fill a thing from talking to me earlier. —— philip ingram. us government has come into effect after congress adjourned without reaching an agreement on a revised spending bill. president trump had demanded the legislation include 5.7 billion dollars for the mexican border wall — but with a threshold of 60% needed in the upper house — it failed to gain support in the senate. 0ur north america correspondent, david willis, explained what's likely to happen next. both houses of congress are set to reconvene in the morning at noon and they will presumably start all over again to try to find an agreement. white house representatives, including the incoming chief of staff, mick mulvaney, and the president's son—in—law, jared kushner, have been on capitol hill. they spent about five hours at congress throughout the day, basically shuttling backwards and forwards between senate, republicans and democrats, trying to get beyond this impasse, but with both sides fairly entrenched it's looking increasingly unlikely there will be some sort of solution to t

we can speak to philip ingram, a former british army intelligence 0fficer, whojoins us.e ask you about the events we saw over the last couple of days, we re saw over the last couple of days, were you surprised at how quickly the drone activity could bring the airport to a standstill? no, i am not. the airport authorities have w011 not. the airport authorities have won responsibility and that is passenger safety. as soon as any threat get into the airport area they have to stop operations if they believe an aircraft can be endangered. those operations to mitigate the effect is search for the drones and identify those responsible, is their technology that will allow that to happen, or is it in that will allow that to happen, or is itina that will allow that to happen, or is it in a sense, trying to shut the sta ble is it in a sense, trying to shut the stable door after the horse has bolted in this case? it is a bit of both, all airports have procedures in place if there is a drone incident. the threat of a drone hitting an aircraft or causing damage or worse, to an aircraf

philip ingram is a former british army intelligence 0fficer.ount — despite all the chaos it's caused. the airport authorities have got one responsibility and that's passenger safety. so as soon as any threat gets into the airport area, they have two stop operations of the believes that aircraft can be endangered. and in terms of those operations to try and mitigate the effects to search for the drones, to identify those who may have been responsible, is there technology that will allow that to happen, or is it, in a sense, trying to shut the stable door after the horse has bolted in this case? it's a bit of both. all the airports have got procedures in place if there is a drone incident. and the principal threat is of a drone hitting an aircraft and causing damage or worse to an aircraft. and our airports are tested monthly with drones flying into controlled airspace and the procedures work infinding them. this was unprecedented. this was a deliberate attack to try and disrupt and it did disrupt air traffic in and out of gatwick. so you say it