good morning. welcome to breakfast with naga munchetty and charlie stayt. our headlines today: peace talks over north korea. donald trump and kim jong—un take part in four hours of negotiation over denuclearisation. but there's a blow for the administration in washington, as the president's ex—lawyer gives an explosive testimony about his former boss. he is a racist, he is a conman, and he is a cheat. up to 27,000 children have been recruited into gangs in england. the children's commissioner says criminals are using sophisticated techniques to recruit them. good morning.

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can see behind me now, that is the 0pera can see behind me now, that is the opera house, that is the entrance to the sofitel metropole hotel, which is where the summit has been taking place. the police have effectively closed off the roads, kimjong—un will come out the way he has come in and judging by the preparations, they have rushed this, it was not expected, we are expecting him to come out three hours earlier. the signing ceremony which was supposed to happen in a few hours‘s time has been cancelled, the lunch the two leaders were supposed to have also appears to have been cancelled, so at this stage it is either a sign that the talks broke down very quickly, which would be surprising given the very positive mood music that we saw this morning when they appeared together before the talks started, or possibly they found they could agree quite quickly on the limited number of areas where there has been some agreement did not fear was worth going on. that is unusual when you have got something with as much protocol is this, very unusual for them to bring it to an abrupt

halt until there is an excavation for it, we do not know what stage these talks are at. this clearly is a little unclear as you stand there now as to what has happened, but given what they said before about the hopes and atmosphere around this, these latest developments are surprising. very surprising, protocol and something like this is absolutely critical, particularly when dealing with a north koreans, communist run country like vietnam, they are absolute sticklers for detail. it is very unusual for the scheduled to suddenly ship like this, something unexpected has happened in these talks. judging by what they were saying this morning, frankly i think both leaders were lowering expectations of any really significant breakthrough. all the focus of the summit had been on putting substance on the groundbreaking summer they had in singapore last year, which would have meant any kind of real progress, some kind of concrete concession from north korea towards ultimately dismantle its nuclear

weapons programme, and in return the lifting of sanctions by the united states. this morning, we are hearing from president trump that speed was not important, we should not focus on the day, that he thought the longer process will be what would produce results, clearly he was not expecting a great deal and for the north korean leader, unusually accepting questions from reporters, he was positive but craig gordon what he said, he did not say anything in terms of his commitment to denuclearisation that he did not say last year in singapore, there was certainly no indication that things will change suddenly as they appear to be doing now. thank you very much for that, we will go back to you as and when there are more developments. just in the last two minutes, the signing ceremony we have been expecting just after 7am this morning between kimjong—un and donald trump, we understand that has at this stage been cancelled, so we'll keep you up—to—date on what is clearly a fast story there. —— fast moving. president trump's former lawyer, michael cohen, has told

a congressional committee that he's concerned there may not be a peaceful transfer of power if the president loses the 2020 election. mr cohen, who's about to begin a three—yearjail term for tax evasion and lying to congress, said his loyalty to mr trump had cost him everything, and he couldn't sit back and allow the same thing to happen to his country. 0ur washington correspondent chris buckler explains. he was once one of the president's men, his lawyer, his fixer, his confidant, but before congress, michael cohen turned on donald trump, exposing what he claimed were the president's secrets and lies. i know what mr trump is. he is a racist, he is a conman, and he's a cheat. there's no truth with you whatsoever... republicans took great lengths to

try and discredit michael cohen. : was accused of using this appearance as part of attempts to secure a lucrative book, film and tv deals, but he insisted his concern was for the united states. given my experience working for mr trump, i fear that if he loses the election in 2020 that there will never be a peaceful transition of power, and this is why i agreed to appear before you today. later, congress will continue their attempts to discover the truth and as the many questions continue to be asked, all of washington is waiting to hear the conclusions of robert mueller‘s long—running investigation into those claims of collusion. chris buckler, bbc news, washington. 27,000 children aged between 10 and 17 years old in england identify

as being part of a gang, according to a report from the children's commissioner. anne longfield says local authorities are not facing up to the scale of the problem, and that mistakes that led to a number of child sexual grooming scandals are being repeated. our home affairs correspondent dominic casciani has more. an increasingly familiar scene in some parts of our cities, more pressure on the police to catch the killers using knives, more questions for the government. the teenagers had died in a fortnight in birmingham, the west midlands police and crime commissioners says knife crime is now a national emergency. and the children's commissioner for england, the watchdog for their rights, today says local authorities have no real grasp on the scale of the problem. her report estimates that there are 27,000 and 18 is on criminal gangs, but only a quarter are known to the authorities. she warns councils and police could

repeat mistakes seen in how they failed to tackle street grooming by sex abuse gangs. we saw then that children were not recognised in terms of their need often overlooked. people were not recognised in the scale of the issue, they were not seeing the risk when children were being exploited and when parents and children asked to help, they could not get a response and that i see as too familiar pattern which is starting to show with children in gangs. —— we re to show with children in gangs. —— were not recognising. davies, a 14—year—old shot dead in london. an investigation reveals how he was groomed by a gang, but he was treated like a criminal when he and his mother at social services for help. the police investigation continues and the children's commission is asking all local agencies to learn from this tragedy and others about how to spot the children most at risk for it is too late. —— authorities. —— before.

dominic casciani, bbc news. labour has confirmed that it will back plans for another referendum on britain's membership of the eu. jeremy corbyn made the commitment after the party's brexit proposals were defeated in a series of votes in the commons. let's speak to our political correspondent alex forsyth, who's in westminster. alex, good morning to you. i suppose we had been expecting this, we were waiting for that series of votes yesterday, for this to be confirmed by the labour party, but what is it mean thou? yeah, it is no big surprise. as you say, mps had another chance to have another say about the process yesterday and as pa rt about the process yesterday and as part of that, jeremy corbyn put forward labour‘s plan for brexit and it was rejected, so as promised, he said that he would now back a public vote. —— now. but there was a caveat, he said that that was one of several options he would be pushing for, as well as trying to get some sort of brexit deal that labour could support and of course, just because labour says it would back a public vote, it does not mean it is going to happen because it really would the going to happen because it really would - the whole of