they finished fifth in sochi but the international olympic committee has confirmed the disqualificationet ofjohn jackson, stuart benson, bruce tasker and joel fearon. great britain's total medal haul from sochi is now five, matching the record set at the pyeongchang games last year. i ruptured my achilles injuly seven months before the games and it was a long, painful slog. i'm months before the games and it was a long, painfulslog. i'm mentally drained to get to the in the big games. we were not sure if i was going to get there at the start. so, for us to not have been going potentially to than getting there and then winning a medal, it was sort of a fairy tale story that would've been nice to have happened at the time but for us, it is nice to know that we have finally got the metal that we deserve. it's been 43 years since a female driver raced in formula i, but it's hoped that could change after the launch of the new w series, an all women's motor sport competition. ben croucher has more. on the outside, this looks like any single seater series, 18 cars and drivers. on the inside it

great britain's total medal haul from sochi is now five, matching the record set at the pyeongchang gamesers will take part in the inaugral w—series — a motor racing championship only forfemale drivers. they came through four days of qualifiers earlier this week to book their place in the first race at hockenheim in may. ben croucher has more. on the outside this looks like any single seater series. 18 cars, 18 drivers. on the inside it is very different. this is w—series, the first to have only female drivers. after whittling them down through the winter, the final test came this week in spain, the final 28 became the final 18, with a unique shot at history. the fact it is w-series, the fact it is women is irrelevant in that this is racers. at the end of this we will crown the w—series champion. there were those who say w—series will only segregate talent, and if women are good enough they can and will compete equally with men. nonetheless, chadwick says she hopes others can follow her path. men. nonetheless, chadwick says she hopes others can follow her pathlj just want to prove it is p

. —— sochi. at the end of the week we would definitely love to be playing.tely love to be playing. at the net medal around your necklj still look at it everyday when i go home, absolutely amazing. for now, it is all about these for the world championships and sterling is putting on a show. very beautiful, everyone, everyone has been nice, the country is beautiful. set out in the country is beautiful. set out in the sunshine, backbone, five feet of snow last month! -- stirling. everything is more than perfect, fantastic. —— back home. allthe help we get on the ice, very professional. championships finish on sunday, scotland will be hoping they are among the medals. a reminder that you can listen to commentary of england women against japan, england women againstjapan, in the final match of the shebelieves cup is on bbc four, from ten p m. for now, that is all from sportsday, goodbye. good evening, whether looking pretty turbulent, quite changeable over the next few days, a lot of energy in the atmosphere, strong jet stream, high up above our head, driving the

began to look to the common sense consensus so i'd like to go back to this such a dialogue forum why sochi. and the need to do measure to measure mentioned here on human again will you invite all the groups of the civil society. and little. son. will there be other forms of dialogue that are supposed to improve ties between russia and the you. well why saatchi. thought. it was not. work. so we decided to go to saudi we know that saatchi is an important city for russia it hosted the olympic games in two thousand and fourteen. and saatchi has been increasingly. marked. as a platform for a different conference is this also being me this syria congress there so it has a reputation for hosting a high level. conferences and events so we decided to use that name and i would like to thank my colleagues father vital and size him in two thousand eighteen my team has been working hard to prepare for these. projects you asked whether all the groups of the suicides you will take part in it yes we will have different groups. i said earlier i met with different n.g.o.s members human rights activists shif

jackson said it was all the sweeter, as injury almost meant, they didn't make it to sochi. the time, but for us, it is nice to know that we finally got the metal we deserved. —— medal. we don't want to jinx, anything, but with only two weeks to go until the masters, rory mcllroy looks to be in great form. he made it two wins from two at the wgc match play in texas, beating justin harding three and two. england's justin rose is also unbeaten. but tiger woods was forced into drastic action in his match against brandt snedeker. tiger woods in the bushes there. a great recovery, playing on his knees. i must say when i tried that shot, i did not quite make it. amazing, isn't it? he lost two and one. a drop goal in golden—point extra time gave leeds rhinos a much—needed super league win. leeds, the bottom club, were level at 20—20 with castleford tigers, when brad dwyer kicked the winning goal. look at the distance there. what a long—range kick that was to get the goalfrom distance. britain's adam yates is still in second place after the fourth day of the volta a catalunya in spa

these measures help to bring our countries together and the sochi dialogue for we also serve the same purpose. also like to mention the rolled by the. bird tree committee. and also a concert mr litle who is the chair of the chamber of commerce and industry of. the russian president they will be co-chairs of the dialogue forum we will try to engage as many civil society leaders as many policymakers in research as possible i we hope that finally these brainchild is. promptly. put into life and we also hope to develop corporation not just of the level of big cities we hope there will be between regions when we know that russia is a. country and it is in our interest to work not just with other regions we've had he met important initiatives in this regard. or in terms of funding. existing economic projects existing cultural projects. will enjoy financing from the austrian foreign ministry. and then we will have to look for external investors. to promote these projects further started to put into context. we believe the saatchi dollars platform will be similar to the saatchi you talk to th

to to to take the whole issue of syrian file of european the united states to bring it to moscow to sochi to you know do it in a bringing the dimension of pressure and it's even the geographical aspect itself bring it to sooty and you know bringing turkey in board and trying to arrange with with turkey even with with with sort of undermining iran as well that was an important achievement to russia i think the there. other achievement actually is. moving i would say. changing the direction of the diplomacy in the region and trying to be more. you know balanced compared with the united states of course they have you know they try to please the israelis they try to please please arabs in the side but it's obvious that it's this is their approach now to play with all sides and try to be in the middle as much as they can. think that you know the the major issue also they achieved in the last three or four years. is the fact that they become the only active player in the region that is achievement because if you if you look at the three four years of the development in the region if you go to s

they finished fifth in sochi but the international olympic committee has confirmed the disqualificationfjohn jackson, stuart benson, bruce tasker and joel fearon. great britain's total medal haul from sochi is now five, matching the record set at the pyeongchang games last year matching the record set- i was seven months before the games and it was a slog and and it was a long, painful slog and dreaming to get to the olympic games. we were not sure i was going to get to the games at the start. for us to not have been going to potentially getting there and when the claimant winning a medal, it would have been nice to have happened at the time and for us it was nice to know we finally got the middle that we deserved. you can read that story and all the rest of the news on the bbc sports website. i will be back with more sports they at10:30 p:m.. 21 minutes passed the time. and watching bbc news. two weeks after cyclone idie hit southern africa, there have been at least 5 verified cases of cholera with more expected to emerge. in mozambique alone it's estimated almost 2 million people have

this is an area that's supposedly a deescalation zone it's been agreed to by early on and putin in sochi the united states has sent clear signals to the russians through the new envoy relatively new envoy jim jeffrey that the regime and the russians should not and cannot be attacking it live so if the russians and the regime are reneging on their on their promise then these countries i mentioned should unequivocally promised that there would be military retaliation against regime forces at a place and time of their choosing anywhere in the country in order to establish deterrence and ensure that that area and that population is protected and that in turn will strengthen the hands of any mediator including the current one to convince the belligerent to a at least a more permanent cease fire even if a political solution is not at hand richard gowan the other bit of potential leverage the international community have is money for reconstruction we see this conference going on as we speak in brussels but even there there seems to be a disagreement now between some of those international powe

it's a bronze medal at long last for gb‘s four man bobsleigh crew from the sochi winter olympics.ood evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. in what many are seeing as a last ditch move to secure a brexit legacy, the prime minister has decided go for a new parliamentary vote on her eu withdrawal agreement tomorrow. but, as ever, there's a catch. this time, mps will be asked to back the part of the agreement that deals only with the divorce, leaving the political declaration, which describes britain's future relations with the eu, to another day. our political editor laura kuenssberg explains what lies behind theresa may's latest parliamentary manouevre. they won't just be they won'tjust be talked into it. still too many quarrels about what to do. mark is in a real minority here because he... 17.4 million people. ministers still want to move forward theresa may's compromise with the eu to end all the noise. politicians of all political parties have a duty to put the national interest first, so we can put this controversy behind us and move on to a brighterfuture controversy beh

kilometers away from the demarcation line these latest airstrikes threaten the two thousand eight hundred sochi agreement which establish the deescalation zone an area that the syrian government vows to regain control over. both. continued to maneuver to head off a confrontation over the province but the recent pattern of violations threaten to future of this settlement productive. as yet. to take you back to the live picture from god we've just seen explosions there where israeli jets have been. retaliating after rockets were fired from the strip into an israel says it's targeting what it describes as terrorist sites as well as the other palestinian factions. islamic jihad have both denied firing the rockets so once again the israeli military saying that rocket sirens were activated in communities near the gaza strip border. that's after it carried out air strikes against targets in gaza more updates a little later in the news hour. now france's air accident investigation agency has received the black boxes from the ethiopian airlines jet that crashed on sunday killing one hundred fifty seven

now hundred fifty seven people from sochi five different nations were on board that ethiopian airlines flight but the highest number of fatalities were from kenya catherine soy spoke to some of the families of those who died. it's hard to imagine the pain john cwindows is going through relatives and friends have been coming to his home in the cool weather rift valley to console him since they had news that his wife. and three grandchildren had died in the few pin airlines crash on sunday his wife was always had school teacher who had gone to canada to visit there due to carole and had children brian kelly and nine month old ruby they were coming back to kenya for a visit to civilian rule is a beacon. committee of industry. was to imagine. relatives of those who died and now waiting for information from the government and if you can add lines on when they'll be travelling to ethiopia their d.n.a. may be needed to identify the remains of windows and his family have started burial . but they'll have to wait for the remains of their loved ones to be brought if you can airlines officials sa

kilometers away from the demarcation line these latest airstrikes threaten to two thousand eight hundred sochi agreement which establish the deescalation zone an area that the syrian government vows to regain control over both turkey and russia continue to maneuver to head off a confrontation over the province but the recent pattern of violations threaten to future of this settlement. that hamid. the u.s. senate is preparing to vote on a proposal to revoke president donald trump's declaration of a national emergency in fact he's our live pictures from the senate where several members of the president's own republican party are expected to rebel against his measure the president used his emergency powers to secure billions of dollars in funding to build a wall along the border with mexico let's talk to rob reynolds who is down near that border near san diego rob. yes well we are at the border crossing at san ysidro you can see the border fence behind me this is really the epicenter of what president trump has been talking about in terms of a national emergency right now i'd like to bring in our

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the skier was already assured of winning the title in sochi, with neither her norer rival in this weekend'svent. the super-g didn't go ahead because of heavy snowfall. th race w be rescheduled, leaving mikaela shiffrin with a point lead. >> congratulations t her. >>> the husband and wife at the center of a caught on camera cell phone over a are defending themselves. this confrontation drawing national attention because the man at the center of it is the ceo for the san francisco giants. nbc's molly hunter is here with more. this was quite a scene. good morning. >> good morning to you. he is not theirst powerful man in sports to behave badly. larry baer said the squabble, as resolved. it, has been questions remain about what the league and his team will do about it. >> reporter: in video clips posted by "tmz sports" watch larry baer reach for the phone in his wife, pam's, hand. he's overpowering her, grabbing it. >> oh, mygod! >> reporter: it happened at a public park in o san francis friday. it is not clear what happened before or after this clip. two witnesses told the int intervened to se

this is an area that's supposedly a deescalation zone it's been agreed to by early on and putin in sochi the united states has sent clear signals to the russians through the new envoy relatively new envoy jim jeffrey that the regime and the russians should not and cannot be attacking it live so if the russians and the regime are reneging on their on their promise then these countries i mentioned should unequivocally promised that there would be military retaliation against regime forces at a place and time of their choosing anywhere in the country in order to establish deterrence and ensure that that area and that population is protected and that in turn will strengthen the hands of any mediator including the current one to convince the belligerent to a at least a more permanent cease fire even if a political solution is not at hand richard gowan the other bit of potential leverage the international community have is money for reconstruction we see this conference going on as we speak in brussels but even there there seems to be a disagreement now between some of those international powe

the fair sochi 5 said wow. lot of her 100 bucks and then wow i can't believe i got there thirsty because water cost extra on while, but in one piece i often wondered how could they afford to stay in business. well. they couldn't. they just stop flying. so now thousands of travelers around the world are saying wow how we got to get home and how we get our money back. that was that was fast was i 6, 7 years as i i will dublin london barcelona i would ever. >>and just to just fold up shop they just folded so people were you know like we made it iceland we're getting married now we can come home the tweets are crazy whole >>yeah and the difference in flight prices huge so these people they don't have the money markets. well right that's the bus. >>and that breaking news this morning. we have 7 passengers who were headed to san francisco from baltimore had to be taken to hospital after their flight was diverted to dulles airport in dc and you're looking at pictures here of the plane itself being. escorted back to a

this is an area that's supposedly a deescalation zone it's been agreed to by early on and putin in sochi the united states has sent clear signals to the russians through the new envoy relatively new envoy jim jeffrey that the regime and the russians should not and cannot be attacking it live so if the russians and the regime are reneging on their on their promise then these countries i mentioned should unequivocally promised that there would be military retaliation against regime forces at a place and time of their choosing anywhere in the country in order to establish deterrence and ensure that that area and that population is protected and that in turn will strengthen the hands of any mediator including the current one to convince the belligerent to a at least a more permanent cease fire even if a political solution is not at hand richard gowan the other bit of potential leverage the international community have is money for reconstruction we see this conference going on as we speak in brussels but even there there seems to be a disagreement now between some of those international powe

produce more food so the black marketeers are the guys that figure out a way to bring oranges from sochi, or the baltics, that area of the baltics. drawing a blank on the name. the black sea. up to moscow and to leningrad and other places. and so, you have a dysfunctional economy. reagan believes this is a dysfunctional economy. reagan believes that one of the reasons he is so critical of detente is he believes the soviet union is vastly overhyped in its power. that does not mean that he does not recognize or believe that they still are spending too much money on weapons. this is where you get into the theory that some have argued that reagan deliberately wants to outspend soviets into bankruptcy. we know that he wants -- i think some of the phrases are advocate and exacerbate, stresses and strains within the soviet economy, within the eastern european economy. i am not sure the exact words but it is in a number of documents. so, gorbachev, once he takes power in march of 1985, what does reagan do? he sends bush and schulz to chernenko's funeral to meet with gorbachev. the vice president

players are rejected from again for a fight saying marquees place in sochi back and face suspension after face talks to cancel. the u.k.'s attorney general says his legal advice on the braggs it deal remains unchanged geoffrey cox told m.p.'s they must make a political judgment about whether they're willing to accept the prime minister says sure and says the reason they announced he had secured legally binding changes after last minute talks with european commission president on monday a revised bragg's a deal is up for a second vote in parliament later ukase attorney general geoffrey cox has addressed the chamber with his advice on the changes to the deal. the legal risk as i said he done in my letter of the thirteenth of november remains changed the question for the house is whether in the likes of these improvements as a political judgment the house should not enter in to those arrangements or john holl is joining us now live from london jonah we had the reaction of the house there what does this mean for the deal. well we've got a few hours yet before we finally find out what it means

kilometers away from the demarcation line these latest airstrikes threaten to two thousand and eighteen sochi agreement which establish the deescalation zone an area that the syrian government vows to regain control over both turkey and russia continue to maneuver to head off a confrontation over the province but the recent pattern of violations threaten the future of this settlement. put up the disease. more than one hundred schools have been closed in malaysia because of toxic fumes around forty tons of chemical waste was dumped in a river in the southern region of passing a good dying last week since then more than five hundred people have reported dizziness nausea and shortness of breath several are in a critical condition parliament is set to debate whether to declare a state of emergency later on thursday prosecutors in northern ireland have agreed to charge a british soldier over the killings in the so-called bloody sunday event fourteen people died when british soldiers fired into a crowd of demonstrators prosecutors met the families of the deceased and injured earlier to make the ann

holding hearings in secret for suspects accused of being involved in the murder of genest amount to sochi is a violation of international a special report turning extrajudicial executions i can it's kind of it's called me on riyadh to try the eleven suspects in public and release the names she's denounced the kingdom for what she says is a lack of transparency bangladesh's housing minister says criminal charges will be filed against the building where at least twenty five people died in the fire on thursday more than one hundred were rescued from the tower block in the capital dhaka scores of people injured the ministry officials could also face investigation algeria's ruling party has banned schools from the chief suggesting a constitutional measure that could remove the president on medical grounds protesters are preparing for a six week of nationwide marches calling on you to flick it to resign they're also demanding the removal of the entire political leadership. at least three gunmen have been killed in a shootout with the military in the komodo us it happened close to the capital of

kilometers away from the demarcation line these latest airstrikes threaten to two thousand and eighteen sochi agreement which establishes a deescalation zone an area that the syrian government vows to regain control over both turkey and russia continue to maneuver to head off a confrontation over the province but the recent pattern of violations threaten the future of this settlement. one hundred schools have been closed in malaysia because of toxic fumes from forty tons of chemical waste was dumped in a river in the southern region of sudan last week since then more than five hundred people have reported disease dizziness nausea and shortness of breath several are actually in critical condition parliament is to debate whether to declare a state of emergency. has more from kuala lumpur the order to close more than one hundred schools in the southern state of johor in malaysia affects some thirty thousand school children now more than five hundred people have been taken ill since toxic chemicals were dumped into the kim kim river last week they had a range of symptoms that include dizziness sh

kilometers away from the demarcation line these latest airstrikes threaten the two thousand eight hundred sochi agreement which established the deescalation zone an area that the syrian government vows to regain control over both turkey and russia continue to maneuver to head off a confrontation over the province but the recent pattern of violations threaten the future of the settlement. france's air accident investigation agency has received the black box flight recorders from the ethiopian airlines jet that crashed on sunday killing one hundred fifty seven people on board released this image of the flight data recording showing the crash proof according chip in tights it'll be analyzed along with the cockpit voice recorder the u.s. federal aviation administration says all boeing seven three seven eighth's and minds will remain grounded until its software is upgraded tested and installed. prosecutors in northern ireland also charge a former british soldier with murder over the so-called bloody sunday massacre in one thousand nine hundred seventy two fourteen civilians died when british soldier

the 23-year-old was already assured of winning the title in sochi with neither her nor her rival participatingevent. the super g didn't go ahead because of heavy snowfall. >> big congratulations to her. >>> also this morning the husband and wife at the center of a caught on camera altercation over a cellphone are defending themselves. this confrontation drawing national attention because the man at the center of it is the ceo for the san francisco molly hunter is here with more. >> he is not the first powerful man in sports to behave badly of course and this morning he says the squabble has been resolved, but questions repair about what the league and his team are going to do about it. >> reporter: in two short cellphone video clips posted by tmz sports, watch ceo larry bae it is not reflective of the kind of person that i aspire to be. san francisco police say they are investigating and the mlb says they are gathering the facts. but it has been a rotten week for powerful men in the sports world. patriots owner robert kraft in serious legal trouble charged with soliciting prostitution. he has

the dnc communications director sochi holeson, welcome back to our program. >> thanks for having me.> bill: republicans are putting a target on green new deal team. >> the green new deal is a resolution that basically talks about how climate change is real and it's an emergency in our country. and we must fix this in a way that we are creating good paying jobs. and so this is a document that basically talks about that that democrats are standing mind have republicans who went do anything or take a stand on whether they think climate change is real. i think what you are seeing real in the democratic party is that our values align. when it comes to climate change, when it comes to jobs. when it comes to gun reforms how to get there we might have differing opinions but that is why you are going to have a robust presidential election. >> bill: we are going to have this national debate. i look very much forward to it as you do as well. when you talk about going on the record. there is a real good chance to do that in the senate right now. and mitch mcconnell said let's go ahead and vote f

from any of putin's guys saying, hey, i need this from you, whether or not it's building a stadium in sochi, whether its organizing some sort of business deal outside of russia or something inside of russia, an appropriate answer is not, yeah, i appreciate that, but no. the appropriate answer, if you want to keep your, well, your life in most cases, is, yes, sir, how many bags of three bags full, and here he comes. it's a little more complicated, a little more subtle. in terms of discussing the relationships, that kind of encompasses how things work a lot in russia. >> in wrapping up, given the sprawl of russian intelligence, are oligarchs or their businesses used oftentimes as cover or vectors for influence for intelligence operations? >> again, yes. i mean, that's certainly -- the reason i say yes is not because i have the top five in my mind, but, again -- >> of course. >> -- if the fsb, you know, who answers directly to vladimir putin and the others, calls you up and says, hey, you have is this business located in x, y, z, location, i need you to do the following things for me, it gets

great britain‘s total medal haul from sochi is now five, matching the record set at the pyeongchang gameskeep doing what i do because i love it. if everybody —— anybody finds that inspirational, or sees that as something positive, it is a bonus for me. i want to prove it is possible. i know what i can achieve and if! possible. i know what i can achieve and if i can achieve it then thousands of other young female drivers can too. i do my after three. thank you let‘s return to brexit — and one of britain‘s leading business groups has renewed its attack on politicians‘ handling of the uk‘s departure from the eu. earlier, the head of the british chambers of commerce, adam marshall, accused mps of "chasing rainbows". so what do business owners think? we can speak now tojennifer brown, who owns a luxury leather accessories company in oxford. and stephen britt, who owns a storage and logistics company in suffolk — he‘s in westminster. thank you both. jennifer, you run a luxury accessories business. i think it is already suffering as a result of the uncertainty, is that right? we have had a twofo

let's speak to sochi inohosa, communications director at the democratic national committee.y talking about 2020, before we get to it, however, that issue of overreach. democrats were voted back into power in the house of representatives on things like health care, jobs and economy. they we re health care, jobs and economy. they were not voted back into power because people want them to do investigations. they were voted back into power because specific issues but you need to realise, and i think devoto is realised, republics do not do anything for two years and they wa nt do anything for two years and they want a check on trump which is why they did not vote to put republicans backin they did not vote to put republicans back in power in the house. there's is congress's responsibility. you have federal and state investigations that are extremely serious and it would be irresponsible for congress not to look at these serious allegations, and it is notjust about his business dealings or the trump campaign but about recent policies, like child separation on the border. this is i