this is bbc news, i'm martine croxall. the headlines at 8pm. warnings that channel ports could face six months of disruption if britain leaves the eu without a deal. it comes as 30 government ministers tour the country, trying to sell theresa may's brexit plan. police in new zealand say a missing british backpacker was last seen with "a male companion." grace millane's father appeals for help in finding her. we last had contact with on saturday first december and as a family we are extremely concerned for her welfare. a bbc investigation reveals how black and arab university academics are paid less than their white colleagues. british yachtswoman susie goodall is rescued after being stranded in the southern pacific for two days. her boat had capsized during the golden globe race. there is always a first time forever

thing, isn't? and we'll take a look at robert redford's swansong and all the other new releases in the film review with mark kermode. good evening. dover and other channel ports could face disruption for up to six months if the uk leaves the eu without a deal, according to the government. it's being described as a worst case scenario — after analysis of likely traffic flows if extra customs checks are introduced. meanwhile, ministers have travelled across the uk today to try to convince the public to get behind the prime minister's brexit deal. it's come under attack from all sides at westminster but theresa may insists that she will not seek to get tuesday's vote on it postponed. our deputy political edtor john pienaar has the latest. today, around almost every corner, you would see a minister

on a mission, dozens of them, ordered out to defend and sell mrs may's brexit compromise, to make what may be a last stand to save her brexit plan, even save the prime minister herself. among ministers, many privately believe the government should delay the big vote next tuesday, rather than face a crushing defeat. for now, they are making their case around the country, hoping mps listen to worried people and businesses. they will hear those voices saying, we want it sorted, we want this deal accepted because we need to move on as a country both to negotiate a good trading deal for a future with the eu and to deal with the pressing domestic agenda of the nhs, schools, housing and all the other things people want their politicians to focus on. and now warnings from the government of the danger of ending up with no brexit deal at all. up to six months of delays at dover for cross—channel traffic, emergency plans to fast—track and fly in medicines if supplies run short. but the brexiteers are coming. they are calling it all a scare

story and they are convinced the rebellion will not melt under pressure. no chance whatsoever. it seems to me they would be better off talking to people and finding out what people want, not preaching to them. but are you worried that theresa may's deal may be the hardest brexit available? you can't be serious. it's not brexit. it's not even brexit in name only. any other brexit deal would be better than what she is putting on the table. labour is hoping it ends up the big winner if the decision goes back to the people. we have put forward a new approach which we are hoping mps in all political parties will vote for. if they do, that will enable us to go off with a strong mandate to negotiate with european partners. if that doesn't happen, in the interests of the country, we have to be prepared with fall back positions and that is a general election or, if we can't get that, than other options. here, behind the posturing on the campaigning, the private talk is about power. the tea rooms and corridors have been humming with the sound of plotting and scheming. for some, it's about how

to take control of brexit. for others, it's about how to grab the keys to number ten. talk to anyone, parliamentary newbies or political veterans, and there is one thing on which everyone can agree. no one has seen or lived through times quite like these. in that report, we heard about potential problems with the supply of medicines in the event of a no—deal brexit. well, how worried should we be? here's our health editor hugh pym. some patients are worried about the possibility of a no deal brexit and medicines not getting through. we have had this warning about possibly six months of disruption at dover, if again there is no deal. people have said plans are being made to make sure extra supplies will be there. of course as six—week stockpile which has already been announced and which is quite successfully been built up the industry.

there is a warning that the nhs, and gps should not themselves stockpile because that would be self—defeating. there might be some suspicion about the timing. the government said it had to get its technical advice on this out there for the nhs. the farmer industry said they want to know what these plans are all about. our correspondent simonjones, who's spent the day there, says officials are bracing themselves in the event of a "no deal". the port of dover is big business. it handles 17% of the uk's trading goods. and it said if you were to line up all the lorries that passed through the boring single day, it would stretch from here as far as sta nsted airport.

that is a distance of around 100 miles. there have been warnings that if france decide to significantly increase the checks on lorries heading over the channel, then that could lead to big problems on the roads around kent. and further afield potentially. what is new today is this morning from the government that potentially problems at dover could last for up to six months. the government is stressing this is a worse case scenario. i have been talking to the biggest fairy company here and they stress i have been talking to the biggest ferry company here and they stress that they have been talking to the authorities on both sides of the channel about the need to keep traffic flowing freely. to be fair, it is in the interests of france that things don't completely clogged up because that would be a big hit for the french economy too. in terms of what people here make of this latest morning, i have been speaking to people in the towns and you get all sides of the brexit debate. one man simply rolled his eyes and said it was scaremongering. another woman told me they had real concerns that other places nearby dover would grind to a halt.

a third person told me we will have to wait and see. there is no way this can be predicted. the warnings from the government focusing minds what ever people think of the brexit debate. meanwhile, the labour leader jeremy corbyn has said that "all options" — including a second referendum — must be on the table if mrs may's deal is defeated next week. i expect the meaningful vote will mean that it is defeated. defeated because mps don't accept the limitations that the backstop agreement would bring in. at that point, the government has to either go back and negotiate something better. or, simply say we cannot govern and resign. and we'll find out how this story, and many others, are covered in tomorrow's front pages at 10:40 and 11:30 this evening in the papers. 0ur guestsjoining me

tonight are henry zeffman, political correspondent for the times, and jason beattie, who's the head of politics at the daily mirror. the father of a young british backpacker missing in new zealand has made an emotional appeal for help to find her. david millane says his family is "extremely concerned" about his daughter grace, who was last seen in auckland on saturday, the day before her 22nd birthday. police say they "hold grave fears for her safety". helena lee has more. where is grace millane? the 22—year—old recently graduated from university. she was in new zealand as part of a round—the—world trip. now missing for six days, she is at the centre of a huge police search. today, her father flew to the country to appeal for help finding his daughter. we last had contact with her on saturday 1st december. and as family we have been extremely concerned for her welfare. grace is a lovely, outgoing, fun—loving family—orientated daughter.

grace has never been out of contact for this amount of time. she's usually in daily contact with either her mum or myself, her two brothers, members of the family on social media. the police know where grace was last saturday. she had been staying at a popular backpacker hostel in the city of auckland. at 7.15 in the evening she was seen at the sky city hotel. later that night, a short distance away, grace was spotted at the city life hotel with a male companion. it has now been six days since grace was last seen. at this point, we hold grave fears for her safety. the police have also been searching an apartment at the hotel where grace was last seen and spoken to a man she was with. her family say they just want her home. helena lee, bbc news. a big security operation is getting under way in france

ahead of a fourth weekend of anti—government protests. 90,000 police officers are being deployed across the country, and armoured vehicles will be on the streets of paris. many shops and museums are beginning to close and will not open on saturday. the french interior minister says the authorities will show no tolerance towards what he called violent radicals who want to topple the republic. and he said the so—called yellow vest protest movement had created a monster. lucy williamson reports. the champs—elysees is again preparing for battle — a consumer paradise twinkling behind bars, reminders of last week's violence still scrawled on some of the walls. translation: it'll be smart to close. we've lost a lot of money, both my fellow shopkeepers and myself. it's enough. almost 90,000 security forces are being deployed across the country, and tourist sites including the louvre and the eiffel tower will close.

the government has released a video on social media. "protesting is a right", it says, "but attacking property or the state is not". translation: the gilets jaunes include pacifists with good intentions, but also people who have been radicalised, exploited by extremist groups and who want to topple the republic. last saturday saw the worst violence here in decades. what began as a protest over fuel tax rises has broadened into a leaderless movement that includes many violent and extremist groups. tonight, this city is bracing itself. the heart of france's economic and political life has become a target for those who feel they have lost touch with both. the threat tomorrow is from extremist groups and violent saboteurs, but the disillusion touches poorer working families across france. lucy williamson, bbc news, paris. i'm joined by the french commentator agnes poirier. thank you for coming in. what impact

this is having on the atmosphere and economy in paris and beyond? you can imagine just before christmas it has impacted quite a lot. the economy, you can look at the figures, and of course the tourists cancelling, cancelling their visits to paris and other places. we are talking about the fourth saturday tomorrowland and it is unprecedented. we are talking about all the shops being ordered to close in certain areas, not everywhere of course. museums, gardens, parks and libraries and all the big stories. how would you characterise these particular protests, in a country where we have seen demonstrations take place over many years? we do this very well and because it is organised and we are

used to it we are used to the theatre of politics, so it is usually always lively, sometimes violent, but that is always an organisation behind, trade unions, for instance. they talk to the police forces and it is routine almost. now, it is very unusual because there is no structure, no organisation. they actually do not wa nt organisation. they actually do not want to structure themselves. they gather on social networks. they also come from very different backgrounds socially and professionally and it is difficult to pin them down. usually you can compile their demands and find out where they come from politically but these come from both extremes. the majority, you have people coming from other political families, but there are demands, far less taxes but much

more public services. how do you reconcile the two? some of them what to exit the european union, that will be familiar to you! and some others want to also leave nato, for instance. that is not a clear leadership that the government can negotiate with, but how over the last few weeks has the nature of those groups changed than the type of people now part of this movement? we will see tomorrow but as you know, the french government has actually accepted the initial demand, which was the end of the tax for 2019. the end of the fuel tax and also they got some other demands met, like the prices of electricity and gas, the annual rise, is not going to happen. but they say it is

too little too late. some of the moderate yellow vests are not going to demonstrate tomorrow or certainly not going to paris, but it feels as if part of the movement has also radicalised. plus been infiltrated by professional extreme right wings and extreme leftists. plus professional thugs. they come to paris to ransack and destroy and do their christmas shopping. it is very difficult for the government, or actually the french people, to hear them clearly, because it is a brouhaha and them clearly, because it is a brouha ha and hence them clearly, because it is a brouhaha and hence the tension and the democratic and stability. always good to see you, thank you. a court in canada has been told that a top executive at the chinese telecoms firm huawei is facing prosecution

in the united states on fraud charges linked to circumventing sanctions on iran. meng wanzhou, chief financial officer of hauwei and daughter of its founder, was arrested in canada last saturday. prosecutors told a bail hearing in vancouver that huawei used an unofficial subsidiary, skycom, to facilitate transactions with iran. if found guilty she could face up to 30 years injail for each of the charges. the headlines on bbc news. ministers warn that channel ports could face six months of disruption if britain leaves the eu without a deal. police in new zealand say missing british backpacker grace millane was last seen with a male companion at a hotel. british yachtswoman susie goodall is rescued after being stranded in the southern pacific for two days — her boat had capsized during the golden globe race. sport now, and for a full round up, from the bbc

sport centre, here's azi farni. good evening. cricketers ben stokes and alex hales are free to play for england again following a charge of bringing the game into disrepute. an independent commission imposed suspensions on the pair which they've already served. stokes was found not guilty of affray in court earlier this year after a fight outside a bristol nightclub in september 2017. both players were also fined — hales has been ordered to pay a total of £17,500, of which 10,000 is suspended. stokes has been fined a total of £30,000. here's our sports editor dan roan. in the last couple of hours both players have issued statements and both have issued public apologies for the first emperor what happened. ben stokes said it had been a heavy burden, this long controversy. he

had to go through that criminal trial a couple of weeks back in august but both players expressing their regret and determination to learn from their mistakes and their determination to put it all behind them and get on playing for england. 1a sports have been given a share of a £3 million funding pot from uk sport, in the run up to the 2020 tokyo olympics and paralympics. skateboarding, weightlifting and wheelchair rugby are among those who'll get the money but the amount they'll receive is a drop in the ocean compared to sorts of money given to the british powerhouses like rowing, which‘ll get nearly £37 million in total ahead of tokyo 2020. this is about specific athletes on a specific journey to tokyo, this is about specific athletes on a specificjourney to tokyo, so it is not about developing the system of support in each of these sports, so our core investment in medal success in the other sports, where millions are in the other sports, where millions a re invested,

in the other sports, where millions are invested, is about a long—term sustainable pathway for athletes who wa nt to sustainable pathway for athletes who want to be supported to be the very best they can be notjust that want to be supported to be the very best they can be not just that the schemes but that future games as well. jose mourinho is staying at manchester united — his agent says rumours that he'll leave old trafford are totally untrue. rumours that united have been in contact with tottenham to line up mauricio pochettino are also unfounded. united play fulham tomorrow — they haven't won in the premier league since november and their performances have been criticsed for being too negative. mourinho says there'll be no excuses for a bad performance this time. isaid to i said to you a few weeks ago speaking about the december month and no defeat, that is a reality. good fight, good spirit, butjust one victory against young boys and three rollers and we need points, but phil is the same. they need points. it's not even christmas yet

but there could already be a problem for eddiejones ahead of the start of the six nations. saracens and england lock maro itoje will be out for an indefinite period — but certainly for "a number of weeks" with a knee injury. england's six nations 0pener against champions ireland in dublin is only eight weeks away. in better news, both vunipola brothers are expected to be back in action by the end of the month. defending champion ronnie 0'sullivan remains on course for a record seventh uk championship title. after he beat martin 0'donnell 6—1 to reach the semi—finals. 0'sullivan will now take on tom ford in the last four after ford defeated joe perry 6—2. i wasjust a bit on edge trying to feel my way into it and it is never good because you have to impose yourself as much as you can, but it was probably a really good match me because i had to play safely and be patient. i am finding my feet so i

know my game is clear but it is good to get it right from the off. that's all the sport for now. i'll have more for you in sportsday at half past ten. a bbc investigation has found that academics from black and arab backgrounds at britain's top universities are being paid a quarter less on average than their white colleagues. the figures are startling. 52,000 is the average salary for a white academic. but black academics are paid 38,000 on average and academics from an arab background 37,000. the pay gap nearly doubles for women from these backgrounds. the body that represents uk universities says the lack of senior ethnic minority academics is part of the problem . 0ur education correspondent elaine dunkley reports. professor kehinde andrews has reached the top of higher education, but he's amongst a minority of black british academics teaching in universities across the uk. when it comes to promotion and pay, they are far behind their white colleagues.

they need to open the door. how did you... he, along with other academics, are keen to help these undergraduates and ph. d. students overcome some of the challenges they have faced. you are talking about an institution which underpins slavery and colonialism, was almost entirely white 50 years ago, and has only opened up in the last 50 years, and actually if you look at a lot of the structures, a lot of the courses, a lot of the elitism, it is just an incredibly white institutions. so we shouldn't really be surprised that there are so few black professors. we have to work ten times harder to be in contention, to progress within our careers because there are cliques within faculties, where opportunities and made openly available to everyone. it is too easy for colleagues in higher education to ignore a lot of the things that we've been talking about to avoid these issues. today's ph. d students are the professors of the future. the way that they navigate

themselves through the academic space as ethnic minorities has steadily provided a blueprint for me. but despite an increase of black and minority ethnic students in higher education they are still underrepresented at the best universities, less likely to have funding for ph.d.s and research, or have the mentoring opportunities to progress to professorships. how important... is it to have... a black lecturer? discuss. seeing a black woman up there, teaching me something that i aspire to carry on for word, makes me optimistic that i, too, can open the door, just like she did. black children are not given the confidence from their teachers. they don't feel like they are able to give into academia. in 70 years there have been 25 female black professors. out of 19,000. the statistics don't lie. it's about having the uncomfortable conversation. baroness valerie amos is the first black woman to be in charge of a university in the uk, and says it not good enough.

there is something quite intractable and difficult going on that we have to address. when you look at the universities that have really been able to make a difference in relation to this, they have put a lot of time, effort, and resources, working with their students union, working with their staff, and, crucially, working with their local communities to make a difference. going to university is about improving job respects and opportunities. but for many black academics it is far from the reality. elaine dunkley, bbc news. meanwhile, staying with education, a study by the charity the sutton trust has found eight of the uk's top schools get as many students into 0xford and cambridge universities as three—quarters of all schools and colleges put together. it showed eight schools sent 1,310 pupils to 0xbridge over three years, while over the same period, almost 3,000 other schools sentjust 1,220 students between them. earlier i spoke to evie aspinall, president of cambridge university students union and joe inwood, president of the oxford university students union

about both of those stories. i think ithinkl i think i had quite an negative perception of 0xbridge before i applied. i definitely thought it was applied. i definitely thought it was a place of social elitism rather than academic, but i was part of a summer than academic, but i was part of a summer school programme that oxford university runs. i spent a week living in oxford in a college and got a sense of what oxford life was right and met many students and that's changed my mind. how much difference does it make depending on which college you apply to? are some more welcoming of non—independent school pupils? the different

environments and colleges and different colleges have different access levels, but in general, the idea is that what college you apply to doesn't matter and they try and do outreach programmes in different areas of the country. it seems there areas of the country. it seems there are some 3000 state schools who are historically those who put in the least applications. what needs to be donein least applications. what needs to be done in your view to encourage those schools to get more involved than to consider 0xbridge for their pupils? first of all you have to acknowledge that oxford and cambridge board spend a huge amount of time on outreach. they spend a lot of money on this and really do try to sort this problem and students volunteer thousands of hours in these programmes, going to communities where people don't apply and will go into higher education and try to inspire them to raise the attainment. there are still large areas of the country where applying

to go to university still doesn't seem to go to university still doesn't seem like a reasonable prospect and the resorts oxford and cambridge can do to break down that image, that we are not representing the place and it is about access and bringing more underrepresented groups into oxford and cambridge will bleed more success. and cambridge will bleed more success. my own college, over 90% of its intake is state educated. that means those pupils think that is a place in me far oxford and we need to see that across the board and every college. a british sailor whose yacht was crippled by a fierce storm in the southern pacific ocean has been rescued. susie goodall — who was the youngest competitor —— and the only female entrant in the solo golden globe round the world race — was stranded for days in the southern ocean, 2,000 miles from land, but this afternoon a cargo vessel from hong kong came to her aid, bringing her aboard in stormy conditions. barry pickthall from the golden globe team said they had been speaking to susie every few hours. we had been talking about how do the

best way to evacuate the boat, and what to do and what to take, so she has had her time filled getting prepared for this liftoff. so the adrenaline will have been running and she will be elated now. now it's time for a look at the weather with louise lear. for many of us, it has been wet and windy but it is slowly starting to change. the low pressure for a time as the wind tights eastwards. the strongest of the winds gusting in excess of 50 miles an hour on the exposed coast of scotland and down into the north of england. we start off relatively dry.

it won't be long before more showers start to invade from the west. some will meld together for longer spells of rain at your time. eastern areas will see the best of the drier weather. through saturday evening and overnight, we see the wind strengthening as those showers gust in excess of six team an hour. that's worth bearing in mind but the showers will ease away on sunday. the second half of the weekend looks quieter, is not a little bit cooler. good evening. warnings that channel ports could face six months of disruption if britain leaves the eu without a deal. the latest warning from the government comes as thirty ministers fan out around the country, trying to sell theresa may's brexit plan. police in new zealand say missing british backpacker grace millane was last seen with a male companion at a hotel. three years injail for a teenager who sent thousands of hoax bomb threats to schools and triggered an american airline security scare

and british yachtswoman susie goodall is rescued after being stranded in the southern pacific for two days — her boat had capsized during the golden globe race. let's return now to the latest developments in the proposed brexit deal. the leaders of kent county council have appealed to the government today for extra money and support to help prevent "chaos" at its ports and on its roads, if there's a "no deal" withdrawal from the eu. earlier, i spoke tojohn mills — labour donor and founder ofjml direct — who supports britain leaving the eu — and john shirley, who runs an internationalfreight company and supports britain remaining in the eu. firstjohn mills explained why he thinks brexit would open up new trade opportunities for britain, and generate new export opportunities for business. i'm nota i'm not a all sure that the access to the single market is going to go

down even if we had no deal. if that does not stop the company's selling to the single market countries, i think that all the stories about how the amount of trade is going to tumble down, just does not sound correct to me. if we do not, if we are not in these customs unions, in week cannot conduct negotiations for free trade deals, and that ought to stimulate further exports. and i am find it hard to believe all of these very gloomy stories about how the economy is going to do very poorly after brexit. is a gloomy prediction thriving company trucks while their paid by the kilometre. but from area

to area, there's not many people that want to be sitting behind a computer that drive trucks, but it's not really sensible if they know if they concede is going to be no deal and woke ten to 20,000 trucks, they are not going to want this in their truck senior and most of our imports come from, the british international industry, sojohn, i'm not going to send that truck from italy to that area, i'lljust take one to sweden or somewhere sensible. why you've

heard that the difficulties of no deal could be enormous, if not for companies like you, a lot but for many of their businesses, there will be an arms difficulties if whatjohn says comes true. he may be right, but i suspect that how much priority the customs officers get for getting vehicles through rather than making sure everything gets held up. likely what will happen is that priority will be given to keeping the traffic moving, and! will be given to keeping the traffic moving, and i don't think those involved is all that significantly more complicated than we have anyway. it's all done by preclearance, and i don't see what there should be long delays, provided everyone behaves sensibly. if they do not, people are really up

to cause trouble and there will be difficulties. i do not see why that should happen. a teenager from hertfordshire who sent bomb threats to hundreds of schools in britain has been jailed for three years. george duke—cohan — who's nineteen — sent the hoax emails to seventeen—hundred schools, claiming he would set off a device if money wasn't paid. he also made bomb threats to a plane bound for the us. duncan kennedy reports from luton crown court. george duke—cohan arrested in his own bedroom. the place he had spent eight months sending out hoax bomb threats. police officers caught him after he had created what the judge called havoc among thousands of schools. this school in watford was among those targeted by george duke—cohan. he september hoax e—mails to more than 2,000 schools, he sent hoax e—mails to more than 2,000 schools,

threatening to bomb them if they didn't hand over money. the evacuations he created caused panic and he sent hoaxes for schools for children with special needs. the upset and economic loss suffered by pupils, parent and airlines demonstrates the seriousness with which the court views such offending. the airline was a united airlines flight from london to america. george duke—cohan posed as the father of a child on board, with this phone call. thejudge said george duke—cohan wanted publicity for his own

perverted sense of fun, but had caused suffering to thousands of people. germany's christian democrat party has elected a new leader to succeed angela merkal as party leader. her preferred choice, anna—grate kramp karen—bar defeated the millionaire lawyer friedrich merz. despite quitting as cdu leader ms merkel plans to remain german chancellor until her term ends in 2021. the founder and chief executive of the clothing chain, ted baker, is taking a temporary leave of absence while allegations about his conduct are investigated. ray kelvin says accusations that he enforced a "hugging" culture on staff have "raised some very serious and upsetting issues". the company's board says it has been made aware of further serious allegations about the chief executive, which will also be investigated. the chief executive of motability,

the taxpayer—supported business that supplies cars to people with disabilities, is to step down next year following criticism of his pay. mike betts was in line to receive a bonus of more than two million pounds on top of his annual salary of 1—point seven million pounds. there is an epidemic of criminal attacks on cash machines, according to a new report from one of the biggest atm operators. raids on cashpoints, including using explosives or ram raids, have caused damage of tens of millions of pounds — and have left people in remote rural areas struggling to access cash. president trump has made two key appointments, naming william barr as the new us attorney general and heather nau—ert as the ambassador to the united nations. heather nauert — is a former fox news anchor and current state department spokesperson. his pick for attorney general — william barr — previously held the post in the administration of george h w bush. he succeedsjeff sessions who was fired by the president in the wake of the midterm elections.

president trump told reporters gathered on the white house lawn about the new appointments earlier this afternoon i want to confirm that bill barr, one of the most respected jurist, former attorney general in the bush administration, respected by republicans and democrats, he will be nominated for the united states attorney general. i also want to inform you that heather nauert, somebody we know very well, who has done a greatjob working with mike pompeo over at the state department, heather nauert will be nominated. she is going to work with nikki haley, to replace her at the united nations. she'll be ambassador to the united nations. she's very talented and smart. very quick. i think she is going

to be respected by all. the american comedian kevin hart has stepped down as host of next year's oscars ceremony, after criticism tweets he posted years ago were homophobic. hart said he did not want to be a distraction on oscars night and that he was "sorry he had hurt people". our entertainment correspondent lizo mzimba reports. it was only a few days ago that the academy announced that kevin hart, once an invited guest at the oscars, was to be the next host of the show watched by millions but that was before it emerged the comedian turned actor had a decade earlier made homophobic comments in his stand—up show and on social media. his response did not help, it actually made things worse. i was told that the world is upset about a tweet i did years ago. i am almost a0 years old. if you don't believe that people change, grow, evolve, as they get older, then i don't know what to tell you.

the academy asked him to apologise, but he refused. that is the past. the reason why it is passed, i have addressed it several times, this is not the first time it has come up, i have addressed it, i have spoken on it, i have said where the rights and wrongs were, i have said who i am now and that is who i was then, i have done this. within hours he changed his mind and stood down from hosting, finally apologising to the lgbtoia rights community. over the last few years, kevin hart has been seen as one of the most exciting new talents in entertainment, appearing on screen in some of the biggest films, including jumanji. in his next role, he appears alongside bryan cranston, but many believe that he should have handled this weeks events far better. if he is on the mainstream stage, he has got to

adjust his act, he should have been faster to apologise. very mealy mouth, i am sorry, i'm not sorry, i am better... the whole thing is a mess. that includes the oscars themselves, with the ceremony now fewer than three months away, they now search for a new host, someone they are sure won't end up being surrounded by controversy in the same way that kevin hart has. with christmas just around the corner what kind of tree should you buy.. a real fir or a plastic fake? millions of us buy christmas trees each year but what impact does this have on the environment in long run ? and should you go real or reusable? the bbc‘s lora jones explores.. it's the ultimate british

decoration, but what is the impact is the christmas tree up on the environment and should you go fake orfor? will put environment and should you go fake or for? will put the christmas tree to the test. the natural tree, around 7 million christmas trees are bought and around 7 million christmas trees are boughtand uk around 7 million christmas trees are bought and uk each year, with roughly three quarters being grown here. it takes up to 12 years to grow a typical christmas tree, over time it is a positive impact on the environment, because it absorbs carbon from the atmosphere and nitrogen from the soil. but once the trees chopped down, it starts releasing it back into the atmosphere. transporting a tree can contribute to its overall carbon footprint, so buying a tree that is locally grown can keep its carbon footprint down. but the biggest potential environmental impact for a natural christmas tree comes from its disposal. if your tree in the bin landfill, the carbon footprints will be allowed higher, because organic matter he composes away from

oxygen created greenhouse gas that creates global warming. a much better idea for your christmas tree to get incinerated. that reduces its carbon footprint by 80%. you can find off and the local council and state christmas tree. and of course, if you have the space, you can buy a potted christmas tree that you can keep over a year. so what about a plastic christmas tree? here, the biggest impact comes from production. artificial trees are usually made out of combinations of plastic, the production process can significantly increase the tree's carbon footprint. in most artificial trees are made in china, which means that to be packaged and shipped to the uk. the good news is that you can reuse a plastic tree. so many yea rs can reuse a plastic tree. so many years ago to keep it so that it has a lower environmental impact and buying a natural tree? experts think

it's about ten years, but that it's a rough estimate and a number of different factors, such as the tree. if you do decide to up to roger plastic tree, it is most likely to end up in landfill as it is not currently recyclable. overall the choice of christmas tree as a relatively small impact on your annual carbon footprint, to give you annual carbon footprint, to give you a better idea, driving 12 miles produces as much greenhouse gas emissions as buying a natural tree. 154 miles if it ends up in landfill, if you get an artificial tree, that's roughly the equivalent of driving when miles, of course there are other factors they might want to consider when you buy a christmas tree. but in terms of environmental impact, we use for artificial trees arejust impact, we use for artificial trees are just two factors you might want to keep in mind. now on bbc news, the film review