and his lung collapsed. his mum said he had just weeks to live unless a heart became available. then the call came that a heart had become available and it was a perfect match. then they went off to look at the condition of the heart and it was a long wait. it didn't feel real until they came back and said he is going down in an hour. that's when it felt like it was happening. he was extremely lucky considering his condition and size to get a heart suitable on time. after a nine—hour operation, charlie had a new heart. i couldn't believe he was awake after having a heart transplant. his skin colour was amazing. i can't describe it. for him to be so pink and peachy and perfect, it felt like a miracle. it is a miracle.

charlie's mother doesn't know who agreed to donate their own child's heart but she can't thank them enough. they gave my boy a second chance at life and for that i'll be forever thankful. doctors hope that charlie will be well enough to go home in the new year. what about the prospects for the weather over the next few days? good evening. considering there's a lot more cloud evening. considering there's a lot more cloud across evening. considering there's a lot more cloud across the evening. considering there's a lot more cloud across the country evening. considering there's a lot more cloud across the country it will be a mild night as a consequence. the cloud comes in the form of some weak weather fronts. they will clear away from scotland later in the night. perhaps close to frost levels here and initially in the south and east. more likely some fog issues come morning. possibly

also in the glens of scotland as well. temperatures staying above freezing as we head toward sunday morning. it does clear away and most of us will have much drier brighter weather tomorrow. northern ireland is struggling to get sunshine until the afternoon and parts of pembrokeshire and the south—west lingering with that week weather front for much of the day. perhaps it will be a bit cooler in the northeast compared with today, a little milder in southern and eastern areas. benign and quiet conditions to start the week for most of us. fog will be the biggest issue. bye—bye. hello, this is bbc news. the headlines. president trump has said the actions of his former national security adviser, michael flynn, during the presidential transition period were lawful — but he had to sack him because he had lied to the vice president and the fbi. the us senate has passed a sweeping

tax reform bill paving the way for the first big legislative victory of donald trump's presidency. democrat said it would only benefit the wealthy and big business. there's growing criticism over the actions of two former police officers who leaked allegations that pornographic images had been found on a work computer of the cabinet minister, damian green. mr green has denied looking at or downloading pornography. barclays bank says it will no longer offer a russian anti—virus software programme free to customers after warnings it could be exploited by the kremlin. kaspersky lab denies any links to the russian government. now on bbc news, formula i and nico rosberg. there has been a big shock in the world of formula 1. driver nico rosberg, who finally achieved a lifetime's ambition to win the world championship only last weekend has announced his retirement from the sport. his announcement coming just five days after he won the title

for the first time, holding off lewis hamilton in what was a thrilling championship that went down to the final race. dance music. 12 months ago, after achieving my childhood dream and winning the formula i world championship, i decided to call it a day. this here is a story of my past year and what i've been up to, and of course, also, what i want to achieve in the future. security grip going on here already. here's a wonderful dad, really. really, really sweet. really, um... i think a lot of dads can't really empathise with small kids. to me, it is even more wonderful

to see him as a dad, now. but times, i think, have changed, also. that nowadays, dads do get more involved and do the nappy changes. i think that is pretty normal now, in the world, whereas when i speak to my dad, i mean, he didn't even know what a nappy was. so i think there is a bit of a... he still doesn't! exactly. so i think it is a nice change there happening in the world. first of all, it's super brave, and we've had so many reactions, so many personal letters from people who have said oh, you have inspired me to take more time with my family, or to step up and do what i really want to do in life. and i really admire that. and so when he took the decision, i was, of course, a bit shocked, but very, very happy.

when he said, you know what, i think i will stop, i'm stopping... she was like, "yeah, whatever..." "yeah, whatever," you know? exactly. don't talk rubbish to me now. initially, i wasn't that busy. i took some time off to recover from all the celebrations, as well — it was pretty intense. at the same time, though, you know, it was a new life starting, yeah? things move on quickly, and i needed to put things into place for this next step in my life. how do i earn a living now, going forward? because all of a sudden the racing goes away. yes, of course, i have great savings, but i want to keep earning a living, of course. i don't want to just rely on my savings. would you encourage your daughters to get into motorsport? i am actually very happy we have two

girls because of exactly this point. no, i don't think so. just because i've, you know, i've suffered a lot with him, obviously. for me it is more difficult to watch him race. speaking about girl racing drivers, i was in a tv show two days ago, and it was small against big, you know, so small children against adults. and i had to race against a nine—year—old girl. very, very sweet girl. and she is go—kart driver, though. she does slalom and she's done races, and i had to race her on the show. and she beat me. fair and square. the same track, same kart, everything. and she beat me by two seconds. and i gave it everything. so there are some girls are really know how to drive fast. i'm working on my bucket list.

sitting in the royal box at wimbledon. i was in the monaco national team as a tennis player when i was young. and it was really a potential career route at one point. my mother was sort of encouraging me that way. my father wanted me to do the racing, funnily enough. i chose the racing. i always wanted to play tennis. federer, of course. then finally, centre court, royal box — wow, magical. legendary, magical. watching roger federer on his way to his eighth title, one of the biggest achievement is the world of sport has ever seen. you are in awe of what you see.

and the english etiquette that is there, yeah? and the peacefulness. i mean, this whole space isjust so quiet, and you hear every little bounce and every little drop. so here are my favourite coffee shop here in monaco, just waiting for chris froome, now, to arrive. it will be fun to go for a ride with him around the fi track. i can talk a little about my experiences on the track, the different corners to him, so that'll be be great. looking forward to it. nico. hi chris. how you doing? good, and you? good to see you. yeah, good to meet you. good fun, i'm excited. yeah, so... go for a ride.

go and check out the fi circuit. let's go. poll position coming up... i had the pleasure of being in poll quite a few times. i guess on the monaco circuit, especially, pole is even more important. it's the — it's almost — 80% of the race win is done in qualifying. that's incredible. because if you get to that the first corner first, then it's very, very likely... to pass. unless you make a very big mistake. exactly. what's the biggest i—day rescue those? is at the olympics? the world champs or olympics. the world champs or olympics, that's what the monaco is to us in racing. it is the race to win. it is the most difficult race, the most legendary race, and for me, it is special because i've grown up here, so i lived here all my life. have you really? yes, i went to school here. my school is right over there on the harbour, right about the formula i pattern. i would look down on the legends and dream that i wanted to be there one day.

with your squad, you can see the pain in yourface. yeah! yes? we suffer — often we suffer in exactly the same way, but you just don't see it so much. yeah, yeah, yeah. that's a really big pity. it takes away a bit of excitement in our sport. the spectator can't see how on the edge i am. i had no idea it was like that. so that's — yeah, it would be fascinating for people to see that first—hand. we are going at 180, 190, the last hour the race. wow. that's why for example, i was always trying to slow a lot in my training, because i can't. .. it's probably good to teach the body to not breath properly, you know? to be starved a little. wow, that's fascinating. in five minutes, i've learnt so much. i stopped cycling last year because in the summer i was really

breaking my head about how i can lose another kilo last year, in the middle of the season. and i can't go on a diet in the middle of the season, because it is just mentally and physically too tough. yeah. so i stopped cycling to lose the leg muscles. i lost one kilo of leg muscles in the summer. and injapan after the summer i was on poll by a few hundredths of a second from lewis hamilton. and the legs were four hundreds of the second. that gave me a lead that won the race. that is a cool story of how that worked out. you had to stop cycling to lose that extra kilo. yeah, yeah. there is annoying tv work and there is fun tv work. today is the fun tv work. because it's easy. with chris joining, it is great because i'm a big fan of the sport, and i cycle a lot myself.

and i've watched all of chris‘ success. yeah, cheers for that. that was good fun. i mean, itjust — absolutely fascinating for me to learn a little bit more about fi and to hear actually how physical it is. i have to admit, i've watched on television a few times and just thought theyjust sit in a car, those guys, they must be really skilled getting around all the corners, the way they do, but at the end of the day, they are sitting in a car. they are not peddling. you have no idea what it means to suffer, yeah? exactly. every f1 driver since they basically sweating at 190 beats a minute for two hours in a race. it's just, yeah, absolutely, it does put things into perspective a little bit. and now you'll go back to training? yeah, yeah, i have had a bit of time off. i have to get back into shape

and go for the new season. if it is ok, i mightjoin you one of these days. that would be very welcome. a very, very special place, the oxford union. um, very, very special people have come here and spoken i believe. einstein... einstein? that's big shoes to fill. good evening ladies and gentlemen. the reigning world champion, please join me in giving a warm welcome to nico rosberg. which engine do you prefer?

the v8 or the v6? the sound in our sport is goosebumps. and v10 was incredible. the sound on that was incredible. i wish we could go back to that. it is difficult. the manufacturers in the sport there to show that we think about the future of the world. and the manufacturers want to have their technologies which are relevant to the road cars, yeah? which are small engines and turbos. so you can understand that. but for the fans of the sport as well, the entertainment factor, v105. because that's just so special. and today i was at that track, and the v6s don't sound good. u nfortu nately. like a little motorbike? like moped. yeah, like a moped. great to see how enthusiastic

they were about our sport. yeah, i mean, everybody knew formula 1, loved it, and knew all the details. that was very surprising. did not expect that. perfect. i do stuff that is along the lines of my passions. oxford, i would have always gone that, english university route. i had a place in imperial college, actually, to study aeronautics. it was great to talk from a seat where einstein was once sitting. to talk to students that are the most intelligent people that are living on this planet, the students there, yeah? they will do incredible things. wow, that's amazing. it's for doctors to virtually practice operating on humans. press on the blue buttons for three seconds, and you can pull them in, the wheel, and we glide backwards,

so you can stretch out your legs and we can do whatever. wired is that start—up world where it is important to me to build credibility in that area, yeah? so people take me seriously. because one thing is me thinking that i can do it, but if people don't take you seriously, there is no benefit. so takes a bit of time to some credibility. the general formula 1 driver is a big, big narcissist. in love with himself, and thinks he's best in the world. and it is always the other guy's fault. they give you a certain strength in this crazy environment, where you are judged by millions and millions of people every little moment, what you're doing. there is some prejudice in the business world when it comes to f1 racing drivers. because they don't necessarily expect you then to have other competencies. i was more on the other side. i am more sensitive less narcissistic. but, you know, at times difficult. but the strength in questioning

myself all the time. when i stopped, i had savings from my career, yeah? i need to do something with that now, yeah? one thing is that, of course, being passionate about cars. cars are going to change our planet. and very, very soon. and mobility in general. it's going to revolutionise our lives, yeah? and we are going to electric cars which in the long term will improve emissions and global warming, and all of that. not immediately. because electric cars as such don't actually improve that. it is when the infrastructure improves as well to feed the electric cars with energy. so when you get more solar power, more wind turbines, and things. and autonomous cars will be huge for the way we live, yeah? for everything. efficiency in our lives, ease of living, massive. it will change everything. with the push of a button a drone will land here, you know, or wherever. an man—carrying drone, jump in, it takes us to the destination. no flying person required. it isjust autonomous. it will be awesome. and this is just around

the corner, yeah? and this is just the corner. so it's an exciting time. i've always loved start—ups because in the start—up world there's are fascinating people. people who are daring, people who are inventive, creative geniuses. to to meet those people and discuss has been interesting. i am really digging into that. it has been a cool ride. that is also i am going to silicon valley. that is the ultimate epicentre of start—ups. people are not scared to fail there. in our society, people are really scared to fail. and that holds us back, yeah? over there, it is normal to fail. and you're expected to fail, yeah? and that was powerful to see. are you prepared to go out on a limb and invest some money and your time and prepared to fail? i don't like failing, i don't like losing, so that's going to be difficult, yes. five or ten years' time, where is nico rosberg and what is he doing? that's not an easy question. really important for me is that ifind a good balance

personally in my life, that i'm very happy and at ease with life. i spend a lot of time working with a mental trainer, even studying, psychology, philosophy, many, many years. so in ten years‘ time i would like to be in a better position for myself and my family. it could be being a manager and having a couple of drivers, because that's something i can see now with kubica as well. i enjoy that because you can really experience similar emotions to when you are driving yourself. so that's cool, because the emotions when you win and have success as a driver, it's so intense. it's not easy to find that so quickly elsewhere in life, yeah? but there's an opportunity if you work with other drivers and support them and become part of their team to relive some of those emotions, so that could be something in the longer term. so if you hadn't won the world title in 2016, if it had gone against you in the last race, would you have continued? going into the last race, i was on the starting grid, and absolutely one of the most intense 01’ even nervous

moments in my life, yeah? ‘cause this was the start to something else, will decide whether i get my dream or not. and you never know if you‘ll get a second chance, because you rely on your car. so the rules were changing, the rules were totally different this year. no idea. is mercedes still going to be able to build a car? so i knew it was crucial. and i‘ve done so much meditation, so much everything, and nothing help in that moment. the only thing that helped was suddenly the realisation that this could be my last race, because i knew if i win i‘m stopping. and that gave me clarity all of a sudden to take in and enjoy the moment, ‘cause it‘s the last one. so very, very strange and therefore i knew that if i win, i stop. and if i don‘t win, i continue, because i don‘t ever give up and i want to achieve what i set out to do. lewis hamilton is the four—time world champion. quite an incredible achievement. but you're the only guy who has really taken him on head—to—head and beaten him at the world title.

how does that feel? yeah, it‘s very nice to hear that and i‘m very proud of that as well and that makes my achievement a little bit more special to me, because i know that next to me was lewis and lewis is an incredible driver and to have beaten him in the way it all happened, it‘s perfect. can i talk to you about fear. does that enter your mind? is it something you were able to force out as a young driver? i‘m not...not quite as crazy as some of the other guys out there, so fear did come into my mind sometimes. one example was baku, in 2016 actually, because we were doing 360 on the straight or something, or 250, 230 miles an hour, in the city. and then you‘re jumping along the straight and on the left—hand side was the pit lane entry, so there‘s a perpendicular wall to you, yeah? and going past their every single lap and thinking, if something fails now in the car and i go into that it‘s finished. so there were a few moments i‘ve had where i‘ve been a bit scared.

fortunately it never slowed me down. it's ok. your most satisfying race win? one of the most satisfying ones was winning monaco for the first time. my father always told me since i was young that there‘s two things you‘ve got to tick off as a formula 1 driver — winning monaco and winning the world championship. monaco even more special for me because it‘s my home. so i‘m driving through my streets. my way to school was the way through the tunnel, where my mum used to drive me to school. and then i was first through the whole entire weekend. every single practice session, qualifying, the race, i was never passed the whole time. to be able to share it with friends and family and our prince. wonderful. your most embarrassing moment in formula 1? i have way too many. it‘s horrible, those ones. it‘s really not good. i mean, example, itook out my teammate mark webber in the first year, last race.

another one, singapore, with williams again, running second. singapore would have been such a great achievement. and then i run over the white line on the pit exit. come on, who does that? and there are so tough moments when you do something so stupid, yeah? have you had a situation where maybe some formula 1 fans have said to you, nico, we are really disappointed you retired? every day. a lot of people say, so cool and happy you found your way and you achieved what you set out to do. even a lot of people say, i can understand that you‘ve stepped away. and some people saying, it‘s such a pity, we would love to see you battle lewis again for a couple of years and be in the mix, right at the front, again. it‘s a mix which is normal and i understand that, because it was a pretty extreme thing to do and some people understand, some people don‘t, but for me it was the right thing. so jet—skiing time with my daughter.

looking forward to it. the last one of the year, which will be cool. going to wear a wetsuit. this is for the person who forgot his swimming trunks, which is me, which was not very clever. with everything that we have in life, one of the most important things and special things is friends and family because that‘s where you get the most pleasure. it sucks because in our lives, like the least... we spend so little time with our friends and family, because we‘re so busy working and doing everything else. that‘s so pity, that we are so bad at doing that. so that an incredible day, going on the yacht in the south of france. it doesn‘t get better than that. a beautiful day. laughing, eating, messing around onjetskis. for me, that was as good as it gets, personally. vettel? pardon? vettel? alonso?

oui, alonso. oui. so i asked her if she knew formula 1, she said "yeah". i asked her what names she knew. i started with my name. nope, didn‘t know that. then hamilton, yeah, knew hamilton. schumacher? yeah, knew schumacher. vettel? no clue. speaks french. but you need to chop that out, though. good evening. it‘s been gradually turning a little milder in the past 2a hours, or slightly less cold. but there has been a lot of cloud with that change, although that said we‘ve had

a lovely sunset this evening in kent. sunday promises more sunshine for many of us. currently you can see these weather fronts draped across the country, sinking southwards. it‘s giving some rather grey and murky conditions. if you‘re out and about travelling, there will continue to be some light rain and drizzle around. the cloud is low enough to sit on the hills, so it will be foggy. later in the night, will start to see things clearing up across scotland. we could get a touch of frost in the glens in the north—east, and early on in the south—east. but for most of us, after what has been a chilly week, it looks largely frost—free. however, it probably will be quite a murky start to the day, especially across the southern half of the country. this weak weather front is going to move up the way fairly quickly. it lingers for parts of pembrokeshire and south—west of england. but for most of england and wales, it will be brighter and drier, not so cold to start with either. temperatures starting at about 11—5 degrees in some places. for northern ireland,

that weather front is close by. scotland too, a lovely start to the day. there might be a few shallow fog patches here and in the south—east of england, but they should clear fairly quickly. our weather front topples back into western scotland later on, but that allows a little sunshine to come through for northern ireland. you can see that weather front close by to pembrokeshire and the south—west of england. for most of us, it‘s a bright afternoon with some good spells of sunshine. probably a little chillier today in the north—east because we are back into slightly cooler air, but milder than today for east anglia and the south of england in particular. as we go through sunday evening and overnight we‘ve got these weak weather fronts still with us. more cloud comes in. what we will find is probably a bit of fog as we go through to monday morning rush—hour, particularly in east anglia and the south—east. further west, we keep a pestering of showers, but a lot of dry and settled weather will greet many of us on monday, and slightly milder weather than we had in the weekjust gone. that‘s because we‘ve got high pressure, benign conditions sitting over the uk. most of the weather fronts are being pushed to the north and the west of our shores,

and we have to wait until midweek until we see something a little bit more turbulence. and that‘s wednesday, it looks set to turn wet and windy by that stage. but a quiet start to the week for many. bye— bye. this is bbc world news today. i‘m samantha simmonds. our top stories. president trump says the actions of his former top aide pleads guilty of lying to the fbi — tweeting that michael flynn‘s actions were in fact "lawful". but mr trump has also scored a big win this weekend after republicans in the senate pushed through the biggest package of tax cuts in decades. as clashes erupt again in yemen, the country‘s former president — whose forces are fighting the saudi—led coalition —

says he‘s ready to talk. north korea‘s nuclear tests roll on but could they be having some unintended consequences? we take a look at the environmental impact. hello and welcome to bbc world news. president trump says he fired his former national