you're watching beyond 100 days. the us secretary of state is defiant, there's no direct evidence connecting the saudi crown prince to the order to murderjournalist jamal khashoggi. mike pompeo also insists the white house is not interested in taking any further action against the kingdom. briefing senators about the killing, mr pompeo says any further sanction against saudi arabia would just hurt us interests. brexit is bad for the economy, that's the official line. both the government and the bank of england agree that a no deal would deliver an especially severe financial shock. lower supply capacity, weaker demand, a lower exchange rate and higher inflation. also on the programme: special prosecutor bob mueller is zeroing in on the people who surrounded the president in the final months of 2016 campaign. and the contacts they had with wikileaks. there's been a huge outpouring of support for a young syrian refugee here in britain, who was ‘waterboarded' by a bully on his way home from school. hello and welcome.

i'm katty kay in washington. christian fraser is in london. the us secretary of state has dismissed criticism of the killing of jamal khashoggi as "cat mike pompeo made it clear that there woud be no further punishment of saudi arabia, despite the fact that the cia has reportedly concluded that the saudi crown prince ordered the journalist's murder. mr pompeo was on capitol hill both briefing senators on the khashoggi case, and berating them for their calls for tougher sanctions against the saudi leadership. his argument is that getting tough on mohamed bin salman wouldn't help us interests — and wouldn't help end the war in yemen. we are on the cusp of allowing the us envoy martin griffiths to, in december, gather the parties together and hopefully get a ceasefire in yemen. it is something we have been diplomatically striving for for months and we think we are right on the cusp of that. so the view of the administration

secretary, mattis and myself, the passing a resolution at this point undermines that. our state department correspondent barbara plett usher is on capitol hill for us. you're expecting a vote in the senate, but the message from pompeo is that if the us pull away from saudi arabia, the war would not end, it would get worse. yes, he was depending on the war in yemen. the practical issue is that there is going to be a vote in the coming daysin going to be a vote in the coming days in the senate about whether to end us support for the saudi led campaign in yemen. that resolution came up fora campaign in yemen. that resolution came up for a vote in march, it did not pass. now it has come up again in this current climate, there is more support of it. that was a big pa rt of more support of it. that was a big part of mark pompeo bozok pitch that this is not a good time to do that because of the peace process that is on the way. things are bad in yemen but they would be much worse if we

we re but they would be much worse if we were not there. then there was the broader issue because there is anger over the murder over broader issue because there is anger overthe murderoveer broader issue because there is anger over the murder over mr khashoggi and that the administration has not responded strongly enough. he gave the argument that saudi arabia has its flaws but it is ace strategic and stable ally. it is not as bad as iran, we had the counter iran and counterterrorism in the region. the downgrade relations right now would be bad for the us national security. thank you very much. well, for more on relations with saudi arabia we're joined now by washington post columnist, david ignatius who has written extensively on the inner workings of the kingdom. thank you for coming in. i want to play something from mike pompeo. whilst he was talking up on the hill talking about jamal khashoggi whilst he was talking up on the hill talking aboutjamal khashoggi and what evidence there might be. there is no direct reporting connecting the crown prince to the order murderjamal khashoggi. so it sounds to me like mike pompeo

is choosing his words quite carefully, that there is no direct evidence. what has the (aa found? it is my understanding that the cia believes that the crown prince mohammed bin someone was responsible for this team's mission and was responsible for the death of khashoggi. it is my understanding further that there are specific calls that were made by the person who was running this operation to the crown prince in the days surrounding jamal khashoggi's death. it isa surrounding jamal khashoggi's death. it is a question of whether that information is available to the us. the us is willing to make it public. you have just written a long article on the inner workings of the saudi royal family and how that led to the death of jamal khashoggi royal family and how that led to the death ofjamal khashoggi and you royal family and how that led to the death of jamal khashoggi and you say at one point that there is a paranoia about mohammed bin salman‘s court that reminds you of the early days of saddam hussein. court that reminds you of the early

days of saddam husseinlj court that reminds you of the early days of saddam hussein. i think that what is most disturbing about this story and the events that lead to my colleague's death is that people were said the crown prince's anxiety, paranoia is is not too strong that he is surrounded by enemies. i say in the article that saying the mac started 18 months before khashoggi's death, they brought in people for interrogation and detention. going forward, any support for saudi arabia needs to be ona support for saudi arabia needs to be on a condition of two things. ending the war in yemen, it must stop, it isa the war in yemen, it must stop, it is a humanitarian nightmare. and two, stabilising the kingdom so that it isa two, stabilising the kingdom so that it is a reliable ally that pompeo talks about. without changes internally, it will not be that ally. it seems to have beat mr khashoggi cross ties to turkey that

offended this prince. khashoggi cross ties to turkey that offended this princelj khashoggi cross ties to turkey that offended this prince. i think you're right to say that those feeding the crown prince's concern and paranoia pointed to jamal khashoggi's well— known interest and sympathy for the brotherhood through his whole life. that in no world i can imagine isa life. that in no world i can imagine is a reason to send a team to kill and dismember somebody because you suspect that he may sympathise with the brotherhood. what changes do you think they need to be in the kingdom? does that include mohammed bin salman himself being removed from power, perhaps? and will america help do that? everyone i have spoken to say that mohammed bin salman is not going to leave power. a question for me is, realistically,

how does a country in which he remains the crown prince, potentially some day will become king, become more stable? how does it balance itself so that the whims of the royal court, the rangers and jealousies don't dominate saudi policy. saudi arabia has good intelligence services, they have been partners for the us, for britain, for countries around the world sharing information about terrorism. those services need to have good leadership, they need to have good leadership, they need to have an external support that can make them stabilise and not destabilise it. thank you very much for coming in. this is a moment where america has some leverage over saudi arabia, and the question is how they choose to use it. it looks like what mike pompeo was saying, they effectively seem to be saying to senators, if you vote for this resolution to impose further sanctions, we will not have so much leveraged to try to end the war in

yemen. we're at a crucial moment and he was putting it the senators, do you want to end the war in yemen or don't you? it will be interesting to see how the white house will react. to try to stabilise more broadly became dim in the way that david is saying it needs to be. yes. lindsay graham saying tonight he will threaten to withhold his vote on any tv issues under the caa briefs senators. mike leigh also said information he received was inconsistent. senators want to hear the current head of the cia, not just mike pompeo. let's move onto brexit. a no—deal brexit would send the pound plunging and trigger a worse recession than the financial crisis. the warning from the bank of england comes ahead of next month's critical vote in the house of commons on theresa may's brexit proposal. the bank said the uk

economy could shrink by 8% in the immediate aftermath, if there was no transition period, while house prices could fall by almost a third. the bank has made a number of assumptions about what would happen in a disorderly brexit. among them it assumes the uk would revert to wto rules. the uk would loses access to existing trade agreements between the eu and third countries, and that there would be severe disruption at borders because of customs checks. the governor said that's not what the bank expects to happen, but it represents a worst—case scenario. taken together, the scenarios highlight that the impact of brexit will depend on the direction, magnitude and speed of the effect of reduced openness on the uk economy. the direction of the effects of a reduction in openness is clear, lower supply capacity, weaker demand, a lower exchange rate and higher inflation. the bank's analysis coincides with a report from the treasury that was also published today. the chancellor told the bbc that if parliament backs the prime minister's deal,

the uk economy could still be up to 3.9% smaller in 15 years' time, compared to staying in the eu. if the only consideration was the economy, then the analysis shows clearly that remaining in the european union would be a better outcome for the economy, but not by much. the prime minister's deal delivers an outcome that is very close to the economic benefits of remaining in while having all the political benefits of being out. clearly people don't only look at the economy, they also look at the political and constitutional benefits of exiting the european union, that was what drove the decision in the referendum vote. 0ur political correspondent nick eardley is in westminster and we can speak to him now. how do both of these reports from

the treasury and from the bank of england play into the calculation around the vote on december the 11th? theresa may is travelling the uk this week trying to sell this deal and politically she thinks it is the best thing on the table, but economic, she also thinks it is the least damaging thing on the table. actually, both of these studies suggest that that might be true. so the bank of england is saying tonight that under the prime minister's deal, growth would be slower than staying in the eu, but it is not as bad as a new deal, chaotic brexit which could see the economy starts to dip almost immediately. likewise, those papers released whitehall earlier suggest the same, that no deal is the worst potential outcome for the economy, but the pm's deal is only slightly worse than staying in the eu. some people would turn around and say that we should stay in the eu if that we should stay in the eu if thatis that we should stay in the eu if that is the best for the economy.

you heard philip hammond they're saying that there is a political calculation here as well, and i think that is really important. the pm is trying to sell this politically as well as economic link, and although there will undoubtably the questions over this economic assessment, she still thinks that this gets the balance between the economic and the politics. i must say, speaking to some of the brexiteers, those who wa nt some of the brexiteers, those who want to get out of the european, they are completely dismissive of these warnings, saying that before these warnings, saying that before the referendum you had project beer, 110w the referendum you had project beer, now you have got project hysteria. the political debate is not changing a whole amount as a result of this. we cannot pre—empt the vote in a couple of weeks' time, but people are already looking beyond it and the shadow chancellor said today that if the conservatives do not cut their deal through and they cannot force a general election, then it is inevitable, in his words, that there will be another people's votes. it certainly

sounds like the position of the labour party is hardening up a little bit on this. as you say, labour's main priority if this deal falls is to go for a motion of no—confidence in the prime minister, try to force a general election and they hope they will take power and they hope they will take power and they think they argue that they can negotiate a better brexit deal. there are many people the labour party who have been pushing the leadership, saying that if the deal does fall, let's have another referendum. that will be the point in which we reached a stalemate and thatis in which we reached a stalemate and that is the right points to go back to the country. mcdonald was asked today whether or not the general election idea is dismissed after the deal falls whether the concept of another referendum becomes inevitable. his answer to the bbc was yes. that does not mean that the labour party position has changed massively, but it does sound like they are more open to the idea and that certainly puts it on the table. because if the opposition parties

can unite around that, get conservative politicians on board as well, then it is possible that after parliament rejects the deal, if that is what happens, that there is a majority for asking the public again. 0k, thank you very much. i know you are massive gambling man, christian, so wary of putting your money question? money i christian, so wary of putting your money i am not putting my money anywhere. home renovation? that ta kes anywhere. home renovation? that takes enough of my money. it is interesting whatjohn takes enough of my money. it is interesting what john mcdonald takes enough of my money. it is interesting whatjohn mcdonald said today. some reports today that she is going to change what she puts to the house in terms of the vote, she is going to structure the vote in is that the different ways that they may be free to vote mps on a series of potential amendments. that might change things quite dramatically. if they can get behind amendments before they vote behind the final deal themselves. it will be very interesting. christian fraser not placing any bets, ladies and

gentlemen. it's going to be a very interesting, and rather awkward, gathering of global leaders at the g20 summit in argentina this week. think of all the tensions around the world right now, there's ukraine, saudi arabia, china trade, brexit, russian election meddling and then president trump with america first. even the pre—summit choreography of who's prepared to meet who has been tricky. theresa may won't hold a one on one with mr trump, following his unhelpful comments about brexit this week. mr trump won't meet the saudi crown prince, officially there's no time, unofficially, the saudis murdered a journalist who worked for an american newspaper. so what can the world resolve in buenos aires? 0ur north america editorjon sopel will be at the summit and he joins us now for a preview. pity the man who has to come up with the table plan. yes. i was thinking the table plan. yes. i was thinking the same thing. resident protocol officer who has to come up with a table plan. it will like a wedding. i will not speak next to her for the re st of i will not speak next to her for the rest of the day. and shuffle them around. i have never done that. not

something i would do.|j around. i have never done that. not something i would do. i have. i bet you would. if you put your finger on it, there are so many conflicting meetings going on where it is trying to find harmony. i went to the briefing yesterday at the white house where the head of the economic council was talking about the trade war with china. he said it is possible they could be a deal with china. then he proceeded to list all the reasons why that would not happen. we have since had donald trump saying that maybe he won't meet vladimir putin after all, which was going to be one of the big bilateral meetings at this 620, because of what happened in ukraine. the extraordinary sight of a british pm, a british prime minister think i do not want to meet the us president after what he said about brexit, again, pretty unprecedented. i think it will be hard. the other person who were working hard, aside from the protocol officer, will be the person who has to draft the

communication that has the get everybody signature on it.|j communication that has the get everybody signature on it. i was going to save, the one thing he will be under pressure to do, if he is not meeting president putin, is to issue some stronger condemnation. the ukrainians have said today that if he does not, they the president putin will say maybe we can push it a little bit further. exactly. that is whyjohn bolton was asked about this. he was the other person in the briefing room yesterday at one of those very rare white house briefings. he said, look, we had our ambassador at the united nations speaking and condemning infirm terms, but it's never feels quite the same when it is coming from someone the same when it is coming from someone else if it does not come from the president himself. once again, the only time the president has been asked about this, he picked his words very carefully, so i don't like it one little bit, but do not

attach any blame to either side. does he believe ukraine's sovereignty had been infringed by russian action? he would not say. sovereignty had been infringed by russian action? he would not saylj am sure there are very important reasons for everybody to fly to buenos aires, not least at the food is great and the nightlife, but one big thing that they have to come up with at this gathering in argentina, what we'd be? i think the one big—ticket item in terms of the global economy that could make most difference is if china and the us are able to settle some their differences, if china is able to move so differences, if china is able to move so that there is not a fresh wave of sanctions imposed and tariffs imposed to the tune of $267 billion. the americans have made clear that they would rather avoid it, rather be able to trade without tariffs, but they also think that we are not frightened to impose them if necessary. i think in terms of the shape of the global economy and

world greats, i think that would be the most important thing they could agree on. ok. iam the most important thing they could agree on. ok. i am with you. thank you very much. have a great trip. enjoy that. president trump appeared to accuse his own deputy attorney general, rod rosenstein, of treason today retweeting this image on his twitter feed, that shows rosenstein and a slew of trump critics behind bars. the president is ramping up his attacks on special prosecutor bob mueller, with the russia investigation now focusing on his long—time ally roger stone and the conspiracy theoristjerome corsi. stone, a political consultant, appears to have known injuly 2016 that wikileaks had the emails the russians had hacked from hillary clinton's campaign. court papers suggest stone told jerome corsi to approach julian assange, the founder of wikileaks, at the ecuadorian embassy in london, to try get hold of the emails. separate to that the guardian newspaper reports today, that mr trump's then campaign manager paul manafort also visited

assange around march 2016 when hejoined the campaign. manafort categorically denies it. the key question is whether someone in the campaign was orchestrating the release of those hacked clinton emails. they were published just one hour after the damaging access hollywood tapes were released in october 2016. we don't know what mr trump knew, but as early as july 2016, he was calling on the russians and wikileaks to find hillary's missing emails russia, if you are listening, i hope you are able to find the 30,000 e—mails that are missing. i think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press. these wikileaks e—mails confirm what those of us here today have known all along, hillary clinton is the vessel, a corrupt global establishment that is raiding our country and surrendering the sovereignty of our nation. joining us now from new york

is criminal defense attorney, caroline polisi. she also represents former trump adviser, george papadapolus. this news about roger stone and robert muller is looking at in concerns of roger stone and what he knew about wikilea ks concerns of roger stone and what he knew about wikileaks having these e—mails, how much closer does that get us to understanding what bob mueller is focusing on in his investigation on russia ? mueller is focusing on in his investigation on russia? it is a pretty big step and i think you are seeing mueller getting closer and closer in his investigation to the oval office. i always said i thought at one in this prosecution was that bombshell indictment of the 12 russian nationals. of course, no americans named in that indictment. and very unlikely that mueller would actually get to prosecute those russian nationals. but that is the

broad stroke of the conspiracy. we are talking about collusion, it is not a crime, as we said,. this information brings them one step closer to being co—conspirators in that scheme to defraud the united states of a free and fair election. mueller late that out pretty clearly in that previous indictment. but roger stone and jerome corsi did not work for the trump campaign, we should be clear about that. they knew donald trump, but that is different from saying that donald trump was colluding with the russians, right? absolutely. there isa russians, right? absolutely. there is a lot of things you may want to call foul play here, but not necessarily criminal activity here. wikileaks, of course, is, some can argue, a first amendment protected journalistic organisation and so if stone and causey were a aware that

they were hacked but did not take pa rt they were hacked but did not take part in the hacking, that might not be criminal. what if what they are reporting in the guardian is true and what paul manafort is denying, what if they can put manafort in the room with julian what if they can put manafort in the room withjulian assange in march here in london, how significant is that? that would be huge. all of the american cable news networks, everybody is treading very lightly on this issue. saying that if this reporting is true, because quite frankly nobody can believe that paul manafort would be that stupid to walk in broad daylight into the ecuadorian embassy and meet with julian assange on three separate occasions. itjust julian assange on three separate occasions. it just seems mind—boggling that he would do that. you would think if anything he would have an underling to that task. obviously, it provides a direct link, as you said. stone was not pa rt of link, as you said. stone was not part of the trump campaign, but

manafort was. thank you very much for joining manafort was. thank you very much forjoining us. it does seem that we are getting closer to the moment when bob muller will provide some a nswe i’s when bob muller will provide some a nswers to when bob muller will provide some answers to all these questions. the interesting is that ecuador is replacing his ambassador and there isa replacing his ambassador and there is a theory that they will turn over julian assange. they stopped the lawyers meeting withjulian assange last week. there is a theory they have turned against him, we will see. i am going to assume that if paul manafort was in that building, somebody knows and there is some kind of security system that knows that. 0k... they say the best things come in small packages, but donald trump doesn't seem to think so. the washington post reports the president was considering reappointing janet yellen to another term as chair of the federal reserve, but decided not to because she is too short. poorjanet. if it's any consolation, here is a useful list of small people who made it big. the olympic gymnast simone biles, fourfoot eight. roman catholic nun

mother teresa, 5ft. hollywood actress, jada pinkett smith also 5ft. the music legend prince was five foot two. winston churchill, only five ft six. and yet towering in stature. yes. how tall are you? out and about five foot ten. i have some sympathy with trump because i think someone in the administration should have spotted that there is a link between interest rates going up and height. who is the man in the administration who missed this key correlation? the president can only go with his blood. someone needs firing. that is my view. this is beyond 100 days from the bbc. we will have more later on in the programme. stay with us for that. good evening. it has been a wet and

windy wednesday for many of us and thatis windy wednesday for many of us and that is not the end of it because you can see this cloud that brought the wind and rain today. but it is this little bit of cloud that we are concerned about. this is an area of low pressure. it is still developing and will continue to developing and will continue to develop as it heads in our direction. uncertainty about how deep this low pressure will be, just how potent it will be. it looks likely that some of those tomorrow will see gales and heavy rain which could cause travel issues. your bbc local radio station will keep you up—to—date. through the rest of this evening, quite a lot of dry weather around. some clear spells and to windy for a frost. down to the south—west, wet weather showing its hand. the wind is really picking up here by the end of the night. it will be mild, but of more concern, the wind and rain. through the first

pa rt the wind and rain. through the first part of tomorrow morning, the south—west of england, into wales and the midlands, these are the areas most likely to see wind gusts of 50, 60 may be 70 mph or more for the most exposed coast. very windy weather also spreading across northern england. with that, there will be some heavy bursts of rain. if you have travel plans through the rush—hour, for example, there could well be some issues. even away from these areas, we are expecting a very windy start of the day. the worst of the wind and rain should push away to the north—east. skies will brighten and we will see some sunshine by the afternoon. still a scattering of blustery showers to the west. temperature is a bit lower than they have been today. thursday evening, it stays quite breezy. particularly in the north. we will see further showers at times in western areas, especially. and into friday, low pressure still firmly in charge. lots of isobars on the chart. a very windy day in the north. bringing down from the north,

it is going to be less mild by this stage. the best of the dry weather down towards the south with sunshine. lots of showers across the north, some heavy and thundery. temperature is a little bit lower between eight and 11 celsius. it stays unsettled as we head into the weekend. some rain at times. quite mild in the south. muchjulia across northern areas. —— much chillier across northern areas. this is beyond 100 days. with me katty kay in washington, christian fraser is in london our top stories, the us secretary of state defends close ties with saudi arabia, in the face of growing congressional scrutiny. analysis for the uk government predicts that any form of brexit will leave the uk worse off in 15 years' time. coming up in the next half hour... more details emerge from the us special prosecutor bob mueller as he focuses on the president's close associates in the final months of 2016 campaign and the contacts they had with wikileaks. president putin has described the seizure of three ukrainian navy vessels and their crew on sunday

as simply a "border incident". the republican candidate cindy hyde—smith, who was championed by president trump, has been elected to a us senate seat in mississippi. she beat the democratic candidate, mike espy, who'd been hoping to become the state's first african american senator in more than a century. but comments hyde—smith made about public hangings brought back memories of lynchings, and made race the dominant issue in the campaign. with me is jay newton—small, contributor for time magazine. thank you for coming in. she was ten points ahead, so alexi was going to win this. will democrats take anything that might just win this. will democrats take anything that mightjust did even well got attention and showed a democrat could run? i think absolutely they will take hope from

this race. —— mike epp said. it was forced into a runoff. it was closer than most people expected it to be. this is a deeply republican state. i think the fact that you have a democrat elected in alabama next—door and other deeply republican state, and how close this election was, says the democrats maybe there are some more they might do in the south end can get some more play in the future election. texas, floored, alabama, mississippi, tennessee, all states the democrats might look at and they would have looked at before. -- floored. i think that reflects a changing demographics of the states and the in voter registrations. texas, a very heavily increasing hispanic and a lot more people from outside of the state from the north moving there. mississippi and alabama, increasing numbers of minorities voting. unless they potentially almost the first african—american man and a hundred

yea rs. african—american man and a hundred years. those minorities are voting in much larger numbers in a post 0bama or that anybody ever expected. yet, the president has picked up two senate seats, 53 now plays for december, appointing judges, that is significant. it is, this was always going to be an election where senate democrats did knew there were not going to play very well. they had a number of seats that were won in districts or states that were one by donald trump, so they were on the defence from the very get go, the fa ct defence from the very get go, the fact they only lost to exactly is miraculous. and it shows probably more strict than anybody anticipated. when you look at the results he did better in the state than barack 0bama did. a points in a ruby red state, does that suggest that there are middle—of—the—road republicans then who are starting to tyre of the president's rhetoric was

a lot suddenly you thought about a particularly women voters in suburban home of august. in college i looked at a white woman voters who we re i looked at a white woman voters who were saying i don't want to ball for them this time,. —— college—educated. there were very strongly approach him and said we are rejecting that some policies in this case and i think that is where you stop the democratic candidate pick upa you stop the democratic candidate pick up a lot more boats in those areas. talking of women candidates, say what the democrats are meeting to vote for the house of representatives speaker. it's estimated to take another half an hour or so — with the result expected around 3pm washington time. nancy pelosi is a viper thatjob. that she become the next speaker of the house? —— vying for thatjob. the once and future speaker. ready to do it again. it is incredibly ha rd to to do it again. it is incredibly hard to deny her this post. she led him toa hard to deny her this post. she led him to a victory. should an therefore not lose a job, it is also

therefore not lose a job, it is also the year other women, a record number woman being elected to this year. any idea that you asked the first female speaker of the house is kind of a little bit unrealistic. it is very hard for democrats to say we will not give her the job, is very hard for democrats to say we will not give her thejob, which is herjob as she is frankly so effective. a lot of incoming congresspeople have said it is time for a change of leadership at the top. nancy pelosi is in her late 70s i think, and that actually it is time we had a slew of millenials being elected and millenial woman being elected and millenial woman being collected or maybe it is time that somebody younger at the top. being collected or maybe it is time that somebody younger at the toplj think suddenly there is a hunger for change in the leadership of the house but i think pelosi going to that position for speaker is not the most realistic and earlier today you saw barb really lose the competition, an older woman who's been off for many decades without investment barbara lee. she lost it to the second african—american man in leadership afterjim clyburn and

so he is only 48 years old. in this case in terms of congress, that is leadership is incredibly gone. most abilities i will assume their 70s. you have already seen one change of the guard. i think it is to be more and chairman. —— most of the latest. i think pelosi for this two—year period, she has won them back the house, she gets this for at least two years and then maybe after that i think there is a timer on this. and there will be more change down the road. she will have to be strong this time if she does get it because you have this new guard coming into the democratic party who are not differences of the old government. never mind the guy they will want to bury the republicans. that might not be good for the democrats. bury the republicans. that might not be good for the democratsm bury the republicans. that might not be good for the democrats. it is important to know that the 16 who came out against the nancy pelosi, very few of them are freshmen. the new blood, while hankering for a change in leadership, the freshmen

are not the ones driving this. it is more sophomores and juniors, people who have been around longer who feel frustrated and want more responsibility and feel they have no room to move. those are mostly moderate democrats you see, not less u nless they usually left wing very bombastic bombthrower she saw potentially on the other side. they nearly costjohn baeder hesiod. it is not the same dynamic there. —— his seat. there is a hungerfor change, but it is not the radical change, but it is not the radical change that you stop with the tea party in the republican side. thank you for coming in to join us. party in the republican side. thank you for coming in tojoin us. the democrats have an eight problem because the average age of the leadership at the top three on the democratic side is too late 70s and 80s, democratic side is too late 70s and 805, 20 democratic side is too late 70s and 80s, 20 years younger than on the republican side. democrats at some point need to refresh. she pulls in the dollars, though. yes. and she

went house seats. she just won 40 of them. if anybody is doing well for them. if anybody is doing well for the democrats, it is nancy pelosi. vladimir putin, has blamed ukraine for provoking the recent clash, in which russian forces seized three of ukraine's naval vessels. he says he still hopes to hold talks with donald trump at a summit later this week, after suggestions that washington might cancel the meeting over the incident. 0ur correspondent, jonah fisher, is in the ukrainian capital, kiev. you have been living for the first day under martial law. yes, marsha lawes at the border area of ukraine, not martial law... the background has just not martial law... the background hasjust gone not martial law... the background has just gone crazy on the screen. they pulled the plug on you. you're just going to tell us there was no martial law. automatic, so winter, the full range but it is very cold and wintry here. itjust appeared calm collected for the thing skills.

—— a demonstration of. calm collected for the thing skills. -- a demonstration of. as we were saying, vladimir putin essaying... everything that happened in the... we are starting again. back to the sunday. the first comments by vladimir putin about what happened on sunday. he basically said that ukraine had staged this whole thing, a provocation that ukraine is doing this in order to generate interest in the ukraine and russia issue in particular to help ukraine's president do better in elections that are due to take place in march. he has come out strongly today, ukraine denies all of that and they say this was russia acting illegally and they are hoping that when we get as far as the 620 summit this weekend and argentina, people will if they do talk to vladimir putin will have pretty strong words with them and i think into more than that, ukraine the like are strong

words to translate into more sanctions. last time we spoke to you you said that mr portugal have been talking about plans he has seen for some kind of land and patient from the russians. any more detail on that? -- the russians. any more detail on that? —— you said that the president had been talking about. it is being discussed a lot. and discussed a lot by the president. the last 24 hours, almost went on an election campaign doing interviews with western media, domestic media and he is repeating those claims saying that the numbers are very large, they have grown rapidly and crimea and eastern ukraine, there are much larger numbers. the question of that has to be asked of the president and he doesn't want to speak to the bbc so i haven't been able to ask amiss is this really a new phenomenon. we have not about russian troops and russian tanks being eyed ukraine's borders for quite a long time. what has changed in the last week or so

that it has necessitated this becoming a question of martial law and something which suddenly has escalated into a big question. we haven't really had a good answer to that, the ridgewood officials here are think it's because the differences for the first time we've had differences for the first time we've ha d co nta ct differences for the first time we've had contact between the ukraine military and the russian military directly west of everything that's happened before has had a veneer of somebody in between, eastern ukraine, rebels backed by russia, and crimea, you may remember back in 2014 it was quite murky for a period who these little green men were. this is contact between the two military directly and that is why the ukrainian state it is different this time around. thank you with the attack that this quy- thank you with the attack that this guy. it was kinda cool i have to say. they keep agendas. —— with your techno disco. —— thank you for joining us. a 16—year—old boy is to be charged with assault, over an attack on a 15—year—old syrian refugee, at a

school in huddersfield. a video, shared on social media. shows the attacker dragging the boy to the floor by his neck. before pouring water over his face. he's been doing around here on media today. heartbreaking to watch. it affects people all of the lies. it has moved people here in britain. an outpouring of love and support for this boy. i looked this morning and at just giving this boy. i looked this morning and atjust giving page setup to help them, it's gone from 40,000 this morning to £92,000. a lot of people donating to the cause. there has been an arrest today and police are investigating and of the school will be taking action as well. actually, something that has been picked up on the side of the olympic two. it is something that has... an indication of what social media can do. this happened on october the 25th, but a month later, for some reason this has gone viral over1 million people have watched now in the washington post on their online site is running

pieces about this story. clearly a huge amount of sympathy for the child and a sense of outrage from people watching a video about what happens to refugees going to a rough time. rightly so, the outrage. let's move on and look at some of the other new stories. investigators looking into last month's indonesian lion air plane crash say that the jet was not in any condition to fly. a preliminary report found that technical problems had been reported on previous flights — with pilots struggling with an automated system. all 189 people on board died when the plane nose—dived into the java sea. a 14—year—old boy and an emergency worker have died in australia after flash floods hit sydney. it's the heaviest november rain the city has seen in decades, and at one point it received its average monthly rainfall in just two hours. there has been traffic chaos, power cuts and widespread damage. amazing pictures there. the world war two veteran

harry leslie smith — who described himself as the world's oldest rebel — has died at the age of 95. the son of a miner, mr smith lived through the great depression and joined the royal air force in 1941. in 2014 he rose to prominence as a left—wing activist, after giving an impassioned speech about his life and the status of the national health service. losing some of our greatest. it was chess' equivalent to football's penalty shoot—out. the competition to crown the world chess champion, reached it's nail—biting finish today. but in the end, norwegian three—time title holder, magnus carlsen managed to fend off the challenge of his american opponent fabiano caruana. the showdown came after a record—breaking streak of 12 drawn games. the 620 nations will meet in buenos aires on friday — and among the world leaders attending is saudi arabia's crown prince mohammed bin salman. he landed in buenos aires on wednesday amid controversy over the killing of saudi jourrnalist

jamal khashoggi and the ongoing war in yemen. one of the concerns to the hosts at this week's summit is venezuela. the country's economy has been in recession since 2014 — its economy has shrunk by a third since then and there are projections it could get worse still. it's hard for international reporters to get access to venezuela, but the bbc‘s vladimir hernandez sent this report from the capital caracas. a supermarket in caracas, empty and hollow. many shelves have been left empty as the country struggles to deal with its worst economic crisis. in the last three years, the economy has shrunk by a third. the government blames us—led sanctions but the widespread view is that this is more the result of the mismanagement of the country's vast oil resources. with little food in supermarkets, it is here where venezuelans come to find what they need. street markets.

but prices here rise fast. this farmers market is an example of hyperinflation here. that white board there has prices which have doubled or tripled in less than a month. take tomatoes. at the beginning of the time i was there, they sold for 45 bolivars. a few weeks later, this had risen to 100, which is 122% higher. the same with eggs, they became 50% more expensive. going from 32 to 48 bolivars. economists say that it is a mixture of shortages and the lack of production from the private sector that is affecting prices in the country. translation: one day you find a price, and the next they could have changed. translation: we have to do miracles here. i am 92 and i have to shop around different places to find better prices. translation: we don't know who's

in charge of this mess. but we have to eat. so we have to take this. as i was in caracas, i did manage to find a supermarket with some food on the shelves. but this told me another story about the country's current economy. in a country with regular shortages and incredible levels of inflation, you can also find extraordinary distortions. take for instance, pasta. regulated by the state and costs 1 cent of the us dollar. if you walk further down the shelves, you can find other goods which you may not need on a regular basis, like slices of victoria sponge. this cost 2000% or more than the pasta which is regulated by the state. and then you have the supply chain which for shops like these is incredibly uncertain. one day, there are no eggs, no milk. another day, you can only find toilet paper and shops simply don't know what to do with it.

venezuela's inflation is already mind—boggling. the imf already thinks it will close 2018 above 1,000,000%. and next year, the imf economists think that it could be ten times higher. you don't get much access to venezuela but there is a huge concern about people here in the states watching the country and the economic climate and weather could lead to and the social unrest with all the refugees and immigrants trying to leave. —— whether that could lead to. this is beyond 100 days. still to come — a chinese scientist says he's helped create the world's first gene—edited babies. authorities are now investigating the claim. a victim of child exploitation has called for a change in the law, amid claims a man who raped her,

was contacted about the chance to play a role in her son's life. sammy woodhouse, who's waived her right to annonymity, says rotherham council approached arshid hussain, even though he's in prison for raping her as child. fiona trott reports. a survivor of child sex abuse who says she still fighting for her rights. i think it's disgusting, and i always find that the rapists always get, you know, are protected and have more rights than what we do. sammy woodhouse gave evidence in care proceedings connected with her son which ended last year. she says that she was told his father could ask to be involved. i have to wake up every morning and have to fight for something, and what it all boils down to is just to be treated like a human being. you know, i keep hearing about his rights — well, what about my rights? what about our rights? what about the right for my son to be safe, to be protected and not have to deal

with this on a daily basis? on these streets, sammy and hundreds more like her were groomed and abused for years. arshid hussain targeted her when she was just 14. he is serving a 35 year sentence, but sammy woodhouse says she was shocked when rotherham social services told her he could still be involved in their child's life. in a statement, rotherham council says... the law is a very blunt instrument. people should just use their common sense. if they used their common sense in this situation and the others around the country, then they would not have written what they think they have to do. doing something by tick box is what's happened here. but if we need clarity, then the law needs to change. sammy woodhouse is campaigning for a change in the law so that she and others like her can move on with their lives. many people all around

the world are trying to take tackling climate change into their own hands — two swedish mums have persuaded 10,000 people to commit to not taking any flights in 2019. their social media initiative, no—fly 2019, is aiming for 100,000 pledges and has been asking participants to post their reasons for signing up. i gave a flying about ten years ago. —— i gave up flying. last year, we had a newborn baby and we we re last year, we had a newborn baby and we were often meeting once a month and people spoke about the aeroplane i was thinking i should say something but i didn't want to destroy the atmosphere. in january,

or travelling became highly debated here in sweden. and then i thought the timing is now. we decided to start this campaign. it is all about changing people's habits, that is really hard. we get so many messages, most people read about climate change and realise that the situation is very severe, but at the same time everywhere around us we see all of these commercials about flying vacations. if 100,000 people tell the world

that we're not going to fly, i think it has a big impact on the people around him, once you take a year off and maybe broke habit realised that you can actually have a good life without flying. everybody who does this will fly a lot less in the future. i like that idea. i spend too much time at the airport. it might be difficult for us to fulfil that, but anyway. very difficult. all of those people flying from asia there, that was a good point. now at the end of on monday's programme we brought you live coverage of nasa scientists in pasadena california rejoicing as a probe landed on the surface of mars. you will laugh seeing the pictures on my twitter earlier. —— will have seen on my twitter earlier. —— will have seen those pictures. let's just see those happy scientists again celebrating the moment when the insight probe landed on the martian surface. well now we can bring you the first images sent back to earth from the probe.

i have been zooming in on the rocks of data look at stuff. i have been reading on the website what has happened now is sent out these, sales, pulling in the solar rays from the sun. mars is further away from the sun. mars is further away from the sun. mars is further away from the sun, so it will provide the machine with about 600 to 700 watts ona machine with about 600 to 700 watts on a clear day which would drive it says a household blender. not much power, that will fall because the red dust in the dust will be over the solar panels. enough for to develop a list objective. then we'll start digging into the herd. —— for it to fulfil its objectives. intel a little bit about how mars was born. you miss your vacation. i'm such a one of a scientist. —— a one of the site is. you need to find a newjob, but not yet. not into the next two

yea rs of but not yet. not into the next two years of the top administration. —— trump administration. it's a reunion that brought tears ofjoy to a family in new york city. a blue—eyed husky named sinatra has been been returned to brooklyn after running away more than two years ago. unbelievably the pet managed to travel all the way to florida after escaping. for lesmore willis getting his dog back was made all the more emotional because he'd lost his own daughter in a gun related accident in 2015. and he says the dog rekindles happy family memories when his daughter was still alive. incredible so movie. i love that story. my family once left a dog behind by mistake. —— so moving. driving from kuwait to divide, the dog was called god, they left kuwait, two hours down. the dog was called god. they realised there were two hours down the road. not in the car. they turned around and drove back towards kuwait and found the dog. there you go. some prime

ministers do that with the children. leave them behind it. and had to go back. never heard about it with a dog. i have left a baby under a table before. we will get to chinese babies, we had a technical issue the satellite. we will try to bring in that later. see you tomorrow. good evening. a wet and windy wednesday for many of us, that is not the end of it because on the satellite picture you can see this girl of clouds that brought the wind and rain today, but this little hulk of cloud here that we really are concerned about because this is an area of low pressure that is still developing and will continue to develop as a head stand our direction. uncertainty about how deep is every a low pressure will be or posted it will be, but it does look likely

that some of us during tomorrow will be, but it does look likely that some of us during tamara wilsey gales, and heavy rain which could well cause trouble issues, your bbc local radio station will keep you up—to—date. through the rest of this evening, a of dry weather around, clear spells but it will be too windy for a frost and down to the southwest, our next area of wet weather so you get sand in the winds really picking up there by the end of the night. it will be mild but it we re of the night. it will be mild but it were concerned the wind and the rain. the first part of the mum won it, crossed the southwest, into wells in the midlands, these are the areas most likely to say wind gusts. —— the first part of tomorrow. that's very windy weather also spreading across northern england clipping into southee scotland, with that whip there will be heavy bursts of rain, so if you have travel plans for the rush hour, there could well be some issues, moving away from this area expecting him when he started the day, but the worst of the one of raise the question went

to the northeast and sky for brighton and with sunshine by the afternoon, scattering of lefty sours and those temperatures may be just a bit lower than they have been today. going through thursday, stays quite breezy, and the dark, we see further sours at times, as we move out into friday, low pressure firmly in charge, a lot of isobars on the chart,, bring it in the air down from the north and is going to be a bit mild by the states. the best of the dry weather down towards the south was sunshine and a lot of showers, some of these heavy than the rate but some of those temperatures lower between eight and 11 degrees. then it stays quite u nsettled 11 degrees. then it stays quite unsettled heading into the weekend, outbreaks of rain at times, mild in the south, but much earlier across northern areas. this is bbc news i'm julian worricker. the headlines at 8. the bank of england warns that leaving the european union without a deal, would hit the economy harder than the 2008 financial crash — with several parts

of the economy badly hit. the direction of the effects of a reduction in openness is clear. lower supply capacity, weaker demand, a lower exchange rate and higher inflation. in its own forecast, the government predicts the uk economy will take a huge hit after brexit — but the prime minister insists her plan is a good option. coming up, the health watchdog issues a warning to the uk's worst performing mental health trust norfolk and suffolk nhs foundation trust has been told it has only weeks to improve safety, after inspectors rated it inadequate for a third time.