he said that robert mueller's russia investigation is close to ioding. first time a justice atficial has said that, and whitaker is the highest-ranking official overseeing that probe. also tonight, roger stone, who was indicted last week by the special counsel, is now saying he may cooperate with the investigation. jeff pegues has more on this. th reporter: acting attorney general matt whitaker, the man who oversees the russia investigation, said today that he has been fully briefed on the probe and the end is in sight. >> the investigation is, i think, close to being completed, and i hope that we can get the report from director mueller as soon as possible. s reporter: the comments came just days after special counsel robert mueller charged roger stone, the president's friend of 40 years and former campaign esviser, with seven counts of lying, obstruction, and witness tampering. >> it's not a bad day. >> reporter: stone was confident today as he arrived in washington for his arraignment. >> the only stripes i look good in are pinstripes. i reporter: ove

further west, cloud around, where temperatures are holding up, 8—iod, but on the east coast it is a cooler6. through tonight, that weather front will push its way across of the high to the top, sandwiched in between these two fronts will be a lot of cloud. a milder day tomorrow but rather grey. some of the rain to the far north—west could be heavy in places, but generally speaking lighter and patchy across much of western scotland. highest values of 9-11 western scotland. highest values of 9—11 degrees. out of tuesday, that front will think steadily to threads and it will be quite important because pushing its way into the scottish borders, northern ireland, across the north of england, behind that we will see the wind swinging round to a northerly direction. during wednesday, we have that front sinking across england and wales. to the south and east, still in a cloudier and milder zone, temperatures in double digits. they may be some rain in the london area by the end of the day, but behind that noticeably cooler and cleaner. lots of sunshine coming through but we could see a scattering o

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iod, federal courts may have to cale back operations after january 18. we learned today, the man overseeing the russia evestigation is expected to leave the justice department in the coming weeks. with new details on this, here's paula reid. >> reporter: deputy attorney general rod rosenstein revealed he will step down once the president's attorney general nominee, william barr, is confirmed. rosenstein is a key player in the russia investigation, directly overseeing the work of special counsel robert mueller. since appointing mueller in may of 2017, he has been a target of the president's criticism. he even retweeted an image of rosenstein behind bars, suggesting he was a traitor. the white house insists rosenstein is not being fired. >> i don't think there's any willingness by the president or nte white house to push him out. ut reporter: barr told the white whuse he wanted his own deputy attorney general, but praised rosenstein during meetings with senators on capitol hill today. >> how do you assess the job that mr. rosenstein has done? >> excellent.

when the kids went back to school, we realized we were a few days away from missing an of, you know, iod being able to get paid. that's when it started to feel that's when you start to really clamp down on your family's decisions. you know, going out, not going out. can it wait to buy something? >> what are some of the financial stresses that come to mind as you start to think about how long this is going to because that's still t question mark? >> i'm going to have two kids in day care starting infebruary our infant will be going to day care in brry, and that's $800 a week or so. and that'soing to add up really quickly. nd your last day was the 21st or 22? >> it was that friday before christmas. >> how did that dou play >> we were just all working to get every holidays and before the suspected shutdown. >> at tret point we assuming it would be maybe a few days or something. >> thein motivation b today's gathering, what was it. >> this is called lwop, lunch without pay. >> hopefully leave without which is what we're doing right now. it was very nice to see everyoneveryone that's one of t

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iod ofintense per negotiation with the european union and the british government in terms of how thataged. to install anys hard border structure on the islands. the u.k. chancellor also in dollars. he told francine lacqua, the risk of a no deal brexit is very real. i know for business leaders, the deadline is only two months away. that seems awfully close. when the right political negotiations happen, we're still the phase where people are camped on their prefer outcome. too many people have not yet moved from their preferred outcome to an acceptable outcome that allows compromise. it's a process that will happen over the next days and weeks with people recognizing they cannot get their preferred outcome because there's a majority and we have to find a common ground that we can all live with an except which represents a sensible way forward for the country and protect the interest in living standards of the british people. anna: is there a greater than 50% chance we get a hard brexit? >> i want put a percentage on it. there is a risk and the risk is very real. equally, people on the o

it's montgomery, throughout this iod writes letters to his wife and he repeatedly talks about being homesick and how he is moral qualms against fighting the british army because he was a british officer for 15 years. he hears word that is all regimen is being applied to america and he writes something like "heaven save me from having to fight my old regiment." "i feel more closely to those people than anyone on earth." montgomery, horridly homesick, increasingly disillusioned with american troops advances to quebec city. he meets arnold outside of quebec and the americans lay siege to quebec. the americans have about 900 men. montgomery had about 300. montgomery left about 500 behind. he works his way down to quebec city. montgomery lays seized quebec for about a month. quebec is a walled city. american artillery is so light, the cannonballs bounce off. montgomery sends letters into the city telling them they should surrender. guy carleton sends the messages back unopened. montgomery faces a huge problem. on january 1, most of arnold's and willstment expires go home on january 1. so what ric

temperatures starting to rise overnight across scotland and northern ireland, tuesday morning, 9-iod.ain, breaking up the cloud. temperatures a smidgen higher, 8—10, possibly 11 degrees. through tuesday died, another weather front moving south and east, this time a cold front, ringing outbreaks of rain across scotland, northern ireland, pushing into england and wales. the air coming all the way from the arctic, you can track it acts in the north, turning much colder as we go through wednesday. here is wednesday, the rain as! wednesday. here is wednesday, the rain as i mentioned across northern parts of england and wales, the south—west, pushing the south and east. behind it sunny spells and showers, the showers turning wintry over higher ground, temperatures falling away, 4—6 to greece. holding onto some mild conditions in the south—east, some outbreaks of rain lasting into the afternoon. the cold air moving to all parts as we go through thursday into friday. temperatures 3—7d, possibly wintry showers on friday. goodbye. hello. it's10 o'clock. i'm victoria derbyshire. the prime minist

options does beijing have terms of negotiating a trade truce before that march deadline on tariffs iodires? lots more to come on trade and 2019 next on or "daybreak asia." this is bloomberg. asia." this is bloomberg. new york. haidi: apple is finger pointing as a na weakness comes delicate phase during the u.s.-china trade wars. apple's announcement could shift delicate balance. bloomberg news reporter joins us from hong kong. it's interesting. at it from many different perspectives, in terms of whether the weakness is negative impact on u.s. companies or whether it's kind of giving a little bit more trump camp in terms of how much it's weakening economy.ese >> no, you're entirely right. here is a little bit of everything, a ocala bit from column a and column b for everybody. apple's ok at it from side you spoke to a lot of they are esterday an ng a point, there is settlement of saturation. are waiting for the 5-g technology, to roll out. there is no hand, doubt that we all know china's economy and retail sales are slowing. the slowest growth in november since 2003. otwithstanding the