hello, i'm ros atkins. this is outside source. a brexit deal hangs in the balance right now. negotiators continue to work in brussels. we are told there won't be a deal this evening. we'll break it all down for you and give you the latest on where the negotiations are at. turkey's president still refuses to stop the military offensive in syria until, he says, the kurds are defeated. donald trump says it's "not america's problem". he also said this. the pkk, which is a part of the kurds, as you know, is probably worse at terror and more of a terrorist threat in many ways than isis.

the startling offer from president trump to the family of a british teenager killed in a crash with an american diplomat‘s wife. it's been an intense day of negotiations in brussels and the situation is still unclear. here is the bbc‘s political editor telling us a little while like... the negotiations, though, looks set to carry on this evening and potentially into tomorrow, when the latest european summit begins. bruno waterfield from the times says... he goes on to say...

despite all the twos and froze and the fact there is no deal coming this evening, there remains a lot of optimism about the situation. for example, listen to emmanuel macron. translation: we also worked on preparations for the european council summit tomorrow and friday. we talked about the budget, european enlargement and of course brexit, on which i believe an agreement is about to be finalised which we can sign off on tomorrow. it looks like we're heading into another layton brussels. —— late night. the bbc‘s gavin lee is right by where the negotiations are happening. we'll get more word from a monk than the ambassadors tonight. as soon as they see the camera committee will be hiding. we understand they have much tied up all of the issues, including the northern ireland

customs union issue, the consent issue of if the northern irish people get a say, if there would be some kind of vote or referendum. not sure yet what. for 55 hours, we have got 2a negotiators on the fifth floor, with the lights on, and michel barnier hasjust floor, with the lights on, and michel barnier has just come from here. i shouted to him briefly. he said, i'm sure you have heard this before, classic, typical shell barnier line, we are working. off he went into the rain. the other ambassadors are following suit. what are we expecting now? we were expecting an update from donald tusk, president of the european council, to set out in the invitation letter to the leaders, what is going to happen. we have still not got that so far. maybe that will come out of the next briefing michel barnier gives to a

steering group of meps in the parliament. there may be some viewers thinking, hang on, vat come oi’ viewers thinking, hang on, vat come ordid viewers thinking, hang on, vat come or did that come from? why did that become an issue? because it is a big issue. taking a few more steps. a quick word of how the talks went tonight? well? 0k. quick word of how the talks went tonight? well? ok. that is the best we're going to do tonight. that is from the dutch side. must go back to the vat, because it's a massive issue. if we are assuming from the lea ks we' re issue. if we are assuming from the leaks we're getting they stay in the customs union, everything... to have to be checks of goods coming from outside into the eu, and basically comes down to a simple issue of what the eu call a level playing field. if the uk is no longer part of the eu, for the customs union, for a car, if you bring a car into the macro, there is a10%

car, if you bring a car into the macro, there is a 10% tariff on every car coming through. if northern ireland is part of the customs union, they don't have to worry about it. it's fairly, located — hence, why you still have 2a negotiators in a room talking vat. there is a sense we are getting closer. we are all waiting. there are rumours there is a borisjohnson flight are rumours there is a borisjohnson flight tonight or tomorrow morning that he is going to be there with jean—claude juncker, but we that he is going to be there with jean—claudejuncker, but we believe an announcement could come from the sheu an announcement could come from the shell barnier first. we will be around tonight, we will wait, and we will see. —— michel barnier. this is the sticking point — the status of northern ireland and of the border between northern ireland and the republic of ireland. under boris johnson's original proposal, the uk government wanted out of the eu's customs union. this includes northern ireland being out. that would mean different customs areas on either side of the irish border, which would mean checks.

and the irish government and the eu did not like that. now, boris johnson's proposal offers something alternative — it shifts the need for checks from the irish border to the irish sea — by taking northern ireland out of the customs union while essentially keeping it aligned to the customs union. if that sounds confusing, it really is — and we also don't know the exact nature of what the uk is suggesting. if it is along those lines, for some — in particular the crucial dup in northern ireland — that may represents an unacceptable divide between northern ireland and the uk. for the eu, it works because there are no border checks on the island of ireland. here's irish prime minister leo varadkar. if it's to work for the people of ireland, it means avoiding a hard border between north and south.

that's always been the government's primary objective, ensuring the all—island economy can continue to develop and that north side cooperation, as envisioned by the good friday agreement, can resume. and just as important, to protect the single market, its integrity and our place in it. so the proposal seems to place northern ireland out of the customs union at the same time as being in it. here's gavin lee to explain. this is a long way from where over a couple of days ago, when it looked like it was impossible before a summit. now we are told it could happen. how does it were with northern ireland being in both? ultimately, northern ireland stays in the customs union, you have no need for borders. visit stay in a customs territory of the uk? what does that mean? we are waiting on clarity for that. this is key, actually. the eu site, experts, the brexit court in a different european parliament, they are saying everything is with the uk. the we are getting, we are waiting for the meetings in downing street. and arlene foster, the democratic unionist leader, said if you have

northern ireland in a customs union, you've basely gotten all economy. it is one step towards breaking away from the uk. what matters is what borisjohnson has offered in return, what is it about a vote, a referendum, for the northern irish people to say whether or not they wa nt to people to say whether or not they want to stay in the union. let's see whether or not they stay in a customs territory with the uk or be ina customs territory with the uk or be in a customs union with the eu. whatever is agreed by negotiators, the uk and all 27 other eu countries to agree to it. all countries will be represented at the european council summit that begins tomorrow morning, thursday morning. earlier, we heard from emmanuel macron, who was meeting angela merkel in toulouse. lucy williamson was there. the mood music here is sounding much more hopeful than usual. president macron talked about positive echoes. angela merkel said, from what she'd

heard over the last few days, she was more and more confident of a deal. "we're in the final sprint," she said. france and germany have always agreed that any brexit deal needs to protect the single market, but they sometimes seem to differ over how long to wait to give negotiations a chance. the talks in brussels today went on for longer than expected — and tonight, there's optimism that key uk concessions might have given the process a final boost. we have heard from toulouse, brussels. next, let's go to westminster. the dvc‘s clive myrie is there. —— the bbc‘s. westminster. the dvc‘s clive myrie is there. -- the bbc's. some thoughts on the brussels side they could be moving forward, there could be some kind of agreement or the skeleton be some kind of agreement or the s keleto n of be some kind of agreement or the skeleton of an agreement sometime tomorrow. here, it has to be said, that optimism is a little bit more muted because of the situation involving that border potentially

down the irish sea. andy dup's lease and all of that. that's good of the bit more now from professor anand menon. it's good to see you. thanks for being with us. you can hear me of the people over there. where have —— to you believe we are?” -- to you believe we are? i think several things. i think the mood -- to you believe we are? i think several things. ithink the mood is more positive than we had any right to believe we can go. clearly, both sides are keen to get this process is close to a deal as possible. the chances to get a deal signed at this summit? slight, mere slim. idon't see this getting done at this summit, but the two sides are clearly moving closer together. but we don't know is what the proposal now says, who has conceded, or what theissues now says, who has conceded, or what the issues left open are. i suspect

one of them is vat because the original british proposals that we are outside the eu vat resume and we'll figure that out later. that's the sort of thing the eu absolute he hates. if there is no deal, do you believe saturday's sitting upon the will go ahead? my guess would be yes, partly because the promised or will take the opportunity to turn up, will take the opportunity to turn up, waver on will take the opportunity to turn up, waveron his will take the opportunity to turn up, waver on his letter to michel barnier and say, you see would you have made me do, because remember, everything that politicians are doing all that brexit is done with half an eye on the election and getting that positioning right, and borisjohnson was to getting that positioning right, and boris johnson was to make it clear, i wanted to leave, they wouldn't let me, get me a new palm in. i suspect, yes, they will set. if there is no agreement to vote on, the chance of anything substantive happening is slim. what around the dup? for them, this is an x essential threat. —— x essential threat.

if the uk has their own customs territory, they see this at the beginning of the unification of ireland. i think there are three issues. on customs, you're absolutely right. up to now, the dup, and indeed borisjohnson himself, have said, we cannot live with a customs border in the irish sea. that seems to be moving, that what you hear is that the dup are not less persuaded of that. consent means the dup want to have a veto on this going forward. the eu have said, actually, no. what you can haveis said, actually, no. what you can have is not a veto on it starting or but a vote on you coming out. the third thing is cash. that is a sweetener for the dup. whether it's enough to get this over the line and get their votes, i don't know. bear in mind — the dup arejust get their votes, i don't know. bear in mind — the dup are just one problem. the other problem are the other end of the tory party, those 21 mp5 who have been expelled,

whether they will support this deal. we are going to leave it there. anand menon, thank you very much for joining us. it is back to you. clive, thank you very much indeed to the both of you. that is clive and westminster. we will turn back to brexit later in the programme. we must also talk about president trump. he says turkey's offensive against kurdish forces in northern syria is not america's problem, adding the kurds were "more of a terrorist threat than isis". a judge who says she was bullied and had a breakdown after speaking out about government cuts has won a landmark appeal at the supreme court. the court ruled warrington district judge claire gilham could be classified as a "worker" and was therefore entitled to whistle—blowing protection. this means she can now have her case heard at an employment tribunal. she gave a statement after the ruling.

judges are just as in need of protection when whistle—blowing as others. the point of whistle—blowing protection is to give confidence that it is safe to raise malpractice within any organisation. organisations that cannot hear such warnings endanger the services they are tasked with providing. in public services, transparency is key. as the supreme court has acknowledged, it is just as important that members of the judiciary have the confidence to whistle—blowing where they feel compelled to do so as others, because they are just as vulnerable to detrimental treatment. welcome back to the newsroom. hello, i ros atkins with outside source.

a brexit deal hangs in the balance right now, negotiators are still hard at work in brussel, but we're being told there won't be a deal tonight. even by his own standards, we have heard something quite extraordinary from president donald trump today. president trump has said the kurdish group the pkk are "more of a terrorist threat in many ways than isis". just to remind you, the pkk was a major part of the ground force for a us—led coalition against isis in syria. so, as such, the pkk was a us ally — until recently, apparently. the thing that's common is that everybody hates isis. the pkk, which is a part of the kurds, as you know, is probably worse at terror and more of a terrorist threat in many ways than isis. so it's a very semi—complicated — not too complicated if you're smart, but it's a semi—complicated problem, and i think it's a problem that we have very nicely under control. meanwhile, turkey's president has dismissed calls for a ceasefire in northern syria.

bearin bear in mind, the us secretary of state and usa's prison are heading towards turkey order to meet president erdogan today. here he is today. translation: our country has fulfilled the rules of being in alliance with many different allies, but we realised as our allies give us promises, they say one thing to us and do other stuff behind our back. it is clear now that despite everything, turkey supports peace, stability and the well—being of people, and it will always be that way. as we've discussed a lot in the last week, there are thousands of militants held across kurdish controlled camps in northern syria. we know at least one of these camps has been shelled by turkey — which has led to some militants escaping. most of the fighting has been

happening in the town of ras al—ain. barbara plett—usher is there at the border. this is one of the areas where there has been the most intense fighting. it is the town of ras al—ain, and it isa it is the town of ras al—ain, and it is a town turkish forces have been bombarding with power. three times, the turks try to take it and the kurds had been fighting back. we are told from inside the town the kurds still control 70% of it. this is one of the main conflict areas, but it's evidence that the military operation is still ongoing, despite us requests that a cease—fire take place, and also what we heard from mr erdogan in parliament earlier today, that the military operation would continue on the he said, until the kurds in effect a surrender, lay down their arms and leave the area that turkey wants is a safe zone, any resistance here in ras al—ain shows the kurds are not at this

pointing about doing that. jeremy brown is in the turkish capital ankara. hejoins us live he joins us live at the moment. jeremy, i guess the next couple of days are all about who can exert influence over turkey. what is your assessment of the equation? can you repeat that question?” assessment of the equation? can you repeat that question? i wasjust saying come in the next couple of days rn who can exert influence on turkey. i wonder what your assessment is of the different medic equation. —— diplomatic equation. assessment is of the different medic equation. -- diplomatic equation. at the moment, what is happening is the us vice president and secretary of state are going to come over here in about 2k hours from now and they will be, 12 hours from now, and they will be, 12 hours from now, and they will be, 12 hours from now, and they will be talking to president erdogan. but for my point of view, i don't quite see where the common ground is, because the americans, as

president trump has said, unless the turks stop what they're doing, us sanctions will "destroy their economy" for site at the time, president erdogan, a man for whom prestige is very important, is deeply involved in a military operation which he has been trying to do now for some years and he has told his people that it's vital for tu rkey‘s told his people that it's vital for turkey's security, so for him to suddenly change his mind after a meeting with this deputation from the states i think is unlikely. because they are not to —— nato alleys, i don't think they're going have a dustup or anything like that but the kind of deal that will lead to a rapid cease—fire my frankly, i don't see it. and how do you see the state of the syrian conflict through the perspective of the syrian government? the last couple of years has seen the syrian government take territory. now we are seeing it move north. do you think this is a crucial moment for the war? from the

point of view of the syrian government in damascus, things really could not be better. in the course of just a really could not be better. in the course ofjust a week, they have been handed something which i don't think they could really have dreamed about, which is the chance to send their troops back into what is roughly getting on for a third of the country that wasn't under their direct control. they had garrisons in different places, but at place, essentially, since 2012, under the control of syrian kurds and then in the space of a very rapid couple of days, suddenly, their troops were pushing in, the russians were with them and the deal had been done with them and the deal had been done with the syrian kurds. and as a result of that, i think, from president asad's position come and things are going very well because don't forget, back when the war started, people affected his old regime to rapidly

collapse. jeremy, thank you very much indeed. glad you were able to hear our much indeed. glad you were able to hear oui’ answers much indeed. glad you were able to hear our answers in the end. there isjeremy, live with us from ankara, the turkish capital. let's turn away from syria, go to business. well, there may be some good news for america's biggest car—maker — general motors. 118,000 workers have been on strike for the past month — and its cost the company more than a billion dollars because of that — it looks like there may be a deal. vivienne nunis in new york. help us understand what was dividing them and what may now be bringing them and what may now be bringing them together. there are a number of them together. there are a number of the sticking points in the negotiations ongoing between gm and the auto workers union. it all comes down the auto workers union. it all comes d own m ostly the auto workers union. it all comes down mostly to wages and conditions for when gm went through a really bad patch around a decade ago, in the financial crisis, the cup and he actually filed for bankruptcy and restructured and had to be bailed at by the us government. at that time, autoworkers, gm's workers, took a

hit. they said they will accept lower conditions and worse wages than we normally would to help the company. since that time, gm have really turned things around, last year brought in a net profit of $8 million. the strike is not resolved yet. it is just a tentative agreement that is being reached. tomorrow, union representatives from all around the 30 gm plans kearney closed will meet in detroit. they will go to whether to end the strike and send that deal that has been agreed to tentatively to each of the rank and file members around the country, so they can have a say on that. and as these tensions have played out within general motors, or their equivalent tensions in other detroit—based many factors as well? there are some bigger things going on. americans are buying fewer cars. there was also a global slowdown, led by china, so cart company across america are grappling with these issues. and that was another one of the sticking point in these

negotiations. gm has temporarily shattered or closed a couple of pla nts shattered or closed a couple of plants separate to the strike. the union said they will exceed those plans open up, operating again. gm says at this time, when people are buying fewer cars, that might not be the right way to go. the trade war between the us and china is also relevant. i think that is the background picture travelling happening in the economy here in the us at the moment. certainly big companies are holding off new investments, as they worry about whether the trade war might get any worse. in terms of this deal, we're hearing some news coming through that maybe there will be investment in some areas like electric vehicles and ev batteries. this is a part of the industry china has led the way on, so gm feels a need to compete on this. we will hear more about this tentative agreement tomorrow. vivian donna vivienne, thank you very much

indeed. —— vivienne, thank you. a former american trade chief is warning it doesn't mean britain will get special treatment when it comes to a trade deal. michael froman was the us trade representative until 2017 — and says the uk also needs to decide whether it wants to keep european michael froman was the us trade representative until 2017 — regulations that are often stricter than american ones. he made the comments as uk exports — including whisky — face tough new us tariffs. in this case, they will be a rift on french products and german products as well. just because we have a special relationship doesn't and we are going to sacrifice our economic interests in the context of a trade dispute or a trade negotiation. and that, by the way, applies to whatever future triggerman by the negotiators with the us and uk as well. there may be desirable size to reach an agreement but it does make it any easier to actually reconcile,

sometimes, the conflicting interests. this is a confident —— topic in a relationship. whether there are different views on regulation, those we challenging to work out. for the uk in particular after brexit, it has got to decide how closely it stays aligned with eu regulations since the continental europe is still its number one trading partner, and how much it opens itself up to reaching trading rooms that have different standards with the us or with others. issues around the digital economy, for example, or even issues around science —based regulation, a different view in brussels than there is in washington, and uk will need to figure out how close they remained to one or the other as they negotiate this trade agreement. sticking with brexit, the bbc's item plumbing with a decent summary of what's happened at the moment. —— adam fleming. at the moment, a lot

of off the record briefing going on, but in terms of formal statements for public consumption, not so much at the moment. good evening. if you're on half term break next week and are planning a mediterranean getaway, you may possibly want to stay tuned for the next three minutes. before we get there, though, out towards the us and canada, lots of areas of low pressure lining up to the northwest but of more immediate concern, this area of cloud here. notice how it's starting to develop a hook around the great lakes. a potent area of low pressure is developing. here it is on our pressure chart. some torrential and prolonged rain wrapped around that to finish wednesday and take us into wednesday night, and that will be pushing its way eastwards. could cause some flooding in washington, philadelphia, new york and later into boston, but what's probably more concerning, could be winds 60, 70 miles an hourjust offshore, particularly around cape cod. we'll see some damaging waves, coastal erosion, potential for flooding as well, and those onshore winds will switch to offshore ones as that area of low pressure works its way northwards into thursday, and that could bring some heavy rain, even some snow,

for some across the north and northeast of us and eastern parts of canada. new york, washington, though, do brighten up. at the same time that's going on across the northeast, just watch the subsequent and consequent areas of low pressure just following one after another after another into the pacific northwest and western parts of canada. so for the likes of vancouver and seattle, we could see a whole month's worth of rainfall over the next few days. whereas over the next few days. for boston and new york, once whereas for boston and new york, once you got rid of the strong winds, the heavy rain at the moment, things will feel much brighter in the days ahead. if you are about to head off there, things are about to improve. before we get to europe, did you notice that one? that was a portuguese manno war. difficult to find them, possibly because of lorenzo. ball storm lorenzo is a distant memory, another bit of low— pressure distant memory, another bit of low—pressure spinning. clearing away the cloud and rain, we have earlier

on, notice how that cloud is going to be pushing in across a good part of northern and western europe as we go through into thursday, particularly went to northwest of spain and portugal. rather cloudy and damp conditions all the way through into scandinavia for some south and east of that, a different story. lovely autumn conditions at the moment. less skies overhead. —— blue skies overhead. that area of low pressure will gradually work its way southwards, only slowing to end the weekend, and into next week, it's going to fire up something even more potent and across the western met. this is half term getaway slight one for you. if you are heading off to parts of eastern spain, southern spain... —— southern france, the ball the this is... athens and greece, looking fine. as for us, things will improve next week but for the time being,

sunshine and showers to take you through the next few days. more details coming up on the weak add in the next half an hour. —— on the week ahead.

hello, i'm ros atkins. this is outside source. a brexit deal hangs in the balance right now, negotiators are still hard at work in brussels — but we're told won't be seeing a deal tonight. how the talks went tonight? well, 0k, how the talks went tonight? well, ok, that it's best we will probably do tonight. we'll break it all down for you and give you the latest on where the negotiations are at. we will be live in westminster and a couple minutes' time. a shocking story coming out of nigeria — where former students describe torture and sexual abuse at an islamic school raided by police. and a pro—democracy leader in hong kong has been attacked by men with hammers hours after chaotic scenes in the hong kong parliament.

i never say this kind of thing with great confidence but it seems at the moment it's unlikely a brexit deal will be announced tonight. tom newton dunn tweeted... he quotes the source... the dup is a small northern irish unionist party which usually supports the government. unionists, just to remind you, want northern ireland to stay in the uk. they've been busy today. here you can see nigel dodds from the dup and there is their leader arlene foster going in and out of downing street

today for talks with the prime minister. their support is seen as crucial for any brexit deal getting through parliament. he needs the dup on—site. but today they haven't been giving much away. nick eardleyjoins me now. iam i am guessing the sticking point for them is all to do with this potential customs border down the irish sea. yeah, and to do with the rule that politicians in northern ireland have in seeing whether or not that continues to —— and the role. we don't know the ins and outs of those conversations with downing street. they were tight—lipped both sides about where those talks are going. what is safe to say is tonight the dup have not yet got on board with borisjohnson's plan and thatis board with borisjohnson's plan and that is really crucial for the simple reason that without their ten votes in the house of commons, mr johnson has very little prospect of

winning a majority if a deal is voted on saturday and also because there are some tory brexit tears in there are some tory brexit tears in the european research group who would take their lead quite faintly from the dup who might be flirting tonight with the idea of getting behind mrjohnson if the dup were to come out and say this plan does not work, it doesn't do what we were hoping. then they might change their minds too and photo again. so the dup for boris johnson minds too and photo again. so the dup for borisjohnson are an absolutely crucial part of the puzzle and at the moment he does not have that peaceful sub —— and to vote again. when i think back to conversations a month back when theresa may's deal was failing to get to the house of commons, it wasn't just the get to the house of commons, it wasn'tjust the irish backstop they we re wasn'tjust the irish backstop they were objecting to. they had a number of issues with that withdrawal deal. the suggestions are that the only thing that will change is the issue of the irish border. what is happening to their objections to all the other things? good question, i am going to be honest walking around westminster the last few days and

speaking to tory mps there are a lot of people looking for ladders to climb down who quite frankly think that now is the time to get this done. we have had enough of it and we just want to get brexit over the line. two key reasons. one is borisjohnson. brexit tears trust him, they believe he will negotiate a more distant relationship with the european union in the future relationship of these talks. which is still to come. certainly a more distant relationship than theresa may was looking for. —— brexit tears trust him. they think that will provide a nswe i’s him. they think that will provide a nswers to him. they think that will provide answers to some of the questions they have. secondly they are increasingly worried about the direction of travel in british politics. the labour party is now com plete politics. the labour party is now complete behind the idea of another referendum on whether or not the uk should leave the european union. there are conservatives a0 with that oi’ there are conservatives a0 with that orformer there are conservatives a0 with that or former conservatives who were chucked out of the party by mr johnson for not backing his strategy. some of them are openly

flirting with the idea of another referendum. philip hammond the former chancellor was doing just that tonight. those two reasons are key for many brexiteers who have not appeared to copper mines in the past now thinking it is the time. the big question is are the dup prepared to do the same? —— appeared to compromise. nick, things are taking us compromise. nick, things are taking us there. there is nick in westminster. it's where the reader what he saying despite all the effo rts what he saying despite all the efforts going into perhaps getting a brexit deal here and then it has to get to parliament, remember this was a lwa ys get to parliament, remember this was always supposed to be the easier pa rt always supposed to be the easier part of the negotiations because whenever brexit happens that than the uk and the eu must turn to fashioning some sort of future relationship some future trade deal and most people who specialise in studying these things say this withdrawal agreement was going to be easier than any future trade agreement. there is something for all of us to look forward to. more on brexit, get it through the bbc news website and the bbc news app.

next we are going to turn to nigeria because police in nigeria are interrogating the owner of an islamic school where people were chained up, beaten and sexually abused. this is in a town called daura in katsina state. police say at least 300 hostages have been freed, and that many of the victims were young children. last month more than 300 male students were freed from a similar boarding school in neighbouring kaduna state. it is just to the south. you can see it is just to the south. you can see it there on the map. mayeni jones has been to the school in katsina. this is the part of the school where some of the men and boys who were put here by their families to be reformed, because of drug abuse or because they were committing crimes, would be brought. about a0 of them would be kept in one of these rooms in chains. they'd be forced to urinate and defecate where they slept in front of other people and they said that they were regularly abused physically and sexually by some of the teachers here. as you can see, there's still soiled

clothing and mattresse, flies everywhere, discarded food... —— clothing and mattresses. one former student described this place as "hell on earth". our government did not know what was happening exactly here and no one have access to this place. so, this place is hell. there are many experiences that we have experienced in this house. the experience of hunger, the experience of deprivation, the experience of inhumanity, the experience of bullying, the experience of molestation, the experience of... i don't know how to say it. some of the former students say they were often brought out here for our'anic lessons and that many of the neighbours saw them in chains. translation: we couldn't do anything. we couldn't report the director of the school to the authorities or police because he's an influential person who is very powerful and it could have a negative effect

on ourfamilies. if i'm arrested as a result, then nobody would be able to pay for my bail. we knew that eventually god will intervene. president buhari has requested the closure of all these schools in northern nigeria. but with one being found in his hometown of daura, it shows that the problem is much more complex than he expected. mayenijones, bbc news, daura. now, this is a picture of harry dunn he was a british i9 year old when he was killed in august when his motorbike crashed into a car that was driving on the wrong side of the road. an american woman was driving — and she flew to the us days later claiming diplomatic immunity as she's married to a us diplomat. this week harry dunn's parents travelled to the us, and they were invited to meet president trump at the white house.

they had a meeting that lasted about 15 maintenance. an extraordinary during that meeting, president trump revealed that the woman pictured here who had driven the car was in the next room. that anne sacoolas, the woman who had driven the car was in the next room and suggested they all meet her. charlotte charles and tim dunn declined. they spoke afterwards. we've said all along that we are willing to meet her, we are still willing to meet her. but it needs to be on uk soil. and with therapists and mediators, and thatt‘s notjust for us. that's for her as well. —— and that's notjust for us. he did ask two or three times. he did mention it two or three times because he said, "no, we didn't feel it was right." but he said again, didn't he, that, "she's here, so let's get it on." get some "healing", was it something like that? yeah. their spokesman was also in the meeting with president trump, here is he. not in the oval office. the circus that it then became with photographers and camera people all of a sudden appearing in my view

clearly intent on getting that magic shot for president trump. and i got quite angry so i put a stop to it. and ijust stood up and there were several large secret service men around me and i said, "no, this is not happening today!" "that's not why we're here!" here's the president. my meeting with the family was... it was beautiful in a certain way. they did not want to meet with the person in question but we had a very good meeting. they are very nice people. and we met with the full group. it was four people, as you know how it is all broken up and the meeting took place right here at about 6pm last night and... it was very sad to be honest. she lost, and they lost, their son. anne sacoolas said, through her lawyers, she was disappointed the meeting didn't happen. charlotte and tim dunn want mrs sacoolas to return to the uk so she can be properly interviewed by british police, and they're

hoping president trump can help make that happen. so far though there's no sign it will. here's charlotte dunn again. —— charlotte charles again. i didn't think it achieved anything for us to come out with feeling overly positive. the fact that he did say to me at the end of the meeting on my way out the door as such that he would perhaps look at it from or "push it from a different angle" were his words... maybe — not quite an olive branch but maybe has given us a little bit of hope that he may do so, and he may try to do the right thing. inafew in a few minutes on outside source we will turn to hong kong because oui’s we will turn to hong kong because ours after these aquatic scenes in hong kong pots apartment, —— these chaotic scenes in hong kong's

parliament. a pro—democracy leader in hong kong has been attacked by men with hammers hours after chaotic scenes in the hong kong parliament. the duke of cambridge, prince wiliam has called for more to be done to tackle climate change. the duke and duchess were visiting a glacier in the hindu kush — mountain range in pakistan. against the backdrop of a melting glacier prince william drew attention to the challenges of the climate crisis — and called for more action. it comes on the third day of the couples trip to the region. on a visit to the flood hit region of chitral he met a woman named after the prince's late mother diana, princess of wales, who also had a son named william. our royal correspondentjonny dymond has the story. even for the royals, it's a rocky road up the hindu kush. william and catherine came here to see first—hand the impact of a warming planet. the retreat of the glaciers that across these mountains to serve nearly a quarter of humanity. when the glaciers melt,

they send water tumbling down, flooding the region. and then once they're gone there's nothing left for the rivers, the rivers that irrigate this hot, hard land. it's why the prince calls global warming an impending catastrophe. he came to learn but also to sound the alarm. 1.6 billion people rely on this water behind us. that is an enormous amount of people who, bearing in mind a lot of people are now living urban lives, it is very hard to understand, living in an urban environment, where your water comes from and how precious the actual source of it all is. blending in with the locals? not quite. but a nice try. william and catherine went to a remote village to learn about life outside the big cities. and they were sent back to the capital with dancing and smiles, and music ringing in their ears. jonny dymond, bbc news, pakistan.

this is outside source live from the bbc newsroom. a brexit deal hangs in the balance right now, negotiators are still hard at work in brussels — but we're being told there won't be a deal tonight. there have been positive comments that the day about the progress being made. here are some of the means series from bbc world service. bulgarian police have identified 15 fans and arrested six, who are accused of racist abuse aimed at black england players. england's euro 2020 qualifying match against bulgaria was stopped twice on monday because of racist chants. uefa has opened disciplinary proceedings against bulgaria. nasa has unveiled the design of it's new spacesuit. it looks similar to those worn at the internatinoal space station, but has been improved for comfort and mobility. the suit could be worn by the next

astronauts on the moon. and kim jong—un's been channeling vladimir putin. here he is on horseback heading to the peak of north korea's highest mountain. analysts say such gestures have been known to come before major announcements. we'll see. let's turn back to brexit because the challenge for borisjohnson has always been that he needs both the eu and the uk parliament to agree to a deal. the leader of the house of commons jacob rees—mogg, a high profile brexiteer says "i think the votes are there now for a deal". that's hard to see given that we and most mps don't know what the deal is. what we do know is theresa may's deal suffered three big defeats. so borisjohnson has to make ground

where she could not. central to all of that as nick was telling us earlier is the democratic unionist party in northern ireland and central to this. they hold ten seats in parliament. they've always opposed an idea that now seems to in borisjohnson's plan in some form namely that northern ireland and the rest of the uk have different customs arrangements — and therefore there's a customs border in the irish sea. listen to dup leader arlene foster a year ago talking about theresa may's so—called chequers plan. the pm is very clear about our redline and there has only ever been one redline and it is this — that there cannot be a border down irish sea, between northern ireland than the rest of the uk. just to be clear, that means you would be prepared in the event of parliament being asked to vote on something based on chequers and including a possible further compromise on the irish border, you would walk through the lobbies with jeremy corbyn? well, we haven't seen it yet.

i'm sorry to keep coming back to this issue about the need to... but it's a question of how red your redline is. well, the redline is blood red! after that quote, a blood red line, we'll have to see if the dup can accept this time. another crucial bloc in the house of commons is the pro—brexit european research group made up of some conservative mps. they were vehemently against one element in theresa may's plan — the irish border backstop. it designed to ensure there would be no physical border between northern ireland and the republic of ireland by keeping the uk in the eu's customs union indefinitely until a new trade deal with the uk was agreed. borisjohnson's proposals removes the backstop and it seems that what he's suggesting instead works for the erg. they were among some of the conservative backbenchers at the so—called 1922 committed ——

committee so—called1922 committed —— committee who met with the prime minister. i was very clear with 1922 just now that as he put it, we are on the hillary step up the way up everest, the top is still shrouded in mist. we're not sure we are going to get there, but he was very clear that the whole uk is going to leave the customs union. not for the first time, for some help trying make sense of this, i have turned to watson. whether a deal goes through... whether they think that this stage in the proceedings any deal is better than the risk of no brexit through a general election, second referendum whatever. and whatever those mps whatever. and whatever those mps what really worries them is the idea ofan what really worries them is the idea of an economically catastrophic no—deal brexit whether they think this deal and about how much they don't like it and it represent a ha rd don't like it and it represent a hard brexit thinks that is better than no deal. quite a few of them who seem to get to the point where no deal was the preferred outcome.

again, that is the challenge for mr johnson in dealing with what might be called deal with the true brexiteers it is on governing conservative party. and they think rather than any some form of compromise we would be perfectly happy with no deal. but i think mr johnson's point would then be "that is looking really difficult so the choice you really have is going along with my deal." and one of the advantages that mrjohnson has in making the deal to them is first of all, he was a brexiteers. he led the boat beef campaign. the other thing that helps as well is his vision for a post brexit britain is of a hard brexit. —— coach leave campaign. in terms of regulation and trade policy, and they really like that and to tie things altogether, but i think we may be looking at here and

i guess a lot of people will wince at me saying this. you have to ask yourself at the end of the day, is the price for a hard brexit, a brexit that really allows britain to do what the brexiteers want independent trade policy, is the price for that northern ireland? while we were listening to rob talking about northern ireland facade this from laura kuenssberg, bbc's portal editor. —— political editor. still problems for the dup with the solution that borisjohnson has come up with which appears to be satisfactory to the eu and which finds a way to replace the irish border backstop which we know some brexiteers objective. the dup is crucial with what nick described earlier. so we will see what tomorrow brings on that. it is worth pausing to reflect on the fact that

it could be hard to know what to believe on this story. bearing in mind all the things we have been told. the eu said it couldn't change the withdrawal deal. evidently it can. it said the deadline for any deal being done was last week. it said a legal text had to be done by midnight last night. i was telling you about that this time yesterday. it didn't have to be. and we were told for brexit to happen by october 31st, any deal had to be approved by the eu summit starting tomorrow. you suspect that isn't carved in stone either. tom mctague of the atlantic mines a similar seam here. he highlights that... to that i would add no brexit negotiations can happen on the days of the eu summit. that's looking posisble now.

and the list goes on and on. it makes it harder to navigate this story. here is rob watson on that. i think you have to distinguish what is process things where people have said things how the process might have unfolded which is not quite sure deadlines, don't try to be true. all that stuff you can put to one side. what really matters to people is on the big stuff which is whether brexit is when to be a good idea, whether it is a complicated thing, an easy thing, what it does to britain's standing in the world whether the eu has played its hand and smartly in terms of the unity of the west, all those big questions, those are the ones i think really matter. now i am certainly not going to put a few out there but i do think we have to make that distinction between people saying "we could not have the discussion beyond apm" and it goes to 3pm and thatis

beyond apm" and it goes to 3pm and that is what voters and viewers around the world is doing. thanks to rob as usual. what's turn away from brexit because in hong kong, the leader of one of its largest pro—democracy groups has been attacked report away by men with hammers. he is now in hospital with head injuries and that came hours after the governing authority of hong kong had planned to use its annual state of the union address to withdraw a piece of legislation the extradition bill that originally provoked the last 20 consecutive weeks of protest. instead this happened. this legislative session, the first since protestors stormed the parliament building back in july was interrupted, and eventually abandoned, after opposition legislators made their views known that the concession was not enough. so the state of union address was abandoned. carry land had to continue facing individual criticism with some of the protesters holding up signs like

these will up —— carrying lamb. she has blood on her hands in those pictures. as part of the disruption, these anti—beijing campaigners also projected, i am transcending," five demands, no less,". here's the bbc's nick beake. she was hoping this would represent a new chapter after the past few months. she had a chance to outline the territory for the coming year but as we saw it did not happen like that. it did not go well for her. they wanted it to be a symbolic day, it probably was but more symbolic of just how weak the authority of the government here is and just how unpopular carrie lam in particular has become. when she eventually gave this video speech outlining her policies, it was mainly about housing, nothing in terms of the

political reform as we know so many of the protesters here are really desperate for. and i will see you tomorrow at the usual time. bye—bye. hello there and welcome to weather for the week ahead. which at the moment for the first half is at least staying unsettled for some parts of the uk now, we have got up to 25 days where we have seen rain. the ground is saturated and the rivers are not emptying as quickly. we were left with several flood warnings through the day on wednesday even though the rain cleared through quite quickly. it did return to south—eastern areas but this is what we are looking at into the atlantic for now to dominate our weather for the next three or four days, that low pressure. so, strong winds during the day on thursday initially on friday. that low pressure sits there into the weekend as well. so, it is going to throw showers and longer spells of rain across the uk and we could see more significant rain and there is a likelihood of further flood issues. but it is very difficult

to pin down the detail. any mist and fog through the rush—hour clears away and the day is dominated by showers on thursday. brisk wind moving those showers through quite quickly but they will still potentially be torrential with some hail and some thunder and lightning in there as well. it will feel cooler, we will not see as much sunshine around. those showers just keep coming as we go into thursday night from friday. very little respite really. not raining all the time but as i say there will be clusters of really quite intense rain. not as chilly i don't think as we go through into friday morning just because we have got all those showers established. and that low pressure is there with us on friday. you can see that there are various bands of showers rotating around our area of low pressure so it is very difficult to get the detail and very few places looks set to escape those showers. so really intense downpours. as i say, quite wet into the west of wales as we head into the afternoon perhaps across scotland as well. either way, it does look as if it will be quite unsettled. and getting cooler as well, look at the temperatures dipping away across scotland and northern

ireland. that's because the low pressure is just drifting southwards allowing this cooler arctic air to come in, a northeasterly breeze. so that will bring a subtle change. it could enhance the showers as well across the north as we go into friday but again they are just meandering around this area of low pressure and they could bring 10—15 mm in the space of an hour in these showers, so intense they will be. would not like to guarantee anywhere a dry day on saturday. and indeed those showers then continue through saturday evening and overnight. there is our area of low pressure just starting to move out to the north sea which might shift the focus of showers more for central and eastern areas and perhaps fewer further west but again, this distance very difficult to get that detail right. so if you do have plans, please stay tuned, keep watching. now, after that there isjust the hint that we might see high pressure and a window of drier weather perhaps for a day or two to allow things to just settle down a little bit but those weather fronts are never too far away. and of course under high pressure this time of year

with the long nights, we potentially have the frosty start, quite a widespread frost and some mist and fog as well. temperatures recover, they will be a little bit above also below average throughout the day on monday and tuesday potentially also could be a decent day across the south. but all the time that high pressure is being eroded by this pressure towards the north. the north i think will see the wettest and the windiest weather at this stage but gradually as pressure lowers further south, it will become less settled. so, for next week at the moment, it is looking as if it starts relatively quiet with some early frost and fog issues but then that went and windy weather will return particularly to the north it looks at the moment drier in the south but stay tuned.

tonight at ten, the frantic search for a last—minute brexit deal on the eve of the eu summit in brussels. there's little hope of finalising a deal by midnight tonight, but officials are said to have agreed the basics of a new arrangement. the task for downing street is to persuade some prominent conservative brexit supporters to support the terms of a new deal. i have absolutely every confidence in the prime minister's intent. the big question is, with the clock ticking, will everybody choose to make a deal possible? i really hope they do. what are you waiting for, monsieur barnier? in brussels, the word is that a deal is within reach, but they're concerned that it might not get the support of mps at westminster.