fisheries policy during the brexit transition period. and the new york times leads with nafta negotiations turning contentious as washington wants to limitjunk food warning labels in mexico and canada. the gulf news carries a striking photo on world water day of a parched earth, saying the world needs greener water policies to avert catastrophe. that is a warning coming from the united nations. so, let's begin. with me is liam booth—smith, chief executive at localis, an independent think tank. good morning. good morning. it is nice to see you. i am sure you have

been following this facebook drummer. it has been our top story every day this week. —— drama. advertisers are thinking twice. that is no surprise. they have raised concerns and broke cover. what is interesting is there was no glitch, this was not a data bridge in the traditional sense, not a hack, this is part of the design. —— breach. other stories like this will come out. this is significant. it is a pa rt out. this is significant. it is a part of the way the system was designed. earlier in the day you we re designed. earlier in the day you were talking... there has not been a full—throated apology. be were not transparent about who is really to blame. they are starting to realise

that behind the benign face of these social media companies there is something more dark. we are not users, we are a product. i do not know how i feel about that and we should have a conversation about it. everyone is thinking twice about it. it is not just, everyone is thinking twice about it. it is notjust, of course, facebook. it is notjust, of course, facebook. it is notjust, of course, facebook. it is huge technology giants gathering information about us all of the time, whether it is through oui’ of the time, whether it is through our phone, ai devices in our home listening to us and what we're doing, where we're going, what we'll buy and why and all that. what is concerning is what happens to that information. yeah. the times, the co—founder of whatsapp, who facebook bought out, the $16 billion, he is announcing is it time to delete facebook? you can see the community

of these, facebook is so big that there is not much competition. advertisers may well threaten to pull out of faith or, as the headline implies, but with 2 billion monthly active users, were they really turned their back on facebook? —— facebook. it is the gift that keeps on giving, surely. with that kind of market share, it is unlikely people pull out. advertisers will point out they need to ta ke advertisers will point out they need to take this seriously. if we are going to promote your platform, we do not want to damage our brand. the french press. a dramatic story unveiled a few days ago with nicolas sarkozy initially pulled in for questioning about his 2007 election campaign. there are now reports emerging of suitcases stuffed with money being handed over to his

election campaign team during that period. it is like a hollywood movie. yeah, french politics. he has been placed under investigation about money from muammar gaddafi. nicolas sarkozy has denied wrongdoing. he says this is a conspiracy, people seeking vengeance. conspiracy, people seeking vengeance. he, along with david cameron, was one of the first to launch warplanes against libya and the uprising which was overthrown. this is something out of a novel. the person leading the charges, as it were, has said he handed over three suitcases stuffed with around $4.4 million. i have no view as to

whether this is true. but it does mean for whether this is true. but it does meanfor him... whether this is true. but it does mean for him... i mean, whether this is true. but it does meanfor him... i mean, he has had ambitions to return, to be re—elected as president of france. that was his ambition, of course. emmanuel macron has eclipsed into a great degree. perhaps this could mean he will never return. is this the end? in french politics, you never know. we said that about silvio berlusconi and he is back. the daily express. a few interesting characters in politics. first, nicolas sarkozy, now borisjohnson, hitting headlines because of what he said. he does it over and over again. it was at a foreign affairs select committee yesterday, discussing whether or not the uk should boycott the world cup. he says vladimir putin is just like hitler. what did he say? it began last week with ian austin, the

labourmp,john last week with ian austin, the labour mp, john woodcott, and others, all saying we should boycott the world cup due to safety concerns. this might have happened a nyway concerns. this might have happened anyway without the sergey —— sergei skripal case. last week boris johnson said it is overwhelmingly likely vladimir putin ordered the assassination. the question i would ask of all of this is will the comparison with hitler helped or hindered the endgame, and what is the endgame? these comparisons do not help to build the international co—ordination you have seen theresa may tried to build. are his emotion

is taking over? and with the world cup coming up in russia, the olympics in germany, it was the use ofan olympics in germany, it was the use of an international sporting events to try to paper over what is really going on in the background, that kind of thing, did he mean that? it is intriguing. he needs to be more sensitive than that. indeed. the financial times. another very strong character in uk politics. nigel farage. he used to be the leader of ukip. many would argue he is the man because to occur. the jury is out on that. —— that caused brexit. he is supporting fisherman in the uk. they are angry they have to adhere to the fisheries agreement until 2020. they have to remain in the eu quota system until then. they wanted to be free by march next year. they will

have to wait a year longer. this is a ridiculous story. they threw dead fish into the thames outside parliament. they achieved what they wanted, getting on the front page. originally they wanted jacob rees—mogg. when they learned nigel farage would be on the boat, they decided to pull back. they will get what they want. they will be out eventually. they will have to wait a year longer up to what is interesting with this story is the scottish conservative mps, they were using this story as an opportunity to show how they are different from those nationally. they will increasingly want to use opportunities like this to explain and show the people from scotland the scottish tories are different sort and will stand up for scotland. just on this whole issue of brexit. theresa may is in brussels today.

this transition agreement agreed earlier in the week by michel barnier and david davis will supposedly be discussed by other eu members. it is difficult when you have headlines like this. it gets more and more difficult by the day, thatis more and more difficult by the day, that is the impression i get. more and more difficult by the day, that is the impression i getm more and more difficult by the day, that is the impression i get. it is massively complicated. i saw david davis and michel barnier announcing the interim agreement. i think they are making more progress than i thought. seeing other commentators as well, they want to give people more credit than they have tried. thank you for sharing your opinions and your views. thank you, too, for your company. that's it for the briefing. bye for now. hello there. temperatures have been slowly recovering over the last couple of days after that mini beast from the east brought us that disruptive snow. and in fact, as we head out into thursday, a milder start and generally quite

a mild afternoon. with some good spells of sunshine, it really will quite springlike. the atlantic has come back to life, now feeding in cloud and this milder air. we've seen the back of that cold easterly wind. you can see the air mass chart here, the orange colours which will be moving in, certainly for thursday. something a little bit fresher pushing in behind for the end of the week, for friday. mild air never too far away. in fact, at the weekend, given some sunshine, should be quite pleasant. as we head through the overnight period into early thursday, we'll see some damp weather down the east of the country, affecting east anglia and the south—east. but elsewhere, it's going to be largely dry. variable amounts of cloud. a bit more of a breeze further west. but it's going to be a much milder start you'll notice to thursday. most places starting off 4—7 degrees. just one or two pockets of frost perhaps in some very sheltered rural locations, south—west england, maybe north—east scotland. but through the day on thursday, it's looking pretty good. we'll lose the cloud from the eastern side of england. some good sunny spells around. we'll start to see a change in northern ireland and western scotland.

increasing wind here, gusting to 45mph, outbreaks of rain. but elsewhere, a lovely day in store. temperatures around 12, 13, maybe 14 celsius in the warmest spots. on thursday night, that rain band will spread across the country, eventually clear the eastern of the country for friday. so another fairly good—looking day. some sunny spells around. showers across the north—west. winter on the hills. maybe a toucher cooler than what we saw on thursday. now into the weekend itself, it isn't looking too bad. a typical early spring weekend, really. sunshine and showers, variable amounts of cloud. and it will be generally quite mild, particularly where we get the sunshine. this is how we start saturday morning off, on a rather cloudy note across central, southern and eastern parts of the country. the cloud may hang on in the south, the odd spit and spot of rain. but skies will brighten up, particularly further north and west. a few showers running into scotland

and northern ireland, and winter on the hills. given some sunshine, temperatures around 11 celsius. sunday is looking like being the better day of the weekend. more widespread sunny spells around. just a few showers again across the north and west of the country. probably the best of the sunshine, in fact, across the east. it will feel a little bit milder too, top temperatures around 13 celsius. hello, this is breakfast, with charlie stayt and naga munchetty. mark zuckerberg says sorry as he breaks his silence over the facebook data scandal. the facebook boss admits that his firm made mistakes by allowing personal information to be exploited. he promises action to stop data on the social network being abused. there's a lot of hard work that we need to do to make it harder for nationstates like russia to do election interference, to make it so

trolls and other folks can't spread fa ke trolls and other folks can't spread fake news, but we can get in front of this. good morning, it's thursday 22nd march. also this morning: what happens when you dial 999?