alastair and i both worked in downing street. you had a pretty good idea that the united states president had your back. he wasn't always going to agree with britain or france but you knew you were close allies and friends. the problem for any european leader is do you don't know what the response will be when you need america's help. that creates the uncertainty before the institutions dissent grate. >> we have to take a break. next, my panel will stay with me. i thought i was managing my moderate to severe crohn's disease. then i realized something was missing... me. my symptoms were keeping me from being there. so, i talked to my doctor and learned humira is for people who still have symptoms of crohn's disease after trying other medications. and the majority of people on humira saw significant symptom relief and many achieved remission in as little as 4 weeks. humira can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis. serious, sometimes fatal infections and cancers, including lymphoma, have happened; as have b

alastair: that was a pretty telling comment from the ceo there. really one of the most concerning parts of the e.u.'s ruling was this idea that in europe, google cannot basically force android makers to include google search and chrome, two important services in their handsets when they ship them to customers. theirelps google with mobile and. they can come up with some solution which means android will be distributed widely, and we have interpreted that as meaning they will still give it makers,e to handset which means android will be on the vast majority of smartphones around the world. they will have to come up with some solution as far as tying services like search to the android platform. excited.till to be android will be everywhere all over the world. that was maintained by the ceo today. >> i wonder -- they just seem like a steamroller. nothing needs to stop google right now. can they sustain revenue growth of more than 20% indefinitely? alastair: one of the interesting things from earlier this year was another e.u. regulatory hit was priv

england batsman alastair cook appears to be playing himself into form ahead of the test series againstn unbeaten century on the opening day of the england lions tour match with india a. it's not the strongest of bowling line—ups but cook plundered 154 not out at worcester, supported by half centuries from nick gubbins and fellow test batsman dawid malan. always nice to score runs, i spoke to said about playing this game because we haven't had much cricket in terms of the rubble stuff, so they would rather have a look at someone younger they would rather have a look at someone younger but i needed a chance to play a bit of red ball cricket. the open championship is three days away and players are already at carnoustie practising ahead of the third major of the year. tommy fleetwood is expected to be right up there after finishing second at last month's us open. stuart pollitt caught up with him earlier. tommy fleetwood is getting closer. that first major title could be about to drop. expectations are up. i do not feel any pressure from being up there. it is what it is but it's nice to h

alastair: they've spelled out a number of disagreements.the word go, we've had a position where they are saying that whatever happens, breaks it happen because the people voted for it. together.y will come the country did not come together. i've never seen it more divided. what we have seen in the last 48 that thethe reality parties are irreconcilable on this. there is no way of doing this without real damage to the economy. i think this will go back to the people at some stage. int happens, we are uncharted water. this determination to hit this deadline is part of what is driving this so badly. theresa may's strategy wasn't about the country, it was about holding the conservative party together. trevor: do you think the soft proposal, she has outflanked labor? she says we will stay in. alastair: they were on the radio this morning saying we should stay in the single market. i think both positions are fluid. i don't think there is an intellectual consistency to the position they brought forward. i think that will unravel. i think the labour

alastair hay, gordon corera, thank you.solicitor, former housing minister, a passionate advocate of brexit, appointed as the new brexit secretary in just the last couple of minutes, it gives you a sense of the fluidity this morning that we were still receiving the exchange of letters from downing street between steve baker, the junior letters from downing street between steve baker, thejunior minister left with david davis, and theresa may, the two of them resigning last night, as news broke that dominic raab would be the new brexit secretary. what a time for him to ta ke secretary. what a time for him to take thejob secretary. what a time for him to take the job as the countdown towards our exit from the european union reaches these final stages. all of those personal relationships so all of those personal relationships so central to the negotiation process , we so central to the negotiation process, we knew that david davis and michel barnier, the chief negotiator for the eu, and michel barnier, the chief negotiatorfor th

suggests this but there is absolutely no evidence that i am aware of that would support it at all alastair hay professor of environmental texaco toxicology at the university of leeds in the u.k. professor we appreciate your time and your insights tonight thank you. well for the german chancellor angela merkel there has been nothing easy about this week her government faced collapse and when her own interior minister threatened to defy her on migration policy it was only after emergency talks in which merkel gave in to the demands of bavarian conservatives that she was able to diffuse what could have been the biggest political explosion in her career and the problem still wasn't solved in the past few days as she had to face the leader of the third member of her coalition government the social democrats and she had to get them on board with tougher migration measures late on thursday the coalition reached an agreement ending any immediate threat to merrill's government laz if she didn't have enough headaches at home concerning migration today medical hosted the one european leader who has c

unicef spokesperson in cox's bazar alastair lawson—tancred joins us via webcam from cox's bazar.ps. well, we have had very heavy rain over the last week. on one day we had 350 millilitres in the refugee camp alone. this causes huge problems for the refugees because on one hand they have to face an intense flooding risk, and on the other they have to face the risk of landslides, so it does cause enormous disruption, but i'm pleased to say the rain has now abated, but that hasn't done anything really to mitigate concerned about the landslide danger, because the geologists here warned, although the landslides have stopped temporarily, the danger has not disappeared because the water seeps into the hills, the sand dunes where the refugees live in their camps, and the landslide danger is still very much there. what happens to those people? it's one thing evacuating people? it's one thing evacuating people from their homes, but if they are already in refugee camps, where do they go? the agencies here are trying to relocate those refugees in areas deemed susceptible to landslides to saf

. >> alastair sullivan says he was given only a few minutes to evacuate as his house was burning to the up important papers but not much else. >> it is pretty tragic. you try to grab things that you think are

alastair hay is professor of environmental toxicology at the university of leeds and has worked on chemicalhank you for being with us, as ever, on bbc news. we all thought novichok has gone away. it hasn't. it will surprise people it could persist in this way. yes, this is true for all nerve agents, there are a variety of them. some disappear more readily than others. some are deliberately designed to persist. novichok is one of the latter. it is one of the more persistent agents. it seems the police say they found some kind of container, what do you think that container is most likely to be? it will be relatively small. i suppose you could think of something that might hold nail varnish, for example. that sort of quantity would be, if it was fully feels, with novichok, it would be sufficient to kill hundreds of people. it is a small container easy to smuggle in. it would contain more than enough agent to do the poisoning that has happened. what kind of material would it likely be encased in or protected in? presumably you put it in there to only use it when you wa nt in there to only use i

. >> alastair sullivan says he was given only a few minutes to evacuate as his house was burning to the ground he was able to round up important papers but not much else. >> it is pretty tragic. you try to grab things that you think are important and things that you are not sure are important. >> you can see the power of this fire. the wheels, completely melted off this vehicle sitting in front of this burned-out home. here in the driveway, photos and mementos, memories of a better day. heavy and erratic winds pushed the fire from the rural outskirts to the city limits of running last evening forcing thousands to have to evacuate at a moments notice. evacuees got stuck in traffic. the highways were parking lots. >> everybody is panicking and going crazy and everybody is trying to leave. >> reporter: a new station had to abruptly end their fire coverage. >> it is now unsafe to be here. >> devastating, homes were exploding, cars were exploding. >> reporter: tom man ran into a burning neighborhood to help save the home of his friend. >> i saw an rv try to come out with all the evacuees, yo

i'm alastair cook here with the ninth episode of "i, claudius."> i was not allowed to watch it because it had nudity in it. i very much wanted to. >> rather than try to come up with a show that would run for years and years, it was this idea that, here is a limited story, we're going to tell it in x number of episodes, and let's just do this one self-contained thing. >> we all did things during the reign of my mad brother that we might not otherwise have done. >> it looks cheap. it was the script and the performances that mattered. in other words, it could be good for you, but it was fun at the same time. the miniseries was such a huge success for public television. abc was the network that hit gold with "rich man, poor man." >> how do you even tell a story that isn't controlled by the clock? characters that can grow and change and differ. >> i want to talk to you. >> about what? >> about making an honest man out of me. >> it's a subject i rarely discuss in the nude. >> what we saw in the '70s was big-event television, if it was done right and if

so that's where the benedict of "the benedict option" comes from, saint benedict as cited by alastair mcintyre. the option part comes from mcintyre saying that the turning point came when people chose to quit trying to maintain the roman order and instead committed themselves to creating resilient small committees within which the convictions could survive. hence, the option, the choice the face of all of us traditional christians and others committed to the western cultural tradition in this time of radical right mentation and cultural dissolution. do we believe that our energies are best used to try to shore up the imperium, so to speak? or should we instead try to create new ways of living for the sake of preserving not only our faith but the core values, the heritage, of western civilization? i may cultural and political pessimist as you will have gathered. i suspect the things are probably too far gone to be recovered within this order. i could be wrong. i could be wrong. i hope i'm wrong what i don't think i'm wrong. so i wrote "the benedict option" as a christian for christians

then alastair cook and captainjoe play for england.t man. i think this is a very specific scenario with adil. and strange circumstances where neither of the spinners who played in the test squad haven't played a huge amount of cricket. in that respect this is where the decision came from. in terms of county cricket, i don't think in any way it devalues it. i see county cricket as a really strong product which produces fantastic cricketers. thousands of tickets haven't been sold yet for the first day of the opening match. it's the first of five tests over six weeks, they have been crammed in, there's been criticism about the schedule as well, all done to accommodate india. there are around 6,000 tickets available for each of the first two days. now in red to be the international most capped women play at rochelle clark is retiring. she's played 137 matches in england, a phenomenal amount, and this has been over 15 yea rs. amount, and this has been over 15 years. she is now 37 so i think she's finally realised that if she wa nts to she's

well the test series with india is a couple of weeks away too, and alastair cook will be hoping for aion lizzie deignan is the big signing for a new women's world tour team — trek factory racing. she's not racing at present because she's pregnant, but the briton will leave her current squad boels—dolmans at the end of the season and says her new team don't see her as a risk whilst she's pregnant, they see her as an investment, and a valued athlete. more than £10 million is to be invested as pa rt more than £10 million is to be invested as part available see investment. the tournament, which is to be held in the uk is a huge opportunity to grow the sport. the money will focus on facilities, engaging with communities and encouraging innovation. that is all the spot for now. we will have a full round—up on sports day for you at 6:30pm. more now on the customs debate going on in the house of commons. it's understood the government will be accepting all four proposed amendments from tory brexiteers joining me now from our westminster studio is stephen dorrell, a former conservative mp and

joining us to remind us what the nerve agent is and how it might still pose a threat is alastair hay. a professor of toxicology at the university of leeds. how long does novichok hang around? we have no idea. there is no published information on this tour, nothing from the russians, the uk or the united states. we really have little idea about its persistence and the environment. some evidence suggests it would be persistent given the length of time it took to clear the systems of the skripals, but that's about as much as we know. the working assumption is that they we re the working assumption is that they were contaminated by the original batch. when the scientists look at this, is there a marker in what they have taken from this couple that would tell them whether or not it was the same batch? i think that is unlikely. that might been suggested but we did not know the full details of the actual traces that they looked at. the material used against the skripals was described as being very pure, suggesting there were very pure, suggesting there were very few other ingredients present

england opener alastair cook says he has sympathy for rashid who is involved in a country row. this match, despite, he has not played a first—class match in almost a year. he'll need a red bull contract next season if he is to continue his career. i can understand why it has caused a bit of fuss. i think we will does get on with it. you just have to get on with it. you just have to get on with it. you just have to get on with it. look at the positives and slightly different style of spinner. with a little bit of mystery to him. he is bawling really well. we should be excited about it. really what is happening in the outfield stuff, the role yorkshire stuff, we should be concentrating on the positive rather than the negative, and as i keep repeating, the circumstances we are. they have completed the signing of alexander from newcastle, the 20—year—old played for serbia at the world cup this summer. he scored 12 goals in 17 appearances last season. he now moves to craven cottage permanently for a fee of £22 million. meanwhile, manchester city says their new signing, it could be a

meanwhile, alastair cook warmed up for the test series later this summer with a century for the englandight will take place at wembley stadium on the 22nd of september. joshua says only a fool would underestimate what povetkin brings to the table. the world's best female cyclists race in la course later today, the one day event that runs alongside the men's tour de france. britain's lizzie deignan won't feature as she's expecting her first child. she has, though, signed for a new racing team for next season and said trek factory racing don't see her pregnancy as a risk but see her as an investment and a valued athlete. she is delighted. she thought that by getting pregnant it would shorten her career. it is actually going to lengthen it and she is thinking about the olympics. good on her. at what stage are the going to look at the open golf? you are just getting too excited and you won't be here on thursday. a little bit of buildup. you are getting excited about it. the papers today already interviewing the likes of rory mcilroy. he wants to do a bit of a novak djokovic. he was inspired

joining me now is professor alastair hay from the university of leeds, who is an an expert in environmentalthis couple have been exposed to was the same novichok that was used to attacked the skripals? that is the most probable explanation and until there is an alternative that is the best working hypothesis. that it is related to the same agent, it is the same agent. we heard in that report how potent it is but it is potent over a long period of time and it doesn't degrade. i don't know exactly what the rate of degradation is and there is now officially published data on this. we know the agent was very persistent in the skripals which is why they were unconscious for a long time. it is probably very persistent in the environment. nerve agents breakdown in the environment through contact with water or they evaporate. but some agents take a long time to degrade and they can la st long time to degrade and they can last for using the environment and this particular one may be very similarto this particular one may be very similar to one of those. it seems as if this couple may have gone to sa

alastair cook says he understands why the england selectors have made an exception in picking adil rashidood form, has seen the yorkshire leg spinner included in england's13—man squad. andy murray says it will be like "starting from scratch again" when he steps out on court in the first round of the washington 0pen. he faces mackenzie mcdonald in just his third tournament since having surgery injanuary. i will have more on those stories just after half past. see you then. voters in zimbabwe are going to the polls in the first—ever election which doesn't feature the name robert mugabe on the ballot paper. mr mugabe was ousted last year after almost four decades of controlling the country. he couldn't support his successor, emmerson mnangagwa of the ruling zanu—pf party, describing its leadership as "tormentors". 0ur correspondent shingai nyoka has sent this report from the capital, harare. zimbabwe is bracing itself for a new beginning. since independence from colonial rule in 1980, no election has carried such weight, so much expectation. many here rose in the cold hours before dawn, eage

alastair cook bowled out for 180 as he warms up in the test series.nd playing this golf course and greeting my chance to win. i try not to look any deeper than that. the one-day event that ru ns than that. the one-day event that runs beside the tour to france, she was a long way behind going into last kilometre but produced an amazing finish on the finish line. she won the most prestigious women‘s road race on sunday and no ads this title for a second straight year. last year it was super nice. i think that this was a race. it is unbelievable. i still thought i was second. to win like this, i know that i am in good shape, but... she is also very good cyclist. it was a really tough ride. rugby league news, winger ryan hall is to leave leeds rhinos at the end of the year leading the way for him to move to the australian team. it ends a 12 year spell at headingley, the director of rugby says he is disappointed to lose a player of that quality. the leicester tigers and england prop looks like he will be sidelined until the new year. she has undergone surg

perriror, former adviser to theresa may, she accompanied the prime minsiter to washington in 2017, and alastairnous at the moment. why? let's be clear, the election of donald trump created a vacancy for a leader of the free world and you could see that the day of the election and that is spilling out summit by summit. we build these institutions. nato, the g8, the g7, the un. with huge patients, sacrifice, and he is quite systematically undermining them. sacrifice, and he is quite systematically undermining themm he undermining them? absolutely. he is doing it deliberately. with what purpose? because ultimately it is the slogan, america first. he is a nationalist. i am the slogan, america first. he is a nationalist. lam halfway the slogan, america first. he is a nationalist. i am halfway through madeleine albright's book on fascism, and it makes you think he is heading in that direction in terms of his psychology and mentality. i think he has a real problem with women and he has a real problem with women and he has a real problem with women and he has a real problem with angela merkel. somebody

in valdez, the response plan at least in the immediate aftermath of the spill is carried out by alastairline companywhen there's a still , at the time the response was for i believe the first three days of the response effort so they are the ones who send out the boats and booms and cleanup equipment to clean up the mess and prevent it from spreading and after that first three days, the seller is supposed to take over management ofthe response and exxon did that after a relatively shorttime , was exxon running the spill . >> what the process of cleaning up oil? what has to be done and what are some of the challenges for an oil spill of that magnitude? >> it's oversimplified at it, there are two aspects of cleanup. one is containment, try not to let it spread any further than it has. the other is removal. and both are very difficult. we had a huge area that had spilled oil on it and some of the oil, a lot of the oil in most itself in the sand and gravel and plans and all that stuff so removal was very difficult. one of the responses to the spill was to use something called a dispersant an

meanwhile, alastair cook warmed up for the test series later this summer with a century for the englando do in the next game. we did itand we need to do in the next game. we did it and now we have momentum for the third one. the riders head to the mountains for the 10th stage of the tour de france later, after a rest day... team sky's geraint thomas is in good form ahead of the 158 kilometre climb. he trails leader greg van avermaet by just 43 seconds... that's all the sport for now. it was at the end of last year when every week, there seemed to be another mp accused of some form of harassment or inappropriate behaviour. it led to the resignation of two cabinet ministers. 0ther mps are still under investigation. there was anger at the accusations and westminster‘s failure to deal with them. we now have the government's proposals for how that system is going to change. a "working group" of politicians and unions has been looking at this for the last eight months. but their proposals have been criticised, as they won't cover any allegations made before june last year. so do the proposals

station in the antarctic, paul breen—turner is retired and currently sailing around gibraltar, and alastairlucky, video link. we have had technical difficulties but it‘s been really nice to watch with everyone. i've got to be honest, with that background, you could be in a library in rochdale. can you prove to us you are in antarctica? outside his window there is normally icebergs because it is winter now it is pitch black so it doesn‘t get light here. that doesn't prove anything. i know. what can i do? show me the pitch black for one more second. you see, it's completely dark out there. is there some file you can pull out that would prove you can pull out that would prove you are at the research station? you have a quick look while i talk to paul. and alistair. alistair is the owner of the victory pub in the falklands. hello. hello. can you prove you are in the falklands? yes, i know i am here. that'll do. how cani i know i am here. that'll do. how can i prove it? there you go. there is my money. thank you very much. that‘s great. how much is it buzzing in your pub? it's very quiet. it's o