w6 i’ war in syriai. the times but as the war in syriai. the times features a story on the labour leaderjeremy corbyn who is accused of wanting a soviet style. let us start off with the guardian. syria, and full image. eastern ghouta, this is a catastrophe. these are the pro—government forces attacking this territory. they rebel held territory is in retreat. it seems that rightly or wrongly

president assad is getting control over syria. this is the culmination of this dreadful civil war that has been taking place since march 2011. seven years. they still have the kurdish part in northern syria, is is in retreat, other rebels are in retreat, but the brutality has been terrible. women and children amongst the casualties. it is awful to read. there is a report in the independent about some of the injuries to children. the picture on the front of the guardian is traffic enough. apparently some of the images coming out of syria are too horrible to print. the front page of the independent on the same story.

massacre in syria. another very dramatic front page. somebody racing away from another explosion with a child in his arms. people probably do not want to read any more about this. there is a fatigue about this. but it is important that we do pay attention to this. i do not know what can be done. the civil war has been going on for so long that if the west could have intervened to solve it, it is to wait now. there is another international outcry, as there was over aleppo, as there has been so many times in syria, but that does not make much difference. and al asad —— bashir assad is getting control, with the help of

russia. extraordinary battle betweenjeremy corbyn, the allegations in the least newspapers over the last few days. this is him. explain what this is about. i do not know that he is rattled but he is certainly very annoyed by their son and the meal in particular going after him on this. —— sun and mail and particular going after him on this. —— sun and mailand meal. in the 19805 —— sun and mailand meal. in the 1980s you assumed. jeremy corbyn would say he was promoting dialogue between east and west and was doing it for peace. he gets annoyed when he is asked about it that he was asked about it in a press conference today and decided to fight back by lodging a video attacking the press and warning that change is going to

come. change is coming. does that sound like a threat? it does. he is taking on sun and mail, the express, the telegraph, that is quite a thing to ta ke the telegraph, that is quite a thing to take on. jeremy corbyn has got some explaining to do. it is interesting that the czech secret service, they did say, he was not an informant, but he was a man of interest. what does that mean. we do not know. i thinkjenna coleman has to see more about this.|j not know. i thinkjenna coleman has to see more about this. i do not think he is going to. there was also a touch of humour. he said the papers have all gone a bitjames

bond. some of it was time in cheek. yes. there are serious questions to answer. i think it is a silly spy story from the 1980s. everybody knew thatjeremy story from the 1980s. everybody knew that jeremy corbyn was sympathetic to the communist bloc and wanted to promote dialogue. but this sort of thing he does. we need to know more. there are questions to ask for 0xfam. they were and are invented the before the commons select committee. 0xfam hits with new sex claims. 26 potential new allegations emerging. 7000 regular donors have stopped giving money to 0xfam but we we re stopped giving money to 0xfam but we were hearing earlier that is out of 400,000, were hearing earlier that is out of a00,000, maybe it is not that devastating for 0xfam. the chief executive said it was 3.5% of his donors. this is an extraordinary

story. the basis of course, the times initially broke the story a fortnight ago, they started talking about the 2011 report, all about sexual misbehaviour in haiti. that had just been buried. by burying that report it seems that now everything is coming out. it is a contagion that is going through the entire charity sector. this is extremely distressing. entire charity sector. this is extremely distressinglj entire charity sector. this is extremely distressing. i find it very worrying. from what point of view? you take the view that save the children or 0xfam, they do good work, but it does seem they are tarnished beyond belief by people who simply do not know how to behave. i am appalled. who simply do not know how to behave. iam appalled. for who simply do not know how to behave. i am appalled. for a charity which relies on the fact it is a charity and people assume that it is somehow morally superior to a private company, for example, this kind of thing just undermines the

reputation of these charities. the times front page is similar, charities in crisis over sex claims. this has spread from 0xfam. save the children. new revelations about that today. and the international development secretary was seeing in the house of commons today that she thinks it is endemic throughout the charity sector and throughout ngos and the aids business in general. which is awful because it suggests that these charities are exploiting the weakness of the people they are trying to help. —— aid business in general. highlighting what michael gove was saying about the food industry, the agricultural industry, post—brexit.

he offered the farmers an olive branch. i am he offered the farmers an olive branch. lam not he offered the farmers an olive branch. i am not sure which lot of farmers. a lot of farmers are brought brexit. another lot of are very keen to have their strawberries picked by workers from central europe coming to do the hard work. 0ne europe coming to do the hard work. one question is about migrant labour, there is also the question of subsidies, getting away from farm subsidies as we have known them. this was specifically about immigration, they depend on people coming from eastern europe for fruit picking. subsidy has to be an issue. subsidy has been guaranteed until 2022. but a lot of the farming industry, if tariffs were slashed, they were on their own, competing with australia, new zealand, canada united states, they would really struggle. you are a farmer's. ? that

is right. well but on's pharmacy better of post—brexit? some of them will need support. farming is interesting, it is notjust a food producer. farmers are custodians of the countryside. i think there is a good case for subsidising them because they look out of the countryside. they did not answer whether they would be better off after brexit. we will take that as a i'io. after brexit. we will take that as a no. it depends what happens. the telegraph, still on the brexit theme. jacob rees mogg and his fellow brexiteer is laying down red lines for the prime minister. yes, they have gone to the prime minister, this is what i call the economic ruin group. they are good chaps. sorry, economic research group, ido chaps. sorry, economic research group, i do beg your pardon. they either hard brexit faction of the conservative party. it is a european research group. they want a hard

brexit and they don't want theresa may to listen to the softies. the brexit war cabinet is going to be meeting again soon. do you think that it meeting again soon. do you think thatitis meeting again soon. do you think that it is still all to play for what kind of brexit there will be? that it is still all to play for what kind of brexit there will be ?i lot of it is. she has specifically said in her lancaster house speech 12 months ago that we are out of the customs union and the single market but there is talk about regulatory alignment, that makes the nervous, it makes jacob rees mogg very nervous. even though she has laid down a feudal is there is still a loss to play for. i will be interested in the forthcoming meetings whether we will find out more. at this time we did. is it's still a battle between those sort of brexiteer use and the philip hammond camp? yes, essentially theresa may

is trying to hold her cabinets together at the bottom line is that the conservative party is divided but in parliament there is a majority for a soft brexit and therefore the only question is is that something that the eu is prepared to give us and i am not sure that they are. it depends on what it means. a soft brexit that does not include free movement of workers is not something that i can see the eu agreeing. we are definitely leaving the single market and the customs union? yes, except in all those cases, clever use of language is being used to say we might mirror those arrangements from outside. it is not good to be as clear cut as those. a last look at one story. the queen at london fashion week and she has never been to london fashion week before. she has made her debut there. good for the queen. several of us have not been to london fashion week either. would you like to be invited? not

really. this is a good picture of her in the telegraph because she is actually smiling. there is another picture of her where she is looking extremely bored. i was astonished to see her sitting there in the front i’ow. see her sitting there in the front row. doesn't she prefer to go and watch horses? she does love horses but she cannot only look at horses. horses are better looking than a lot of these models, aren't they? there is another picture of a model wearing what looked like a motorbike crash helmet. the queen looked a little puzzled by that. but she could be wearing her crown, couldn't she? lovely to see you both. fight you for coming in. many thanks. that is all for this evening.

in the short term the weather is looking good across most of the uk. a lot of bright or even sunny weather on wednesday. a chilly start in scotland and northern ireland. widespread frost first thing in the morning. in the last 2a hours winds have been coming out of the atlantic but now there is a change in the atmosphere, winds are blowing from the north—east, eventually they will be going straight out of the east, a cold wind direction. more cloud here so those temperatures will not drop away too low. some parts of england during the course on wednesday it will stick loudly. for most of us at least a bit of sunshine on offer. this is bbc news.

i'm ben brown. the headlines for you at 11pm: the desperate plight of people in eastern ghouta as syrian government forces step up their bombardment in the suburb of damascus, currently held by rebel forces. some 200 people have been killed in the past three days, with many injured, including children. bosses of 0xfam go to parliament to face questions about their handling of the crisis involving allegations of sexual misconduct. i am sorry. i'm sorry. please allow me to begin by saying how sorry i am. the brexit secretary, david davis, tells business leaders in vienna