you're watching beyond 100 days. the terms for divorce have been agreed in brussels, but are they acceptable to the british parliament? eurosceptics in britain say the withdrawal agreement will render the uk a vassal state and must be rejected. it is a critical moment for the british prime minister, who tonight is meeting with her cabinet one by one to explain the compromises. in europe the chief negotiator michel barnier is exercising some caution. "we are making progress," he said. "but we are not there yet." in california, at least 44 people are now known to have died in the wildfires, which are spreading again in high winds. also on the programme. make france great again! donald trump takes on the french president following his trip to paris for armistace day. and too good to eat... how instagram is turning the restaurant industry on its head. hello and welcome — i'm christian fraser in london.

jane o'brien is in washington. the british prime minister is meeting her cabinet colleagues this evening, one on one, to put to them a legal document that spells out how the uk will leave the european union. the breakthrough in the negotiation has come after several days and long nights of discussion in brussels. it is only part one of the negotiation, the terms of the divorce, but it is a major step forward. it does not mean the withdrawal agreement has been accepted. the cabinet will need to decide that in the coming days — and then the british parliament. a qualified majority of european leaders must also agree to it, and the european parliament. in short, this is where the technocrats step aside — and the real political tussle begins. you can say that. our political correspondent rob watson is here in london and our europe correspondent damian grammaticus is in brussels and we can speak

to both of them now. lets get the caveats out of the way, this is an agreement on the terms of the withdrawal, not an agreement. this is an agreement on the terms of the withdrawal, not an agreementm does not settle britain's future relationship with the eu. it is about the principle of the withdrawal. it is massively significant, hugely important. it feels like the biggest moment of brexit 2016, the vote to leave, because it would avoid chaos but it isn't done. it doesn't mean the future relationship is sorted out. the second caveat is that the deal has to get through theresa may's very divided government and parliament, two political hurdles. in europe, michel barnier, the eu negotiator, is a bit circumspect? yes, we haven't heard much officially from the eu side. from

soui’ces officially from the eu side. from sources here we know that the negotiators worked late into the night last night and the night before. they've been doing this since the beginning of the year. the la st since the beginning of the year. the last eight, 12 months, trying to hammerout last eight, 12 months, trying to hammer out this agreement. they found the text. we still have the irish side saying there are little details that must be worked on but it has gone to london now and the key question that the eu will wait to see is whether theresa may can get agreement politically from her cabinet, over the next 24 hours. still big hurdles, and there are big things in this agreement that dismay had is it she would never accept —— that mrs may. we know what they were focusing on over the last few days, theresa may saying she would break free of the eu and the customs union

and single market. the text appears to say that the uk will have a two year transition and at the end of that if there is no trade deal, the uk would stay in a customs arrangement with the eu, making trade easy but it will limit the uk ability to sign trade deals with other countries. because of that the eu is likely to have all sorts of provisions for the uk signing up to eu rules to get the customs deal. that is something mrs may said she wouldn't accept. and on the island issueit wouldn't accept. and on the island issue it is likely to have the eu plans to keep northern ireland under eu rules, to avoid a border in any eventuality, something mrs may said she wouldn't accept. big political hurdles to get over there. why the breakthrough now? have they run out of time? time is part of it, the uk

and the eu wanted a deal sooner rather than later and they wanted a summit before the end of this month, so summit before the end of this month, so they needed to do it. rather than leave it any longer. the british government was anxious not to have to start very expensive preparations for a no deal. we have to this again and again, the reason i use the word historic about this, sensually if it goes ahead, if approved, it will prevent britain leaving the european union next march without a deal, which most experts and businesses think would lead to absolute chaos. interesting thought that the eurosceptics, the baiji were out of the traps pretty quickly tonight —— the traps pretty quickly tonight —— the erg out of the traps. we touched on this last week. it is better to

step back. this is moments of truth time for theresa may's government and the conservative party. is this the moment when the whole thing in close and the brexiteers, the enthusiast the levers and remainers who think that the deal is worse than staying in the eu decide that this is a matter of principle and they are going to stop it, in which case all help hell will break loose 01’ case all help hell will break loose or will people like borisjohnson, conservatives and others will say that they don't like the deal but they don't like the alternatives. here is what makes this a genuine political drama. if theresa may were sitting here now, she wouldn't be able to answer whether this works. she has ducked that question several times. thank you forjoining us. vicky young is in downing street.

what is the atmosphere like after all this time? i imagine it is pretty tense? it is. as soon as news started filtering out that there may be some kind of draft text, we had a host of mps be some kind of draft text, we had a host of mp5 is coming to the cameras and parliament doing interviews. i spoke to borisjohnson. his quote, saying that the deal, even though we aren't there yet, is a chronicle of aren't there yet, is a chronicle of a death foretold, saying that we would be a vassal state, staying in large parts of the single market and customs union and that he would vote against it. others came out and gave their version. they are being very fissiparous stop what is happening

is that other cabinet ministers who have an unhappy about the direction of travel have gone in and they have a big decision to make. if they aren't happy, are they going to resign? it is a big moment also for theresa may and she knows that she'll have to get it through parliament. the thing she'll be hoping is that people will look at the alternative. if they think it is i'io the alternative. if they think it is no deal, that may focus the minds of enough of them. when i interviewed borisjohnson asking him his alternative, he said we need to get alternative, he said we need to get a transition agreement, which is pa rt of a transition agreement, which is part of the withdrawal deal, and then we will prepare for a no deal scenario. i don't think there's anyone who genuinely thinks the uk is ready for a no deal scenario to happen in quite rightly half months' time thank you forjoining us. and if you're unsure

about the various terms surrounding brexit, then you can go to the bbc news website and look for the brexit jargon—buster — your guide to all the key terms. also commentary from our various experts. the difficulty in this negotiation for theresa may, and i think this is the moment of maximum dangerfor her, think this is the moment of maximum danger for her, while she think this is the moment of maximum dangerfor her, while she has been saying no deal is preferable to a bad deal, nobody really believes that the government departments have measures in place to back it up. nobody thinks that the uk is ready for a no deal scenario. the other difficulty is that an the eu side, no deal is preferable to a deal that undermines the single market and the customs union. that has always been the case. it isn't an equal negotiation so she is probably taking the decision, there is some

thought that this is her deadline at the moment. some in europe and pencilled in two months after article 50 and would be prepared to extend the process. there is a feeling that the prime minister has gone as far as she can right now within those parameters and it is time to put it to the cabinet. the moment of maximum danger. we'll be focusing on that door for the next 24 hours and the reaction to the cabinet meeting. in california the forest fires have now claimed 44 lives, with more than 200 people still missing. but those search and rescue efforts are being hampered by strong winds that are whipping the flames and the embers and spreading the fires further. more than 300,000 people have been forced to flee their homes. president trump has declared a major disaster, making federal aid available to affected residents. dave lee reports from california. it's been five days since the flames ripped through here, taking everything.

for the people that were able to make it out of paradise, into safety, an excruciating wait. this woman was trying to find out what happened to her brothers. he's an amputee but he's a tough little brother and i'd just like to tell him i love him both very much. the harrowing process of trying to find and identify bodies here has now begun. search teams think it could take many weeks. what will also take time is fully understanding what happened here and why this fire was able to get so out of control. it's almost impossible to imagine how it must have felt to see the flames get closer and closer, until there was no longer hope. i want to recover as many remains as we possibly can, as soon as we possibly can. i understand the toll it takes on people, not knowing what became of their loved ones.

it's just came through so quickly. for those who did make it out, like this nurse, tales of an incredible escape. fire was coming on both sides. there was a fire tornado in that canyon. all of a sudden, my cab filled up with total black smoke. it made me realise how close i came to losing my life. 500 miles south of where we are, there are rare glimmers of good news. some of those evacuated in the south have been allowed to return to their homes, or at least what may be left of them. there is no such prospect for the people of what was once known as paradise. dave lee, bbc news, in northern california. a short time ago i spoke on the phone with allyn pierce — a nurse who drove his truck between the flames to help evacuate the patients at the local hospital in paradise. thanks forjoining me at a very stressful time. how did you get out of paradise? the first attempt at getting out

of paradise ended in failure. if you can see those pictures of the truck online. we had evacuated all of the patients at the hospital very quickly and got them all headed down the hill. and then the staff started evacuating and then i headed down with a couple of my team members and we got into a valley that had gone on fire. we were moving really slowly and at some point it had got gridlocked and we were trapped in the fire. it's a rural town. there were propane tanks exploding and we are in the middle of the woods so trees were going up in flames and cars catching on fire on the side of the road. people running down the middle—of—the—road. it was a bit hellish. it sounds horrific.

how frightened were you? i was terrified. i don't act like it at that moment. you are put in a lot of situations as a nurse where you have to keep your wits about you. i was terrified. but yet you went back? yes, at some point i was trapped between a fire truck and a flaming suv and a bolt came out of nowhere, and knocked the suv out of the way. it exploded and there was a moment of chaos and then i see there is a path into the forest and i cut into the forest because i had a truck so i could do that. and i was able to turn around and head back up. and head back to the hospital. why? as i get there i have also got other team members that did not make it down the hill and people from the community showing up.

so we set up the triage and started taking care of patients. we raided the hospitalfor supplies, gurneys and chairs and ivs and bags. and we just started setting up a little mini hospital outside, triaging everyone from like all types of needs, like giving mechanical ventilation. you are still working, have you had time to let everything sink in yet? i think i'm still kind of processing. the part in the hospital was actually the easy part. i'm still kind of working through the feelings of going through when we were trapped in the fire. i think that is where my head is stuck right now. i am working with my team and making sure they are in the loop because half the hospital burned down.

and i'm helping communicate with my staff about how we can help. and trying to provide for them. and they have been nothing but grateful. thank you very much indeed for talking to us. no problem. looks terrifying. not so long ago donald trump and emmanuel macron appeared to enjoy a warm and fruitful relationship — the us president had treated mr macron to a state visit. he seemed to admire his younger french counterpart, even though they were from different sides of the tracks: 0ne a globalist, the other a self—defined nationalist. but today the bromance took a stumble, the us president was exercising his frustrations on twitter. he doesn't much like the french leaders plans for a european army. "emmanuel macron suggest building an army" he wrote "to protect europe against the us, china and russia. but it was germany in world wars one & two — how did that work out for france?"

"they were starting to learn german in paris before the us came along. pay for nato or not!" and then over a series of tweets the president went on to attack president macron personally. his approval ratings are very low he said. he concluded with a twist on his usual motto: ‘make france great again‘. well here with me now is our north america editorjon sopel. what went wrong between them?” don't know... laughter i think what happened, donald trump and mr macron have differences, had differences. they were always there. just before donald trump was going to get on a plane, the suggestion that europe may need an army one day to protect itself against the united states went down very badly with the

president. he fired back and you are almost back to where you were when it was chirac and george w bush, when the french were being called cheese eating surrender monkeys. we saw him shaking his knee and the president doesn't very impressed. macron seems to have taken the decision that he's going to speak truth to power. he did it to congress and got away with it and he did it on sunday. when you take on the president you get it back to fold. emmanuel macron faced criticism that he was cosying up to master donald trump. —— cosying up to master donald trump. in his speech at the weekend he said nationalism is the enemy of patriotism. it was pretty clear who

that was targeted at. they don't agree. they have a different global outlook and i think that was plain to see at the weekend when donald trump seemed in a real grab the whole weekend — — trump seemed in a real grab the whole weekend —— being a grump. the french palace has not dignified it with any comments so far. thank you for joining with any comments so far. thank you forjoining us. the broadcaster cnn has filed a lawsuit against the trump administration after the white house suspended the credentials of one of its seniorjournalists. its chief white house correspondent, jim acosta, had his press pass revoked last week hours after he got into a testy exchange with mr trump. the network alleges this violates their constitutional rights. the lawsuit names the president and other senior aides as defendants including the chief of staffjohn kelly. all this week at the bbc we're looking at the spread and impact of fake news around the world.

kathleen halljamieson is professor of communication and the director of the annenberg public policy center at the university of pennsylvania, and joins us from philadelphia. what happens when the media becomes the story? the problem when the media becomes the story is that the story has trouble getting through. the problem the press has when it tries to respond to the president's tax on it, the president successfully deflects —— attacks on it. should journalists under the guise of holding donald trump accountable and fighting fake news 01’ accountable and fighting fake news or inaccuracy fact check him all the time? or or inaccuracy fact check him all the time? 0rdoes it or inaccuracy fact check him all the time? or does it run the risk of being distracted and not talking about things which may be more important? you need to ask the

question, what is consequential perception, what if what is believed this door is the public understanding ofan this door is the public understanding of an issue that is really important. if they fact check the president in real time there would be little time to cover the i'iews. would be little time to cover the news. i don't like the fact that the press has adopted the fraser fake i'iews press has adopted the fraser fake news as if it has meaning. if news is fake, it isn't news. i prefer to think about viral perception, which you want to certainly cure. you don't want that and you don't circulate it further. going back to jim acosta, i made my feelings clear, i think he should have given way to the president but i'm glad

they've challenged it because i think a dangerous precedent. if you ta ke think a dangerous precedent. if you take away a press pass for something you like in a press conference it isn't a long step to taking passes away for asking the wrong question. we seen that in the sporting world, where the sports journalists are nervous about asking questions in case they are banned. perhaps just as well that they are challenging? yes, it is one thing to say thatjim acosta's behaviour wasn't appropriate as it should have been, he should have ceded the floor, but another to say that... it is dangerous to say that the president can determine which reporters can cover him and which will not. carry that to its conclusion and you'll only have sycophants in the press corps. isn't part of the problem is that it corps. isn't part of the problem is thatitis corps. isn't part of the problem is that it is difficult to distinguish between inaccurate news and opinion in america? it is not difficult to

distinguish if one asks the question properly. to the extent that the fa ct properly. to the extent that the fact checking organisations, and i i’ui'i fact checking organisations, and i run one of them, asks whether the statement is... whether knowledge it is available, you can distinguish knowledge from opinion very clearly. if links are provided to the sources that they used to determine whether or not something deserves the category of fact or is given that label, we increase the likelihood that the public understands that we know what we know in politics. thanks forjoining us. women like talking about feelings while men are excited by cars — a load of sexist rubbish, you might say.

or maybe not, according to one group of experts. based on a study with more than 650,000 participants, scientists at cambridge university found men were more likely to prefer ‘things' and ‘systems', while women were more interested in people and emotions. we must caveat that this research used self—reporting — that's when people either agree or disagree with certain statements — which may be prone to distortions. but assuming there is a grain of truth to it, what are we to make of the data? there are some qualifications in the research and they make the point that they don't know to what extent it is genetic and socialisation. i hesitate to put this to you because i know that you are an anomaly, when it comes to cars? yes because i think this is codswallop. i love

cars, i think this is codswallop. i love ca rs, i love think this is codswallop. i love cars, i love fast cars too. i can also put an engine into a fiat 500. i don't think that's an anomaly. when i come back from the boys chip and my wife asks what the wives have been doing, i didn't ask because i'm not very curious. we talked about ca rs not very curious. we talked about cars and football and thinks that boys talked about. this is beyond 100 days from the bbc. coming up for viewers on the bbc news channel and bbc world news — the deadline approaches for the recount in florida. we'll have the latest from miami. and it is a heavily guarded trial — mexican drug lord el chapo is in court in new york. that's still to come. after the showers of the last few

days, prospects today have been drier and brighter and we'll stay with clear skies for the rest of the afternoon and into the evening. beautiful picture from the coast of hampshire. the satellite showing clearly where we are, between the weather fronts we saw yesterday and the next system waiting to moving tomorrow. this afternoon, mostly clear skies, a light breeze and smiled again —— mild again. to the west of us, by the time we get into this evening, the cloud will be thickening, the wind will strengthen and brain into northern ireland and wales top some heavy downpours before it moves into southern and eastern scotland. clear skies to the south. a mild night. temperatures in double figures for many. 0n

wednesday morning some sunshine for central england, more cloud elsewhere. frightening as the day goes on. in the afternoon, the sunshine moving —— brightening. the rain taking longer to move away from scotland. mild again, temperatures into the mid teens. four degrees above average. for the rest of the week we will see less and less rain asi week we will see less and less rain as i pressure builds. the weather situation settling and as it does so some 01’ situation settling and as it does so some or all of them favourites to contend with —— more autumn day fritz. lingering mist and fog. there may be some rain in northern ireland and the of scotland but mostly, i lot of dry weather and decent sunshine. anywhere from yorkshire into the south—west may be stuck

with more persistent cloud on thursday. quite wet with maybe grizzle. look at the temperature, 17 in london. very mild and that will be the story to finish the week. into the weekend, and easterly wind and things will turn to lead going into next week. this is beyond one hundred days with mejane o'brien in washington, christian fraser is in london. our top stories. uk and eu officials reach an agreement over the text dictating britain's departure from the european union. many eurosceptics within theresa may's own party say they won't vote for it. the counting continues in florida. a week after the midterm elections — many key races depend on a review of the ballots. coming up in the next half hour. jurors in new york are granted anonymity and armed escorts at the trial of the notorious mexican drug baron known as el chapo. and which british actor and potentialjames bond contender does this doll resemble?

of course it's idris elba, yours for a mere £850. as we've been hearing in the last few hours, the uk prime minister has started presenting the details of her brexit deal to cabinet. the comings and goings from no 10 are an indication of the work theresa may has ahead of her. and it's notjust her ministers she needs to convince. even once she has cabinet sign off, she still needs get this deal through parliament and her own backbenchers are not going to make it easy. we are going to stay in the customs union on this deal. effectively in large parts of the single market. and that means it is vassal state stuff. we are going for the first time in a thousand years, this place, this parliament, will not have a say over the laws that govern this country. it is a quite incredible

state of affairs. it will mean that we are having to accept rules and regulations from brussels over which we have no say ourselves. it is utterly unacceptable to anybody who believes in democracy. a short while ago, i talked to former attorney general and prominent remain politican dominic grieve and i asked him for his take on the deal. i shall be trying to make sure i read the whole of it. and trying to understand exactly what the implications are. one of the anxieties there has always been with this is that unless you understand the detail, it will be impossible to understand the extent to which the united kingdom remains bound during the transition period to the eu. and the consequences of that. and secondly of course, there is the issue of the backstop and the extent to which that might continue to bind us long after the transition period has come to an end. this is the extraordinary thing, suddenly, you see remainers in parliament standing alongside

brexiteers. we have heard from jacob rees—mogg this evening who said this will render the uk a vassal state. the dup say it will set northern ireland apart. can you see then any which way that this document passes the parliament? if the dup and the number of my colleagues who crowded in to central lobby i understand an hour ago are anything to go by, then it looks to me to be very difficult to see that this deal will get through parliament. because they would have the numbers, i think, to stop it. assuming the opposition parties all vote against the deal which i think most of them will. there may be one or two labour mps who might vote another way. it sounds to me from what you have just told us that you would be minded to vote against it as well? the difficulty i have is that my view is that we have embarked on a project that has proved to be totally flawed. what worries me the most is if we approve this deal,

we're about to leave the eu on the 29th of march in a way that i fear is going to satisfy no one. and the obvious answer to that is to go back to the public and explain to them what has been negotiated and the limits of what is possible. and ask them if they really want this. if they do really want this, then i for one as a democrat will simply put my hands up and say right, that is what the british people want. so be it. but i also think it is possible they might say this is a very poor deal, we understand much more about the implications of leaving now, we do not want to leave. and to deny people that opportunity when the reality of this negotiation is that we are going to i'm afraid end up in a third rate relationship, that troubles me very much. we are about to allow ourselves to leave the eu without consulting the public about the future, when it is manifestly clear that the best the government can do is likely to be a third rate outcome. when you study this document, when it is finally presented to parliament, you will have to read that alongside the advice

that is being given to the government by the attorney general. can you explain to us what you secured in parliament today? from my point of view i secured a promise from the government that there would be a full document setting out the government's analysis of the legal position. and that is exactly what i would have expected and i am very grateful for it. the government is likely to have to produce details of the attorney general‘s advice. although whether it chooses to do that or tries to choose some other route, i simply do not know. just a final point, this is a political decision that the prime minister has taken tonight. she must have made the decision privately that this is as far as she can go with the text? and there is no point going any further with the negotiation as it is at this point. yes, i think that is probably the case. from my point of view although i have some criticisms about the way these negotiations have been conducted, i'm the first to accept that the prime minister in the spirit of public service has

been endeavouring to do her very best to get the best possible deal for the country whilst minimising the economic damage from brexit. but the problem has always been, the fundamental of this, that every time she has been asked, so, prime minister, we will be better off when we are out? she has always refused to answer because she knows just as many of us know, that we are not. dominic grieve, i'm very grateful for your time. thank you. the trouble with a champagne celebration is that once you pop the cork you can't put it back in — something republicans are learning the hard way. they had high hopes to win the senate race in arizona — but a week after the midterm elections, that seat has just gone to the democrats. and after republicans declared victory in florida, the race for governor and senate are still too close to call and could be heading for another recount. even though republican candidates still hold slim leads in both, the bubbly is starting to lose its fizz. rajini vaidya nathan is in florida for us now. when might we know the results of

this election? let me start by showing you where i am. if you are an election he is called to see this up an election he is called to see this up close, this is the recount under way at the moment. we had 67 counties across florida all doing this recount. we have a man here annually sorting those ballot papers, they are counting them in that machine down there and then they're handed that machine down there and then they‘ re handed back that machine down there and then they're handed back to some of the operators on the other machines and they are bidding these ballot papers through the machines again, there are electronically read and on the computer screens in front of these men and women we can see the vote tallies for the candidates. they're working through the clock here and across florida to try to meet the deadline that you asked about because they had to finish these

recou nts because they had to finish these recounts by thursday. but currently there are going through the early votes of the moment and we were told by someone earlier here that they have already counted 199,000 of the 299,000 early votes here in this county. so they expect a finished the early voting recount sometime this afternoon. but it is quite an interesting scene because at the end of the day we can talk about policies but it comes down to cold ha rd votes like policies but it comes down to cold hard votes like these ones behind me. interesting that you are being given such a front row seat to this as i'm sure our many of the lawyers are heading down to florida because the republicans have, there has been criticism of them trying to infer that there is some fraud going on. that has come from the president himself of course who has been saying that extra votes had been invented out of thin air. he called

for these recounts to stop and he believes that these republican candidates who are at the moment ahead, and of course it is the margin of that big three which is why there is a recount, he says they should be able to carry on celebrating. this is something we do not normally get to see, on the other side of these cameras are the lawyers and members and the public just standing and staring through the glass. i spoke to lawyers from both republican and democratic teams earlier and they had very little to say. i said to one what are you actually looking for as you stare through the glass and he says looking for signs of impropriety. i asked what that looked like but he did not know coming he said we will know when we see it. of course many parts of the state have a bit of ptsd when it comes to the word recount, of course they have been there before in 2000. thank you very

much. results from the midterms are still trickling in across the country but the picture as it's being revealed now, is somewhat different to how it appeared on election night itself. rather than having ta ken a commanding control of the senate the republicans, in the worst case scenario, might only increase their majority by one. florida and mississipi are yet to be declared so as it stands the senate is split 51 - 47. as for the house of representatives, the democrats have taken decisive control there, with 227 seats against the 198 republican seats. with ten races still to be called. today the new intake — including a record number of women — is getting an orientation session at the capitol where they could make life very unpleasant for president trump. democrats will take charge of influential oversight committees with the power to subpeana senior members of the trump administration

and launch investigations. 0ur north america reporter anthony zurcher is here. just getting back to these recounts what has actually changed since tuesday? the recount owing on in florida, the lead in the senate race has narrowed considerably down to about 12,000 votes. the republican rick scott ahead of the democrat ben nelson. there are about 20,000 undercount votes in one county and thatis undercount votes in one county and that is what they are going to be looking at them map to see those boxes left empty. whether there was some error. that is what is going on there and we found out about arizona last night, that was interesting cost of the five slips so far in the us senate where it is gone from one party to the other. arizona is the

only state that has gone to a party that did not carry it in 2016. it is now going to be represented by a democrat. so generally it seems there has been a big sorting going on in the mid—term elections but arizona, with indications now but it is moving to the left. on wednesday morning the president claimed credit for switching some of the senate races with this draw that he went on. but when you look at arizona and nevada the opposite is true because he forced outjeff flake and then martha mcsorley was forced to go to the right and laughs. then he made the right and laughs. then he made the republican candidate in nevada flip—flopped on health care and he lost. so you could say that maybe he did not have such an effect but if he did and then in the wrong way.” think arizona in particular, his hardline stance on immigration probably hurt republican running there. the republicans did have some

pick—ups but looking at the key battle ground states, we're talking about nevada, arizona and michigan, wisconsin, pennsylvania, 0hio, florida for the florida is the only one still up in the air, the rest went to democrats. so while donald trump was trying to push as people over the line in the senate races, the states that where battle grounds, he did not help them. thank you forjoining us. the long awaited trial of drug lord joaquin guzman — known as el chapo — has begun today in new york. he was extradited to the united states from mexico injanuary 2016 on charges that he trafficked tonnes of cocaine and other drugs into the united states, and ruled over a brutal empire in mexico as the leader of a notorious cartel. mr guzman has pleaded not guilty, and faces life in prison if convicted. the trial in brooklyn is expected

to last up to four months — amid heavy security to protect jurors, witnesses, and mr guzman himself. one woman cried last week when she found out she had been chosen to serve as a juror and the judge fearing she could suffer from a breakdown, excused her. nada tawfik is in brooklyn for us now. what is happening today in court? today proceedings were delayed, we we re today proceedings were delayed, we were supposed to get right into the opening statements from both sides laying out their case but instead we had a delay. even know they had been a number of security precautions put in place to protect the jewellers and witnesses including a scorching thejurors to and witnesses including a scorching the jurors to and from court each day by armed us marshals, making sure that their names and addresses and places of employment were held back from defence attorneys in the media. despite all that there was still one juror who played it media. despite all that there was still onejuror who played it again with thejudge to

still onejuror who played it again with the judge to be dismissed. she cried last week when she found out that she had to serve on this jury and thejudge that she had to serve on this jury and the judge agreed that she was feeling anxiety, she presented a note from her doctor listing the medical issues she had since being selected and she was then dismissed. so they had to go ahead and select anotherjuror so they had to go ahead and select another juror delaying so they had to go ahead and select anotherjuror delaying all the proceedings this morning. why is guzman standing trial in new york and not in mexico? he was actually convicted of drug trafficking and homicide in mexico in 1993 but remember he was able to evade authorities and even escape twice from maximum security prisons in mexico. so eventually mexico decided to extradite him to the united states as long as the united states agreed not to give him the death penalty. so here in this trial it is a consolidation of charges from six different federal districts across the country that the us attorney

general picked you up to try this case. and what are they worried about most in terms of security? there are really worried about the safety of witnesses and jewellers and transporting guzman without anything coming to pass. he is being held in manhattan but the brooklyn bridge is shut down every time that is transferred under a heavy government escort. so that is their focus now, to make sure that this trial goes through without a hitch and they put their best foot forward to try to secure a conviction. thank you very much. this is beyond one hundred days. still to come. how posting victories of your food is changing the way we eat out and how instagram is being accused of running the restaurant trade. —— posting pictures.

culling badgers to reduce tb in cattle has caused huge controversy since it was first trialled 5 years ago. now an independent review says badger culling only has a ‘modest‘ effect in reducing the spread of tb and suggests that cattle play a bigger role in passing it on than the badgers. jon kay reports. they seem fine, but look closely. the small green ear tags show that these cattle have tb. so these cows here are tested positive. 24 of rob harrison's dairy herd have just been diagnosed. it is the worst outbreak he's ever known. this disease is devastating. to have a healthy, functioning dairy and beef industry we need to control this disease like we do any other disease, and it's just got out of control over the last 30 or 40 years. many farmers blame badgers for spreading tb, so a cull began in 2013 in gloucestershire and somerset. it's now been widened to 32 different zones. overall its estimated more than 34,000 badgers have been killed.

today's independent review says badger culls can have a modest effect in reducing tb in cattle but says killing more wild animals will cost millions and may not be acceptable to the public. so what happens now? well, the government is due to give its response next summer. in the meantime, the various badger culls will continue as planned and it's worth pointing out that today's review is based on trials that were carried out more than ten years ago. it's not based on the current badger cull programme. today's report says we also need to look at vaccinations, testing, and how farms are managed, as well as how tb can be passed between cattle. rob's infected cows have now been isolated and will be destroyed. john kay, bbc news, gloucestershire. it used to be that

restaurants lived and died at the hands of the food critic. these days there's another danger lurking on the horizon for food outlets — instagram. with more than 180 million instagram posts being tagged under the hashtag ‘food' — and that's not including the slug ‘foodporn' — it's clear that posting pictures of food before you actually eat it, is now a big deal. what's more the impact of photo sharing can make or break a business. to discuss the ins and outs of the foodie instragram we'rejoined by blogger clare every and restaurant owner meriel armitage. you started with a pop—up restau ra nt. you started with a pop—up restaurant. street food ? you started with a pop—up restaurant. street food? it was a p°p‘up restaurant. street food? it was a pop—up restaurant like a supper club and then we did street food and a

p°p‘up and then we did street food and a pop—up again and then festivals and nowadays everything is all over the place anyway. and it was people photographing your food that led to what? to be able to start a restau ra nt what? to be able to start a restaurant really, in fact a couple. so huge success. i'm very modest but we still do street food in shoreditch and then another restau ra nt. shoreditch and then another restaurant. it is all very new and modern and along with that has come social media and gas. does it annoy people when they stand on their chairand people when they stand on their chair and sayjust people when they stand on their chair and say just hang people when they stand on their chair and sayjust hang on while i ta ke chair and sayjust hang on while i take this, nobody move! people do get annoyed by people taking instagram pictures. but i'm biased, i love to take instagram pictures and it is not doing any harm and at the end of the day it is exposure for restaurants that maybe would not have had it before. well i've just

heard that she changes the ambient mood of the restaurant so that the pictures taken are just so.” mood of the restaurant so that the pictures taken are just so. i have to bea pictures taken are just so. i have to be a killjoy because this kind of behaviour drives me party. i do not even michael stone at the table when they're used to text and to make calls. so perhaps the question, which is more valuable, but good food review, happy customers, ora phone photograph on instagram?” think a good phone photo is the equivalent of a good review to us. we can be reviewed by one of three or four or five really great reviewers in the national broadsheets in the uk all we can be reviewed by thousands of people who come every day and taking photos and posting it and telling their friends about it. and that is so important to us. so a good image taken by

several hundred people over the weekend can make or break a restaurant. and what makes a good photo? natural light is the number one thing. it is difficult to always have natural light in a restaurant so there are instances where i have to bring fake light into a restau ra nt. to bring fake light into a restaurant. i'm careful to apologise to everyone around me! is there a danger that the food is all frills and no knickers, that it looks good but does not taste good?” and no knickers, that it looks good but does not taste good? i would say thatis but does not taste good? i would say that is the beauty of social media, so that is the beauty of social media, so instagram is your best friend or your own worst enemy. if you great pictures of food but look amazing but do not deliver on the taste, then the same people who take those photographs and might put your foot

on pedestal by the same ones who will break you down when they come to eat it and you do not deliver.” would've thought the danger is you can have a fantastic restaurant, done a really good job and you get one instagram photo from someone followed by a lot of people and that can ruin you. it is a bit like tripadvisor, with bad review you go down the pipes. i do think that instagram has forced people to up their game at it. you never know who is coming in, how many people there posting too so it is important for restau ra nts posting too so it is important for restaurants to always deliver a solid dish which tastes good and is presented well and the service is good. but i think that is what restau ra nts good. but i think that is what restaurants should be doing anyway. well done on your success. he's been touted as a possible james bond and voted one of the sexiest men alive. we are of course talking about idris elba.

and much as i would like to see him in the flesh, i'm going to have to make do — for now — with a doll... yes — here he is in all his glory, apparently, handcrafted by a british manufacturer — yours for £850. the suit is suave, yes, but we wonder whether mr elba will appreciate the evil eyes and bald head. he looks like a hobbit. it is not flattering. many on twitter have mocked the creation saying it bears no ressemblance to the actor. £850 per roll. yesterday we had the

tramp bearon £850 per roll. yesterday we had the tramp bear on the programme and i joked that it had been made in china. isaid joked that it had been made in china. i said no joked that it had been made in china. isaid no it joked that it had been made in china. i said no it has not and then many true things said in jest, many people sent me the label and it says at the bottom, made in china. so i'm betting that in the next few weeks there will be targeted sanctions on that particular teddy bear. what i really wa nt that particular teddy bear. what i really want to know, getting back to food. it is your breath day—to—day put up are you putting up a photograph of your birthday cake? and it is katty tomorrow and that is

why she's not here, she's in paris celebrating. i know the children are waiting up to me on the special might. thank you for watching, we will see you the same time tomorrow. today was much quieter across the uk, the shower is fairly isolated. we had high pressure in the driving seat but it will be replaced by another weather front tonight bringing heavy rain into the far north west and some strengthening wind. so the rain gathering through the night tonight from the west. it is going to be a mild light, more like daytime maximums for this time of year. so it is a day of contrasts

with some rain and strong gusts of wind around further north and west. to northern ireland and scotland gusts of wind of up to 40 miles an hour or even higher and some persistent rain for a time which will quickly move through. across england and wales it stays largely dry with some sunshine coming through. as the rain eases away, we could have a warm afternoon in sheltered eastern areas of scotland. as we go through the end of the week conditions looking likely to settle down and that can bring an issue of overnight list unfiled. we come under the end influence of high—pressure meaning that things quieten down and any weather fronts

tried to push on from the north—west are killed. but it could be that thatis are killed. but it could be that that is not going to move away that overnight mist and fog for some time. so dry and quiet day for many on thursday and if we get some sunshine it will be the warmest day of the week. butjust keep a close eye on that mist and fog. the wind direction changes heading into the weekend becoming more of a south easterly and dragging in something a bit cooler. but for many of us it will dry bit cooler. but for many of us it willdry up bit cooler. but for many of us it will dry up nicely. this is bbc news i'mjuli. the headlines at xxxx london and brussels agree a draft text for an agreement on brexit. cabinet ministers have been called to downing street one by one tonight to discuss it. but prominent brexiteers are deeply unhappy. it will mean that we are having to acce pt it will mean that we are having to accept rules and regulations from brussels in which we have no say ourselves. this is utterly

u na cce pta ble ourselves. this is utterly unacceptable to anybody who believes in democracy. the shadow brexit secretary sir keir starmer said labour would not back a deal which did not meet the pa rty‘s tests. we'll given the symbolic nature of the in the symptoms she asians this is an unlikely deal with it country. —— given the symbolic nature of the negotiations.