kerr,

who drafted article —— just heard that lord kerr, who drafted article 50, is now saying that that is revocable, and that is until you are divorced, you are still together, and it is not a legal document, it is a political document. do you think there will be some european leaders heartened to hear that and indeed banking on it? well, i believe lord kerr has long proved he is one of the finest minds on european affairs and i think many of his friends on the continent will not be surprised to hear of his latest declaration. he knows what he's talking about, because he wrote article 50. remember, president macron, who has made europe one of his main arguments for his mandate, about a month ago he made an important speech on europe at the sorbonne. and i was interested to hear him say that the door was still open. christine 0ckrent, thank you.

i'm nowjoined by the former deputy chairman of the conservative party, robert halfon, — now the chair of the education select committee. as you look at your government, what do you make of the mess it appears to be in? well, government is like a supertanker travelling down the ocean. sometimes you get buffeted by storms. yes, we have been buffeted by storm is pretty hard over the past couple of weeks. but the important thing is, can we set the direction of travel and is very destination? that is what we need to be clearer about. you are suggesting that the destination is not about brexit, it is about the position of the party, about policy and a different kind of party.

we will always have brexit, there is nothing we can do about that. but we need to focus on the issues that matter to the british people. but there is no question of that at the moment cos theresa may is not in a strong enough position to do that. any prime minister can focus on the things that matter. do you think she has the bandwidth? yes. one of the most important thing is facing our nation is skills. we are way behind other countries. housing, the cost of living, the role of the national health service. we have to show that we are the real party of the workers. maybe you have to go into opposition to regroup and do that. that would be a disaster given what the labour party under jeremy corbyn represent. this is the labour party of the far left. but it might be one that michael heseltine have to make common cause with. he said he had to make calls with some of those people who want to stop brexit,

butjeremy corbyn at one time was a brexiteer. let's look at the travails of the cabinet, first michael fallon and then priti patel, and a situation where she had to make a like—for—like replacement brexit. and you see how iranian news reports are discussing borisjohnson‘s remarks and indeed careless talk could cost lives, about nazanin zaghari—ratcliffe‘s position. as a politician, what do you make of that? he isa is a seasoned politician. i like boris but he has made a mistake and is acknowledged and apologised. he hasn't, really. he apologised in the house of commons he made a mistake. i do think boris provides something very important for our party, sunny optimism. he needs to work alongside the seriousness, no—nonsense prime minister's

character and he could offer us something. but he also has to have his henry v moment, he has to showed he has a serious side as well. it's a bit late, he has been kicking around government for a long time and been the mayor of london. the point was that it was arrogance. hejust kind of tossed off that remark and he did not care enough. he has made a mistake and apologised. he hasn't actually apologised properly. well, i think he has and we are in danger of forgetting that the iranian regime is not a benign regime but a pretty nasty. it promotes terror around the world. we can't allow... 0k, it was a mistake... hang on, saying erroneously that she was not on holiday and was teaching journalism, you would have thought actually that alarm bells would go and i would suggest that in any other time rather than these fraught times, that might be enough to move boris johnson. he made a mistake and apologised and

has a lot to offer the tory party. at the same time we did not excuse a regime that locks up british citizens for no reason. you talk about rebuilding, but before that, what do you make of lord kerr's intervention tomorrow which said that article 50 is a political document and not a legal one and it can be revoked? i voted remain because i thought britain should be part of analyte of democracies but the british people voted to leave, my constituency did by 68%. it is an interesting intellectual argument but if we reverse is leaving the eu, don't forget that parliament has voted for article 50, you seriously undermine faith in our democracy and that would be a terrible thing. the public voted for it, either we have a democracy or not. we believe in democracy. his views expressed tomorrow is that once people are more in tune with the facts because a lot of people felt we did not know the facts beforehand,

they are entitled to change their minds. you might as will say that about any political position, you can change an election result because people would vote for another party. either we believe in our democracy and the decisions made by the british people or we don't and we would undermine faith in our democracy if we went back on what has been voted for and buy a big majority in parliament. thank you forjoining us. the first minister of wales today responded to criticisms of the handling of misconduct allegations against carl sargeant, the welsh labour assembly communities minister who, after he was suspended, is believed to have taken his own life on tuesday. mr sargeant was facing allegations of "unwa nted attention, inappropriate touching and groping," and carwyn james said he had acted by the book and had no alternative but to sack his minister. whatever the truth of the allegations, carl sargeant‘s death has created shockwaves in the labour party and the country.

david grossman spent the day in cardiff. today was the first chance for labour assembly members to gather and reflect on the death of their colleague and sign a book of condolence. since devolution, this assembly has been subject to its share of intrigue and crisis but there has never been anything like this. just down this corridor on the right—hand side, carwynjones, the welsh first minister, is having, i think it's safe to say, the most difficult political meeting of his career. he's having to explain to his colleagues and answer questions from them about this matter, why he took the decisions that he did. the immediate timeline of this tragedy begins last friday at 12.50pm. carl sargea nt tweeted that he was standing down as a minister. "i look forward to returning to government," he said, "0nce my name has been cleared." but a0 minutes later the welsh first minister, carwynjones, began a reshuffle of his team and a spokesman for mrjones told the bbc that mr sargeant had not resigned but had in fact been sacked.

ten minutes later mr sargeant received an e—mail from louise magee, general secretary of the welsh labour party, informing him that he had been suspended from the party. according to a spokesman, there was to be an investigation into allegations received. on monday, mr sargeant‘s solicitor, hugh bowden, wrote to the labour party requesting details of the allegations made against him. the letter makes it clear that mr sargeant was aware of the broad nature of these. they concerned "unwanted attention, inappropriate touching or grouping." the letter also expressed "the anxiety and distress caused to our client, particularly since he is yet to receive any details of the allegations." carwynjones then did a series of interviews discussing these allegations, saying that a number had been made against mr sargeant. mr sargea nt‘s solicitor then e—mails the party again, complaining, these comments were "clearly prejudicing what is allegedly an independent inquiry by your office." the next day, carl

sargeant was found dead. it was a pale and visibly upset first minister who arrived at a press conference this afternoon. carl was my friend. in all the years that i knew him, i never had a cross word with him, never argued with him. for 14 years we worked together. he was a great chief whip and a minister who served his country with distinction. here was the emotion and the tribute that friends of mr sargeant say has been so lacking in the official response to his death but mrjones was also firm that he had acted correctly. i properly did all that i could to make sure that everything was being done by the book. i had no alternative but to take the action that i did and i hope that people will understand that. reporters present weren't given the opportunity to ask any questions and plenty of those remain. one of carl sargeant‘s friends and former ministerial colleagues told me that carwynjones knew that mr sargeant was mentally fragile

before he sacked and suspended him. i think it's fair to say that the first minister knew how fragile carl was. there were occasions when i was a minister in the government when the first minister said to me he was worried about carl, how was he doing? what did you take him to mean by that? well, i think he was worried about carl's frame of mind. he said that on a number of times when carl and i were ministers together. i'm assuming he was making judgments about what he was hearing about carl. you know, there was no question that carl's resilience was undermined during the previous period of government. and so was it incumbent on the first minister then to handle any change in carl's circumstances — leaving ministerial office, being suspended from the labour party — particularly carefully do you think? of course it was.

the top floor of this building next to the welsh assembly is where the ministerial offices are. was the atmosphere as poison is there as some suggest? the questions about this tragedy are now far wider than one man's death. the former prime minister gordon brown has published his memoirs this week and they do nothing to dispel the robert burns line that he spent much of his time as chancellor "nursing his wrath to keep it warm." he'd like to be known as the hero of the financial crash, but long before that, his toxic relationship with tony blair and his view that he reneged on their deal induced a simmering rage that some say coloured his behaviour in office. by the time he finally moved one door along to number ten, he realised that he was a man out of kilter with the times, a leader who could not get his head round the need for communicating his feelings

as well as his policies to the electorate. for newsnight, he sat down with the bbc‘s political editor, laura kuennsberg. first, she asked him about his current take on the brexit negotiations. i think what will happen is that we will come to a crisis point next summer. i can't tell you exactly how it will work itself out, but this is what will happen. by next summer, the public will have made up their mind that the four red lines that the government had set in place are not going to be achieved. there are going to be crossed. so we will not have proper control borders or our money. we will pay loads of money to the european union. we will not have control of our courts and law because we will still be governed by the european court ofjustice and we will not have control of trade because we will not have individual trade agreements for years. so all of the propositions that were made by the leave camp including 350 million a week for the national health service, they are not being achieved. so next summer, we have to assess the position. in my view, you cannot go back to the electorate and say, you were wrong. people made the decision

which was right for them to see that respected. in a democracy, once a decision is made, as it was made in scotland, you have to respect it. but what you can say is, is there a game changer? is there something we didn't get right last time that would persuade millions of leave voters to think it was worth going for remain? to be clear, it sounds like you are suggesting that the labour party should be holding out the possibility of people revisiting the decision if things change in the eu. yes. at this point, i don't think you should be saying, let's another referendum, because that is saying to people, you made the wrong decision. we should say, is there any new evidence? is there something that is different from what we have learned about what is happening in europe or what we are learning about what is happening in britain that we have to look at? the right time to assess that is when we have on the table

what i think will be an inadequate agreement that breaches the red lines and doesn't give the leave camp the satisfaction it had. jeremy corbyn is a phenomenon. but i respect the fact that and he is expressing people's anger about universal credit, what happened at grenfell tower, affordable housing, inequality in the country and tuition fees and he is articulating that. some people in the labour party who are not fans of his blame, to an extent, you and tony blair for turning the success of new labour into bitterness. i worked with tony for 2h years, we worked together on all the difficult issues. we refinanced the health service massively and doubled its budget, to an extent, you and tony blair for turning the success of new labour into bitterness. i worked with tony for 2h years, we worked together on all the difficult issues. we refinanced the health service massively and doubled its budget,

introduced tax credits that took 2 million pensioners out of poverty. of course there were also policy disagreement and that is inevitable in politics. but your disagreements were about much more than policy. they were mainly about policy. but also about when he was going to leave number ten and you write about it in the book and the promises you felt he made to you. i think the section is about five pages of 500. i tell the truth because if i did not visit i would seem to be evasive. what did he say? he wanted to be leader, i did not want there to be a division between us. i agreed that i would take control of economic policy and he said he would step down in the second term, it's as simple as that. and that of course didn't happen. to be honest, the issues in politics cannot be reduced to personalities. this is not about reducing it, this is a question of when you would take

over as prime minister, the defining relationship inside the government. it is notjust tittle tattle orfive pages in a book, this was a huge conflict between the two of you that dominated labour politics for a long time. i don't think it did actually. i think the issues were more important. some people said to me agree with what tony wants on the euro and he will lead and i would not do that because i said the euro was about the national interest and we had to make the right decision. i doubt that it was about personalities and i think my book is actually about the forces that have driven british politics. and finally, you had a big role in persuading people in the scottish independence referendum. there is a sense now after the general election that the snp moved backwards, somehow the scottish independence debate is sealed and over. do you think that is true or is it complacent for unionists? scotland is not stable

for the long—term. what we have got is two groups caught in quite extreme positions. we have the nationalists who want all out independence and they are going for the referendum whenever they can get it and we now have a tory party which is the leader of the opposition in scotland and they want absolute status quo. the status quo cannot survive, nor is independent of good viable option for scotland. there has to be a middle way. the sadness is we have these two extremes that almost enjoy the fact they are on the extreme and they don't talk to each other, they can't communicate with each other, there is no common ground. there has to be a better base is building the relationship between scotland and the uk and we never want to get into a catalonia situation where people are at daggers drawn and it becomes is usually bitter constitutional issue again. can you see something like that?

i see scotland stuck in a rut if we don't watch. many former politicians have turned themselves into broadcasters, but the new role for the former first minister of scotland trumps them all. alex salmond is to host his own chat show on russia today. it begins next thursday night. the kremlin—backed tv station is seen by many as russian propaganda. it's nothing if not controversial — when putin sent troops into crimea, it broadcast the assertion that no occupation had occurred and pro—russian locals had got their hands on russian uniforms. it was also censured by 0fcom for claiming that the bbc staged a chemical weapons attack for a news report. well, the star of the show, alex salmond, is here now. so you are doing a chat show on russia today. do you feel that you will be free to criticise russian policy? i know i will be, because the show was produced by my company and we give it to rt on a wednesday evening,

and all they decide is whether to broadcast it or not. and are you sure that if you are critical and they have a 2k hours beforehand, they will broadcast it? if they choose not to broadcast it, that is up to them. i am certainly hoping they will. in terms of criticising their policy, i was on an rt show a year ago and i made him vigorous attack on russian intervention in syria. they broadcast that on one of their own shows, so i think there were hardly not broadcast a show that i produce where i am free to say what i like. and it is an interview show and as you know, in interviews you let your guests express anything. so you think you will be free to bring on people like pussy riot? i can bring on whoever i like. one of the early topics i will be looking at is homosexuality and the apology that has been made in scotland, where

the same bill was proposed by an snp mp last year and was talked out by the government here to apologise to homosexuals. that will be an interesting early subject to discuss. would you have any qualms, take that censure of rt when they broadcast the wrong assertion that the bbc had staged its own chemical weapons attack. would you have any worry about the juxtaposition of some kind of assertion like that? over the last year or two, 50 labour mps including the current labour party leader, 37 conservative mps, including some who were at the launch tonight and i7 snp mps have appeared on rt programmes. i appeared on rt programmes when i was still a member of parliament. it would be strange if i said that now i am no longer a member of parliament, i am refusing to make my own show with my own production company over which i have total editorial control.

do you lend credibility to rt? the idea is that people watch the show, and if it is a good show with high production values and interesting guests, they should say it is a good show. if it turns out to be kremlin propaganda, people can slate me, but why not watch the show first? so who are you confident of having on? i have done some of the first interviews already. the inspiration for this show came from the festival show i did in edinburgh and the chat component of that. another television company suggested that we should turn it into a tv show. i'm not suggesting that you are some kind of mogul in the rupert murdoch mould, but there is a suggestion that you might bejoining the board which runs the scotsman. i might become chair

of the board if the shareholders agree. you would have no problem with taking on that role as well as broadcasting on rt? you mustn't count your chickens with these things. that will be a matter for the shareholders. one of your bbc colleagues, andrew neil, was tweaking tonight and attacking me for wanting to be the chair of johnson press and having my show on rt, oblivious to the fact that he used to be editorial director of the scotsman and want to dictate to journalists. i have no such ambitions, i just want to produce a good television show. alex salmond, thank you very much. a year ago, president trump was elected on a mandate to withdraw from international treaties and put jobs — especially in coal — before the environment. he is living up to his promise, saying he will leave the paris climate accord as soon as the un allows. and in the usa itself, he's been rolling back environmental laws. on this, the week when nations are meeting in bonn for the annual un climate conference,

the bbc‘s environment analyst, roger harrabin, has been to the usa to hear how some states are right behind him, but others have begun a green fightback. southern california. the san gorgonio pass. a route through the mountains and a funnel for the wind that rushes from desert to coast. look at this land. stone, grit, a bit of scrub, useless for agriculture. but there is one very lucrative crop here, and that is the clean energy from the desert wind. renewables boomed under president 0bama, but president trump says they threaten the economy because their output is variable. he wants to subsidise coal and nuclear instead. he's trying to scrap 50 environmental rules.

he wants to protect coal by relaxing pollution standards for power plant. 15 states, led by california governorjerry brown, are fighting back with plans for their own emissions cuts from housing, industry and cars. we're in a contest of ideas, a contest of government actions and policies. the outcome of this contest will determine what the world is going to look like over the next 10,20 and 30 years. trump will not be, i hope, a permanent phenomenon, so we're holding the torch, as it were, in this interim of rather sorry environmental ignorance. but what to do about variable energy from sun and wind? here's part of a solution in california. these containers make up the biggest lithium battery in the world so far. near san diego, this giant battery

farm can power 200,000 homes forfour hours. it was built in just six months. this type of energy storage system can move energy throughout time, so it can take energy that's generated when wind and solar are abundant and move it to the peak times when the grid might need it and those energy sources might not be available at the level needed. along with other technologies, batteries can buffer temporary shortfalls in power. whether 100% renewables can work is still under debate. the roads are another trump battleground.

the president wants to relax pollution standards for vehicles. the california air resources board has led the way on car standards. its head says the president's team will be held back by court cases brought by their opponents. i expect that they will lose a lot of those cases because the people trying to carry out these programmes of deconstruction, if you will, the rollback, don't actually know much about how to do what they're trying to do. some of what they've promised can't happen. in california, the climate may already be a matter of life and death. scientists say climate change did not cause the wildfires that killed at least a0 people, but it did make them worse. they can't believe president trump's administration has banned mention of climate change from some key government documents. i'm appalled by what is happening in the trump administration. he has appointed a climate change denier to run the environmental protection agency. he has appointed a climate change denier, or at least a contrarian, to run the department of energy, a climate change denier to run

the office of management and budget, and it's consistent with the view which i call the know—nothing trifecta. these are people who don't know anything, they're proud of not knowing anything they don't want anyone else to know anything. but president trump promised voters that he would bring back coal, and 26 states supported his plan to scrap president 0bama's clampdown on pollution from coal power. the trump administration declined to be interviewed on the issue, but the president's spokesmen say elements of climate science are still up for debate. i think president trump is doing a wonderfuljob not only in reviving the coal industry, but in reviving the united states of america. i do not believe that the american coal industry will ever come back to where it was, but i believe it will stay

there and come back slightly as mr trump creates jobs in america, which he is doing. the us will go to the climate conference in bonn facing all the other countries in the world. that cop 21 climate accord was a fraud. it was nothing more than an attempt by developing countries of the world to get american dollars. it will have no environmental benefit at all. but away from coal states like 0hio, the world is moving to a different beat. this is the tesla electric car, dancing for fun. california's governor warns that the president's plans to protectjobs by backing petrol cars will backfire. china is investing billions both in investment in battery technology and electric cars and the regulatory regime that will produce, for their market, a percentage of electric cars that, to my knowledge, no american auto executive can even imagine. the chinese have taken over on wind production, wind technology and also photovoltaic solar.

so they're going to take over the american car industry, and the people in detroit are half—asleep. they have to wake up, and i'm hoping they will. but the president is set on his fossil fuel course. to the un climate conference in bonn, he's chosen to send two respected diplomats who say climate change is a serious problem. but representatives from the us coal industry are on the delegation too, promoting coal as part of a climate change solution. that has outraged some other climate delegates, but pulling back from climate agreements and promoting american coal are exactly what president trump promised the american people a year ago. that's all from us, but before we go, today we celebrated the 20th birthday of the bbc news channel. since 1997, it has been

covering the stories that matter round the clock with courage, intelligence and panache. well, most of the time. good night. under the proposals, drunk troublemakers would be taken to cells run by private firms and have to pay for it once they've sobered up. guy cooney is the editor of the technology website news wireless. hello, good morning to you. good morning. plenty more to come from here of course, none of it news, because that will come from buckingham palace. but that won't stop us, we'll see you later. rachel. crashing. and we've lost a camera! but never mind. this is bbc news, i'm carole walker. every now and then, there is always one mistake. that was it now. now,

would anyone want their very own... good evening too. hopefully this forecast will go smoothly after that end to newsnight. we have some rain around the night. it is moving slowly southwards and eastwards. it is not particularly heavy, just patchy outbreaks of rain arriving in the south late in the night. plenty of showers in scotland. cold with some snow. you of showers in scotland. cold with some snow. you have of showers in scotland. cold with some snow. you have to go above 300 metres of elevation, but it is a cold. different more southwards, with patchy uptake of rain. not ever will see the wet weather. temperatures into double figures here. northwards, sunny skies across england and the midlands. not a bad start through the day but a little chilly. further north—west, showers driven in by a blustery and cold wind. this will blow throughout the day, driving showers in. further south, early morning cloud clears over the way. sunshine follows quickly in the morning across much

of southern england. for most of us, plenty of sunshine through the day, but will feel a little chilly across northern areas. temperatures of 12 in the south, ranging to six or seven in scotland. normalfor about this stage in november. through friday night, a band of removing across northern ireland and england and wales, containing the remnants ofa and wales, containing the remnants of a tropical storm. reasonable temperatures in the south is it rains. further north, for friday night, we have cloud and a few showers moving in. could be cold early. looking at saturday, outbreaks of rain across england, probably becoming confined to the south—west, where it could be a miserable start to the weekend, really. further north, this is where the best of the sunshine is. but the temperatures are falling across northern england northern ireland is that cold air arise. is a sign of what is coming in the second half

the weekend. as we lose this overnight rain, saturday night into sunday, we in cold airfrom overnight rain, saturday night into sunday, we in cold air from the poles. blustery winds around as well. those temperatures are going to be falling away. 0n well. those temperatures are going to be falling away. on sunday, again, showers around across northern and western areas in particular. but inland, plenty of sunshine. but it will kill cold. temperatures six or seven again in scotland. —— it will feel colder. that is below normal for this stage in november. factoring in the winter will kill cold against all. so cold and —— colder weather on the way. and that is your weather. i'm rico hizon, in singapore.

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