this is bbc news. i'm carole walker. the headlines at eight. police name 51—year—old lee pomeroy as the man who was fatally stabbed on a train in surrey yesterday. a man's been arrested in connection with the murder. in relation to what we know so far regarding what's happened, it is not random in terms of there was no contact between the two people before the incident. we know they were talking together. that's all that we know about the two men at this moment in time. the police watchdog begins an inquiry after a 31 year old man is shot dead by armed officers in coventry. amid the government shutdown, president trump threatens declaring a national emergency, in order to build a border wall without congressional approval. also this hour — it's fa cup third round weekend. league one strugglers gillingham have caused the biggest upset — knocking out premier league cardiff with a 1—0 win. and in half an hour — radio 1's newsbeat travel to malawi, where the british army have joined

the fight against the poaching of endangered animals. good evening. the family of a man who was yesterday fatally stabbed on a train say he was honourable, and would always help others in trouble. lee pomeroy, who was 51, was attacked in front of his teenage son, just after they boarded a train in guildford in surrey. a man is being questioned following his arrest this morning on suspicion of murder, and a woman detained at the same time is being held on suspicion of assisting an offender. our correspondent chi chi izundu has the details. today should have been lee pomeroy‘s 52nd birthday. instead, his family are mourning his sudden death,

witnessed by his 14—year—old son. in a statement, they said, lee took his son on a trip to london, hoping to spend some quality time with him, which was cut short by a horrific and pointless attack. he was an honest, and bright person who loved music very much. he knew history and art and he was a bachelor of science and maths. he was an honourable man and would always help somebody who was in trouble. he was a loving husband and father. he will be deeply missed by all his family. this morning, in a dawn raid at this property in farnham, police arrested a man on suspicion of murder and a woman on suspicion of assisting an offender. officers are still looking for the murder weapon. i heard the police shouting the usual stuff, you know, put your hands up, turn around, that sort of thing. and then it went quiet. you know, they led her out first. they put her in a police wagon, over there. and if you minutes later they brought him out, handcuffed, put him in the police wagon here.

there was armed police everywhere, lots more armed police turned up, and that was it. police stressed that a violent incident like this is rare, but nonetheless they have increased their presence at horsley station to reassure commuters. it was yesterday, at around one o'clock in the afternoon, that lee and his son got on the train at the london road station in guildford, towards waterloo. today, police described the confrontation with a 35—year—old man. both men joined the train at guildford, more or less straightaway there's been some conversation between the two men. they have continued that conversation for about three or four minutes, first in one carriage, and then through to a second carriage. at some stage then, violence has then ensued, resulting in this tragic death of the man yesterday afternoon. specialist officers are supporting lee's 14—year—old son, but warn those that witnessed what police described as an incredibly frightening incident may also need help. well, police and forensic teams have been in and out

of the block of flats behind me, paying particular attention to the one just behind that police van. they removed a blue vauxhall corsa from the property. and in the same hour, they confirmed the age of the man arrested on suspicion of murder as 35. now, police say that their investigation has got to this point so quickly thanks to cctv and eyewitness statements. but they are urging anyone that was on that train yesterday at around one o'clock yesterday afternoon to come forward to them, even if they didn't actually see the incident. chi chi izundu. the police watchdog is investigating an incident in coventry in which armed officers shot dead a man as they tried to carry out an arrest warrant. he's been named locally as sean fitzgerald, who was 31. friends said he had presented no danger to the police. two men were detained in the operation on suspicion of drugs offences. audrey dias reports. investigations have continued

throughout the day on this busy residential street where last night a man was shot dead by armed officers. local residents reported hearing a number of gunshots. west midlands police say it was an intelligence led operation. as a result at least two more people have been detained. the incident has been referred to the independent office of police conduct — who will examine footage from body cams worn by officers involved in the operation. outside the cordon, floral tributes have been made for the dead man, who's been named locally as 31—year—old sean fitzgerald. his friends say he was having his hair cut in a house when the raid happened. he was the nicest guy ever. he was ready to help anybody. and to be honest with you, he hasn't got much family at all. we're his family, you know, we need to getjustice for my friend. the incident has shocked those living on burnaby road. i've lived there for 21 years, i've never seen anything like this, that bad in this city. it's frightening when you're living

somewhere, you always think, oh, it's never going to happen where i live. when he does, it is a bit of a shock. the independent office for police conduct investigators have been in coventry all day taking statements from the officers involved, and overseeing forensic examinations at the scene. they've also appealed for witnesses to come forward. audrey dias, bbc midlands today, coventry. this evening the assistant chief constable of west midlands police said this incident was only the third such shooting involving the force's officers in 20 years. sue southern was also asked by reporters at a briefing about a suggestion by the victim's friends that he'd been shot in the back. from the information i have now it is not my understanding. we have body worn video, that's been examined, it's been handed over to the iopc. a postmortem will take place and that will support the assessment and again, we will cooperate with the iopc. sue southern of the west midlands

police. russia has dismissed suggestions that a former us marine accused of spying could be involved in a prisoner swap. paul whelan, an american who also has british nationality, was detained in moscow last month. his family says he was simply visiting russia to attend a wedding. his lawyer had raised the possibility of a prisoner exchange, but a russian minister said the arrest was "very serious", and talk of swapping him for a russian detainee was "inappropriate". smokers and problem drinkers who are admitted to hospital in england will be given help to cut down or quit. the measures are part of a new long—term plan aimed at reducing demand on the health service. nhs england says problem drinkers and smokers cost the health service £6 billion every year. one of the bosses of a ferry firm awarded a government contract to ferry lorries across the channel in the event of a no—deal brexit has insisted the company will be able to make four round—trips a day

between ramsgate and ostend. seaborne has never previously operated a shipping service. jean—michel copyans told a french newspaper that the company would have been launched without the £14 million award. more now with our business correspondent, joe miller. seaborne freight have been awarded this £14 million government contract without having sailed a ferry or a vessel before. the compa ny‘s directors and their executives have provided very few details to us about their plans for ramsgate port and have refused on—camera interviews. but now, as you say, one of the ceos has given this interview to a small french calais—based news site, and in that he gives some more details, although not too many, about the plans for the ramsgate—ostend in belgium route, and he says there will be four return sailings a day in time for brexit on the 29th of march, and that they're going to employ 200 people by then.

given that the recruitment page on the website hasn't yet gone live, that's quite an uphill battle, but he's also saying that he expects to ramp up activity so that there will be 400 staff by some time in the summer and at least four vessels on that route, so some indication of how big the operation would be. joe miller. and we'll find out how this story, and many others, are covered in tomorrow's front pages at 10:30pm and 11:30pm this evening in the papers. our guestsjoining me tonight are joe twyman, who's the director of the polling organisation deltapoll, and the author and journalist, yasmin alibhai—brown. join us for that. donald trump says that the partial us government shutdown, now entering its third week, could last months or even years. democrats are refusing to fund mr trump's wall along the border with mexico. officials from the white house and congress are meeting again now. mr trump says he is considering declaring a national emergency

in order to build the wall — without congressional approval. our correspondent david willis is in washington. they met for a couple of hours this morning, senior democratic officials, and senior white house officials, including the vice president, mike pence and the president's son—in—law, jared kushner. we don't know, however, if they just left for lunch, or whether that's it for the day, or whether they will be coming back. so, it's difficult to see, despite whatever happens today, that there will be some sort of breakthrough, because these two sides are so far apart. president trump, of course, insisting that any solution to the government shutdown the conditional on funding available for his pet project, the border wall. the democrats flatly refusing to have anything to do with that project,

which was of course a signature campaign issue for donald trump a couple of years ago. they say that the wall would be ineffective, and it would be effectively a waste of money. so, we have, as i say, two sides a long way apart. president trump, though, saying this morning that a lot of people do support the border wall. the only people who don't, he says, were criminals, drug dealers and human traffickers. and his talking now about this idea of declaring a national emergency to somehow drive through the building of the wall and get the funds he needs. is that a realistic option? it would be a highly controversial move, were he to go in that direction. and it's the sort of move which i don't think would have the full support even of his own party, let alone the democrats. it would be... it would be using the sort of legislation, the sort of rules,

if you like, that are normally implemented in times of war. in order to basically get funds from the pentagon, the department of defense, to build that wall. and i think there would be a lot of legal challenges as well. hence it may be not the sort of strategy that president trump is really considering employing. it may have been floated more as a sort of threat, if you like, to the democrats than as a realistic proposition, because it would be, as i say, highly controversial. that was david willis speaking to me a little earlier. amy pope is an associate fellow at the us and americas programme at chatham house. shejoins me in the she joins me in the studio, shejoins me in the studio, thanks for coming in. president trump is up talking about extending this partial shutdown for months, even years,

that surely would be unprecedented. that would be unprecedented and it's not a credible threat. parts of the government that are shut down now responsible for things like processing federal tax, income tax, so processing federal tax, income tax, so that means millions of americans wouldn't get their tax refunds, and when that happens the political pressure on the congress and the president will ratchet up considerably, so i don't see that as a real threat. we've been considerably, so i don't see that as a realthreat. we've been hearing that talks are going on this evening between the two sides, but both sides appear to be absolutely digging in. it doesn't look as though there's much prospect of a breakthrough at this stage.|j suspect that at some point the president is going to feel the heat and is going to declare victory regardless of the actual substance of the deal. i don't really see another way forward for him. the democrats are in a better place now than they were a week ago. if he couldn't get through the deal that he wanted when he had both houses of

congress controlled by the republicans, he's never going to get it at this point. he's talking now, the president, about possibly declaring a state of national emergency so declaring a state of national emergency so that he can draw on firms to get this wall built. is that a realistic option? not really. if you look at the laws that govern this particular part of funding, he just doesn't really have the option. you have to have a state of emergency, there's nothing like that at the border right now, a situation where you have women and children seeking asylum at the border certainly would not qualify. and it means that you put federal workers at risk of violating the anti—deficiency act, which basically means you anti—deficiency act, which basically means you can't use money for projects that congress has not authorised, so it puts the people who would be responsible for implementing this funding in a very precarious position, which they are not going to be willing to take. and yet the president seems absolutely determined to find a way to get the

funding for this project, which was so funding for this project, which was so central to his campaign. funding for this project, which was so central to his campaignlj funding for this project, which was so centralto his campaign. i think that goes back to my initial observation, that ultimately what he will do is declare victory regardless of what deal is actually a negotiated i don't really see another way forward for him. because he does seem absolutely intent on ensuring that that is somehow delivered, and certainly doesn't look as though mexico is going to pay for its. it doesn't, and more importantly, when you look up border security in the first place the number of people crossing the border through unauthorised channels is far lower than it's been in years. it's ata40 lower than it's been in years. it's at a a0 year low so we just don't have the state of affairs that would warrant using a wall, but secondly, when you are talking about criminals or terrorists, a wall is not an effective deterrent. if you want real border security there are real solutions and i believe that both democrats and republicans are willing to fund those solutions, but

a wall is politicking bust up its not a solution. so when donald trump claims he's got public support for this, is that really true?|j claims he's got public support for this, is that really true? i suspect he does have support with some members of his base, but it's important to remember that his base does not compose even half of the american people, or of the electorate, so i would not imagine that a majority of the american people support the wall as a solution. so while the political manoeuvring goes on, this impasse continues. how serious is this shutdown in terms of the effect it's having? at the moment there are about 800,000 federal workers who are furloughed, who are not getting are furloughed, who are not getting a pay check and it's occurring most of —— mostly in agencies like the department of the interior, so federal parks, they don't have cash service, many visitor services are not funded or serviced, the national museums closed, things like that, so tourism is really affected. we are

going to see the pain in the next couple of weeks if this continues, so couple of weeks if this continues, so food stamps might be affected, people who rely on government aid to buy food, or to pay their rent, may not get the money they need, so that's where it's going become much more harmful, and a think if it continues at that point you will see much greater outcry from the public to end the shutdown. yeah, at that stage there might be much more public pressure on both sides to try to find some sort of solution. that's right, and what's interesting is that the president had on his desk a measure to fund the government to come up with a compromise, but he rejected it, so i imagine that he will have to go back to something like that if he can't get through in the next couple of days. amy pope from chatham house, thank you very much indeed for joining us. the headlines on bbc news... police name the man who was fatally stabbed on a train in surrey — as 51—year—old lee pomeroy. a man's been arrested in connection with the murder. the police watchdog begins an inquiry

after a 31 year old man is shot dead by armed officers in coventry. amid the government shutdown, president trump threatens declaring a national emergency, in order to build a border wall without congressional approval. sport and for a full round—up, from the bbc sport centre, here's ben mundy. good evening. it's one of the biggest weekends on the footballing calendar. it's fa cup third round weekend. the big boys havejoined in... and the ties didn't disappoint. we've had a couple of upsets. the biggest at priestfield, where league one gillingham beat premier league strugglers cardiff city — a5 places above them. 21—year—old elliot list with the only goal of the game in the 81st minute. gillingham just a point above the relegation in league one...but they're now through to the fourth round of the fa cup for the first time in 15 years.

it was a great performance by the boys and i'm delighted for them. they deserved it. they've worked ha rd they deserved it. they've worked hard all the way through the season and perhaps haven't got the results in the league that they should do, but today, they've given everything. we knew we had to come to get a result and it's great to win the game1—0. result and it's great to win the game 1-0. the draw takes place on monday. who would you like to get? anybody, i'm just happy to get through to the fourth round and it will be exciting to see who we do get. the boys i think will be excited to see who we get and a club, the bigger clubs are better for us, but whoever it is, if we put the effort in like we did today, we'll enjoy it again. is a great win for gillingham. as a couple of other league one sides — accrington and portsmouth beat championship opposition in ipswich and norwich respectively.

big win too for bristol city. 1—0 winners over huddersfield town, who will be disappointed to go out, but realistically have premier league survival to worry about. josh brownhill with that nice turn and the only goal of the game. no trouble for manchester united. this win a row for ole gunnar solskjaer. in this famous old competition these two sides have history. manchester united and reading first met in the fa cup more than a century ago. times may have changed but this is a united side beginning to remind eve ryo ne united side beginning to remind everyone of what they once were. they went ahead thanks to a very modern twist, the ball went in but a video replay here gave them a penalty instead. juan mata keeping his calm. despite the stuttering season his calm. despite the stuttering season in the championship, reading did create enough chances to take this a contest. opportunities they just couldn't take. united could. their lead was doubled before the break, romelu lukaku squeezing in a second. neither side could manage more on the second half, so united's

winning run under ole gunnar ‘ extends to five, not back solskjaer extends to five, not back to the glory days quite yet at old trafford but for manchester united things continue to look brighter. here are the rest of today's results, from the early kick offs brighton beat bournmouth in an all premier league tie, and burnley won at home to barnsley... and in the 5.30 kick offs arsenal and crystal palace both won, whilst newcastle and blackburn drew. all the scores, highlights and analysis over on the bbc sport website. to rugby‘s premiership, and leicester tigers have continued their recent good run as they try to turn their season around. they beat gloucester by 3a points to 16 at welford road — george ford on the scoresheet for the home side, as wasjonny may who ran in a couple of tries against his old side. elsewhere leaders exeter beat bristol and harlequins saw off

bottom side newcastle. in the pro 1a, ospreys beat cardiff 20—11, this pinpoint cross field kick from sam davies helped george north to one of two ospreys tries. wins too for benneton, scarlets and leinster. and it's the first day of the new netball super league season... all of the first round matches have been played on the same day, in the same place — the birmingham arena. and in a repeat of last season's final — wasps beat loughborough lightning by 72 points to a2 in what had been expected to be a much closer tie. there were also wins for superleague debutants london pulse, team bath and strathclyde sirens. that's all the sport for now. two stabbings have taken place in east london this afternoon police were called to church road in leyton just after half past three — where a woman was found with stab injuries, and two men had suffered slash wounds. the woman, who is in her thirties, is in a critical condition in hospital.

and in what is believed to be a separate incident a couple of miles away, a 26—year—old man was found with stab wounds on field road in forest gate. the victim remains in a critical condition in hospital and a man has been arrested on suspicion of grevious bodily harm. mountaineering experts say the risks of winter climbing should not be under—estimated, following the deaths of two young climbers on ben nevis in recent weeks. a student from germany died on new year's day, while another young climber — 21—year—old patrick boothroyd from west yorkshire, died on the mountain in december. here's our scotland correspondent, james shaw. ben nevis, the highest mountain in the british isles and, for that reason, extremely popular with walkers and climbers. but the paths across its north face can be dangerous. this is what's known as the ledge route. on new year's day, a student from bristol university fell

500 feet down the mountain from this path and was killed. her three companions were rescued by a coastguard helicopter. the actual helicopter managed to winch them off the crag from where they were and i was below the crag, which was carn dearg buttress, where, unfortunately, she'd fallen. it was the second death in recent weeks. patrick boothroyd, who was 21, died in december. tens of thousands of people climb ben nevis every year. most use this path to the summit, which is relatively straightforward, but some, including the two students who died recently, attempt the rock faces and gullies on the northside, which, even in the best weather, are never free of risk. many new climbers use professional guides. this group is returning from the mountain after a training day. it's horrible to hear of accidents and fatalities in the mountains, especially because it's such a life—affirming thing to do. despite all of our best efforts,

we can't control everything. it is a risky environment and sometimes things go wrong fairly randomly. experienced climbers know and accept the dangers of scaling britain's highest peak. those with less experience may not be so aware that this place can be beautiful and deadly. james shaw, bbc news, ben nevis. dashcam footage sent to police has led to more than 600 drivers being fined and prosecuted across wales over the past year. police received more than 2000 films, and the incidents caught on camera include having pets on drivers' laps. a similar scheme is now being set up in england, as rebecca john reports. dangerous overtaking. a familiar theme in the footage being sent to police by drivers, cyclists, motorcyclists and pedestrians across wales. recorded on dashcams and mobile phones, more than 2300 films were sent to police over the last year.

and action was taken in more than 650 cases. as well as dangerous driving and using a phone behind the wheel, two drivers were caught with dogs on their laps. it's working well and that it is letting us get more of what is out there. and that policing unit deals with many fatalities. i've seen quite a few submissions come through that could so easily have resulted in one of those fatalities. operation snap was rolled out in 2017 after a successful pilot scheme in north wales. it aims to tackle bad driving and reduce the time it's previously taken to process the footage. we are very proud of the fact that now we've got a few safe and secure way the public can send us their footage, and that we are able to do it effectively. before operation snap was in place, there was a 28—point plan process for the police that meant they had to go through many steps in order to collect footage and bring it back

to arrange interviews. by allowing the safety camera process, he has now got that down from about 16 hours of officer time to about half an hour to an hour and a half for more complex cases. so that is around 3000 officer hours saved across wales every month. depending on the seriousness of the motoring offence — drivers have been fined, sent on a awareness courses or prosecuted in court. a similar scheme is now being set up in england and police from hong kong and japan have also met go—safe staff to learn more about the project. more than 100 people a year die on welsh roads. operation snap aims to act as a deterrent, to encourage responsible driving and improve safety for all road users across wales. rebecca johnson with that report, with some extraordinary footage. now

catch up on the weather prospects andjoin catch up on the weather prospects and join darren bett, fellow, darren. hello, it was a cold, grey day, very few places saw sunshine coming through today. most of us had dull skies, like this. at least the blanket of cloud means temperatures shouldn't fall too lower overnight. we have the cloud trapped underneath the area of high pressure, coming into it a weakening weather front is bringing a bit of rain and drizzle down from the north—west. not much for northern ireland, most of it in scotla nd for northern ireland, most of it in scotland but even that tends to become light and patchy as it heads south of the border towards the overnight. the brakes coming eventually into the far north of scotla nd eventually into the far north of scotland but on the whole cloudy skies, temperatures typically 2—a degrees above freezing. cloudy picture for many of us on sunday, there won't be much rain or drizzle left. most of it affecting north—west parts of england, perhaps north wales and returning into northern ireland. the best of the sunshine for the northern half of scotland, quite cloudy is worth. maybe some brighter skies to the

east of the high ground in wales. it shouldn't be quite as cold, temperatures about 8—9, maybe double figures towards some western coasts. the high pressure still around as we head into monday, but getting pushed away by a big area of low pressure running between scotland and iceland and that really will pick the winds up and that really will pick the winds up with some rain for a while, most affecting garland and northern ireland, as the rain sweeps southwards it tends to fade away. we get some sunshine following that for northern ireland, northern england and southern scotland but the wind is the main feature of the weather on monday, some stronger winds everywhere but particularly windy for the northern half of scotland. costs of around 70 miles an hour later in the day and overnight and into tuesday for a while —— gusts of around 70 miles an hour. monday should be milder, temperatures 10-11. as the should be milder, temperatures 10—11. as the low—pressure sweeps away towards scandinavia it will drag down cold air on north north—westerly wind. that will blow in some showers to the north—east of

scotla nd in some showers to the north—east of scotland and those north sea coasts. for most parts of the country will be dry with some sunshine, this on tuesday. the winds lighter towards the west, maybe touching gale force at times near the north sea coasts, but easing down a bit later in the afternoon. it will feel colder on tuesday, probably only briefly colder. the temperatures back into single figures, only around 5—7 in the north.