this is bbc news with me, rebecca jones. headlines arejust this is bbc news with me, rebecca jones. the headlines are just gone half past nine... 80% of middle—aged people in england are overweight, don't exercise or drink too much, experts have warned. public health england says the medical system is facing a crisis because of unhealthy lifestyle. campaigners for an early brexit write to business leaders across europe to try to build support for a free trade agreement with the eu. nhs hospitals in england have made more than £120 million last year, a new report has found. nhs trusts have defended the charges, saying that the money goes back into patient care or maintaining car parks. russian officials have admitted — for the first time — the existence of a doping operation. the acting director general of russia's anti—doping agency told the new york times there was "institutional conspiracy" but no state involvement. somebody get this big walking carpet out of my way! friends and family of carrie fisher pay tribute to the s

and rebecca jones talks with the world's bestselling author, james patterson, later on meet the authorgood morning and welcome to bbc news. the russian foreign ministry has announced it intends to expel 31 american diplomats from its embassy in moscow and four from its consulate in st petersburg. the measure is in response to president obama's decision to kick out 35 diplomats because of allegations that russia interfered in the american presidential election. the kremlin denies trying to discredit hillary clinton during the campaign by publishing hacked emails. our correspondent laura bicker reports from washington. russia stands accused of trying to help donald trump become president. moscow had been warned but now it's being punished for interfering in us elections. america's top intelligence agencies believe a cyber attack on the e—mails of hillary clinton's closest aides was orchestrated by the highest levels of russian government. but mr trump has always questioned the evidence. once they hack, if you don't catch them in the act, you're not gonna catch them. you don't know if it

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this is bbc news with me, rebecca jones.ines at half past ten. 80% of middle—aged people in england are overweight, don't exercise or drink too much, experts have warned. public health england says the medical system is facing a crisis because of unhealthy lifestyle. campaigners for an early brexit write to business leaders across europe, to try to build support for a free trade agreement with the eu. for accidents involving up to 20 vehicles have taken place within a mile and a half stretch of the a40 in 0xfordshire and one person has died. south central ambulance service say there are multiple casualties and serious injuries. nhs hospitals in england have made more than £120 million last year from parking charges, a new report has found. nhs trusts have defended the charges, saying that the money goes back into patient care or maintaining car parks. now on bbc news, victoria derbyshire takes a look back at the exclusive interviews and films which have featured on her programme in 2016. this programme contains a description

he explained to my colleague rebecca jones what it is the group wants.sive unemployment rates that they have actually able to trade freely with the uk which is one of the biggest export markets. what responsibly had? the export markets. what responsibly had ? the letter export markets. what responsibly had? the letter has only recently been issued a fab christmas so we expect responses the new year. what sort of its sponsors are you expecting? -- responses. from discussions with european business communities we have a lot of sympathy particularly amongst businesses owned by individuals are private and medium—size businesses and so on. let‘s remember that next year that will actually be general collections in the netherlands and france and germany so it is a very good time for a business people to make their voices heard in those countries are naturally see, politicians, let‘s be sensible about this and let‘s have free trade. in britain we want free trade with the rest of the world so why not with the european union as well? plans to issue new building pe

hello, this is bbc news with me, rebecca jones.dshire 80% of middle—aged people in england are overweight, don‘t exercise or drink too much, experts have warned. public health england says the medical system is facing a crisis because of unhealthy lifestyles. a search is under way for missing crew members of a fishing boat that capsized in the english channel off the kent coast. nhs hospitals in england have made more than £120 million last year from parking charges, a new report has found. nhs trusts have defended the charges saying that the money goes back into patient care or maintaining car parks. campaigners for an early brexit write to business across europe to try to build support for a free trade agreement with the eu. now on bbc news, business live looks back at the big stories this year, and asks what we can expect in the coming twelve months. this is business live from bbc news. yes, as 2016 draws to a close, we are going to look back on a year which featured two events which will shape the global economy for decades to

rebecca jones talks to publishing superstarjames patterson, and james naughtie chats with fiction supremojoanne for his thrillers, but he has written science—fiction, young fiction and nonfiction. he has published over 140 books which are sold more than 350 million copies around the world. and he is also the most borrowed author at uk libraries. but that is not enough for him, he now wants an even bigger audience, by selling books to those who he thinks have abandoned reading. his solution is called the shots. —— book shops. welcome, james patterson. what book shops? hopefully, they are a revolution in reading and in the way we look at books. at the least they will be a revolution they are under 150 pages, relatively inexpensive and hopefully impossible to put down. it is like one of my regular books except at 145 pages, very tired. with the book shot, you can go to work, get on the train and you've read one, so you can accomplish something. so the slogan is all villanova thriller. —— all filler no thriller. there is no fact, just all story. hopefully you will have good characters. but it just

rebecca, mr. trump said that mr. jones was any kind of union boss he would have kept those jobs in indiana by reducing union deuce. so, if you make 50k here as a union guy you pay seven bucks a week in union dues that's roughly 28 bucks a month. >> right. >> so carol this is classic republican position that unions states where unions are active make it tougher for businesses to come into these states, and operate. obviously democrats would disagree with that position. but really what this highlights is that their underlying market forces at work here that donald trump is not addressing with this carrier deal. and unions maybe are a part of that but it's also taxes, and so part of the carrier deal was donald trump and mike pence approached carrier and assured them that they would be putting forth tax reform in this administration to make the climate easier for carrier to stay in the united states and that donald trump has promised renegotiating trade deals to make them more advantageous for american companies, and companies

jones in honolulu, thank you so much for that report. let's talk more about the transition from obama to president elect trump with our political team now. rebeccathis has been we've seen over the last two days just terrible stories where you have had the assassination of the russian ambassador to turkey. the killing of so many people by a truck attack in berlin christmas market. and donald trump won't say whether he received the traditional presidential briefing today. we know mike pence has. at a time like this, maybe there is an issue. >> well donald trump has defended his decision so far not to take it every day brianna. saying he's a smart guy. he doesn't a need the same information every day and he isn't president yet. so he might be right at this stage that he doesn't need it every single day. but the reason the presidential daily briefing is so important is that you don't necessarily need that information on the data you are given it. but if there is some sort of crisis that occurs or some sort of national emergency that you have to deal with and you don't have time in that moment to get up to speed on whatever is happening, whatever iss