to hit the southeast of the us has made landfall in florida, packing wind speeds of up to two hundred kilometres per hour. so far so far one death has been reported at a home in gadsen county. —— so far, one death has been reported at a home in gadsen county. new evidence emerges about the fate of missing saudi journalist jamal kashoggi. president trump says he's asked top saudi officials for answers. nearly two weeks after the indonesian tsunami, major search and rescue operations are about and. at least 2000 people are at motor the government says the deadline is because bodies are becoming increasingly hard to identify. now on bbc news, it's time for wednesday in parliament. hello and welcome to the programme.

on a day where theresa may and jeremy corbyn returned to the fray after their conference break. isn't the claim that austerity is over simply a great big conservative con? uncontrolled borrowing, spiralling taxes, working people paying the price of labour. yet again, labourtaking us back to square one! there's a call for a shake—up of the criminal record system. i don't think it is fairfor people to have their entire lives blighted by the poorjudgement and mistakes they made in childhood. and musicians wax lyrical about the role of live music venues. i think it's a crying shame

there are so few live music venues around the country and a lot of them are dying. all that to come, but first, it's been four weeks since theresa may and jeremy corybn last faced each other across the dispatch box, but it was almost as if they hadn't been away. the labour leader had clearly been studying the prime minister's speech to the conservative party conference. especially that bit about the end of austerity. jeremy corbyn wanted to know when austerity would end for health workers, teachers, the police and councils. eight years of painful austerity, poverty is up. homelessness and death on our streets is up, living standards down, public services slashed and a million elderly are not getting the care they need. wages have been are eroded, and all the while, mr speaker, all the while, billions were found for tax giveaways for big corporations. and the super rich!

the prime minister declared she is ending austerity. but unless the budget holds the cuts, increases funding to public service, gives the public servants a decent pay rise, then isn't the claim that austerity is over simply big conservative con?! can i say to the right honourable gentleman, actually, wages are going up, we've increased the living wage as well. there are 1 million fewer people in absolute poverty under this goverment, under universal credit, 1 million disabled households will get watch a £110 a month more as result of being on universal credit. and he talks about cuts, i will tell him about the cuts that a bit of benefit to working people in this country. what about the {18.5 billion of income tax cuts that have helped household incomes under this government?

what about cuts that those 11 million households will see due to our energy price cut? and, what about the 46 billion of cuts through freezing fuel duty that has made a real difference to people's lives? but we know what would really hurt working people. labours plans would cost £1 trillion. 1000 billion pounds of peoples money, uncontrolled borrow rate, spiralling taxes, working people paying the price of labour. once again, labourtaking us back to square one. earlier, the prime minister had announced the appointment of england's first minister for preventing suicide. the snp welcomed the news but raised reports that some women facing benefit tests had tried to take their own lives. secret internal inquiries into these

reveal that conservative ministers were repeatedly warned of the policy's shortcomings. will the prime minister commit today to ensuring that her new minister of suicide will look at the impact of the government's social security policies at long last, scrap the appalling work capability assessment? the prime minister said assessing peoples abilities to work was important and the government did look at the impact of the assessment. jeremy corbyn did not ask about brexit, but a former cabinet colleague of theresa may's did. kenneth clarke, the longest—serving mp told her she could only get an agreement with brussels in parliament with the support of pro european conservative and labour mps. which would reveal that

the hard—line eurosceptic views of the people on the labour front bench, and the right wing nationalists in our party are a minority in this parliament. will she therefore proceed courageously, on that basis in the formindable task that lies ahead of her? theresa may said she was working on a good agreement for the uk. i would hope that everyone across this whole house will put the national interest first, put everyone across this whole house will look, not only at a good deal for the future of the united kingdom, but will also remember that having given the decision as to whether we stay in the european union or not, to the british people, the british people having voted to leave. it is our duty to ensure that we leave. not perhaps the answer kenneth clarked hoped to hear and with her dup allies threatening to vote against the budget if she makes further concessions to brussels, the prime minister's opposition is mounting. since the government

announced plans to stop letting agencies charge tendencies, theresa may has said tenants are right to be angry about rising rents and ripoff fees, legislation to end those charges in england have been given initial approval by peers. the bill bans tends to use, companies and breach of the new rules can face fines up to £5,000, and the future they will be responsible for paying for agency services. it will ensure that tenants will no longer be stunned by hidden costs, saving an estimated £230 million within the first year alone. the minister said that tenants are charge for many things, such as refernce checks, some over £130. they are hit for fees

for tenancy agreements, and even forjust picking up keys of the property. this is all the deposit and the first months rent up front. anna does not stop there, my lord. theirfees on renewal, when they leave the property, they often have little choice than to pay unjustified charges time and time again. the bill was welcomed by labour, but they said it would give the improved, such as the six weeks deposit. it is disappointing that it was said that six weeks, this is becoming the norm. i would prefer a set of four weeks, which i believe the prime minister indicated would be set when you and the policies and the policy some years ago. certain payments on assignment, the variation, the tendency, requested by the tenant, capped at £50. costs incurred. this provision could be abused, how can these costs be determined? what is the protection of the risk becomes the minimum

figure that is charged and tenants will be paying much our charges? i do think six weeks is too long for a deposit and i would ask the government to think again about this particularly in london in the southeast. if we look at my community where i live, if property that would house mum and dad and two children will easily cost £2000 a month. minimum. those people that are looking for that housing, are largely on minimum wage jobs. you're talking about a £3000 deposit. shelter states that over the past five years, alone, tenants have paid over $678 million and unfair fees. and it costing 82 million, i would look at it in that context.

as we scrutinise this bill, i think we should keep uppermost in our mind those very families on low incomes. the school cook, the teaching assistant, those were doing the right thing, looking from more affordable rent who could not afford to move to a cheaper rent because — and became homeless because of upfront costs. they will now be considered in detail. a former minister is calling for an overhaul of the criminal records system for those who have had minor brushes with the law. they had criminal records checks for some jobs to drop cautions, warnings or minor convictions. i believe that charge of criminal records systems is anchoring children to their past

and preventing them from moving on from their mistakes. it is acting as a barrier to employment, education and housing and it is therefore working against rehabilitation and undermining a core purpose of the youth justice system. and she argued that the current system perpetuated inequality. the disparity audit, concluded that that those from a bne background are more likely sadly to end up with a criminal record so a system which is unduly penal with such records has a harder and more disproportionate effect on bme communities. she said the effect of this system was to hold back youngsters for other uses years ago. putting up barriers to housing, work in education. i fully accept that those who commit criminal offences and should face punishment. if they have the capacity, the consequence of of their actions. but except in cases

of serious criminal offences, ijust do not believe it is better for those that have their entire lives blighted by deep or judgements and the mistakes they made in childhood. her bill stands virtually no chance of becoming law without the government support. you're watching wednesday in parliament with me david and don't forget if you miss a programme or just want to watch it again, you can catch up on the bbc iplayer. as the brexit clock ticks, mps are trying to find out what will happen when the uk leaves the european union. will there be 20 mile queues at ports? will planes still be able to take off and land here? ahead of the spending watchdog, they said the government department will have points of failure when trying to implement brexit. they're being questioned by the exiting european union

committee and the department for transport said he was underestimating the risks raised by brexit and that flights to and from europe could be at risk in the event of there being no deal with the eu. you wouldn't start from here. you have a lot of things going forward in a very short time scale and everybody generally speaking, civil—service is putting a terrific effort behind this. because of the unresolved, large number of risks that will be there at large, sum of those will come to reality. rather than singable fall apart what will happen is that there will be points of failure. which government department are you most concerned about when it comes to preparations? the department we have done studies on a particularly recent studies with transport other once we probably have the most concerns about. and i would include hmrc behind that.

all of the systems they provide are critically interdependent and a capability of those two other departments. department for environment, food and rural affairs. another labour mp took up to questioning. you think the most likely points of failure are going to be? if one thing does not work or is not ready on time and has effect across the system on another activity in other departments. so that's one thing to say. i think it's inevitable that the areas that are going to be under most stress will be on the border. transport is inevitably an area where, if you'll pardon me, it's clearly an area where there are risks that have not been addressed it will be

highly visible and have very significant consequences. the department, he said, had considerable expertise in managing projects. i have some concerns that because they are putting, and faced with this task and approaching it very vigorously, that they have actually been needed to be very positive about it and they have convinced themselves that it's worse than it is. myjob is to be on the objective side of that and so there's more risks and fields to the department as big as more risks that they are saying on some of their timelines and projects. but nonetheless, there are approaching all of this very vigorously and with considerable expertise. it does seem to be inconceivable that aeroplanes will not fly from europe to the united kingdom or vice versa. it's not impossible, and it could happen by mistake, rather than deliberately.

could happen deliberately and happen by mistake. i think it depends, i try to avoid getting involved, but it depends on how friendly or unfriendly the accompanying music is, and the point of all of these arrangements i have talked about it they do require mutual goodwill to put them in place. now, british farming in the area of life that could change dramatically once pretend the ceo and its common agricultural policy. mps have spent most of the day debating a bill that sets out asystem to support farmers after brexit. in england, the government wants to move away from the current subsidies system, which is based in the total amount of land farmed or owned. it's not going to happen overnight. this will set a clear direction for the future of agriculture.

any sure the farmers have time to make the appropriate changes required. there will be a seven year transition period from 2021 in order to enable our farmers to take advantage of the new opportunities that his bill provides. we believe that strikes the right balance between the urgency of the need for change to reward the better for the environmental and other public goods but also provide people with an opportunity to change their business model if necessary in order to take advantage of those changes in a staged an appropriate way. labour said the bill is a huge missed opportunity. there are no targets for environmental improvements. there is no commitment to producing healthy, home—grown food in a post—brexit world. and there is no commitment to protecting the people of this country from food poverty at a time when thousands rely on food banks. we needed an agriculture bill, but we needed to be better than this.

the bill offers ministers powers in the welsh government to reshape farming in wales. their prospects mirrors exactly what's been proposed by the secretary of state. after she finishes her speech was to get on the phone and tell them a sensible policy? i think that there are more powers provided in this from the welsh ministers than for english ministers. some mps called the bill a little premature. this bill lacks foundation. there's no brexit deal, no trade deal here and no one here knows what rules will be have to be followed to allow agricultural produce into european single market. but they don't even know where the borders will be. perhaps in the middle of the irish sea. it's up causing the most concerned to farmers and other food producers. the dup, whose mps support the government are having to operate on a world trade

organizations or wto rules. if you go to wto in the lamb industry and tariffs are introduced and northern ireland side of things they could decimate the industry overnight with 14 and 15% tariffs and we export 90% of our lamb. if former leader said direct payments to farmers should continue. an utterly predictable consequence is that the government will flood the market with cheap foreign imports and remove the lifeline of direct payments — hundreds of farmers would then go under. so this is not a nice and gentle seven—year phase—out for hill farmers, for many it's a seven—year notice to quit the landscape altogether. the green mp also sensed a missed opportunity. needs to be a clear framework and the date by which their up and running. over 70% of land used for agricultural purposes now is the time to place the legally binding responsibility

on ministers to make sure its farmed a way that restores the natural world. without such a guaranteed the that will remain as with too much of this government has a green agenda, too much words and not enough substance. the bill now goes for more detailed scrutiny by mps. now for a little stardust and the corridor where musicians have been waxing miracle about small life music venues saying that the best way to nurture emerging talent. they were speaking to the culture committee which is investigating what can be done to halt the decline of smaller venues. do you feel the loss of smaller venues and practice over her is having impact on younger artists and emerging artists in particular? yes. not just younger artists of any

artist in the process of trying to build a sustainable touring arm today or cortical business. i think that small venues help to not only hone the craft and you perform it from a small crowd and giga what you're doing and you moved up larger venues to be in this, but it also gives a massive community elements and ability to connect almost one—on—one with your fans. it's not only a crying shame that there are so few small music venues and there's a lot of them that are dying. as well as being a member of the band he has opened a music video. —— venue. if taken of the ecosystem the music will take a lot of pride in the country just would not be there. we have heard a lot of artist talk about the subjects who gets to the level,

frank turners and others talking about the platform. the live music venue in central london. it's actually the oldest live running music venue on the planet. when have that as a handle it makes things easier than it does for others. there's a lot of history and heritage there. and you go to come at this is a slightly different angle. i can talk you all day long but the issues i've had. it has been my family since 1958 and my grandmother was a shareholder there. my dad was. the issues that we have now, the financial issues, are more serious than they had ever been and they very nearly closed on more than one occasion over the last ten years. if a smaller premises are losing money. what are called percent of the ticket money is being spent a lot of music which across all that means our members of the venues are investing around about £11 million a year

of their own money and putting on my music. the artists are not making money because they're trying to build their careers. they venues are not making money because there's no money to be made. they are all a bit mad, to be honest, but the reason they're doing it on about being a business but about being in the communities of live music fans and they're established iconic places within their communities. somebody decided at some point music should be really important to their town and they have carried on doing not long after we have loaded them with costs of licensing and tariffs that everything else that makes it economically a very mad situation to be in. and they thought small venues with the best curators of new performers. i'm not sure how you are discovering new artists, but the channels in which you do have changed drastically. streaming services have algorithms that create playlists of artists that they can know you better than you know yourself. sometimes they have a good guess

but you can't have enough culture curated by robots, they have to be curated by people who have to know what they're talking about. i live that hip—hop and grime as it genre is one of the most streamed genres on spotify at the moment but is so incredible it difficult to find a small music venues willing to take a quote unquote risk to put it on because they're worried about their licensing terms. it's not explicitly said indirectly serve as owners of music and if it's urban you might have a little bit more trouble with your licensing terms, and you might have your license come up for review next year, and some venues understandably so are not willing to take that risk. a very good friend of mine who is a rapper who does not swear in any of his music and about as positive as you could be had a venue

cancel on him this week because they thought he was a band for the past month and realised he was a hip hop artist and set a cap of this on because we will lose our license. star witnesses of the culture committee. if only news about the building which mps and peers work. the palace of westminster is a world heritage site and is also falling down. in january may remember mps voted to move out of the palace while refurbishment takes place. first they need to pass a law to make it all happen. and this afternoon the leader of the comments had some news. she the finance committee that drafted bill was ready to go. 0thers she the work was long overdue. i do share the concerns of colleagues across the

house about some of the recent incidents with falling masonry and with floods. and with the various problems and the work is under way at the moment. i just really want to reassure the committee that the house authorities are taking every step possible to protect everybody on the estates whether from problems with the building itself, or the risk of fire, flood etc. we do take those extremely seriously. but mps don't need to start packing just yet. the work is not due to begin until the mid—2020s. and that's it from me for now. do join me the same time tomorrow for another round up of the parliamentary day. when mps to the chance to question the transport secretary and debate to the government's strategy. but for now goodbye. hello.

wednesday brought some unseasonably warm if somewhat breezy weather to the shores of the uk. a big contrast with what we saw piling into florida — into the panhandle here, we saw hurricane—force winds, torrential rain, and a big storm surge around the coast thanks to category 4 hurricane michael. that system, now moving over land, will start to weaken significantly, but it's still going to bring a lot of rainfall, particularly to the carolinas and parts of virginia, before eventually weakening into an area of low pressure that pulls offshore into the atlantic by friday. back closer to home, and for us today, quite a mixture, actually. some showers around in the east first thing, rain coming into the west, and decent sunshine between times. breezy, but not quite as warm as yesterday. but it will still be mild first thing, and our temperatures look like the figures we typically expect in the afternoons at this time of year. there are the showers across eastern england first thing. i think they'll quickly move

off into the north sea. into the west, though, some wet weather for the start of the day for the south—west of england, for south wales, also for western scotland some showers around initially, and then more persistent rain, really, as the afternoon wears on. central and eastern areas may escape, then, with a fine day. east anglia and the south—east of england, for example, and there will be some sunshine behind the rain for wales and the south—west of england. still getting up to 22, 23 in the south—east, cooler to the west of this front. some showery outbreaks of rain for central and eastern england out of the tail end of that front thursday evening. some heavier rain pushing north across scotland, and then look out towards the south—west, because this really is the low to watch. now, this is callum. it's a named storm, it's a very deep area of low pressure, it's been named by met, and as it rolls across the uk on friday, we can expect gale—force winds, with severe gales in exposure. gusts in excess of 70 mph, likely to be damaging winds. some pretty heavy rain piling into the west through friday, as well. again, eastern areas definitely spared the wet weather, i think, for much of the day. but that wind is going to be the biggest problem, in association with this system on friday. still quite mild, even warm in the east, temperatures 19, 20, but much cooler weather

eventually coming in behind callum. we've still got the trail of the weather front behind that system, though, with us for saturday. so some quite wet weather towards the north and west, pulling away at the moment, it looks like, eastwards for sunday. that should be the drier and brighter day of the two this weekend. still, though, a lot of uncertainty in the detail. it will be worth keeping regularly up—to—date with the forecast. welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in north america and around the globe. my name is mike embley. our top stories: it is one of the most powerful storms in decades. hurricane michael strikes the florida shore, the most powerful storm to hit the south—west coast of the us in a century. thousands have evacuated. police say one person has been killed. extradited from belgium, a chinese intelligence officer appears in an american court

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