sarah jane: the risk isn't as big as you might think. as the banking sector, for example. payment services rely to a lesser extent on the passporting regime. in the event of a hard brexit, they would not struggle so much to access the eu single market. the u.k. could also join up with a single payment market which would facilitate access to clients in the rest of the eu. nejra: what about attracting talent? sarah jane: i don't think will be much of a problem in the u.k. because the industry is highly digitalized and remote working is perfectly feasible. is perfectly feasible. it must also be membered that european nationals already resident in the u.k. will probably be allowed to stay. also, the government has found -- has vowed it will be increasing in special tech visas from 1000 to 2000 in order to lure tech talent into the u.k. it is making big steps. nejra: do we know when we might hear back on this inquiry? is there a date yet? ed: they did not announce timings on that. we don't know when the hearings will commence. nejra: given wh

sarah jane: the risk isn't as big as you might think. not as they as the banking sector, for example. payment services rely to a lesser extent on the passporting regime. in the event of a hard brexit, they would not struggle so much to access the eu single market. this would facilitate access to clients in the rest of the eu. nejra: what about attracting talent? sarah jane: i don't think will be much of a problem in the u.k. because the industry is highly digitalized and remote working is feasible. european nationals already resident in the u.k. will probably be allowed to stay. the government has found it will be increasing in special tech visas from 1000 to 2000 in order to lure tech talent into the u.k. it's taking a big step. nejra: when might we hear back on this inquiry? is there a date yet? ed: they did not announce timings on that. we don't know when the hearings will commence. nejra: you cover this sector for bloomberg news. from your sources, do you hear any concerns about brexit or are people quite buoyant because of the appro

sarah—jane bungay, bbc news, in cheddar gorge. i think i'd prefer the dentist, really!ad sunshine yesterday but today is a different story, cloud and rain moving eastwards. but that means we should get different weather coming in this afternoon from the west. nevertheless, this was the damp scene in oxford earlier on today. thanks to our weather watcher for sending that picture in. right spells in the west, they will continue to spread across much of england, wales, southern counties of england, wales, southern counties of england as we go on through the rest of the afternoon as our band of rain fades away. 20 of showers around. in. rain at times through the rest of the date —— plenty of showers around for scotland. it should become dry across wales and the south—west. temperature—wise, high speed we intend and 13 degrees. a little bit cooler across the east, where the cloud will linger that bit longer. overnight tonight, the cloud brea ks longer. overnight tonight, the cloud breaks will get a touch of frost in the countryside across northern and eastern parts of scotla

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our reporter sarah—jane bungay went to hang out with them. job description, must enjoy working at heightsancient landscape and make it safer for everyone. these specialist fences at cheddar gorge are designed to catch any falling rubble and they can hold up to a ton of material at a time. i am going up even higher onto the rock face to find out how they are making things safer there. first, it is a bit of a climb. the gorgeous 3.5 miles long. it is home to these chaps. they keep down some of the invasive greenery, but not all. the gorge is heavily wooded, it brings the trees which can cause damage to the rock structures beneath it. there are other invasive species such as ivy and those particular species bared their routes between the cracks, which then start to swell and they can crack off pillars of rock. once at the top, it was time to see the gorge from a different angle. i am 25 metres up one of the rock faces now on cheddar gorge and i thought i better come up to see the kind of challenges this work presents to be technicians. it is a huge privilege teehgieigns; * work l the teehgie

sarah rainsford, bbc news, moscow. jane: a brief time ago i discussed this growing diplomatic row with president obama's senior director for european affairsn the national security council.

sarah—jane bungay‘s there for us this morning. unbelievable weather. good morning. good morning. all of it really. later on you will be able to see a massive dramatic landscape and the village of cheddar and the cheddar reservoir. thousands of people come to see this every year. there are drops of up to 400 feet and huge limestone cliffs. how do you spring clean 35,000 square metres of rock face? just a few days ago, i had the chance to come here and find out. job description — must enjoy working at heights. the timescale? six weeks and counting. and it's all to preserve this ancient landscape and make it safer for everyone. these specialist fences at cheddar gorge are designed to catch any falling rubble and debris. in fact, they can hold up to a ton of material at a time. but i'm going up even higher onto the rock face to find out how they're making things safer there. first, it's a bit of a climb, though. the gorge is 3.5 miles long. it's home to these chaps. they keep down some of the invasive greenery, but not all. the gorge itself is heavily wooded, so which brings the tree

sarah campbell, bbc news, belfas. jane it has been more than ant since the deadly shooting at a high school in parkland, florida, that claimed 17 months. -- lives. today, students from that school todescended on capitol hil demand stricter gun control. it comes ahead of a massive protest they have organized tomorrow called march for our lives. in a development they may not have been expecting, attorney general jeff sessions is proposing a bill that will effectively ban bump stocks, the devices that allow semiautomatic weapons to fire like a machine gun. the bbc's paul blake was with some of the students turned activists and he joined me a whbie ago. day for them today, big day tomorrow. what is their mood like? paul: it is like a big school trip. having breakfast with a lot them, i quickly realized many of them had never been to shington before. on the bus to capitol hill today, they were not just taken aback by the gravity of the situation, but by the monuments and the architecture and the grandeur, of washington, d.c. an

sarah rainsford, bbc news, moscow. jane: a brief time ago i discussed this growing diplomatic row with president rbama's senior director european affairs on the national security council. thank you very much for joining me. what is the impact of this latest round of expulsions? >> if you look at the expulsions themselves, it is not such a huge deal.re both sidesoing to lose some eyes and ears on the reound. consular functionsoing to be degraded. it will be harder for russians to get visas. it will be harder for americans to get services. but i think the bigger issue here is that we are witnessing a serious terioration in the overall relationship between russia and thearest, where we heading towards days that are as dark as they thve been sincend of the cold war. we don't know if we w some kind of plateau or we will keep heading into the abyss.cl rly the relationship between russia and the united states, between mr. putin and mr. trump, is much worse than it has ever. beou jane: doee anything actually changing in terms of ma

jane: for more on the latest of departure, i was joined a short time ago by reid wilson of "the hill." sarah sanders says there is nothing abnormal about this, but i've never seen anything like this. have you? reid: there's nothing abnormal about people leavinghe white house. there is something very abnormal about so many high-level people leaving in the space of the year. the white house is a pressure filled p administration has some churn and burn, and people do a couple yrs and they leave or they, back. everybody needs a break from the pressure. but the fact is there is so much pressure on this white house vethat they ad a turnover rate unprecedented in modern history. by the way, the president has excluded so many typical republicans from his administration because they have been critical of him that it is not entirely clear that there are aaft of bodies waiting to fill these vacant positions at the level of quality necessary to run the white house. jane: what do these ures actually have in common and what do they say about the state of e white house? reid: they say the white house is a

jane hill. time for a look at the weather. here's sarah keith—lucas.h we have clearer skies. we are likely to see a frost in the north first thing saturday morning but milder and free of frost in the south. the weekend is not looking too bad. some sunshine and dry weather, a few showers especially in the north—west and temperatures fairly average for the time of year. looking at saturday, a cloudy start, with a few patchy outbreaks of rain slowly working their way east. also showers coming in on the north—westerly breeze, falling as snow and sleet on the hills of scotland. most of us getting into double figures but feeling disappointing with the cloudy skies on saturday. england and wales have most of the cloud moving away sunday, so more sunshine, and a similar day for scotland and northern ireland, with a few isolated showers to the north and west of scotland but dry elsewhere. temperatures a few degrees warmer, 10—13 on sunday, it should feel pleasant with the light winds, but next week it will be unsettled. rain around and then things look to be tu