if mps vote down her withdrawal deal during a crucial vote on tuesday. it's expected that the prime minister will suffer a heavy defeat, with many of her own mps expected to vote against her. donald trump has dismissed claims that he worked for russia as a "big fat hoax". two separate investigations in the us media have posed new questions about his ties to moscow, including claims he concealed transcripts of a meeting with russian president vladimir putin. violent protests have turned deadly in zimbabwe after the government more than doubled fuel prices to tackle widespread shortages. it's not known how many people have been killed but hundreds were arrested in the cities of harare and bulawayo. more now on brexit: what are people outside westminster who voted in the referendum making of it all? mark easton has been to york in the north of england —

which voted to remain — to gauge views there. when politics got to hostile in london, charles i moved his court here to york in 1642. the current parliamentary deadlock and public divisions over brexit are said to have echoes of the national schism that led to civil war. so we've come to the merchants hall, a building that has hosted debate in the city for centuries, and asked eight local people, four who voted to leave, four to remain, for a one—word description of the state of british politics. confused. appalling. messy. confused. childish. unsettled, confusing. confused. it's an absolute shambles, nobody knows what they're doing, they're arguing. it makes us look a complete embarrassment, if i'm honest. i totally agree with that, it is an embarrassment to be british, really. these people have been tasked with getting the future of the entire country going forward from now and all they seem to be doing is fighting among themselves and not pulling together. i voted remain, but rather than arguing, just get on with it and crack on.

a majority in york voted to remain at the referendum, but passions run deep on both sides. it's as if somebody has opened the box and it's ok to say these awful things because it relates to this, the whole shambles that the country is in because of brexit. i think a lot of people who voted to, maybe, leave thought the immigration would stop, we would open the gates and say "bye, see you later." where i work, we've got teenagers with those views who don't understand what they're saying. some people have said, if we were to have a second referendum, the reaction of voters who voted to leave could be, could be violent. yeah. i think there would be a lot more tension in the country if there was a second referendum, definitely. yes, i do. definitely. where do we end up? i can personally see it going to another general election at the moment the way it's going because there is so much fighting within parliament. the country is still half and half, thereabouts. either way, it's going to go... a general election

will solve nothing. we should go to no deal, in my humble opinion. no deal. i voted leave, i feel i was totally uninformed and if there was a referendum again tomorrow, it may be different. now on bbc news, the travel show. my name's tony giles. i'm from england. i'm totally blind and severely deaf in both ears and i'm travelling around the world trying to visit every country.

we're in the old city! israel is country 124. i see a place with my senses — i see a place by the sounds, by the smells, by the textures. shouting. the hustle and bustle of people shouting, buy this, buy this, come and look at this! i feel the atmosphere, ifeel the energy, the buzz. shouting. i was born with my eye condition, so i don't have any vision apart from sunlight sensitivity. and i've gradually gone deaf as i've got older and now i'm 80% or severely deaf in both ears, but i use digital hearing aids. oops!

i travel alone, because it's the biggest challenge i can get. and travelling by myself... excuse me! ..i get to interact with more people. if i travel with someone, particularly someone sighted, they'd be doing all the work, they'd be doing all the guiding, and i wouldn't get to touch as many things and find as many things as i do by myself. today, i'm going to catch a bus into the old city to go to the western wall. western wall? western wall, yeah. ok, let's go. i will help you. 0k. let me hold your arm like that. where are you from? i'm from england. huh? england! i was lucky that the bus driver was nearby waiting, so it was really easy to find the bus. yeah, i've got it. let go, let go.

new orleans was the first place i went to by myself — a foreign city by myself. didn't know where i was going, i was blind, and ijust froze. and then i took a couple of deep breaths and said to myself, "tony, this is what you want. "if you don't want it, go home." a couple more deep breaths, turn left, walk down the street, and the rest is history. excuse me, are you hear me...? this is your stop station. my stop? yes. 0k. you can get off. 0k, thank you. you want any help? i'm good. just trying to get my bearings, trying to work out which way the traffic‘s going, and if i can use the sunlight, but i can't sense any sun at all. i have to be careful going down the steps,

because they're all marble and very slippery and worn so i have to go slowly and take care. no, no, it's ok. yeah, yeah, yeah. yeah. all right, thank you. two people came to try and help me, but they were a bit aggressive, theyjust grabbed me, which is not the correct way to help, ‘cause it's a bit frightening. if people want to help, and many people do, ideally you would want them to speak to you and say, "hello, can i help?" but obviously not everyone speaks english. so if they don't speak, then touch you gently on the hand, on the arm, but not pull and not grab, ideally. you have to be patient, you get lost all the time. it's very difficult if you're looking for something specific when you can't see. because obviously you can't pinpoint it. excuse me?

you might get ten people walk past and then someone will stop, "are you lost? do you need help?" and then you can interact with them — that's how it works. excuse me, is this damascus gate? yeah. this way, yeah? straight in front of me, no? 0k. want to help? yeah. i like this! i like the atmosphere and the smells. and it's all close and compact. it feels authentic. i'm going to the western wall, and on the way, i'm going

to hopefully explore some of the via dolorosa, which is stages of the cross thatjesus walked. good morning. how are you? good, good. how are you? you want to see my shop souvenir? i could have a brief look. why not? yes? come on. what do you sell? very good! laughs. beautiful! yeah. this is coffee. coffee, yeah? ok, i get this. about $3. that's a five? yep. that's 2—5, yeah? yes, 2—5. thank you. i probably write a blog once a week,

so i document myjourneys and my travels, and i want to share it with the world, really, and try and inspire people to believe in themselves, and they can overcome whatever their challenges are. and i also add pictures i've taken. originally i did it because i thought it would just be funny, someone seeing a blind person take photos. it's an extra way of sharing, obviously, i can show my family and friends and stuff, that's the idea, to try and share with everyone. oops. thank you. excuse me! take the hand! people... don't leave him! over here... ok, thank you. there's a motorbike coming through, that's not very clever. hello. looking for the

station of the cross... this way, this way... this is the station of the cross? come back, back, back. 0k... then to the left... this is where he put his hand, here. this is where christ... he put his hand — up, up, up, up... yes, up to the right... yes, exactly. 0h, 0k! thank you! welcome. apparently i'm at one of the stages of the cross, wherejesus put his hand on the wall and leant against a wall. it's quite a defined handprint, very smooth, also quite rigid, quite bumpy. it's a lovely texture. right, this is some barrier, i presume.

hmm. is this the way in? hello? sorry, machine? womans. woman? yeah, it's not man. approaching the wall? yeah. the wall is sort of separated, male and female, a guy took me into the male section and took me up to the wall. 0k. there's all these notes in it. massive blocks, very smooth. the texture, the shapes of the wall, the bricks, this is a historical and a spiritual point of view, it's worth visiting. tony at the western wall.

so, i'm heading to bethlehem, which is in palestinian territory. it's separated by a dividing wall and a checkpoint. so, i'm going to have to get off the bus, get through the checkpoint and somehow meet my host. i emailed him using my laptop with speech software, and he sent me his phone number, and then i memorised it, and i'm trying to call him with my phone now. i can use the phone because the buttons are tactile. i couldn't travel probably without my memory — my memory is my biggest asset. i'm using my memory constantly, i'm exercising it all the time — i have to remember phone numbers, i have to remember directions. it allows me to find things. my memory gives me my independence, along with my cane.

i'm now at the checkpoint betweenjerusalem and bethlehem. i've got to walk across the checkpoint and go past the dividing wall. railings... getting through the checkpoint is a little bit complicated. slightly more complicated than i thought, slightly more confusing. and then we'd just have to sort of try and follow other people, and people sort of pushing me from one way to the other. have to get past this... looks like we're on the palestinian side, the palestinian territories. it's quite exhilarating.

as you come out of the tunnel into the sort of taxi area, and where the wall is, you can hear all the people talking and smell different food and coffee and stuff. that's quite lively, that's quite interesting. can you show me to a taxi? taxi cab. i'm looking for a taxi. where? church of the nativity. 0k. maybe you want, i'll take you for photo at the wall, we stop and take photo. ok, cool. 0k. you happy? yeah, always! how big is the wall? it's big, big, big, maybe...

20 metres? yes. it's far. tony... yeah? welcome to bethlehem. you're going to church? yes, the church of the nativity. all this way... yes, wall, wall. behind the wall, you have hotel banksy behind the wall, you have hotel. i'm feeling excited to be in bethlehem, it's a new city, new town, new experiences. driving through bethlehem, along the wall, has sort of given me a brief sense of how long the wall could be. it certainly feels quite long travelling along it. in my mind,

it would seem quite impressive. and i guess quite scary to a lot of people. here the church, tony. yes, this the church here. ijust called my host to let him know i'm still coming. adam, we're at the church. hello?! hello... ? adam? give me, i call him... hello? speaks arabic. i call him, he's coming, one minute he coming here. thanks, mohammed. thank you. hi, tony. how are you? hi, adam. good to meet you. looking forward to seeing your place. yeah, my place.

how many country you visit before? i've visited 124 countries. oh, my god, yes, nice! yeah. yeah! i'm very lucky. you're like ali baba. yeah, i love to travel! have you done much travelling? not... just here, it's not easy to go move, or to travelling another country. so you get travellers to come to you? yeah. you have steps here... this is actually couch surfing, so in theory, you stay for free. ok, you have steps, five... oh, you live in a castle! yeah.

it's a website and you can find people on it, they have profiles, and they want to travel or they want to meet travellers, and that's how it works. now, come here, in the left. oh, this is home! nice. we've landed, thank you! shukran. i have had a wide range of couch experiences. i've slept on floors, i've slept on mattresses like this, i've slept on couches, and also i have couch surfed in africa where the toilet‘s outside, and it's a hole in the ground. i think it probably helps not seeing, i don't see the dirt or the danger or the holes and rocks, ijust get on with it. the main thing is you're meeting the people, the local hosts and they're sharing their food and their culture and their knowledge and whatever they can offer you. and hopefully you make friends at the end of it. goodnight and good dreams.

shukran, and to you. people think, oh, being blind must be terrible, poor you, they don't understand, they don't know what they're talking about. i'm so lucky and i'm leading a fantastic life, to be able to go country to country when i want, where i want... this is the way to travel! with very few restrictions on what i want to photograph or do, and you come here and you see people, yeah, they can see and they can walk but they can't go places, and it's just sad. you know for directions to go trains? ok, so can you give me directions? just a straight, not left, not right. so, just straight, yeah? yeah. and i wish you be happy and lucky in your life. all right.

thank you very much. shukran. bye—bye, good to meet you, adam. bye — bye. bye— bye. is this the entrance to the church? you can go in straight now. ok, thank you. i can roughly hear a voice, but it's a bit disconcerting, the echo. the echo splits the sound, so it takes away the direction. we'll get there, it can't be far. ooh, ah! there is a big metal thing with studs which could be... yes, that's a gate! oh, yes! yes, oil, candles... it's got a waxy smell... hmm, yes, polish.

finding the entrance is like reaching my goal, it's like reaching my target, and everything else after this is a bonus. once they've started singing, isuppose, louder, and i thought i've got to get closer to this, because there's going to be a lot of energy involved, and then i've got to try and get closer and closer, eventually using my cane and picking out the steps, then a guy helped me down. singing. realising that i was the only person to get close to hear that, feel that, makes me feel very privileged, very warm inside. i'm absolutely buzzing after that.

energy is incredible! that was cool, just to be here for that if nothing else. it was quite crowded going down those steps, and they're quite slippery, very deep. oh, my goodness! from the fire into the furnace. very hot in here, and i guess it's from candles and more people coming in. this is my hand, yeah? this is the place where jesus was born, here is the star where he was born.

kneel down on your knees. kneel down... more, more, more, more, more, more, more... you can touch the place wherejesus was born. this is the star, it has 14... it's a flower, or? no, it's a star. the star of david, yeah. marble? no, it's silver. oh, it's silver? this is marble. yeah, this is marble. the ground wherejesus was born is down here, you feel it, he was born here. so this is the grotto. yes, he was born here. 0k. about there? yeah, it's not ok like this, let me help you a little bit, it's like this, you can take a photo now... definitely an experience, a very humbling experience,

to sort of be in a place where one might argue history occurred 2,000 years or so ago. visiting the church, the smells, the sounds, that's what makes travelling, for me, special. singing in arabic. i travel by myself because it's my challenge, it's like climbing a mountain, you feel, oh, this is difficult, it's a struggle, and then you get to the top, and you're like, ahh, yeah, i've made it, this is magical. that's what it's all about. broadens my horizons. and makes me become, hopefully, a better person. hello.

by the end of this forecast we will be talking about something much colder, but in the short—term it's relatively mild. west or south—westerly winds across the uk. the cold air is behind this cold front and that'll be sinking its way south and eastwards as we go through wednesday and into thursday. but on tuesday, the front is draped across the north of scotland, the heaviest and most persistent of the rain here pulling its way slowly northwards through the day. further south, mainly dry, a lot cloud, there may be drizzle particularly for western hills.

bright or sunny spells to the west of high ground, and quite breezy and windy, this is the idea of average windy, this is the idea of average wind strengths, it will be marred with temperatures between nine and 11 celsius. through the evening and overnight rain will settle into west and south—west scotland —— mild. and then into northern ireland. rain sinking down into northern england, the north midlands, perhaps north wales and south—west england by the end of the night. further south it is mainly dry, a lot of cloud. it will be a rather mild night, the last one for a while. temperatures falling between five and eight degrees. here is the front on wednesday sliding south and eastwards a cross wednesday sliding south and eastwards across the uk. some rain on the front and behind it cold air will introduce wintry showers, snow over scotland, mainly over high ground, some will get a lower levels, perhaps pushing into the far north of england. outbreaks of rain across england and wales will sink

south and east with sunshine behind it. the cold air starts to dig in, four or five degrees it. the cold air starts to dig in, four orfive degrees in it. the cold air starts to dig in, four or five degrees in scotland on wednesday afternoon, compared to nine or ten further south and west. so the front finally clears away into the continent into thursday. we pick upa into the continent into thursday. we pick up a cold north or north—westerly wind. that will feed showers down into thursday. that will bring the risk of ice for scotla nd will bring the risk of ice for scotland and northern england, and widespread frost. further south just about escaping the frost for one final night. the cold air settles in on thursday, it is a crisp day with plenty of sunshine for many, but we could see wintry showers pushing down eastern coasts. it will feel much colder thursday afternoon, temperatures just three to seven celsius for most. so much colder. and by friday morning there will be a widespread frost across the uk. that is all from me. goodbye. welcome to bbc news — broadcasting to viewers in north america and around the globe. my name is mike embley.

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