lib dem member prepares to quit. i haven't had a chance to have a look. down before the next general election. he is 75 and says he wants to change party rule. there are he wants to change party rule. there a re lots of he wants to change party rule. there are lots of people who are saying interesting and also, why not? the answer i might give to why not is that his natural successor is his deputy, joe swenson. she will be the first female leader and they have had three, well, two recent leaders who had no hope. nick had his moment and then it all went horribly wrong. we have had two leaders who have failed to inspire and it feels to me that a female candidate has to be so much better to get a job so instead of thinking, hey, we have logical successoi’ of thinking, hey, we have logical successor who happens to be a woman but that is not the reason she should get the job but it is a bonus. they say oh, no, we have to look elsewhere. they say it might be gina miller. it is that's being of wanting her to be so much better.m many ways, she is more high profil

there are calls for facebook and twitter to be careful, after slamming what he called lib dems net resultsrump has called on google, instagram on facebook to be careful. the administration may look at some types of regulation to the president's complaints, north america technology reporter dave lee says google wasted little time in responding to the president's comment. google was pretty quick off the mark after the president's tweets early in the morning. google said ina tweets early in the morning. google said in a statement... there are many, many factors that go into what does appear in a google search, about 200 different things that can influence the ranking of various websites, but google, as i say, are pretty firm in saying that politics is not a part of that equation. north american technology reporter dave lee there. now, the 18th asian games under way in indonesia, where tens of thousands of people at tending events in jakarta. the southeast asian countries estimated to have spent over $2 million building up infrastructure for the event. indonesia stepped up to the plate after t

a lib dem mp is with us in the studio.cularly when online retailers offer free postage, online, particularly when online retailers offerfree postage, easier and cheaper, what do you think the issues are? clearly there is a trend where people are moving towards buying more online, that is without challenge, but i think there is also theissue challenge, but i think there is also the issue of economic uncertainty which the whole of the economy is affected by, principally the brexit issue, it affects the high street in the way it affects every other sector and the additional problem that comes with brexit is the government is focused, and all mp5 would agree on this, exclusively on dealing with brexit and therefore the ability it has got to focus on things like the high—street and the reforms in relation to business rates. we have supported the idea of land value tax, mentioned in the report as an alternative approach, but the capacity to government has got to bring forward those proposals, when it is focusing exclusively from

the verdict has a crucial victory to special counsel robert mueller as they question the lib dems mecy of his work. the mexican peso gained against the dollar as they move closer toward the consensus on how to forge a new nafta deal. progress is being made. there is no broader agreement on reshaping the agreement. in the trump administration stocks with mexico are seen as an important precursor to a three-way final pact with canada. said china's economy is no longer on pace to be larger than america. the comment is likely to stoke concerns in beijing that his administration wants to contain the asian nation's rise. dueomes as the minister is in washington today for the first significant trade talks between the two countries in more than two months. the u.s. tariffs on $16 billion of chinese imports is due to come into effect in china and expected to retaliate in kind. a powerful earthquake has hit northeast in caracas on controversial economic reforms. has as. geological survey ..3 tremor no injuries or major damage has been reported. a similarly powerful quake killed dozens of peopl

i can tell you that the conservatives, the lib dems voted for that, and labour abstained, but that iscause cuts can already be seen around this county, subsidised bus routes have gone, road maintenance has been clawed back, 21 libraries are under threat of closure. that was due to take place next month. but there is a review on that at the moment. people still fear that they could go. the brand—new headquarters at the council, which opened over a year ago, they have been sold off already, so the council could claw back some money. the vote about how money will be saved is currently taking place. the council have already said it is inevitable that there will be cuts to services, children's services, adult services, and that is causing major concern in this county. thank you very much for the update, jo black in northampton. a nine—year—old girl has died after suffering serious head injuries in a rock fall in north yorkshire. part of a cliff collapsed onto the beach at seaton garth in staithes yesterday where it's thought the girl was on holiday. part of the beach remains cordoned off a

let's speak now to norman lamb, lib dem mp and chairman of the science and techology committee.n from queen mary university london. sarah jakes from the new nicotine alliance, and dan marchant, who co—owns vape club, an online e—cigarette store. thank you all very much forjoining us. thank you all very much forjoining us. first, deal, norman lamb. it sounds as if you want to make it as easy as possible for people to vapour and to get it free on the nhs. we will certainly be doing more than we do know to enable people to give up smoking. remember this important fact. 79,000 people every yearin important fact. 79,000 people every year in england alone die from smoking—related diseases. and so the big public health goal is to encourage more people to give up smoking and therefore save lives. we know they bring is one way to achieve that and i think we should be doing more, especially people with mental ill—health with the smoking rates still remain stubbornly high at 40%. it is very worrying for me that one third of nhs mental health trusts have banned vaping from their premises. t

let's get the thoughts of tom brake — he's the lib dem's brexit spokeperson and joins us from westminsterwould be a disaster for the united kingdom and frankly there is not time to do all the corporation that business would be required to do four things to be in place for march 2000 and 19. what makes you said there is not time? what particularly caught your eye as an area of concern? one paper. the 84 businesses —— vat for businesses. having to establish relationships with 27 new countries because they all operate slightly differently with companies and exact countries outside the european union. that is one example. minister said that in relation to pharmaceuticals, that the uk would allow pharmaceuticals from the eu to come into the united kingdom and he hopes that the eu would be able to reciprocate. well, i'm not even sure that that would be legal for the i'm not even sure that that would be legalfor the eu to do i'm not even sure that that would be legal for the eu to do that but what they would have to do, brazil be, would be to go through a process of securing an agreement within