hello, this is outside source. we will start with a developing story in the us. the white house says president trump will declare a national emergency, in order to build a border wall. democrats say they make take legal action to stop the president using emergency powers. president trump is upping the ante despite agreeing to sign a budget agreed by both sides in congress. the british government has suffered another defeat in parliament, over brexit. theresa may's motion had asked mps to support its approach to leaving the eu. the opposition says the prime minister has failed. the government cannot keep on ignoring parliament or ploughing wa nt to ignoring parliament or ploughing want to watch the 29th of march

without a coherent plan. hear, hear! nigeria's about to go the polls — we'll have a report from africa's largest democracy on what's on voters‘ minds. and we'll be talking about the latest row about the oscars, this time because the academy has decided to award some lesser gongs, during the ad breaks. i was just thinking as i was looking across the stories it is quite unusualfor an across the stories it is quite unusual for an addition of outside source not to feature donald trump. thenin then in the last hour this story came in. this is a statement from the white house. remember, this is all to do

with stopping another us government shutdown. donald trump wants $5.7 billion to build a wall along the mexican border. the democrats refused to give it to him. democrats and republicans struck a compromise — which will be voted on later today — that includes $1.3 billion in funding for border security. if president trump declares a state of emergency, that will allow him to bypass congress and use other money for the wall. let's speak to anthony zurcher in washington. what do you make of this? happy

valentine's day. never a slow day here in washington. i think this must look at some of the possible exit ramp for donald trump, for more than a month that he would have to back down in these negotiations with congress because he didn't have the cooperations with cooperating. they found another way to scrounging up construction on his wall. there were critics both among democrats dominant democrats and republicans that declaring a national emergency was an abuse of presidential power. the law was not designed for this. anytime donald trump sets a precedent like this you have to think maybe democrats, a democratic president someday what you say national emergency to allocate funding for one of their priorities, gun—control or environmental regulation. but despite this counsel, donald trump may not want to do this. it seems like the way

for him to be able to declare a victory. get some money for his wall. extricate himself from this government shutdown situation without getting absolutely nothing for it as well. we'll see if this gets bogged down in a legal challenge, that seems fairly certain. but you read that statement from sarah huckabee sanders where she said fulfilling the promise that he made, that is what this is all about, his campaign promise that he said he was going to build the wall and finding a way to actually get it done so when he runs for reelection next year he can point to it and say i fulfilled it this guarantee and this promise. your mentioning the democrats. let's hearfrom them. they are already talking about legal action. here the speaker of the house. we will review our options. we will be prepared to respond appropriately to it. i know the republicans have some unease about it, no matter what they say. because if the president can declare an emergency on something that he has created as an emergency,

an illusion that he wants to convey, just think of what a president with different values can present to the american people. you want to talk about a national emergency? let's talk about today. the one year anniversary of another manifestation of the epidemic of gun violence in america. that's a national emergency. why don't you declare that emergency, mr president? does this national emergency declaration allow the president to get off $5.7 billion that he wants? probably not. but the president will have to do is look for other projects and other military construction projects or disaster relief money that he can direct towards building a wall. it is unclear that there is just that much money sitting around in pools and pots that the president can tap

into. and he's going to run into members of congress to allocate that money for that reason, these aren't projects in different people's correctional districts. they were given money for a reason. they are going to generate attention for that and be pushed back if they say california disaster relief to recover from the fires. they are going to be people in california who are not at all happy about all of the setting not having your finding a mark on having it direct to the border wall. the government has a lot of money all over the place. we'll have to see how closely the trump administration has been pouring over where they could get the money from. but he has to be unspent and we are talking about billions of dollars. i don't know if they will be able to find quite that much. the statement from the white house talks about a humanitarian crisis on the border. as a reasonable description of what is happening there. that is something

the administration has tried to pivot towards. it is true these people are fleeing unrest in central america. they are fleeing persecution and violence and being suggested to harsh conditions in their long journey up to the border. right now because the us border has been closed, that the asylum requests are not being processed within the us. many of them are living in camps along the us border. mexican towns. conditions are not all that great. you could paint it as humanitarian crisis and that these people are suffering. however to use that as justification for emergency, humanitarian crisis is not a justification for an emergency. it is a national security crisis. border crossings are down. the president has had two years with

the republican congress to get a wall money. you will see democrats come back and say if this was such a national emergency, why didn't you fight harder where the two years where republicans controlled congress to get your law funding? why a budget request last year that you only ask for about in law funding? that is something that courts are going to have to determine and had honesty democrats filed their they will be looking at on this range of things to see whether that emergency declaration is justified or adjusted say an emergency is whatever the president decides it could be. he has broad powers. that is certainly a possibility too. it will depend on thejudge and possibility too. it will depend on the judge and the courts that this goes through. thank you very much. those that he just switching on just to reiterate news coming on in the last hour donald trump intends to declare a national emergency in order to get funding to start building the border wall along the border between the us and mexico. let's turn to westminster. uk politics is in disarray. and it's 43 days until brexit.

theresa may's government has been defeated — again. this time, it was the plainest of motions — simply stating "support for the approach to leaving the eu expressed by this house on 29 january". .. ‘and noting that discussions between the uk and the eu are ongoing'. it's language was as neutral as is possible — and this happened. the ayes to the right, 258. ooh. the noes to left, 303. yeah! tweet @bbclaurak... "remember a few days ago she was telling the eu "she'd be able to get a stable majority. . . " @bbcnickrobinson. .. "fasten your seat belts. "brussels very unlikely to make concessions to a pm who has yet "to make a specific proposal & has no majority for her strategy." characterised the developments for

us. characterised the developments for us. i could not resist bringing this up us. i could not resist bringing this up but it was not exactly the valentine's day massacre but neither was it a lovefest. in the pantheon of defeats that theresa may has had, this mum was humiliating, awkward, unpleasant not this mum was humiliating, awkward, u npleasa nt not exactly this mum was humiliating, awkward, unpleasant not exactly welcome. i don't think it really changed very much in the sense that she will carry on with what she was planning to do anyway, which was to continue talks with the european union over the next couple of weeks until the end of the month. i think all that that was highlight something that is not exactly a well—kept secret, which is that her governing conservative party and the rest of them for that matter, are frightfully divided about what to do about the referendum votes nearly three years ago. helpless watching who are confused that this motion was essentially saying carry on as normal. and then some of her party

voted against it. it did not have legal force. money voted against it. it did not have legalforce. money for voted against it. it did not have legal force. money for help. voted against it. it did not have legalforce. money for help. i voted against it. it did not have legal force. money for help. i am wondering whether i should speak any further. i will be digging rather than helping. essentially this was supposed to be neutral motions, in other words it does not commit you to very much. it was supposed to be harmless. noting the fact that the prime minister took account of what had happened a couple of weeks ago in parliament, that she was going to carry on with this plan of trying to redo her deal with the eu. seeing as you asked, the reason why that prompted problems within her own governing conservative party, some on the right wing or the pro brexit lots of thought will hang on a minute, does that imply that the government is taking off no deal, because that was one of the things that mps have voiced concern about a couple of weeks ago. a lot of things to ask you about. don't go anywhere. the conservatives are not the only party split by brexit. so too are labour. this article by laura kuenssberg says a group of labour mps are considering setting up their own party —

and it could happen in the next few days. and this john pienaar with labour's deputy leader. i want this party to stay together. and i've said before at our conference, i think people should stay and fight their corner. we need an electorally viable labour party. the feeling among a lot of your colleagues now is this breakaway is unstoppable. well, i hope it isn't. and i hope people should do everything they can to try and stop it from happening. you'll be trying to stop this breakaway? i will definitely be trying to stop it, yeah. i've been trying. i mean for the last two years i've been trying to hold everyone together. before we go back to rob watson, if you have got questions on brexit you can send them our way. rob will be back with us in about 20 minutes to ta ke back with us in about 20 minutes to take on that. but let's speak to him right now. i want to talk about the labour party because we hear all the stories about potential breakaways

for the tories and the labour party. they rarely come to fruition. that is right. that is because tribal loyalties in british politics are immensely powerful. that is just the way it works and how it has worked for a very long time. you're right, people have talked about the way perfectly correctly, that brexit is eating britain's two major parties, the conservatives and labour. it is eating them alive. some people have talked about this realignment, that you could get people from the moderate centre of the conservative party, getting together with people on the moderate centre of the labour party, who would people who feel that they don't have very much in common with either the brexit wing, nationalist wing at the conservative party, are the absolute to read socialism ofjeremy corbyn and the labour. but it has not happened yet. and so i think it is perfectly right that plenty of us remain sceptical as to whether it might indeed happen. who knows? what i would tell you is that tensions are really rising on the building behind me. an

awful lot of mps are very fed up indeed. they feel homeless, as though they don't recognise the parties that they are in. you mentioned brexit is eating our politics and a range of ways. is it also eating in the way that nothing else is getting done. that is certainly the case. i don't think the governments would pretend it was otherwise. difficult to give convey how difficult brexit is. but not just a politician, but so many officials, tens and hundreds of thousands of unelected officials get the system going. thank you for the moment. rob will be back with us in a little while. if you have got questions on any part of the brexit process and particularly if you're feeling confused today, send us our way. here's katya adler on whether this vote changes things for the eu. 43 days away to go —

and no deal remains a possibility. that means the uk leaving with no arrangements in place — something many businesses and mps are desperate to avoid. this is one way that the eu is getting ready. here is the foreign minister of the netherlands tweeting about deals which they described as the brexit monster. if the hlp treatment for what they say is a serious issue, getting dutch businesses ready for the of no deal. here's katya adler on whether this

vote changes things for the eu. it is not going to dramatically change thinking in brussels. because the eu was already feeling that now was not the moment for them to act, because they don't believe that theresa may has a stable majority in parliament. and since she is trying to appease all sorts of different sites, the eu thinking is that if they get something now in order to keep mps on board, she would have to come back again and maybe two weeks' time and ask for more again. a bit like oliver twist. and they want to avoid that, absolutely. so be thinking in brussels is that we are looking much further down the line before the eu would think about moving, probably very, very, very close to march 29. perhaps the eu summit of eu leaders on the 21st of march. that would be very late in the day indeed. i think what you have tonight is the fact that theresa may was defeated again in parliament. the fact that members of

her conservative party who are more hardline on brexit abstained tonight, indicates to the eu yes, she will not be able to appease everybody in her own party. and she doesn't have a stable majority. and don't forget what the eu has been saying to her is we don't want you just to have two or three votes over the line to get this deal passed eventually, we want you to have big enough majority, such a big enough number of mps on your site that you can pass all the subsequent legislation necessary in order to get this author so we can get past brexit and sit down to both what sites really in the interview price, which is the future eu — uk trade deal. forget, we hadn't gone anywhere near that yet. this is test just the exiting progress. don't worry. i have not passed in the next three years to come. but they may wa nt three years to come. but they may want a stable majority for theresa may and her government in parliament. all the evidence suggests that that is not going to happen so presumably at that point they have to entertain a plan b where they cut a deal with a government which does not have a

sta ble government which does not have a stable majority. well, i think that is where you are looking at it coming very far down the line. as i said, the eu is not going to want to budge from its position. in order to have the prime minister come back and then ask for more and say it is still not enough. don't forget, she signed off, her cabinet signed off on this brexit deal in november, all 27 eu leaders came here to brussels just for that signing process. now she says it is not enough. because parliament is unhappy. so where there to get something now, if they we re there to get something now, if they were in your rights to cut a deal with her now, what would there be since march 29 in political terms considering the storm in brexit back so much can change even a 2k hours in westminster at the moment... what guaranty would the eu have batting a week's time, two weeks' time, today's time the prime minister went back saying actually, i know we set that will be at, but now it is not it and that will be at, but now it is not itandi that will be at, but now it is not it and i cannot keep my mps on board with me. and the eu wants to avoid that. just before i spoke to her she

recorded the latest edition of brexitcast. if you are not subscribed to do so now. it is the best you're going to get on brexit. many, many episodes and the latest one already online. inafew in a few minutes on outside source we will talk about airbus because they made a huge announcement earlier that they will stop the production of the worlds biggest passenger plane, the a380. the duke of edinburgh will not be prosecuted over his car crash last month in norfolk. our royal correspondent, jonny dymond has the latest no doubt something of a relief for the duke of edinburgh and for the royal family as the crown prosecution service decides and announces it is going to take no further action. it said it had looked at the circumstances of that crash — the crash that took place almost a month ago and left two people with minor injuries and the duke severely shaken after his car in return. in particular it looked

like the level of culpability, how much the duke was to blame, the age of the duke — as you say he is 97 — and the fact that as he said he surrendered his driving licence on saturday. the duke came in for some criticism, not for the first time in decades of service for the way he acted after the crash — driving so quickly after the crash and being seen without a seat belt in the public road and taking his time to get in touch with the victims. so for buckingham palace, the announcement of the crown prosecution service will come as a relief, as well a chance to draw a line under the whole thing. this is outside source live from the bbc newsroom. our lead story is... the white house says president trump will declare a national emergency, in order to build a border wall. he will also sign a budget agreed by both sides in congress. amazon is dropping plans to build a headquarters in new york.

michelle fleury is in new york. i'm standing about a block away from what would have been one of amazon's major new office is right here in queens, new york. right from the beginning, the project was the subject of a great deal of controversy. in pa rt subject of a great deal of controversy. in part because of the gentrification it would cost in this neighbourhood. but also a lot of anger over the fact that the company was receiving huge tax breaks, some $3 billion in subsidies and i to come here. one of the richest tech companies in the world. from the beginning, local politicians and grassroot activists met here. now that the company has pulled out, this is where they can to celebrate. we win! we win! it is a victory. for people who want to envision a different world. that is not driven by profits for billionaires but

actually it's about uplifting working people, the poor. and that is part of what we are fighting. $3 billion we've lost my $3 billion... lost but not everyone is happy. and a business owner in this area, i am play a lot of people in queens and from queens. in queens and from queens. and that someone is actually responsible for their livelihood and their time, this was transforming it for new york. the fact that it is not going to happen any more is extremely sad. this was a win the government has planned some tax cuts and some spending increases

but really those changes aren't on a scale that is large enough so then of course attention might turn to the european central bank, its quantitative easing programme. but in the near term at least, if that seems unlikely. it's only recently stopped its quantitative easing purchases. in the next few months, at least, to sort out the economy. one of the deadliest attacks in indian—administered kashmir for decades. militants have driven a truck bomb into a convoy of vehicles, both india and pakistan claim all of kashmir but each controls parts of it — as shown by this map. indian to the south and pass me to

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military camp in 2016, - 17 military camp in 2016, in which 17 soldiers were killed. this attack has all the hallmarks of a carefully the highway on planned operation. the highway on which it happened is the only link between the valley and the rest of india and undergoes regular security it is now being sealed off checks. it is now being sealed off an investigation is under way. india's prime minister has described the attack as "constantly" and those who died as the statement from the white house and times that the national emergency. we are told president trump was signed the government funding bill. that means we will gladiggbégaefiat vassar}; weakllcf ”7 . —— but going on to say he shutdown. but going on to say he will also take another executive action including a national emergency to ensure that we stop the at the party. it is looking crisis at the party. it is looking for money to build up the wall. they have had a number of people responding here. saying look, this deal as proposed i this to go through

senate. we expect this to go through com pletely senate. we expect this to go through completely now that the president a very good evening to you. it is time for our nightly weather update, for weather conditions not here at home, but a look around the globe. we are going to start with california which is often associated with sunshine, beautiful weather, but not the case recently. look at all the storm clouds across this side of north america. there is a semitechnical term for it. it is called the pineapple express. basically, it is a trail of cloud, moisture and general storminess that extends right across the pacific, right to hawaii here, to the tropical regions. the pineapple express — get it? you get all of that moisture racing in the direction of california. that usually ends with bad weather. we have seen flooding in places, potential for much lights. ——we have seen flooding in places,

potential for mud slides. that is already been happening in the last 2a hours. very late in san francisco. storm force winds in places like los angeles and also san diego. and snow across the mountainous regions. some of that bad weather has actually been tracking across the rockies, through the plains and eventually into direction of the eastern seaboard. very rough weather across this part of the continent. that is the forecast for friday as we head into saturday, you can see that weather. this is all linked here. bad weather also extending towards the eastern seaboard of the united states. so that is that. let's have a look at europe, a completely different story. from low—pressure and storminess to a big area of high pressure dominating the weather across much of europe here. that essentially means a lot of settled weather right across the continent. you can see that this high pressure is also bringing some very mild conditions, in fact by the end of the week into the weekend some spots in scandinavia could be ten, maybe even 15 degrees above the average for the time of the year. some of the major centres across europe could see temperatures around 15 or 16 degrees, and that includes us

here in the uk as well. there has been a very different story in other parts of europe. for example in athens it is actually cooler. look at the forecast for athens. 10 degrees, 9 degrees, some showers. the same goes for crete where incidentally we have seen some storminess as well in the last day or so. there has been flash flooding and dreadful thunderstorms. you can see all of that mess here whilst many western and central parts of europe are under that high—pressure. we have got low pressure and storms churning around across this side of the mediterranean. so the mediterranean is not always sunny. there is another place where we are seeing storm and a stand, notjust california but the eastern mediterranean too. some of that that weather is actually going to extend across parts of the middle east into areas where we don't often see rain. iraq and even the central portion of the arabian peninsula. we are also watching big storm clouds growing, very brief update across southeastern parts of africa here, around mozambique. this could be a cyclone in the making. lots of thunderstorms around johannesburg. then those storms will form across the mozambique channel. that is the latest from me.

you've got the weather for the week ahead coming up injust around half an hour. bye— bye. hello, this is outside source. the white house says president trump will declare a national emergency, in order to build a border wall. democrats say they make take legal action to stop the president using emergency powers. president trump is upping the ante despite agreeing to sign a budget agreed by both sides in congress. cuba has accused the united states of preparing a military intervention against president maduro of venezuela by moving troops into the carribean the british government has

suffered another defeat in parliament, over brexit. theresa may's motion had asked mps to support the opposition says the prime minister has failed. the government cannot keep on ignoring parliament. and we'll be talking about the latest row about the oscars, this time because the academy has decided to award some lesser gongs, during the ad breaks you know the government is in trouble when a motion that says it will carry on doing what it's doing is defeated. mps were voting on the plainest of motions which stated ‘and noting that

discussions between the uk and the eu are ongoing.‘ it was tip—toing through the minefield of westminster politics — but it's still stepped in the wrong place. the ayes to the right, the nose to the left 300. four here's a tweet who said, are there just too much political agendas preventing any form of consensus? first question. i feel, we have this fantastic arrangement where he answers the really tricky questions and i ask for easy ones and cracked the odd

joke. let me try and answer that question. i will say it is two things, definitely politics at play here and britain has a very tribal policy of politics and the opposition is going to help the opposition is going to help the opposition or is the opposition going to help the government, but there is also, there is definitely politics at play but there is an element of principle. a lot of politicians feel immensely deeply about the whole brexit issue and with the real passion and tension in the debate today, it's been almost like an obsession for them for 30 or 40 like an obsession for them for 30 or a0 yea rs, like an obsession for them for 30 or a0 years, on the other side of the debate, i thought this was really interesting, we had mps talking about people and their constituencies starting to lose theirjobs by brexit. constituencies starting to lose theirjobs by brexitlj constituencies starting to lose theirjobs by brexit. i will bring up theirjobs by brexit. i will bring up three questions, how many people watching, you want to know how many

options remain on the table. some say why do they notjust in this charade and accept the new deal is going to happen and some are saying is it not too late to hold a referendum and we have other saying can mps just stop brexit? referendum and we have other saying can mstust stop brexit? i think the overall question is, is everything still possible? the a nswer everything still possible? the answer is, yes. you could not have a general election or a referendum between now and march 29, but i could always come afterwards. i put it this way, it seems to me that the possible outcome and in order of probability is one that theresa may's deal or something very much like it gets through in the end and whether they like it or not or are horrified by the prospect of it of no brexit reno deal brexit, get behind it and the other possibility isa behind it and the other possibility is a new deal brexit and a lot of

people will say that this was the favourite, is delayed, in which britain can't leave on march the 29th and this whole discussion continues and of course that continuing discussion could evolve a new deal brexit or a different deal, referendum or general election. new deal brexit or a different deal, referendum or general electionm terms of delaying it, would you say may be the luckiest of options, what would need to happen in orderfor that to happen. in order for that to happen, britain would have to ask for eu 27, we may have been a bit hasty in saying that we could do this in two years, but with the eu say? the eu's attitude is been, look, we don't mind giving more of a delay if the deal had been agreed but you haven't gotten all the domestic legislation through, there will be less keen on a delayjust because the uk was in the mess. but i think they may have to find themselves answering the question. one last point for you, rob, saying theresa may needs to offer them

something specific in order for them to say yes or no, he has seen the eu raisins repeatedly, what processes in the way where she has something specific to offer? that is interesting. the point that the europeans have made, they felt that ever since brexit on june europeans have made, they felt that ever since brexit onjune 22 2016, it seems like an awful long time ago, ever since then britain has been negotiating with itself, particularly the conservative party on what is wanted. what treason they would now say is look, we think we can get something through parliament if we can have some kind of different arrangement, something different arrangement, something different with the arrangements to avoid a border and ireland, what that something is, will someone come up that something is, will someone come up with it, will the brits, with the europeans, i'm afraid we're just going to have to sit and watch and wait. before i say goodbye, watching

in the southwest of england says, what's happened to the government... janiki what's happened to the government... janik i think you make a strong argument that the party discipline in this country, politics in britain, everything is amazingly well disciplined, everything is, brexit has led to a sort of collapse and normal party discipline, causing and normal party discipline, causing a realignment in uk politics. watching on the bbc news channel says, is there anything sure about brexit? i think i'm going to have to credit an brexit? i think i'm going to have to creditan mp brexit? i think i'm going to have to credit an mp with the best answer to the saying that the only thing that's certain is the uncertainty. not bad. thank you very much indeed and we will do that again, please remember a3 days until brexit, we still do not know if it's definitely

going to happen or what form it may have been and we do not know when or if, or if they might get put to the house of commons. so if you have any more questions, the bbc news website has a huge amount of information. cuba has accused the us of secretly moving troops to several caribbean islands. it claims this is preparation for an move to despose nicolas maduro in venezuela. this declaration was read on cuban state tv. translation: revolutionary government of cuba denounces the escalation of pressure of the united states government to a paramilitary adventure disguised as a humanitarian intervention in venezuela and calls on the international community to prevent this from happening. the communist party newspaper, granma says us military aircraft landed last week in puerto rico, the dominican republican and other strategic locations in the region. i asked barbara plett usher what the americans had said about this. something very brief draws the envoy

for venezuela out and asked and said in saying that it is a new like, he was speaking to the conference, he said last week that he did not foresee us military involvement in venezuela, that the policy was humanitarian and diplomatic and political. but, ithink humanitarian and diplomatic and political. but, i think it is no surprise that they would come up with this because they are also part of being targeted by the us venezuela policy, they made it very clear that because the cubans are so closely allied to the regime, if he falls, the regime will also take a hit and because president trump has said that the military option is on the table, at least he has refused to rule it out, which one thing people are wondering is if there

might be some sort of us military deployment, a limited one to columbia to help bolster the aid convoy, the humanitarian aid convoy thatis convoy, the humanitarian aid convoy that is being blocked. the issue of foreign intervention has really become intertwined with humanitarian aid, trucks full of food and medicine from both the us and columbia have arrived on the border between colombia and venezuela, that happened last week but they have gone no further, the military is blocking the route and, we know the opposition leaders as they were going get that aid in bringing across the border next week, we'll have to see if that happens, we also know that america has plans to try and geta know that america has plans to try and get a via this brazilian province and into venezuela from the south, we'll have to see if that works. meanwhile, venezuelans allied to the opposition are in washington for meetings about how to get aid into the country. this is one of

them. translation: the aid is on time but not forever, we need to alleviate suffering immediately while rebuilding a productive economy that is been devastated by corruption, bad management and ideology. have been at this through the day, what more have we heard? they say that they've got pledges of $100 million for humanitarian assistance from the people who attended the conference, including representatives of around 15 countries. they've also said that they are looking at different ways to try and get aid into the country at the moment as you said through columbia and also through brazil, but they have decided to put up a warehouse on a caribbean island in hopes that there might be access through the sea, but on february 23, which is when he said that really going to make a push to try to try

to get the aid into the country past the blockade, they set on both sides the blockade, they set on both sides the bridge, this will stage a massive peaceful demonstration to get those convoys through and i ask what happens of the military does not stand aside because theyjust kept repeating we believe the military will support us. they did not mention any plan b. so that's her thing stand at the moment. they have laid this deadline of the 23rd for where they will make a real effort to get the aid across the bridge, they're saying that the people will do that. one more thing to run by you. the un is saying that it's ready to send aid to venezuela but only if they agree that the humanitarian aid should never be used as a political pawn. it should be so bear in mind when america

criticises president maduro, third those that see it as an american strategy to get rid of him. here's the foreign minister at the un. the us the us has blocked our economy because this blockade is over 30 billion dollars. and they are sending this so—called humanitarian aid for $20 million? so what is this, i'm choking you, killing you and then i'm giving you a cookie? killing you and then i'm giving you a cookie ? that killing you and then i'm giving you a cookie? that is a show. saying that and with that tweet he shared an image that is been widely shared

that she is a bridge going from columbia into venezuela and its blocked, as you can see, by both containers and by a barrier. this picture is not quite as straightforward as it might seem, this article for instance is highlighted by the fact that this bridge has been blocked ever since it was built three years ago and also this barricade, was put there by the colombians. it is fair to say the that the containers were put there by venezuelans and we know the venezuelan military is not positioned close by and they've been putting more obstacles —— now position. the issue of aid becomes more and more political, zoom suggesting that at the event your at that if america was... there was no comment like that here but there was comment like that here but there was comment about the political nature of the aid and that was one of the

speakers of venezuela, the newly appointed one saying that we are dealing with the principles of aid which is that it must be neutral and independent but there was a political context of this aid which is the standoff at the bridge and he says that may be, but still the venezuelans desperately says that may be, but still the venezuela ns desperately needed says that may be, but still the venezuelans desperately needed and is not going to be any prejudice or preference, it's going to be for everyone. yes, it's very true that this aid is very badly needed and that president maduro does not acknowledge that there is a humanitarian crisis. but it's also true that there is a political element to it that if the aid gets through, it's going to be distributed by the opposition and that would be how the opposition would be strengthened and the body that helps the people. and i think that's part of the strategy. in a minute i will play you the report from victoria in the ukraine, because there are now signs of life

returning to the land around the chernobyl nuclear disaster took place and will get an exclusive access to the areas previously sealed off. almost three hundred and thirty thousand patients waited longer than they should have to be seen at a&e departments in england last month — with waiting times at their worst level since the a hour target was introduced in 200a. and hospitals have been reporting significant problems finding beds for those needing to be kept in for treatment. our health editor hugh pym reports. my my one of the increasing number of patients who have been going into amd, she had severe stomach pains. you couldn't get an apartment, they said we wouldn't be able to get one for three weeks. so i was sort of panicking a bit stunned by the

pressures a re even panicking a bit stunned by the pressures are even more intense than last winter, 8a.a% of patients receiving treatment within four hours sought the lowest within 15 yea rs, hours sought the lowest within 15 years, there are thousand, a record high, up 7% from lastjanuary. the strains on the nhs for the same around the uk, the england's and he was behind scotland and ahead of wales and northern ireland, based on the latest data. they have eased the pressure by filtering off more patients who could be tested and treated quickly. we've really grown our ambulatory care service, which sees a lot of patients that in the old days would have gone through the emergency department and into the main hospital before their condition was identified and treated. thanks to the scheme, he is quickly seeing the test —— she is quickly going to

the test —— she is quickly going to the test —— she is quickly going to the test and cleared to go home. seeing a doctor within two hours. but across the system, despite the best attempts, hospitals are close to the edge as they try to cope with the relentless increase in patient numbers. this is outside source live from the bbc newsroom. our lead story is? the white house says president trump will declare a national emergency, in order to build a border wall. he will also sign a budget agreed by both sides in congress. let's go back to our lead story, this statement from the white house a new detail coming in there, let's

get for the reaction because we know this is now gone through the senate, not the national emergency, but the budget has been signed through by the senate, we now wait to see if he'll go to the house of representatives. no suggestion that a bond, given the president is signing off on a deal the republicans and the democrats have already taken. we're expecting it go through.

this was the scene just now on the floor of the senate things moving much more quickly now since democrats and republicans struck that compromise on a budget bill which includes $1.3bn in funding for border security. remember, president trump wanted $5.7bn to build a wall along the mexican border. if president trump declares a state of emergency, that will allow him to bypass congress and use other money for it. this was the republican leader in the senate mitch mcconnell. i design opportunity to speak with donald trump and he said he is prepared to sign the bill, he will also be issuing in a national emergency and i've indicated to him

that i'm going to prepare and support the national emergency declaration. so for all of my colleagues, the president will sign the bill, will be voting on it shortly... we heard this senior democrat to say that to call this national immunity will be a gross abuse of power and that the democrats are going to fight this all away, —— all the way, the democrats are going to take legal action to try to stop the president from using the declaration of a national emergency in this way to access funds in this way because he could not get them via the regular budgetary routes. we will keep an eye on this later on. we will talk about chernobyl. when the chernobyl power plant exploded in 1986, it was the world's worst nuclear disaster. it happened near ukraine's border with belarus — and 31 people died at the time.

but thousands more have had their lives cut short because of the radiation it caused. now after decades of research, the abandoned exclusion zone marked here in red surrounding the plant could be shrunk for the first time. victoria gill has been there. it's playtime at the kindergarten in the town of narodychi. but this community is inside ukraine's officially abandoned exclusion zone. 33 years ago, it was designated contaminated after the world's worst nuclear accident — an explosion at chernobyl‘s nuclear power plant, less than 100 kilometres away. tatiana remembers the evacuation. translation: when the accident happened, all the children and staff from the kindergarten were evacuated to clean zones. in three months, we were sent back. life went on.

but the future for these children and theirfamilies is uncertain. strict rules mean no agriculture and no new development here. that could be about to change. talks are set to agree the legal removal of this district from the exclusion zone. translation: it's not a secret that half our parents are unemployed, because there's no where to work. i wish we could start to grow again. but most of the zone is a post—human landscape. more than a000 square kilometres, spanning ukraine and belarus, evacuated. where people moved out, wildlife, including these wild horses, moved in. they use these abandoned buildings, because they're avoiding of mosquitoes, and heat and wind inside. so they're adapting, they're adapting to the exclusion zone? three decades of tracking wildlife and measuring radiation has shown how the zone has recovered.

a kilometre from where the nuclear accident happened, we're getting less of an external dose of radiation than on the flight over. three times less than what we got on the aeroplane coming over. they now say that most of this wilderness, created by a nuclear disaster, has similar levels of radiation to many parts of the populated world. natural radioactivity is all around us, it varies from country to country, from place to place. most of the areas in the exclusion zone gives rise to lower radiation dose rates than in many areas of natural radioactivity worldwide. the still leaking, damaged reactor here is now entombed in steel. it won't be safe for generations. but in narodychi, researchers say the land has recovered. so much so that these children, born in the shadow of chernobyl, may finally be free of its legacy. and you can see victoria gill's full report on chernobyl in on our world

this weekend on bbc world news if you're watching on the bbc news channel in the uk as well, thank you for watching and we will see you soon, goodbye. hello there. thursday turned out to be the warmest valentines day and 21 yea rs. be the warmest valentines day and 21 years. spring was certainly in the airand years. spring was certainly in the air and temperatures got awfully up to 16.1 degrees. plenty of other places not too far behind, compare those values with the average for the time of year, we should be seeing seven, eight or 9 degrees but as you can see, those values are pretty impressive. because the jet high up in the atmosphere is sifting

to the west of the british isles along this to continue to tap into this supply of mild from the south, the jet stream also holding most of the jet stream also holding most of the frontal systems at bay for the time being, so friday in many places another dry and sunny after mist and fog is cleared, this front may be heading into northern ireland western scotland and some patchy rain here, quite windy across the northwest, breezy elsewhere but those temperatures again would do pretty well for the time of year. 11 to 1a degrees in one or two spots might geta to 1a degrees in one or two spots might get a 15 or 16 degrees. as we go into the weekend, these fronts which have been out to the west, begin to make a bit more progress, the first one a weak affair on saturday, so not much more than a band of cloud across southern parts of the country. as we start of the weekend, on saturday there will be more the way of cloud, best chance of sunshine likely, temperatures in the range of 11 to 1a degrees, but

as he moved and to next week, a bit more rain on this, but it will be moving quite slowly, so northern ireland can see some wet weather for a time at least on sunday, and on the southwest of england, parts of wales and eventually into western scotland, but the further east to work comment stay large the drive with some sunshine, so some temperatures still above where they should be. at a sunday into monday, that front pushes end, but a ripple on it may introduce him rain for the time into the southeast corner, however, the front also switches the wind direction subtly, heading west or north westerly flow, starting to push into the british isles and temperatures beginning to come down just a little bit, these values particularly for the same of year —— time of year. but this area of high pressure that we are really watching as he had deeper into next week,

because it starts to build back any means a return to dry and settled weather on tuesday, early rain is clear from the southeast and some fog, maybe some frost to start off the day as well and those temperatures still doing pretty well at nine to 12 degrees and it does look like high pressure is going to dominate as we had deeper into next week. that will likely build to the british isles and some uncertainty of how close he will get but close enough to keep these frontal systems at bay, the jet stream stays to the west of the british isles, in fact west of the british isles, in fact we are back to where we started with the jet stream to the west and mild air wafting its way back up from the south. to sum up for next week, it is generally quite mild, certainly by day the knights could still be quite chilly and long enough at this time of yearfor the quite chilly and long enough at this time of year for the temperatures to drop away but it should be largely dry some spousal sunshine, this flirtation with spring looks set to go on. goodbye for now. tonight at ten — ministers warn that

a young woman who ran away to join the islamic state group could face prosecution if she returns to the uk. shamima begum says she is pregnant and now in a refugee camp in northern syria, and wants to bring up her child in safety. but the government says she must face the consequences. if you come back, prepare to be questioned, investigated and potentially prosecuted. she's one of thousands of people fleeing fighting to oust is from its last stronghold in syria. we'll be assessing what could happen to shamima begum, if she returns the uk. also tonight... the ayes to the right, 258. the noes to the left, 303. cheering. it's another humiliating defeat for theresa may, and her plans for the uk leaving the european union. president trump is to declare

a national emergency to get