president trump has praised the outgoing us ambassador to the united nations, nikki haley, following her shock resignation. the move fuelled speculation that she has presidential ambitions. but in her resignation letter, she said she would support his re—election bid in 2020. hurricane michael has strengthened further as it bears down on america's gulf coast. forecasters have warned of three metre storm surges and winds approaching two hundred kilmetres an hour. mass evacuations are underway, and alabama, florida and georgia have declared states of emergency. florida's governor has described the hurricane as a monster storm which kept getting more dangerous. turkish authorities are set to search the saudi consulate in istanbul as the investigation into missing journalist jamal khashoggi gathers pace. turkey's president has challenged the saudi authorities to produce the evidence that he's safe. it's just gone half past two in the morning. you're up to date.

now on bbc news, it's time for tuesday in parliament. hello and welcome to the programme. in the next half hour, the brexit secretary tells mps he is confident a deal can be struck with the eu. the uk has brought forward serious and credible proposals. it is time for the eu to match the ambition and the pragmatism that we have shown. after the death of a teenager who suffered an allergic reaction to a store bought back at, mps want reassu ra nces store bought back at, mps want reassurances that our food will be safe after brexit. any trade deal with the us cannot come at the price of watering down to safety standards. and anger over the storage of human body parts by a firm working for the nhs. it is an absolute scandal. how on earth did

we get to this? but first, mps and peers have been away from westminster for three weeks. the brake westminster for three weeks. the bra ke allows westminster for three weeks. the brake allows the liberal democrats, labour, and the conservatives, to hold their annual autumn party conferences. —— labour. it was a busy time for all three. while all that was going on, the ha rd graft of while all that was going on, the hard graft of the brexit negotiations has been carrying on behind—the—scenes, and the first of the brexit secretary on day one of the brexit secretary on day one of the new term was to update mps on what had been happening. these negotiations, mr speaker, are always bound to be tough in the final stretch. that is all the more reason why we should hold a nerve, stay resolute and focus, and i remain confident we will reach a deal this

autumn as the uk has brought forward serious and credible proposals and we continue to engage with the eu to press oui’ we continue to engage with the eu to press our case we continue to engage with the eu to press oui’ case and we continue to engage with the eu to press our case and to better understand the nature of some of their concerns. equally, it is time for the eu to match the ambition and pragmatism that we have shown. mr speaker, mr speaker, while we intensify our negotiations to secure the deal that we want, the dealer we expect, we also expediting the preparations for no deal. in case the eu do not match the ambition and pragmatism that we have shown. labour said theresa may should have come to make the statement. the first update the mps have had since the rejection of her present plans at the salisbury summit. mrs speaker, it would also be better if the report contained details of substantive process. but it is like grand a day, the same old story. the secretary of state pretend everything is going according to plan. it is just a

everything is going according to plan. it isjust a question of dotting the eyes and crossing the tees everything will be all in the end. —— dotting the is and crossing the ts. it is all real wealth and we are closing in on workable solutions, and listing areas of agreement months ago, but we have been here before. many times. and that overlooks the fact that the remaining bit is the hard bit of a green the backstop in northern ireland. dominic raab attacked labour, saying it could not answer basic questions about it policy, and would buy down almost any deal. let's be clear in this: of all 28 governments agree on a deal that works for the eu and the uk, the labour frontbench, at least, would vote against it. were secretary of state commit to give the british people the chance to give their informed consent to that final deal? is not about obstructing the

referendum, but about checking we have informed consent. dominic raab rejected that, seen with correct mistress in that little system. the snp returned to ireland. we still do not know what the government intends to propose to the you do make european union northern ireland. we know led me of what they won't do thatis know led me of what they won't do that is to be thrown over every time to keep it eu pr side. we do not know what is being proposed northern ireland. —— —— to keep the dup onside. canada the secretary of state's attention to what the prime minister said on the sixth of december, when she said no new borders within the united kingdom, the whole of the uk, including northern ireland, will be the customs union and the single market, and on the 17th of december, she agreed that nothing would be done to greet any border between northern ireland and the rest of the united

kingdom. does he stand by that? because it is to understand that as faras we're because it is to understand that as far as we're concerned, as a democratic unionist party, we will not tolerate any given separates northern ireland from the rest of the united kingdom in terms of customs or single market as we leave the european union. we have been clear about that from day one. it is why we have the debacle in december. let's not repeat the mistake. the honourable gentleman registered his position clearly. we intend, as he knows, we have been engaging this issue and intend on our commitments, and we will not do anything that will threaten the economical constitutional integrity of the matter kingdom. yesterday the prime minister's spokesman said there can be no withdrawal agreement without a precise future framework on trade.

true or false? true. the government has been as to encourage better food labelling, with fears that standards could be lowered after brexit. an urgent question was given, following the case of a young girl, when natasha died after eating a baggot ona natasha died after eating a baggot on a flight to france. the death of natasha has shone a harsh spotlight on the issue of allergy labelling in particular, and whether the current framework is still suitable. her pa rents framework is still suitable. her parents have made a powerful case for change. i'm sure the whole house willjoin me in paying tribute to the grace and strength they have shown in these particularly challenging circumstances. the secretary of state has asked the department for urgent advice on how we can strengthen the current

allergen labelling framework. that review is under way. they are working closely with the food safety standards agency. this morning received the coroner's report into natasha's death and will study at very carefully as part of that review. has the minister or the secretary of state ever told larger companies are the expectations by government are higher for them, given their vast customer base and extensive resources? pratt now say they will include full labelling on all products, so they can do it when they want to. —— labour. but mustard always ta ke they want to. —— labour. but mustard always take it easy to affect meaningful change from the government? these tragic cases and it is clear that the law needs to be updated. can my honourable friend set out how quickly he expects that the law can be changed in this regard and say more about what the government is doing in terms of providing guidance to retailers to

make sure that these type of tragedies don't happen again? the minister said the review was being accelerated by the dead give an exact date. the shadow environment secretary said full ingredients lists should not just secretary said full ingredients lists should notjust being nice have, but could be a matter of life and death. tomorrow will be discussing the government's agriculture bill, which means that the first time in decades the environment secretary will be in charge of our nation's to production. this also gives us a unique opportunity, here, to put into place strong laws around food. and can minister provide the house with a cast—iron guarantee that after brexit there will be no moves to attempt to water down any food labelling laws that are currently on the statute book? for example, in us law, only eight major allergens had to be listed, as opposed to the 14 in the fsa. and any trade deal with the us cannot come price of watering down food safety standards. the us cannot come price of watering

down food safety standardslj the us cannot come price of watering down food safety standards. i met the constituent early last year. he relived the hour he spent tried to save her life on the british airways flight save her life on the british airways flight from heathrow to nice. and no pa re nt flight from heathrow to nice. and no parent should have to go through that appalling experience. i think he is the wrong person giving the wrong response there. pret and the other food outlets have passed the buck to the government. they should not be passing matters of policy to the food standards agency. in my constituency, there are dozens of small producers, many of whom are producing directorfor small producers, many of whom are producing director for sale at market in somerset and the wider south—west. can a encourage the minister that while he will want to strengthen the regulations for large retailers very much that we apply some common sense in the way that we apply those requirements for very small producers selling locally?

pret is not a small shop. it is a large industrial producer of field which baked into that baguette a known allergen and then proceeded to sell it without labelling it by way of using a loophole meant for small corner shops. the minister should be outraged about that. i welcome the fa ct outraged about that. i welcome the fact that he has said he will strengthen the law, but what is he going to do to strengthen enforcement in the capacity of trading standards and the two standards authority to enforce the rules. the standards are as important as getting the rules right. —— —— labour. important as getting the rules right. -- -- labour. he said as a father of a daughter with allergies he would be acting quickly. —— the fsa to enforce. don't forget, you can find all fsa to enforce. don't forget, you canfind all our fsa to enforce. don't forget, you can find all our programmes via the bbc iplayer. fm has been stripped of

nhs contracts after hundreds of tons of clinical waste from hospitals was allowed to pilot at its sites. stephen barclay told mps that new regions had been made to replace the standards. hes said that although it collected some body parts, the toggle waste was restored. stephen barclay ca n toggle waste was restored. stephen barclay can to become a serious an urgent question from labour. the committee is working with the agency and engages to make sure lessons we re and engages to make sure lessons were learnt, and informing how contract awarded the future. i have updated the house on this today as new guidelines were appointed on sunday. throughout, mr speaker, our pride he has been to ensure that measures were put in place so that the nhs can continue operating as normal. no gap in service provision has been reported, and we are working to ensure that this remains

the case. jonathan ashworth. this is an as the scandal were a private contractor has failed in their responsibilities to a staggering degree. 350 tons of waste, including human body parts, and infection fluid, substances from cancer that effectively stockpiled and not serve the disposed of this is not so scandal. how on earth did we get to this? but we hear that hes were served with the tim horan in notices and to compliance notices over the la st and to compliance notices over the last year. so that was not accelerated after the department of health. should it have been? hes said that they have been reporting their issue with consideration to regulators for sometime. and yet the minister says there was no issue of capacity. could the minister 's assurances that there has been a

risk to any patience at any time or indeed to the wider public over this most thank you to my honourable friend for that and i am happy to give the assurance that there has been no risk to patients at any point during this time. i say to the minister, we still don't have the basic facts about what medical waste is being held at the normanton site, how far over the environmental limit it is, and the timetable for compliance, and the timetable for compliance, and perhaps he could share that information with us, does he not acce pt information with us, does he not accept it is a basic principle of dealing with any kind of public health and environmental health risk or incident that you provide proper, full, factual information to the public, to the community, at the earliest opportunity? you don't hide behind contractual negotiations and would he accept there is nothing in

the contract negotiations that would have prevented him or the health secretary providing some basic facts about those risks much, much earlier than today? the action the minister has taken to terminate the contract is with this company given the clear breaches and failures to deliver what they said they would and i noticed in his statement he referred to the capacity for the waste incineration, could he give further details on how he satisfied himself there is capacity in each region as clearly these are specialist facilities and the impact of having to transport waste would potentially have a knock—on effect. steven barclay said nhs trusts rather than ministers had terminated the contracts. millions of pounds worth of the tentative funding is to be made available to support trust affected. will this be met for existing departmental budgets, will the money be allocated by the treasury? surely, it should be the failing contractor

that cost half £1 million, if not more. it should not be coming from taxpayers. the minister said that some of the cost will be absorbed centrally. the government has refused to condemn the alleged murder of a missing saudi journalist, arguing that the facts are not yet known. jamal khashoggi, a critic of the saudi regime, was last seen visiting the saudi arabian consulate in istanbul last week. turkey says he may have been murdered there. speaking for the government in the house of lords, the facts of the case were not known. i would not want to either speculate or hypothesize without knowing what these facts were. let me make clear that we would be concerned that if the allegations were to be substantiated. i believe it is the case that violence against journalists is going up worldwide. it is a great threat to freedom of expression. if the media reports prove correct, we will certainly treat the incident seriously. i want to make clear that friendships, and we have an established friendship

with saudi arabia, but friendships depend on shared values and respect for those values. we seen action in the yemen from the saudis, the roughing up of the enforced resignation of the lebanese prime minister, the increased use of capital punishment, and more laws repressing people in saudi arabia. it is precisely that repression and open interference in other countries' affairs that leads... that makes this incident seemed more likely. the opposition condemns it absolutely. and i do hope the noble lady, the minister, will today on behalf of the government condemn this outrageous act. there is an investigation. we do not know the facts. we are very anxious to establish the facts. we are again with turkey and the united states to try and ascertain what the facts are. and we need to establish what the facts are and then

determine how we should respond to that situation. whatever it may be. a former ambassador to saudi arabia suggested a different brooch. the changing nature of the saudi regime is a matter for regret. but does she also agree that given the economical, political and strategical importance of saudi arabia, we should tread gently and public and speak firmly and private? but a liberal democrat was not convinced. have there been any explanations as to why a man, jamal khashoggi, who already expressed that he was afraid for his life, and had been critical of the saudi regime, walked into an embassy and just never came out — there is footage of him going in. there is no footage of him coming out. in fact there's reports now that he went to the embassy in washington for the papers he required because he wanted to get married, and he was directed to the embassy in istanbul. it seems, obviously we don't have the proof yet, but it seems as almost a lure to go there.

could she say what robust discussions are taking place, and it is simply unacceptable for a member, a journalist, to walk into an embassy and just to not come out again. the message was conveyed to the saudi arabian ambassador that we are very concerned about the reports which we have heard. they are essentially media reports. and we have called upon saudi arabia to support a fair investigation. —— thorough investigation. we need to find out what actually has happened. saudi arabia obviously is well placed to contribute to that investigation. and we have also made clear to our saudi arabia, that we not only want an investigation to be undertaken, and it must be robust and thorough, but we want saudi arabia to show —— share the outcome of that investigation. people understandably wish to know what has happened. now, how should the states stop prisoners reoffending? at questions in the commons, one backbencher made his own suggesting.

reoffending rates for those on short—term prison sentences, wouldn't they go down as uncomfortable as possible for the month injail? hear, hear! instead of spending all day in their overcrowded prison cell, either on their mobile phone or going to be satellite tv channels, shouldn't they be out breaking rocks in a quarry or picking litter in the rain? hear, hear! people are sent to prison as punishment — not for punishment. the purpose when people are inside prison should be about ensuring that when they are released, they are less likely to reoffend. and i have to say to my honourable friend, i don't think he is setting out an approach that will be effective. earlier, david gauke announced that prison officers in england and wales will be issued with a synthetic pepper spray to help combat violence in jail. 0ne mp wondered how

effective it would be. people in chelmsford are concerned about levels of violence and the prison and they want to know that prison officers are safe. will pepper spray help? thank you very much, mr speaker. this morning we've announced that officers in future will be able to carry pepper spray on their betls. this is to be used as a last resort, in the same way as a baton would be. but it means that if in a situation in which a prisoner was in the process of stepping on another prisoner's head, it would allow you to be able to intervene safely from a distance to resolve the incident and potentially save lives. it is only one measure among the dozen of other measures we have to improve safety in prison. but it is an important measure to protect the people who protect us. the prisons minister rory stewart. peers have been debating a proposed new anti—terror laws incorporates measures drawn up in the wake of nerve agent attacks in salisbury. the counterterrorism

and border security bill gives extra powers to thejudiciary, police and security services to help them deal with the growing terrorist threat. the home office minister lady williams said the attack on sergei and yulia skripals was almost certainly sanctioned by senior officials in the russian state. my lords, the events in salisbury are part of a pattern of behaviour by the russian government, and they are not alone in engaging hostile activity that threatens the united kingdom. given this, the time has come to harden our defences against hostile state activity. as a first step, part two of the bill provides for a new power to stop, question, search and detain persons at ports, airports and the northern ireland border area. labour that it was probably supportive of the bill. it noted that ministers had made some last—minute alterations to it. that didn't suggest that the counterterrorism security legislation is always being considered and evaluated

by the government in quite the column and measured way they will like us to believe. but in some areas being rushed to meet deadlines, even though the events which have weighed most terribly on the government's mind in formulating this bill that have all occurred within the last few weeks or months. a senior lawyer that the investigations into the salisbury poisoning had a wider significance. we should remember the cooperation of our friends and neighbours across europe in resisting russian aggression in the wake of the salisbury poisoning. and is it not ironic that on the 5th of september the prime minister pointed out in the house of commons that while russia resisted any expedition, we had obtained a european arrest warrant to ensure that if the two suspects ever travel to europe we would be able to secure the arrest to bring them swiftly tojustice in the united kingdom. a former director general of mi—5 worried that the number of terror suspects in britain was beyond the capacity

of the security services or police to monitor them on a regular basis. we know that the terrorist threat from islamist terrorism is severe. we also know that the growth of radicalisation is quite different to what it was a decade ago. it is very rapid indeed. it can be between breakfast and lunch. government plans to change the international aid rules have been condemned by labour as a betrayal by the british government. exploring whether profits from private investments could count towards britain's promise to devote 0.7% of national income to overseas development. the country's commitment to spend 0.7% on overseas aid is a clear expression of how deeply the uk public care about eradicating poverty overseas. the public are therefore right to be feeling betrayed by the minister's speech today in which

she has suggested that global poverty can be utilised as a lucrative investment opportunity. if the honourable lady has a better suggestion of how we manage to raise $2.5 trillion, i would be very interested to hear it. i am here not to make us feel good about spending aid money, lam here to eradicate extreme poverty. and we cannot do that without business, and we cannot do that without the private sector. and dogma has no place in this debate. the uk's supposed to be world leading in this, and this of backpedaling and backsliding and finding different ways of leveraging this is actually undermining local leadership was that i was supposed to be a government priority in the face of brexit. does she accept that the global goals, meeting them are in our interest to build a safer and more sustainable and more secure world? they are not things that happen elsewhere in poor countries overseas. it is for everybody‘s benefit. why not be more ambitious

and use this money to go beyond the 0.7% target? will she commit to be 0.7% being a flaw, not eight cap? this is about levering more in. and i was a to honourable members, what we are trying to do in international development is not about some doctrine of the purity of aid, or what we should do with public money. it's about changing people's lives. and that is it for me for now. the do joint david at the same time tomorrow for another round up of the day here at westminster, and highlights from prime minister's questions. but from now from me, alicia mccarthy, goodbye. hello. we will start the day with some sunshine and end with something quite different, but for wednesday,

the sunshine we saw on tuesday across england and wales extends across northern ireland and scotland. finally we say goodbye to this rain bearing front. however, it is all change again by the time we get to friday. potentially some disruptive, wet and windy weather pushing across the uk, but we will talk about that in more detail injust a moment's time. first wednesday, which is going to be a fine, dry day, plenty of sunshine across the uk. there will be a bit more cloud for the north and west of scotland, but it will soon thin and break. you can see how that warmth extends across england and wales into northern ireland and scotland. temperatures widely in the high teens, low 20 celsius, perhaps even 23 or 2a for east anglia and south—east england. skies will turn hazy across the south—west in southern england later in the day. outbreaks of rain pushing their way northwards overnight into south—west england, wales, northern ireland, the midlands. northwest england staying mostly dry across scotland and the east of england. this is what you expect by day at this time of year. also a very mild night

as we go into thursday. thursday is going to be a transition day, we have not one but two cold fronts moving their way across england. patches of early—morning rain in south—west england. more rain arriving into south—west england. it will eventually push its way up into the midlands and north—west england. ahead of this, we have still got some warmth across east anglia, south—east england. 21 or 22 celsius there. we will start to see something cooler further right. then some very cool weather potentially friday. the deep area of low pressure, tightly packed isobars, gales. multiple heavy warnings in place at the moment. the front will be pushing its way across the uk, bringing heavy rain to the west of scotland, wales and south—west england. that rain may not get across to the far south—east of england until late in the day. these are the average, sustained winds, but the gales could well get up to 50 or 60 miles an hour, maybe even higher. some potentially disruptive winds, keep an eye on warnings. there are lots of them

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