good morning. welcome to breakfast with naga munchetty stood down an army of 6,000 civil and charlie stayt. 0ur headlines today: servants who had been preparing tougher penalities for uk citizens who travel to conflict zones like syria, under new terror laws. for a no—deal brexit, the devastating cost at an estimated cost of using a phone while driving. of £1.5 billion. we'll hear how technology could help the civil servants who had been police clamp down on those seconded from elsewhere will now breaking the law. return to their normal duties. however there is now no clear role for an estimated 4,500 new recruits following the latest he was driving a lethal weapon article 50 extension. effectively blind because he was and finally, should we be using his mobile phone and many thinking more carefully other drivers are doing that. it is before we speak to amazon's alexa not a soft climb. digital assistant? —— crime. according to the daily mail, teams of engineers tap and it wasn't to be — into conversations people are having the first private mission with their amazon device in order to check that the system is working properly. let us know, get in touch with us on twitter. let's discuss the stories.

with me is mark davies who's ceo at strategy consultancy, camberton. massive story yesterday went above mac came out. after a seven—year saga, what now? it's not that straightforward. his mother going to spend six months or a year injail for having skipped bail and i suspect is going to face charges in the us. additional charges? the thing is whether this be discharges which are the ones he went to the embassy for, this is not about him and wikileaks, he went to the ecuadorian embassy because he was going to be extradited to sweden on rape charges. it was because of that that this whole saga has continued. those charges were dropped during the course of the seven years but the course of the seven years but theissue the course of the seven years but the issue never went away at the women involved are talking about

restarting the process. he might well end up in sweden which is where he should have been in the first place. people talk about, those who wa nt to place. people talk about, those who want to defend him, there aren't many people in the newspaper that are doing so, that those who do defend him, they talk about him as somebody who is antiestablishment and wikilea ks somebody who is antiestablishment and wikileaks and so on. they forget that he was quite simply a fugitive from justice in the ecuadorian embassy. that's why he's there and that's where he should be going. and one of the reasons he was removed was that he failed to clean the bathroom and take care of the cat. it doesn't sound like the greatest houseguest. you glossed over the unpleasant parts which are in the paper if people want to read them. but he doesn't feel like the obvious person you would want to go house. when they cut off his internet access a year ago, they won't happy with the way he was behaving, he

complained they were abusing his human rights. it seems to me that they were giving him sanctuary and in many people ‘s view, wrongly, but they had been giving him century for seven they had been giving him century for seve n years they had been giving him century for seven years at his fat himself in dispute with them as well. a change in president has changed all that. interesting that he hasn't been charged under the espionage act at all. nevertheless, charges appear, some might say, to boil down to encouraging the source to reveal information and then taking extreme effo rts information and then taking extreme efforts to attract that source. now, i would imagine a lot of journalists, whether or not work for the papers and talking aboutjulian assange today, there may be quite concerned. it's interesting that he wasn't pursued on the basis of that what he was doing was just journalism. enter stanley, the line i think people have missed is that chelsea manning who was released from jail and had a 35 year sentence

but came out after seven years, she went back into jail last month. because she refused to give evidence against him. on these new charges, yes i think there will be people who talk about it from a freedom of expression and journalistic perspective but as i say, those are not the charges that he was seeking to avoid originally. those are not the reasons he ended up where he is. now to the arab news, the headline reading the end of the 30—year nightmare, my question is it? this isa nightmare, my question is it? this is a very hopeful headline. i think that this is on the basis that 0mar al—bashir has been in powerfor 30 yea rs al—bashir has been in powerfor 30 years and therefore removing him everything is right. until 2001, there was a different power behind there was a different power behind the throne. we saw the arab spring

2011 and people talk to the time about the fact that that was the end ofan about the fact that that was the end of an error of nightmare. that was going to be the dawn of democracy across the region. what we see now is the military taking over, this is not a civilian takeover. this is a military takeover in the same way as 0mar al—bashir himself came to power 30 years ago as part of a military takeover. in fact, the general who has now taken control and he was suspended basically everything constitutional within the country, has effectively been the president ‘s right—hand man in recent years. the reason they now talk about that it must continue, wanting his downfall, this is about —— not about a people ‘s revolution. at the point if it became so, whether that is a transition to democracy and the way that we understand it, on the basis

of what happened in 2011, highly unlikely. i suspect you might be right. let's move on to lighter matters. the sun poking fun at the sombre prime minister. the picture, she looks like the walking dead. the nightmare on downing street, the woman in block, sceptics are furious and they were calling for her resignation. she appears to be in a far weaker position than if you think back to david cameron her predecessor back in 2013 after the local elections. is she going to go? what's going to happen? it's two yea rs what's going to happen? it's two years since she was described as a dead woman walking after the election. and she is still walking. this is all too easy because of

halloween, it's too easy to mock her and all the headlands you would have expected how come out. this is well put together. given the position that they take. i don't much has changed, she is trying to tread a middle line between extremes of people who want the perfect scenario for themselves and have not been prepared to compromise. i came in this programme the morning after the meeting for vote, i said that i thought her deal was the hardest form of brexit they would ever get the chance to vote on. she would have to move left eventually. she gave the right men of a party multiple chances to take the form of brexit that he just like she had negotiated. they fail to take it. the numbers dictated that she had to move. the numbers will dictate that for whoever we are in downing street. she does survive or not, the incoming person will have exactly the same problem to deal with unless

they call a general election. i cannot see a tory prime minister doing that at the moment with the polls having gone so heavily against them over the course of last week. let's talk about those numbers. speaking of contingency planning, talk about private businesses are manufacturers, stockpiling, today the guardian looks at the public cost, the government having to stand and 6000 civil servants who have been preparing for an ideal brexit today. does that mean that we think that no deal is entirely off the table? it is pretty well off the table. it is pretty well, i think? it is difficult. i have been saying since you brought her deal back, no deal was not going to happen. i've been view that we would never get to know deal and in the event that there were about to fall out with no deal, something would happen in parliament because the majority in parliament is very heavily against

no deal. and i think that they will feel as they get towards 0ctober, whether there is enough time to change any of this, i think it's highly arguable. if they gave us a 12 month extension then things could have happened. there isn't really in my view enough time either to change a leader or to change the dynamic. is there enough time to get another story? amazon eavesdropping on our homes. should we be surprised? not at all. the amazing thing about alexa is in spite of all the technology, we do it —— is it to do simple things except amazon turn on the radio. things we could do pelvic anomaly, we allow something that can eavesdrop on us to do it. get in touch with us online. stay with us here on bbc news — so much more to come. hello. the calendar‘s taking us forward into mid april but the weather seems

to want to go backwards, more of a hint of winter rather than spring in the weekend to come, as we'll see. for the day ahead, plenty of dry weather, although there will be a bit more cloud in the sky than we've had recently, we're going to see some sunny spells. it's high pressure in control, blocking atlantic weather systems, keeping things settled, though things are fairly cool coming around that area of high pressure, and an increasingly chilly and stronger wind this weekend. there will be frost around despite the start, plenty of sunshine for early risers but the chance of catching one or two showers towards eastern parts of scotland, and for the cloud building into east anglia and the south—east, there could be the odd shower around here during the morning and afternoon, before somewhat drier air returns to the eastern counties of england to give some sunshine to end the day. elsewhere, we will start to see some sunshine, some cloud building but it will stay mainly dry. this easterly breeze is stronger than it's been in recent days, keeping temperatures in the east around seven to 10 degrees. maybe ten to 12 degrees again in north—west scotland, that's what we have had for the past few days. the wind direction is favourable

for a bit of warmth, a bit of shelter here. through the night into saturday morning, some areas of cloud around, maybe still the odd shower feeding down towards the far south—east. but on the whole, a lot of clear weather, and yet again, gardeners and growers need to be aware there'll be a frost for many of us as the weekend begins. i love this view, it's high pressure, low pressure at loggerheads, for control of the weekend weather, it's high pressure maintaining its control, winning the battle and it stays with us for the weekend, with a strong wind coming from the east. that's going to be more noticeable, there'll be some sunshine abound, some cloud building as saturday begins and while most places will stay dry, still for south—east england and east anglia, the passing shower could include some hail, particularly over higher ground, and it will feel a bit colder. the wind in the west is picking up over the weekend, noticeably so, some gusts over northern ireland. more cloud on sunday here,

maybe a bit of rain in the far west, into the isles of scilly as well. cloud building after a sunny start elsewhere, but sunny spells, still most places staying fairly dry and still coldest in the east, but nowhere is particularly warm for the time of year. temperatures are well below average now. this is what we're expecting this weekend, dry, some occasional sunshine, stronger wind. it'll feel colder, frosty nights, its next week that temperatures are on the up again.