of the european union will continue over further clarification of arrangements for the northern ireland border. theresa may said she had held robust talks with the european commission president, jean—claude juncker, after he had complained her requests for clarifications were imprecise. donald trump's former lawyer says the us president knew it was wrong to order payments before the election to keep two women silent about their alleged affairs with him. mr trump has denied asking michael cohen , who's been sentenced to three years in jail, to break the law. there've been sporadic clashes on the outskirts of the crucial yemeni port of hodeida, putting at risk a ceasefire that came into effect on friday. the un's special envoy for yemen said a robust monitoring scheme was needed to ensure the truce could take hold. now on bbc news, as we reach the end of 2018, events to mark 100 years since the end of world war i have

come to a close. the bbc‘s robert hall presents a special programme showing how millions of people commemorated those who fought and died a century ago. last month, europe marked the end of the terrible conflict. the first world war cost millions of lives and ruined millions more. a century on from the armistice, this generation paused to remember tragedies both global and personal. you just cannot leave what man can do to man. —— believe.

ido i do know how the villagers populating now. ——iam —— i am known —— lam known in —— i am known in the village as poppy —— i am known in the village as poppy lady now. this is the imperial war museum poppy lady now. this is the imperial warmuseum in poppy lady now. this is the imperial war museum in london. today with sister sites around the uk it reflects well conflict across the generations. the museum was founded in 1917 to tell the story of the first world war. last month the duchess of cambridge was here to see a cascade of poppies marking british and commonwealth lives lost. around britain and the centenary of the armistice brought thousands more events to cities, towns, villages and even on our beaches. the film director danny boyle who masterminded the 2012 olympic opening ceremony in london led an initiative to create sand portraits of soldiers lost on the battlefields. sean peel from bbc look east watch one project unfolding in norfolk. a crisp autumn

afternoon on brancaster beach, tired out, bright sunshine lighting the scene as families and walkers enjoyed just being together, a perfect sunday to remember those no longer here. with the wet sand providing a canvas, work began to create a porter to the man who died in the great war. there and gone like the tide, never to return to these stores. but creating an image of driver stephen hewitt who was born in alligator in northcote and died —— norfolk and died age 16 in 1937. stand is quite flexible seat can 1937. stand is quite flexible seat ca n cover 1937. stand is quite flexible seat can cover over it is not working. but we worked in pairs to keep checking we were doing it right, and i think we were really pleased with the end result. stephen hewitt was a driver in the field artillery looking after the horses used to ta ke looking after the horses used to take the guns into battle. he was fighting the bulgarians in greece, and when they are writing he was

attacked by attacker walls and died of his injuries. for a merely a order it was an emotional day. stephen hewitt was a great grandad —— fora stephen hewitt was a great grandad —— for a merely. she only had this was happening two days before, a chance glance at a piece in a newspaper so she drove you from newcastle. —— jove newspaper so she drove you from newcastle. ——jove here. newspaper so she drove you from newcastle. — — jove herelj newspaper so she drove you from newcastle. -- jove here. i always find it a bit emotional, it is because im interested in ourfamily history and today is much more, we stopped at 11 o'clock to do a two—minute silence, and yes, it has been tugging at the heartstrings, we will be here until it is dark. the sentry‘s tides, charting their bitter sams cannot be let. not the war to end all wars, death's berthing place. as the light faded phone was recited, pages of the sea

by the poet laureate carolann duffy. history might as well be water, chastising the shore. for we learn nothing from the greatest sacrifice. at the going down of the day at brancaster, those who came to remember left before nightfall, leaving the incoming tide to take driver stephen hewitt into its arms. the armistice commemorations have centred on lives lost in combat. but as gerry jackson from centred on lives lost in combat. but as gerryjackson from bbc centred on lives lost in combat. but as gerry jackson from bbc outback look north discovered, other the graves of those killed during four yea rs of graves of those killed during four years of large shed are others of men who died after the fighting stopped. —— bbc look north. 0ur first world ward bed like hundreds of commonwealth soldiers on earth fields of the middle east, it europe and africa. but more than 130,000 of them died in the uk. this is sunderland. as the leaves barely

1918, many relatives must have taught their loved ones had made it through the worst. private robert really is wounded in france in mid—0ctober, he is taken back to a hospital in the midlands when he dies on the 10th of november. it is all but certain that his wife kate would have received a telegram on armistice day, perhaps as the church bells were ringing and people wearing the streets celebrating. 0n the 12th, she writes to his regiment, asking for the return of his personal belongings. she says "i shall be very grateful if you will oblige me in this matter. it may seem a oblige me in this matter. it may seem a small thing to ask for, but it means a lot to me." andrew neil had been blinded in the war, he died six months after the armistice and should have had a military headstone. the nearly a century he lay in an unmarked grave. the

problem was that his death certificate said epilepsy, but it was not to beating that to war injuries. we knew that he died as a result of the great war. then sometime later we got his pension disability card. and this is it. same cause of death but in small letters, due to active service. the man who gave his eyes and his life for his country and now he has some impact to recognise that. my mum and my auntie 's impact to recognise that. my mum and my auntie '5 said my grandad was blinded in the first world war. never knew anything else. to see the stone now, especially when you drive up stone now, especially when you drive up the road and it cleans, it is just fantastic. —— gleams. up the road and it cleans, it is just fantastic. -- gleams. sergeant neil's story is one of many research by the northumbria world war i commemoration project, a seven year committee reverence endeavour. jon yuill from county durham had won the victoria cross in the italian alps

in the summer of 1918. he was killed four days before the fighting ended there in october. news of his death only reached his family on armistice day. you can't help wondering what these people would have become, what they would have gone to do. collectively come made a sacrifice which we can scarcely imagine today. and surely that at least, we should remain grateful. this anniversary perhaps more than any other has drawn us into our own family history. 80—year—old andrew sturt from surrey had never visited the battlefield, but he wanted to find the graves of three uncles who still lie on the western front. bbc south today went with him. andrew and his son richard are making a special journey. andrew and his son richard are making a specialjourney. aged 80, andrew sees this as his last chance to visit the graves of his three u ncles to visit the graves of his three uncles who all died fighting in

france. he has never made this trip for. —— before. they had to a cemetery in the north of france. we are getting close to the british section now. when uncle harold lies. andrew's father edward would have found these visits to painful to make. edwin had answered the call to fight for king and country, as had five of his brothers. 0rdinary country lads from trouble village in surrey. against the odds, all six we re surrey. against the odds, all six were still alive four years later. but in the final year of the war, that would change. it isjust frightening. you just cannot believe what man can do to man. harold was the first brother to die. he was a lorry driver for the army's service

corps, delivering supplies to the frontline. 0ne corps, delivering supplies to the frontline. one day he drove over an unexploded shell and died instantly. very sad, isn't it. aged 28. yeah. he was the oldest of the three who died. he lived to almost the end of the war. he and his two brothers, died in very quick succession. carrying on theirjourney, the next grave is especially poignant. andrew's uncle reginald is buried here. of all the brothers he was particularly close to andrew's own father. my father has written a letter to his uncle. he was so cruelly taken from the family by that sniper‘s will it. on your first day back in service. —— bullets. we will remember you. there is one more cemetery to visit,

the grave of herbert, just two months before the war would finally come to an end, herbert was killed, aged 19. it was his sacrifice which broke your grandmother's heart. that was the final straw. in the last year of the war, the sturt had lost three sons in the space of six months. tragic art not unusual. many families had been robbed of their young men, a lost generation who had made the ultimate sacrifice. the sturt brothers were part of what was dubbed the "lost generation". small committees were hardest hit, fighting to survive without the young man who had marched off toward —— communities. as jackie 0'brien from reporting scotland discovered,

even those who returned faced a harsh future. the cameron heyward and is left the north of scotland in their droves. —— highlanders. full of youth and hope that theirjob would be done by christmas. but many did not return, and it emerged that the number of highland servicemen killed more than action —— killed in action more than double the national average. the loss of young men was catastrophic. work on the croft, crofting and fishing, are both activities that require fit, strong young men. and a lot of them just weren't there. so the work on the croft ‘s had to be done quite often by old men and women. the sense of gloom that pervaded the whole community must have been palpable. donald angus shaw was too young to fight at first, but he defied his

pa rents fight at first, but he defied his parents and left his family croft as soon as he turned 16. he died on the western front a year later. 0ne soon as he turned 16. he died on the western front a year later. one of a total of 600 sky men lost to the island community. —— isle of skye men. many of them had married young and some young mothers were widowed very young, and they had to bring up the children on their own, which was not easy. because there were no cars in those days and they had to walk everywhere. sport suffered too, so many young north shanty players fought and fell together that local clu bs fought and fell together that local clubs struggled to produce teams after 1918. cup hero donald paterson died with his brother. but his pipes which were recovered with a manuscript still play the tune he

wrote while under fire in manuscript still play the tune he wrote while underfire in france. his mother obviously grief stricken at losing two sons out of their three, just put his belongings away and no one had looked inside the pipe box, but the old bag cover had traces of blood on it and there was a tune in the box that he had written for the club back in the trenches, and it had not seen the light of day until this was about 1980. this of those who did survive the trenches, and you struggle awaited them at home. after croft land a promise to the highland or heroes was not being handed over. some occupy the ground it legally, insisting that after taking on the germans and their machine—guns, a court order meant nothing to them. those who survived the horrors of the first world war never forgot the poppies which flowered in the mud of no man's land. today of course they area no man's land. today of course they are a symbol of remembrance. a team from inside out west visited a

gloucestershire village where one woman had recruited an army to create the charfield yarm bomb of knitted flowers. my my name is helen and i started the charfield yarn bohm. it was just a simple post on the charfield village forums asking if anyone wanted to meet a few poppies to decorate our church. from there, it grew each month. more people wanting to help. it expanded to the church and the bus stop in the shop. now we are doing the whole 2— mile stretch right the way through charfield. we originally said we'd need to 3000

poppies and somebody said that 7777 men in the gloucester area lost their lives. so we decided to make a lot more. it hits everybody every year but this year being the 100 yea rs year but this year being the 100 years since the end of the great war, it reminds us what was done for us. war, it reminds us what was done for us. it brings back the reality of what happened and the sacrifice they made all those years ago. i'd say about 100, 120 local ladies. a lot of people who didn't know each other so it's just amazing the way the group has bonded. other so it's just amazing the way the group has bondedlj other so it's just amazing the way the group has bonded. i live on my

own and since i've been doing these poppies, i've met some really, really nice people, people i've seen in the village but hadn't talked to. ididn't in the village but hadn't talked to. i didn't know very many people at all in the village. go to the pub and meet a few people they are but there are fewer women there and i've met some really nice ladies and had some really good conversations and fun times with them. each one is a life that was lost in the great war. each one of these, to me, is a person, not only that were lost but somebody made these poppies with love. you could put that in the church. the aymack? ef. put it on the vicar‘s head. this one? put it on his head. we need to make sure we have enough to get right the way through the village.|j

have enough to get right the way through the village. i think there are going to be plenty of poppies. we've got 11,000. everything is going up now. it is a pinch me moment where it is all happening. i love it, it's great. real good. it's taken a lot of work. yeah, it is really made me think about all the people that went off to war. that is just unbelievable. it couldn't look any better. right to the end. you've done it. ijust thank any better. right to the end. you've done it. i just thank you all so much. yes, thank you. iam known in the village as the poppy lady now, that's my name. i haven't got a name, it's that populate there. poppies! as world war i recedes into

history, how will we continue to remember the events that unfolded during those for costly years? well, one ambitious plan is to link existing footpath along the western front stretching from switzerland to the belgian coast and creating a journey of remembrance. as i discovered, that idea originated in letters from the front written by a young british officer. there are grave is scattered up and down. the ground is so pitted and scarred and torn with shells and tangles with wire. alexander gillespie was 26 when he wrote his last letters home in the weeks before his death, he began to plan a project that could now become his legacy. my great uncle was a prolific letter writer. country file presenter tom heap is alexander gillespie's great—nephew. well, he had this extraordinary leap

of imagination when he was in the trenches amongst the fighting that he thought, when this is all over and peace comes, we should put a route along no—man's—land for people of all nations to come and walk along. the vision is a network of marked paths stretching from the swiss border to the belgian coast, tracing the trench lines of the western front. that's over 630 miles. that means negotiating with dozens miles. that means negotiating with d oze ns of miles. that means negotiating with dozens of landowners and local councils but so far, reaction has been encouraging. translation: from the first moment i heard about the path, i immediately saw how it could work. i think we must widen the ways that we remember the past because if we don't do that, people will lose interest. this monument was sculpted by... high on vimy ridge stands this

memorial to canadian troops fought on the western front. here too gillespie's vision has received an enthusiastic welcome. gillespie's vision has received an enthusiastic welcomelj gillespie's vision has received an enthusiastic welcome. i think it's a great opportunity. we have certainly visitors who come on pilgrimage to visitors who come on pilgrimage to visit and follow the path of their a ncestors visit and follow the path of their ancestors and this gives them an alternate route than taking highways and going around about, they can actually walk the western front as their ancestors did. tom heap believes projects like this provide new ways of connecting with a conflict that is moving further and further into our distant history. this, to me, is exactly what my great uncle envisaged when he was in those trenches 103 years ago today. he died somewhere near here, we don't know exactly where, but to me it's quite sort of spine tingling, the thought that we are pretty much doing what he envisaged. the thought that we are pretty much doing what he envisagedlj the thought that we are pretty much doing what he envisaged. i would

like to send every man, woman and child in western europe on pilgrimage along that sacred road survey might think and learn what war means from the silent witnesses on either side. -- survey. a sentimental idea perhaps but we might make the most beautiful road in all the world. reconciliation was a central theme of the centenary and our final story a central theme of the centenary and ourfinal story mirrors a central theme of the centenary and our final story mirrors that. clearly donovan from inside out yorkshire and lincolnshire brought us yorkshire and lincolnshire brought us the tale of two families from opposite sides of the conflict up late old ghosts to rest. a meal specht is a man on a mission, coming to grimsby from the south of france, searching the truth about his uncle who died in world war i. translation: ourfather who died in world war i. translation: our father didn't talk barrier much about his brother because he was so upset by his death. we were very young so he didn't really tell us anything.

emile discovered his uncle drowned after his above and crashed into the north sea. grimsby fishermen, william martin, came across the wrecked airship but refused to rescue the 16— man crew. ever since, skipper martin has been criticised for his decision to let the germans died. four years ago, for his decision to let the germans died. fouryears ago, we for his decision to let the germans died. four years ago, we filmed skipper martin's great—grandson pat thompson at heinrich‘s grave in denmark —— whether german's body was washed up. all i denmark —— whether german's body was washed up. all! can denmark —— whether german's body was washed up. all i can do is offer my apologies to his family. emile, the airmen ‘s nephew, got in touch after seeing ourfilm airmen ‘s nephew, got in touch after seeing our film and airmen ‘s nephew, got in touch after seeing ourfilm and he wants airmen ‘s nephew, got in touch after seeing our film and he wants to airmen ‘s nephew, got in touch after seeing ourfilm and he wants to meet pat. translation: when i found pat thompson had gone to my uncle to ask in his great—grandfather's name for forgiveness, i felt it was my duty to do something to show that we

wa nted to do something to show that we wanted to grant forgiveness on our father's behalf. for pat, going to be an emotional meeting. emile, this is pat. we have passed to put right of ourfamilies, is pat. we have passed to put right of our families, right? is pat. we have passed to put right of ourfamilies, right? yes. and i hope we can put that right while you are in england. welcome to england. the german air men were still alive on the wreckage. they asked for help but skipper martin, who said his crew we re but skipper martin, who said his crew were heavily outnumbered, ordered the trawler to turn away. the lost m n weren't the only casualties. skipper martin never recovered from the terrible decision he made that day. within a year, at the age of a5, he was dead. in grimsby, emile and pats are back together. they have a final duty to perform at skipper martin's grave. translation: captain william martin,

iam standing translation: captain william martin, i am standing by your great—grandson pat and i am standing by your great—grandson patand i'm i am standing by your great—grandson pat and i'm speaking to you. today, on behalf of our family, i pat and i'm speaking to you. today, on behalf of ourfamily, i come pat and i'm speaking to you. today, on behalf of our family, i come to bring you out for goodness. merci beaucoup. 0ne one of the most powerful exhibits marking the centenary came from the archives here at the imperial war museum. during the war, artillery observers used sound measurements to calculate the positions of german guns. they were marked on a chart on one of those charts records the moment leading up to the ceasefire. sound designers have used to re—create what the soldiers on both front lines would have heard that day. so i will leave you with the sounds of the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, 100 years ago. goodbye. sustained gunfire and explosions

silence hello. after a fairly quiet day on friday, the weather is about to turn much more lively as we head through the course of the weekend.

we've got a named storm, storm dierdre, it's been named by met eireann. that is bringing some very disruptive weather this weekend with warnings, amber warnings from the met office for ice and snow, and there will also be freezing rain which will bring widespread ice on any roads and untreated surfaces too. here is where we've got the amber warnings out through saturday and early into sunday as well. ice warnings across much of northern england and southern scotland and we'll also have snow and freezing rain here. heavy snow across many central parts of scotland, mainly to the north of the central belt. the reason for all this disruptive weather is milder air moving in from the atlantic, with these weather fronts which are which are packing in and bumping into this cold air, so a cold saturday dawn, temperatures sub—zero per many of us. that milder air works in from the west along with the rain, the freezing rain and ice and snow too. notjust the rain, freezing rain, ice and snow, but also some strong winds which will cause some disruption too. so you can see the rain edging its way gradually eastwards across the country, bumping

into that cold air in place, and it will be turning to snow, mostly over the higher ground for the north of wales, the pennines too but even to the south we could get one or two flakes of snow earlier on before it turns back to rain, i think, during the middle part of the afternoon. could be about 2—5 centimetres of snow, even to low levels across northern england to the north of the central belt, 10—20 centimetres of snow and the freezing rain really will be quite dangerous. that's rain droplets that willjust freeze instantly on impact with the cold ground, bringing a real instant ice rink effect. so some pretty disruptive weather through the course of saturday, all down to storm dierdre. it's going to cause disruption to travel through saturday night and on into sunday too. with that mix of freezing rain, snow and ice and strong winds too, your bbc local radio stations will keep you up—to—date with any disruption to travel. so heading on into the second half of the weekend, we start off sunday still with some rain and snow to the north—east which should slowly clear away. it will be a drier day compared to saturday, not as windy. more sunshine in the east

but there will be some lying snow and still the risk of ice. further rain showers then packing in from the west later on in the day. it won't be quite as cold, so those temperatures starting to nudgi up about 6—10 degrees through the day on sunday and then things turn a bit milder into the new working week, still unsettled with further showers for monday and tuesday too. hello and welcome to bbc news. after a bruising encounter in brussels, british prime minister theresa may says she still believes she can get extra assurances from eu leaders to get her brexit withdrawal agreement through the uk parliament. eu leaders say they won't renegotiate but will offer what they call ‘further clarifications' on the so—called backstop. that's the safety net aimed at avoiding a hard trade border

between the eu and the uk on the island of ireland, if no future deal is agreed in time. this report is from laura kuenssberg in brussels. a bad omen?