russia probe. the white house says the memo "contains numerous properly classified and especially sensitive passages" and for this reason, the president was unable to declassify it. us officials say they're considering what action to take after two british jihadis were captured in syria. alexanda kotey and el shafee elsheikh were part of a team of four british is members who the americans say killed 27 hostages. the families of their victims say the fighters should face trial. uber has settled its legal battle with the self—driving car company waymo. the dispute was over allegations that the ride—hailing app stole trade secrets about waymo‘s self—driving technology. as part of the settlement, uber has agreed to give waymo shares in its firm worth about $245 million. now on bbc news, the week in parliament. all are welcome to the week in

parliament. coming up: carillion senior executives seemed lost for words. and you were still all right? all of you? aren't you? the brexit debate gets a bit sharply. stand up! stand—up and let's get on with leaving the eu! and 100 years after the first women get the vote, female mps are still suffering abuse. what this is about is about misogynist seeking to silence women who dare to speak out. but first, the chairman of the construction company carillion has told mps how upset he is at the firm's demise. the company which provided services for schools,

hospitals and prisons went into liquidation last month and an array of senior executives gave a joint committee of mps their side of the story. at the chairs of those committees were not impressed, saying afterwards the directors were delusional characters who maintains that everything was hunky—dory until it all when suddenly and an perceivably wrong. words cannot describe the depths of my despair. i am devastated by the impact the colla pse am devastated by the impact the collapse has had, as i said, on the pensioners, on customers, on suppliers, on staff. we have had one session here where everybody is pointing fingers at other people. your main evidence so far is you have had these advisers and you really, in effect, pointing the finger at really, in effect, pointing the fingerat them. really, in effect, pointing the finger at them. what is your — people's questions are what is your responsibility to this complete —— collapse question mark fall and compete. total. no question in my mind about that. not necessarily

competency but full responsibility, no question, and if i look back through it, of course buy things we would have done differently. i'm asking whether you think it would be justified at a time when the share price of the company is falling quite substantially whether it is right to increase the renumeration of the chief executive? it was right at the time because we wanted to retain richard howes and as cheap executive when the sector was volatile. and to the benefit of hindsight, do you think those decisions were right? of office we thought a lot about many of the decisions that we have made and i decisions that we have made and i decision in terms of increasing his pay was correct. all if you are sitting here, multi millions of pounds worth of payment from the company over a period of years, and she say how sad and disappointed you are. but what actions do you take the show that? because it isjust

words, isn't it? it is words, i'm saddened, i'm disappointed, iwish words, isn't it? it is words, i'm saddened, i'm disappointed, i wish i had done things differently, but the money is in the bank. it isn't in the bank, is it covers the subcontractors and the people who are coming up for retirement. before if you have done really rather well out of the company which you have beenin out of the company which you have been in different ways helped the crash. richard, it is that the review, at all? why should we believe you? that you feel so sad about all of this? it doesn't extend to your cheque—book. about all of this? it doesn't extend to your cheque—booklj about all of this? it doesn't extend to your cheque-book. i am genuinely shocked and saddened by the events andl shocked and saddened by the events and i genuinely am and i am very happy to engage with the company and understand what position... your moral actions, you don't have to worry for someone moral actions, you don't have to worry for someone to have an engagement with you, it is a part of your dna, isn't it? it is, but!

engagement with you, it is a part of your dna, isn't it? it is, but i do need to understand what the position is, ido need to understand what the position is, i do not know what my position yesterday. it is clear, isn't it, as rachel has said, pensioners are taking, large numbers of people will get paid for their contracts, other people have lost theirjobs. and you are still all right. all of you. but you? —— are you not? are still all right. all of you. but you? -- are you not? carillion executives lost for words there. the next day it was the turn of the government, the liaison committee which is made up of the chairs of all the other committees are some of the cabinet office minister, but he was being very cautious in his a nswe i’s. was being very cautious in his answers. this exchange was typical. one of the lessons from the gfc was to have tougher rules about being able to claw back bonuses when things go wrong, do you think we need to look again at the clawback arrangements for bonuses so that we can get some of that money back?

again, sitting here today, i can get some of that money back? again, sitting here today, lam open—minded on that. but there have been serious allegations of misconduct by the board and former board members of carillion. those are being independently investigated by the official receiver and it would be wrong for us to make any comment that could be prejudicial on the official receiver 's findings on that. i know this isn't the first timei that. i know this isn't the first time i have said this and it will not be the last ditch has been a big week brexit. theresa may cheque to meetings with senior ministers. the cabinet committee sketched out what the future relationship between the uk and the eu may look like. what conclusion they came to, they haven't told me, that the issue came up haven't told me, that the issue came up several times in the commons. first ina up several times in the commons. first in a spirited intervention by one dup mp echoing the words of his father during the troubles. that does the minister agree with me that

it is time the government demonstrated that no surrender attitude with the eu bureaucrats who tried to like my last, through us, overair tried to like my last, through us, over airflights, tried to like my last, through us, overairflights, passengers, everything else, stand—up, young man, stand—up eu and let's get on with leaving the eu! well, that plea came moments before the start of prime minister's questions, where the matter was raised again. prime minister would be aware that all free—trade agreements involve some customs checks and therefore infrastructure at frontiers which would be completely incompatible with maintaining an open border between northern ireland and the republic. as the cabinet subcommittee is apparently today finally getting around to discussing this, the prime minister explain to the house why she is so opposed to the house why she is so opposed to the uk remaining in the customs union with the eu when not only would this be better for the union with the eu when not only would this be betterfor the british economy and a vague deep and special partnership, whatever that is, but

would help to ensure that the border remains as it is today, which is what all of us want. the united kingdom is leaving the european union which means we are leaving the single market, we are leaving the customs union, because of flu are full members of the customs union we would not be able to do trade deals around the rest of the world and we are going to have an independent trade policy and do the deals and he asks me about customs arrangements, i have to say to him i suggestive looks at the paper that was published by the government last summer. published by the government last summer. and a question about reports that the eu could suspend certain benefits during any transition phase came from the other end of the brexit spectrum. in the liaison committee last december i warned her about ultimatums from the eu and again, in my uq only last week, which are good enough to be very robust when discussing these matters in the brexit committee on as i am sure she will be, in alter the rhyce shaw gavotte in order to ensure she would repudiate any of these eu threats. as i said right from the

very beginning we will hear noises off or will hear all sorts of things being said about positions being taken, being said about positions being ta ken, what being said about positions being taken, what matters is the position is that we take in the negotiations as we sit down and negotiate the best deal, we have shown we did that, we did it in december, i'm to do it again. jeremy corbyn hosna battleground of choice this week's questions was crime figures, last month the office of national statistics said the number of violent crimes and sexual offences recorded by police in england and wales has risen sharply over the past year. the separate crime survey, based on people ‘s experiences, suggested crime was continuing to fall. and with that in mind, the battle commenced with a particularly pithy question. was crime rising, does the prime minister regret cutting 21,000 police officers? what we have actually seen from the crime survey is the crime is now down at record low levels. that is... that is what — that is what has been achieved and it has been achieved by a

conservative government but at the same time has been protecting police budgets. the chief constable of bedfordshire says we do not have the resources to keep residents safe, the position is a scandal. too many people don't feel safe and too many people don't feel safe and too many people are not safe we have just been the highest rise in recorded crime for a quarter of the century. the chief constable of lancashire says the government's police cuts have made it much more difficult to keep people safe. is he wrong? can i say to the right honourable gentleman on this issue of recording crime he mentions her majesty 's inspection of constabulary is with us inspection of constabulary is with us because when i was home secretary i asked hmi seat to look at the recording of police crime to make sure that police forces were doing it properly. and indeed some changes we re it properly. and indeed some changes were made as a result of that. so we now see the better recording of crime. we also see, we also see 150 million pounds extra being made

available to the police. —— 450. but what have we seen over the last few years? the national crime agency, the police force is taking more notice of helping to support vulnerable victims, to bring more on modern slavery, to be more on domestic violence, taking issues seriously that they were not taking seriously that they were not taking seriously before! with the speaker, if you asked the inspector to look at unrecorded crime and they tell you what is going on, the least you can do is act on what they tell you! jeremy corbyn. this week marked 100 yea rs of jeremy corbyn. this week marked 100 years of the representation of the people act, which gave women over 30 who had property the right to vote. and in the debate to mark the centenary, the commons was awash with the white purple and green emblem of the suffrage movement. with the white purple and green emblem of the suffrage movementlj am emblem of the suffrage movement.” am proud to be part of the most diverse house of commons in british history. we have our second female prime minister. a third of those

attending cabinet are women and we have the highest ever number of female mps. outside of politics, we have seen so much progress since 1918. all women are in a more diverse range of jobs 1918. all women are in a more diverse range ofjobs than ever before and are increasingly at the top of theirfields. before and are increasingly at the top of their fields. i was hoping that the minister was going to make an announcement today that the government was going to issue may be an official apology to the women of the suffragette movement or apart and maybe the those who were wrongly imprisoned. and sexually assaulted in their battle to get women the vote. but instead, all we have is another re— announcement, how utterly disappointing. you would be doing a disservice to suffragettes who stood up for their courses which we re who stood up for their courses which were more than just who stood up for their courses which were more thanjust winning the who stood up for their courses which were more than just winning the vote for women, if i didn't say today we still have a government that pursues policies like the rape all the pursues social security cuts which hits women's budget at the 5% of

cuts have come out of women's pockets and we have yet to see a justice of the campaigners.” pockets and we have yet to see a justice of the campaigners. i fully support the government's moved to ask the law commission to consider the case for making it an offence to threaten and abuse parliamentary candidates. what this is about is the misogynist seeking to silence women who dare to speak out. particularly virulent lee, this is against younger women, and blood omen. now, voters have a right to choose whoever they want, man or woman, to represent them and once the representative is elected to parliament, it is the right and duty to be able to get on with the job without being subjected to intimidation, threats or violence. this is about our democracy, so i hope members on all sides of the house will give this their full support. harriet harman. and women mps past and present were in westminster hall on tuesday to mark the centenary. the suffrage campaign

was led by women but some male supporters played a key role. in a film the bbc parliament the former deputy speaker natascha engel reports on the votes are women campaign and the man who backed the cause. gavotte man. we get 16,000 petitions presented to parliament from 1856 to 1918, signed by more than 3 million women. they were undermined, questions raised about their manliness, their fitness to their manliness, their fitness to their careers. suffragettes tried to rush the building, chained themselves to statues and someone, parliament was always thought of in the eye of the storm. you will go down to history as the man who tortured innocent women! put in pentonville, put him on hunger strike. from his first election, he

introduced women's suffrage bill every single year. but this was the great opportunity. this is also a story about parliament. campaign is needed to win allies in the all—male parliaments of the day. we will be looking at why the politicians eventually agreed to change the law. and the film is on bbc parliament on sunday evening at half past eight. bullies who are found to have bullied or alleged —— harass their start —— staff could be suspended. a package to tackle misconduct was announced at westminster. it is a right, not a privileged to be treated with dignity and respect at - and privileged to be treated with dignity and re: report - and privileged to be treated with dignity and res "eport - and fiftiegfitféééiiiii'ii’fi’iiifii"£,?l*’3*'f — —— — § arkle§

"is arkle f- 7, that if ,,,,- sexual sf 7, " “sh“ and the - feature media —m§% indenjust a 2,71 ‘of t’" it {are 7 it age also it é also be = % é; g bring forward corroborating might bring forward corroborating evidence in what otherwise might be one person's word against another. where should that difficult balance like? so my honourable friend will appreciate, this has been an incredibly difficult balancing act,

and what we all made clear, all of us and what we all made clear, all of us on the working group is that the commitment to protecting the interests of the complainant would be at the heart of this, and that means very often that complainant does not want and will not in fact come forward with a complaint if they then run the risk of being houndedin they then run the risk of being hounded in the media and being, having effectively a trial in the full glare of the public spotlight. and that was one of the core areas that we sought to address, what that does inevitably mean is that there are compromises. would she agree that not only do we need the consent training she has referred to but that it does need to be notjust mandatory but there needs to be sanctions available for those members who might not be persuaded to take it up" frankly, those who are most likely to be resistant to taking up training are probably those who need it most. the training we have mentioned in consent are unconscious bias, how to recruit and how to employ people and what constitutes bullying and harassment, all of these things are absolutely

vital. they will be available as compulsory sanctions, and we will be seeking means to encourage people across the state to take up voluntarily, where we cannot make it mandatory. andrea led some. the head of the parole board has said action is needed to make the reasons roosters decisions public and its judgements easier to challenge. the comments come in the wake of the decision to releasejohn warboys, who was jailed indefinitely in 2009 with a who was jailed indefinitely in 2009 witha minimum who was jailed indefinitely in 2009 with a minimum term of eight years for driving and sexually assaulting women. two of his victims have been given the go—ahead to challenge his release and a judicial review next month. the government has ordered a review of the transparency control board decisions. we could do much more than we do at present to explain individual decisions. but there are risks to doing that. and they need to be carefully explored and considered. it is an awareness

and considered. it is an awareness and education programme. what proposals can use it in training yourself? there are a number of different steps that we are in the process of, and firstly we need to have information, accessible information about the process in a number of formats, and platforms. so we should use now video, we have seen we should use now video, we have seen impressive stuff from other jurisdictions, the written information we produce could be much improved. what we can't do, and we are absolutely prohibited by the appropriate rules which were approved by parliament, is explain anything about an individual case. even the most asic things, and for an example, talking about completely different cases, you will have victims ask for information about licensed conditions. we have

information about licence conditions, that would reassure, they would find them comforting. and we cannot tell them. you can go much further in explaining our decisions to people, so they have a real... they may not agree with what we have done, but they may have some basis to know why our decisions were made, and later, if there is a change, it makes a challenge process possible. you can challenge at the moment because you don't know how we made the decision. so you have to crouch underjudicial review, the decision. so you have to crouch under judicial review, all that stuff. that, he said, needs to change. it seems undemocratic that people have two go and crowd source a review. i don't think that is acceptable. what we cannot do is make every decision twice. professor nick hardwick. it is not often a reality tv star is called to give evidence in front of a parliamentary

committee. but on tuesday the model kati price appeared before mps to make an impassioned plea for, not action to be —— for criminal action to be made against criminal trolling on social media. his —— sun has his abilities. what would go through someone's had to attack an innocent child who cannot fight back. i went to the police, i went to the police twice, they have arrested two people, got all their computers, mobile phones and everything, and even the police were really embarrassed because it got to a point where they couldn't take it any further, because they couldn't charge them with anything, because there is nothing in place. so they had to get dropped, the cases, basically. and since then it has continued, it has got worse and worse, my petition in one week got 220,000 signatures, and a lot of people said, i don't like you, which

is not very nice, they have said, we don't like you, we are not fans of yours, but what we think you are doing is amazing. kati price. you will remember civil service —— civil serva nts will remember civil service —— civil servants came under fire for pessimistic security reports —— president —— treasury reports about racks it. they can rees mogg accused treasury figures or fiddling the figures. a labour peer took up the issue. my lords, given that downing street and number ten and the prime minister have failed to slap down those ministers and those mps in her own party who have made these disgraceful slurs, is it too much to ask for the prime minister finally to show some leadership?” ask for the prime minister finally to show some leadership? i think i have done on an off 20 years, probably more than anyone else in this house, with many discontinuities. (laughs). and i

have never had occasion to question the impartiality or the objectivity of civil servants, they have spoken truth to power, quite often they have said things that i didn't want to hear a month but i would never accuse them of some of the accusations that have recently been levelled against them. i think we should be proud of our civil servants. and i reject the smears that have been made against them. you will be familiar with this document. the treasury analysis of may 2016, forecasting the complete colla pse may 2016, forecasting the complete collapse of the british economy if we we re collapse of the british economy if we were to vote to leave. i have maintained this document is propaganda from top to bottom. and it turns out to be utterly untrue and reality. my noble friend has praised the objectivity of those who produce government statistics. can i asked my noble friend this, if i continue to criticise the mandarins and ministers who have proved the statistics in this document, does that make me a sale or salesman or a

19305 that make me a sale or salesman or a 1930s german nazi? ministers who impute impartiality in good faith are behaving very much as president trump does in the united states, with regard to the fbi. i'm not sure i want to open up a fresh front... from the dispatch box. but president trumpl from the dispatch box. but president trump i hope will read more —— what my noble friend... (laughs). lord young. and finally, the recently appointed secretary of state for digital culture, media and sport fully embraced the digital part of his brief eye becoming the first mp to launch his very own smart phone app. the mataranka app features pictures galleries and videos of him, -- pictures galleries and videos of him, —— matt hancock app. it also allows users to sign up as friends and chat with other fans of the

apps. but there have been concerns about the apps privacy and whether it concerns with the data protection act. what action should the secretary of state take against an app which is not gdp are compliant? i think that all apps should be compliant with the law and i am delighted to say that the mass hancock app is, mr speaker. —— matt hancock. the app does notjust belong to him, it is named after him. and the general public need protecting, mr speaker, from their privacy being invaded by matt hancock, there personal information being shared with third parties and their private photos being accessed by matt hancock. will he undertake to make sure that matt hancock undertakes fully with data protection, and... of course the

apple does comply, but more importantly, i think we should use digital communications, mr speaker, to communicate with our constituents in alltheir to communicate with our constituents in all their modern forms, and i am friendly delighted by the response the apps has had, far bigger than i could have possibly imagined, and i look forward to communicating with my constituents over matt hancock for many years. matt hancock sing the praises of matt hancock. parliament is on a short half term break and we are to we will be back ina break and we are to we will be back in a week. but for now, from me, goodbye. hello again. most of us saw some sunshine yesterday, but there were also some wintry showers out and about. the highlands looked splendid, didn't they?

after the recent snowfall here and clear blue skies as well. but looking ahead to the weekend's forecast, not so much sunshine to go around on saturday. sunday sees the sunshine return, along with some snow showers. it'll become windy for a time this weekend. here's the satellite picture. it shows an area of low pressure, a curl of cloud racing towards the british isles, and this cloud is going to be moving in, bringing a band of rain with it. and that rain is going to be quite heavy over the next few hours, turning readily to snow — even low down across parts of eastern scotland. i think we will see things turning rather wintry. the other thing you'll notice if you're out and about first thing is how cold it feels. yes, we're looking at a widespread frost and a risk of some icy stretches first thing. now, looking at the weather in a little bit more detail through saturday morning. the snow across scotland, well, five to ten centimetres possible over the higher ground. it will tend to transition back to rain as milder air works in from the west as we go on through the early morning.

further southwards, for wales and south—west england, it's just rain that will fall really. and after that cold and frosty start across east anglia and south—east england, bright with some sunshine, but then the cloud moves over that cold air. it's probably one of those mornings where temperatures will be very slow to rise across parts of eastern england. not really rising significantly until we get into the afternoon, when the winds pick up and we will start to see the threat of some light rain working into east anglia and the south—east. quite a range of temperatures, turning mild in the south—west. highs up to 11 degrees. we still have the cold air hanging on across northern scotland, where we'll also have some bright weather with some sunshine. now, it's six nations again this weekend and both at dublin and also twickenham, the threat of rain. probably the rain heavier at twickenham as the evening progresses. now, looking at saturday night, a windy spell of weather looks on the cards thanks to this area of low pressure.

i've just drawn the fronts in, and it's around the southern flank of this low pressure that we could see the winds being particularly strong. gales seem likely. gusts of wind 50 to 60 miles an hour. it could be a bit stronger than that across parts of the east, it just depends how quickly this area of low in welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in north america and around the globe. i'm nkem ifejika. our top stories: president trump has blocked the release of a document which rebuts claims of anti—trump bias in the fbi's russia probe. us officials consider what action to take after two british jihadis are captured in syria. families of the victims say the fighters should face trial. uber agrees to pay waymo $245 million in shares to settle allegations it stole trade secrets. funding cuts threaten to take

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