it's understood to be the first high court challenge against the dwp relating to childcare costs andf charities including save the children and gingerbread. nichola, hello, as well as carolin 0tt, a lawyerfor leigh day, the firm representing nichola, and victoria benson, the boss of the charity gingerbread, which supports single parents and is backing nichola's case. thank you for coming on the programme. let's just dig thank you for coming on the programme. let'sjust dig in to thank you for coming on the programme. let's just dig in to what is going on here, and first of all the broader question, you are a professional benefits adviser, somebody who understands, more than most of us about the benefit system yet you are taking the dwp to the high court. explain. well, ifi cannot fathom a way to make it work for me then i wonder how anybody else possibly can. that was the bottom line. you say you ended up in over £2000 worth of debt because of upfront childcare costs. talk is through that. the way universal credit works means that families on low incomes can get support for theirfrom

how do we dwp a western alternative to huawei? we believe that will be an o-rand network. we have to do more to shore up those competitors to huawei, and samsung. >> right now germany has a tough decision to make. huawei hard.ushing what's the message to germany? >> not only germany but the brits are making this decision as well. they have huawei equipment. i think most of their security apparatus realized it's not a good long-term solution to have your whole network dependent on a 100% on a pure chinese supplier and particularly a supplier like huawei that has m.ch close ties to the can we move this away from kind of a single stat, single providor to a more open base software-driven system? that's where orand will build a bridge to and the fact that our government would make that kind of down payment that i hope would spur other development from other western nations who don't want to rely on china. >> timetable, end of the year? >> my sense is this is the kind of legs that needs to pass sooner rather than later because until we have a plan not just coming out of america

stranded in wuhan who cannot get home and the benefits adviser on the single mum who is taking the dwpd that he was running for london mayor, we arejoined by drill minister. now time for a look at the weather forecast with carol. it's a cloudy start of the day and generally speaking it will remain fairly cloudy but we have not yet stepped out you will find its mild and through the day we will see temperatures in double figures but we also have rain and we have been watching patchy rain move from the south—west of england and it continues through day to push over towards the south—east with murky conditions and the rest of england and wales that is hanging onto the cloud with one or two showers and for northern ireland we could see showers as well but most of the showers as well but most of the showers will be across the north—west of scotland and some of them will merge and it is blustery where ever you are, particularly so with the exposure across the north and west and later the wind will pick up across the pennines and to the east of the pennines. temperatures in double figures more