hello, i'm ros atkins, this is outside source. in the uk, the government tests plans for a no—deal brexit — with the help of 89 lorries and an abandoned airfield. the government says the tests went well. here's the opposition view. the government is fooling nobody! these shambolic preparations are too little, too late. a teenage saudi asylum seeker who barricadeed herself in her hotel room in thailand has been spared intervention after the united nations intervened. kevin spacey has appeared in court in massachusetts, accused of sexually assaulting a teenager. his lawyers have submitted a not guilty plea. and thousands of people being stung by what are known as bluebottles in queensland. the uk parliament is

back from its holiday — and so all of us are back to brexit. we've been told the vote on theresa may's brexit withdrawal deal will take place in eight days‘ time — she cancelled the vote last month when it was clear she'd lose. prime minister continues to try and avoid that this time — and that effort no doubt gently continues at a pre—planned drinks reception in downing street for mps from her party. here's one guest who opposes the prime minister's plan. do you think you can be persuaded this evening? i would not have thought so, no. i'm not sure that's the point of the drinks reception because einstein said that repeating an experiment and expecting a different result is a sign of insanity. i think it's about party cohesion, it will be difficult times

over the next few weeks and will need to come back together again after the vote. the situation does appear to have changed very little. but as has been reported by the bbc earlier, mrs may is hoping to get further assurances from the eu which help make her case. the potential problem is, there's no sign of that from brussels. we have said many times that the deal that is on the table is the best and only deal possible and the eu 27 leaders confirmed on the 13th of december in their conclusion is that it will not be renegotiated. this isn't new. the eu has said time and time again, this withdrawal agreement is not going to change. but mrs may hopes there is additional wording, particularly around plans for the irish border, that can help ease concerns. the deal as it stands includes a backstop — this says that saying if there is no trade deal is agreed between the uk and the eu by the end of 2020, the uk will stay in the eu customs

union until a deal is done — however long that takes. this is to guarantee there will never be a hard border between the republic of ireland and northern ireland — but some mps fear the uk could be stuck in limbo for years. this has always looked very hard to resolve — but here's adam fleming in brussels with one option. the wallonia solution. that's the region of belgium that objected to the eu's free trade agreement with canada in 2016. to reassure them that they issued a legally binding interpretation of the most controversial part of the deal. there were other options under international law, for example a country can sign a treaty and then say there are parts of it it doesn't agree with. or tweaks could be made

toa agree with. or tweaks could be made to a separate document that sits alongside their withdrawal agreement, that's the political declaration that scratches out this reeked of the relationship. but privately some eu diplomats say they might only be prepared to act after theresa may loses a vote in the house of commons. the prospect of no deal continues to look more likely — to the horror of some mps. 209 of them from across parties have signed a letter urging theresa may to rule out no deal entirely. she's showed no signs of doing that — she's always insisted no deal could happen. and if it does — well the government's own predictions say it'll damage the uk's economy. it also means customs checks on all eu goods entering uk ports, and vice versa. this would cause massive congestion around the port of dover, so the uk has been trying to figure out a plan of action. this was a test conducted by the government today,

involving 89 lorries, to see if a disused airfield could act as a holding bay for trucks headed for dover, just under 20 miles away. the test went fine, but hauliers complained it was too little too late, and pointed out that over 10,000 trucks use the channel ports every day. other no deal preparations include plans to run extra ferry services through the port of ramsgate — that's to lighten the burden on dover. also seaborne freight has been given a £13.8 million contract to run a freight service between ramsgate and 0stend in belgium if there's no deal — this remember is a company with no ships. that's one concern. here's another. over the weekend a local councillor in ramsgate said the port can't handle it — "there is terrific concern that we can

not possibly be ready. there isn't the width or the breadth of the berths that is needed to carry large ships. i don't see how, with the state of the harbour and the port and the number of repairs that are needed that it could be ready." the government though maintains this is a viable plan. the opposition leader doesn't. the government is fooling nobody. these shambolic preparations are too little too late. the reality is, mr speaker, there is no majority in this house to support no deal. why won't the government faced up to this truth and stop wasting our time and our money? ben wright, we should clear up at the beginning this was a preplanned event in downing street, it's not specifically to persuade people in brexit? that's right, the pre—christmas drinks were cancelled because so much was going on so it became a new year drinks for tory mps and their husbands and wives and

partners and they all turned up in their grad lags and drank the white wine for a couple of hours and left about half an hour ago. clearly part of the discussion will have been around the big debate that begins again on wednesday and the vote of course which is expected next week. at the moment it looks like the government are going to lose it because it does not seem any of the opposition theresa may faces in her own party has crumbled away over christmas, it looks as firm as ever. that will have been discussed without question, but some of the big critics are turning up to drink this wine were saying as they went in there was nothing she could say to make any difference to them and i don't think any of the reassurances she's been talking about around the northern ireland backstop as you have been discussing are going to make any difference. lets talk about these preparations, not hard to find

people not taking them seriously when they see these pictures of lorries in an airfield, does the government seriously make the case that these preparations are enough to prepare the uk for the seismic shock of no deal? there's a lot of scepticism about the seriousness of this and how prepared the government is. if the aim of theresa may in pa rt is. if the aim of theresa may in part through the next few days and weeks is to show the country and her party that she is absolutely ready if needs be to go down and no deal route, i think in an effort to try to get mps behind her deal i think there is scepticism about whether she's serious about that because for that to be plausible no deal preparations should have begun a year ago, much earlier on in this process. but it's happening now in earnest, no doubt about that, a large part of whitehall machinery is

cranking up to make sure there is the ability of the uk to whether in some way in no—deal brexit. matt hancock says he is the biggest buyer of freezers in the world to try to stockpile medicines. the idea is of course to try to persuade parliament in the next few weeks to back this deal. i talk to one cabinet minister earlier who said even if this is voted down in the middle of next week their expectation is that number ten and the prime minister will keep coming back to parliament again and again with a deal until mps given and fought for it. the alternative at that point will be no deal. that's what will happen unless a deal is passed, or article 50 is revoked or the uk asks the eu for an extension of the talks. the legal

default position is for no deal at the end of march. one other thing i wa nt to the end of march. one other thing i want to ask you about, one thing we have heard from across the political spectrum is the impact brexit as having on the tone of national discord. we saw one reason why that could be made today, this happened on the bbc news channel when anna soubry was interrupted by pro brexit campaigners. i object to being called a nazi, actually. apologies if you are offended. this is astonishing, this is what has happened to our country but anyway, let's try and be positive about things. and another video posted later in the day of anna soubry being abused in the street and this is becoming a reasonably regular occurrence not just for

is becoming a reasonably regular occurrence notjust for her but other politicians. i think it was the same mob who followed her from where she was doing that interview into parliament and they were jostling and being aggressive and it was really ugly and she held her nerve and carried on but it was shocking to see that happen in westminster in broad daylight. she was angry there is no intervention by police, there are police in the area, it's the most heavily protected building in britain in many ways, but so questions were asked about what the police response should be and what action the parliamentary authorities are prepared to take in the next few days to ensure mps are safe as they go about their work in westminster and they will be walking back and forth from parliament to the cameras to make their case and argue the point but we are used to protests in westminster but this was something else. i think it's shaken and

angered a lot of mps who want to make sure this does not happen again. every day if you want lots of background information or have any questions on brexit, head to the bbc news website, there is a raft of information for you. this 18—year—old is safe — at least for the time being. she's spent several days trapped in bangkok airport, trying to seek aslylum from saudi arabia. this was the moment she finally left the airport and was taken to a safe house by the the un refugee agency. this story began three days ago. she was on a family trip to kuwait — and she ran away. she claims she's denounced islam, and that her family is abusive.

her plan was to fly to australia via bangkok — but when she arrived in thailand — a saudi official was at the gate and took her passport. she was then booked on a flight back to kuwait. she tweeted: "i'm afraid my family will kill me" and then she made this demand. iam not i am not leaving my room until i see unhcr, iwant i am not leaving my room until i see unhcr, i want asylum. that worked, she missed a flight to kuwait and her asylum act population was considered and we heard from an immigration officer. translation: we are the land of smiles and will not send anyone to their death, we won't do that, we will adhere to the human rights principles under the rule of law. all the while rahaf has been tweeting a lot and gaining lots of profiles, this one is translated.

she wants to go to another country to seek asylum but she feels safe under un protection. she goes on to say i finally got my passport back. hanan razek from bbc arabic has been following the story. the saudi embassy in bangkok made a statement last night saying it was not in their authority to hold or detain but it was the thai immigration authorities at the airport that held her because she did not have a return ticket. they also deny they are in possession of her passport which she mentions in her passport which she mentions in her twitter feed. we know her passport which she mentions in her twitterfeed. we know rahaf her passport which she mentions in her twitter feed. we know rahaf has been accompanied by the un high commission of refugees under the protection of the thai police into a safe place in the thai capital where she is expected to stay, there are

expectations she might be able to travel to a third country in a few days. her father is travel to a third country in a few days. herfather is in thailand travel to a third country in a few days. her father is in thailand as in touch with saudi authorities so we don't know how this story will end yet. she said she fears death if she sent back and given she said she renounces the religion of islam she might face the death sentence is sent back to saudi arabia renouncing islam or converting from islam is not legal in the conservative kingdom but they have not been punished by death in recent years. the story has definitely shed light on the saudi runaway women, in the last two years there have been reports of hundreds of saudi young women, mainly between the ages of 17 and 2a trying to free their families

over claims of domestic abuse are being forced to marry. some of them succeeded and managed to seek asylum in different places whether in the west are countries like australia but some of them could not like the case of one who back in 2017 travelled from kuwait on the way to australia hoping to seek asylum but was stopped in the philippines and sent back and nobody has heard of what happened to her ever since. stay with us on 0utside source — still to come: china and the us are holding fresh negotiations to resolve their trade war in beijing — with the us hopeful of reaching a deal. ministers in the uk have announced the nhs budget its ambitious absolutely but it's

also deliverable. the reason i am sure about that is because this is the plan that was developed by the nhs itself. two and a half thousand doctors, clinicians, staffand patients were involved in writing this plan, it's the plan the nhs themselves has come forward with. we are putting an extra £25 billion into the nhs over the next five years so into the nhs over the next five years so of into the nhs over the next five years sd of course we into the nhs over the next five years so of course we will need more people. we will need more doctors and nurses. all the other roles that are there in the nhs. 0f and nurses. all the other roles that are there in the nhs. of course we will. i entirely understand the concerns people have when they say we will need more people, yes, a whole and retain the ones we've currently got to ? this is 0utside source live

from the bbc newsroom. 0ur lead story is: in the uk, parliament is back — and as the brexit vote looms, the government is testing plans for a no—deal scenario. those are lorries at a disused airfield seeing how it might work if dover has customs checks introduced because of no deal. some of the main stories from the world service. hamas has retaken control of the rafah border crossing between egypt and gaza after its rival faction the palestinian authority pulled its staff out, having complained about what it called "brutal tactics" by hamas against its workers. rafah is the only way out of the gaza strip that does not go through israel. it's unclear when the crossing will reopen. there's been another day of voilence in brazil's northestern state of sarah, with gangs attacking businesses and vehicles. local media say the attacks

are a response to new touhger prison measures brought in by the state's governor. this has been going on for six days and the government has sent 300 federal troops to patrol the streets. negotiators from the world's two biggest economies have sat down face to face in bejing. the trade war between the us and china has seen the americans impose tariffs on 253 billion dollars of goods from china. in return, beijing has placed tariffs on 110 billion dollars of us goods. today, china's vice premier unexpectedly attended the talks — which is being viewed as a positive sign. the bbc‘s asia business correspondent karishma vaswani has more. who you bring to the table says a lot about how important that negotiation is and from people i've

been speaking to out in beijing china observers, what they've said to me is this shows the level of seriousness with which the chinese have attached to these discussions and also some degree of sincerity. it's about trust because the chinese for a long time have consistently said to previous us administrations that work, you know, we are not guilty, we are not stealing intellectual property, there is no law in china that says you have to doa law in china that says you have to do a joint transfer of technology or force technology transfer. this time around it looks like they are taking some of those things to heart. they are saying 0k, we will bring our big guns to the table, vice premier and those types of people to try to resolve these issues because it's in their interests to do so. the president of the world bank, jim yong kim, has unexpectedly resigned — his term was due to last until 2022. the bank gave no specific reason but said he willjoin an unspecified firm to work on infrastructure in developing countries.

michelle fleury is in new york. what is the story? so far we know he's going to a fund which focuses on developing countries and infrastructure product, perhaps not such a surprise given his background and the amount of work he's done at the world bank trying to focus very much on sort of using infrastructure development as a means of helping many of the banks clients to climb out of poverty and address some of the big issue is whether it's climate change, the refugee crisis, but all of it will reignite questions about who leads the world bank next, who will his successor be? traditionally it's been an american picked by the us with the treasury department taking the lead. the treasury department has issued a

statement and a spokesperson said to the bbc that they look forward to working with governors to appoint a successor but many countries are unhappy with this. they would like to see someone who is not an american lead to what is essentially a global lender to reflect perhaps the needs of some of the countries. i remember the interviews he gave when he took on the job, talked about how it was a huge moment in his career and he was a man who sounded like he wanted to serve out his term. i had the chance to talk to him many times both about the initiatives he was leading but also to talk to people at the bank and some of what i am hearing is he feels satisfied with the direction that he now pointed the fund in and feels ready for the next chapter, that this was perhaps an opportunity that this was perhaps an opportunity that was too good to mess. we don't yet know the name of the firm he will bejoining, the yet know the name of the firm he will be joining, the world yet know the name of the firm he will bejoining, the world bank yet know the name of the firm he will be joining, the world bank does know this but is not releasing that detail at this point, they say they

will let us know, the key question is what happens over the appointment ofa is what happens over the appointment of a successor, when donald trump get involved or not? interesting, let's talk about this more in the coming weeks. thank you. tesla boss elon musk is in shanghai. he's promoting a factory that he says will dodge the china—us tariff crossfire and will sell directly to china — the world's biggest market for "green" vehicles. he hopes the plant will one day be able to produce 500,000 vehicles. mariko 0i has more. this plant will start building a model three electric vehicles by the end of the year. he also added that affordable cars must be made in the same continent as customers, tesla currently sells its us made cars in china, but the trade war is an interesting factor, the two countries locked in it and china —based tariffs on imported cars from the us to 40% injuly before

reducing them as part of that trade truce which should last until march. but also it comes at the time of the chinese economy and demand for cars is slowing down as well. the annual technology expo ces is kicking off in las vegas. dave lee is there. the special thing about this is that the vr experience moves at the same time as the car moves so when i moved i really feel it. we took several data points from a car like acceleration, speed, matching it to virtual fields. i am shooting acceleration, speed, matching it to virtualfields. i am shooting in acceleration, speed, matching it to virtual fields. i am shooting in the game, looking around, the movement is determined by where the car is moving. so i don't feel in control of where i'm going but it does make

it feel very physical. so although people get motion sickness and a lot of people get sickness from virtual reality, you are seeing combining the two can get rid of it? but only if you manage to do it without any latency which is why you need a very direct connection to the vehicle and its data. my god. they said it would not make me noxious but that was a lie. -- not make me noxious but that was a lie. —— nauseous. 0h, not make me noxious but that was a lie. —— nauseous. oh, god. that was interesting, it was fun, very immersive, definitely one of the more aversive virtuality things i've done but i've could not do that for a long time. that was a lot. let's get some fresh air. in a couple of minutes' time we'll about kevin spacey. mild and cloudy sums up the weather

over the past few weeks quite a bit but winter is actually not that far away. these are the scenes there yesterday in austria, yet more copious amounts of snow has fallen, i risk copious amounts of snow has fallen, irisk in copious amounts of snow has fallen, i risk in the alps and even as far south—east as greece some have been waking up to a good covering of snow with more to come. at the moment, you can see we are on the edge of the milder weather, high pressure down to the south—west, flying across iberia but successive plungers of cold air pushing down, another to come through tonight and tomorrow is this area of low pressure pushes, this one giving us strong winds across the north. in its wake around the netherlands and belgium we could see rough skis like maxis and coastal flooding, belgium we could see rough skis like maxis and coastalflooding, lovely sunshine continues for spain and portugal but with this developing strong winds across the later southern france into the polemics.

across many eastern areas, pushing towards finland, strong winds in and around finland, the baltic states, heavy snowfall and cold air returns, lots of snowfall in the south of germany, austria and this time a bit more towards the swiss alps as we go into tuesday. across the austrian alps you could see one metre, two metres of snow. more snow as you can see on turkey. tuesday night into wednesday at the snow keeps coming, in and around the likes of southern germany but low pressure developing, that spreads its way towards greece and the southern balkans and it is here where there could be disruptive snow to take us into the middle part of the week. it's notjust here in europe, further east end towards turkey we've seen huge amounts of snowfall, this is on the outskirts

of ankara through yesterday and we've also seen snow in lebanon, strong winds causing issues as well, picking up dust and as you can see some sand as well. we are not done with the severe weather across more heavy rain, strong winds and snow particularly heavy snowfall across the eastern half of turkey as we finish tuesday going into wednesday, that spreads its way across parts of georgia and armenia and also azerbaijan. a rather turbulent spell, we've hired strong wins spreading into the north sea as we go through tomorrow but for the rest of the week it's back to square one, dry weather with frost and then milder yet again, the full forecast in an hour. hello, i'm ros atkins, this is 0utside source. in the uk, the government tests plans for a no—deal brexit —

with the help of 89 lorries and an abandoned airfield. the government says the tests went well. here's the opposition view. the government is fooling nobody. these shambolic preparations are too little too late. a teenage saudi asylum seeker who barricadeed herself in her hotel room saying her family want to kill her has been spared deportation from thailand after the united nations got involved. kevin spacey has appeared in court in massachussetts, accused of sexually assaulting a teenager. and we'll find out why einstein's been challenged by some scirntists in india making rather extravagant claims. kevin spacey appeared in court

today in massachusetts. mr spacey is facing charges of indecent assault and battery. he was silent throughout — his lawyers entered a not guilty plea. the case was adjourned until a pre—trial hearing on the 11th of march. the charges are all connected to what's alleged to have happened at this bar in nantucket in massachusetts in 2016. kevin spacey is accused of plying an 18—year—old man with alcohol — and then sexually assaulting him. if convicted, he could face up to five years in prison. the 18—year—old's mother made this statement before the court hearing. i want to say this to kevin spacey. shame on you for what you did to my son. kevin spacey brought home drink

after drink after drink and when my son was drunk kevin spacey grabbed my son's genitals. these are not the only allegations that kevin spacey faces. in 2017 the actor anthony rapp accused him of trying to seduce him in 1986 — when he was 1a. kevin spacey responded with this statement — saying he didn't remember anything of this — but that if what was described did happen, then he owed anthony rapp an apology. there were other allegations too — and industry reaction was swift. he was replaced in this film — all the money in the world — by christopher plummer. and netflix dropped him from house of cards. earlier i spoke to nada tawfik who is outside the court in nantucket. she explained what happened during today's hearing. we got a preview of what the defence

plans are that this goes to trial. his lawyers pressed detectives and prosecutors saying that the accuser lied about his age to kevin spacey, he said he was 23 when in fact he was only 18 at the time, that he had been heavily drinking with kevin spacey throughout the night, and also, that this was consensual. he said that this encounter did happen but it was at the consent of both parties. the attorney pressed the lead detective saying, that the accuser ever tell you that he told kevin spacey to stop to which the lead detective said, he never said he told kevin spacey to stop. that gives a sense going forward of how the defence plans to defend kevin spacey. what do we imagine the chronology is going to be in 2019? the big question is whether this in

fa ct the big question is whether this in fact goes to trial. kevin spacey‘s tea m fact goes to trial. kevin spacey‘s team seem intent on fighting this all the way. the next hearing will be on the 11th of march but kevin spacey will not have to appear in person for that. he tried to get out of appearing at this hearing saying that would increase negative publicity around the case. it remains to be saying whether —— how the rest of this will play out but it has created a frenzied environment here in this quiet winter resort which is always busy during the summer but quite quiet at this time. it's been just over two weeks since donald trump announced us troops were leaving syria. he said the islamic state group had been defeated. and he made this statement. 0ur boys, our young woman, our men, they are all coming back and they are coming back now. we won and that is the way we wanted. that surprised the president's own colleagues

and america's allies. and you heard the president being clear — the troops were coming back now. indeed us officials confirmed, this was to happen within 30 days. that was in december. this is donald trump on sunday. we are pulling back on syria, we are going to be removing our troops, i never said i would do it that quickly. things are even less clear when we factor in mr trump's national security advisor, john bolton. he's in ankara. we know turkey is very keen on the us pull—out. but now it's been told by mr bolton that it will only happen if two conditions are met. first, that the defeat of is is assured — remember president trump claims that has already happened. and second, turkey must agree to protect kurdish fighters who've been fighting alongside the americans in syria. that's a significant ask.

turkey sees the kurdish fighters in north—east syria as terrorists — because of their ties to a kurdish separatist group in turkey. the new york times published an article from the president of turkey. in it he said, president trump made the right call to withdraw from syria. he went on to say turkey is the only country with the power and commitment to do that. it can be hard to keep up because there are different storylines. a p pa re ntly there are different storylines. apparently when president trump made this decision to call the troops out

from syria he did it after a telephone call with the president of turkey where apparently he was convinced that they could deal with the rest of islamic state if the americans pulled out. on the other hand you have the split in the white house beat tween the right way to approach the deployment in syria, the president has said he does not wa nt the president has said he does not want entanglement, he wants to bring troops home, the administration believes that a presence in this area has a strategic value. the pentagon is not convinced that isis is defeated. there are confusing messages. in terms of turkey and these conditions it will not be in these conditions it will not be in the mood to support or protect kurdish fighters which it sees as being terrorists. no, it would not be. this has always been the contradiction in the us

policy, that the local forces that the use in north eastern syria to fight islamic state are syrian kurds, but turkey sees these as... what the president of turkey said in his article was that they did have a plan to stabilise north eastern areas which would involve kurds including those fighters that did not have connection to terrorists, but it is not clear. in washington people have balked at the idea that the americans maybe abandoning kurdish

allies. i should ask about the us government shutdown, where rb with that? we have not got any rare, it is stalemate, neither side shows any sign of giving in. more reports, 800,000 federal workers not receiving paycheques, at the end of this week they will not receive a pay check. many americans love from cheque to check, we are hearing about how they are struggling. mr trump wants to address the nation on tuesday night, he will take a trip to the border on thursday. it does not look as though there will be any negotiations this week. thank you. the un mission in mali has been described as the world's deadliest

peacekeeping mission. in the last two years it's had the most fatalities of any un mission. the us travel advisory for mali is the state department's highest — do not travel. the reasons given are crime and terrorism — both al-qaeda and the islamic state group have a presence there. 0ur africa security correspondent was granted rare access to a dutch reconnaissance patrol and sent this report. a resupply run into the heart of the sahel. the dutch army on the move, on a patrol to mali's troubled border with niger and burkina faso. dangerous ungoverned territory. it's the first time the un has been here.

they are here to meet the locals and gather what information they can on violent extremist groups. they are the eyes and ears of the force commander. rough terrain means it's tough going. and they are not always welcome. malian soldiers are unhappy with this intrusion. a brief stand—off ensues between two armies that are supposed to be on the same side. access is finally granted to meet the village elders. we are at the office of the mayor of this town. he has just been speaking to the dutch contingent expressing concerns about security, border crossings, and people coming from neighbouring countries unchecked. this is what the un mission in mali was meant to look like, engaging with local communities, seeking to win hearts and minds but

it's rare. this effort by the dutch is only a drop in the ocean. getting the messaging across in remote areas can be a challenge. but what happens with the intelligence that this operation gathers? we are not the unit responsible for the activities. we provide the information, somebody needs to act upon that. as night falls a drone is spotted. it is not a friendly one. a few hours later it is back. eyes in the sky hovering above the camp. a search is launched to find the operator using a thermal imaging camera. and then... a warning to whoever it is to back off. an illumination mortar lights up the night. only one country stands between mali and the

mediterranean, making this un mission of particular interest. we don't want mali to become the next failed state where the terrorists have freedom of action. at the same time we don't want mali to become a transit area for everything we don't want to see being smuggled into europe. the dutch make up only a small part of a much larger un mission. there is agreement that mali would be worse off if the un were to leave but at a cost of $1 billion per year and no end in sight for how much longer will contributing nations be prepared to pay for peace in mali? there has been an attempted coup in

gabon. we will speak to our reporter inafew gabon. we will speak to our reporter in a few minutes. they had walked miles and expressed their exhaustion through their eyes. they were medically checked

and taken away by immigration officials, all watched by astonished local people. it's happening, isn't it? it's not stopping. so... yes, very scary. it was this tiny dinghy that brought the eight men across the english channel this morning. and this adapted plastic container their only way to bail out water. what today's landings also represent is the restart of these journeys. there haven't been any for the past week. this landing comes five days after the home secretary sajid javid visited dover, saying more ships are being brought in to stop migrants crossing. we spent several hours in the channel over the weekend to see if those new measures were in place. 0ur skipper did find some suspected sightings of migrants. matt, what have we got here? well, at the moment, it seems that the border force boat is heading towards dungeness and also hms mersey, so it looks like there could be something going on around that area or maybe even on the beach.

but this turned out to be a false sighting. unlike the eight who did make it today, the ninth man, unseen here, arrested on suspicion of helping them. this is 0utside source live from the bbc newsroom. in the uk, as a brexit vote looms, the government tested plans for a no deal brexit — with 89 lorry drivers. go to the bbc‘s country profile on gabon. it tells us it's on the west coast of africa — and is one of the region's more stable countries. that may need updating after the last couple of days.

a group of soldiers in gabon have tried to take power while the president is in morocco. ali bongo has been receiving medical treatment there for two months after suffering a stroke. the soldiers burst into the state radio offices in libreville and broadcast a statement. the movement calls on all you to join as immediately by following these orders. all men in the barracks should get hold of munitions. take control of all transport including security posts, harmonies and airports. retired soldiers should wear their

uniforms in the street. now, to the people of gabon, and the youth in particular, the time has come for the army to save gabon from chaos. government spokesperson said... the situation is under control and called the soldiers a group ofjokers. two of them were killed and three others were arrested including their leader. this is anne—marie dias borges from bbc afrique with more. they cold the actual government unlawful, the day the authorities have hijacked power. the are restoring what they say was the hijacking of the previous election and therefore are putting in doubt the legitimacy of ali bongo. this attempted coup, we have to think about the timing, it comes one week

after the speech of ali bongo, which was seen as unconvincing. it was a picture of a head of state who could not speak confidently, who was not able to speak for over two minutes, therefore they are saying, ali bongo, according to them was not elected back in 2016 loftily, and today, not able to hold his function as head of state. the government is now seeing the situation is stable. is that true? is the military onside? is the african union willing to offer necessary support? at the moment it is difficult to tell what the situation is in the country.

what we know is that there was heavy fighting this morning right before the video was broadcast and this raises an interesting question. the government says that five lower ranking and men, soldiers, are behind the attempted coup, however, how can we —— how can a five isolated soldiers hijack the main tv and radio station of the country. we know how heavily policed gabon is as a state. heavy fighting was heard, heavy artillery. why would the army use such force just to fight five isolated soldiers? we will keep in touch regarding that story. in india — organisers of an annual

science conference say they're seriously concerned after some rather unorthodox remarks were made by speakers. one of the bizarre claims at the indian scientific congress came from a university vice chancellor — who said a hindu lord he also claimed a demon king had 2a types of aircraft and a network of landing strips in modern day sri lanka. unsurprisingly there's been a backlash from many at these comments coming from a major institution. yogita limaye has more. it is quite a big event on the calendar of the scientific community. that is comments made by two separate scientists that have attracted criticism. 0ne scientist talked about how kings were born

from stem cell technology, another one dismissed both newton and einstein's yearly and said from his research a new modern physics will be written. what we have seen over the past few years, particularly since the new prime minister came to power in 2014, along with the rise of hindu nationalism, is an effort to see that science and technology we re to see that science and technology were advanced in india thousands of yea rs were advanced in india thousands of years ago and that this has been documented in the hindu texts from these times. a government minister said that aircraft were written about ina said that aircraft were written about in a text. someone at the congress last year said it was a hindu god who discovered dinosaurs and documented them in a text thousands of years ago. to australia now —

and time for a lesson on bluebottles — an animal like a jellyfish that has a serious sting — and which, as you can see here, has arrived on the beaches of queensland in vast numbers. in the past week, 13,000 people have been stung — that's three times more than usual. several beaches have been closed in queensland. including rainbow beach near brisbane. earlier i spoke to nicholas fleming, a marine biologist at swansea university, who told me more about these animals. they are jellyfish like, but they

are not actuallyjellyfish. they are little animals all doing a separate job but they create this large animaland job but they create this large animal and they are out in the open ocean and sometimes they get pushed into tourist beaches. how would we describe this thing? the sting would be quite uncomfortable. that probably lasts about one hour. warm water and vinegar to neutralise the benefit would be the best way of treating it. i do not think there has been any fatalities from them that they would give you a nasty sting, and sometimes might leave a scar as well. you have been warned. see you tomorrow. you might have noticed that our

weather has not changed much recently, there is a good reason. 0n christmas day, this happened. an area of high pressure developed to the south of the uk. if we move the charts forward to beaks, the same area of high pressure has gone from the south—east to the south west but it is still there and influencing our weather. why has this area of high pressure not moved? that is down to the jet stream pattern. when we get these large amplitudes, massive ridges and stross, they do not tend to move from west to east quickly so you get stuck with the same type of weather. quite a few more days of influence for our weather. 0n more days of influence for our weather. on monday we had strong winds in scotland. a top gust of 76 mph. that law is now in denmark. westerly winds for tuesday. feeling

cooler. showers for northern scotla nd cooler. showers for northern scotland and a few on north sea english course. and the possibility of some flooding. winds calm down on tuesday night and that will allow feeding skies and a frost to develop across scotland, northern ireland, the midlands, and wales. cold air to start the day on wednesday. a bright start the day on wednesday. a bright start to the day. medium cloud in eastern england. bright rather than sunny conditions. sunny spells elsewhere but after that call start temperatures will be slower to rise. another subtle change in the weather on thursday. high pressure is still there but we get this warm front pushing southwards and eastwards. this band of cloud pushing down across england and wales and after a

cold start temperatures will still be sought to rise, another cool day. some of that cloud could be low, maybe some mist patches, milder weather in scotland and northern ireland. friday, another quiet day. high pressure is still there to the west of ireland. a lot of cloud around. temperatures coming up the few degrees. that cloud that enough for a few spots of rain across the far north—west. the weekend, pretty quiet, high—pressure, still to the west of the uk. still a lot of dry weather but thick) into northern scotla nd weather but thick) into northern scotland bringing the threat of rain. still mild. when will we see a change in the weather? it will be next week. the jet stream is change in the weather? it will be next week. thejet stream is no where near as amplified as it was in the first chart i showed you,

smaller troughs and ridges, that is a pattern that is mobile, we will see changeable weather next week. it will be more windy, spells of heavy rain, and some big swings in temperature. miles won the two pretty cold the next, perhaps even with some hill snow and winter league showers. the weather looks more changeable next week. this programme contains repetitive flashing images. tonight at ten, the prime minister unveils a 10—year plan for the nhs in england, but questions are asked about how realistic it is. theresa may says the plan would aim to save half a million lives, with the focus on prevention and early detection of disease. this is an historic moment. our vision is clear. our commitment is assured, so let's deliver the nhs of the future. the plan involves a shift

in resources from hospital—based care to community facilities and mental health services, but critics say it's not realistic. the challenge is, how is this going to happen when the nhs is under a lot of pressure already and we are already short of staff? we'll have the detail and reaction after ministers promised extra funding for the nhs in england. also tonight...