and on newsnight, what isjohn bolton trying to tell his boss, president trump, about the deal with northorea? we are live from the korean peninsula and from a close ally of donald trump. good evening and welcome to bbc news. rail services on the east coast main line are to be brought back under public control until the year 2020. the current private operators, stagecoach and virgin, have been losing hundreds of millions of pounds, and they were accused of overbidding for the franchise and of misjudging the revenue potential of the business. the franchise is being ended five years early, and it is the third time that the line has been affected in this way. labour said the government's rail policies had been calamitous, and called for the entire network to be renationalised. our political editor laura kuenssberg has more details. ajourney, in many ways. 393 miles from edinburgh to london, and back into public hands. when it was, before, it worked. the private companies, the trains can be a bit of a nightmare. the trip that glides down the coast to northumberland, the line that has gone fro

and on newsnight, what isjohn bolton trying to tell his boss, president trump, about the deal with northrean peninsula and

isjohn bolton trying to warn his own boss to be a little bit more hardline when dealing with a roguete? we get the perspective of the white house, the state department and korea. what exactly is the technology they hope could solve the northern irish border question? we bring you the bluffers‘ guide to max fac. and this. why is american tv bent on cancelling all the best shows? we talk to tom ellis, the star of lucifer, live. good evening. all politics, they say, is personal. and the north korean leadership has just illustrated the point rather keenly. kim jong—un has warned they are now reconsidering their meeting with president trump next month, and pointed the finger in no unwavering terms at trump's national security advisor, john bolton. in a statement, they took aim at bolton, known for his hardline stance on foreign policy, and admitted they could not hide theirfeeling of repugnance towards him. at the heart of this fallout lies trump's insistence the korean peninsula must denuclearise. tonight, the us president has stayed uncharacteristically quiet. no furious tweets, but an