calvert whether the goal from the calvert tell my democrats whether they attempted to bring as it turned out the app failed in the result of the caucuses was delayed for two days so theyjust looked utterly ridiculous. at the same time, was also been lost in this is that trump want his own party caucuses by a very convincing margin so he's looking incredibly strong right now. you do wonder about the calculation by the democrats knowing they didn't. it's no surprise he was acquitted by the senate. i would argue in the end, it looks like he was acting above the wall. it looks like he was in the wrong and i think they were right to hold him to account because i think the bigger piece, this is why i have a lot of respect for romney because he was the only republican to vote against president trump and there is against president trump and there is a question between politics and party versus the country and trying

to uphold the democracy of institutions that are critical to the us democracy and i would argue hisjudgement was with the us democracy and i would argue his judgement was with his conscience. what worries me is trump is going to be in bold and so you can go ahead and do what you like and you can get away with it, he seems to be sticking. we don't know what's going to happen between now and the end of the year when the election actually happens and comes to fruition, but if it's a failure of these institutions, what does that say for the future of how congress is going to behave? if they didn't bring forward the evidence when they could have. it was already ina when they could have. it was already in a situation where you can get very little done because of the

bipartisan nature of proceedings. things get slow down in these cases and you often end up with violent culture wars that are waged across the two houses. but i think it is strongly emboldened, the most calculation was made by the democrats and i think that's a big ta ke democrats and i think that's a big take away from all of this. as much asi take away from all of this. as much as i agree that mick romney did an honourable thing and sacrificed his career honourable thing and sacrificed his career possibly because of, inches, it won't really dented president trump's given the economic success story that's been happening in the us at the same time. apoplectic trump vented over a decision to johnson. trump vented over a decision to johnson. is quite extraordinary. you can get up sense of how raging he was and how colourful the

conversation was. it sort of shined a spotlight on how difficult it is going to be to negotiate a trade deal with up —— it is america first, but at the other end you have a president that is very emotional, is very erratic, he takes things very personally and i think it's quite ha rd to personally and i think it's quite hard to look at the other side of the negotiation. it says further into the article that the us officials are privately voiced regret but the united states couldn't put forward an alternative to having mac to provide 56 for us. i think that's taking it a bit far. —— huawei. it would've cost a bit more money using a nokia for example or ericsson or something but they didn't go down that route. it expert

securities over the world, this goes further thanjust securities over the world, this goes further than just trump and his personality. he does have a tendency to take these personally and is just one of a number of areas in which britain seems to be moving in a different direction to america. our reaction to the iran crisis was much more aligned with europe and our decision to push ahead with the digital services. there's range of areas. social media scandal forces macmullen to quit. he was supposed to bea macmullen to quit. he was supposed to be a potential successor to nicola sturgeon. —— mackay. to be a potential successor to nicola sturgeon. -- mackay. this is the scale of it in scotland. at a massive story. for the snp, it

becomes a bad time because this week where they would hoped to unveil an optimistic vision for scottish independence. recent polls have been showing support for scottish independence as a result of the fallout from britain leaving the eu. instead, they been wrapped by yet another sex scandal. it does have that sense of decadent party that's becoming increasingly complacent. the snp are facing serious criticism for areas of default areas like the nhs. he did stand down. nicola sturgeon was very clear. it was unacceptable, it was the right thing to do. i think it's a blow because actually, she, momentum is with the snp. they came out with a case of

further independence and as strong as it's ever been. they're talking about the future of scotland and you have a prime minister that saying we just got to listen to the people of scotla nd just got to listen to the people of scotland and something like this for them is just problematic because it ta kes a them is just problematic because it takes a momentum away and comes off the back of other scandals. this is a bad moment but, nicola sturgeon is one of the best politicians in the country if not internationally so knowing there is someone who could whether it,... knowing there is someone who could whether it, . .. she knowing there is someone who could whether it,... she won't stick around forever it is not clear who her successors are now. let's not forget about the 16—year—old boy and his family. let's stay with the telegraph now. public has given up on police, says the watchdog. this refers to the failure to prosecute a high crimes like robberies and

thefts in the sense of the public, people are kinda reporting this, nothing has happened. for me, the things that sit underneath this is police service that is under huge amounts of pressure because we have had ten years in which they've been cut your out. in the end, the repercussions have kind of scaled down. things like low—level crime and actually high—level crime. the conviction rates are absolutely terrible. at some point if you want a police service that works and operates, you have to fund it. we are ‘s must be getting a lot of police officers back. this report shows even in the last few years the proportion of offences of assault has plummeted so it may well be the

case that uptake makes a difference but i agree that starting with the scale of the cuts, we have a justice syste m scale of the cuts, we have a justice system that is struggling to process. i think this change in priorities would be helpful because there's an awful lot of red tape that keeps it behind their desks and crimes that the public doesn't probably care about as much as they ca re probably care about as much as they care about thefts. he describes in this report the inspector described it as corrosive and i think that's right. if your first reaction with the police is one where nothing happens and you feel ignored, it doesn't lead to the social contract. final story for this review, this is aboutjimmy lejamil, the final story for this review, this is aboutjimmy le jamil, the actor who's going to be a judge on the dance programme in the united states. —— jameela.

dance programme in the united states. ——jameela. she doesn't dance programme in the united states. —— jameela. she doesn't have the dance background and as a consequence of that, she felt she had to disclose what her sexuality is. my heart goes out to her because she's had an awful time. she's arguing it's really sensitive, she was starting to signal that she was queer but she felt like she came out forcefully. people are now saying she made it up which seems com pletely she made it up which seems completely unfair. it's awful. her statement on twitter that she's now left for a while, she says "i was scared of the pain of being accused of bandwagon jumping over something

that caused me a lot of confusion and turmoil," so when she does disclose this, she is... we live in an age where we are obsessed with identity and it sometimes verges on the nasty. she still can have it all thrown back in her face and be marginalised. it's very much a story of our times. thank you very much for now. we will be back again at 11:30 p:m.. you can see all the front pages online on the bbc news website. if you miss the programme you can watch it later. on the eeg iplayer. it's time for the weather.

hello, we've got some very strong winds on the way. they will be strengthening over the days. by saturday, the winds will become stronger. the winds potentially reaching 60—70 mph, potentially reaching 60—70 mph, potentially disruptive winds but then on sunday worse is to come. disruptive winds and disruptive weather are on the way. over the next few hours, we got frost in place at the moment but weird starting to get to the breeze picking up across western areas later in the night which will lift temperatures. it will enough of the night being frost free, for many areas, it's a dry and sunny start to the day but in the west, we'll start to see that your cloud blowing in.

that will eventually bring patchy outbreaks of rain. the winds will pick up in western scotland, potential costs around 50—60 mph. —— gust. by dawn we'll start to see a few showers across northwestern areas and given the strong winds, be mild night compared to recent nights. then into the fun and games of the weekend, it's going be a windy day for sure. the strongest winds across the worst two north and west. a band of rain and some hail and snow for a time in scotland. probably staying dry with increasing winds as well. that's before we have this arrive. this is store ciara. it's one of those systems where we see the strong winds on the head of the cold front. and then another

area of strong winds tucking in to leave southern side of this area of low pressure so it's one of those systems where we will get multiple zones of strong winds. it will be windy everywhere on sunday, but the strong discuss could be 80 miles an hour and winds at strong are going to have impact. we are talking about a chance of having transport disruption on sunday but we may also see some powers cuts given some disruption on sunday but we may also see some powers cuts given some of those trees potentially being blown away. we will see some destruction through the weekend and especially on sunday as storm ciara comes in.

this is bbc news. the headlines at 11:00: a special investigation reveals a 17—year—old who pleaded guilty to the attempted murder of a six—year—old boy had want of his plans a year before carrying them out. it could be anything. push them offered. and they would die from falling 100 feet. the first person from the uk to date from coronavirus isa from the uk to date from coronavirus is a british national. scotland finance secretary resigns after sending messages to a 16—year—old boy on social media. this is