good morning. welcome to breakfast with naga munchetty and charlie — a really interesting story stayt. about chinese farms turning our headlines today: to advantanced technologies to help peace talks over north korea. donald trump and kim jong—un take part in four hours of negotiation over them beat a deadly swine disease. denuclearisation. but there's a blow for the administration in washington, as the president's ex—lawyer gives an explosive testimony yes, facial recognition for pigs. about his former boss. he is a racist, he is a conman, with me is iain anderson. we will and he is a cheat. come to that in a moment. let's up to 27,000 children have been start with, well, what a dramatic recruited into gangs in england. the children's commissioner says day in washington. the man who once criminals are using sophisticated techniques to recruit them. said he would take a bullet for the president, such a loyal aide to him good now completely putting the knife in. he is firing the bullets. and he has a lot of ammunition. he turned up in congress yesterday. he will be back in congress in a private session with the intelligence committee, and

he turned up with a whole bunch of evidence, cheques, e—mails, correspondence about donald trump. yes, look, this man is a convicted felon. he ate a lot of humble pie yesterday. he apologised to congress for lying to them. he apologised to the american people for lying to them as well. if you like donald trump maybe it won't change the dial on what you think about donald trump. if you hate donald trump it will probably add to your ire but of course the reason is there is that we now have a democratic control house and this is just the start. what cph did yesterday in a very explosive way as you said is an pack his view about the man that he worked alongside —— what cohen said. the democrats are going to take this

ina the democrats are going to take this in a whole variety of different directions now. what it was interesting, he was pushed on the issue of pollution and whether there was collusion between the donald trump campaign in russia during the election campaign. he stopped short, didn't he, he said he had no evidence of that. that's interesting because at the moment the robert mueller investigation is beginning to wrap up. so he went quite far, but not perhaps as far as some democrats would want. that is right. imean, he democrats would want. that is right. i mean, he has pointed to the character of donald trump. it was a character of donald trump. it was a character attack. and what do the democrats have to go on? well, they have potentially got evidence to drill down in terms of campaign finance violations. he pointed to that. but, yes, on the big substantive, was their collusion,

something that donald trump keeps tweeting himself, there was no collusion, not much more that has moved the dial in the last 2a hours. the testimony before, the private testimony before the intelligence committee today might be a different matter. let's see if some of that lea ks. matter. let's see if some of that leaks. yes, it will be interesting. iam sure leaks. yes, it will be interesting. i am sure we will have more coverage of that when it happens. let's move on to another story on president trump, this one is won he would far rather see higher up the agenda, the second day of the summit with the north korean leader, and this is where face—to—face they will talk about the thorny issue of denuclearising the korean peninsular. they are talking about it now, i believe they are having lunch right now. all of the expectation management at the moment has been played down in terms of anything significant. i heard donald

trump earlier, he said there is no rush, there is no rush. mr kim, there is no need to push forward, don't worry about it. now, i know can indication sky. the old cynic in me suggest this is some sort of dead cat bounce, don't look over in congress right now, actually look at me in vietnam. of course, equally this could be so far and they are about to announce something quite significant. c. from your perspective as a communications man. —— let's see. the pr benefit to the north korean leader of all of this, and the fact that he was for the first time taking questions, i believe it was the first time from western journalist. getting very relaxed. we were hearing early on the show, getting much more confident with the western media. a p pa re ntly confident with the western media. apparently he is starting to sort of

chelax a bit more with the north korean media as well. so we see a different north korean leader. the one substantive thing that donald trump can point to, this has to be good for tension across the globe generally, is that little rocket man is no longer launching little rockets. indeed. well, someone who is launching rockets in a very nice, smooth transition, launching rocket into space with satellites to improve broadband, fast broadband to areas that currently don't get it, even the desert perhaps. this is an amazing story, this is a business called one web, it has had backing from the uk space programme —— cohen. there is a uk space programme. if it works it would be regarded as one of the biggest su ccesses . regarded as one of the biggest successes. it basically started to launch a series of satellites, six

yesterday, before the end of the yearup to yesterday, before the end of the year up to 35—40 every month, it would seem, to create a constellation of 650, some are saying maybe even 2000 satellites, to provide mobile broadband access to provide mobile broadband access to parts of the globe where, frankly, there are not spots, there is no broadband access. so, from a sort of social and kind of democratic access to the internet point of view, this is a fascinating story. on the flipside, though it, of course, there is quite a lot of spacejunk that of course, there is quite a lot of space junk that is already up there. and this piece is pointing to the need to take down some of that redundant satellite territory that is currently above us to make space for the new stuff. and when people

get that new broadband, fast broadband, they might choose to use it to watch the new offering, britbox, bbc and itv, putting the programme is there. available in the us, has been for a couple of years. some people will look at this in britain and said, well, why should i pay for this service when i pay for the licence fee? i have a lot of american friends, i am sure folks watching now in america — so far britbox has gone down incredibly well. frustrating if you live in america and you like to watch uk programming that, until britbox launch, you haven't been able to do so, but this is the really big i think business story as to whether or not the bbc and itv and channel 4 and channel five may be coming in as partners in this consortium are going to go head—to—head with netflix. a lot of bbc content on netflix. a lot of bbc content on

netflix. apparently that will be honoured. the deals that have been done will remain in place. but there isa done will remain in place. but there is a big question as to whether or not this is now effectively the itv going to war with the really big streaming providers could be quite an expensive battle. and just why we have time to turn to the new york times and the year of the pig, facial recognition, but for a serious reason, this isn't a fun... they are not setting up facebook for pigs, are they? they are not. there has been a really bad outbreak of swine disease, millions of pigs have been slaughtered in this year of the pig in china so it a nifty way it would appear of trying to identify animals that have got a problem, but a p pa re ntly animals that have got a problem, but apparently it is not even facial recognition, they can even recognise the various oink—oinks of the pigs,

voice technology they are working on to isolate the pigs who have a problem or even at peak who might be feeling a little bit peaky and needs a bit a better feeling a little bit peaky and needs a better diet. fascinating, the idea that they can determine the cough of a pig. that they can determine the cough of a pig, whether it has some signs of this disease and try to sort of prevent the spread of it is absolutely, i mean, this is technology, you know, at its finest. ian, thank you very much, really good to get your thoughts on all those. that is it for the briefing for the moment, but we will be back shortly with more. stay with us here on bbc news. hello there. the setting sun on wednesday marked

the end of this balmy, warm spell for february, which has brought record—breaking temperatures. and we are returning to something back to near normal, with some wet and windy this weekend. the big area of high pressure ebbs away, the high pressure which brought the southerly winds and we see the influence coming back in the atlantic, areas of low pressure developing with weather fronts, and as they hurtle towards our shores and also drag in some cooler air from the north atlantic, right across the country, as you can see here. so we start to see the change early this morning taking place across the south—west corner of england into wales, increasing breeze, more cloud with showery bursts of rain but elsewhere largely dry start to thursday, low cloud, mist, and fog and quite a chilly start. so we could start off with a little bit of early brightness this morning, some low cloud, mist and fog, but quickly conditions go downhill across much of england and wales as showery bursts of rain moving, strong winds as well, in fact it will be windy across the south coast into the south—west.

the best of dry and bright weather across scotland but notice the temperatures, 8—13 degrees, much cooler than we've been used to but still above seasonal average. for friday, not a bad day, we are in between weather systems, high pressure will bring a fine dry day, variable cloud, some spells of sunshine but the next weather front will bring some wet weather to northern ireland later in the day. and again those temperatures, low teens celsius at best, that band of rain moves through during friday night and into the weekend for the first of a series of low pressure systems which will bring some wet and windy weather to our shores this weekend. it will feel cooler as well for all, particularly because of the strength of the wind and the rain that we are seeing. saturday, then, start off dry with some brightness around by the winds will it continue to increase, quite a wet afternoon i think for many of some of the rain could be quite heavy across the north and west. something a bit brighter later on for northern ireland and we could even start to see something a little bit wintry

on the tops of the mountains of scotland. those temperatures again ranging 9— 14 degrees. above average. sunday's chart shows the feature to the north and the south. uncertainty as to how far north of the rain will be but it looks like some southern areas could be windy and wet throughout sunday. further north, wet and windy with some snow over the higher ground scotland. in between there could be a slice of slightly drier weather, but you will have to keep tuned to the weather forecast for this. will feel much cooler.