facing the world's worst humanitarian crisis, after fresh clashes dealt a blow to peace prospects. saudi—led coalition warplanes bombed houthi rebels in the port of hudaydah. it comes as the un tried to revive talks to end the three—year war. carlos ghosn, a man described as a "titan" of nissan cars, is under arrest in japan. the chairman of the japanese car giant, as well as mistubishi and renault, is being investigated over claims he under—reported his own earnings. unconfirmed reports say he failed to declare $41; million over five years — half his actual earnings. four people have been killed in chicago mercy hospital. a police officer, the government, a doctor and a pharmaceutical assistant are all dead after a gunman opened fire. now on bbc news, monday in parliament. hello and welcome to monday

in parliament, the main news from westminster. in her first outing as work and pensions secretary, amber rudd promises to fix the problems with universal credit. i know it can be better, i will make you my role to ensure that we deliver that through our discussions, within the dwp and in the discussions with treasury. we will have a compassionate benefit system. there are fears for the future of local newspapers. and it is all our civic duties to address. a conservative mp on whether she is a part of a campaign

to get rid of theresa may. if members are to know whether the honourable lady has written a letter to the chair of the 1922 committee on the prime minister to go. it is straight down to business for the work and pensions secretary, she got the job last thursday following the resignation a few days later, she was answering questions from mps, sorting out universal credit. she started the session by paying tribute to her predecessor, was sitting on the back benches. and thank you, before i start, can i take the opportunity of thanking my predecessor, the right honourable member for their great leadership and her work on the disability campaign in which he set up. the niceties were soon

over and she was asked about a report on poverty in the uk. and said ministers are in a state of denial after a 12 day tour, he said he had encountered misery and one of the worlds richest countries. the professor described the uk's benefits system as punitive, mean—spirited and often callous. they say that when asked about the problems of universal credit, they were entirely dismissive. thus far, the government has been determined to press ahead with the roll—out despite clear warnings from over 80 organisations that people would be affected and many could fall out of the social security system altogether, and the government state of denial, scrappy regulations

and stop the roll—out. i have read the report and i was disappointed by the political nature of his language. we are on the side of the house, we on the side of the house will always engage with professionals, with experts, we are not under unable to learn, but that sort of language, we look forward to work with experts on that area to make sure we did the right outcome for the people we want to look after. her predecessor suggested that the chancellor's intervention, but in actual fact they wanted them to go farther, much farther. it looks significant power, more than any of the predecessors had in the last few years by virtue of the fact that the prime ministers

precarious position, will she listen to those expert charities and halt universal credit until it is fixed? i would not want to overstate my power, but i will be listening very carefully. part of the benefit of the roll—out is to be making sure that we get expert guidance for those up and working in this field for many years. we will certainly be doing that. she fleshed out her thinknig later on. i know that there are problems of universal credit despite its good intentions. i have seen them for myself and i will be listening and learning from the expert groups in this area who do such good work. i know it can be better. i will make it my role to ensure that we deliver that to our discussions, with in this and be discussions with treasury. we will have a fair, compassionate and benefits system. i added my congratulations to her on her return

to the front bench. and unlike her predecessor, who was described as almost entirely dismissive of criticisms of welfare changes and universal credit, will she take seriously these reports on poverty in the uk and heed these calls for changes to universal credit? does no credit to the report by making personal comments about the former secretary of this department who did a fantasticjob. having said that, i have already acknowledged that he can make changes to the system despite a tremendous good that it does, i know that there are problems with it does, i know that there are problems with it and we will be focused on fixing it. can i welcome her to her position

and wish her every success. and that youthful employment has fallen by half since 2010, will she agree with me that this is a party of opportunity and this is a party for young people? mr speaker, can i take the opportunity to thank again the right honourable lady for the extraordinary work that she did in this department, particularly on the disability campaign but also encouraging women to work, a champion for women for social mobility, so yes, i agree with her. this is the party of opportunity. it is a civic duty for everyone, regardless of political parties to address the crisis in local newspapers, that is the view of the deputy leader, he was speaking with the press going into administration with £200 million of debt, since then the media, a new consortium made up of the creditors announced that they were taking over. i spoke with david king,

formerly the chief executive, and i spoke to the head director. they set out that they believe that this move was the best course of action and a long—term future of their staff and the titles and that the only alternative would have been liquidation and redundancies. he offered his deepest sympathies to anyone affected by the changes. this is the example of the challenges faced by the newspaper industry, and those faced by local papers. local papers up to bring local voices, shine a light. but it is clear that these papers have to make difficult decisions to try and adapt to changing market. the long—term future of the press

was farfrom certain. how in this digital age of information, can it be preserved through local journalism was? since 2005, 200 local newspapers have closed and we have lost half of all local journalists. for ten years we have seen the impact of digital disruption on local journalism. now while ministers hold open sessions, the tech have consolidated their media advantage by dominating digital ad revenues and continued to avoid fair taxes and will pay less once the government's corporation tax cuts are introduced in the finance bill. some have allowed data breaches on their platforms. worst they sneer at parliaments around the world, trying to hold them to account. can i remind the house again that even rupert murdoch

showed greater respect for our democratic institutions then mark zuckerberg who refuse to appear before the committee. mr speaker there is a crisis in local newspapers that we have known about for many years. and that it is all our civic duties. build on the bbc's local democracy initiative which is already funding 150 journalists and that the obvious people to make an extra contribution towards that are the internet technologyjobs who are responsible for at least some of the problems now affecting newspapers. the national union of journalists have voiced

significant concerns amid fears that it has been purchased with the view... she raise concern about the pension scheme. i do not think it is correct as the secretary of state has said that their pensions will be affected because they will be operated as a matter of cpi inflation. at someone is carrying on taking a pension for 20 years, they will lose out of thousands of pounds if their pension is operated at this low were great, and so can she confirmed that add jpi media, at ed has been transferred will indeed lose out to the tune potentially of thousands of pounds because of these changes? there are good reasons why at this stage at least and need to be cautious about what i say on the detail of this transaction in the background to it, what i would say... what i would say to the honourable lady is that it it is very clear that this business is having significant difficulty before

this transaction was carried out over the course of this weekend. and where these businesses to of been liquidated they would have been very serious consequences for all concerned. to the lords now where is the lady who is the vice chair of the all party group on breast cancer voiced fears that the discomfort experienced at mammogram tests are putting women off checkups. every year women are screened for breast cancer. many women suffer intense pain during mammograms and therefore have put off returning for examination. the issue of breast lumps are not conclusive but secondly, i think that we do not track how women react to mammograms and we do not hear the voices of women to say how they feel therefore they do not inform good practise. can these two issues be addressed during any investigation or device they may be seeking? i am grateful to the noble

lady for the question and the spur to ask the advisory committee to look at this issue, she is quite right of course about the expanse, it can be painful and the experience of pain as she pointed out put some women off taking up their appointments around half a million each year do not take up the appointments that they are invited to and that is obviously a problem if we want to commence a screening programmes out i will consider not just the evidence of the use of them but get evidence of women. the only radiographer in this house, can i ask the minister given that the quality of an image is dependent on the closest possible contact with the screen, how can this be achieved if you are starting to put questions —— cushions under people to make it more comfortable

for a few minutes examination? and that is why the trial was discontinued in the evidence has not been collated because of the interference with the image and what i have asked the committee to consider is if there are ways in which they can be used and they are used across the country for women who are particularly sensitive or after surgery or if they can be moved to mike used in a more systematic weight without interfering with the crucial image that needs to be captured. you are watching monday in parliament with me, christina cooper. house builders have been accused of scandalous behaviour, over the sale of leasehold houses, most new houses are sold freehold but some were sold leasehold with having to pay ground rent and fees if they want to make alterations. rents could start at a couple hundred pounds but double every ten

years, and the housing committee has been looking into what happened and heard from some big building firms including taylor wimpy. we welcome the opportunity to appear before the committee today, both to repeat our apology to those customers who have been affected by a very specific lease that taylor wimpy had historically, a ten year dublin lease, and also if i have the opportunity to explain measures and have taken to date, to help resolve that issue for our customer. the committee wondered what house builders charge ground rent for. what do you actually give to the house owner, in return for this money you have taken from them? in respect of leasehold houses, i think that is a fair question

and it is one of the reasons that when these numbers came to our attention in autumn 2016, we made the very quick decision to convert the homes that we sell to freehold... so you didn't bring anything to them basically? we believe we did the best for them in the majority of the circumstances. so you aren't embarassed by it then because you just justified it? as i said, it was practice, particularly in the of england. the early tangible benefit is to buy a home with a lower price at the outset, there is no other benefit. bates said houses sold at leasehold were cheaper than freehold ones. based on the evidence sessions we've been involved in, in the round tablefashions, we have been and i can tell him me

that there are a lot of unhappy people out there but that is to put it mildly, but let's look into the compensation schemes. last week, one leaseholder accused developers of offering as little as they could possibly get away with to compensate leaseholders affected by onerous ground rates. now, is that a fair assessment in your opinion? we took the matter extremely seriously when it was brought to our attention in autumn 2016, and i think the reason for that timing is that the leases that we created without specific laws was used on new developments between 2007 and 2011, was coming up for its first dumping and starting to cause concerns for customers. we did act very swiftly, we talked about a legitimate business decision right at the very start of 2017 to move away from the sale of leasehold homes or houses, in favour of freehold.

we also, having undertaken a detailed review, established a provision of 130 million, which we announced in 2017. and the company was working with those affected. another area of concern was that leaseholds were sold by the builders to a third company, without householders being able to buy them. why is it then that your company has this policy of we will sell it off to a third—party and not offer it to the individual leaseholders at the time when you're offering the sale ? it's how we've always operated as a business, and i'm sure that's not the answer you want, but once a year... what i'm asking is why did your customers not get the chance to exercise the opportunity

to buy their freehold? your sign selling the fruit rolled out from under them. yes, we are. i would regard that as being, quite frankly, a scam. i am not sure i took straight to it as a scam but you are offering a freehold and leasehold, and the law says you have the right to acquire the freehold after two years of living in it. you are right, you are 100% right, i sell that basket of leasehold or free holds to an investor, without asking the customer whether they would like to buy it again. 0k, do you think the law should be changed to stop that? i think the whole area of first—rate of refusal is confusing and i would say through the reform process and would take a cap one of consent, calculation of ground rents and calculation

on the value of the freehold, i'd make the whole process more consumer friendly. we cannot let the day go by without checking in on brexit. and with the prime minister unveiling her draft withdrawal agreement last week, there's plenty to talk about. theresa may started her speech to a british industry, and she said she would stop eu migrants jumping the queue ahead of people from australia or india. afterwards, it was the turn of the labour leader to speak to the cbi, he said brexit could be the catalyst for economic transformation in the uk. back in parliament we didn't have the dramatic scenes thursday, when mp after mp attacked theresa may's brexit deal, but there were some lively exchanges in westminster hall as mps debated a petition saying if there was no agreement to leave the eu, then brexit must be stopped. the petition was signed

by 110,000 people. this is an interesting time to be presenting this debate, days after the prime minister made a statement to the house about a proposed withdrawal agreement, with statements from all parties and many individual mps, about whether or not that agreement would be acceptable. the decision by eu members on ratification to come and so many uncertainties, and maybe this a good time to be listening to what our 110,000 petitioners feel. news reached me today of a walk—out by 200 young people from four schools in northern ireland over what they say is the unwillingness of politicians in westminster to address the grae concerns young people have over the draft brexit deal, and they're calling for a peaceful‘s boat. young people feel very let down by the brexit vote, and that it's the duty of each of us to fight very hard for the future, and would you also agree with me,

in particular for all the people in northern ireland, where we only hear one side of this debate in the house, it is especially incumbent on each of us to listen very carefully to those young people in northern ireland? liz twist said it was highly unlikely that the deal would be of great importance. i wonder if their concerns for appeasing northern ireland and the european citizens living in the uk mean that many of them will find the proposed deal unacceptable. what is absolutely clear is that they believe that no deal was concern, in that event when they are not prepared must be stopped. but she said that brexit must not be stopped. there can be no doubt that the british people and their representatives should think that brexit should go ahead,

and we made a promise and let's stick to that promise. the referendum question said nothing on the possibility we should have a so—called people's vote and the referendum on the 23rd ofjune 2016 was the people's vote and gave people the opportunity to finally have a say over our future relationship with the eu, and people spoke and we have to listen. several mps tried but failed to intervene. i will carry on. there is a shrinking share of world trade and brexiters can see the benefit of trading freely, and the world is growing at a faster rate than the eu. will the honourable lady give way? no, i'm going to carry on, thank you. you have plenty of people on your side you can give way to. we are one in five of the permanent members of the un security council, and we have the most resourceful and amazing people in the uk will always exceed. i am not, thank you very much. and i am confident that we will prosper. i'm carrying on. yep. eventually one mp stopped her by making a point of order.

sir roger, could you give us some guidance, it would be really helpful in this debate if members were to know whether the honourable lady has written a letter to the chair of the 1922 committee calling on the prime minister to go? but she won't take any intervention, can you help us, sir roger, try and determine the answer to that question? i am sure the whole chamber will be fascinated as the honourable gentleman is well aware, that is not a matter for the chair. this last week has been an absolute shambles and anyone in the united kingdom or elsewhere looking in at her government and what they are doing in relation to brexit cannot think anything but this is a most depressing spectacle of a government completely out of control, which is really destroying the best interests of the united kingdom. i think that by far the most significant thing that has happened

in the last week is the prime minister not once but twice has gone on the record as saying we cannot stop brexit. she's no longer talk about two options, her deal or no deal, she's now talking quite openly about the possibility that brexit might not happen, and it was an interesting and very lengthy contribution from the honourable member, she never actually said we can't stop it, she attempted to explain why we should not stop it, but she never tried to say we cannot stop it. the debate went on for nearly three hours and no surprise perhaps given the subject matter. wrapping things up, labour's brexit spokesperson says there is no easy way forward, calling it one of the most significant moments in recent british history. now, this petition reflects the frustration that people feel about the shambolic handling of the negotiations and the chaos in the cabinet and the government. but let me seek to reassure the petitioners thatjust as there is a majority in parliament against the prime minister's deal, there's also a majority

against crashing out without a deal and with no transition. i'm afraid i will disappoint the petitioners and the honourable lady, but i don't think either will be surprised because britain will be leaving the european union on the 29th of march next year, the people of the united kingdom gave a very clear instruction to the government and to all of us that we will be leaving europe, that they want to leave the european union and the government respects that decision. that's it from monday in parliament. the latest brexit news will be here for the rest of the week. but from me, christina cooper, goodbye. hello there.

if you thought it was cold yesterday, today is going to feel even colder. all the mild air that we had over the weekend has been pushed away by these easterly winds, and with stronger winds, it will feel colder today, and we're also drawing in colder and colder air as the day goes on. now, probably not a great deal of frost to start the day, too much wind for that. there may be some early sunshine. i think fairly quickly the cloud will build and all these showers in the east will get blown that bit further westwards, some of them heavy and maybe a touch wintry over the higher ground as well. a closer look at the showers in the afternoon. frequent showers coming through the english channel and into the south—east of england. we've got the winds on there. those are the mean winds, but around the coasts of eastern england, they could be gusting a0 miles an hour or more. and some frequent showers, even longer spells of rain coming into northern england, perhaps some wintriness over the high ground. because it's an easterly wind, most of the showers in scotland will be in the east. north—west scotland seeing some sunshine and fewer showers,

and that's a similar story really across northern ireland as well. let's focus on those temperatures though, disappointing reading. and if you add on the strength of the winds, because the wind is stronger, it will feel colder. there will be a significant windchill, especially for the eastern side of england. there'll be some more wet weather around during the evening, and perhaps a little bit more sleet and snow over the higher ground overnight, especially across wales, northern england, and then later into scotland. as the cloud begins to break later, and the winds drop further south across the midlands, into southern england, even here there's the risk of some icy patches, with temperatures not far away from freezing. but on wednesday, we've got more of a south—westerly breeze, so that will tend to push the wetter weather further north into northern ireland, into scotland. again, some wintriness over higher ground. a few showers coming into the south—west, but on the whole, england and wales will be dry, with a good deal of sunshine this time. it's still cold, temperatures number—wise not changing. it probably won't feel as cold, because it won't be quite as windy, and there should be some sunshine around too. now, wednesday and into thursday,

we've still got low pressure to the south—west of the uk, high pressure to the north. so the south—easterly breeze, which is continuing to ease down, but we're going to drag in what looks like being much more cloud on thursday. still some showers from that, likely to be rain. it should be a drier day for scotland and northern ireland, and these western areas likely to see some sunshine. temperatures beginning to creep up as well, so temperatures eight, nine, maybe double figures in the west. so it's the right way forward, if you like, those south to south—easterly winds coming in towards the end of the week. it shouldn't feel quite as cold. a very warm welcome to bbc new, broadcasting to our viewers in north america and around the globe. my name is mike embley. our top stories: a blow to peace prospects in yemen, as fighting breaks out in the port city of hudaydah. millions are facing the world's worst humanitarian crisis. it is often called the forgotten war but everyone i have spoken to here is crying for help, pleading with the world to finally take notice. one of the world's most prominent business leaders, nissan's carlos ghosn, is arrested injapan, accused of financial misconduct.

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