today at 5pm, ukip's leader henry bolton refuses to quit, despite a wave of resignations at the top of the party. 12 senior members have now resigned since it emerged his ex—girlfriend sent offensive texts, but mr bolton says it's time to end the in—fighting. it is now time to put an end to the factional infighting that has been going on within the party for some time, and to remove those who have been part of that. in a single phrase, it is time to drain this one. “ phrase, it is time to drain this one. -- the swamp. we'll have the latest from our political correspondent, and we'll be asking a ukip mep where the party goes now. the other main stories on bbc news at 5pm: nhs hospital trusts in england may have to recalculate a&e performance figures, after questions about their accuracy. the head of the army warns that britain's forces risk falling behind russia, unless there's more investment. a court hears how a man accused of driving a van into a crowd of people near two mosques in london wanted to kill as many

muslims as possible. and tributes are paid to the world cup winner and blackpool great, jimmy armfield, who's died at the age of 82. our main story at 5pm — henry bolton has insisted he will not quit as leader of ukip, despite a string of resignations of senior members. the local government, education, trade and immigration spokesmen have all resigned, along with the deputy leader and assistant deputy leader. the 12 resignations come after the national executive committee backed a vote of no confidence in mr bolton. but he insists he will stay on, and in a statement a short while ago, he pledged to "drain the swamp" of malcontents within the party.

mr bolton has been under pressure, since it emerged his ex—girlfriend had sent offensive texts. our political correspondent alex forsyth has this report. despite the clamour of voices calling for him to go, henry bolton emerged today with a defiant message. i will not be resigning as party leader. instead, during the next four weeks, i shall be calling for the coordination and mobilisation of all leave campaign is, to ensure that the government delivers full independence from the european union in all areas of government and administration. and under the media gaze, and inflammatory statement too, for the next four weeks or so until the whole party votes on his fate, he says he wants to shake up ukip. whole party votes on his fate, he says he wants to shake up ukipm is now time to put an end to the factional infighting that has been

going on within the party for some time, and to remove those who have been part of that. in a single phrase, it is time to drain the swamp. a string of senior ukip figures have quit in protest at their leader staying on, eluding margaret parker, who stepped down as deputy leader, mike cook has quit as assistant deputy, tim aker, david kirton, front man for education, william dartmouth has given up his job as trade spokesman, and john bigley has walked away from his immigration role. if he hangs around politics, given what has happened, i don't think it will be good for him or anyone he is with. so my advice would be, let, henry, we don't want to keep arguing with you and causing you any more trouble, why don't you just go and sort your personal life out? it is over mr bolton's relationship with 25—year—old jo marney. he says it is over after she had to apologise for sending racist

texts. but that has not only because critics. this is where ukip has marked some of its big moments, outside europe house, achy eu place in london, but after its success in the brexit referendum, ukip lost direction, and has been plagued by bitter infighting with four leaders injust over a year, bitter infighting with four leaders in just over a year, prompting some to ask whether now anyone can lead this party back from the brink. the party chairman today insisted ukip still has a role in representing those who backed brexit. that is by ukip are so important, why we need to stay on the field of play, get oui’ to stay on the field of play, get our house in order and do it quickly, but once we have we absolutely have a purpose, and those 17.4 million voters are it. though even those embroiled in this leadership crisis recognise how damaging it is for the bulega the party, but now he says he's going anywhere. alex forsyth, bbc news, westminster.

our political correspondent leila nathoo is in folkestone, where henry bolton made his statement earlier. more turmoil in ukip, really, henry bolton not only refusing to resign but also going on the attack against party leadership. yeah, i think some in ukip this have been a pretty provocative statement from henry bolton. many of his colleagues had wa nted bolton. many of his colleagues had wanted him to in their ayes to the right thing and stand aside for the good of the party. they said this whole episode with his now ex—friend had been a damaging distraction for the party, that he thinks the opposite, that a leadership election, entertaining these thoughts of changing the leadership at this time, that would be the distraction, in his eyes, and he has dug his heels in, laying down the gau ntlet dug his heels in, laying down the ga u ntlet to dug his heels in, laying down the gauntlet to his party, saying it is time to change, time to reform and he is the man to do it. he is targeting the party's ruling body, the nec, saying it is time to clear that out, using donald trump's

language of drain the swamp, and for those who hope to statement today would calm the atmosphere in ukip, i think this has done exactly the opposite and i think the coming weeks now before that general meeting of ukip members who will consider the vote of no—confidence in henry bolton, i think these next few weeks will be pretty fractious. thank you. the head of the army says britain's armed forces risk falling behind russia without extra spending. general sir nick carter is due to make the warning in a speech at the royal united services institute in central london. let's cross over there now. corrupt business practices, cyber attacks, assassination, fake news, propaganda and indeed military intimidation are all examples of the weapons used to gain advantage in this era of constant competition. and the rules —based international

architecture that has assured our stability and put spirit is since 1945 is, i suggest, therefore threatened. now this is not a crisis, or a series of crises, which we face, rather it is a strategic challenge, and i think it requires a strategic response. the deduction that we should draw from this is that we should draw from this is that there is no longer two clear distinct states of peace and war. we 110w distinct states of peace and war. we now have several forms. indeed, the character of war and peace is different for each of the contexts in which these weapons systems are applied. and the risk we run in not defining this clearly and acting accordingly is that, rather like a chronic contagious disease, it will creep up on us, and our ability to act will be markedly constrained, and we will be the losers of this competition. the arch exponent of this is russia. as described by the

prime minister in her mansion house speech last autumn. i said earlier, i believe it represents the most complex and capable state —based threat to our country since the end of the cold war. and my fellow chiefs of staff from the united states, france and germany share this view at last year ‘s land wa rfa re this view at last year ‘s land warfare conference. now, in the military, we analyse threats on the basis of capability and intent. so let's just examine russian capability for a moment and how they are applying it. of course, we mustn't interpret what we see as a revival of russian cold war practice, nor look at the crimean operation alone. they have no single model for conflict with nato. they use a multimodal approach, utilising conventional, unconventional and nuclear domains. a hybrid version

that might involve little green men, big green tanks and huge green missiles. their thinking is very flexible. their general staff is able to change, evolve, learn lessons with agility. for example, they know that the margaret is not on their side, so they are developing capability that needs fewer men —— that demography. for example, missiles, tanks and drones. our dependency on communications and it, our lack of massed files and perhaps our lack of investment in air defence. they apply a ruthless focus on the feeding their opponents, not seizing ground for the sake of it, but making sure that oui’ the sake of it, but making sure that our vital ground is denied to us, andi our vital ground is denied to us, and i shall return the missile capability in a moment. since 2016,

we have seen a marked shift to cyber, to subversion and the coercion, as well as sophisticated use of smear campaigns and fake news. whether you believe in interference in the us democratic process 01’ interference in the us democratic process or the attempted coup in montenegro, they are very easily exa m ples of montenegro, they are very easily examples of this. now, chris donnelly at the institute for statecraft, suggest that they are creating new strategic conditions. their current influence and disinformation campaign is a form of system warfare that seeks to delegitimise the political and social system on which our military strength is based. and this undermines our centre of gravity, which they rightly assess as our political cohesion, and russia's over chores to turkey are a clear indication of this. now, this system wa rfa re indication of this. now, this system warfare has to be defeated. one has to recognise the importance of

messaging 1's intent, and the importance of deterrence. their doctrine for war utilises all of the instruments of national power, not just the military. they believe that any shooting war must be finished quickly, if it is to be successful. their instinct will be to escalate, and to speed up the tempo of operations. to avoid being surprised, they believe in pre—emption, without long mobilisation, and they will do something that their opponent least expects. they have used syria to develop an expeditionary capability, to give very large numbers of their officers, the high end warfighting experience they have not been able to get in ukraine, and to combat test their long—range strike missiles, and over 150 different new weapons and items of equipment. their conventional and butt conventional military posture gives

them a catalytic matri advantage. they operate on interior lines with a very capable rail and transportation network. we saw that during last year's zap out exercise and how effective it is, and they believed in connecting their strategic zones, the west, the arctic and the black sea and the far east, and rapidly switching forces between them. the last five years, the number ofair, between them. the last five years, the number of air, maritime and land—based platforms for missiles has increased by a factor of 12, that's in the last five years. and gerasimov spoke last november about how they had increased the number of missiles with a range of up to 4000 kph a factor of 30. this gives them the capability to create mobile missile domes, shields in which they can assure their freedom to manoeuvre, and deny us the ability to act. this is what we call

anti—access area denial, and we have seen anti—access area denial, and we have seen this since syria, with their capacity to seal airspace over significant distances. the use of electronic warfare at scale the cute precise targeting by large numbers of drones that enable very accurate and instantaneous fires, including thermo baric warheads, to destroy an opponenfs thermo baric warheads, to destroy an opponent's forces, and we've seen this in ukraine. tring last year ‘s exercises, they used the opportunity to suppress, and more worryingly to distort the gps signal across much of scandinavia. now, a vivid indication of the scale of their modernisation is clear from a three minute video clip i'm now going to show you. this was run on russian tv a couple of years ago. you don't need to understand the russian, just ugly listen to the tone of the commentary, but the key thing is what you will see is all new stuff, and the 2018 armaments plan shows

that even more has followed since this. well, we will just well, we willjust cut away well, we will just cut away from that while that video is shown, but let's discuss what the general was talking about there with professor trevor taylor, , a research fellow at the royal united services institute. this is essentially a pitch by the british military for more money, isn't it? it is a statement of the capability of russian military. the mod does have realfinancial difficulties, which will only increase unless something is done. he is focusing very much in the russian threat, very explicitly. in the last few years the british matri have had to deal with counter

insurgency in iraq and afghanistan, have they gone down that road of counterinsurgency and maybe not for the martha about the russian threat? toa the martha about the russian threat? to a certain extent, russian behaviour has changed significantly, even since the end of the afghan conflict, with the invasion of crimea, the takeover of crimea. because of vladimir putin being in charge? absolutely, that change of direction from russia was pretty stark and it had major implications. so toa stark and it had major implications. so to a certain extent you can't blame the army, but certainly it is true that there was a heavy focus on counterinsurgency, and the russian since have been focusing on many of their military capabilities, on exploiting the particularly wea knesses exploiting the particularly weaknesses of western forces, and it is not just british weaknesses of western forces, and it is notjust british forces. of course the uk, the british army, they are part of nato, so it is not

just the british military against the russians, theoretically, is it? no, toa the russians, theoretically, is it? no, to a certain extent the uk is defended by nato, and estonia and other border areas are also, but obviously the uk is accustomed to playing a prominent role in that organisation, and feel perhaps it is up organisation, and feel perhaps it is up to them to set something of an example for other european countries. does this feel to you like quite a political statement, you know, by the military? in the sense that this speech, which is continuing now, it has the blessing of the defence secretary, we understand. is it just of the defence secretary, we understand. is itjust an attempt to persuade the chancellor of the exchequer, the treasury, to loosen the purse strings and give the armed forces more cash? i think certainly thatis forces more cash? i think certainly that is a major purpose. to a certain extent i suppose it is also inviting them to review what the defence forces a re inviting them to review what the defence forces are poor, because currently they have a very ambitious agenda, in terms of being able to intervene in the wider world. sol

suppose you could say it is not a plea for cash, but it is at least a plea for cash, but it is at least a plea for cash, but it is at least a plea for a bit more prioritisation about what uk forces should be for if you are not willing to give more cash. i think we'll go back to the head of the british army, general sir nick carter, with more of that speech appealing for more investment in the armed forces. i am not in a nyway in the armed forces. i am not in anyway going to suggest that russia wa nts to anyway going to suggest that russia wants to go to war in the traditional definition of the term, but there are factors that bear on the question of intent, and one needs to understand the russian psyche, their culture and their philosophy of pre—emption. russia i think could initiate hostilities sooner think could initiate hostilities sooner than we would expect a lot earlier than we would in similar circumstances. most likely they will use nefarious, sub nato article five treaty actions, to erode the security of nato. this is the divide and rule, which the international order is designed to prevent. i don't think it will start with

little green men, it will start with something we don't expect. we should not take what we've seen so far as a template for the future, and there will be some who might ask if russia sees itself in decline, and more able now to go to war than in the future, does this encourage them to think of war? perhaps compare the situation today the 1912, when the russian imperial cabinet assessed but it would be better to fight now, because by 1925 russia would be too wea k because by 1925 russia would be too weak in comparison to a modernised germany. and japan of course drew similar conclusions in 1921. and russia worries —— in 1941. russia worries that the west achieves technological offset the next decade. i suspect though that the greatest risk is the risk of miscalculation. the recent falls alert in hawaii that warned of an incoming missile is an indication of how easy it would be to miscalculate. —— false alert. particularly when the level of

militarisation is significant, and we saw this recently with the downing of flight mh 17 over ukraine. speaking recently, william perry, all—too—familiar with force alerts, having been awakened by a call from a nightwatch officer in 1979, and thought he was about to experience the holocaust, and of course he also resided over the dismantlement of nuclear weapons in the 1990s. he warned that the threat is back. i quote, because the us and russia today are confronting each other with a hostility that is recreating the geopolitical dangers of the cold war, and because us and russia are rebuilding their nuclear arsenals, that's recreating the military dangers of the cold war. now you can military dangers of the cold war. now you can argue military dangers of the cold war. now you can argue about the extent to which the kremlin's disinformation efforts have influenced various western countries, but the main impact has been to convince ordinary russians

that the west is a threat. we've been made to appear as the enemy, whether we like it or not, and whatever the real situation. more over, we, on ourside, don't have the same level of understanding that we had of each other in the cold war. and the tried and tested systems and diplomatic balance are not what they once were. confidence building measures, arms reducing measures, monitoring of each other‘s military activity etc. when the anti—booze up following the russian intervention in ukraine, conversation became difficult. now of course it doesn't have to be like that. we now have to worry not about asymmetric playing field as one saw in the cold war, but an asymmetric one, in which there are far more players. so we should not assume that events in the pacific would not grow more us attention than those in europe, and we think should be

careful of complacency. the parallels with 1914 are stark. our generation has been used to wars of choice in the end of the cold war, but we may not have a choice about conflict with russia, and we should remember trotsky‘s diktats, but you may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you. so what should we be doing differently? firstly, we should recognise that russia respects strength, and people who stand up to them. the original plan for ukraine had been to acquire significantly more to rain. however, russia was surprised by ukrainian resistance, and had to settle for less. we should identify russian weaknesses, and then manoeuvre asymmetrically against them. first of all, perhaps we should be in the business of building real institutional capacity in neighbouring states, so they have the strength and confidence to stand up the strength and confidence to stand up to russia and the internal ruler

liens to withstand pressures —— resilience to withstand pressures to bring down from within. we should be making pressure dunn progress on the juicing energy dependency to russia. we should be telling the russian population what is really going on. we should be protecting our critical capabilities, hence the importance of cyber, and we should be looking to identify our own vulnerabilities to identify our own vulnerabilities to russian malign influence and disinformation, and act to reduce them. next i think we need to demonstrate our preparedness to commit. boots on the ground is not a positive term at the moment, but our allies on nato's eastern flank actually really appreciate that a platoon of infantry is worth a squadron of f—16s when it comes to commitment. the importance we attach to alliance cohesion, that is vital to alliance cohesion, that is vital to us, that is our centre of gravity, and hence i think the words

about international by design are absolutely right. everything the british army is doing at the moment is the bike at how it can implement international by design. we recognise that our communication systems have to be extrovert, so that our allies can plan into them -- plug that our allies can plan into them —— plug into them, hence the vital importance of intraoperative to be —— interoperability. it is important to have shared situation or awareness, and to be able to control fires digitally in support of each other. for me, therefore, the ability to bring in the service a new form of land environment tactical communications is vital. and our relationship with the uk it sector to deliver this is also vital. but it is also vital that our human racial chips are maximised, and for example, the combined engineering regiment that we share with the bundesliga, based in minden

in germany is a very good example of how you can burden share and bring more capability in a partnership like that, as we do with our french allies. next, ithink, we've got like that, as we do with our french allies. next, i think, we've got to continue to work at improving nato. we have to recognise the that readiness is about speed of recognition, speed of decision—making and speed of assembly. i'll say that again, it is about speed of recognition, it is about speed of recognition, it is about speed of decision—making, and it is about speed of assembly. now, our contributions to the very high readiness joint our contributions to the very high readinessjoint task our contributions to the very high readiness joint task force land in nato, and the enhanced forward presence deployed in our case partly in poland but more in estonia, are starting points, and they are good ways also of multinational development, in terms of our french involvement in one, and danes in the other. now, they are a starting

point, because i would suggest we need the ability to reinforce them rapidly, and to be able to outmanoeuvre the potential anti—access aerial denial missile dome that will be put in place as we seek to reinforce them. we therefore need, i would suggest, to be a will to deploy overland, by road and rail. and our strike concept six to project land capability over distances of up to some 2000 kilometres will stop that brings with it good questions about logistics, sustainability and communications, as well as combat and combat server support. however, we are testing it at the moment through a programme of experimentation, and we are learning very good lessons. for example, we are copying what the germans did very well in 1940, when all of their prime movers, in terms of their ta nks prime movers, in terms of their tanks and armoured vehicles, had the trailers, and by doing that, it reduce is your logistics tail. those sorts of old—fashioned lessons

brought forward are definitely improving our ability to employ, and we will test this concept by driving to the nato exercise in norway this autumn. it is also important, i think, to stress the need for a forward mounting base, and therefore we are actively examining the retention of our infrastructure in germany, where we store our fear calls, and our training facilities, as well as our heavy equipment transporters that are based there, and our stockpiling and ammunition storage. next i think it is important to go back to my point of speed of recognition and speed of decision—making, that we give policymakers the opportunity to exercise with military leaders as we did during the cold war. this goes to the heart of speed of recognition. it goes back to the point about it when the little green men next time, and when you think about how difficult it is in this era of constant competition, where there is this grey area between

peace and walk the first hostile act will be very difficult to recognise. when as a young officer i sat in my trench on german plane, it was very clear to be what that first hostile act would have looked like, and i a lwa ys act would have looked like, and i always imagined a soldier from the soviet union with wire cutters cutting the fence before his tank drove through it. that is not going to be like that next time, so how we educate and train our policymakers in making the decision that they might need to make is vital. so we will leave their the head of the british army, general sir nick carter with a very thought—provoking speech, saying the time to address these threats, and he has been spelling out in a lot of detail, the threats from a resurgent russia under threats from a resurgent russia undeeradimir putin, threats from a resurgent russia under vladimir putin, the time to address these threats he says is now, we cannot afford to sit back. with me listening to that is professor trevor taylor, a research fellow at the royal united services institute. it is a very clear stark

warning. he actually says russia could initiate hostilities sooner than we expect, and a lot earlier than we expect, and a lot earlier than we expect, and a lot earlier than we would in similar circumstances. quite a chilling warning. yes it is. there is reason for concern but we also have to recognise that the situation is very different to what it was the cold war. during the cold war, the soviet threat, the warsaw pact was to take over the whole of western europe very rapidly. that is no longer the case. what we are concerned about is smaller incursions by russia which would weaken the credibility of nato, the most honourable estates exposed are estonia and latvia, therefore it is a question of what we need to do to provide deterrence of russia but also assurance in these countries that they are being protected. very good that up to you. professor trevor taylor, research fellow at the royal united services the chief. in

other news, the trial of a man accused of the finsbury park mosque attack has begun. darren osborne is accused of deliberately driving a van into worshippers, killing one person. he denies murder and attempted murder. angus crawford has been following the case at woolwich crown court. the prosecution made clear today that although there are no terrorist related charges in the indictment, this was in their words and act of terrorism to intimidate government and the muslim community. darren ‘s bernd denies one account of murder and one of a tented murder, but the —— darren osborne. but the plan was that he had been trying to kill as many people as possible. we believe he hired a van in south wales, he left south wales on 18th ofjune last year, left south wales on 18th ofjune last yea r, drove left south wales on 18th ofjune last year, drove directly to london, where he planned to drive it into a march, which was planned to take place that day. when he couldn't get

near that march, he then drove around for several hours, until he arrived in north london late that night, eddie came across a man who had collapsed on the street. it was the month of ramadan, he had just left a n the month of ramadan, he had just left an islamic community centre and was on his way home, so a group of other men in muslim dress who had just left the mosques around had come to help him. they were all in a crowd around him, and the prosecution say that at that point osborne saw them and deliberately drove the van over them, killing mr ali and injuring several others. we also learned a lot more about mr osborne today. 48, from south wales, his partner according to the prosecution described him as a functioning alcoholic, a depressive. he hadn't worked for ten years, he was taking antidepressant medication. we also know, she says, that he became more racist, he started galloping racist abuse and islamophobic views, first of all the ca ta lyst islamophobic views, first of all the catalyst being watching a bbc drama called three girls, about grooming

gangs in rochdale. after that, she says he started looking at material on the internet from far right groups like the english defence league and britain first. she says she felt he was becoming brainwashed and was in fact a ticking time bomb. nhs hospital trusts in england may have to recalculate a&e performance figures from last october onwards. the uk statistics authority has told nhs england to explain changes to the recording of a&e data. it says the changes — highlighted by bbc news — could have left people reaching "misleading conclusions". faye kirkland is a freelance health reporter who also works as a gp. is the truth of it that the figures for a&e could be worse than we

thought? that is what the royal couege thought? that is what the royal college of midwives and is saying. from october last year there has been changes in the way data is reported, and that's because they received an e—mail from another nhs body, nhs improvement with a green light adding things they didn't previously include. if trusts have previously include. if trusts have previously ran a walking centre they could add that onto their data, but these are things the trusts have no responsibility for. patients tend to be well, easily seen within four hours, so when that is added into performance it increases performance. thank you. these are live pictures from the

senate, where we are hearing there isa senate, where we are hearing there is a deal between the democrats and republicans. there has been a stand—off that has led to another shotin stand—off that has led to another shot in washington, of federal government. let's go to jane o'brien who can bring us the latest from washington. doesn't look like it's overfor washington. doesn't look like it's over for the washington. doesn't look like it's overfor the time being washington. doesn't look like it's over for the time being at least, this shutdown? —— does it look like? yes, today it does look like the shutdown is over. they are voting right now but the senate minority leader, chuck schumer, has said enough people will vote in favour of the measure. as i said, this doesn't end the issue and it's also difficult to see what democrats have

actually got that they didn't have pretty much on friday when the shutdown started because what chuck schumer has managed to gain from the republicans is that they will address the issue of these protections for young people who we re protections for young people who were brought to the country illegally as children immediately, and that if an agreement isn't reached by february eight, they will proceed to legislation. but that doesn't guarantee and in legislation will pass or indeed that donald trump will sign it if something reaches his desk. the only silver lining the democrats to is that the last number of republicans also feel that these dreamers should enjoy protection. of the immigration issues on the table, this could find some consensus but that was always going to be the case. it is difficult at this point to see what more they have really gained from this shutdown. it does seem

extraordinary to the outside world that the most powerful country in the world or government services can just shut down. in real terms, what has it meant for the american people? this time round very little because it started on a friday night, it was the weekend so people weren't working anyway. and it's only lasted for a few hours this morning, so the pain hasn't really been felt that much. however the political stakes of this are really high because we are going into the mid—term elections. the balance of power is very much in question and both parties have a lot to lose because american voters are going to because american voters are going to be looking at this and thinking congress couldn't run on car funeral and frankly this is no way to run a government. the fact we are coming back to this issue in just a few weeks only underlines that. all right, for the moment thank you and

we are expecting a vote the senate. these are live pictures of the senate from washington and just to reiterate what we are hearing, the top democrat in the senate has said there is now a deal between the democrats and republicans on funding bill that will end the partial shutdown. senator chuck schumer saying there does seem to be an arrangement, there will be a vote and we will try to bring it as it in washington. our main story at 5pm — henry bolton has insisted he will not quit as leader of ukip, despite a string of resignations of senior members. it comes after the national executive committee backed a vote of no confidence in mr bolton. but he insists he will stay on — and in a statement a short while ago, he pledged to "drain the swamp" of malcontents

within the party. joining me now from brussels is ukip mep, william dartmouth who until this morning was ukip's trade spokesperson. he told the party leader "i am unable to serve under you". what precisely has he done as opposed to what his ex—girlfriend has done wrong? he has mishandled or handled his personal life in such a way so that he has become the story. further to that, as you said earlier in your report, the national executive, the nec which is the governing body of the party, voted by 14 votes to one, the one vote being mr bolton himself, that they had no confidence in him. mr bolton came from nowhere to be elected as pa rt came from nowhere to be elected as part of leader, he got 29.9% of the vote. he never had much of a mandate, he now has no mandate at

all and the problem for us as party and beyond but the problem for the country is this — brexit has been voted for, it looks less and less likely that the brexit people voted for will be delivered because the establishment, and i'm not having a go at everybody now, but tony blair, nick clegg... can go at everybody now, but tony blair, nick clegg. .. can we stick to henry bolton. he has ended his relationship with his girlfriend so what more could he have done? you cannot separate one thing from the other. the fact of the matter is that, i'm not having a dig at the media, but the way the media have treated this matter makes it impossible for henry bolton to come across as a serious figure to make any serious points at all. he's lost confidence of all his colleagues, almost of his colleagues, of whom i

am one of the most insignificant. he says the time has come for people like you to go because he says he wa nts to like you to go because he says he wants to drain the swamp of malco nte nts wants to drain the swamp of malcontents in the party by which i think he means people like you. what is your reaction to that? drain the swamp isa is your reaction to that? drain the swamp is a term used by donald trump andi swamp is a term used by donald trump and i would suggest that to quote donald trump is probably not the most constructive way of going about things. basically the fact is that, andi things. basically the fact is that, and i hate to be repetitive, is that mr bolton doesn't have the confidence of the party, cannot operate even vaguely successfully as a party leader. he never had much of a party leader. he never had much of a mandate and he now should go. the fa ct of a mandate and he now should go. the fact of the matter is that criticising the nec, criticising me

on so many others is just shooting the messenger. it doesn't invalidate the reality. all right, very good to talk to you. that is william dartmouth, ukip mep. thank you for being with us. two men have been found guilty of murdering a businessman in an attempted burglary at his home in hampshire. guy hedger was shot dead last april by kevin downton and jason baccus, who committed burglaries to fund their drug habits. a third man, scott keeping, was acquitted. duncan kennedy reports from winchester crown court. guy hedger was a well—respected, successful businessman with a passion for helping young people get a better education. but last april he was shot dead at his home here in an affluent neighbourhood not far from bournemouth. two men in balaclavas entered the bedroom he shared with his husband, simon, known as si, at around 3am in the morning. the masked men demanded the codes to two safes here in the house.

in the confusion, si pressed a panic button and set off an alarm. it was then that guy hedger was shot. he died a few hours later. the prosecution said that this ford focus was the car used by the pair. it was caught on a number of security cameras earlier in the evening near the home of guy and simon hedger. but the same car then drove away from the scene. the prosecution say the pair went instead to rob this nearby catering company. it was kevin downton and jason baccus, two of the defendants, who later admitted they carried out this burglary. when they finished here, the prosecution say they drove back to guy hedger‘s home where mr hedger was shot. the place where you feel safe, your home, your castle as we call it, where you close the door and that is your comfort, to have that invaded in the middle of the night by masked individuals who came in with a loaded shotgun,

it is almost unthinkable. the prosecution say a police lead came with the discovery of a cigarette butt near guy hedger‘s home. they say it contained the dna of jason baccus who was an associate of kevin downton. officers later recovered this shotgun which they believed was the murder weapon. and they were led to this bag in some undergrowth which contained watches and jewellery ta ken from guy hedger‘s home. as well as being a businessman, mr hedger was deeply involved in education and colleagues and the trust he helped run say his death has been devastating. i think the world has lost a man who was gentle, who was kind, who was willing to do whatever was needed to enhance the lives of people, in particular children. and the world is a poorer place for the loss of somebody like that. the four people on trial

denied any involvement. kevin downton and jason baccus were both found guilty of murder. scott keeping was cleared of the murder. his wife helen was found not guilty of assisting an offender. the prosecution say guy hedger and his husband si were caught in the most violent of acts in what should have been the safest of places. duncan kennedy, bbc news. cervical cancer is the most common cancer in women aged under 35 and is easily treatable if it's found early, but a new study by the cervical cancer charity "jo's cervical cancer trust" found that a third of young women are avoiding getting smear tests because they are too embarrassed to show their bodies to doctors. our health correspondent michelle roberts reports. a smear test can help find abnormal cells before they turn into cancer

but, of the 5 million women in the uk invited for screening each year, one in the four do not attend. we need a bit more education about what a smear test is. for me, being under 25, ijust don't get told anything about it. when you got your letter, you went, it didn't put you off going? it did, i was a bit worried, what was it about and if i really had to do it. so actually i haven't done it but probably i have to do it. i did for a while, until you have tojust, like, go for it. that's basically all there is to it. it's helpful if you have a friend who can come with you maybe and sit in the waiting area and stuff like that. the survey byjo's cervical cancer trust found one in three of young women aged 25 to 35 were embarrassed to attend smear tests. a third said they would not go for a smear if they had not waxed their bikini area. one in six would rather miss their smear test than a gym class. when reality tv starjade goody died

of cervical cancer in 2009, extra women turned up for smear tests. nearly a decade on, the number of screenings has hit a 20—year low and experts are worried. virtually all of my patients seem to apologise to me or feel the need to apologise to me before we start. "i'm really sorry i haven't waxed my legs, i'm really sorry i didn't shave, i'm really sorry i had a shower yesterday instead of this morning." and my answer is always, i don't think about that, i'm here to do a job. we do the procedure or the examination or whatever it is and that's that. robert music is the chief executive of jo's cervical cancer trust and he says body image issues could be putting lives in danger. cervical cancer is largely preventable. smear tests prevent 75% of all cervical cancers. if women are being put off attending screenings, there is a real risk that more women will be diagnosed and potentially will lose their lives. women aged 25—49 are offered tests every three years on the nhs and those between the ages of 50

and 64 every five years. getting checked can save lives. michelle roberts, bbc news. joining me now from cambridge is cervical cancer survivor and campaigner, laura burlingham. laura, thank you for being with us. in your case, how important was having the check and having it quite early? very important. i finished treatment two weeks ago, i was diagnosed with cervical cancer in october last year and if i hadn't had the most recent smear done then i wouldn't have discovered i had cervical cancer and it wouldn't have been treatable really if i hadn't had it done, so there's a need to have smear tests done at all times.

what's your reaction when some women are reluctant to have smear tests because of body image concerns, as you were heard in that report maybe, some people said they would rather go to the gym then have their smear test. it is very important. you should have it, and no excuse to go to the gym just because you feel you shouldn't have it done. it's ridiculous and i think under 23s, it should be available for people under 25 should i say, sorry, just to give them more help. listen to your mums, haveitin them more help. listen to your mums, have it in schools and colleges providing information, on tv and adverts would be really helpful because i was adverts would be really helpful because i was never adverts would be really helpful because i was never scared when i had a smear test done and my mum a lwa ys had a smear test done and my mum always taught me to have it done so tha nkfully always taught me to have it done so thankfully i did because otherwise the cervical cancer would have gone on diagnosed. it does seem from the research that a large number of

women are embarrassed about having it, aren't they? yes, they are. it is silly really because i never embarrassed when i have it done but i don't think... people younger than me don't always understand how important it is and it's just not worth your life really. important things like that. so you need to make sure it is done. good advice. laura burlingham, thank you for being with us. a manufacturing firm that makes ejector seats has admitted breaching a health & safety law over the death of a red arrows pilot. flight lieutenant sean cunningham died in 2011 after being accidentally ejected from his plane. danny savage reports from lincoln crown court. this is the red arrows hawkjet that

sean cunningham was ejected from. it went off while the plane was stationary on the ground but it was a double tragedy, not only did his seat rejects him from the plane but the parachute attached to it failed to deploy. it should have saved his life, instead he crashed back to the ground, still strapped into the seat. he died from his injuries. the red arrows are based here at raf scampton in lincolnshire, this is where flight lieutenant sean cunningham was fatally injured in 2011. his inquest heard that an over tightened nut and bolt on his ejector seat stopped the parachute from working properly. the manufacturers of that seat, martin baker, knew about the issue and told some airforces but baker, knew about the issue and told some air forces but not the ministry of defence is so the engineers here we re of defence is so the engineers here were unaware of the issue. sean cunningham's sister, mother and father worked at lincoln crown court today to hear the guilty plea from

martin baker. this has been a long ordealfrom them. martin baker. this has been a long ordeal from them. we welcome the conclusion of the coroner which confirmed what we knew all along, which is that sean was blameless and that his tragic death... excuse me. his tragic death was preventable. the director of martin baker, john martin, second from left, admitted the health and safety charge on behalf of the company, but martin baker continues to work with the red arrows and the rest of the raf as they make all of the ejector seats for fast jets. they make all of the ejector seats forfastjets. ijust they make all of the ejector seats for fast jets. i just want to they make all of the ejector seats for fastjets. i just want to take you back to the united states, we can go back to the floor of the us senate, and we understand the

democrats have agreed with the republicans that there will be a deal to end the us government shutdown, in exchange for a promised to address democrat concerns about hundreds of thousands of immigrants who were brought to the united states as children. so according to chuck schumer, the minority leader in the senate, there is a deal. we will vote today to reopen the government, chuck schumer has said. so we arejust government, chuck schumer has said. so we are just waiting for that vote to ta ke so we are just waiting for that vote to take place, just to confirm but it is clear there is a deal to end that us government shutdown. as jane o'brien, our correspondent in washington, was saying, the whole issue might resurface in about three weeks' time. so we will bring you more from the senate as it comes to

us. buckingham palace has announced that princess eugenie is engaged to her long—term boyfriend jack brooksbank. a statement from the palace said the couple got engaged in nicaragua earlier this month. the wedding will take place in the autumn of this year at george's chapel in windsor. the couple have been talking to the bbc one show. jack brooksbank described the moment he proposed to the princess on that holiday. we had a beautiful volcano, the sun was setting, birds were flying. luck yes, the lake was some beautiful, the light was a special light i have never seen. the light was a special light i have never seen. i actually said this is an incredible moment, then he popped the question, which was really surprising even though we have been together for seven years. did you see it coming? complete surprise. jack, did you get down on one need? yes, i got down on one knee. and

have you had a word with the —— her majesty the queen? yes, she was very happy, as was my grandfather. congratulations to them and you can see the whole interview with the happy couple this evening on the one show this evening at seven o'clock. "a national hero and a football legend" — that, just one of the many emotive tributes that have been given to the former england and blackpool captainjimmy armfield... who's died at the age of 82, following a long battle with cancer. our sports news correspondent david ornstein looks back on his life. born in denton, greater manchester

in 1935, armfield was destined for the field. one club players have a lwa ys the field. one club players have always been rare but armfield was one. over a 17 year period, he was a dashing right back. they have erected a statue in his honour. jimmy was loyal and loved. he won 43 caps for england. 15 as skipper, and was part of the 1966 world cup winning squad, only injury prevented him from playing in the tournament. they said you have got to be fit for the world cup start, and i never played again. it is better we won

because today people look back and say we remember the world cup squad. it's not the same as being in the 11 who played in the final but the point was it is better they won. later, armfield turned his hand to management. he also spent the best pa rt management. he also spent the best part of 40 years as a summariser for the bbc, becoming known to many as the bbc, becoming known to many as the voice of football. in a statement, the armfield family said jimmy passed a waste peacefully after a decade—long battle with cancer. the flow of tributes, a fitting reflection of one of the greats of english football. time for a look at the weather with alina jenkins. the trend to something milder is

under way and it continues over the next few days. we have lost the cold arctic airand next few days. we have lost the cold arctic air and replaced it with something much milderfrom the south and south—west. this afternoon already starting to feel milder. this was just outside worthing. some spells of sunshine, dare i say, almost positively springlike. a few icy stretches, joy at first but later tonight a spell of wet and windy weather is starting to push its way east with strong winds and persistent rain but it will be a mild night with temperatures typically between four and five celsius. strong winds, particularly for exposed coasts and hills, and quite a wet rush—hour potentially, especially across northern and western scotland, but at least it is

milder. outbreaks of rain across northern ireland which will slowly clear eastwards, and there will be a lot of cloud everywhere, bringing mystique and murky conditions. brain stretching down across east anglia towards london, across the m4 corridor. further south and west rain clearing but still a lot of low cloud. temperatures will be rising through the day and one way or another we will all see rain tomorrow. it will tend to clear eastwards with sunny spells coming behind but showers never too far away through the afternoon. temperature wise, so much milder than recently. some parts of western england and wales perhaps getting up to 15 degrees. it turns quite u nsettled to 15 degrees. it turns quite unsettled through tomorrow night, a deep area of low pressure with a squeeze in isobars which means it will be windy. gales is not severe gales to go into wednesday. it's

also some heavy rain which will be sinking south eastwards through wednesday, and the showers turning wintry again across scotland because here is some colder air starting to dig in. still in the mild air in the south. as that clears away south eastwards, through thursday it stays windy and starting to turn colder. showing the strain — the frontline nhs staff struggling to cope, as the winter keeps piling on the pressure. we've spent four days filming in a&e at a hospital in the north east of england — one that has some of the best waiting times. but even there, patients like 83—year—old blanche are left in pain on trolleys in the corridor because there aren't enough beds. they're marvellous these two men, they've never left me. i'm in agony. the staff at north tees hospital say they are doing the best they can,

but they just can't cope with the numbers coming for help. worked for the trust for 19 years. never known it be as bad as it is now. there's not the capacity, we don't have the capacity to safely look after the amount of patients coming through the door. we'll be asking how much more the nhs can take?