and a newsnight, the emergency cabinet today agreed on the need to ta ke cabinet today agreed on the need to take action over the use of chemical weapons in syria. but are we any the wiser about what that might be, and when it might come? good evening and welcome to bbc news. there have been mixed signals from the us today as donald trump appeared to take a step back from military action in syria. his defence secretary, jim mattis, called for more evidence on the chemical weapon attack, and tonight the white house says no final decision has been made on a military assault. france's president macron said that france had proof it was the syrian government which carried out the chemical attack near damascus at the weekend, and syria has said independent inspectors are due to arrive in the affected area over the next day or two. here, theresa may held a cabinet meeting to discuss possible military action. more on that in a moment. first, here is our north america editorjon sopel. weapons locked and loaded, sailors ready for action, this us carrier battle group left its home port in norfo

host: so bring us to the president's cabinet. caller: i am bringing it to the cabinet.he president needs that cabinet. so does his wife. the headrots from down. the president has a lot of baggage and so does his wife. the media has been very fair to them. they are not talking about them personally, and i do not think jeff sessions was never all of five to be in that job. he was one of the first people allowed in the fbi. hasld trump's whole cabinet done a lot of things that were wrong. they have lives to the fbi, and lied to the congress. out people, like the doctor trying to get confirmed now, the doctor stood there yesterday and said no, nobody ever investigated me. that is not true. navyttorney general of the investigated him. the story comes out five minutes later that this happened in 2012, 2015. he is not being fair, he is not being fair to himself. host: john in oxford, maryland. go ahead. but morning i think trump has been poorly picking people -- good morning. i think trump has been poorly picking people for his staff because you cannot have foreign people and

amber rudd was a powerful remain voice in the cabinet.ure on the upset that balance and put a very senior figure on the backbenches who was on that side of the argument. and the second very important factor here is, while amber rudd was in place at the home office, she was answering the mistakes that were made over the windrush generation and this recent confusion over immigration, but who was in charge before the home office, before amber rudd took up her position? well, the prime minister, herself, of course, theresa may. labour has suggested in recent days amber rudd was protecting her as a human shield. that was denied by the government, but now amber rudd has gone from thatjob, it may be that opposition parties try to point to criticism over this whole issue more pointedly at the prime minister herself. on the line is anne mcelvoy from the economist. what is your take on the evening's events ? what is your take on the evening's events? well, i think this is the outcome that nobody wanted in the government. certainly not amber rudd, w

the cabinet, which met this afternoon, asa cabinet, which met this afternoon, as a difficult decision which met this afternoon, as a difficult decision to makem isa as a difficult decision to makem is a very delicate circumstance and we have to make this judgment on very careful, very deliberate, very well thought through bases, knowing exactly what we're trying to achieve and exactly what we're trying to achieve a nd exa ctly exactly what we're trying to achieve and exactly how strong the evidence is. jeremy corbyn is again and exactly how strong the evidence is. jeremy corbyn is again warning of the dangers of military action. more bombing, more killing, more war will not save life. it will take more lives and spawn the war. seven yea rs of more lives and spawn the war. seven years of war in syria and its many layers of conflict have caused catastrophic damage. there are no good options for western involvement and the stakes are very high. our chief political correspondent, vicki young, is in westminster. that cabinet meeting seems to be still going on? it has been more than an hour

a cabinet statement after a cabinet that was short on actual facts?ously worded, but it includes this crucial sentence, cabinet agreed it was vital the use of chemical weapons did not go unchallenged. that means the cabinet have given theresa may the green light to launch military action if that is what is agreed with donald trump and emmanuel macron. we are told that the discussions are going to be a genuinely collaborative effort, but one minister did say that we are essentially waiting to hear what donald trump is going to decide. why did they decide this? well, the first thing is that there is a fear that there has been a steady erosion of what is described as the taboo over chemical weapons and a line must be drawn. and there was very, very strong support in the international community for the uk over salisbury. the uk cannot stand alone. but the thinking is that they have a very difficult course to navigate. on the one hand, if there is military action, it must deter future use of chemical weapons. on the other hand, it mustn't escalate. that me

and secretary of the department of homeland security, the two cabinet officials charged with enforcing session 1373 to utilize legal authority to enforce the statute. including authority to place conditions on grants with compliance with the law 1373, it does not rewrite the law, it does not instruct justice or dhs to engage in unconstitutional activity. the executive order does just the opposite. at every turn the order states the order shall be implemented consistent with law and the atty. gen. has reconfirmed in court and directive to the department. the district court aired in three fundamental respects. the first is the district court enjoying the order before any action was taken under it a directive to two cabinet officials to use their discretion to impose grant locations where appropriate. none of that happened. because none of it happened, but court should view this as a facial challenge to the executive order. there is no as applied conduct to review the appropriate standard as a facial challenge and whatever unconstitutional application of the statute one might dream up his

after the cabinet meeting, you mentioned the cabinet meeting, you mentioned the precautionary voices military action, will some of the voices sit around the cabinet table for the conservatives?m of the voices sit around the cabinet table for the conservatives? it is fascinating, the brexit secretary david davis voted against military action last time around. he has taken to twitter today and is saying that he has changed his mind. the point he is making is that he needs to see the evidence of what has happened, but he also needs to see the idea of this wider strategy. that is where that conversation around the cabinet table is likely to go. so many politicians in our parliament think back to iraq, i think back to libya as well. some of them think that military action doesn't solve anything on its own. you need a wider plan, and they take those two examples of ones where it hasn't really worked. this time around, that is what they will look for. what does donald trump mean when he says there is a big price to pay for russia, but the syria as well? does he mean a wider, prolonged kind

the cabinet which meets this afternoon has a difficult decision to make.very, very delicate circumstance, and we've got to make this judgment on very careful, very deliberate, very well thought through basis, knowing exactly what we're trying to achieve, and exactly how strong the evidence is. and jeremy corbyn is again warning of the dangers of military action. more bombing, more killing, more war will not save life, it'lljust take more lives. and spawn a war elsewhere. this survey, donald trump warned russia yesterday, to be ready, that nice, new american missiles were coming. this morning came this, "never said when an attack on syria would take place. could be very soon or not soon at all." this syrian war and its many layers of conflict have caused catastrophic damage. there are no good options for western involvement, but fateful decisions are now to be made, and the stakes are very high. caroline hawley, bbc news. in a moment, we'll speak to our correspondent martin patience in beirut but first vicki young who's in westminster. in the run—up to the

emergency cabinet today agreed on the need to take action over the use of chemical weapons in syria buty the wiser what that action will be and when it might come? then there is the danger of conflict with russia. join me now on bbc two. here on bbc one, it's time for the news where you are. good night. i come to sportsday. the headlines tonight: arsenal built to reach the final four. tonight: arsenal built to reach the finalfour. —— tonight: arsenal built to reach the final four. —— arsenal 200 metres gold is taken away at the commonwealth games. and watch out, age eight. tyson fury says he's back to claim what the former world heavyweight champion announces his return to the boxing ring. to come back from where i was, obese, 28 stone, to looking fantastic again, it isa stone, to looking fantastic again, it is a fiddle and ready to fight, that's a big achievement in itself. hello again. thanks forjoining us on sportsday. arsene wenger admitted... two late goals meant arsenal or not another victim of a late comeback in european football this week. they made the semifinals of the europa

the statement stresses that every cabinet minister spoke and made a contribution and in the cabinet agreedt stumbled, the prime minister sums up the view of the room. if you don't agree then you walk out the door. nobody has, so everybody at least is accepting her judgement. but in terms of the practicalities of this, where the president to delay, as he has hinted he might or might not and this drags on for several days, would it be rather awkward for the prime minister because parliament is back on monday, would been the pressure increase were her to actually go to parliament and tell it what is going on before any action takes place? almost undoubtedly. i think the reason for the assertion that we have coming from sources within the government yesterday that the prime minister might act about going to parliament first. was the sense of urgency, this need for swift action and for the prime minister to keep in step with the us and france on this. if there is a time delay in any response to this attack in syria, then of course parliament is sitting again on monday. we are currently in reces

germany's chancellor angela merkel has gathered her cabinet today for its first close meeting to set the government's priorities for the next four years the today were treated taking place outside of berlin in the state abundant blog and some of the most pressing issues on the table include drafting a new budget performing germany's refugee policy and minimizing the damage to the country's auto industry in the wake of the diesel emission scandal. and let's bring in our chief political editor michelle accrue for she's covering the cabinet meeting for us hi michelle so this is a two day close to a treat outside of berlin why is that what is the chancellor hoping to achieve here . well in this and she's trying to achieve actually a team in the cabinet that has seen the first four weeks of its new existence with a lot of infighting particularly between the c.s.u. ministers that conservatives are very insistent part of angela merkel c.d.u. party horsy a war for the new interior minister striking a more aggressive tone in terms of migration here in germany particularly on the issue of fami

there is something called cabinet government.r cabinet ministers are responsible to the department. you cannot expect the prime minister have a detailed responsibility right across the border of government. i think diane abbott is really pushing her lib dem. theresa may was the home secretary to put it into place —— pushing her lead there. putting in that theresa may was not home secretary. we are on the ball tonight. let us look at the government reaction. an interesting one from michael gove. very fulsome in his praise and heavy she comes back soon. he is terribly polite. all his ministry colleagues these days. isn't it remarkable? he is very polite to everybody. he is generally very polite, except to boris one time. it is interesting that there is quite a lot of warmth towards amber rudd from conservatives. that does suggest she could come back if nothing else goes wrong. even people on the other side of the fence on brexit. exactly. it ina of the fence on brexit. exactly. it in a sense in one year brexit will be less of a div

there's members of his own cabinet that believe the same thing. secretary mattis counseled him to come to congress for us. so i queried about it and i asked if there is any attack launched against the united states and he said no. i asked if there is a threat of imminent attack and he said no. i then asked what was the authorization that allow the president to take action. his art his answer was article to authority. it's a blanket answer for anyone who doesn't have an answer. i will cement the obama administration occasionally relied on this as well. i tried to give him a way out. i said can you identify one limiting factor on this broad claim of article to authority. he could not. he couldn't articulate one definable restraint on article to military authority. it speaks to what i believe is in the administration being booed that the president has unlimited authority to begin military operations overseas. why couldn't the president launch an attack against north korea without coming to congress in the way that john has recommended in some of his

amber rudd was a powerful remain voice inside the cabinet.es who was on that side of the argument. and the second very important factor here is while amber rudd was in place at the home 0ffice, she was answering for the m ista kes 0ffice, she was answering for the mistakes that were made over the windrush generation and this recent confusion over immigration, but who was in charge there before at the home office before amber rudd took up home office before amber rudd took up her position there? the prime minister herself of course, theresa may. now labour has suggested in recent days that amber rudd was somehow protecting her as a human shield. that, of course, was denied by the government, but now amber rudd has gone from thatjob, it may well be that the opposition parties try to point the criticism over this whole issue more pointedly at the prime minister herself will stop prime minister herself will ok, many thanks forth. that prime minister herself will is it. it's now time for the news where you are. and last half hour downing street ha

it does not make reference to other cabinet officials. there is a concern here that medicaid money would be an issue or transportation funds. but there's no mention of those agencies in section 9a itself. it is really not fair to read that section as threatening other than the grants administered by doj and dhs. >> why do you care if there is an injunction against the actions that you are disavowing? >> two responses. the first is why would they seek injunction when there's no harm to them? and what was the harm that would flow to the plaintiff that did not establish any concrete irreparable harm. so they should of never know injunction to begin with. on the reverse side anytime executive axis i think the government will claim harm for that because of the injunction were then forced to go back to court to clarify what is the injunction covered and did not cover. the section 9a allows a secretary of homeland security to designate sanctuary jurisdictions.that has been an injury to dhs critters harm that flows from the executive order. reall

now let's move on to another cabinet minister.davis, threat to quit. apparently he is on the brake of resigning, friends say that he is extremely frustrated over the prime mr‘s plans to start a deal with the eu over a customs partnership. the customs union we are leaving at and she says what goes in its place has become a focal point for the brexit discussions. david davis is known for throwing his toys around and he resigned in 2008 on a so—called point of principle. he said he was going to resign over the whole gaming green scandal and did not. i suspect this is positioning with brexiteers and i do doubt he will leave. it is attention seeking and that it leave. it is attention seeking and thatitis leave. it is attention seeking and that it is in only one paper this is something that has not been rumbling for a while and i believe this was put out in a flash of madness in a way and just dumb tear in the daily express. i am way and just dumb tear in the daily express. lam not way and just dumb tear in the daily express. i am not s

the cabinet debated this issue at considerable length. it is reported in great detail in the newspapers and stanton, along with black, form the do not give in block of the buchanan cabinet. stanton reportedly told buchanan to his face that if he gave up fort sumter he would go down in american history with benedict arnold, another man who gave up another fort. he was not a man to mince words. his service in the buchanan cabinet is basically arguing buchanan out of things buchanan is thinking of doing and pushing buchanan. we forget that before the firingts that led to the on fort sumter, there was the star of the west, and which buchanan tried to get arms into fort sumter and stanton was in favor of that. buchanan's spine is the short version of stanton service during the three months he serves as attorney general for buchanan. ofu refer to stanton's use military tribunals to try, convict, and execute the conspirators which happened in less than three months. was there ever a public outcry andthe use of a civil court any involvement in th

so no obvious problem with cabinet approval.ion to prevent another chemical attack and, remember, the military need clearjustification for offensive operations, but parliament is having to wait, maybe till after the bombing. the labour leader believes he speaks for people who want peace and a bigger role for parliament. more bombing, more killing, more war, will not save life. we elect members of parliament, they should have a voice in this. the cabinet on its own should not be making this decision. ministers agreed to confront and deter chemical weapons along with allies. no details were given. mps in all parties argued for and against action and many wanted parliament to have its say first. you always need parliamentary approval if you're planning the use of significant military force for policy reasons. we're a modern parliamentary democracy. we know about the consequences of intervening. syria stands as a test case about the consequences of not intervening. i'm not convinced that a retaliation that has been suggested by wash

if his cabinet and this is a type hypothetical, if the cabinet were to come in sake mrl security risk here and you have to act, i think then the president would be allowed to follow that advice. i would also suggest it be difficult for that to satisfy the scrutiny given that israel happens to be one of our closest allies in the war against terrorism. i think you could satisfy that melissa truly were based on a cabinet level recommendation about national security. >> this is an out-of-the-box kind of president and my hypothetical. >> and he things thurgood diplomatic reasons. and who knows what the future holds. there might be reasons to put pressure on israel and this is a way to better our diplomatic hand. who knows what his heart of hearts is. the question is not what his heart of hearts is, what are reasonable observers to think given this context in which this hypothetical president is making anti-semitic comments. >> it's a tough hypothetical but that's why think it's an easy case. were willing to assume that you consider all of the statements i think it's wrong that there's some

and germany's new cabinet member stand shoulder to shoulder or do that there is discord in the ranks of ministers gather to reset their priorities. are brought in thomas a warm welcome to the show the head of facebook one of the world's most powerful companies has been answering questions before a hearing of u.s. senators mark zuckerberg was called to that hearing after revelations that millions of facebook users had their private data used by the political consulting firm cambridge analytical facebook is now under fire for its lack of privacy protections . it was the social network versus the u.s. congress facebook's mark zuckerberg one of the world's youngest c.e.o.'s testifying before one of america's oldest senates almost half of the u.s. senate took part in a hearing that lasted more than five hours zuckerberg who was not sworn in under oath began his first ever congressional appearance with an apology we didn't take a broad enough view of our responsibility and that was a big mistake and it was my mistake and i'm sorry i started facebook i run it and i'm responsible for what ha

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>> as stanton came into lincoln's cabinet he was a war democrat. did he ever actually changes political affiliation to that of a republican as he continued to support lincoln? walter: no. he lived here in the district of columbia, where one cannot vote for president in political lines. he lived here in the district of columbia, where one cannot vote fo3r president and political lines. he was not a registered democrat because that concept did not exist. i think if you had asked him in 1864, when he spends a great deal of time on the lincoln reelection campaign, are you still democrat, he would say yes. i'm a union loving democrat like andrew johnson, like thousands of other union loving democrats and i would support the union party. lincoln's second presidential campaign was not run as a "republican," it was run as a union party candidate. this would've been stanton's answer in the election of 1868, when he campaigned for grant against the democratic nominee, if he had been asked are you still democrat, he would've said i still believe those things

amber rudd was a powerful remain voice in the department, cabinet and her departure will upset the balance and put a seniorfigure on her departure will upset the balance and put a senior figure on the backbenches who was on that side of the argument. the second very important factor here is while amber rudd was in place at the home office she was answering for the mistakes that were made over the windrush generation and this recent confusion of immigration. but who was in charge at the home office before amber rudd took up her position there? the prime minister herself, of course, theresa may. labour has suggested in recent days that amber rudd was somehow protecting her as a human shield, which was denied by the government but now amber rudd has gone from thatjob it may well be that the opposition parties try to point the criticism over this whole issue more pointedly at the prime minister herself. that is laura kuenssberg, our political editor. i'm joined again byjohn rentoul of the independent, chief political commentator and ruth lea, who is an economist and former civil servant, so in

military action a very significant cabinet meeting in london today with overwhelming cabinet support for a british role in this military intervention so i don't expect that iraq is going to weigh heavily in terms of political decision making no may i mean i think if you're a drug dealer but i think. it is quite an important point to make the british cabinet decision was that there should be a response there was no mention of a military response. you know i think that you know when we're talking about a response to syria's action were overwhelmingly talking about a military response i think that's very very clear there isn't any other response i think that can be effective against the likes of anything else would be seen as absolute weakness which is why i think the position taken by the german government a very isolationist position i have to say on this matter is very disappointing. i think that if you know prepared to act militarily against brutal tyrants using chemical weapons murdering children you know we are absolutely without moral clarity if we cannot take action against thes

may has summoned her cabinet to decide how to respond to the suspected chemical weapons attack what do you expect to come out of that meeting well actually the meeting is ended now we lost more than two hours which is an indicator of the seriousness of the issues on the table and we in the last few minutes we just had a statement from downing street in which it says the cabinet agreed that it was highly likely the regime was responsible for the chemical attacks it said that the cabinet agreed all the need to deter the further use of chemical weapons and that it confirmed that tourism a would as it really continue to work with allies to coordinate an international response so it's quite a tough statement but it's not a clear indication of precisely what is going to unfold or what went on full glare next few hours or days so nothing mentioned about us military action because that would be a tough sell at the moment time i would imagine. indeed there is no clear indication that britain will join military action on one month's a sat once assessment has to be that if the united states and i

it doesn't make any reference to other cabinet officials. so there was a concern here that medicaid money would be at issue or transportation funds. but there's no mention of those agencies in section 9-a of itself. it's not fair to read that section as threatening funds other than the grants administered by d.o.j. and d.h.s. >> why do you care if there's an injunction against the actions that you're disavowing? mr. readler: two responses. the first is why did the plaintiff seek an injunction where there was no harm to them? what was the harm that was going to flow to the plaintiffs? they didn't establish any concrete or irreparable harm. there should have been no injunction to begin with. reverse for. that any time an action is enjoined, the government would claim harm from. that because of the injunction we're forced to go back to court to clarify what it is that the injunction covered and didn't cover. the section 9-a allows the secretary of homeland security to designate sanctuary jurisdictions. that has been enjoined. that's an injury t

there might be more cabinet shuffling. he's pretty happy with his cabinet right now. one thing you have to understand about trump he doesn't see this turnover as chaos as the media keeps describing it. he sees -- >> that's the word too. >> absolutely. he sees his agenda as being slow walked. he was very frustrated with the omnibus spending bill. he didn't get a lot of his agenda through. he's frustrated with some of his cabinet members impeding in his way of thinking what he wants to get done quickly. when he got rid of rex tillerson, mcmaster, shulkin he sees that as a way to get on with his agenda. >> not much is going to get done with congress the remaining of this year. >> certainly not. it's interesting to hear alex talk about success and governor christie to say this is with a should have happened in the first place. governor, with deep respect you ran a mature transition process, that was thrown out the window, but there were some adults that managed to get in the room. now it's turned into romper room. when you say he has people who are consistent with his vie

with that, the cabinet meeting will begin. we will be discussing a lot of different elements of what is going on. the country is doing very well. we have created 3 million jobs since the election. we have 700,000 jobs in the last number of months. the numbers are starting to come out from companies, corporations are doing incredibly well. it is very solid. our country is on solid footing. china, do a deal with which probably we will, if we don't they will have to pay high taxes to do business with our country. it is a possibility. if we do a deal with china, if during the course of the negotiation, they want to hit the farmers because they think wouldn't say i that is nice, but our requirements are great patriots. that they ared doing this for the country. we will make it up to them. and the end, they will be much stronger than they are right now. don't forget, farmers have been trending downward over an eight year. in some cases significantly. between nafta, china, and all the things we're doing, we will make them much better

even predating his tenure donlt trump's cabinet. so i think trump is reluctant on sub stan active grounds to fire him. re-he ahao has contemporary streak in him. a few weeks ago when it wasrt re that h.r. mcmaster was out. donald trump was alrean planning firing him but he didn't like the "washington post"li rev that before he was ready to do it. he still did b it he didn't want to do it right away. are we looking at a situation where programs the coverage of this and burginening struggles around pruitt have extended his li by a few additional days or does trump not wa to get rid of him there were not one but two storn s today, onee "new york times" and one in the "wall street journal" saying that white house chief of staff john kelly had urged president trump to dump pruitt and trump was still res. to me that seemed like really undercutting john kelly so maybe his is the one whose job is -- job is on the lin robert: everyone says they're job isn trouble when you're in the white house. >> i think scott pruitt is quite sleeping well.

to me, a cabinet officer should do that. he did not even unequivocally state that he would publicly urge the president not to fire mr. mueller. so that wasn't good enough. but i thought i owed again mr. pompeo a direct discussion because he is a talented man and the president does deserve the benefit of the doubt. so i called him into my office for one private meeting, one final meeting. i asked him pointly whether he'd be able to simply say publicly that the president should fire special counsel mueller before we voted on him. i asked him what he would do if the president fired the special counsel from mr. rosenstein. his answers were extremely insufficient. i also canned asked him if he would be willing to recant or undo some of what he said will request muslims and lgbtq and women's rights now that he was in line to be our secretary of state and had to deal with countries that might be affected by his remarks, again he demurrayed -- du -- demured. i concluded that a vote against mr. pompeo's nomination was the right thing

and it's not just the cabinets. he helped us pick out all of our appliances, our back splash, our countertops, even the floors. we have this beautiful caesar stone countertop, it's called rugged concrete. and we have some really nice cement tile from the cement tile shop that have a nice terrazzo finish. all right, lavette. i would like to take credit, but really, paul and his guys have been just killing it. he really made it all come together. and i think it was really important that even though we didn't knock down walls, to make it feel like one cohesive space. reveal, it's the reveal. let's reveal the couch. couch reveal. both: ta da! oh, that looks comfy. hey paul, i need your muscles. one, two, three, seven. whoa. you all right? that's me, i was pressing. ok, more, more, more, more, more that-- good. done. i had some pillows made by calico. they're the same fabric that's on the window treatment in the kitchen. i love the little pops of colours, and i also love what we have going on with the tile, with the back

for cabinet positions.i don't think that mike pompeo really understands the importance of the separation of powers between the congress and the executive when it comes to warmaking. i don't think that this is a secretary of state who's going to walk in to a room when big decision been made on foreign-policy and argue the diplomacy portfolio. and by virtue of his long-standing association with groups that argued values antithetical to a diverse america, arguing that muslims have no place in this country, i don't think that he passes the test when it comes to a secretary of state who doesn't have an association with president that would disqualify him from being an effective advocate for us in parts of the world that practice face different than ours. so for those reason i'm going to be voting no on mike pompeo's nomination. while at the same time as i said at the outset i acknowledge that there are arguments for his nomination, and at the same time i will hope that my fears are -- i hope if he gets confirmat

does he believe he is fit to be a member of his cabinet? one reason this is different than the other cabinet secretaries, scott pruitt has a lot of support because of what he's doing at the e.p.a., much different than the v.a. or the department of, you know, health and human services with tom price, on and on and on. this case is different. >> okay. so i'm glad you laid that out. listen, i have a long list of infractions from pruitt, molly. >> sure. >> i'll read some of them. i'm wondering why there is not on file. he rented a room for $50 a night from the wife of a prominent lobbyists, pricey plane tickets, a family trip to disneyland, trying to secure big pay raises for aides which he says he didn't know about. then today we learn that pruitt's security detail was asked to use lights and sirens had when traveling through d.c. plus, reporting that several epa officials were side lined or demoted when they raised concerns about pruitt. again, i can only imagine if this happened under any other administration, why isn't this a five alarm fir

as you also, the president let a cabinet meeting this morning. in recent weeks, we have continued combating this issue on all fronts and by making the opioid raises the primary focus of the cabinet meeting, he is once again showing is one of his top priorities. there is a long road ahead and much work to be done. we will not rest until streets are safe. as the president noted yesterday , and again today during the cabinet meeting, the chemical weapons attack by syrian regime is horrifying. the images, especially of suffering children have shocked the conscience of the civilized world. these actions are consistent with assad's pattern of chemical use. they're already responsible for previous attacks. the president has noted that russia and iran there responsibility since they would not be possible without material support. it is also clear that russia has betrayed its obligation. the president, his national security team are consulting closely with allies and partners to determine the appropriate response. as president trump clearly stated, there

a cabinet meeting has been called this afternoon?eet. many people are saying this is the us on the brink, that missiles are coming from the united states. the front page of the guardian, more on those tweets. the concern is that given russia's involvement, any military action could unwittingly involve direct strikes on the russians and they have already said publicly that they would in turn launch missiles to bring down missiles, the war of words. also, this story. if you go to bed too late, it is not good deal of help. some people don't have much choice. a lot of retail team in the papers this morning. you may not know the company itself shop direct, it has said it will close a big warehouse in greater manchester. thelma down to the east midlands. it will result in about 2000 job losses. they said they going to open its new factory in the east midlands. a lot of robots doing the work that has been done by people but they said frankly the connections from the east midlands are better at doing stuff. the numberof are better at doing s

also a lengthy cabinet meeting but earlier tonight three doesn't shed much light on london's course of action on syria the british prime minister did stress the need to coordinate with allies the german chancellor gives a firm no to military strikes against damascus. with the decision even to. my. own. other headlines tonight you case foreign secretary no doubt quote. confirms the substance used in the attack but. not confirming russia was the source of the. saudi arabia's crown prince mohammed wins over the french president in his whirlwind tour of europe with president across now asking critics of the saudi air to chart. out international life for moscow with me kevin i just had midnight you know thanks for joining us from sporting starting with this then the u.s. defense secretary james mattis said america has the right to preemptively strike the syrian government in order to defend its troops it comes after he admitted there's no clear evidence that chemical weapons were used in the city of tomorrow saturday an alleged attack that triggered calls for intervention against assad's fo

cabinet colleagues rally round home secretary amber rudd. office targets for deporting illegal immigrants. and in sport: liverpool were held to a goalless draw by stoke city, who remain in the relegation zone, three points adrift of safety with just two games of the season remaining. liverpool failed to score at anfield in the league for the first time in nine games. in the scottish premiership, hamilton academical beat bottom—of—the table ross county 2—0, as they aim to stay in the top flight. ferrari's sebastian vettel will be on pole for tomorrow's azerbaijan grand prix, with lewis hamilton's mercedes starting in second plcae. i'll be back with more on those stories. details are noble stories on the bbc sport website. donald trump has praised yesterday's meeting between the leaders of north and south korea. in a tweet, the us president wrote... our correspondent rupert wingfield—hayes, who's in seoul, said the summit has been also welcomed by the south korean media. given those extraordinary scenes at the summit yesterday, it is no surpri

may facing cabinet revolt.net and brussels trying to fudge the issue of the customs union. we won't be in the customs union, it won't be in the customs union, it won't be in a customs union, but we will be in a customs partnership so we can have tariff free trade with the eu, but we would collect the ta riffs the eu, but we would collect the tariffs on goods that coming to the uk. basically, it's a very complicated. you could call it a customised customs union. i'm surprised no 1's done that yet. behar brexiteers think it will not work and they think it's a way to get closer to a softer brexit, a customs union with the eu when the government has explicitly said it will not do that. there are up calls to sack the chief brexit negotiator oliver robins. there are great quotes in this. when prime ministers start following the advice unelected advisers, trouble follows. this is our hatred of experts and distrust of officials all over again, but if you have a brexit negotiator, they have to have the trust of the peop

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and germany's new cabinet members standing shoulder to shoulder but today there's discord in the ranks as chancellor backhoes ministers gather to resume their priority comes. last remembering germany's public enemy number one really does was a student protest leader in the one nine hundred sixty s. and one opposed for west germany most famous political figures it has been fifteen years since an assassination attempt on his life. brian thomas a very warm welcome to the show the head of facebook one of the world's most powerful. but he's has been answering questions before a hearing of u.s. senators mark zuckerberg was cold to that hearing after revelations that millions of facebook users had their private data used by the political consulting firm cambridge analytical facebook is now under fire for its lack of privacy protections it was the social network versus the u.s. congress facebook's mark zuckerberg one of the world's youngest c.e.o.'s testifying before one of america's oldest senates almost half of the u.s. senate took part in a hearing that lasted more than five hours zuckerber

i suspect if any cabinet member was given that order, the cabinet member will refuse to comply or resign in the face of a plainly unconstitutional order. that is the initial check. secondly if you have a extreme scenario where all that down, then if the president actually did make that statement, i want to keep up a particular race or particular religion no matter the, that would undermine legitimacy of action, even under the mandel standard. here you don't have anything like that coming of the doing its job through the agencies were they asked agencies to construct and the plight this neutral standard to every country in the world, including every muslim country in the world. they conclude that the vast majority of the world, including the muslim world, was just fine, but there were problems with a small number of countries, and so imposed pressure, recommended pressure to -- >> the problem is i don't see that material was reviewed by the judges below, by the ninth circuit or the fourth circuit judges. i thought the government had kept confidential and refused to share, either with the

attacks in recent days the british prime minister trees may has received the green light from her cabinet to work with the u.s. and france to coordinate an international response carrier and land based french jets would likely play a central role in any strike against syria coordinated by nato allies the u.s. britain and france. for the french president emmanuel mccaw he could just be a question of when mccaw insists he has proof the acid regime used chemical weapons against its own citizens in the town of duma and he says france wants to remove syria's chemical weapons capabilities. france will not allow an escalation or anything that could damage the stability of the region but we cannot let regimes do anything they want especially not crimes against international law. on the streets of paris opinion is divided on whether france should take part in any strike on syria. what the syrian dictator is inflicting on his people is frightening as far as france is concerned an intervention is legitimate and he wants. the russians should say clearly to assad now you must stop and you should get o

trump's most effective cabinet secretary. he started rolling back more than two dozen obama era environmental regulations, include plg obama's signature emission standard and clean power plants. he also successfully advocated for the president to pull out of the paris climate accord. >> trevor: it is amazing how the only thing you need for trump to consider you effective is to just hit delete on anything obama did i wouldn't be shocked if the next cabinet official is just a headey pebble on a keyboard, that is all it is going to be. basically this whole scandal trump is like folks, i i know scott pruitt is superdirty but thanks to his hard work unprotecting the environment, soon we will all be every bit as dirty as he is. we'll be right back. some things should never change. like the crisp, cold refreshment of busch. but some things should... like tim's impatience. (can opening) (bear growls) play deader, tim. buschhhhhhhh. we're almost there. stall. my video call's she's colagging. mom? surprise! surprise! hold up. hold up.