bob stewart, many thanks for sharing your memories there of lord paddy ashdown.lord paddy ashdown has died at the age of 77. we will have more throughout the evening on bbc news but now it is time for the weather. the day has been dry and bright for many. some showers around which will continue to fade but ahead of us for the day on sunday, looming masses of cloud, weather fronts bringing a different day for many. already as we approach midnight the cloud and rain is gathering in the south—west, towards northern ireland as well. little wind to drive it in, so we will have some fog in scotland and also some frost. temperatures above freezing with the onset of more cloud which will sit on hilltops tomorrow. some heavy rain for a time in the south and across northern areas, may be southern scotland before later clearing northern ireland and southern scotland but leaving cloud. the best sunshine in central and northern scotland. much milder under the gloomy skies and more rain further south. the outlook is more cloud for the next couple of days. there is more on the

but let's now listen to the thoughts of colonel bob stewart, the conservative mp — and who as commanderved in bosnia where he became a friend of lord ashdown. i first met paddy in 92, 93, when i was the un commander in bosnia and he was... i have to say, a great friend, when he turned up he convinced me to take him to the front line. i wasn't allowed to take anyone to the front line, only generals were meant to go to the front line but paddy somehow got me to do it. he said, i was a soldier, they'll be no problems. and i said, are not meant to take anyone of high rank to the front lines, he said, i'm going there today. and he said, well, i'll come with you. i said, but you're not meant to. in the end, he convinced me and i put him in the back of my armoured vehicle and we went. and i took him in and i took him and introduced line commanders there. and i took him in and i took him and introduced him to the front line commanders there. and it went well, he was clearly confident and at ease on the front lines. but on the way back, a great explosion occurred right in front of my vehicle, it

to be a negotiation chinese don't negotiate in a lopsided way >> all right bob hormats, thank you >>> still to come, jim stewartheck out the dollar this morning which is up 0.2% earlier. currently up around about that much against the yen but slightly weaker against the euro back in a couple minutes >>> welcome back to "squawk box. if the recent market selloff caught you by surprise, you may have missed the various red flags out there in the credit market michelle our guest host is still with us. on this point, clearly we haven't seen a spike of credit risks like 2008, but -- >> no, not like 2008 but that's an extreme. >> but there have been some signs people could have looked at >> we've seen a big selloff there. this is high risk loans into clos remember those they started selling off a couple of months ago there've been other signs besides the credit market. oil probably was sending us a signal there have been a number of things i would think bitcoin was sending us a signal. >> housing market is an interesting one though to me, it doesn't seem like a demand-led weakness. in other words -- >> lack of supply.

stewart who is a republican on the house intelligence committee. you heard a lot of outrageousness, in particular, lindsey graham and bob corker.y lindsey graham saying if secretary mattis and secretary pompeo who girlfriend the initial briefing on the jamal khashoggi murder which the white house is trying to minimize. he said if they were democrats, he would say he was in the pocket of saudi arabia. because he respects them, he will assume they are being good soldiers. >> we have must more information provided to the senators. sitting on the house intel committee -- >> he made it clear this was open source information. it's not like more came to light in the matter of a few days. >> i think that's a possibility. he doesn't know what others were provided. i can tell you -- >> that's key if he was not provided it by the defense secretary. >> here could be because there was nor information learned. last week the information we were provided by the agency was not definitive. i know the senator doesn't believe this, but if someone said secretary mattis or pompeo were dishonest, they just don't know the individuals. >> here does kno

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