this is bbc news — i'm martine croxall. the headlines at 8:00. two brothers whose mother and sister were killed by theirfather, call for a better understanding of psychological abuse. from the outside in, it looked like we were a close—knit family, we were always together, we had a nice—looking house. and i think we put on a face as well. we didn't want anyone to know what was going on almost. but on the inside we were terrified, we were fighting every single day. donald trump's former lawyer pleads guilty to lying to congress about contacts with russia — prompting an angry reaction from the president. because he's a weak person and not a very smart person. what he's trying to do is end... and it's very simple — he's got himself a big prison sentence and he's trying to get a much lesser prison sentence. also this evening — a cross—party group of mps will use the brexit vote in parliament to try and ensure the uk can't leave without a deal. meanwhile — theresa may and jeremy corbyn clash over which broadcaster should host

a televised brexit debate before the vote. with 2018 set to be the fourth warmest year on record — we look at the science of capturing and storing carbon. and sark‘s electricity crisis continues — the government on the channel island says it will try to buy out the power provider to avoid a blackout. good evening. welcome to bbc news. there should be a national campaign to raise awareness of psychological abuse — with the case of a man who killed his wife and daughter at its centre. that's the finding of a review into the murder by lance hart of his wife claire and their daughter charlotte in 2016. their sons luke and ryan have been talking to our home affairs correspondent june kelly.

claire and charlotte hart were a very close mother and daughter, and they died together after being shot in the car park of a leisure centre. just days before, they'd finally escaped from the family home after years of psychological abuse. lance hart was lying in wait for his wife and daughter with a gun. after killing them, he turned the weapon on himself. luke and ryan hart had helped their mother and sister to move out of the family home. their father had subjected them all to what's known as coercive control. our mum especially, he limited her life as much as he could. he didn't let her work more than part—time, so that she had no financial independence. over time, mum just got more and more worn down. her friendship groups were closed off, her family were closed off because our father kept moving us away, so we were physically distant from anyone who knew us. and he essentially turned mum into a slave for him.

coercive control involves mainly emotional abuse, rather than physical violence. we'd never turned up to school with a bruise. we'd never been in an encounter with the police. we'd never been with social services. we were top students. from the outside in, it looked like we were a close—knit family. we were always together, we had a nice looking house. but on the inside, we were terrified. we were fighting every single day. and then our father killed our mother and sister, and that shows how serious coercive control is. and i think, unfortunately, it was missed by us. and we lived it, and it was missed by everyone. in this case, lance hart resorted to the ultimate violent act when he felt humiliated because he lost control of this family. it was only when we were sat in the police station in spalding, two days after mum and charlotte were killed, that ryan and i looked behind us and there was a poster that said "coercive control" and it labelled financial control,

it labelled isolation, that we realised our father's behaviours were part a control strategy. and like most good conmen, you don't know they're conmen until they've had you. coercive control is a criminal offence. today's review of this case says this family's story should be used to highlight how it can end in tragedy. june kelly, bbc news. well i've been speaking to david tucker — the lead for crime and criminal justice at the college of policing — and asked him how common coercive control is. it's very common. we think that it's a fairly recent offence. this only became an offence at the end of 2015. but we think it is probably behind a very substantial amount of domestic abuse, and it's a very dangerous element because it adversely affects the quality of life of victims of coercive and controlling behaviour, but it is

also a very good indicator of future physical harm. so it is really important, as ryan says, that the signs of it are recognised both by those who are victims of that behaviour but also by any professionals who may have an opportunity to spot it. what training do police officers have, so that they can spot the signs of it? from a policing point of view, coercive and controlling behaviour is a very big issue for us. the college of policing works with the operational lead. we've developed with save lives the charity, a specific coercive and controlling behaviour module that is available for all police forces to use. it is based around a number of case studies, uses realfootage from real incidents and brings the victims‘ voice into the room so that police officers understand the corrosive effect of this type of behaviour and why it is so difficult for victims to leave abusive relationships of this sort. obviously the safety of the victims is of paramount importance.

how much of the training is about keeping people safe, whilst also ensuring that you're stepping in to try and avoid it continuing for any longer than necessary? the training emphasises both sides of what's required. one is around obviously us looking at the safety of the victim. but the other side is challenging the behaviour of the perpetrator. quite often what we see is that perpetrators will try to manipulate both the victim, but also police officers and any other professionals attending the incident. so it's really important that police officers and other professionals are aware of the way in which perpetrators of this type of behaviour will try to manipulate them. and the college of policing training is absolutely focused on doing that. how well resourced are the police for intervening with these cases and ensuring a safe outcome?

i think my operational colleagues would say that they would always want more resources, but what we know about domestic abuse is that it is very prevalent. there's a lot of it that happens and it is high risk in a lot of cases. so it's really crucial that the police service prioritises the domestic abuse cases and puts the right resources into that. and i suppose key to this, and part of the training that the college of policing has developed, is to enable police officers to identify the coercive and controlling behaviour which we know is so dangerous at the first time of asking, so that the interventions can be effective. david tucker from the college of policing. and if you are affected by any of the issues discussed you can go to the bbc action line website that is at bbc.co.uk/actionline. president trump says he now won't be meeting the russian leader

vladimir putin at the g20 summit in argentina — blaming it on the current ukrainian crisis. earlier in the week, russia seized three ukrainian ships and their crews near crimea. in a separate development, president trump's former personal lawyer has pleaded guilty to misleading a us congressional committee investigating russian interference in the 2016 election. michael cohen said he lied out of loyalty to the president. michael cohen had already pleaded guilty to breaking campaign finance laws. responding to the news, mr trump told reporters at the white house that mr cohen lacked mental strength. michael cohen has made many statements to the house as i understand it and the senate. he put out a statement talking about a project which was essentially i guess more or less of an option that we were looking at in moscow, everybody knew about it, it was written about in newspapers. it was a well—known project.

it was during the early part of 16 and i guess even before that. it lasted a short period of time. i didn't do the project. i decided not to do the project, so i didn't do it. so we're not talking about doing a project, we're talking about not doing a project. michael cohen, what he is doing is he was convicted, i guess, you'll have to put it into a legal term... but he was convicted with a fairly long—term sentence on things totally unrelated to the trump organisation. having to do with mortgages and having to do with cheating the irs perhaps. a lot of different things. i don't know exactly. but he was convicted of various things unrelated to us. he was given a fairly long jail sentence. and he's a weak person. and by being weak, unlike other people that you watch, he is a weak person and what he's trying to do is get a reduced sentence. so he's lying about a project that everybody knew about. i mean, we were very open with it. we were thinking about building a building. i guess we had in a form, it was an option, what you'd call it...

we decided that about i decided ultimately not to do it. there would be nothing wrong if i did do it. if i did do it, there would have been nothing wrong. this was my business. 0ur washington correspdondent chris buckler can tell us more... it is getting quite complicated. we have to wind it back to bed and start with liz michael cohen? let's simplify all of this. here's the score. michael cohen was for a long time donald trump's is no lawyer. he was an individual who essentially described himself as mr trump's mr fix it. eventually he would solve his problems. for example you may remember he paid the money to stormy daniels to stop are talking about the alleged affair ahead of the presidential election. he is somebody who basically make problems go away for donald trump. he is also somebody with intimate knowledge, therefore, of his business dealings. and it seems very clear that that is what the special robert mueller is

looking at, that donald trump may have with moscow, perhaps some business dealings and what exactly was the nature of those. so while donald trump as you just heard is making very clear that he has done nothing wrong, that he did not go ahead with the real estate deal in moscow, it is very clear at one stage he was looking at that. it was basically a project for a moscow — trump tower. at that stage michael cohen was having conversations as pa rt cohen was having conversations as part of the trumpet organisation. the trump organisation were talking to moscow about potentially having this big real estate deal. previously michael cohen told the traditional committee that the conversation stopped injanuary 2016. actually, he says the conversations continued into summer 2016, whenever that presidential campaign was well under way. beyond that, he also says previously that he didn't really have contacts with the kremlin. now he says actually he had a 20 minute conversation with somebody from the kremlin on and

what's more that was organised in pa rt by what's more that was organised in part by the office of the press secretary of vladimir putin the russian president himself. who president trump has not decided he will not meet at the g20 summit in argentina. what should we make of that ostensibly is about ukraine? yes, it is about ukraine. that is what he says time and time again. he says that this is about the actions that have been taken by russia and ukraine, this aggression they said that it ukraine, this aggression they said thatitis ukraine, this aggression they said that it is the sailors and the bolts have not been retired and therefore as far as he is concerned, it is not appropriate to meet with ymer putin at this time. to be fair to the president, it was raised earlier this week that that might happen depending on what his national security advisers told him. however, he made the decision after he climbed into a helicopter, after being asked about all these questions about michael cohen, shortly after michael cohen had appeared in new york and had made the statements. and it seems that he made the decision not to meet vladimir putin without actually

telling the russian government that he was cancelling. it was essentially a cancellation by tweet. that perhaps gives you a sense that michael cohen was planning too and perhaps with the optics would be of a photograph of donald trump and vladimir putin sitting down at this g20 do have yet more conversations. thank you very much. chris buckler in washington. and we'll find out how this story — and many others — are covered in tomorrow's front pages at 10:40 this evening in the papers — our guests joining me tonight are political correspondent for the mirror, nicola bartlett and women's editor for the telegraph claire cohen. an nhs trust in shropshire has been rated inadequate in a damning review by health inspectors. the shrewsbury and telford hospital trust — which is already in special measures over claims of poor care — has significant problems in its maternity and emergency departments, according to the care quality commission. regulators also said staffing levels were unsafe, and raised questions about the trust's leadership. staff reported a ‘culture of bullying and harassment‘, according to the review. it also highlighted a ‘culture of defensiveness

from the executive team‘. and it said staff were ‘sometimes fearful to raise concerns‘. 0ur social affairs correspondent michael buchanan reports on the troubled nhs trust struggling to provide the service its patients deserve. but they do as they gloss over what is actually happening. patient voices from a failing trust. anger from some but also despair. like too many others, that the griffith should still be alive. but in 2016, the trust failed to diagnose or treat an infection. it would died just a day old. her mother said today that the skill of the ongoing failures was astonishing. it‘s as if, as well as my child,

they‘ve taken any emotion from me because i can‘t experience that any more. i can‘t go to a place where i can grieve and where i can fight, so i‘m just at a point of numbness. what would make you feel again? just to know that pippa‘s death wasn‘t in vain and that the trust‘s maternity care is safe and that no more babies are going to die avoidably. while front line staff are widely praised, overall, maternity services are not improving. despite more than 200 families raising concerns about maternity care, today‘s report says known problems, such as failing to properly monitor baby‘s heart rates, have still not properly been addressed. inspectors rated safety in maternity care as inadequate. everyone whose child has died or suffered harm because of mistakes of this trust say they don‘t want another family to suffer as they have, as those few hours in the maternity unit changed their lives forever. what the report makes clear

is there is no culture of learning at this trust. it is vital that leaders in these organisations focus on the culture of their organisations, the safety culture, the ability of staff to raise concerns and to be listened to. a board meeting today heard calls for the leadership to resign. inspectors said some don‘t have the skills and abilities to provide high—quality care. chief executive simon wright, who‘s paid £165,000 annually, has been in post for three years. today‘s report confirms care has worsened on his watch. if i was leading an organisation that had this inspection report, i would absolutely, categorically, walk away for having provided health care this poorly. and i don't understand how you can't feel the same. because the obligation, when things are difficult, is to actually see them through, not run away. but you also have to recognise when you‘re out of your depth.

and that question will be asked of other people. and you are out of your depth, aren‘t you? no, i‘m not. if i thought i was... i‘ve worked in the nhs for nearly 25 years. my entire professional life has been part of that. i live in this community, my family live in this community. if i didn‘t think and believe i was capable of leading this organisation, iwould have already walked away. that report by michael buchanan. plans for a live televised debate on the brexit deal between the prime minister and jeremy corbyn are up in the air. theresa may has agreed to take part in a bbc debate, but mr corbyn says he‘s in favour of a proposalfrom itv. 0ur deputy political editor john pienaar sent this report. lots of travelling, plenty of salesmanship, but who‘s buying? theresa may‘s taken her brexit plan around the country and now it‘s emerged she is keen to make a pitch on prime—time tv confronting labour‘s leader. but the hardest sell is at westminster and today she faced mps, the toughest customers of all. throughout this process,

people have been telling me we wouldn‘t reach this point. as soon as we do reach this point, people want to say, "oh, well, if you don‘t get it, what are you going to do next?" i‘m focusing on getting this. but there was doubt and hostility on all sides. the rights that you and i had to live, work and love across a continent of 28 nations is going to be deprived to our young people because of your obsession with immigration. no. it's quite something when our own chancellor and our own bank of england governor trashes the future of our country as part of a propaganda exercise. that's what's happening, isn't it? that is not what is happening. knowing you for 20 years, ijust don't believe that if your deal goes down you are the kind of person who would contemplate taking this country into a no—deal situation. am i wrong? it will be a decision for parliament as to

whether they accept the deal that i and the government have negotiated. mrs may won‘t discuss what happens if her plan‘s voted down but that‘s about all mps are discussing. ministers publicly backing her now are ready to split apart later. some closer to europe. 0thers ready to leave without a deal after time to prepare. labour votes could be crucial so the newsjeremy corbyn and mrs may want a tv debate could be significant. she favours facing him and questions from a panel. the bbc idea. he prefers itv‘s, a straight one—on—one debate. the itv offer seemed a sensible one. it reaches a wide audience and the timing looked good to me because it‘s not inconveniencing people who may wish to watch other things later in the evening. campaigners for a fresh referendum say the country and their own parties need what they‘re calling a people‘s vote. a botched, bungled brexit that sees us cede control and makes every part of the country poorer than it would otherwise be would surely risk doing serious damage to the conservative party.

they‘re carolling around here today but nothing will get mps or parties singing from the same sheet by christmas. john pienaar, bbc news, westminster. 0ur political correspondent nick eardley is in westminster. the prime minister is on her way to argentina leaving all this behind her. what are you hearing about the likelihood of this debate going ahead at all? i think it is up in the airas ahead at all? i think it is up in the air as you said at the start. there is this a real tension between the two sides on which format they would rather stick to. there is also a lot of disquiet from other politicians. some of the brexit site saying look, neither of them campaigned for brexit. the prime minister norjeremy corbyn. so why not have one of us on the panel? someone might boris johnson not have one of us on the panel? someone might borisjohnson orjacob

rees—mogg. 0n the other side remainders and people who don‘t actually think we need to leave the european union and who want another referendum are saying exactly the same: why is our argument not being heard in this? we have colin‘s first minister nicola sturgeon tweeting about it saying any debate should include mps arguments too. you can see there are a lot of hurdles still to ove rco m e see there are a lot of hurdles still to overcome together. a why are they bothering at all convincing fact that it bothering at all convincing fact thatitis bothering at all convincing fact that it is mps who get to decide whether this deal is accepted or not? well, theresa may clearly thinks that she can win over some mps by winning over the country. that is exactly what she‘s been doing this week by travelling to wales, northern ireland and scotland, trying to sell her deal directly to constituents and hoping they think up to their mp and say "look, we had enough of this, the prime minister has a deal and we think it‘s all right, you need to pack it in parliament". i must say from chatting to people in parliament, there is very little sense that that plan is working on

the numerous opponents of the deal that he needs to. yes there may be some waverers who may be influenced by those messages and by the pressure that the warnings from the bank of england and from the treasury yesterday, a bit of potential cost of a no—deal brexit, how they might impact on waiting mps too. but from opponents and people who said they will not back this who are the majority, there doesn‘t seem to be any sense that that position is softening. i‘m also detecting that from some of the conservative mps, there is a bit of annoyance quite friendly that the prime minister is going over their heads. they would much rather she was in parliament trying to persuade them that her plan is the best thing on the table. one other development. tell us about this amendment by a group of cross party remain mps who wa nt to group of cross party remain mps who want to stop there being a no—deal brexit. of the things the prime minister has consistently said is

that if her deal is bolted down, one of the real dangers is that we then end up with no deal at all. there are numerous people in parliament, not just those who are numerous people in parliament, notjust those who have previously backed remained but many others too saying that no deal cannot happen, that it would be unconscionable. i understand that group of cross party mps including conservatives, labour, as in the lib dems, greens and clad the magpies cameras have been talking about their best to influence the decision on the 11th of december. 0n the 11th of december mps will have the chance to back or reject the prime minister‘s plan but will also be able to put down amendments to say this is what we want, not just what we don‘t want. the number of mps are looking at ways in which they could change that vote to make no deal parliaments express wish. it would not be legally binding forming the government has to do it. but

thinking of those who are part of these discussions is that it would mean that parliament clearly expressed a desire and it would be very ha rd expressed a desire and it would be very hard from the government to enjoy that. one of those amendments has gone down already, hilary benn the labour mp who chairs the brexit select committee has put down an amendment backed by a number of high profile mps from the conservative a rty profile mps from the conservative arty and from the labour back benches. i know that a number of others are being discussed as well. so there is a real sense that those mps who think that there is a majority in parliament for no deal wa nt to majority in parliament for no deal want to be able to put that to a vote in a couple of weeks. thank you very much. nick eardley in westminster. warmest yea rs warmest years on record have commented last 22 years. research says four of the hottest years have beenin says four of the hottest years have been in the past four years alone. it comes as experts copulate that reducing our emissions of greenhouse gases won‘t be enough. we‘ve got to work out how

to remove them as well. 0ur science editor david shukman investigates. every hour, all over the world, more and more carbon dioxide is being pumped into the air, and scientists say we have got to find a way of doing this — pulling the carbon dioxide back out again. watch your foot. in south wales, ijoin researchers who believe they may have found an answer. this is a slag heap, a mountain of waste left over from an old iron works. what they have found here is that this stuff actually draws in carbon dioxide. phil renforth and his student sarah gore show me how this works. adding some slag to a bottle. and then giving it a blast of carbon dioxide. in the space of a few minutes, the gas binds to the minerals inside and the bottle starts to collapse inwards. so could this be done on a worldwide scale? globally, we produce about half a billion tonnes

of slag around the globe, and that could capture something along the order of a quarter of a billion tonnes of c02, so it‘s not going to do everything but it might do something relevant. just sitting here, the material doesn‘t absorb much of the gas, so a new process will have to be devised to make it useful, but that is technically feasible. this is just one tiny fraction of the legacy of the industrial age, and it‘s an amazing thought that the iron and steel industries which produced all this stuff and generated so much of the carbon dioxide that‘s been warming the planet, they now have a role in helping to limit the rising global temperatures. newsreel: sheffield, capital of steel, part of a great industry... in the boom years of steel production, what mattered was the volume of output. no—one back then worried about all the carbon dioxide being released into the air. but now, at sheffield university, that‘s what they‘re trying to deal with.

in an underground laboratory, plants are grown in carefully monitored conditions. instruments keep track of every detail, and mixed into the soil is a powder. it‘s rock that‘s been ground up. this is a major project to see if agriculture can help tackle climate change. these plants look normal enough but they are part of a highly unusual experiment that could prove incredibly useful. that‘s because the scientists here have worked out that adding powdered volcanic rock to the soil massively increases the amount of carbon dioxide that is drawn out of the air. and because that‘s the gas that‘s driving the rising temperatures, anything to help get rid of it could make a difference. on an experimental farm in the american midwest, the powdered rock is being tested on the fields. already the scientists have seen that it acts as a fertiliser. they don‘t yet know whether, at this massive scale, the process also traps carbon dioxide.

but they are convinced it‘s worth trying. the world needs to wake up to the fact that we need to reduce our emissions and combine it with technologies for removing c02. and at the moment we have no idea how to remove billions of tonnes of c02 from the atmosphere. maybe the answer will lie with the plants and the powdered rock. or the minerals in the slag heap will prove to be useful. in any event, there‘s now a frantic effort to find out, and all the time, the more carbon dioxide builds up in the air, the more urgent it becomes to somehow get it out. david shukman, bbc news. now it‘s time for a look at the weather with tomasz schafernaker. well after a stormy day, is there any more bad weather on the way? and the answer to that question is — there is. certainly tonight and into tomorrow. further strong winds expected in scotland. this low pressure is going to be barreling through scotland during tonight and into tomorrow.

severe gales around the western isles, very blustery inland. the good news is that we are not going to see those severe gales developing across southern areas. it will be windy, but not as windy as it has been. this is the low that is barreling to the north during tomorrow, during friday. gusts of wind in some areas particularly exposed western coasts could be in excess of 60 mph, inland easily 50 mph so. pretty blustery start to friday across scotland with frequent showers, mainly hail and thunder as well. to the south actually a lot of sunshine around. for tomorrow, the forecast seeing a lot of fine weather across the uk, occasionally interrupted by some heavy showers. hello, this is bbc news with martine croxall. the headlines... two brothers whose mother and sister were killed by their abusive father have called for a national campaign to focus on the impact of controlling behaviour in cases of domestic violence.

donald trump‘s former lawyer has pleaded guilty to lying to congress in relation to the inquiry into russian influence in the us election — the president‘s responded saying he‘s a "weak" person trying to seek a reduced sentence. there‘s confusion over which broadcaster will host a brexit tv debate between the two main party leaders — theresa may has accepted the bbc‘s proposals — butjeremy corbyn has said he prefers itv‘s offer. shrewsbury and telford nhs trust — which is under investigation for its maternity services — has been rated inadequate by inspectors. the head of the trust says he won‘t resign. and coming up — we hear from residents of sark — who could be left without electricity. let‘s get more now on the potentially forthcoming brexit debate. labour says it‘s not happy with the format of a proposed bbc debate on the prime minister‘s brexit deal. theresa may has agreed to take part in the programme on the 9th of december,

two days before a crucial commons vote. butjeremy corbyn says he favours the idea put forward by itv. lance price is a former labour director of communications, whojoins me now from skipton in yorkshire. why is this so fraught with difficulty? there is always difficulty? there is always difficulty over tv debates and if you remember the last general election, there were no debates because theresa may did not think she wanted to have one but now it is in her interest to do so. participants want to make sure the format is one which suits them best and there will be wrangling over this and there may be wrangling because one side or the other is not wanting to go ahead with it at all and they are looking for an excuse to pull out but at the moment it looks as if they are keen to go ahead so we will have to wait and see what happens. is it a risk for the broadcasters? it is a huge risk

and i‘m surprised they are so enthusiastic about it, because we could end up with a lot of households up and down the country, i‘m a viewer, get me out of it, and i don‘t think it will be a popular piece of tv. 0r i don‘t think it will be a popular piece of tv. or a particular use for one in the debate over brexit. piece of tv. or a particular use for one in the debate over brexitm has most to lose? jeremy corbyn has the most to lose. theresa may has a clear policy and some people would say thatjeremy corbyn doesn‘t and he doesn‘t have a worked out, policy. theresa may gets credit for her fortitude policy. theresa may gets credit for herfortitude and policy. theresa may gets credit for her fortitude and sticking with her script even if the signs are that not many people are very sympathetic towards it, so she doesn‘t have much towards it, so she doesn‘t have much to lose. jeremy corbyn‘s reputation could take a serious hit if he is seen to not either be on top of the detail or to answer the difficult

questions about what labour would do if they were in power. what might they have to say that is new that we have not heard before? theresa may cannot say anything new, she has to keep on keeping on and that is what she has been doing ever since the deal was agreed with the other 27 countries of the eu. potentially jeremy corbyn could say something new and heated and electrified the debate because sooner or later the labour party will have to come round toa labour party will have to come round to a second referendum, a people‘s vote, and you might as well do that now and really make a splash out of it and make a virtue out of it rather than being forced into it relu cta ntly. rather than being forced into it reluctantly. the problem is he doesn‘t believe it so identikit will say it. —— i don‘t think he will say. thanks forjoining us. enjoy skipton. all day we‘ve been looking at how brexit

will affect health and the nhs, including the supply of vital medicines. lots of you got in touch to ask questions. i‘ve been speaking to layla mccay, the national health services‘ confederation director of international relations — and danny mortimer, co—chairman of the cavendish coalition and chief executive of nhs employers — who attempted to answer your concerns. all day we‘re looking at how brexit will affect health and the nhs including the supply of vital medicines and lots of people have been getting in touch to ask questions. we arejoined in been getting in touch to ask questions. we are joined in the studio by the national health service ‘s confederation director of international relations and danny moore timothy co—chairman of the cavendish coalition and chief executive of nhs employers and welcomes you both. how much time is spent thinking about contingencies

for brexit? i spend a large chunk of my day thinking about how we can make sure that we get a good deal for health for brexit, in brexit, or whether we are thinking that how we can make sure the nhs is as prepared as possible for all eventualities. danny? probably slightly more all consuming for layla but this takes up consuming for layla but this takes upa fair consuming for layla but this takes up a fair bit of time and especially in the last 12 months, there has beena in the last 12 months, there has been a lot of work to do over the government's migration policy and that how —— and how that impacts upon us after brexit. first question from cassandra on twitter, cannot type one diabetics be assured that their insulin will be readily available? —— can. their insulin will be readily available? -- can. this question of medical supplies is one we will be thinking about in health. if the withdrawal agreement is to go through then things will continue

pretty much as usual, so you would expect the supply to continue as it currently does. in the event the withdrawal deal does not go through them we find ourselves in different scenarios, with the no deal scenario being the most extreme end of that. in that case there will be probable interruptions to the supply of different medicines and that is because they will be delays at the border and there might be regulatory differences which have to be introduced and all sorts of different things could happen. the government is making sure that there will be discontinuing supply through a variety of mechanisms, including stockpiling. there are different medicines which may be cannot be stockpiled but the government is developing different ways of making sure they come in and much of that relies on industry being able to stockpile these medicines. we hear there are challenges to that but what is important to know is that we

have worked with industry to make sure that these concerns have been fully understood by the government and they are now coming up with further contingencies. danny, on staffing, simon in cumbria says, can we make departing nhs staff pay back their training costs? a couple of things, the first is, why is the nhs in this position, he is asking, when there is such a demand for staff, clearly we have challenges in terms of keeping people, and we no longer pay for the training of nurses and other health care professions and we only pay for a small element of the medical school costs of doctors and so medical school costs of doctors and so that has changed in line with all university courses. the simple fact is that our demand for people has grown quicker than we thought and ourdemand grown quicker than we thought and our demand for people has grown quicker than the plans of the government in terms of investment in our services, and we have struggled

to keep pace with actually the increase in emergency care that we have seen and the demand for emergency services which was touched on in milton keynes earlier we have struggled to keep with the pace of how long we are living. that is why we have tried to get people in from outside the country as winners keep the we have here. —— as well as keep the we have here. —— as well as keep the people we have here. figures on net migration — that‘s the difference between those coming to live in the uk and those leaving — show that numbers from the eu have fallen to their lowest level since 2012. but the figures, from the office for national statistics, also show an increasing number of people from outside the eu are coming here to live. daniel sandford reports from peterborough. peterborough cathedral has stood for 900 years, its bells marking the passage of time. but the city has changed in the last 15 years. large scale migration from the european union meant the population of peterborough grew by more than 30,000. it has helped employers

like the philia lodge residential care home. it‘s lovely. manuela, who‘s from romania, moved to britain one month after the brexit vote. she was one of 35 staff the owners hired from romania that summer. for me, it is better here now. here is my life, so i decided to stay. even my daughter wants to come here, so i will be more happy. but since the brexit vote, the company has struggled to keep and recruit eu workers, with far fewer hired this summer. and with the relatively low pay and high responsibility, they can‘t find enough british citizens to do the work. it‘s a huge problem for the care sector. nothing is certain about where we are going to get staff from, because inherently, we cannot get the younger british people coming into this industry. net migration from the eu — that‘s the number arriving minus the number leaving — has fallen to 74,000.

that‘s the lowest in six years. but net migration from elsewhere in the world has risen to 248,000. that‘s the highest since 2004. so, overall net migration is actually fairly stable, at around 273,000. but, what do brexit voters in peterborough think about eu workers being replaced by workers from elsewhere? this wonderful country that we have been civilised for lots of years is just being absolutely destroyed. at the end of the day, we need people coming into the country because there's a shortage of labour on various aspects. while arguments over what brexit should look like rage in westminster, out in the country, the migration dilemma doesn‘t become any easier to solve. daniel sandford, bbc news, peterborough. a letting agency in east london is asking for non—refundable deposits of £300 from prospective tenants, before they have even viewed a property, the victoria derbyshire programme has learned.

flintons deny any wrongdoing and insist that they do not charge for viewings but that holding deposits are always non—refundable. esme ash tried to rent a flat from them and soon became suspicious. she‘s been undercover to get the full story. searching for a room to rent, especially in central london, can be tough, as anyone who has tried it will know. but one particular letting agency called flintons has been demanding hundreds of pounds in payment, before prospective tenants are even allowing to view properties for rent. israel and his friend harry responded to one of flintons‘ adverts. he says they went to see an agent who told them they needed to pay a deposit to see a room, but that it would be refundable. so she explained the whole offer of, if you pay a holding fee, you can change your room. i‘m like, "we can get our money back as well, can‘t we?" she‘s like, "oh, yeah, you can do that."

not even like a proper affirmation, just, "yeah, "we can do it, that‘s fine." after paying £300 each to see the property, israel says it wasn‘t long before he realised something was wrong, and his suspicions worsened after looking at online reviews of fli nto ns. in the end they chose not to see the flats and decided instead to seek an immediate refund. they returned to flintons to confront the agent in person. the first thing we said, "so, why can‘t we get our money back?" we didn‘t say hello, just, "why can‘t we get our money back," just wanted to get it done with. she literally got to the point where we were talking to her saying, "you basically told us we could get our money back, "you told us this and that." £300 is half my rent gone. i feel annoyed about it, i always get really riled up when i talk about flintons, just knowing that my £300 is with them. what can i do? there‘s nothing i can do. i don‘t have the money to sue them. i don‘t have legal expertise to deal with it. just powerless. flintons told us they issue receipts specifying that the sums involved were non—refundable, but, whilst this is true, israel and others said they only received the receipts after they had paid.

they also say they‘d been assured verbally that they could get their money back and that they felt under pressure to pay the money immediately. yes, it‘s recording. it's recording? yes. after hearing these stories, we decided to go back to flintons with hidden cameras. i went in, leaving colleagues stationed outside. unlike some cases we‘ve been told about, the agent did explain that this payment was non—refundable, but was clear that if i wanted to see any of the available properties, i would have to pay this money upfront. so, is it legal to demand upfront deposits before you can view a room to rent? we showed david smith, a property lawyer, ourfindings.

asking someone for money without being able to see what that contract is about, to do a viewing, would be quite likely to be seen by professional people in the property sector as unreasonable and unfair behaviour, and therefore is very likely to be an offence under the consumer protection from unfair trading regulations. flintons deny any wrongdoing. they have told us that they do not charge any fees for viewings, and payment is only taken when a person confirms that they wish to take the property. they say that their holding deposits are always non—refundable and that they don‘t believe there would be any purpose in taking deposits if you could get your money back. flintons also told us that all the people in our reports were made aware that their deposits were not refundable and that they don‘t agree with the alleged version of events. the headlines on bbc news... two brothers whose mother and sister were killed by their abusive father call for a national campaign

to focus on the impact of controlling behaviour in cases of domestic violence. donald trump‘s former lawyer pleads guilty to lying to congress in relation to the russia inquiry — the president responds saying he‘s a "weak" person trying to seek a reduced sentence. confusion over a brexit tv debate between two party leaders — theresa may accepts the bbc‘s proposal, butjeremy corbyn prefers itv‘s idea. an update on the market numbers for you — here‘s how london‘s and frankfurt ended the day. and in the united states this is how the dow and the nasdaq are getting on. the funerals industry in britain is to face a major investigation, after the competition watchdog found prices have soared by two thirds in the last decade. 0ur personal finance correspondent simon gompertz has more. "not justified". that‘s how the competition regulator describes the experiences of bereaved family members like kaye in lincolnshire. her mum jo‘s recent funeral

cost nearly £4,000. yet her dad ken‘s — a full 18 years ago — cost only £1,100 from the same funeral director. it is a lot of money. and i was doing some of the running around. and although the funeral directors were very good, it makes you wonder what they do for it, at a time when people aren‘t going to question it. so this is what‘s happened to the cost of the average funeral. it‘s now nearly £4,300, a rise of 68% over 10 years, close to three times the rate that other prices have gone up. an important part of most of them, the cremation, costs £737 — after an even faster rise of 84%. we have been worried about the practices, particularly of the larger funeral providers, who have followed policies of year—on—year price increases over the last decade, and that‘s resulted in prices varying a lot in the same area. so in the same area, you could be charged £1,000 more

for the same service. co—op funeral care and the very biggest chain, called dignity, say they have started to cut some prices, but kaye believes families are being exploited at a time when the last thing they want to do is haggle about money. simon gompertz, bbc news. thomas cook, one of britain‘s biggest tour operators, says it made a loss of £163 million in the year to september. the company says the summer heatwave here is partly to blame. 0ur consumer affairs correspondent colletta smith has more. it‘s been a bad year for thomas cook, and they say the barbecue summer here meant fewer people booked those last—minute sunshine getaways. overall, the company made a £163 million loss in 2018. their biggest problem was their package holiday department, which made an £88 million loss. the boss couldn‘t guarantee

that there wouldn‘t be branch closures down the line. we are monitoring closely the profitability of every shop, and the shop manager, they know that they are managing their own profit and loss account. nearly half of all thomas cook‘s bookings are now made online, but with a branch network right across the uk of nearly 600 stores, they say that physical shops are still important to them. i do usually book with thomas cook. i just like the face to face, you know, and looking and their experience, and you know. never been away with the little one. we didn't know what to expect. so, again, just having someone to chat to is good. the elderly, definitely, they prefer to talk to somebody and, you know, if there's any problems, they can iron it out for them. down the road at this independent travel agent fortunes have been different. in general, it‘s been a lot busier. i‘ve had my busiest year in six years. karen‘s been in the industry for more than 30 years and yvonne

used to work for thomas cook. people tend to book eight to 12 months in advance, because they know now that flight prices go up. and the further in advance they book, the better price they‘re going to get. i don't think the weather had anything to do with it. things were a bit quieter for you, though, at some point in the summer. when the football was on! not when the sun was shining. even if it‘s not another sizzling summer, relying on last—minute sales could still cause thomas cook problems ahead. colletta smith, bbc news, in manchester. the labour mp for brighton kemptown — lloyd russell moyle — has told the commons that he is hiv positive. speaking at a debate marking world aids day — he‘s the first mp to reveal his hiv status in the house. because, mr deputy speaker, next year i will be marking an anniversary of my own. ten years since i became hiv positive. it has been a long journey from the fear of acceptance,

and today, hopefully, advocacy, knowing that my treatment keeps me healthy and protects any partner that i may have. injust over 24 hours, sark in the channel islands could be plunged into darkness because of a row about the high cost of electricity there. the energy regulator has ordered the local power company to cut its prices. but the owner says he can‘t sell electricity at a loss, and will pull the plug at midnight tomorrow. 0ur correspondent, john fernandez, sent this report from sark. that‘s the sound of 82—year—old richard and his wife preparing for the worst. in the bathroom, we have ensuite shower in the bedroom and suchlike, so we do have plenty of water, to flush the toilet. last nightan water, to flush the toilet. last night an agreement was made to keep

the lights on with a buyer looking to buy the electricity company. the question has been about valuation and there has been a major difference but today we have made progress on that and i‘m hopeful we maybe able to make even more progress tomorrow with a view to actually doing a deal. will the lights stay on on friday? i think a lot depends on how we get on tomorrow. those negotiations are still ongoing but the man at the centre of this is intent that he will be flipping the switch at midnight on friday. i'm deeply worried, the last thing we want to do... this is myjob, i came here to give electricity to the people of sark, but i‘m legally obliged to stop selling something which is costing me money. life on sark will go on, in its own way, as people prepare for the worst. what it will mean for the shoppers that we will

have a generator box that will mean is that if the power goes out we will have to have a transitional period between the power going out and the next lot of power coming in and the next lot of power coming in and it won‘t power absolutely everything but it will mean the freezers won‘t go off and stop because if these generators stop working, no one really knows if they will ever come back on. you nervous? i think they will go off on friday. how long it will be, that is the other thing that is a surprise, because they are talking about maybe february, baby easter. —— may be. that is a way off and it doesn‘t look like it would just be a couple of days. john fernandez, bbc channel islands news. after hanging up his winter cloak for the final time game of thrones star kit harrington has made the journey all the way from westeros, to london‘s west end. the final series will be screened in the new year, but before that the actor‘s treading the boards in a production

of the sam shepherd play true west. he‘s been telling tim muffett about the glamour of the london stage. it‘s good to see you. we‘re on stage at the vaudeville theatre. some serious ‘70s action going on. why is that? not least my moustache. the play‘s set in 1979. no one‘s going to go and see a film like that. it's a movie. there's a big difference. they are two brothers in their mother‘s house outside of la, but they‘re polar opposites as people. i‘ve just about had it with the insults. this story has a lot of violence. what‘s it been like to rehearse and perform ? it‘s fun. i love a fight scene. you‘ve done a few in your time. i have done a few, yeah. you have this thing where you get thrown across the stage, and he has a golf club which he stops at my face, which gets a nice reaction from the audience.

you must have done something, threatened him or something. what did you do? i convinced him! how does it compare performing on stage in front of a live audience compared with making a massive tv show like game of thrones? people think that‘s the glamorous part. i find this the glamorous part. myjob is to come in and play to a west end audience every night. that for me is quite glamorous. whereas thrones was quite often outside, in some foreign country, away from your mates, in a muddy field. you‘ve obviously filmed the last series of game of thrones, going out in the new year. what was it like when they said "cut" for the last time in yourfinal scene? i burst into tears, you know. it‘s a weird thing. i‘m not sad about it ending. i feeljoyous about it ending, and having completed it. but it doesn‘t make it any less emotional. and the first pilot of game of thrones was described by the producers as a disaster.

what did you make of it when you first made it? i didn‘t know what i was doing. i was like, this is fun. i‘m in a tv show. i had no idea if it was going to be a big success or anything. apparently it was a disaster. i still haven‘t seen it. they blackmail me every now and again with threatening that they‘ll release parts on youtube, because it was terrible and i had this awful wig. and the fact that it is such a global phenomenon, are there countries where you go to where you don‘t get recognised? not that i have found. although this is helping. you know, iam now... i am recognised a lot less now i have less hair and less fur on my face. a p pa re ntly apparently if i say this, winter is

coming, game of thrones fans will understand. now it‘s time for a look at the weather — here‘s tomasz schafernaker. you are right, in a couple of days‘ time it will technically be winsor, the 1st of december —— it will technically be winsor. —— winter. very wintry out there at the moment. lots of problems, power outages as well. we have a storm sweeping across the uk tonight bringing a nasty conditions once again. the threat of gales is in scotland and into tomorrow morning, but the rest of the country looks like the winds will not be as strong as what they we re will not be as strong as what they were earlier. through the course of the night, low pressure to the north of scotland, barrelling into the

norwegian sea, to the south we have showers, very strong winds, further south clearer skies but not as windy, but still rough seas around the western coasts. early friday morning, centred between iceland and scotland, plenty of isobars. in western coasts in exposed places it could be up to around 65 mph, another stormy start. elsewhere blustery. but actually the weather on friday for many is not looking too bad and when we have low pressure very close by, often the weather is rough, but sometimes we forget to emphasise that we get good weather as well so actually some sunshine tomorrow, so blustery but fine weather with fluffy clouds in the south and showers occasionally affecting western and northern areas. friday night into saturday, another low pressure coming in, we have two, so this one brings a lot

of wet weather for a time and stronger winds on saturday morning and it will be a wash—out earlier in the day. the wind pushes the low pressure and the rain out of the way and we are left with fine and bright weather. cold in the north and saturday and sunday, it will be cold in the north, and the same thing happens on sunday, early on the wind and rain and in the afternoon and mixture of sunshine and showers but at least temperatures, 14, so winsor is coming but maybe not a thermometer. —— so winter is coming but maybe not the thermometer major roger klee speaking. —— meteor hello, i‘m ros atkins, this is 0utside source. first the us. donald trump‘s former lawyer michael cohen pleads guilty to lying to congress about contacts with russia, prompting a furious response from the president. he‘s a weak person and what he‘s trying to do is get a reduced sentence —

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