ben vereen. hello, ben.frank: and the variety club orchestra, so lovingly conducted for many years by our dear friend, nelson riddle, tonight, under the direction of mr. nick perito. [applause] ♪ host: welcome to our "all-star party for dutch reagan." ♪ [inaudible] [laughter] frank: the music says it all, ladies and gentlemen. this is a lovely way to spend an evening. tonight marks a very special celebration for variety club. we started out by honoring the big duke, john wayne, and here we are honoring duke's pal, dutch. tonight we honor the only man from our community who ever wound up living in public housing. [laughter] frank: and for tonight's guests, i am happy to say, the rules of protocol have been relaxed. tonight, he is dutch. and if anyone can't handle that, you can call him mr. dutch. and that's ok. [laughter] frank: as for nancy, do as i do. call her beautiful. [applause] frank: by the way, dutch, you've got a lot of friends here tonight. some of the white house press corps, who will be served th

i'm ben croucher and these are your top stories.all—round performance from ben stokes propels england to victory in the second test against south africa. iamat i am at old trafford where there is increased security as united take on city in the first leg of the semifinal of the evil cup. —— efl. the commonwealth games are coming to birmingham in two years' time, but find out why two sports might be taking place thousands of miles away in delhi. also coming up in the programme: two years ago, victoria evans had never rowed before. now she's looking to cross the atlantic ocean on her own in record time. hello and welcome to sportsday, i'm ben croucher. welcome along. we'll start in cape town where it seems there are no end to ben stokes' talents. after that 2019 with the world cup final performance and his heroics at headingley, he turned in a true all round display in the second test against south africa to help england to a first test win at newlands since 1957. he followed five catches in the first innings with a quickfire 72 in th

and the bong for big ben brexit. bung a bob for big ben brexit bongs.gs. i don't think anyone has been able to get through that alliteration. even borisjohnson fluffed it. shall we do it together? bung a bob... bung a bob for the big ben brexit bong. see? this is painful! there is the prime minister. why don't theyjust play this on midnight? so it's basically not happening? let's hear the prime minister. it would cost £500,000, because... but we're working up a plan so that people can bung a bob for a bong, because there are some people who want to... bung a...? i haven't quite worked out. i love the fact that you're developing policy live on television. because as everybody knows, big ben is being refurbished, they seem to have taken the clapper away. so, we need to restore the clapper in order to bong big ben on brexit night. now, it turns out by my maths that it is 45 grand per bong, if it's half a million quid, and there's ii bongs, which is the time it will be on 31st in the evening when the uk leave the european union. but... but the appeal for a

also in this programme — the big ben brexit bong ding dong. me with regard to bunging a bob for big ben bongs, one shouldn't look gift horses in the mouth. all that to come and more from the palace of westminster, possibly the only palace where people aren't talking about you know who. this was a week when borisjohnson‘s brexit deal continued its journey through parliament with the house of lords subjecting the withdrawal agreement bill to line—by—line scrutiny. various concerns were aired but the key battles await another day. and, in the days to come, their lordships will start to vote on changes to the bill proposed by opposition peers. with no majority in the upper house, ministers do face defeat on some key issues — among them the question of what happens to unaccompanied migrant children in the eu who have relatives in the uk. should they be allowed automatically to join their families here? the withdrawal agreement bill waters down a previous government commitment. ministers say they would offer the protection but in different legislati

ok.: go ahead, ben.en: this is all in the context of a fed that is reevaluating its long-term framework. if these are a concern for the future, all the more reason to hedge against that and work in symmetry by targeting a slightly higher inflation rate. alix: billion set sour and romaine bostick, things a lot. and romainessower bostick, thanks a lot. ben mandel of jp morgan investment management is ticking with me. remember, gtv allows you to browse all of the charts we use under terminal. gtv . this is bloomberg. ♪ viviana: you are watching "bloomberg daybreak." 2019 the worst year ever for british retailers. brutal price pressure and shifts to e-commerce hitting holiday sales. all giving generally downbeat christmas sales updates. surging. iphone sales official data shows smartphone shipments grew in december almost 19% year on year. that marks a big jump from previous months. 11 inlease of the iphone september boosted sales. alix: thanks so much. let's stay on apple for a second. spending on

now, at this time sterling price and ben mcculloch are in a meeting. they are actually at the edward's property which sits right at the center of the battlefield on the west side of the creek. this is actually a modern image actually as i went to the battlefield recently that's the edward's cabin, it's not the original it's a reproduction -- not a reproduction but one that was built by the edward's family it's just not the original. this is where the state guard emp campment is. mcculloch will meet with -- what they don't know is that they are in an acoustic shadow and as we know what an acoustic shadow does you can't hear anything around you. i can attest to this. i was actually at the edward's property, my dad was just a few hundred feet away and he was apparently shouting to me when i was right there, right at the spot. i couldn't hear him at all. so you can imagine what it was like for ben mcculloch and sterling price. so they can't hear a thing but they begin to hear reports coming in from various messengers. to give you an idea this is what sterl

big ben chimes hello.ier throughout. some night—time frost is the other face of winter that we haven't seen much of so far this year. still a north—westerly ushering in showers to the north and north—east of scotland, but elsewhere, after a chilly start with frost for some, it is a dry, fine, crisp day. forget all about the double—figure temperatures, despite the sunshine, six, seven or eight will be your maximum. a widespread frost to get you into the first part of sunday. the one exception, the southerly breeze and the cloud, will keep things on the mild side. maybe a wee bit cloudier across the north and north—west of scotland. elsewhere it is another gloriously sunny day. again, those temperatures around 6—8. the southern half of the uk sees another frost on monday morning. watch out for some fog patches. another dry, bright day for many. welcome to bbc news, i'm simon pusey. our top stories: prosecutor turns defender: president trump adds ken starr, the man who sought bill clinton's impeachment, to hi

we have to talk about big ben brexit. big ben brexit bongs.alliteration. big ben brexit bongs. this is painful! so it's basically not happening. bongs cost £500,000. we are working up plans so people can bone up on because there are some people who want to succumb... i haven't quite worked out. because big ben is being refurbished, they seem big ben is being refurbished, they seem to have taken the trapper away so we seem to have taken the trapper away so we need to restore the clapper in order to bongs big ben on brexit night. it turns out it's 45 grand a bawling if it's half a million quid and then there's 11 bongs which is the time it will be on the 51st when the time it will be on the 51st when the uk leaves the eu. the appeal has gone. its reach stitch... very good! this is the people chipping in to make big ben bongs. but the government hasn't said, i got a little cool from where borisjohnson was and crucially, the house of commons authorities have said not only would it be one helluva effort to make the bongs, but they're not sure there

are in order to bong big ben on brexit night.f the way dan walker conducted that interview. others felt breakfast was not an appropriate outlet for this encounter. we asked bbc breakfast why they had invited boris johnson we asked bbc breakfast why they had invited borisjohnson onto the programme to be questioned by dan walker. they told us the interview was watched by 2.9 million people. wednesday's news at six lead with news of a significant clinical trial aimed atfinding news of a significant clinical trial aimed at finding treatments for motor neurone disease which they are currently no effective treatments, let alone a cure. i lost everything. ruth was an active runner and cyclist when she was diagnosed a little over two years ago. now the illness is not just little over two years ago. now the illness is notjust affecting her speech but also her ability to walk. but at edinburgh university, scientists are preparing to launch one of the biggest drug trials ever seen one of the biggest drug trials ever seenin one of the bigges

big ben chimes hello.y across wales, north—west england and the midlands. we have already seen some poor visibility in places through the first part of the night. another thing of note is that the pressure reading across parts of wales has exceeded 1050 millibars and is continuing to rise. that's the highest it's been since 1957. this area of high—pressure is the dominant feature in the week ahead, bringing a lot of dry weather. this frontal system will bring some outbreaks of rain into northern scotland later on monday. but we start monday, for many, cold, frosty, temperatures as low as —6 or —7 across parts of southern england. close to freezing for northern england, southern scotland and northern ireland. eight or nine for the far north of scotland. and for scotland and northern ireland, monday is a cloudy, breezy day. some of that cloud extending down into northern england and some of the mist and fog i spoke about could well be slow to clear. but there will be further spells of sunshine across a large

in london, as always, big ben was key to the event. big ben strikes the hour hello. year's eve was across northern and eastern england, parts of scotland we saw some spectacular sunsets to end the year and the decade. and this quieter theme continues through new year's eve underneath this area of high pressure. but notice that the isobars are closer together across northern ireland and scotland, so, a windier day here. and also, a cloudier day across the uk to start 2020. that cloud could be thick enough for the odd patch of drizzle. for most it's mainly dry through daylight hours with some brightness or sunshine across eastern counties of scotland, north—east england, perhaps north wales for a time and maybe into east anglia, too. light or gentle winds for most away from the western and northern isles of scotland, where the winds will be strengthening through the day, perhaps gusts of 40—50 miles an hour. still, quite a cool feel to the day across the uk, 5—9 celsius, the top temperature, perhaps 10—11 for northern scotland and south—west england. cloud cover stays

so we need to restore the clapper in order to bung a bob for a big ben bong big ben on brexit night.ave had a chance to see much reaction to the interview, borisjohnson chance to see much reaction to the interview, boris johnson has chance to see much reaction to the interview, borisjohnson has done this interview with the bbc when riot to the vote he declined to be interviewed by andrew neil? he declined to be interviewed by andrew neil and he also was not keen to appear on the today programme on radio four, he gave this wide—ranging interview to bbc brea kfast wide—ranging interview to bbc breakfast and he was asked about whether he is behaving like a submarine going beneath the surface. his justification was that he believes in cabinet government, in other words he is more of a chairman and chief executive, he is putting other people up front. he came into criticism for that in the immediate aftermath of the iran crisis when the foreign secretary and the defence secretary, not him, were talking to the public and parliament. he said he is more like a submarine breaking through the

in order to bong big ben for, on bricks at night.walker conducted the interview, e—mailing: but others felt breakfast was not an appropriate outlet for this encounter. sue williams wrote: we asked breakfast why they had invited mrjohnson onto the programme to be questioned by dan walker. they told us in response that: wednesday's news at six letter news ofa wednesday's news at six letter news of a significant clinical trial aimed atfinding of a significant clinical trial aimed at finding treatments for motor neuron disease for which there are currently no effective treatments, let alone a cure. the reporter here, health correspondent dominic hughes. hmm. one, two... ruth was an active runnerand hmm. one, two... ruth was an active runner and cyclist when she was diagnosed a little over two years ago. now, the illness is affecting not just her speech but ago. now, the illness is affecting notjust her speech but also her ability to walk. but at edinburgh university, scientists are preparing to launch one of the biggest mnd drug trials i

big ben bongs. he's trying to work out a way for people to contribute to the cost of big ben bonging on jan 31st. it costs half a million quid, he says. will you put in a quid? megan wills says, yes, where's the website? louie says, i can think of dozens more important and worthy causes that gladly benefit from 500k. big ben does not feed those who struggle, clean up our planet's c02 and neither does it help our already overstretched services. al says, i'd happily chip in. big ben must bong. stuart on twitter says, i think it's a bad move after all the division we have had. let me know what you think. use the hashtag #victorialive, email victoria@bbc.co.uk or text 61124 — it'll cost the standard network rate. we really want to hear from you if you have been the victim of a crime committed by somebody who was on probation. that is what we will talk about any few minutes. annita mcveigh will bring you that story the news. good morning, everyone. the prime minister has told bbc breakfast that the gover

here it is, big ben. here it is, big ben, yes, indeed.orary striking mechanism would have to be reinstalled, tested and then removed, as would the temporary flooring in the belfry. but the disruption to the wider refurbishment could send costs spiralling. parliament estimates it would be around £100,000 for each week of delay, hence a possible total bill of half a million pounds. do you think it is realistic, even if the money was raised, that it could be done? it‘s a possibility. it‘s a very short timescale to do it. the engineering would have to be in place to actually allow the bell hammer to strike big ben, the bell itself. there has been talk about having some electrical audible thing to put in place as a compromise and maybe that might happen, i don‘t know. obviously, it‘s a 50—50 split, some people want it to be struck and some people don‘t. what about 52—a8? laughs. we‘ll have to wait and see. for some, it would be money well spent. for others, an incomprehensible waste of cash and resources. even when it is silent, big ben still

our top stories: big ben strikes the hour london welcomes in the new decade to the chimes of big ben as thousands watch a spectacular fireworks display along the river thames. the us is sending reinforcements to help defend its embassy in baghdad, having repelled an attack by protesters angry about american air strikes. lebanon says it had no warning that the fugitive ex—nissan boss carlos ghosn was fleeing japan for beirut. australia calls in the army as bushfires push thousands of people to seek refuge on the coast. we'll be live with the latest from new south wales. hello and welcome to bbc news. new year celebrations are taking place around the world with many cities holding spectacular firework displays to welcome in the new decade. the first to welcome 2020 included the tiny pacific island of kiribati. the celebrations in sydney also went ahead despite calls for it to be cancelled due to australia's bushfire crisis. and tens of thousands of people gathered in london to watch the fireworks over the river thames. gareth barlow reports. crowd: five, four, three, two, one... big be

our correspondent ben is part of our team in davos and he joins me now from there ben the 1st lot of head of the official opening was that discussion we just saw a cut from there on the future. and 3 other activists young activists being part of that is this an attempt to pivot away for an. image of a blinkered global elite. it definitely is they want to be seen as green they've been doing a lot for him to see that these people's voices are heard and that these young people also get to have a say which is a great thing it's a question of whether or not these companies actually do listen and whether or not countries and governments and donald trump the most powerful man in the world the climate denier also listens to what they have to say the fact is climatologists i've spoken to that the world is in an emergency at the moment that way facing whether that is on steroids some of them say that it's a crazy situation and that polluters need to face reality and to pay up it's very different world that they're creating for us in a very dangerous $1.00 greenpeace has also said that it is cr

and staying in britain there's also a debate about the chimes of big ben and bricks.we begin in verona italy this beautiful city is where shakespeare is romeo and juliet fell in love but it has a dark side to it was one of miscellany strongholds in the 2nd world war and today neo fascists are thriving once again and door being walls with hate graffiti including swastikas so a plucky street artist that called chiba seeks the graffiti out paints over it with well pictures of food. the historic scenic 60 of the arena has a problem with me you not see graffiti it hasn't reached the picturesque old town but it is impossible to have a look in the left touristy parts of the city st john's is chivo is on a one man mission to cover it up. a lot out of this of it i'm going to paint over it with a sausage i don't serve sausages on the seats a. ti vo is the pseudonym as she at palo spinup say mean stewed in italian and food.

imagine ben stokes had seen everything in cricket? no. ben!t — yes! the winning wickets, stokes. whether it is a battle with the ball, i'm going to try to influence it for the team i've played for. everyone has thrown everything at south africa today and that has gone a long way to making sure we won the game. he is part of the team, he is the heart of the team. joe wilson, bbc news. that's all from me. now on bbc one, time for the news where you are. have a very good night. hello, you're watching sportsday on bbc news. i'm ben croucher, and these are your top stories. silva service for city as they storm ahead in their league cup semi final against rivals manchester united. if 2019 was ben stokes' year, he's started 2020 pretty well too, bowling england to victory in the second test against south africa. and we'll tell you why some of the sports at the commonwealth games in birmingham might actually be taking place in delhi. let's start at old trafford, then, where we were treated to a manchester derby in the semi final of the league cup. we

amanda: we have to leave it there, ben kovler.king news, harvey weinstein has been charged in a los angeles court with sex crimes related to the on the health of cannabis for long-term use. amanda: we have to leave it there, ben kovler. assault of two women in 2013. we knew that harvey weinstein was in court today. he has been charged related to those two women. we will stay on that story. bloomberg to you users, and hr that you missed, you can get using gtv . this is bloomberg. ♪ mark: i am mark crumpton with bloomberg's first word news. as we have reported, the associated press is reporting harvey weinstein has been charged with rate and sexual assault in los angeles. the news comes hours after thestein and several of women who accused him appeared in a new york city courthouse today. the judge and weinstein's lawyers had a final preparations for his trial on charges of rape and assault. they spent the morning dealing with procedural matters including how to keep publicity from influencing the jury. the judge denied a motion

it's and ben stokes.g these players coming to the fore and adding getting england towards big numbers that we got today. not a great day for south africa then. not helped either with news that broke at the start of play that kagiso rabada will miss the last test in johannesburg. he's been punished for his extravegant celebration ofjoe root‘s wicket yesterday — and combined with other transgretions from 2018 — will now see him sit out a test. here's what our correspondent jonathan agnew made of it. it isa it is a great shame but you have to say at the end players are responsible. if you toss up points speeding to disqualification, you have been speeding and likewise, i'm afraid kagiso ra bada's have been speeding and likewise, i'm afraid kagiso rabada's points, the actual offence that brought about the final point was only a minor one really. but he has built up the points up to then. i'm afraid if you are ina points up to then. i'm afraid if you are in a situation where you overstepped the mark once more,

‘ what happens now, ben?our voted to approve the seven impeachment managers, the prosecutors, as you said cover that nancy pelosi had recommended, it has also voted to approve sending those two articles of impeachment to the senate. what we are waiting for now isa senate. what we are waiting for now is a ceremony for those articles of impeachment are carried through the capital building from the house of representatives under capitol dome to the senate where there will be formally read out. it might drift into tomorrow morning. a bit of a wrangle about how the procedure should work. that's what will happen next. the chiefjustice john roberts will be summoned to come here, take an oath and start the process of swearing in senators. of course that will make up the jury in this. the trial itself will not begin until after the weekend and in the public holiday monday the expected on tuesday. ben is a very serious correspondent has serious issues that he raises their but there are odd to things about this impeachm

welcome back time can't even take for a broken big ben this question marks hang over boris johnson's attempt to get the bell ringing for brecht's it in 48 hours time breaking the silence there is author of architectural historian john cruickshank whose new book shanks london a portrait of a city in 13 walks tells us why we should fight for buildings he joins me now dan welcome back to going underground so you've been writing about london for getting on to half a century is that what i mean by now a portrayed of a city and walks have happened some time i just felt. i love london i want to tell papa that story. you have had your differences in the bus with the promise of r.'s johnson over or the development of your home area in london spittle filled area but arguably this book shows your own side when it comes to the importance of the identity of the palace of westminster and big ben barth johnson of course sees the big banners ringing out the it's not leaving the european union but leaving political responsibility in the european union or they were subject to regulations from i'm alar

for senior business editor ben facility is in davos and he joins me now ben trump versus dread is the way this has been sort of set up for a whole week now is there no middle ground there in davos between these 2 stark contrasts. there is a middle ground and uncle americal has been presenting exactly that unlike stephen minutiae the us treasury secretary who told young swedish act of his gratitude that she should go get a degree angle america was much more supportive in her speech to double c.s. today in saying that she understands the younger generation that they want to change the world but the transition is very important you can't leave people behind it would have been nice if seen a more inspiring speech from medical but as she's done throughout her chancellorship she has often sat back and let others do the debating and has then taken the middle ground waited for public opinion to form and then taken that line herself and maybe we didn't need an or inspiring speech because as european commission vice president. says it looks like trump is starting to engage on the topic of clima

the foundry that forged the big ben the bell that morris johnson wants to ring for the year. i have a son is to be shed will do a turn into a posh hotel yet it is such an emblematic story i mean it is a white chapel bell foundry in march is its. oldest or more wasn't until a couple years ago been continuous for operational business and if it were going concern told the family who do it inherited business in the early twenties entry they sold it that they had the right to do that that's fine majority sad but they brought that it was sold. but the local dismay because it was part and parcel of upright my identity watches london's great business going beautiful set of 1820 buildings local employment and it was a place known around the world people in philadelphia big big bens on it many important bell had been made a traditional liberty bell in the build up city for where the us constitution were forged and that at the simple idea was that. was it truly beyond saving as a business making bells and that's kind of that's the grassroots of the opposition people feel the best use fo

that is ben laidler. let's talk about the next steps for nafta. in an interview with tom keene, jonathan ferro, the canadian deputy prime minister said her country is optimistic about the future of transcontinental trade as it awaits a new nafta agreement. >> as you know, the u.s. has now ratified the new nafta, mexico did it before christmas. the top priority of our government -- we had an election in the fall. parliament is coming together. we will come back from the winter break on monday the 27th, and our governments priority as the prime minister announced you will be to move through with the new nafta legislation. we need to get this done. we are going to work very hard to do it. one very positive sign from my perspective is that, just this week, yesterday, the premieres of all the canadian provinces and territories came out with a public statement calling on all members of parliament to ratify the new nafta. that is significant because our premieres are a politically diverse group. some conservatives, they are ndp, liberal. the fact that th

the question is whether big ben will bong for brexit. time is up. ben will bong for brexit.bye! todayis today is a taster of what we can expect as we head through the coming week. it is wet and it is windy. we have seen strong winds and rain through northern ireland about here, it is going to be an improving story through the rest of the day. not only is it wet and windy but temperatures are above average for the time of year and that is because we are drawing up this mild air on strong south—westerly winds. the strongest of the winds in the warm sector. the winds for northern ireland and far north of scotland. to ease as this band of rain continues to clear south and east woods. still some heavy burst over the hills of cumbria and snowdonia. head of the rain, a lot of cloud but essentially dry. behind it, fresher conditions. widely for much of the uk we are looking at double digit temperatures. this evening and our band of rain continues its journey south and east woods. behind it the win start to ease a little, if you showwas will feed in and because temperatures will drop

ben? i think we lost ben rhodes. let me go to jeremy. >> yeah, i think the president has very few strategic options. if he doesn't retaliate, he in his own mind will look weak. if he does retaliate, he wants to escalate it. he's boxed his way in that i do not foresee. number one, there's an attack on a third site. there are reports of casualties at the al assad airbase, potentially iraqi casualties and there are also reports fighter jets have taken off from uae, el dafra and iranian are off. there is a military situation, precisely the situation i can lead to, conflict, if you sit with the president in a situation room right now and you put before him options will there be another one of these dangerous options like assassinate soleimani? my question is is the president going to have within reach the possibility to escalate this war? >> to jeremy's point, he can widen the president's options, not shrink the president's options. what they're putting together is a deescalatory response which could be a potential diplom

ben stokes, with three wickets, to help england win in cape town for the first time since 1957 and level four test series at 1—1. south africa looked to be frustrating england for much of the day with pieter malan batting for almost six hours in the second innings before he fell for 8h. quiton de kock resisted for 3h overs too before he clipped joe denly‘s part time leg spin to mid—wicket. zac crawley‘s juggling act gave ben stokes his second wicket in two balls and the allrounder kept running in — bowling at nearly 90 mph, and he grabbed the last wicket in the final hour. a huge boost for us going forward. test cricket has been a bit of a talking point recently in terms of how many days you can play for but today has shown what should be five days in the first two series is great for the game of cricket. we have a few days off to get our feet up and get our energy back up. hopefully we can go into the next game with confidence. and to think much of the build up to this test was questioning if test cricket should be reduced to four days. we'd have missed all of that for one. earlier, rya

he hasjust been named the beckoned. 100 it is for ben stokes. player. stokes, with a superb 120. england soon had another century on, 22—year—old 0llie pope, showing a composure way beyond his yea rs. showing a composure way beyond his years. the dream is complete. after reaching his first test 100, he also started to have some fun. the england camp loved it, south africa, not so much. pope later said he could not take the smile of his face after steering england to a hefty 499. south african batsmen had to climba mountain 499. south african batsmen had to climb a mountain and semester. don best struck twice. some start for him, some for england. let's get more on this now from for england batsman jonathan trott, who was particularly impressed with 0llie pope's maiden test century the thing that struck me and impressed me hugely, he didn't feel he had to play like ben stokes, he was very, very comfortable himself. he took the attack to the south africans but also, when you lose the momentum and then jos africans but also, when you lose the momen

here's ben rich. and drizzly weather for most of us. if you go to see some sunshine today. that's how we start the weekend. you can see this haze of grey, that is oui’ can see this haze of grey, that is our low cloud, out in the atlantic we have a stripe of bright white cloud, this will bring a change in the weather but only through the second half of the weekend. for the time being, we are stuck with all the cloud, the odd spot of drizzle, some more meaningful rain for a time across some parts of scotland. if you get some clear spells in southern england they do, it could be cold enough for a touch of frost. most be cold enough for a touch of frost. m ost pla ces be cold enough for a touch of frost. most places holding between four and seven sources. tomorrow, a lot of grey, cloudy weather with mist and hill fog. a few brighter spells elsewhere, but also brightening up across the north—east of scotland because the wind will be picking up, breaking the cloud to some extent. at the same time, some rain

and ben rhodes joins us.en, you've been tweeting up a storm on all these crises, but i really want to take them one at a time and flesh out some of your observations and sharp criticisms for our viewers. let's start with what happened in iraq and the president's conduct there. >> well, nicole, i think the important thing here is that the origin of what we are seeing in iraq is this confrontational approach he has taken to iran over the last couple of years. since pulling out of the iran nuclear agreement, what we've seen is a steadying racheting up of provocations from iran. they have resumed parts of their nuclear programs. they have attacked tankers that go through key shipping lanes in the region. they have obviously shot down a u.s. drone. and now what we seen in iraq is, in response to u.s. air strikes in that country that were not coordinated or even notified to the iraqi government, what i think the iranian government did was send a message to the united states that they can throw their weight around i

big ben strikes the hour midnight in london, big ben welcoming in the new decade, the iconic london eyerkling on the south bank. in france, saluts and salutations. parisians partied along the champs—elysees. the arc de triomphe triumphantly hailing 2020 had arrived. in dubai, the world's tallest building, the burj khalifa, was transformed into a tower of lights and pyrotechnics. it was a similar sight in taiwan as taipei 101 sparked into a kaleidoscope of lights against an inky night sky. as parts of australia are ablaze amid relentless wildfires, a political firestorm focused on sydney's display, but the fireworks did go off over the city's harbour bridge. bright lights amid dark days. the new year began in new zealand where 2020 is well and truly under way. next stop, the americas and then the challenge of sticking to new year's resolutions. gareth barlow, bbc news. asa as a wonderful fireworks display in rio continues, you can have a look at how the rest of the world has been celebrating the beginning of the new year. that is just on our website. there you can also see what the world

in sports, ben stokes leads england toa in sports, ben stokes leads england to a memorable victory inecretary, rebecca long bailey, has become the sixth candidate in the race to become the next labour leader. she said the party needed a proud socialist to succeed jeremy corbyn and stay true to his radical vision. she joins sir keir starmer, emily thornberry, clive lewis, lisa nandy and jess phillips in the contest. registered supporters — who are not full party members — will have 48 hours from 14—16 january to secure a vote by paying £25. the ballot will be open from 21st february to the 2nd of april, with the results announced two days later on the 4th. speaking earlier today, rebecca long bailey pitched herself all. manchester united have won it, and if invisibly or audibly supporting manchester city held r threatening p.m. jeremy corbyn had to suffered —— jeremy had suffered unprecedented levels of criticism and attack against his own personal character, and he was very resilient throughout. i supported jeremy. i still supportjeremy because i felt that he was the right man with th

you look at big ben. and the wall. you look at big ben.ent. and it seems completely illogical to me and many of my colleagues in the house of commons that you would not look to the most iconic timepiece in the world which is big ben. some people may argue that if what is important here is what is going to happen in the future, boris johnson's approach now and the government's approach now and the government's approach now is entirely right which is they will hold a special cabinet meeting in the north of england which is symbolic in itself because of the change that will happen, he will be making a special address to the nation in the evening, he is getting on with the business of what is going to happen next and that is really what isn't that what actually matters? it was the prime minister who called for this on the bbc. a few days ago, when he said people should bunk a buck for big ben to bong. i saw him play it! the prime minister called for this crowdfunding campaign and we responded to his call so you cannot on the one hand asked the

ben schwartz everybody.or nothing. >> the death of kobe bryant, next on nightline and exclusive america's getting sicker. sick of donald trump, there are one million more uninsured americans every year under trump. and he's repeatedly tried to repeal obamacare. mike bloomberg will make sure everyone without health coverage can get it, and everyone who likes theirs, keep it. while capping fees to lower costs. as mayor, he helped expand coverage to seven hundred thousand more people. and championed women's reproductive health. as president, he'll give access to everyone. i'm mike bloomberg and i approve this message. >> dicky: the jimmy kimmel live concert series is presented by mercedes-benz. the best or nothing. >> jimmy: thanks to magic johnson and ben schwartz, apologies to matt damon. nightline is next. but first here with the song forever valentine, charlie wilson. ♪ i don't need the 14th to show how much you mean to me the one thing ♪ ♪ that helps me keep my sanity you bring so much joy and energy ♪ ♪ w

ben croucher has all the sport.om ben stokes and a maiden century. 135 not out. england declared on 499—9. the england spinner was taking both wickets. still trailing. i think they were at medan and when he gave up, i didn't know what to do asa he gave up, i didn't know what to do as a celebration. get rid of a bit of energy. it was a pretty special moment and it was awesome to see the boysin moment and it was awesome to see the boys in the changing room and see how happy they were as well is something we really enjoying changing room. we enjoy each other‘s success changing room. we enjoy each other‘s su ccess ca n changing room. we enjoy each other‘s success can so that was pretty awesome. a great day for him. he him. he says he has not stopped smiling. the thoughts in ourjonathan trott. the thing that struck me and impressed me hugely what he didn't feel as if he had to play like ben stokes, he played like himself. he didn't had to add to it. he was very comfortable in himself. he let ben stokes be the aggressor a

ben stokes today, both scoring centuries. ben sto kes got today, both scoring centuries.all. he eventually fell for 120. it has been minimal inning for ollie pope, who has got his first century, just his six test match but looks like he has been in england ordered for yea rs like he has been in england ordered for years now. it is the first time since they have scored more than 400 ru ns since they have scored more than 400 runs ina since they have scored more than 400 runs in a test innings since the 2017 as series in australia. south africa are now eight without loss in reply. the south african bowler will miss the final test, he has been punished for the way he celebrated when he tookjoe root‘s wicket yesterday. the icc said it was too provocative, he has basically been banned because of a totting up process all previous incidents. plenty of people within the game say that the punishment is too hard. and the saracens have problems? they are being threatened with relegation from rugby unions premier league? big news coming out of saracens. they were given that 35 point

our senior business editor ben visit is on the scene there in davos and joins us now ben european commission president speaking today what she likely to focus on. for the line is expected to touch on trade ties and she's already struck cautiously optimistic tone in meeting with mr trump yesterday both of them cautiously optimistic from the line saying that she looks forward to working together with mr trump mr trump saying that she is a tough negotiator and that is bad news for the united states is locking horns with the e.u. in its own trade conflicts and is trying to head off the threat of cot tariffs or at least the e.u. would not like to see that it would hurt germany hard and the european union and trump is not ruling out katara she had. better as a mention earlier major focus of this year's economic forum is sustainability the trade off between business and the environment before we talk about that let's hear 2 contrasting views on the subject from a couple of prominent speakers on day one you say children shouldn't worry you say just leave this to us we will fix this we promise we won

this is bbc news with ben bland.orrow mornings papers in a moment — first, the headlines. the governement has agreed a rescue deal for flybe, one of the biggest regional airlines in europe, in order to keep the company operating. ministers say they'll review air passenger duty, and the news was welcomed by staff. absolutely ecstatic, yeah, i'm really happy, for myself, and my partner works for flybe so yeah, it's really, really good news for everybody. but the prospect of cutting air taxes on flying has angered some climate campaigners who say it is not consistent with the government strategy. cutting air passenger duty isjust going to make aviation relatively cheaper compared to other forms of transport. it is absolutely the opposite of what we need to be doing. the death of this teenage girl 17 years ago, features in a devastating review of child sex abuse in greater manchester. the report says many children were failed by the authorities, and many still are. i want to say that i'm personally disgusted that these c

senior business editor ben physical and ben as we heard in that piece businesses are under increasing pressure to focus on the public good are they especially being asked to do what governments won't and is that fair. basically in many cases that's how it is the thing is that technology is moving so fast and that this climate emergency is upon us. we can't wait for bureaucrats businesses are moving because customers are demanding it shareholders are too this is about the long term profit and many economists say it's not about balancing trying to get growth rights and preventing climate change it's the fact that being green and being environmentally friendly is going to pay off in the long run. not been china's green push is on the agenda at davos today how is the world's biggest polluter and 2nd largest economy balancing sustainability with growth. well the british economist lord nicholas stern pointed out that someone is going to win this green race and the most likely candidate of the market is china it's making so much progress it's moved from being just a production house to becom

and joining me live from davos is the senior business editor ben physical and ben good to see you before we talk about sustainability responsibility you know davos is always a venue for trade talks and of course we're expecting the e.u. commission head to give a special address today what are you watching today. well it will be interesting to see what also to fund a lie and outlines for the e.u. basically she's the commission's 1st female president and has met with u.s. president donald trump. both of the striking quite a cautiously optimistic tone underlined said she looks forward to working together with trump trump admitted she is a tough negotiator and said that would be tricky for the u.s. they're trying to strike a trade deal and trump says that is still on its way but has not ruled out that is something will his biggest bargaining chip basically but something that would really hurt germany and hits the european union hard right a lot of concern about that here in europe now ben let's step back to that piece that we just saw businesses facing increasing pressure to change their mod

or i do senior business editor ben facility is also in davos and he joins us live now ben it's good to see you a big day there with very with 2 very different voices opening the events. who are attendees more interested in hearing from predatory bird or donald trump. good question the little climate activist from sweden up against the billionaire i guess you could say and u.s. president donald trump who really does represent big business in so many ways so it's going to be i would say a clash of the titans is more like a david and goliath battle it could get quite ugly at times we will see the billionaires who are here and i'm sure will be very interested in hearing what mr trump has to say on the other hand. has got a lot of traction and a lot of interest here especially from the founder of the world economic forum klaus fobbed he's also echoed her rhetoric saying that the world is facing a climate emergency it's whether or not companies start realizing this or not but we did hear from blackrock just last week larry fink is here the c.e.o. who said that he's going to put sustainabilit

and we are back with wendy sherman and ben rhodes. wendy sherman, i just want to get your assessment of where you believe we are at this hour tonight. >> i think that we all hope that where we are is at opening for de-escalation of this extraordinary crisis, that we have pulled back from the brink. there is a space here for the diplomacy that ben spoke about earlier in the broadcast where the united states could find its way to having conversations, probably through a third-party first, and ultimately sitting down with iran. it is also a night where i hope when the president speaks tomorrow, he doesn't need to humiliate iran. i hope iran does not feel it needs to humiliate the united states. i thought foreign minister zari firks zarif's statement was standing down. we are taking a deep breath in hopes we have escaped a horrible moment, but finally, lawrence, a horrible moment that we never needed to get to. we only got here because the president of the united states in may of 2018 walked out of the iran nuclear deal, started on a path

will he make representations to the house of commons commission, whose decision this is, that big benrexit secretary gave a sympathetic response. earlier, an snp mp took a slightly different tack when he asked him for some clarity. can the government confirm whether or not it is going to request for the chiming of big ben to mark 11pm on the 31st ofjanuary? because this is not going to be a moment the celebration for many people across the uk, it's going to be a moment of considerable concern, not least my constituents who are a citizens of or nationals of the european union. and perhaps what we should be asking on that side of the house if they do want to hear the bells chime is for whom the bell will toll? well, i welcome this late conversion from the snp to celebrating our exit and having big ben chiming. as he will know, a decision as to whether big ben should bong or not is a question for the house authorities, and i won't dare to step into such terrain. but the wider point, as i think the mood of the house has demonstrated, is this is a historic moment and many members of the ho

ben stokes batting and guess what?the newly crowned world player of the year set about living up to his title. at the other end, he found solid support. ollie pope, only 22, playing with a composure beyond his years. but stokes was simply inspired. commentator: he's cracked that. and he's cracked that a long, long way. so far, in fact, it went clean out the ground. there it is, bouncing down the road. new balls please? well, not quite. as one intrepid fan finally retrieved it. stokes, though, was soon doing his best to lose it again. commentator: oh, it's a biggie. that took him to the double of 4,000 test runs and 100 wickets, the first englishman to do it since ian botham. and another landmark soon beckoned. 100 it is for ben stokes. not too much celebration but then again, brilliance for stokes is now almost business as usual. south africa did eventually snaffle him for a mere 120, although his glove—throwing frustration suggested he would have liked even more. without him, though, the runs kept coming. with sam cur