susana mendonca.sonal, could you explain who brendan cox is? people may remain during 2016, the eu referendum campaign,jo cox was during 2016, the eu referendum campaign, jo cox was murdered outside her constituency —— may remember. she was murdered by a far right extremist. following her murder, she was the mother of two young children, her husband was brendan cox. he then began to campaign, really, against extremism. he set up and got involved in charitable works, thejo cox foundation was set up and matt moore in coleman was set up —— maureen, and were set up. it follows allegations that have been made against him. what are those allegations? we understand a former colleague who worked with him while he worked at save the children, back in 2015, claims that he had drunkenly harassed a female employee. there is an allegation in the mail on sunday about holding someone the mail on sunday about holding someone by the throat and making a llera comment. as well is that, there are accusations that he forc

here's our political correspondent, susana mendonca.atching the dragons in action on a trade trip to china last week, the prime minister was all too aware that her backbenchers at home were farming the flames of division over brexit. some tory brexiteers have painted a picture of disunity on the government's front bench over the direction britain's negotiations with the eu should take, but now one leading cabinet member has pushed back. i have a surprise for the brexiteers, the committee that meets in order to help make these decisions, meeting twice this week, as you rightly say, is more united than they think. we meet in the committee and also privately for discussions, i think we will arrive at something that suits us all. assessments this week which had suggested the options for a post—brexit trade deal with the eu would leave britain worse off have been at the heart of an argument in the conservative party. brexiteers have directed criticism at chancellor philip hammond and the treasury, with one accusing civil servants of fiddling

susana mendonca, bbc news.ent trump has criticised the fbi for missing warning signals about wednesday's school shooting, describing it as unacceptable. in a tweet, he said the fbi's failure to stop the gunman, nikolas cruz, were because it was spending too much time investigating allegations of russian interference in the presidential election. he said the fbi needed to get back to basics. thousands of people in florida, including survivors of the shooting, have taken part in a rally to demand tighter gun controls in the united states. the event took place outside the court building in the city of fort lauderdale, a short distance from the school where cruz killed 17 people. laura westbrook reports. chanting: no more! outside the federal courthouse in fort lauderdale, this was the message to lawmakers. among the protesters was emma gonzales, who took cover on the floor of her school's auditorium as a gunman started shooting. she had this to say to donald trump. if the president wants to come up to me and tell

susana mendonca, bbc news.he new education secretary says he wants to see more variety in university tuition fees in england, rather than what he says is almost all institutions charging "exactly the same price". interviewed in the sunday times, damian hinds also suggests the benefit of a university course to the economy could help decide future fees. it comes as he and the prime minister announce a review into university funding today, as simon clemison reports. many of the day's students were not born when university tuition fees we re born when university tuition fees were first introduced but 20 years on, the link between getting a degree and paying towards the cost of it remains that has meant big sacrifices for some. but parents sold their house all i could come to um, sold their house all i could come to uni, on the first one in my family. looking at it there were lots of aspects about how much to pay back in the long run and it is a really scary prof act. -- prospect. the government still backs the idea

our political correspondent susana mendonca has the latest details of the allegations.understand a former colleague who worked with him back in 2015 claimed that he drunkenly harassed female employees, there is an allegation in the mail on sunday about holding somebody by the throat and making a lurid comment. there are accusations that he forced himself on to a woman during a trip to harvard university in the us. we have had a response from him. he says in terms of the allegations in the us, he doesn't accept those allegations, and in terms of his time at save the children, he says he made mistakes and that he perhaps behaved in a way that caused some hurt and offence to women. i have speaking to someone close to him saying that he certainly doesn't accept these allegations that he sexually assaulted anybody, certainly the way that he behaved may have offended some women and so on that basis, he is very apologetic for that and has made his public statement apologising. now on bbc news it's time for our world. there are flashing images from the beginning of katty kay's

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our political correspondent susana mendonca is here. week on brexit — are we any clearer on the way forward? well i think we'd still a long way to go before we know what brexit going to look like but if you look at the speech as we've had so far they seem to be about building bridges. theresa may talking about that cooperation, unconditional cooperation between britain and the eu. certainly the eu commission president made it clear that cooperation on security doesn't mean cooperation on security doesn't mean cooperation on security doesn't mean cooperation on trade. but it went down well with the europeans, went down well with the europeans, went down well with her brexiteers. when you look at boris johnson's down well with her brexiteers. when you look at borisjohnson‘s speech last week he was talking about bringing together remainers and brexiteers and looking at the positives but there wasn't much in the way of substance. in terms of what we'll get over the next week we understand there will be a series of speeches in this road to b

our political correspondent, susana mendonca, has the latest details of the allegations.r colleague who worked with him while he worked at save the children, back in 2015, claims that he had drunkenly harassed a female employee. there is an allegation in the mail on sunday about holding someone by the throat and making a llera comment. as well is that, there are accusations that he forced himself on to a woman during a trip to harvard university in the us. we have had a response from brendan cox. he said that in terms of the allegations in the united states, he does not accept that those allegations are true. and in terms of his time at save the children, he says he made mistakes and that he perhaps behaved in a way that caused some hurt and offence to women. i have been speaking to somebody close to brendan cox in the last few minutes who has said that he certainly doesn't accept these allegations that he sexually assaulted anybody, but the way he behaved may have offended some women, and so on that basis he is very apologetic for that and has made his public statement a

i'm joined by our political correspondent, susana mendonca.the papers. these comments from bernard jenkin in particular about philip hammond. yes, philip hammond is someone who the brexiteer is in the back benches of the tories have not liked much. criticism directed at him again, in particular, that thing about the idea that there is a vague and divided leadership, and that basically means that civil servants are not being given the right direction. that is because we had a few days agojacob rees—mogg talking about the civil service, basically putting out figures that painted brexit in the worst possible light. he talks about the treasury fiddling the figures. i suppose bernard jenkin really trying to move the criticism away from the civil service itself, and perhaps onto philip hammond four, in his view, taking a different view to theresa may on the direction brexit should take. particularly the issue of the customs union, which brexiteer is one to see a complete break with the customs union. that is pretty much what that's about. today we h

our political correspondent susana mendonca has the latest details of the allegations.r colleague who worked with him back in 2015 claimed that he drunkenly harassed female employees, there is an allegation in the mail on sunday about holding somebody by the throat and making a lurid comment. there are accusations that he forced himself on to a woman during a trip to harvard university in the us. we have had a response from him. he says in terms of the allegations in the us, he doesn't accept those allegations, and in terms of his time at save the children, he says he made mistakes and that he perhaps behaved in a way that caused some hurt and offence to women. i have speaking to someone close to him saying that he certainly doesn't accept these allegations that he sexually assaulted anybody, certainly the way that he behaved may have offended some women and so on that he behaved may have offended some women and so on that basis, he is very apologetic for that and has made his public statement apologising. ukip has voted to remove its leader, henry bolton, following con

i'm joined by our political correspondent, susana mendonca. of a hate figure for some of the brexiteer ‘s. hate figure for some of the brexiteer 's. yes, many blame him for it not singing from the same hymn sheet as they see the prime ministers singing from. the prime minister has talked about their being no customs union after brexit, and they want that to be the case. what they're saying about philip hammond, certainly in bernard jenkins's criticism, they're saying the prime minister talks about one policy and philip hammond another. he is basically saying that mr hammond needs to stick to collective ministerial responsibility on this issue. he has very much become this figure they say, of course philip hammond was a remainer, so they see him as perhaps not pushing in the same direction as they would like to see brexit go. there has been a lot of criticism about the treasury this week, not just from of criticism about the treasury this week, notjust from bernard jenkins but also jacob rees—mogg just a couple of days ago talking about how he

here's our political correspondent, susana mendonca. watching the dragons in action on a trip to china last week, the prime minister was all too aware that her backbenchers at home were fanning the flames of division over xebgt. some brexiteer have been painting a picture of disunity on the government's front bench. now one leading member of the cabinet has pushed back. i have a surprise for the brexiteers, which is the committee that meets to help make these decisions is nor united than they think. we meet for discussions, i think we will arrive at something which suits us all. assessments think week that had suggested the options for a post—brexit —brexit deal with the eu would leave britain worse off have been at the heart of the divide. the home secretary said all the partners use forecasts to inform their decision—making and defended civil servants. they're important us to, we respect their objectivity and they're internationally admired and we need to make sure we continue to attract the best into the service service. civil servic