this is bbc news. i'm ben brown. the headlines at 11am. theresa may urges the eu to get on with discussing her ambitious but practical vision for relations after brexit. we've set out what we want. we've set out where we think we can have this ambitious relationship that's good for prosperity on both sides. let's get on with it. there are flood warnings on the southwest and northeast coasts while elsewhere work continues to clear snow from road and rail lines ahead of the start of the working week. german chancellor angela merkel is set to form her fourth government after the social democrats voted to go into coalition, breaking five months of deadlock. millions of italians go to the polls in their general election with populist and anti—immigration parties tipped to make gains. president trump threatens to increase trade tariffs on cars imported to the us from europe. eu leaders have vowed to retaliate in kind. also in the next hour:

a right royal celebration for harry and meghan‘s wedding weekend in may. pubs in england and wales will be able to stay open for an extra two hours on the friday and saturday nights. would you stop interrupting me when i am interrupting you? oscar hopes for gary oldman for his portrayal of winston churchill in the darkest hour. he could be one of the winners at tonight's 90th academy awards. good morning and welcome to bbc news. theresa may has urged the eu to engage with her

ambitious but practical vision for economic relations with the uk after brexit. she defended her plans on the future of trade and city of london services as she rejected claims that britain is trying to cherry pick the best eu regulations. susana mendonca is here. that big speech we heard the other day and now this interview with andrew marr. what has she been saying on brexit? reinforcing the point which she was making on friday, really. jack knowledges that what she is asking of the eu goes way beyond any kind of free trade deal that has been done before, so it is very different from what has gone before, and on the cherry picking point she made that on friday and again today. every deal is different so you could say that every deal is cherry picking and thatis every deal is cherry picking and that is not what britain is after. it is after its own unique deal with

the eu. she talked about specifics, areas of diverging, and areas where the uk would move away from the way the uk would move away from the way the eu do things, specifically fisheries. so british fishermen would have there access to british waters. and then where we would have a close relationship with the eu, the manufacturing of cards because countries work together on that. but then on the managing financial services, this is a difficult one because the city of london is so important to britain's economy. she made it clear that they will lose some access by not having passporting writes, which is basically the rights to trade country by country, and if you're not in the single market you can't have access to that. she understands that will not be workable in that sense but she is looking to have a different kind of relationship on that. if you look at the significant suttis that. if you look at the significant sums of money businesses in the eu 27, those other countries, actually raised through the city of london, it matters to them as well. if we we re

it matters to them as well. if we were to accept passporting, we would bea were to accept passporting, we would be a rule taker. we would have to abide by the rules being set elsewhere. and given the importance of financial security and ensuring the city of london, we can'tjust ta ke the city of london, we can'tjust take the same rules without any say in them. so how likely is due to get what she wants, especially on the issue of the irish border? we will have to wait and see what europe decides. on the issue of the irish border, it is a difficult one and a real sticking point. people have talked about how in order to maintain borderless access across the irish border, you have got to have access to the customs union and the prime minister has said she doesn't want us to be part of the customs union, and she is talking about having new customs arrangements. she has been very clear and she has talked about the use in the past of technological ways of getting around that issue, so ways of getting around that issue, so you don't have to have a physical border. the border could exist technologically but not in terms of having to pass through checkpoints and that kind of thing. northern ireland and the republic of ireland

don't want to go back to that. she is still very much focused upon having this borderless arrangement with the eu. what i am saying on the standards is that we will be looking to say where does it make sense in a practical sense because it is important for people, for their jobs, their prosperity, for our country's prosperity, where does it make sense to say actually we will abide by these standards? can ijust at this point because this is quite important? we talk about eu standards but actually what we are talking about is not eu standards, not european standards, it is international standards, because many of these things are developed in an international market. what we would be doing would be ensuring we are meeting the standards that enable us to trade elsewhere. we have been hearing from the irish government's foreign minister and he has cast doubt on whether or not the eu would go for this idea that theresa may has come up with, this customs arrangement as opposed to a

customs arrangement as opposed to a customs union. he is basically saying that the idea of theresa may's to have the soft border is likely to be rejected by the eu, because it would bring into doubt the integrity of the single market. lam not the integrity of the single market. i am not sure that the european union will be able to support a situation whereby 80% of companies that trade north south and south north will actually protect the integrity of the eu single market, which of course will be a big priority for the eu negotiating team. while of course we will explore and look at all of the proposed british solutions, they are essentially a starting point in the negotiations, as opposed to an end point. theresa may has now set out her plan and we are expecting the eu to come back with some kind of response to that and theresa may is going to make a speech to parliament tomorrow about her brexit plan. of course we have got negotiations continuing. the idea is that britain could move to a point where it moves on to trade discussions. that is

what the uk government wants. it remains to be seen whether the eu will be happy with what theresa may has put to them as the idea that she wa nts to has put to them as the idea that she wants to proceed with. thank you. susana mendonca, our political correspondent. snow and ice continue to cause disruption despite temperatures slowly rising. many rail lines remain blocked and drivers have been warned to expect delays. two yellow warnings remain in place covering much of the uk, while 16 flood warnings and dozens of flood alerts are in place in the south west and north east of england. simon clemson reports. with so much snow to melt and even a little more in today's forecast, some will be living with these conditions and the disruption for a while yet. northern england, the midlands, wales and parts of northern ireland could still see further small amounts of snow this morning, while scotland faces more

coming in from the north sea. the met office is also warning drivers to be aware of ice following lower overnight temperatures. after some train operators simply said "don't travel," services are resuming. but many trains will not run today, with a number of companies on a reduced service. birmingham, cardiff and glasgow airports have all reopened, but there have been reports of delays and cancellations. some power companies are planning to fly engineers out today to reconnect remote areas. latest figures show thousands of homes remain without power. in devon, work will continue this morning to get supplies to a town and village on the north coast which were cut off. elsewhere, in somerset, farmers say they cannot get their milk out because tankers can't reach them, meaning they are having to pour thousands of litres away. dairy farming is hard enough without losing money, but at the end of the day, what can we do? it was freak weather. we've just got to get on with it. there are still flood warnings

in place along the south—west and north—east coast as the wind whips up the waves. with scotland on standby for snow into tomorrow, the latest spell of weather is not going quietly. simon clemison, bbc news. and we can get the very latest on the weather disruption from our correspondent andy gill. he's currently in north yorkshire at the scotch corner junction of the a66. what is the latest you have on it? we can see it is still looking pretty miserable where you are. we can see it is still looking pretty miserable where you arem is. a mixture of rain and snow. the highways agency have told us that the a66, important trans—pennine route, is in the process of being reopened. some local traffic has been allowed on it this morning. as you can see, it is still blocked and the highways agency says their crews have been working to clear the snow. in the process of being reopened but that hasn't happened yet. the snow affecting other tra ns—pennine routes. on the railways, the

carlisle to routes. on the railways, the ca rlisle to newcastle routes. on the railways, the carlisle to newcastle route is not working but there are replacement buses. the leeds and lancaster to carlisle railway route is also not working. on the west coast main line, trains between carlisle and scotla nd line, trains between carlisle and scotland are not working either. there are replacement buses. they did get trains going between england and scotland on east coast main line last night. elsewhere the southern ra i lwa ys last night. elsewhere the southern railways say you should postpone your journey until tomorrow. railways say you should postpone yourjourney until tomorrow. great western say it is nearly normal and south—western art back to normal. some part of the country are affected and some airports are affected and some airports are affected and some airports are affected and you should check before you travel. there are 16 flood warnings in place around the country, in the south—west, the south—east and lancashire, and that is because of high spring tides and high winds. 1000 homes in the is because of high spring tides and high winds.1000 homes in the west and east midlands have no power and about 400 in wales and the

south—west are also without electricity. some in the north west have been restored but we think there are still a few around hartlepool and cumbria with no power at all. all right. many thanks for that. we can just about see him at all. all right. many thanks for that. we canjust about see him in north yorkshire through the snow and the rain on the camera lens. president trump has stepped up his rhetoric on trade tariffs by threatening to impose additional taxes on cars imported to america from europe. the eu had said it would retaliate in kind if mr trump carried out an earlier threat to apply tariffs on imports of steel and aluminium. joining me now from birmingham is david bailey, professor of industry at aston university. thank you for being with us. does this herald a new trade war, do you think, between the united states and europe? i certainly hope not. drum has a tendency of blowing off on twitter and nothing actually happening, so i hope this is more just hot airfrom trump. if

happening, so i hope this is more just hot air from trump. if we end up just hot air from trump. if we end up in just hot air from trump. if we end upina just hot air from trump. if we end up in a situation of a possible trade war, it could be very damaging indeed. particularly for european manufacturers. the us is their biggest export market. take the case ofjaguar biggest export market. take the case of jaguar land rover biggest export market. take the case ofjaguar land rover in the uk, their second biggest export market after china. it would be damaging for the firm and the local economy. let's hope that can be avoided. if there were tariffs of the kind that donald trump is suggesting, how would the eu retaliate? we would probably see retaliatory measures on american products. the eu has already said they would look at putting tariffs on very american products like bourbon and blue jeans. on very american products like bourbon and bluejeans. we on very american products like bourbon and blue jeans. we would on very american products like bourbon and bluejeans. we would end up bourbon and bluejeans. we would end up in bourbon and bluejeans. we would end upina bourbon and bluejeans. we would end up in a tit—for—tat trade forwards would benefit nobody and everybody would benefit nobody and everybody would benefit nobody and everybody would be a loser. —— trade war which would be a loser. —— trade war which would benefit nobody. there are a lot of german car producers in america who directly or indirectly employ 100,000 workers importing components from europe. it would damage operations in the us as well.

some of these european cars are actually made in america. that is right. there are three big plants. bmw, volkswagen and mercedes—benz. 33,000 workers there and many more in the supply chain. there will be components coming from europe, mexico, canada. putting in place ta riffs mexico, canada. putting in place tariffs on those would actually damage operations in the us and it would also damage american producers, by the way. the last time an american president went down this route, it was george bush when they put a tariffs on steel imports which increased the price of steel in america and sell american car producers shifted production to canada so it would be shooting himself in the foot, i think. how specifically would it affect british ca i’s specifically would it affect british cars being sold in america? we are still part of the eu but after brexit we are trying very hard, the government say, to get a trade deal with united states ourselves. jaguar land rover exported 130,000 cars to the united states last year. its second biggest market after china.

aston martin similarly sell a lot of ca i’s aston martin similarly sell a lot of cars there, so it would be hugely damaging. ithink cars there, so it would be hugely damaging. i think this doesn't bode very well for life after brexit. the government has been saying it wa nts a wants a special trade agreement with america. what we actually see is a very protectionist president. the chances of doing trade deals that make up for lost exports with europe don't look very promising, i think. good to talk to you and thank you for your thoughts. david bailey at aston university. members of germany's centre—left social democratic party have voted clearly in favour of re—entering a coalition government with chancellor angela merkel‘s conservatives. angela merkel will now be sworn in for a fourth term in office. bbc correspondent jenny hill is in berlin. germany has been waiting a long time for this. now has its government which is in effect occurred

continuation of the last one, coalition between angela merkel‘s conservatives and the social democrats, spd. it has been a long and painful process. it all began backin and painful process. it all began back in september when a german elections or angela merkel leto conservatives to a pretty poor election result. social democrats suffered a similarfate. election result. social democrats suffered a similar fate. mrs merkel tried but failed to secure a coalition agreement with two other parties. that was their preferred option. finally after a very long and drawn—out process, she managed to get her coalition agreement with herformer partner to get her coalition agreement with her former partner is the social democrats. before that could go ahead, the spd membership at the final say. it has been a pretty nerve—racking weekend for mrs merkel, as 400,000 spd members went toa merkel, as 400,000 spd members went to a postal ballot to deliver their verdict on whether they wanted to go back into coalition. it has been a very painful topic for the spd. there has been a lot of opposition to the idea of working with mrs merkel again. many social democrats

blame four years in her shadow for the terrible election showing back in september. many still believe that this coalition could destroy the party. it has been a very difficult time. finally this morning it was announced in the last hour that two thirds of the spd membership voted in favour of that coalition. germany has got its government. in theory angela merkel should be celebrating but it doesn't feel like much of a victory. that is for several reasons. first of all the social democrat party themselves have really torn themselves apart in this process. they have really slumped in the opinion polls as a result and many fear for the future of the party. secondly there is limited public enthusiasm for this coalition government. that is partially because it has been such a painful process. people have started to lose faith in the two largest and most established german political parties. and then of course there is the chancellor, angela merkel herself. this means that she will serve a fourth term as the german chancellor. but she has been

severely weakened by this process. very damaged. domestically and also on the world stage. she has been preoccupied with domestic events for so preoccupied with domestic events for so long now that it is almost hard to imagine her back leading the european agenda. it is what she hopes to do and certainly she wants to deliver this stable government would germany. it is what she promised germany. she has the government but she has her work cut out now to work on the stability. pulling this country back together and restoring faith not only in her government but in her leadership. jenny hail reporting from berlin. the headlines on bbc news: flood warnings along the south west and north east coasts while elsewhere work continues to clear snow from road and rail lines. german chancellor angela merkel is set to form her fourth government after the social democrats voted

to go into coalition breaking five months of deadlock. sport now, and a full round up, from the bbc sport centre. olly foster is going to be bringing all of the liverpool goals. maybe! i start with the boxing. deonte wilder says he's ready to take on anthonyjoshua in the heavyweight unification fight that all boxing fans want to see. that's after the american retained his wbc belt overnight, stopping luis ortiz in the 10th round in new york. our reporter was there and described the fight. he had shades of anthony joshua's victory against that amir klitschko when he was hurt and he had to get through adversity to record a knockout win. it really came to life in the fifth round when he put ortiz down. we had to survive an almighty onslaught from the cuban and it is remarkable that he stayed

on his feet and survived. he recuperated over the next couple of rounds and in the tenth scored that victory. he will be in cardiff for anthonyjoshua's unification bout against barca. ifjoshua get through that, he says there is no excuse and negotiations must begin for unification bout hopefully next year. the promoters don't want that fight and after tonight they definitely don't want it. it will be up definitely don't want it. it will be up to you guys, the fans. i have done enough. i have spoken enough. i don't want to talk about it any more because i said all i have to say and after tonight i don't need to say no more. i don't need to prove to the world that i am the best. kell brook has won his first bout at light middleweight. he knocked out sergey rabchenko in the second round in front of his home crowd at sheffield arena. it was his first bout since losing his welterweight world title last may and he may now target a fight against amir khan. two games in the premier league today. writing take on arsenal in the lunchtime kick—off. leaders

manchester city face chelsea later. they could go 18 points clear with a win. they go into the match of the back of two wins against arsenal in the fa cup and the league last night. that was when pep guardiola was asked about his opponents today chelsea and their manager antonio co nte. chelsea and their manager antonio conte. he can introduce another way to attack, five in the back, another system. a lot of teams, even arsenal, used a lot of imitating to do that. so tactically he is a master. he did it amazingly in the international team for italy and with juventus and international team for italy and withjuventus and turin. i think antonio conte is going to give something for english football. i am pretty sure of that. to see an advantage against a team like manchester city is very difficult, yes. but at the same time we have to prepare the game in the right way

and have all the players in good form and to try, to try to fight. but chris shaw in this moment they seem but chris shaw in this moment they seem unstoppable. unstoppable, yes. two more scottish cup quarterfinals. mo farah has won the inaugural ball bake—off race in london and he will 110w bake—off race in london and he will now turn his attention to next month's london marathon where he will become the first briton to win since 1993. that is all the sport for now and because you asked for the liverpool goals, we took them out. i will be back in the next hour. that is a shame! never mind. thank you. some sad sporting news to bring you now. sir roger bannister, the first athlete to run a sub four minute mile has died at the age of

88 in oxford. that is according to his family. sir roger bannister, the first athlete to run that sub four minute mile dying at the age of 88 in oxford. he was a great middle—distance athlete and he was also a doctor and an academic. in the 1952 olympics in helsinki he set the 1952 olympics in helsinki he set the british record in the 1500 metres. he finished fourth. that made him determined to become the first four minute mile. he achieved that extraordinary feat, that historic feat, in world athletics on the 6th of may, 1954, at the if he wrote track in oxford. running with him were chris chat away and crisp ratio who provided the pacing for him so he could do that first sub four minute mile. it was an

extraordinary sporting moment. when the announcer declared the time was three... the crowd just to round out his exact time, which was actually three minutes 59.4 seconds. that was a record actually, which only lasted for 46 days. but he was the first man to do the mile in underfour minute. let's look back now on his life with joe minute. let's look back now on his life withjoe wilson. minute. let's look back now on his life with joe wilson. 25-year-old roger bannister, third from the left... there are some moments of sporting history which become part of world history. he has decided this is the right moment. what roger bannister achieved in 1954 was like a lunarlanding for bannister achieved in 1954 was like a lunar landing for 20th—century sport. his old friend and rival chris is in third place, waiting to ta ke chris is in third place, waiting to take over as pacer. to run the mile and stop the clock before it reached four minute. in 1954 this was a magical number, the barrier of human

achievement, the feat that would redefine what was humanly possible. and it would fall to a young medical student to achieve it. he gives way. roger bannister, a superb tactician, has suffered criticism in the past for adopting his unorthodox training methods but they are paying dividends now. the pacemakers became famous themselves. those young men gave everything on the 6th of may, 1954, an oxford's iffley road track. at this point it becomes quite painful. i overtake chris and begin the finish. and here he comes. roger bannister goes streaking forward with about 250 yards to the tape. before the end, roger bannister took over. every stride counted. the tape broke at three minutes 59.4 seconds. roger bannister has done it! he is

out on his feet. his coach and team mates tell him he has achieved his ambition. there was certainly a feeling of it being a national event, something of a landmark for the country. it might have felt like the country. it might have felt like the world stopped when that clock stopped. four minute mile was a sporting catchphrase everybody recognised. all i sporting catchphrase everybody recognised. all! can sporting catchphrase everybody recognised. all i can say is i am absolutely overwhelmed and delighted. it was a great surprise to me to be able to do it today and i think to me to be able to do it today and ithinki to me to be able to do it today and i think i was very lucky. sir roger bannister was knighted in 1975. athletics is only a small part of his life. he regarded his work as a neurologist as more significant. when he was diagnosed with parkinson's disease, he described the gentle irony that the neurologist should find himself with a neurological condition. training for roger bannister in athletics had been half an hour a day on a single track. the world's first four minute

miler was also perhaps bought‘s last great amateur. what an extraordinary life. sir roger bannister, the first athlete to run the mile in under four minute, dying at the age of 88 in oxford. we have heard that in the last few minutes from his family. of course not only an amazing athlete, he went on to become a distinguished neurologist and master of pembroke couege neurologist and master of pembroke college oxford before retiring in 1993. he was sadly diagnosed with parkinson's disease in 2011. let's reflect further on a great life. and do more, our news correspondent, has joined me in the studio. —— ortiz. although that record was broken just a few days after he made it, he will go down in the record books as an amazing athlete. i think so and

those scenes and pictures that we saw there are actually etched in people's memories. there were only 3000 people there at the time but a lot of people feel as if they were there. he said once that if everybody who said they were there was actually there, you would have filled wembley stadium! an extraordinary man. apart from breaking the four minute mile, he was an acclaimed neurologist and he said he would rather be remembered for his advances in science and treating all those people. he said it was a terrible irony... no, i think you said it was a gentle irony is that a neurologist who had treated so many parkinson's disease sufferers got the disease himself. and he had been suffering from it for many years. he also worked behind the scenes in the world of sports. he was also the first chairman of the sports council set up chairman of the sports council set up in the 1950s. he did a lot of work in sports behind the scenes. for one of the world's greatest sportsman, his moment of triumph and

his sporting career was actually fairly brief. we just saw him watching himself running that sub four minute mile and he did it with chris chataway and the other chris who was pacing him, and it was actually very difficult to do it by yourself. the event didn't happen until six o'clock in the evening of most of them thought it wouldn't happen because the weather was so bad in the day. i think that roger bannister was at work earlier in the day and he went off to work at oxford and then became this extraordinary moment. i think as he crossed the line, he thought he had got it. and then there was an element of suspense and the announcer said it is three minutes... and the crowd erupted and they did not hear what the time was and they knew it was the sub four minute mile. and such a different

sporting era. he had been working and then he turned up to do this. that would be unthinkable now. modern athletes have intense preparations now, don't they? the diet, the regime that they live under. yes. i think roger bannister was working towards that with his training regime. iwas was working towards that with his training regime. i was reading about the pacesetters. i can't remember if it was chris chataway or chris brayshaw who was a steady smoker, but he did reduced to seven cigarettes a day for this. he set a british record in the olympics in helsinki in 1952 for the 1500 metres, but that was the precursor really for his great achievement, which is what he will be remembered for. not as an olympic athlete but the sub four—minute miler.|j

the sub four-minute miler. i think he came forth and that was a spur to him to go for the sub four minute mile. he was not a tremendously successful olympic athlete. he got gold in the commonwealth games and i think he was tremendously proud of that. strangely enough, this event ona that. strangely enough, this event on a relatively small running track in oxford, iffley road, not a huge olympic event, made his name. and it was an iconic record to get. it seemed inconceivable that anyone could run the mile in underfour minutes. some medical experts said it was impossible and yet he proved them wrong and it has been obliterated since then. it was a barrier not only in the sporting world, but more generally, it was conquered just two years