this is bbc news i'm shaun ley. the headlines at 8pm: once special, now unemployed. jose mourinho is permanently substituted, by man united. donald trump agrees to shut down the trump foundation, his family charity,as new york's attorney general claims to have found "a shocking pattern of illegality". the cabinet steps up preparations for a no—deal brexit, if theresa may's withdrawal proposal is rejected by the commons next month. we need to recognise with m weeks ago that the responsible government is preparing for the eventuality that we leave without a deal. waste not, want not. plans to overhaul england's waste systems are unveiled, to make it easier to recycle in the hope of helping the planet. and a dramatic operation refloats a russian ship, run aground off the cornish coast. good evening.

manchester united has sacked its managerjose mourinho after the club's worst ever start to a premier league season. mourinho has been at old trafford for just over two years. he's been criticised over his signings and the team's style of play. united say they will appoint a caretaker manager for the rest of the season. our sports editor dan roan reports. driven out. jose mourinho here leaving town this afternoon, hours after learning he had been sacked as manchester united manager, the end of a turbulent reign. his fate had been sealed 48 hours earlier. their woeful defeat to liverpool marked a new low, this is their worst start to a league season for 28 years. and with the club's hierarchy watching on, patience had run out. you cannot just pin the blame on one person.

yes, the manager takes the rap and he has lost his job for that because ultimately he is the one that has to get the best out of the players. quite clearly, that has not been the case. but when you go back to the summer, he wanted to be back and bring other players into the football club and for whatever reason, he wasn't. with a salary of around £80 million a year, mourinho spent £400 million on 11 players. but despite such investment, the club finds itself 19 points behind the league leaders. once you start criticising players in public, then it starts to go pear shaped. it is dire, no attacking, no desire. he looks as miserable as sin. where did it all go wrong? despite winning two trophies in his first season, mourinho never adhered to the club's attacking traditions and over the summer, tensions rose. he was unhappy at a lack of transfers and clashed with star players, especially record

signing paul pogba. after a poor start, the strain began to show. i have won more premierships alone than the other 19 managers put together. three for me, two for them. respect, respect. the glory years of the sir alex ferguson era feel a long time ago now as united search for a fourth manager in five years after the previous failures of david moyes and louis van gaal. today, the favourite to take over next summer was giving little away. it's not my business what happens in another club. i only want to send my best wishes tojose. mourinho was football's special one, enjoying succes at the world's biggest clubs. but with him, things often turned sour and having been sacked by chelsea and now united, the sense is the game may have moved on without him. let's discuss this further with sports writer and broadcaster mihir bose. thank you for coming in, you aren't

necessarily expecting to be here today, i mean the timing of this is a bit ofa today, i mean the timing of this is a bit of a surprise. it is a bit of a bit of a surprise. it is a bit of a surprise, the feeling, obvious to me that defeat against uber —— liverpool over the weekend was a very damning one, depressing one, the weight was down but nevertheless the weight was down but nevertheless the feeling was he would not go yet, this would not be a christmas break for him. they would probably wait until february. they are in the champions league and so on. but i think what has happened is the combination of facts is first of all, manchester united up, obviously not playing well, 19 points behind liverpool, near the bottom half of the table than the top. secondly, clearly a bug but there is dissent in the dressing room and i think certainly the feeling is that he's not taking them in the right direction. and bringing on young players and i don't think they wa nted players and i don't think they wanted him at the transfer window in

january. but i suspect that they won't talk about it, they might have typed somebody on and felt 0k, we will have the season in transition, a big name, a good name will come in next season. i will ask you about big names in the minute but staying with the picture per manchester united at the moment, this is the worst start to any season since 1990. he's the third manager since alex ferguson, is it part of the ferguson, the aftereffects that it's really ha rd to ferguson, the aftereffects that it's really hard to fill a place like this when you had somebody who shook the club in their own image for such a long time? absolute up we saw that, after both be that, they are relegated and he took a long time until ferguson came and ferguson changed things ball was different then, ferguson was given three yea rs. then, ferguson was given three years. in those three years our member growing up manchester united when last to tottenham, the fans, and he was given time and taking the clu b and he was given time and taking the club in the right direction and

eventually he did and completely reshape the club, took them beyond liverpool, now the club to be going backwards though if you think about it, marino did win trophies but he did win the league, he does not seem to be going in the right direction and the question is, who do you find? you go back i mean it's possible that the style of football marino has played, very defensive football, no glamour there, marino has played, very defensive football, no glamourthere, maybe that's that i've gone. manchester city you know, noisy neighbours as ferguson used to call it are playing a totally different brand of football. i mean, i say the cautiously per month at united fans this thing but is there a touch of the club since we are such a special place, to whatever comes in has to adapt our way of doing things? and maybe need somebody fresh who is given the freedom to kind of over a period of time perhaps to establish their way of working and do it in a way that fits what they want to achieve? i think the expectations are great. after ferguson certainly,

to match up to that because the expectations are certainly great but the management of the club is also rather unique. 0wned the management of the club is also rather unique. owned by americans, they have given the management to they have given the management to the chief executive, vice—chairman who manages it and as long as they are making money, they are happy, they expecting to find a coach and so they expecting to find a coach and so far, he has not got that selection right and marino —— mourinho was supposed to be the special one, the man who you put if you like and he was quite close to ferguson at least he thought he was close to target then, he gave him the right bottle of wine when chelsea played manchester united. but the point is, which made you go for? bugle for younger manager who have not won anything but has done very well at tottenham ? have not won anything but has done very well at tottenham? that doctor dino? bugle for an established name like zinedine zidane? this is a commercial business operation, almost i will say it's a football clu b almost i will say it's a football

club and therefore presumably that must be constantly in the back of peoples minds. what about marino himself? is it overfor him now? is it going to be kind of relegated to some minor club does play out his final years as a coach, did the best is yet to come? i don't think the best is yet to come, we have seen the best of mourinho but i don't think mourinho is a figure who will walk into the sunset. no, he's not like that, i think you will find another club you know, clubs that wa nt to another club you know, clubs that want to recreate their glory back he wa nted want to recreate their glory back he wanted to do and i don't think probably you will go to a great name clu b probably you will go to a great name club but he might go to a smaller clu b club but he might go to a smaller club that these di maria —— mourinho touch giving them the glory. you mentioned manchester united is a commercial business, it's a very commercial business, it's a very commercial business. paul pogba not getting on with mourinho, pogba in more ways means more to manchester united because of the number of publishers being sold notjust in this country but around the world at if you're not performing out there the band in singapore or in india or

places like that, are not rushing in to buy the shirts. you will appreciate this thought, i was once in egypt talking to a family who invited me to tea and their little boy proudly recite to me the manchester united lined up, he did not begin with but he knew all of the players and that underlines the point you are making.|j the players and that underlines the point you are making. i salute you, this is a great export, it may or may not be affected by brexit, one does not know. you go anywhere, and they say even if you say you're in london, they say what chelsea, totte n ha m , london, they say what chelsea, tottenham, arsenal? and the glazers who are very sure business, they made a lot of money in manchester united, to them they can't afford to jeopardise their industry. if you are like that —— commercial decision they have taken. thank you very much. and we'll find out how this story, and many others, are covered in tomorrow's front pages, and also the back pages at 10:a0pm this evening in the papers, when i'll bejoined by political commentator lance price and the ft‘s political leader writer seb payne. donald trump has agreed to shut down

the trump foundation, his family charity. new york's attorney general barbara underwood claims mr trump had used the foundation as a personal chequebook for his business and political interests. she described it as "a shocking pattern of illegality". a lawsuit against the foundation will still continue. 0ur north america correspondent nada tawfik is in new york. this has been going on for sometime, at the heart of this is an allegation that the foundations have become a bit of a front for political ambitions, mr trump's political ambitions, mr trump's political ambitions. yes, that's right. this all stems a lawsuit in june which wanted this foundation to shut down along with millions in dollars in payments back as well as the fact that president trump and his three oldest children could not serve in any future new york charities and that's because they say the foundation wasn't properly

registered, it had used funds to further president trumpboth businesses and his political career and the lawsuit cites several exa m ples love and the lawsuit cites several examples love that, for one day say the largest contribution of more than 200,000 to the central park conservancy actually went to redo a fountain outside of president trump's by the hotel so that would have helped his business. he also bought things allegedly like $10,000 portrait of himself and made political contributions and one of the more kind of damning allegations in this lawsuit is the fact that during the campaign, president trump held this fundraiser for veterans, held this fundraiser for veterans, he tried to really show himself as his charitable candidates and the lawsuit alleges he took that money, that went to the foundation and then just ceded control of a day his campaign has been and how his campaign has been and how his campaign manager saw fit. so, campaign has been and how his campaign managersaw fit. so, really kind of shocking levels of the tales of corruption alleged in this lawsuit against president trump and his three eldest children. on

previous occasions for example the trump university, there's other legal actions taken against him, they seem to kind of you know, they seem to have done little damage to his reputation, is this regarded as more serious? you know, in the past he has tried to settle both lawsuit, president trump has vowed not to settle this particular one although he's agreed to shut down the foundation, his lawyer came out today and said the attorney general statement was misleading and the president after his election victory has vowed already to shut down the foundation because he did not want there do seem to be any kind of conflict of interest but this is certainly coming at a very bad time for the president, he is the focus of many different investigations and lawsuits and this putting the spotlight once again on him personally because this lawsuit says these were his decisions that the foundation didn't really have any real structure puts focus on his individual actions as a candidate

during that time. thank you very much. but as stay with president trump. in another blow for president trump, it's emerged that his former national security adviser general michael flynn is still co—operating with the special counnsel robert mueller, who is investigating links between russia and the president's election campaign. general flynn was set to be sentenced today for lying to the fbi, but at the last minute the judge at his trial agreed to postpone the sentencing because of the general‘s ongoing assistance to the mueller investigation. at one point in the sentencing hearing, thejudge said mr flynn's actions had bordered on treason. here's a reminder of how the former army lieutenant—general got into this mess: in february 2016, hejoined the trump presidential campaign, as an advisor on national security issues. and after trump's election victory, he was named national security advisor. butjust three months later, flynn resigned, after it transpired he lied about discussing sanctions with the russian ambassador to washington. in december 2017, flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the fbi and entered into a deal to cooperate with special counsel robert mueller.

we are nowjoined by washington correspondent gary 0'donoghue. when i was in the state a couple weeks ago i was struck by how much interest there was in general flynn, not just the fact he had interest there was in general flynn, notjust the fact he had 19 meetings with the special prosecutor, assumably, someone on the board would hope this would end with the sentencing today in the sense he would drop out of the picture.|j think they were in fact the president is morning and on twitter and wished him good luck and said it would be interesting to see what he had to say inside the court, but the sentencing has put them at their offered three months, thejudge looked frankly that he was heading potentially to give custodial sentence that mr flynn which the special counsel that he did not want to do because of the corporation he

had already provided. and now, they have agreed to this extra extension and it looks like mr flynn will be speaking to the special counsel mark. particularly i think about those discussions with the russians in that transition period and the fa ct in that transition period and the fact that he was notjust freelancing on those, he was in touch with people in the transition team, in touch with people down at mar—a—lago during the christmas period, taking advice and consulting with them about that. so, there's clearly some areas there the special counsel wants to explore. what makes it extraordinary is the fact that he is such a former senior military figure, russia traditionally and any of these —— the us, but hardly a warm or close ally but as the judge put it, arguably, you sold your country out, i'm not hiding my disgust, my disdain for this criminal offence. is there a sense that perhaps the general himself realises the gravity of what he's accused of? that might explain his

enthusiasm for corporations?” accused of? that might explain his enthusiasm for corporations? i think he's pretty get the best guilty after a ll he's pretty get the best guilty after all for these crimes —— crimes of mine to the fbi, the comment from thejudge about of mine to the fbi, the comment from the judge about setting up your country, was actually directed at his role as a foreign agent or we might call a lobbyist. so this is for turkey rather than forgive me that the copyright, i think from reading between the lines, it look like thejudge reading between the lines, it look like the judge thought that's it continued into government, continued into his time as national security adviser. in fact that was not true. which on thejudge adviser. in fact that was not true. which on the judge came back and apologised to him for using those words. it was a dramatic and chaotic morning in all sorts of ways. it will be fascinating to see what happens eventually you with that sentence and after christmas, thank you very much. the headlines on bbc news: jose mourinho has left his job as manager of manchester united with an £18 million pay—off. donald trump has agreed to shut down

the trump foundation, his family charity, after new york's attorney general claimed to have found "a shocking pattern of illegality". the cabinet has agreed to step up preparations for a no—deal brexit, if theresa may's proposed withdrawal deal is rejected by the commons next month. with all the excitement ofjose mourinho not out of the wayjust yet, let us find out what else is happening in the boarding world. yet, let us find out what else is happening in the boarding worldlj am afraid it is stilljose mourinho we are talking about, the question has moved on both to go with that for manchester united. that after the court ——, he that manchester is afternoon following his dismissal at doing a half years in charge because of the team style, results, and poor record of developing young players.

his team have made the club of the worst start to the need for 28 yea rs, worst start to the need for 28 years, they are sitting in sixth place on the table, that is 19 points behind leaders liverpool, 11 points behind leaders liverpool, 11 points outside of the champions and they told the bbc he believes this was always inevitable. something had to give, because they could not continue the way they were going because they were getting there —— further and further away from the top which is where they have been for so many years. i know they have struggled over the past couple, both players can't be blameless in all of this because they have to still go out whether they like the manager or not and clearly a lot of them did not. because, you could see that they weren't happy, they weren't playing for him and you could see that in their body language. so something had to give. along the lines whether it's mourinho losing hisjob or whether he was going to

have the power to sell whoever he wanted in january and they made have the power to sell whoever he wanted injanuary and they made up their mind that they want someone else to come in and keep all the players and trying to make the players and trying to make the players perform better than they have been. former manchester united striker is being considered as ca reta ker striker is being considered as caretaker manager at the club following the sacking of mourinho. he of course is a legend at united think that his injury time champions league winner back in 1999. he has beenin league winner back in 1999. he has been in charge at the norwegian side since 2015 in what is his second boaz manager there but the 2018th season has finished for the winter and does not restart until march. now, as a manager he has a win percentage of 53% during his time at mulder, that percentage falls dramatically when looking at his record with cardiff city during his nine—month spell there. he was victorious in 20% of his games winning only five matches in total

in the premier league and championship before he stepped down from his post in september 2014. there is neither the cup football this evening, two quarterfinals are under way, leicester are hosting manchester city, city leading 1—0 there, 55 minutes gone, that is thanks to kevin de bruyne her with his first goal of the season. not long back from injury. it is goalless in the water —— other at quarterfinals. let's have a look, it is now just quarterfinals. let's have a look, it is nowjust gone to dust — one, second round replay in the fa cup between blackpool and suddenly, 2—1 at the moment there, their sixth tier opponents. aberdeen are leading dundee 1—0. premiership club leicester tigers have appointed interim boss jordan as

leicester tigers have appointed interim bossjordan as their new head coach, the 40—year—old who won 80 titles with tigers have been in ca reta ker 80 titles with tigers have been in caretaker charge since the sacking on the 3rd of september, leicester have won only three premiership games this season and are eighth in the table but three points off the bottom. that is all you sports for now, a member you can find much more on the sacking ofjose mourinho and those potentially replace him on the bbc sport website, updates of the life of footballers is ongoing this evening, that's all/ sports. life of footballers is ongoing this evening, that's alv sports. marino is the special one, above the evening. two billion pounds is being given to government deaprtments to help prepare the united kingdom for leaving the eu without a deal. the cabinet agreed the move today as uncertainty continues over the fate of theresa may's proposed exit deal. the ministry of defence says three—and—a—half—thousand troops

will be available to help out in the event of a no deal. here's our deputy political editorjon pienaar. they had no choice. the country had to prepare for brexit with no deal if it came to it. some quite like the idea, though the eurosceptics are backing mrs may's brexit compromise for now. are people right to be afraid of no deal? no deal would not be good for our economy, we should work to get the prime minister's deal over the line. brexiteers can enjoy their christmas, but there will be trouble in the new year and others will fight a no—deal brexit if they have to and buying a seat belt doesn't mean you should crash the car. but time is running out fast before brexit day next march so £2 billion was allocated for customs, security, finding trade deals, letters were going out to companies, tens of thousands telling firms activate your no deal plans. we even heard 3,500 troops

would be ready to step in if the country needs them. in the commons, critical mps are still waiting to have their say brexit, condemned the idea of no deal, while the brexit secretary insisted there is a better way. i hope members of this house will look again to the risk ofjobs and services in no deal. the risks our democracy when we leave and we should back the deal when it returns to the house. it would be catastrophic for the uk that is why no deal has never been a viable option. it is a political hoax and deep down i think the government and this prime minister knows it. it would be economically catastrophic. this government must remove no deal from the table instead of using it as a gun to mp5' heads. i would have thought scottish nationalists members of parliament be more interested in how much of our membership fees

which will not be sent to brussels, will be going into scotland, into public services in scotland. the people of this country do not support a hard brexit and the prime minister should have taken it off the table then and she must take it off the table now because it is the worst possible outcome. most think the plan is doomed to defeat and some in the cabinet want other ideas, like a brexit that stays close to the eve, a referendum or no deal put to mps after it happens. i am told mrs may wants to flush out those who are waiting for her plan to fail. well—placed sources say she was over rival options put to mps and voted on at the same time. when her plan comes back to the commons next month, if everything is rejected, she might try to fight on for her own brexit compromise. the prime minister shut out her enemies until after christmas when she postponed the big vote

on brexit but soon the decorations will be down and it will be time to face the verdict from mps and running and hiding will no longer be an option. the stormy seas led to a number of lorries overturning the government hopes to introduce a waste strategy in england and to bring ina waste strategy in england and to bring in a labelling system so that consumers know what they can recycle and how. companies that produced waste materials would have to pay the full cost of recycling their packaging the moment they paid 10% of the cost. the plans set out in the waste strategy, they have been cautiously welcomed by campaign groups, oui’ cautiously welcomed by campaign groups, our correspondent has more. mountains of waste, millions of tonnes of household rubbish sent to

landfills every year in england. now, the government is launching a new 01’ now, the government is launching a new or radical plan to tackle a festering national problem. it plans how to extend the lives of other electrical items like dishwashers. recycled plastics like models. deal with methane producing food waste, and old batteries. in ipswich, she is determined to do her bit. but for so many of us, recycling can be congregated. it says the bottle and the cap is but the label is not so at to take it off before it goes into being. she welcomes the idea of a new uniform collection system across england and clear labels on which been for which waste. forza my enabling tells you it's recyclable and you think is that in my local area 01’ and you think is that in my local area orjust generically recyclable if it was to go to the right place, i think the reassurance you are doing the right thing as much as you

can would be really helpful. this recycling plant does plastic, 1.4 billion cartons and bottles, 46,000 tonnes every year. but recycling rates in england are stored at 45%, plenty of room for improvement. the whole process is to convert something which is useless into something which is useless into something of real value. all of this of course takes major financial investment. money is key, yes they recycled plastic flakes here are sold to make new products, but we need more capacity. and it's hoped the government announcements will mean more recycling. to build a plant like this one would cost £40 million, we are not investing in this government or the next government or the one after that, we are investing for 20 or 30 years and we need to know that is going to be a good business for the future. radically, the government is saying

manufacturers of packaging should pay the cost of disposal. potentially good news for local councils. local government has argued for a long time that the manufacturers who produce the waste and packaging material they should pick up the cost rather than council taxpayers. the government wants to extend food waste collections across england. methane, a powerful greenhouse gas. and to roll out a deposit and return scheme like this one in norway for plastic bottles and cans. there is plenty of detail to thrash out but environmental groups hope this could be a game changer. in the fight against waste. if you want to find out what you can recycle in your area go to the bbc news website where you can find information and links to the recycling website. it's a russian cargo ship, weighing 16,000 tons, and this morning it ran aground off the coast of cornwall after getting caught on rocks.

hundreds of people gathered on the beach to watch, as efforts began to free it and its 18 strong crew. jon kay was watching. "it's huge and it's close" — the words of a falmouth resident on twitter this morning, when he woke up to this. a 16,000 tonne russian cargo ship, listing and drifting just metres from the shore. in atrocious conditions, with lifeboats on standby, the coast guard declared a major incident, lowering a pilot onto the vessel to oversee the rescue operation, to try to free the kuzma minin from the sand, where she was stuck. any vessel of this size that comes into contact with the coastline is a real concern — not only for the crew of the vessel, those 18 people on board, but also, you know, the environment. the last thing we want is any oil spillage on our beautiful coastline. it's not clear why the ship came

so close to gyllyngvase beach, but, suddenly, she was cornwall‘s surprise tourist attraction. despite the weather, hundreds watched and waited. i've lived here all my life, for 60 odd years, and it's the first time something like this has happened. you've never seen anything this close? no, no, no — never. never. i hope it gets moved pretty quick. we don't want these beaches ruined. lunchtime, and a sudden gap in the weather. the winds had dropped, the tide was high, rescue vessels were on the scene. we see the line to the tug is taut. it's straining, desperately trying to get this massive vessel out to sea. the engines are running. you see the thick black smoke coming out the funnels? and it does look like it very slowly inching its way away from the beach.