this is bbc news, and these are the top stories developing at 11: donald trump has cancelled his visit to the uk. the us president has criticised the location of the new american embassy in london. does a large fire has closed nottingham railway station, causing major travel disruption. there's been a breakthrough in talks to form a new government in germany between chancellor angela merkel‘s christian democrats and their former coalition partners, the social democrats. young women treated for breast cancer with the faulty brca genes are not less likely to survive, according to new research. also — facebook makes changes to your news feed. the social media site says it

will prioritise interactions between family and friends, over media and business content. as the queen marks 65 years since her coronation, her majesty left the lead for the first time on what life is like when you have two win a heavy crown. —— you you're watching bbc news on friday 12th january, i'm annita mcveigh. welcome to bbc newsroom live. donald trump has confirmed he won't be visiting britain next month. it had been thought that the us president would come over to mark the official opening of the new american embassy in south london.

it replaces the existing us embassy in the centre of the city. but in the early hours of this morning president trump tweeted that he had cancelled his planned visit because he was "not a big fan" of the new embassy, which he said had been commissioned by his predecessor, barack obama. the move was actually initiated in 2008 under the george w bush administration. meanwhile, the president is facing backlash over reported comments he made out during talks over a immigration deal. dan johnson reports. after nearly 60 years flying above london's grosvenor square, the stars and stripes were lowered, ready for the opening of the new us embassy. it's a billion—dollar building on the southbank and donald trump

was due to open it next month. now we know he won't and early this morning, he posted his reasons on twitter: but did the prospect of protests like this also put him off? this was the response to his ban on travellers from certain muslim countries. a petition drew 1.8 million signatures with calls to ban him. it shouldn't be a state visit because it would be embarrassing to the queen and the rest of the uk. theresa may was the first world leader to reach out to the new president and a return trip, a state visit, was promised soon.

but then the president strained the special relationship by sharing online far—right videos from the group called britain first. when theresa may condemned, he then retorted. just last weekend, she confirmed the invite still stands. he is taking decisions in the best interests of the united states. and he is coming to this country? he will be coming to the country. the foreign secretary denied the queen would be embarrassed. i think her majesty the queen is capable of taking this american president or any american president in her stride, as she has done over six remarkable decades. let's be clear. opening this place was never the same as a state visit. it would have been a shorter, less formal trip. meeting the queen is still on, expected this year, but no date has been set. the president is denying this decision is down to politics but after he offended more countries with a foul—mouthed remark

last night, the list of places he is welcome certainly isn't growing. the former ukip leader nigel farage has been defending president trump decision to cancel his visit to the uk. donald trump wants to disassociate himself from any profligate spending by barack obama, as he sees it. i am not a real estate guy and cannot comment on that. i also think, he has been all over the world, france, belgium, italy, saudi arabia, china and everywhere he has been he has been treated pretty well. in this country we have the mayor of london, jeremy corbyn and others encouraging large—scale jeremy corbyn and others encouraging la rge—scale protests jeremy corbyn and others encouraging large—scale protests against him and that must be part of his calculation. should he still come? i want him to come at some point. we do lots of business with america, an important

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predecessor george w bush, a republican president. it may have been barack obama who negotiated the financial deal but the decision to move the embassy to vauxhall was made and george w bush and at the time they cited security reasons for the move. the building here is due to open for business next week, on monday, the official opening with rex tillerson in february. in the past hour the flag has been raised for the first time and we have been getting more reaction, some from the mayor of london in a statement he says, it appears president trump is hiding from the many londoners who love america and americans but find his actions the polar opposite of the values of the city. he said if the values of the city. he said if the thought 123535 efiéfifff , 7

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obama for the decision to move here, it's not so much a snub to britain, i think, but the real refusal of president trump to rubber—stamp any decisions or any policies he believes were put in place by president obama. briefly, does it strike you as an off location, where you are? it's not as prestigious as the previous location but it is pretty central, just over the river from the houses of parliament and it will be the change this neighbourhood, lots of apartments are in the process of being finished all around the embassy, everyone who wants to live there has to be carefully vetted, and there are many security cameras everywhere so vetted, and there are many security cameras everywhere so it will be a big change for this part of london. a large fire has broken out at nottingham railway station. nottinghamshire fire and rescue say they're dealing with a "large incident" with eight appliances in attendance. the station has been evacuated.

east midland trains say all trains through the station are cancelled we are outside the car park and not a country station and behind other platforms. you can see there is still a strong emergency service presence, the fire crews were called around 620 this morning and that is when we saw plumes of smoke coming out of the station, we had reports of the fourier of the station was filled with smoke and one unreported report of smoke coming out of the toilet. it is fairly quiet in the sense of the smoke has disappeared, but as you can imagine it has caused

travel chaos, with trains in and out of the station stopped and cancelled and we understand there will be nothing going in and out and it has also affected roads around the station and commuters coming in and out of the city. the bbc is said to be "deeply unimpressed" with an off—air chat in which two of its presenters joked about the pay gap between the sexes. that's according to a source at the corporation. bbc radio 4 today presenter john humphrys and north america editorjon sopel were discussing carrie gracie, who had just quit her china editorjob over equal pay. in an exchange before monday's show, it's reported they joked about "handing over" pay to keep her in post. a bbc spokeswoman said the presenter regrets the "ill—advised" conversation. nigel farage has clarified remarks he made yesterday calling for a second eu referendum. the former ukip leader has said although another vote was the "last thing" he wanted, he thought it might be forced on the country by parliament. his initial remarks were seized upon by remainers, with labour's chuka umunna saying

mr farage had made "a valid point for the first time in his life". the role played by the media is to be examined by the manchester arena bombing inquiry. 22 people were killed at the end of an ariana grande concert last may. some families who used social media to appeal for information about missing relatives found themselves subjected to intrusive attention. judith moritz reports. the manchester arena explosion shattered countless lives. 22 were lost. many more were changed forever. the attack made international headlines and that meant there was huge media interest in the stories of those most closely affected. they included the family of martin hett, one of those killed in the blast.

martin had a large social media following and had previously been on tv. possibly as a result of his family found themselves in the spotlight from almost the very moment they heard about the explosion. and before the new martin did. we had people coming to the door and asking for comment and he was not even dead by that point. the same with his flatmate. it seems a bit distasteful really. how can anybody be so cruel and go and say sorry for your loss? we did not find out officially until that evening he was dead. now an independent panel will consider the way the media covered the stories of the bereaved and entered. the kerslake review panel will also recommend that public organisations adopt a charter which uses lessons learned from the hillsborough disaster. it states that the bereaved

and vulnerable should be treated with respect and put first by those responding to such public tragedies. judith moritz with that report from manchester. well, the chair of the review, lord kerslake has explained what the inquiry is looking at and what first steps have been taken. the point of today is to tell the public of the first steps we have taken and public of the first steps we have ta ken and crucially public of the first steps we have taken and crucially to get across the point that this review is a fundamental it started from the point of view of the bereaved families, the injured and the public and that has impacted on how we have done the review and things we have phoned. we have also proposed that the public agencies and bodies in greater manchester and the

north—west sign up to the charter that came out of the hillsborough view, not because the two situations are at the same but they are important things he has proposed —— hillsborough review. the advent of social media has changed the dynamics of communication here and information very quickly goes online about families and of those who might be missing. i think that changes the whole way in which communication happens and in particular the question is how does the broadcaster and mainstream media respond to those stories that are online and how do they treat the family is referred to? that is one thing we need to look at. much of the media handles families in a very respectful way but we have heard exa m ples respectful way but we have heard examples where that was not the case and we think they need to be explored and understood. the headlines on bbc newsroom live:

donald trump cancels his visit to the uk — criticising the location of the new american embassy in london. dozens of firefighters have been battling a blaze at nottingham railway station, the station is shut causing major disruption. a breakthrough in talks to form a new government in germany between chancellor angela merkel‘s christian democrats and their former partners the social democrats. sport. tennis great billiejean king has once again called for the margaret court arena in melbourne to be renamed. that's after court, a 24—time grand slam winner, made derogatory comments regarding lesbian and trangender people in may of last year. king says as a gay woman, she would not play on the court if she was still playing. heather watson missed out on a first wta final in 2 years after she was beaten in the semi final of the hobart international.

she lost her semi in three sets to defendsing champion elise mertens. and after 12 years at arsenal, theo walcott looks like he may well be on his way out of the club soon. everton boss sam allardyce has confirmed the teams have entered negotiations over the 28—year—old. that is all the sport for now. i will be back just that is all the sport for now. i will be backjust after 11:30am. some lines coming to us from westminster about the decision by donald trump to cancel his uk visit to open the new us embassy, amongst other things. asked if downing street is disappointed about the cancellation of an official spokesman for theresa may said, the state visit has been extended and accepted. no date was confronted for any visit, the opening of the us embassy is a matter for the us any visit, the opening of the us embassy is a matterfor the us —— no date was confirmed. they are one of

our oldest and most important allies and our strong and the partnership will endure. and asked if the state visit would go ahead the spokesperson repeated the line but the visit has been accepted but no date has been confirmed. and eat wheat from boris johnson saying date has been confirmed. and eat wheat from borisjohnson saying the usa is the single biggest investor in the uk yet sadiq khan and jeremy corbyn seem determined to put this crucial relationship at risk. he is speaking about comments from those two. some alliteration and probably a classic borisjohnson suites their own response to that news donald trump is not coming next month to the uk. there's been a breakthrough in talks

in germany on forming a new coalition government. after overnight talks, chancellor angela merkel‘s conservative christian democrats and their former coalition partners, the left—wing social democrats, have agreed a basis upon which a coalition treaty can be negotiate, opening the way to formal talks. germany has had a caretaker government since inconclusive elections in september. our correspondentjenny hill joins me from berlin. all my socks to get to this point, a step in the right direction for angela merkel but not a done deal yet —— all night talks. this was a marathon negotiating session and a angela merkel emerged this morning to face reporters looking exhausted but relieved. she seems to have managed to clinch the

deal over differences on policy areas like health, finance and refugee policy. but she knows this is just the refugee policy. but she knows this isjust the beginning refugee policy. but she knows this is just the beginning and refugee policy. but she knows this isjust the beginning and a coalition government is by no means set in stone. these were exploratory talks designed to establish whether it is even worth progressing to formal coalition negotiations. you can see how difficult they might be. she has got another headache to consider now, that is her would—be coalition partners the social democrats, many do not like angela merkel and that party and many blame herfor merkel and that party and many blame her for their terrible showing in september's general election and do not think it is a good idea to go back into coalition again. so the spd leadership has to persuade the party and because the party get to vote at the special conference later this month on whether those

coalition negotiations can proceed as they say yes, by the time a deal is finally agreed, every single one of the spd party members, 400,000 people, will take in a postal vote to vote on whether they want that coalition deal to go ahead. ifi coalition deal to go ahead. if i could just ask, sorry to interrupt, could i ask what is angela merkel‘s position? she has been at the forefront of german and european and world politics for many yea rs european and world politics for many years now, but has this should improve conditions? —— shaken her foundations. improve conditions? —— shaken herfoundations. she is significantly weakened. the election result was one of the worst in the history of her party and then she failed to establish her preferred coalition government last year. this has been very painful, the coalition of the social democrats. it is a

small triumph for her at the moment but assuming she does manage to create this stable government, the general sense is angela merkel is in the autumn, certainly of her term and the significant thing is that has taken such a long time to get to this point from the election in september and for once her party had breathing space to look at alternative candidates. she has survived many political crises but no one has ever been considered good enough to take over but now they are seriously looking around. it does not mean she will be out of a job tomorrow or next week or next month but i think this does mean it is the beginning of the end for angela merkel. thank you very much. a study of women with breast cancer suggests that having a double mastectomy does not increase the chances of survival in younger patients who have what's known as the brca gene. the researchers also found that women treated for breast cancer had the same survival rates — regardless of whether or not they had the mutation.

a short time ago, professor diana eccles spoke to the bbc‘s victoria derbyshire programme about the significance of these findings. the first thing to stress is all of the patient in this study came along with the breast cancer diagnosis, so these were not people with no cancer but were at high risk. that is important to get clear, they are very different circumstances. our study looked at young woman, 18 to 40 who develop breast cancer, usually be found a lump, so they we re usually be found a lump, so they were not being screened, most did not know they were carriers of this gene and we followed them for a long period of time and looked at those diagnosed between 2000 and 2008 and we have been following their medical records and have been able to work

out who carries this gene. so the findings are up12% out who carries this gene. so the findings are up 12% of the younger women with breast cancer had a brca a gene mutation and the outcome from conventional treatment for those people was no different to those that did not have a brca gene mutation, once you took all the breast cancer characteristics into account. the treatment was appropriate and based on their breast cancer status rather than the brca status. i'm joined now by katharine woods, senior research communications manager at breast cancer now. thank you for coming here to speak to us. let's remind everyone that these brca genes are the ones we all heard about where angelina jolie had the pre—emptive or preventative surgery, double mastectomy, because she was told as a carrier of these genes she had a high risk of developing breast cancer. that's

right. the kind of treatment we can give to those women has improved over the years so lots of women who know they carry these genes and have a higher risk of breast and of aiding cancer will have risked reducing surgery would drastically reduces the risk. this is a study of 3000 women that founded double mastectomy straight after being diagnosed with this type of breast cancer did not improve survival rates over a period of ten yea rs. survival rates over a period of ten years. in other words, survival rates over a period of ten years. in otherwords, prom survival rates over a period of ten years. in other words, prom for woman faced with the situation there is not now they need to rush into this decision —— for a woman faced with this situation. there is no need at diagnosis if someone finds out they are a brca carrier, there is no need to go straight for the double mastectomy and they can take their time to deal with the initial diagnosis. and then perhaps some years down the line they can think about extra risk reducing surgery date might want or

needin reducing surgery date might want or need in order to reduce the risk of developing a second breast cancer or ovarian cancer in the future. how useful is this in giving control back to women and the decision—making process they have to go through? it isa go through? it is a very important in doing that but it is worth remembering it only followed woman for one decade after their treatment so it will be very important to see further results 20 yea rs important to see further results 20 years down the line and see if the situation stays the same. thank you. an 18—year—old from the scottish highlands has died after contracting the flu virus. bethany walker was airlifted to hospital in inverness from her home in wester ross, but her illness had developed into pneumonia and staff were unable to save her. elsewhere, in england, there has been a sharp rise in the number of flu cases seen by gps — up 78% from last week. facebook boss mark zuckerberg says the social media site will reduce clutter from the site — after criticism that there are too

any adverts and promoted posts from businesses. he says he wants to prioritise what he calls ‘meaningful social interactions'. mr zuckerberg said the changes would result in people spending less time on facebook and that some measures of engagement will go down. let's speak to the technology expert tom cheeswright. he joins us from salford. good morning. this must be motivating... somebody is sounding very jolly motivating... somebody is sounding veryjolly behind you! very happy newsroom! what does this mean for facebook in terms of income? the priority for them is to make money and mark zuckerberg says he might lose money from this. this is about sustainability, facebook was a risk of killing the goose that lays the golden egg, that

is the interactions between people and friends and families that drives the data that brings the advertiser ‘s end. the more the field that was so party information the less likely we are to interact with each other which is what is at the heart of their business. so this is saying we might lose some money in the short term but it makes our business more sustainable. is he also trying to differentiate facebook from other social media platforms as well? particularly from publishers. facebook has always been caught in a ha rd facebook has always been caught in a hard place between whether it is a place for discussion or a publisher of editorial control. if it is the latter it is subject to many different laws and be prosecuted for its content. it is really trying to avoid that. how much is this a reaction to accusations of russian and freedoms in social media platforms and

interference with very strong political agendas? that is catalysed the debate, the debate that has been gone on for a long time but i much facebook remains the platform for interaction between friends and family or whether people are on it because you have to be. the fake news agenda catalysed this decision that was probably coming anyway. is it the start of a trend, while others follow? every social network has to reinvent itself constantly to keep pace with itself constantly to keep pace with its most fickle users, the younger users who are the trendsetters and ultimate drive the behaviour of perhaps the older relatives. every social network, not least facebook, has to constantly reinvent itself. thank you. jewellery worth millions of euros that was stolen from the ritz hotel in paris have been recovered after one of the theives dropped his bag whilst trying to escape. three men armed with axes were arrested after being blocked inside the building

on wednesday evening. two accomplices waiting outside on mopeds escaped — but dropped a bag containing all the jewellery after crashing into pedestrians. let's look at the weather forecast. play misty and marquee stuck for many parts, pockets of frost and fog but tending to your left and you can see in suffolk not bad. sunny spells with a bit of height and if you brighter spells around eastern areas but more towards south—west england and north—west england and scotland with good spells of sunshine. elsewhere staying quite cloudy with health fog and drizzle. through this

evening, rain moving edge in northern ireland, and wheels and the south—west of england. otherwise quite a cloudy night and stores all. staying cloudy and dab on saturday, farther east the odd shower to burn brighter spells and brighter on sunday with dry weather for many but ona sunday with dry weather for many but on a wet and windy towards the north—west later. this is bbc news — our latest headlines donald trump will not visit britain next month to open the new american embassy in london. in a tweet, he blamed the obama administration for selling the previous building in grosvenor square for "peanuts" and building a new embassy south of the river at great cost. meanwhile — the un's human rights office says the president's foul—mouthed description of some countries is "shocking", "shameful" and "racist". dozens of firefighters are tackling a huge fire at nottingham railway station. passengers have been evacuated from the building and trains are not stopping.

no injuries have been reported. there's been a breakthrough in coalitions talks to form a new government in germany. a 28—page blueprint for negotiations was agreed between chancellor angela merkel‘s christian democrats and their former coalition partners, the social democrats. the conduct of the media is expected to be examined by the independent review into the response to the manchester arena bombing. some families of the 22 victims say they were subject to intrusive attention. facebook has announced it is making a major change to its news feed. it will prioritise posts from family and friends —— rather than media and business content. in a moment... the controversial plans to erect a zip—wire across a reservoir in the lake district time for the sport. let's get more now on the fire at nottingham railway station.

thank you for taking the time to talk to us. take us through your morning, ina talk to us. take us through your morning, in a more committed than do not normal of day. normally a half hour train journey into nottingham, we gotjust a nottingham station at about 6:40am and the train stopped which is not that unusual. but after about ten minutes the conductor came so we need to hang on here for a little bit and that that point we just thought it was a something small. and after about ten more minutes we realised it was bigger than that. the colleagues who had already arrived at work said they could hear silence. we could not see

the fire from the train, we will in the fire from the train, we will in the sidings outside the station. when the windows were open and we could smell the smoke. we sat there for about an hour not sure what was happening. the conductor was doing his best to keep us up to date but he can at get through because they we re very he can at get through because they were very busy so we were taken to the stop before nottingham and sat there for about another not knowing again what was happening. did you eventually did you eventually make it to work? if your people under trainer abandoned their journey but the average taxes to get almost to either derby of leicester nottingham. the conductor was brilliant, he went and got us all coffees from a local shop thank

you. police have released the names of 17 people — including four children — who are confirmed to have died in a mudslide which struck a small town in southern california. all of the dead were residents of montecito. there's confusion about how many people are missing — with one official estimate putting the figure as high as 43. our north america correspondent james cook reports. in montecito, the authorities insist they are still in rescue mode but the chances of finding anyone alive are now slim. police have released the names of the first victims

to be identified. they include four children aged three, six, ten and 12. and the number of people missing may be higher than first thought. we certainly hope there are going to be far fewer than that. we hope there is not going to be any more but realistically we suspect we are going to continue to have discovery of people who were killed. questions are now being asked about whether this area should have been evacuated. noelle strogoff fled with her tthree children just before the storm but many of my neighbours did not. this is like a warzone here. there are homes that are just missing and i walked down the street and i see balls and toys and bicycles and shoes and socks. the storm didn'tjust strike on the pacific coast. this was a surreal scene in the la suburb of burbank is a mudslide swept downhill. but the damage in montecito was far worse. the mudslide came roaring down here,

sweeping are before it and if you want to know how houses can be swept from their foundations so easily, this is the answer. just look at the size of the boulders that were pushed down from the mountains. rain was not the only cause of this carnage. the debris was washed down of mountains stripped bare and baked hard by a huge wildfire. james cook, bbc news, montecito. czechs go to the polls this weekend in the first round of the country's presidential election. milos zeman has sought to bring his country closer to russia and china in his first five—year term, but most of the eight men challenging him want to reaffirm the czech republic's place in europe. there are also grave concerns about his health. from prague, rob cameron has more. the czech republic, a country in the heart of europe, still unsure of its sovereignty after being divided and conquered for centuries.

this weekend, czechs are being given a choice, which direction should they be heading — east or west? even in president zeman's hometown, of kolin, opinions are divided. translation: i believe in president zeman. the fact that he is with russia does not bother me. translation: his trips to china and russia, the way he goes over there, cowtailing and doffing his cap, no. translation: i think we should orientate ourselves more to the west than the east. i think there is more of a future for us in the west than in the east. despite his health problems, heavy drinking and chain—smoking, his political allies say he is wise and experienced enough to chart a sensible course. translation: he is a person with his own opinions.

he does notjust back down from them. he is not a politician who just says what the voter wants to hear or what brussels or washington want to hear. no, he's consistent. the czech republic is experiencing the same burgeoning divide that europe is facing as a whole, and the perception, at least in the countryside, is that prague is increasingly disconnected from the lives of ordinary citizens. president zeman supporters dismiss his opponents as belonging to a remote and elitist cafe society. his promise, when he was beginning in the office, was that he would unite the society and he definitely has not done that. he has been really dividing. it will be a very close election, i think, and judging from the past few months and years, with trump and with brexit, i'm afraid that the outcome will be

that he will stay in office for the next five years. president zeman says he is pro— european, a federalist even, but he also advocates preserving the nation's sovereignty and protecting its borders from outsiders, especially immigrants. whoever wins the keys to this castle, will have to negotiate a tricky path between closer european integration and ingrained czech hostility towards too much outside influence. the first ever car show aimed at women has taken place in saudi arabia, a few months after the announcement that the ban on women driving will be lifted. that's been hailed as a step towards independence for women in this deeply conservative state — and some are already making the most of it. kathryn armstrong reports. getting the feel for life and the

driving seat. for these saudi women the chance to spend the wettest cars represent an important step towards greater independence. translation: this is a big dealfor us. i have a lwa ys this is a big dealfor us. i have always been interested in cars but we do not have the ability to drive and now i am very interested in buying a car. in september a ban on women driving was lifted. a royal decree that has been hailed as proof of progression and a deeply conservative muslim country. but progress may not come cheap. saudi arabia's cost of living has risen after the government raised domestic gas prices and introduced a consumption tax. the price tag is too much for today perhaps but unlikely to put off his car enthusiasts when the band officially ends in june. it interests me to learn about the brands and

everything about them. i know a lot about cars and top to purchase one in the near future grumbling. about cars and top to purchase one in the nearfuture grumbling. —— god willing. we wish that is no doubt shared by many offer countrywoman. the queen has been talking about some of the challenges she faced at her coronation, including the weight of the imperial state crown. her majesty doesn't normally give interviews, but she spoke to the royal commentator alastair bruce for an upcoming bbc programme marking the 65th anniversary of the ceremony. our royal correspondent nicholas witchell reports. she famously doesn't do interviews. this is probably as close as she will get. a conversation with questions about the coronation, the crownjewels and the imperial state crown warned by her and her father, king george vi. fortunately my father and i have about the same sort of shaped head. once you put it on, it stays. it just remains itself. you have to keep your head very still. yes, and you can't look down to read the speech,

you have to take the speech up because if you did, your neck would break, it would fall off. so there are some disadvantages to crowns but otherwise, they're quite important things. she rode to her coronation in the gold state coach. it weighs four tonnes. it's not built for comfort. horrible. it's not meant for travelling in at all. it's only sprung on leather. so it rocks around a lot? not very comfortable. were you in it for a long time? i rode around london. really? we must have gone four orfive miles. you can only go at walking pace. the horses couldn't possibly go any faster. it's so heavy. 65 years after the event, a monarch talking about her coronation. the crown, the real one. nicholas witchell, bbc news. you can watch the coronation on bbc one at 8pm this sunday.

in a moment a summary of the business news this hour but first the headlines on bbc newsroom live. donald trump cancels his visit to the uk — but downing street insists the "strong and deep" partnership "will endure". and a breakthrough in talks to form a new government in germany between chancellor angela merkel‘s christian democrats and their former coalition partners, the social democrats. i'm jamie roberston — in the business news... bank customers across the uk as of tomorrow will be able to securely share their financial information with other regulated firms. all they need to do is give their permission. the so—called open banking regime aims to help consumers get better deals. more of this in a second. more good news for consumers —

businesses will no longer be able to charge you when you use a debit or credit card from saturday. the new law which bans surcharges is designed to save consumers £473 million a year. carillion, one of the government's biggest contractors is to meet government officials and the pension regulator today amidst speculation over its futurte. it is struggling under £1.5bn of debt including a pension shortfall of £587m. from tomorrow the uk starts what many see as a revolution in how we deal with our finances. it's called open banking. in a way, it's not so much about money as information. at the moment your bank has your financial data on file, and it is pretty hard — and rightly so — for anyone to get hold of that data. open banking allows you to give accredited companies permission to get instant access to all that information for a limited time, and for specific purposes.

who are these accredited companies? well, over the last few years a number have started up all on the expectation that open banking would take off. one such is moneyhub. samantha seaton is the chief executive. what services does moneyhub. offer it is about putting your sinuses in one place and giving you an insight and control over what is happening. putting you at the heart of your finances. if i wanted to make use of your service you could not accumulate all my financial data together, now it is different? we have been able to but it is in technology that is of a different era and open banking takes us into that new safe way of sharing your data. technology is very slick and

thatis data. technology is very slick and that is exactly what is happening, the cma is really behind disrupting this financial services market and thatis this financial services market and that is what open banking is going to do. let's have an example, suppose i want to get a mortgage, can you tell me how your operation can you tell me how your operation can help? there are a few ways, as you are looking to get the property ladder that can genuinely help you because now you can see how you spend your money and actually how good you are not managing your money. i do not know if you delight at the moment your rate is not taken into account when going to get a mortgage. and now it can be silly products you can be offered and your eligibility can open up to another level which means you can get to the property market quicker. you may also be able to have moneyhub monitor your loan to valuation for you. those products that are now within reach can be one click away.

i would then give permission to somebody like yourself to be able to access somebody like yourself to be able to a ccess my somebody like yourself to be able to access my information? is there are security issue? the good thing about opening banking as it allows you to give your bank authority to pass the data to a third party that you would like to use to help you. that third party has to be regulated with the sca service is not authorised not give access but if they do then the levels of security and is to be sure of your data so that it is com pletely of your data so that it is completely separated and anonymous as at the top banking level of security so i would say it is a really good way to approach what we are doing in this day and age will stop thank you. and some other business stories today, british retailers are giving updates on the key christmas trading period with food companies faring well. big winners were discount supermarkets aldi and lidl with record sales over the festive period. growth has also been driven by aggressive store

opening programmes. shares in gkn, one of the uk's biggest engineering firms, have soared after it rejected a bid that values the company at seven billion pounds. the company has also announced the appointment of a new boss anne stevens after the last chief executive kevin cummins left the role before he had even started. british builder bovis says its on track to deliver a significant increase in profitability in 2018 as it seeks to turn its business around after seeing off two takeover bids last year following a profit warning. last year buyers complained about the quality of its homes. they are worried about the pension

fund. that's all the business news. let's recap the controversy surrounding donald trump's cancelling of his visit to the uk. that is a waxwork of donald trump. outside the new american embassy. donald trump and said he was not going to come to the uk next month because he did not want to effectively endorse barack obama

was's decision to move it from central london. he is factually incorrect because that decision was made by his predecessor george w bush. more on that coming up. there's controversy over a scheme to erect a zipwire across a reservoir in the lake district. consultation on the project planned for thirlemere ends today. developers say it will encourage tourism, but conservationists aren't happy, as graham satchell reports. hidden in the trees next to lake windermere, a zip wire. keir and will are about to go down for the first time. i booked this for his birthday. would you normally come to the lakes, anyway? we haven't been before, no. go! bringing new people to the lakes is just one reason. tree top trek want to build one more zip wire half an hour at the road, at thirlmere. so you can't really do this story

without actually having a go. so here we go. one, two, three! so the people behind this new zip wire say it will create 15 newjobs, and should create £600,000 for the economy, and there should be 50,000 people a year using it. it is about getting outdoors, doing something you wouldn't normally do, challenging yourself. and i think the more people we can encourage to get outdoors, and to get up into the fells and to get around the lakes, the better. the plans would see four wires going across the water one way, at thirlmere, a quick trek, and then four wires going back to the other side. and this is thirlmere — breathtaking, majestic, serene, and surprising. it is surprising because, actually, most of what you can see here is man—made.

the trees, for example, were planted in the early 1900s. and the water is not a lake, it is a reservoir, built in the 1890s to supply water to manchester, which it still does today. there was a huge row, when this reservoir was built, between industrialists and city folk to the south and a group of locals, including the poet and philosopher john ruskin, who many consider to be the founding father of modern conservationists. ruskin lost the first battle of thirlmere. but the group he was part of, now called the friends of the lakes district, is determined not to lose this one. i love getting out, getting away from it all. and i think having all these visitors here will spoil that, will spoil the landscape. zip wires have a place, but not in this landscape, and certainly not across an expanse of open water. i've been on one. you do scream, you can't help it. it would just be awful to have

that here, when you come here for peaceful walks in nature. what do you thinkjohn ruskin would have made of your zip wire proposal? i have absolutely no idea whatsoever. but we shouldn't be afraid of words like "thrill" and "fun." they should go hand—in—hand with words like "peace" and "serenity." these pictures show what it might be like to go on the proposed new zip wire. there is a big question here. should the lake district be opened up to more people who wouldn't normally come, or should it be left in peace, as it is? now it's not often that tv news reporters are lost for words — but abc's sarah hancock was caught completely by surprise when doing this piece to camera at the santos tour down under bike race in adelaide hills, australia. let's just see what happened. the truck managed to stop

further down the road with the inflatable intact. and it was quickly re—erected in enough time for the winner of the women's race, annette edmondson to cross the line. even more remarkably, no—one was hurt. the headlines are coming up on the bbc news channel. in a moment we say goodbye to viewers on bbc two — first we leave you with for a look at the weather... if you have been fed up of the rather grey skies and misty and murky conditions of the last few days things are going to change next week. more detail in a second. for this morning, foster and western areas. frost and western areas. some brighter skies towards the east as well but in between quite a bit of

cloud and still very misty and places. staying cloudy and misty across the central areas, drizzle to come for the midlands and central southern parts of england but as mentioned a few brighter skies on the east coast, some and south—west england and wales and the north and west of scotland a bit of sunshine. temperatures about eight or nine celsius. this evening, staying cloudy, chance of drizzle, more significant rain pushing into northern ireland and the far west of wales. largely frost free with all the cloud. temperatures are staying above freezing. quite cloudy for the weekend, grey and murky with some rain and quite easy to start. when is becoming later on sunday until later in the day. during saturday

the rain continues, pushing further eastwards but very slow soul coming to western scotland and wales the south—west of england. to the east, a bit of cloud and showering outbreaks of rain. little break this coming through, breezy with temperatures tween five and eight. rain still there in the evening about weakening and becoming patches ona about weakening and becoming patches on a saturday evening and increasingly through the night it will disappear so for sunday that rain does disappear but it is again another candidate for many, misty and market to start. brighter skies developing towards england and wales but this rain here strengthening winds jutting sunday and but this rain here strengthening windsjutting sunday and overnight. a big area of low pressure throws the weather fronts towards the south—east of england. low pressure coming in and meaning colder conditions as we got into next week. goodbye. this is bbc news, and these

are the top stories developing at midday: donald trump cancels his visit to the uk next month — but downing street insists the "strong and deep" partnership "will endure." meanwhile, the un's human rights office says the president's foul—mouthed description of some countries is "shocking", "shameful" and "racist". dozens of firefighters have been battling a huge blaze at nottingham railway station. the station is shut causing major travel disruption. it's been an incredibly demanding incident. our crews have worked very hard to contain it. a breakthrough in talks to form a new government in germany — as chancellor angela merkel‘s christian democrats and the social democrats agree a deal. younger women with early breast cancer and faulty brca genes do not need to rush into having a double masectomy to improve their chances of survival, a study suggests.

also — changes to your facebook feed. the social media site says it will prioritise interactions between family and friends, over media and business content. and — as the queen marks 65 years since her coronation, her majesty lifts the lid on what life is like when you have to wear a heavy crown. you cannot look down to beat your speech, you need to take the speech up, because if you did your neck would break, it would fall off. you're watching bbc news on friday 12th january, i'm annita mcveigh. welcome to bbc newsroom live. donald trump has confirmed he won't

be visiting britain next month. the us president was due to come over to mark the official opening of the new american embassy in south london. president trump tweeted that he had cancelled his planned visit because he was "not a big fan" of the new embassy — which he said had been commissioned by his predecessor, barack obama. the move was actually initiated in 2008 under the george w bush administration. downing street says an invitation for a state visit has been accepted but there is no firm date set. in the last few minutes the foreign secretary borisjohnson has hit back at comments from mayor of london sadiq khan saying in a tweet... meanwhile, the us president is facing backlash over comments

he was reported to have made in a private meeting with lawmakers in the oval office about a proposed immigration deal. mr trump aimed a foul—mouth outburst at haiti, el salvador and several african countries. the united nations says the comments are racist. dan johnson reports. after nearly 60 years flying above london's grosvenor square, the stars and stripes were lowered, ready for the opening of the new us embassy. it's billion—dollar building on the southbank and donald trump was due to open it next month. now we know he won't and early this morning, he posted his reasons on twitter: but did the prospect of protests like this

also put him off? this was the response to his ban on travellers from certain muslim countries. a petition drew 1.8 million signatures with calls to ban him. it shouldn't be a state visit because it would be embarrassing to the queen and the rest of the uk. theresa may was the first world leader to reach out to the new president and a return trip, a state visit, was promised soon. but then the president strained the special relationship by sharing online far—right videos from the group called britain first. when theresa may condemned, he then retorted. just last weekend, she confirmed the invite still stands. he is taking decisions in the best interests of the united states.

and he is coming to this country? he will be coming to the country. the foreign secretary denied the queen would be embarrassed. i think her majesty the queen is capable of taking this american president or any american president in her stride, as she has done over six remarkable decades. let's be clear. opening this place was never the same as a state visit. it would have been a shorter, less formal trip. meeting the queen is still on, expected this year, but no date has been set. the president is denying this decision is down to politics but after he offended more countries with a foul—mouthed remark last night, the list of places he is welcome certainly isn't growing. jon donnison is at the new us embassy building in south london. somewhere in the background that is

a waxwork of donald trump that is quite an attraction, judging by the pictures i have been seeing. but the tweet that he wrote for his reasons for cancelling this visit is based on erroneous information? that's right. in that tweet he basically blamed the decision to move the embassy from mayfair to hear in a vauxhall on president obama and said it was a bad deal that had been done but the decision to move the embassy was made in october 2008, under president george w bush, a republican. let's look at this waxwork donald trump that is turn up and is providing entertainment the construction workers putting the finishing touches to the embassy, provided by madame tussaud's. uncanny, i have to say. in terms of

the state visit, who court does the ball lightning, is it very much the invitation has been extended for the us to decide what happens next and dictate timetable? we have had a statement from the prime minister's spokesperson this morning saying president trump is welcome in the uk and the invitation has been extended and has been accepted but we do not have any sort of date set for that and given this visit, which was to be on a smaller scale but might have been a chance to meet the prime minister and the queen, that is now not going to happen and it has got to call into question whether the state visit will take place this year or indeed at all. 0k, thank you. with me is leslie vinjamuri, associate fellow of the us and americas programme at the independent international affairs think tank — chatham house.

do you think, when we consider this and also the comments called out as racist by the un donald trump is reported to have made in an oval office meeting, do you think this state visit to the uk will ever happen? iimagine it happen? i imagine it is something we will continue to discuss for the next few months, but theresa may and donald trump and their advisers will have very serious conversations. donald trump would like to take the visit and that the right conditions. the great shame about this cancelled the visit is if you look at the american embassy has the potential to be symbolically at the heart of the american british relationship, 1,000,000,000-dollar american british relationship, 1,000,000,000—dollar building, remember that decision was taken by george w bush because there was a

move to make embassy is much more secure in the aftermath of the september 11 attacks. it is quite open, the heart of the 15 billion regeneration in the heart of london. this could be the president saying we are contributing to the uk but instead we see them taking a negative position and one that makes it very difficult for the embassy staff and ambassador to have the kind of opening day with like. let's talk more about symbolism and the symbolism of the office of the president of the united states instead of the person occupying the office and the fact donald trump has visited all the other g8 countries apart from the uk. what does that say, especially as uk is very keen to negotiate a trade deal post—brexit. the key thing is at the level of leadership that is strong commitment to this visit but at every other

level it's very difficult. looking at the numbers that came out on uk public attitudes towards the usa, by june of this year it dropped to 22% confidence the american president would do the right thing. debates in parliament after president trump retweeted those of released by the far right extremist group britain first and direction in parliament, calling into question the state visit. looking at his response to sadiq khan in the aftermath of the attacks on the westminster bridge. very negative reactions across the uk which makes it difficult strategically for the leadership to do what it needs to do when it really needs that trade deal and relationship. that tweet from boris johnson that does not directly address the criticism of donald trump, talks about the usa being the single

biggest investor in the uk, you can see why she is focusing on the trade relationship, economic relationship rather than directly addressing either the decision not to come to the uk next month or those racist comments, as described by the united nations. it would be wise to acknowledge the broader controversy, you have got to be able to bring the public alongside you and make it easier for parliament to welcome a us leader and you cannot do that if you do not hold from a bit on the racist language and destructive language, while acknowledging the broader significance. this is the relationship not about the widows, there are many layers, it's about intelligence, people history —— a relationship that has many layers and is not about the leaders. finally, do you agree with the

assessments by some these comments, foul—mouthed comments that certain countries, mark a new loan from president trump? it is an remember in the context of effo rts it is an remember in the context of efforts to protect those children who came to the usa who are still undocumented, that is the context in which this comment was made by the president at that now puts that initiative really at risk and in the american context makes it difficult for those around the president to work with him and create an effective and thoughtful response to the dilemma of immigration dilemma is currently in the uk. thank you. a large fire has broken out at nottingham railway station. nottinghamshire fire and rescue say they're dealing with a ‘large nottinghamshire fire and rescue say they‘re dealing with a ‘large incident‘ with eight appliances in attendance. the station has been evacuated. east midland trains say all trains through the station are cancelled and they expect disruptions for the rest of the morning. john mills from nottinghamshire fire

and rescue service gave this update on the operation so far. this morning around 6:30am we received a call to nottingham train station. this was an incident contained initially in the toilets and upon arrival it became very evident to us we had a developed fire with in the toilet area. this incident rapidly progressed and spread and has involved the overflow bridge going over and collecting the platforms. it has been a very demanding incident and our crews have worked very hard to try and contain it. we always have our first priority life risks so it was initially people reported so we were searching for people initially because this happened at a busy time for the station. what we have then

done is requested more fire engines, rapidly gone from three to five to eight and now 12 fire engines. this fire has progressed which makes it very difficult for us to fight, it is the demanding job in that respect iam is the demanding job in that respect i am delighted to report at the time of those interviewed though one has been injured. we have no casualties and no injuries which is always great news from our point of view. i have to emphasise this is not a single emergency service incident, it isa single emergency service incident, it is a joint team approach and we have the east midlands and services, british transport police, the representatives from the train station itself, it‘s very much a tea m station itself, it‘s very much a team approach. we are asking people to be patient with us and have an understanding we have had to close roads in order to deal with this incident and are working as hard as

we can to try and bring the station back online so business can resume as soon as possible. eyewitnesses say the scene had been chaotic. we stayed overnightjust say the scene had been chaotic. we stayed overnight just across the road and we came up by train yesterday from london and we cannot now get back and our friend had his car the now get back and our friend had his carthe car in now get back and our friend had his car the car in park behind us and could not get out so we are stuck. no trains, no bus service, nothing. did you see the smoke this morning? we could see it from the hotel room and all the fire engines, it was quite chaotic but by the sounds of it they responded very quickly and hopefully no one is hurt. the headlines on bbc newsroom live donald trump cancels his visit to the uk next month — but downing street insists the "strong and deep" partnership "will endure." dozens of firefighters have been battling a huge blaze at nottingham railway station. the station is shut causing major travel disruption. a breakthrough in talks to form

a new government in germany — as chancellor angela merkel‘s christian democrats and the social democrats agree a deal. let's get the latest sport. i head of the start of the australian open this year... tennis great billiejean king has once again called for the margaret court arena in melbourne to be renamed. that‘s after court, a 24—time grand slam winner, made derogatory comments regarding lesbian and trangender people in may of last year. ifi if i was playing today i would not play on it but that is up to the people of australia, i have to leave it to them but if i was here i would have difficulty with it. the most

important thing is to be your authentic self. they have to decide. you can have discussion around it and everyone is entitled to their opinion, margaret is very much entitled to her opinion, i would be very coming to market. she believes in conversion and she thinks i can go back to being straight. theo walcott could leave arsenal in the january transfer window after 12 years at the north london club. his destination — merseyside. this morning everton boss sam allardyce has confirmed the teams have entered negotiations over the 28—year—old, with a permanent transfer everton‘s preferred option. alla rdyce says walcott would be a ‘fantastic addition.‘ speaking to the media to arsenal boss arsene wenger was tight—lipped over walcott but did admit that forward alexis sanchez is likely to leave the fa cup holders this january — if a suitable offer arrives and a replacement is secured. people can always observe you under

a microscope when you are on a short—term contract but i never questioned his professional attitude. he wants to win and he is always... we maintain what i said many times, but normally he should stay here until the end of the season but we shall see. thank you very much for torturing me. that is sport for now but i will be back at around 1:30pm. there‘s been a breakthrough in talks in germany on forming a new coalition government. after overnight talks, chancellor angela merkel‘s conservative christian democrats and their former coalition partners, the left—wing social democrats, have agreed a basis upon which a coalition treaty can be negotiate,

opening the way to formal talks. germany has had a caretaker government since inconclusive elections in september. our correspondentjenny hill joins me from berlin. we are talking about the new coalition government got in some ways the old coalition government if these two parties get together again but it is not quite there yet?m these two parties get together again but it is not quite there yet? it is not and this morning after an exalted angela —— exhausted angela merkel came out of these alternate blocks two groups —— all night talks she looked very relieved. but there is still a very long way to go because these were exploratory talks, the first round of talks in the coalition building process primarily designed to work out if it is worth trying to proceed with formal negotiations. they decided

that isn‘t just about formal negotiations. they decided that isn‘tjust about enough agreement to go forward with the formal talks but before that can happen angela merkel and the leader of the social democrats, they have to get the go—ahead from the social democrat party itself, they are holding a party conference towards the end of the month where they will vote on whether full talks can happen and if they do and the formal coalition treaty is drafted the membership will also get to vote on that so that is some stumbling blocks potentially there. angela merkel herself admitted that there are tricky times ahead and that‘s because the social democrats, having beenin because the social democrats, having been in power with her before, largely blamed her and the coalition for the bad showing in the september general election and there is lots of antipathy within the social democrats party toward another four yea rs democrats party toward another four years in government with angela merkel. it will be interesting to

see how they - in merkel. it will be interesting to see how they- in the coming see how they react in the coming weeks and months to the proposals put to them. she knows she is not quite out of the woods yet. on that point, how shaken is angela merkel‘s position by all of this? she has been apparently in a strong position for such a long time, not just the german leader but as the european and world leader but this is change things. it has, not least because she has been preoccupied with domestic concerns, not been as prominent on the world stage as normal. she is weakened as you figure —— as the figure, first of all by her disappointing election results, one of her party‘s worst ever election results and also because she feels that the first attempt to build a coalition last year with two other parties. while it now looks as though she has kept the wolf from the door for a little

while it is important to bear in mind that was in the past she survive crises because no one has been deemed good enough in the party to replace her, the party now have had some months to start looking around at potential successors. if and when there is a new government this will be angela merkel‘s fourth and most people presume last term. there are big? or whether she will even serve the whole duration and people who say if she has not secured an agreement over night she would have been political toast. i would have been political toast. i would not quite go that far but you get the sense of her time is coming towards an end and her party is really starting to look at who could replace her when the time comes. thank you very much for that. a study of women with breast cancer suggests that having a double mastectomy does not increase the chances of survival in younger patients who have what‘s known

as the brca gene. the researchers also found that women treated for breast cancer had the same survival rates — regardless of whether or not they had the mutation. a short time ago the report‘s author, professor diana eccles, spoke to the bbc‘s victoria derbyshire programme about the significance of these findings. the first thing to absolutely stress is all of the patient in this study came along with a diagnosis of breast cancer, they were not people who have no cancer but knew they we re who have no cancer but knew they were at high risk and that is important to get clear, they are a very different circumstances. our study looked at the young woman, 18 to 43 developers cancer, usually they found a lump, they were not being screened and most did not know they were brca gene carriers and we followed them for a long period of time, looked at ladies diagnosed between 2000 and 2008 and followed

their medical records ever since and have finally been able to work out who does and who does not carry the brca gene mutation. the findings are 12% of those younger women with breast cancer had the brca gene mutation and the outcome from the conventional breast—cancer treatment for those people was no different to those that did not have the brca gene mutation wants you took the breast—cancer characteristics into account. —— once breast—cancer characteristics into account. __ once you breast—cancer characteristics into account. —— once you took them into account. —— once you took them into account. the treatment was based upon their breast—cancer status rather than the brca status. an 18—year—old from the scottish highlands has died after contracting the flu virus. bethany walker was airlifted to hospital in inverness from her home in wester ross, but her illness had developed into pneumonia and staff were unable to save her. elsewhere, in england, there has been a sharp rise in the number of flu cases seen by gps — up 78% from last week. police in north wales have confirmed

that a six—month—old baby has died following a car crash with a lorry yesterday near blaenau ffestiniog in gwynedd. a passenger in the car was pronounced dead at the scene and the driver and baby were airlifted to liverpool‘s alder hey hospital — after both sustained life—threatening injuries. nigel farage has clarified remarks he made yesterday calling for a second eu referendum. the former ukip leader has said although another vote was the "last thing" he wanted, he thought it might be forced on the country by parliament. his initial remarks were seized upon by remainers, with labour‘s chuka umunna saying mr farage had made "a valid point for the first time in his life". facebook boss mark zuckerberg says the social media site will reduce clutter from the site — after criticism that there are too any adverts and promoted posts from businesses. he says he wants to prioritise what he calls ‘meaningful social interactions‘. mr zuckerberg said the changes would result in people spending less time on facebook and that some measures of engagement will go down.

with me is elizabeth linder, a former facebook executive. we were having a brief chat before this conversation and you said this is about facebook getting back to what it originally was. absolutely. facebook started as a platform for people to connect mostly with friends and for college students and people started to add an family members and colleagues. the news feed launched in 2006 and anyone on facebook at the time remembers this moment, a seminal moment for facebook, hugely controversial because the kinds of information people were putting on to facebook suddenly generated a story and that was a big deal at the time but it is largely credited to being the single most important part of facebook‘s product ensure people keep returning. not quite a reinvention but would you say as an earlier commentator said to me, it is about ensuring the longevity of facebook? i think so. the piece i would focus

on most is the language mark zuckerberg uses in his post to describe this. he uses words like meaningful, time well spent, time will spend is a movement that started in silicon valley to say, how do we ensure technologies, with the potential to be somewhat addictive and use a fair amount of ourtime, and not addictive and use a fair amount of our time, and not just addictive and use a fair amount of our time, and notjust meaningless or creating harm in our lives but how can we measure the ability of the services to do goods and create better and more healthy and more productive societies? this is a fascinating space because nobody exactly knows how to measure this yet. how do you measure well—being through social media? so he is trying to get ahead of the trend? exactly. it is important for the reputation of facebook in the political climate today, especially. how much has this been driven by

what mark zuckerberg is saying, the desire to get more in touch and warm and fuzzy again, how much has this been driven by the need to push back from fake news including on to social media platforms and accusations of political interference? it is both. facebook has to ensure people are coming back all the time to the product. it is a very competitive space, when people are going on to their phone what is the first thing they do? from facebook perspective that has to be going straight to a facebook product and sort of people turned away from facebook because they fear either the content is not interesting or releva nt to the content is not interesting or relevant to them or because facebook is somehow creating anger fuelled site of approach to the way we lead our lives, that can be detrimental and very harmful for facebook long term. this is both, ensuring people are happy with the service provided

but also facebook providing a bit more of a moral stake and saying we need to actually figure out how to connect with the world and make the world better. that is a big game changerfrom world better. that is a big game changer from the week the company has thought about the news feed in the past. thank you. time now for the past. thank you. time now for the weather. it is business as usual as we go through this weekend. dry for many and blu—ray. ford has been an issue today again —— favre has been an issue. part of east and north yorkshire have seen more fog today. hopefully it should lift for the weekend as the breeze picks up as well. two nights and we get some rain and strong winds and northern

ireland, less foggy but some patches of fog over england and wales and scotla nd of fog over england and wales and scotland and temperatures cold enough to freezing for it to be a freezing fog. tomorrow we have this wea k freezing fog. tomorrow we have this weak weather front as well as the weather from coming into weak weather front as well as the weatherfrom coming into the weak weather front as well as the weather from coming into the west which means lots of cloud. best of the sunshine in the north of scotland but with more breezes we could be cloud to be higher so it could be cloud to be higher so it could appear brighter. that weather from peter is out through the night and as we move into sunday still some patchy rain around and wetter and when the weather later in the day. all changed by the time we get to monday. this is bbc newsroom live — our latest headlines. donald trump has said he won‘t visit britain next month to open the new american embassy in london — because he doesn‘t like the new building. meanwhile — the un‘s human rights office has condemned the president‘s foul—mouthed description of some countries — calling the comments "shameful" and "racist".

a large fire has closed nottingham railway station for the day, causing major travel disruption. it‘s thought the blaze began in the toilets at about half past six this morning. there‘s been a breakthrough in coalitions talks to form a new government in germany. a blueprint for negotiations has been agreed between chancellor angela merkel‘s christian democrats and their former coalition partners, the social democrats. the conduct of the media is expected to be examined by the independent review into the response to the manchester arena bombing. some relatives of the 22 victims say they were subject to intrusive press attention. new research suggests that carrying the faulty brca gene does not affect survival rates in young women diagnosed with breast cancer. in a moment... the women—only car show taking place in saudi arabia. president trump‘s decision has been

defended by nigel farage. donald trump wants to disassociate itself with any profligate spending by barack obama. i cannot comment on that but he is a real estate gay. —— a real estate man. he has been to france and belgium and italy and china and everybody has been in the world he has been treated pretty well. in this country we havejeremy corbyn and the mayor of london encouraging large—scale street protests against him and i think that must be part of his calculation. do you think you should still come? i wanted to come at some point in time. we doing a lot of

business with america and have a very important military alliance and dear president who is the most pro—british for many years. it is an important relationship and i would like to see him come here and i would like to see him deal with his critics in open public debate. he will come at some point in time, just not now. the state visit at some point not only should go ahead but it will go ahead. livestock to the conservative mp who has supported calls for the president to visit the uk. what do you make of his reason for not coming here? whatever reason it is i think it is unfortunate that he is not coming because he is the head of state of the united kingdom‘s greatest and strongest ally and as nigel farage said we do a lot of business with the united states. the united

kingdom as actually the single largest investor in the united states and the united states as the single largest investor in the united kingdom. we share whether we like donald trump personally or not common language and heritage and legal systems. on the whole a common outlook as well on world affairs. majority of people that we have heard from today seem to think that the reason donald trump is not coming as because she is worried about big protests which we think are likely would have happened if he had arrived next month. isn‘t the fa ct had arrived next month. isn‘t the fact that he is using the location of the embassy and blooming barack obama, an excuse, a worrying commentary on how he sees the relationship? he has been to all the other g8 countries except for the uk, have concerning is that for the british government at this time?|j do british government at this time?” do not think it is that concerning.

we talk of length about the special relationship and make out that it is vulnerable but then the us it is a given. the prime embassy in the world for us diplomat as london and links between the us and uk are unbreakable. but it is sad that possibly he feels unsafe or unwelcome to visit london. what gets me as responsible people like the mayor of london and the leader of the opposition jeremy corbyn mayor of london and the leader of the oppositionjeremy corbyn have been calling for protests and yet when president of china came here with let‘s be frank quite questionable human rights issues in china, there were no such calls. i think calling for a street demonstrations is pretty unprofessional enemy. let's talk about those comments made by donald trump and an oval office meeting

which the united nations has described as racist. that does not seem to have been any substantial comment on those by the uk government as yet. we can all see why the response from boris johnson is what it is. clearly the uk government has to strike a balance between respecting the office of the president that relationship is hugely important, but don‘t you think the government has a duty to make a detailed comment on those racist remarks? well, president trump has two roles in the united states. he is head of government and head of state. i am not totally sure of what he did say and i think it is being contested about precisely what he said so i think until we know precisely what was said we should not comment. in some ways it is an internal matter for the united states and that he did make those

comments though i personally would condemn any of racist comments, whoever makes it, whether it is the head of state on anyone in the uk. you may be interested to hear that we have had a tweet from donald trump saying the language used by me... he is denying that he has made these racist comments. i think it shows how wise we we‘re not too suddenly jump how wise we we‘re not too suddenly jump in and condemn them. but we have lots of other people saying this language was used that is another argument. thank you. with me is the with me isjohn prideaux, us editor at the economist. denial issued by donald trump in the

last few moments, what do you make of this? what of other people have said he did use this racist language as described by the united nations. it looks like some well sourced reporting and is consistent with reports in the us press last year and another meeting on immigration and another meeting on immigration and the president supposedly then said that he did not want people from haiti or nigeria because they would never go back to their hats. it does not sound like a particularly out of character comment. —— act to the huts. because she mixes the nails frequently does we do not quite have the clip yet but you can introduce it was he said the president‘s comets were racist. let‘s talk about the estrangement from the truth. we noticed and one

common a us politician that it was really important for the public in general not to allow themselves to become desensitised to the sort of language emanating from the white house. i think that is right. people who follow the presidency go around in circles. as soon as he tweets something outrageous of bizarre people tend to jump on it and something outrageous of bizarre people tend tojump on it and get caught up in discussing what is wrong with that. on the other hand that comes at a cost and means that people are not analysing things the american government is actually doing and video consequences of the trump presidencies. he has an amazing ability to suck up the entire world‘s attention and it is a cost to that. he frequently tweets things which are rubbish at the stuff about the us embassy which he treated overnight, a case in point that barack treated overnight, a case in point that ba rack obama treated overnight, a case in point that barack obama made this bad deal, but it was george w bush. it

isa deal, but it was george w bush. it is a small thing but there are a lot of those things. symptomatic and we now have that clip, we willjust listen to that. these are shocking and shameful comments from the president of the united states. i am sorry but there is no other word one can use but racist. you cannot dismiss entire countries and continents as bleak. bleat. a reminder that the president is now tweeting that the language used was tough but this was not the language used shortly as denying that he used language that could be described as racist. but the decision not to come to the uk next month, as significant as that? is it a deal rebuff from the us to the uk? i do not think it

is that significant a real rebuff. i think relationships are strong and have been for a long time. that is a lot of credit and the bank and the do not depend on who is in the white house at the time. there are a lot of relationships going on. members of relationships going on. members of the senate and house of representatives and state governors come over to london so that does not worry me too much. it is not that does not matter at i think there is a cost primarily to america here. britain is a close ally but what this kind of behaviour on the part of the president is raise the cost of the president is raise the cost of doing business for america. the next time the us government wants something out of britain, it is going to be that much harder. thank you. breaking news from west yorkshire where the police say that

police investigating non—recent allegations of child sex explication and calderdale have arrested 20 men as part of a preplanned operation. by as part of a preplanned operation. by officers investigating allegations of nonobese and child sex exploitation, these arrests and calderdale. more information from the police, men aged 28 243 were arrested at a of addresses and calderdale and following a three—day policing operation between tuesday and yesterday. all 20 have been interviewed and released, two on police bail and 18 under investigation pending further enquiries. the investigation the police say it centres on allegations made by one woman of sexual abuse

committed against as a child predominately in the halifax area between 2006 and 2009. the detective inspector is quoted as saying this investigation forms part of west yorkshire police‘s commitment to current and non—recent sexual offences against children. the other piece of breaking news is from birmingham crown court where co nsulta nts birmingham crown court where consultants sergeant simon bramall has been sentenced to a 12 month committee order and fined £10,000 for burning his initials onto the livers of two patients jullien transplant operations. he was convicted of assaulting these two patients so let me just repeat that, he has been sentenced to a 12 month community order and fined £10,000 for assaulting two patients by

burning his initials onto their liversjullien burning his initials onto their livers jullien transplant operations. —— during transplant operations. the headlines on bbc newsroom live: donald trump cancels his visit to the uk next month — but downing street insists the "strong and deep" partnership "will endure". dozens of firefighters have been battling a huge blaze at nottingham railway station. the station is shut causing major travel disruption. and a breakthrough in talks to form a new government in germany between chancellor angela merkel‘s christian democrats and their former coalition partners, the social democrats. the role played by the media is to be examined by the manchester

arena bombing inquiry. 22 people were killed at the end of an ariana grande concert last may. some families who used social media to appeal for information about missing relatives found themselves subjected to intrusive attention. judith moritz reports. the manchester arena explosion shattered countless lives. 22 were lost. many more were changed forever. the attack made international headlines and that meant there was huge media interest in the stories of those most closely affected. they included the family of martin hett, one of those killed in the blast. martin had a large social media following and had previously been on tv. possibly as a result his family found themselves in the spotlight from almost the very moment they heard about the explosion. and before they new martin died. it seems a bit distasteful really. how can anybody be so cruel and go

and say sorry for your loss? we did not find out officially until that evening he was dead. now an independent panel will consider the way the media covered the stories of the bereaved . the kerslake review panel will also recommend that public organisations adopt a charter which uses lessons learned from the hillsborough disaster. it states that the bereaved and vulnerable should be treated with respect and put first by those responding to such public tragedies. breaking news from westminster, labour‘s ruling body has decided to refer allegations of sexual harassment against ivan lewis to an internal committee. he was suspended

from the labour party in november after being accused of making u nwa nted after being accused of making unwanted sexual advances towards women. she strongly disputes the allegations. the sexual harassment panel has decided that quote, on the balance of the evidence the matter should be referred to a full hearing of the national constitutional committee which has the power to order the expulsion from the party. as we mentioned, ivan lewis disputes the allegations. the first ever car show aimed at women has taken place in saudi arabia, a few months after the announcement that the ban on women driving will be lifted. that‘s been hailed as a step towards independence for women in this deeply conservative state — and some are already making the most of it. kathryn armstrong reports. getting the feel for life in the driving seat. for these saudi women the chance to spend a few minutes in the latest cars represents an important step towards greater independence. translation: this

is a big dealfor us. i have always been interested in cars but we did not have the ability to drive and now i am very interested in buying a car. in september a ban on women driving was lifted. a royal decree that has been hailed as proof of progression in a deeply conservative muslim country. but progress may not come cheap. saudi arabia‘s cost of living has risen after the government raised domestic gas prices and introduced a consumption tax. the price tag is too much for today perhaps but unlikely to put off these car enthusiasts when the ban officially ends injune. it interests me to learn about the brands and everything about them. i know a lot about cars and hope to purchase one in the nearfuture, god willing. a wish that is no doubt shared by many of her countrywoman. there‘s controversy over

a scheme to erect a zipwire across a reservoir in the lake district. consultation on the project planned for thirlemere ends today. developers say it will encourage tourism, but conservationists aren‘t happy, as graham satchell reports. hidden in the trees next to lake windermere, a zip wire. keir and will are about to go down for the first time. i booked this for his birthday. would you normally come to the lakes, anyway? we haven‘t been before, no. go! bringing new people to the lakes is just one reason. tree top trek want to build one more zip wire half an hour at the road, at thirlmere. so you can‘t really do this story without actually having a go. so here we go. one, two, three! so the people behind this new zip wire say it will create 15 newjobs,

and should create £600,000 for the economy, and there should be 50,000 people a year using it. it is about getting outdoors, doing something you wouldn‘t normally do, challenging yourself. and i think the more people we can encourage to get outdoors, and to get up into the fells and to get around the lakes, the better. the plans would see four wires going across the water one way, at thirlmere, a quick trek, and then four wires going back to the other side. and this is thirlmere — breathtaking, majestic, serene, and surprising. it is surprising because, actually, most of what you can see here is man—made. there is a big question here.

should the lake district be opened up to more people who wouldn‘t normally come, or should it be left in peace, as it is? the queen has been talking about some of the challenges she faced at her coronation, including the weight of the imperial state crown. her majesty doesn‘t normally give interviews, but she spoke to the royal commentator alastair bruce for an upcoming bbc programme marking the 65th anniversary of the ceremony. our royal correspondent nicholas witchell reports. she famously doesn‘t do interviews. this is probably as close as she will get. a conversation with questions

about the coronation, the crownjewels and the imperial state crown warned by her and her father, king george vi. fortunately my father and i have about the same sort of shaped head. once you put it on, it stays. it just remains itself. you have to keep your head very still. yes, and you can‘t look down to read the speech, you have to take the speech up because if you did, your neck would break, it would fall off. so there are some disadvantages to crowns but otherwise, they‘re quite important things. she rode to her coronation in the gold state coach. it weighs four tonnes. it‘s not built for comfort. horrible. it‘s not meant for travelling in at all. it‘s only sprung on leather. so it rocks around a lot? not very comfortable. were you in it for a long time? i rode around london. really?

we must have gone four orfive miles. you can only go at walking pace. the horses couldn‘t possibly go any faster. it‘s so heavy. 65 years after the event, a monarch talking about her coronation. the crown, the real one. nicholas witchell, bbc news. you can watch the coronation on bbc one at 8pm this sunday. now it‘s not often that tv news reporters are lost for words — but abc‘s sarah hancock was caught completely by surprise when doing this piece to camera at the santos tour down under bike race in adelaide hills, australia. let‘s just see what happened... the truck managed to stop further down the road with the inflatable intact.

and it was quickly re—erected in enough time for the winner of the women‘s race, annette edmondson to cross the line. even more remarkably, no—one was hurt. in a moment the news at one. big changes are afoot in the weather by the end of the weekend but today we stay with the static weather pattern where the overnight clear spells, widespread frost and a fog and we‘re chasing cloud. this is the week front for much of week, splashes of rain either side of fall and that is wanted to clear but sunshine and it has been brighter and northern ireland as well. as you can see, the approach of a weather

system, a change hinted at earlier and a stiffening breeze. that should alleviate for problems and ensure a frost free night but there will be mist and fog perhaps across scotland and central and eastern areas. the week weather front gives a lot of low cloud so it probably will be a great start to the day tomorrow morning, splashes of rain for devon and cornwall and pembrokeshire and south wales, and certainly across northern ireland and on and off for much of the day. the odd sharp burst for parts of northern ireland and western scotland but for the bulk of scotland‘s bright and cold with fog, the abc the best of the sunshine but with a bit more bodies elsewhere, the fog should last a little more anti—cloud were left so it might not be necessarily sunny but it should be necessarily sunny but it should be brighter and should be if you are holes and the cloud giving the wind is stronger, seven or eight celsius. the rain petering out on the weather

front into the high pressure for the least. but do not discard because rupert made a lot more cloud moving towards sunday. but as cold but we could see some frost and fog from the east and a lot of cloud on sunday, because of the week weather fronts, drizzle but some dry weather until late on. this is the change that i talked about, turning much wetter for the north—west of scotla nd wetter for the north—west of scotland later in the day and much windier. a spell of gales and headed for most of the country and behind it opening the door to arctic air and much much colder weather on the way into the start of next week with radial risk of some disruptive snow and ice, warnings on the website. president trump abandons plans to come to britain to open the new us embassy. but downing street says that an invitation for a state

visit has been accepted, and the "strong and deep partnership will endure." also, after apparently using foul language during oval office discussions about immigration, the president‘s comments are condemned by the un. these are shocking and shameful comments from the president of the united states. i‘m sorry but there is no other word i can use other than racist. we‘ll have the latest from washington. also this lunchtime... a surgeon who marked his initials on the livers of two patients has been fined £10,000 and given a 12 month community order. nottingham railway station will remain closed for the rest of the day, after a large fire early this morning.