theresa may accuses the former prime minister tony blair of ‘insulting the office‘ he once held by supportingther eu referendum. celebrations in poland as negotiators finalise a deal on how to implement the paris climate accord by 2020. chester zoo launches afundraising campaign after being severely damaged by fire yesterday. and the winner of this year's strictly come dancing is announced... dave and kevin! —— stacey and kevin! documentary maker stacey dooley and dance partner kevin clifton triumph in the sixteenth series and take the coveted glitterball trophy. and coming up — a special programme looking back at the commemorations throughout the year of the armistice centenary. that's in half an hour's time, here on bbc news. theresa may has attacked tony blair, her predecessor as prime minister, after he backed calls for another referendum on brexit. it's being seen as an unusually angry response from the prime minister. in a statement, mrs may said... 0ur political correspondent nick eardley says increasing numbers of people are talking about the prospect of a second referendum. six month

tony blair said ministers have paid tribute to him.o him. tony blair said in a statement, i am deeply saddened and shocked... anotherformer prime another former prime ministerjohn major paid his respects by saying, in government, paddy ashdown was my opponent... very warm tributes that to the paddy ashdown. we can now speak to the former leader of the liberal democrats tim farron. hanky for joining us on this sad evening. first of all, your reflections on this news. i am gutted, he was a hero to me. he was the first person i voted for as leader when he became the first elected libra of the liberal democrats. they say you should never meet your heroes, in the case of paddy ashdown, that was 0k, he turned out to be everything you hoped he would be. he was a man of enormous charisma. you felt affected by the energy, lifted by. ina time affected by the energy, lifted by. in a time when there were people using their charisma for populist reasons, he is a reminder of how to use that power, because it is power, to move people from one place t

s john major and tony blair tony blair those publicly voicing support for another vote. the does so far be rejected by downing street or correspondent as the latest book of a second referendum appears to be getting more serious and because it's not just coming from the opposition parties apparently it's coming from to reason may's own team over the weekend reports have emerged the cabinet has split into two opposing camps one which along with her chief of staff is now reportedly mulling the idea of letting parliament decide on whether there should be a second referendum to potentially reverse brags that and the other camp of prone leavers who are adamantly against this plan now the prime minister herself has been attempting to crochet all these various rumors and especially talk of a second referendum in fact her spokesperson has just denied just rules but then again her spokesperson did deny the cancellation of the parliamentary vote on her brags that deal last week immediately before it was cancelled so make of that denials what you will now one of the people dead keen

s john major and tony blair are among those publicly voicing support for another vote an idea though that so far been rejected by downing street so let's get the latest now from our correspondent in london. just take a strange twists and turns out there just take us through what's happened cypher. well i think the biggest news to come over the weekend is the talk of a second referendum is getting more serious because it's not just the opposition parties talking about it now according to reports it's coming from may's own team how did we get to resume a clearly hasn't had much success renegotiating with the drool deal with brussels at the end of last week and over the weekend reports. her own cabinet is splitting into two separate camps one which along with their own chief of staff seems to be mulling the idea of letting parliament decide on whether there should be a second referendum on the other side the prodi leave camp which is adamantly against this plan and as for the prime minister herself she's been attempting to question all the various rumors of a second vote in fact a spoke

is behavior has evidently rubbed terror up the wrong way but in a way that's plants with tony blair has provided for her a bit of a distraction from the chaos seemingly taking place in her own cabinet team right now in terms of where we are with have read that deal what it looks dead in the mortaring again after her renegotiation late last week in brussels totally failed and unless she pulls a greggs a rabbit out of her santas hats it looks like parliament is still expected to vote down the deal that she brings back to parliament after christmas which leaves the u.k. perilously close to a no deal bragg's it which is why we've got this rumor mill in overdrive talking about what potential options there could be once parliament rejects to resume may's deal and yet on the surface all that talk of potentially there being a second referendum or parliament getting to choose what the next options are that's being played down officially but behind the scenes the rumor is that all the options on now on the table i have to say the festive period is normally pretty quiet when it comes to news h

will now one of the people dead keen to reverse bragg's that and to have a second referendum is tony blair the former labor prime minister and he's been getting much more vocal about it on friday he did a whole load of interviews advocating for a second vote and criticising to reason may's bragg's it deal but the prime minister isn't very happy about it take a listen to the levels of animosity between the former labor prime minister and the current conservative one dismissing to be done and having this conversation a year or two they would say to me you know it's never going to happen another referendum now people are saying you know will could it really happen i need to get the european leaders to the next stage which is to realise the probability is it's going to happen and they've got to prepare for it there are too many people who want to subvert the process for their own political interest rather than acting in the national interest for tony blair to go to brussels and seek to undermine our negotiations by advocating for a second reference. i'm insulted your office he once held and th

tony blair is one of many people advocating that position. clearly is extremely unhappy with the idea that this is gathering some sort of head of stea m, this is gathering some sort of head of steam, saying that it would undermine the democratic system, because it didn't follow the decision that was taken last time. but there are also reports this morning that some of her team have been discussing with some pro second referendum mps what it might look like. they have firmly denied that this morning, it seems to be that that conversation was more about what those mps wanted to get the deal through rather than anything else. but this morning on the andrew marr show, the international trade secretary liam fox was asked about that prospect. supposing we had another referendum, supposing the remain side won it by 52 to 48 but there was a lower turnout, which is possible, and then people like me will immediately be demanding it is best—of—three, where does that end up? then we have got the constitutional issue, how do we tell nicola sturgeon and th

so we did get to hear tony blair there saying barbara is a bit but is britain willing to think again instead now the political will for a second referendum as he seems to be suggesting. it's not quite there yet but of course the push forward is growing because more and more people across the party divides in parliament see that this can't go on treason make can't go indefinitely to brussels and get a bloody nose and come home was empty hands and they can't indefinitely sort of table motions and then take them out again and say we can vote in those there's no majority for it i mean that is becoming a ridiculous day going around in circles so now the push to break the impasse and to ask the public actually look at this deal is this what you want all would you rather stay in the you seems to make more and more political sense the key to this however is not tony blair the former labor leader who is largely discredited in britain because of the iraq war the key to it is jeremy corbyn the currently labor leader and he still won't budge she's still tries to play the power game he still trie

and now she is having quite a go at tony blair as well.how angry it was. she doesn't often expressed much feeling on anything, it can be quite hard to get a human reaction, but what we are seeing is genuine angerand reaction, but what we are seeing is genuine anger and frustration at the mostly men around her causing her such difficulties. this idea of a second referendum, she has drawn a red line around herself because she has insisted that that is not something she can do, but there has been speculation among even the hardest brexiteers over the last few weeks that one option might be to get labour to sign up to her deal on the condition that after it is passed in parliament, it will go to a vote for the people, and there would then be the option of remain oi'i would then be the option of remain on the ballot paper, and this article doesn't quite go there, but i wonder if that is some of the tactics of perhaps these characters in numberten. gavin tactics of perhaps these characters in number ten. gavin barwell has denied an twitter this

i'm afraid we seem to have nost that son by from tony blair but let us now return to bob if you can. now therefore should be the time of preparation parliament to make sure it can canvass the options in a sensible manner one by one to reach agreement on an option or referendum europe to ensure that of britain is ready to think again europe is ready also to think again. so we did get to hear tony blair there saying barbara is but is britain willing to think again instead now the political will for a second referendum as he seems to be suggesting and see that this can't go on treason make can't go indefinitely to brussels and get a bloody nose and come home with empty hands and they can't indefinitely sort of table motions and then take them out again and say we can vote in those there's no majority for it i mean that is becoming a ridiculous day going around in circles so now the push to break the impasse and to ask the public actually look at this deal is this what you want all would you rather stay in the you seems to make more and more political sense the key to this however is not

he was round the tables, discussing a possible coalition with tony blair back then. a shame he never held office, as you say. people talk about him as the greatest foreign secretary we never had. he was talking to tony blair about a cabinet post, but unfortunately for the lib dems in 1997, labour had a landslide. and how many politicians say they could kill you with their bare hands and really could? he could kill you with one eyebrow, being in the sbs. and he was offered northern ireland secretary by gordon brown but ming campbell didn't want him tojoin. he was the greatest politician who didn't serve high office and that is a great shame. lord ashdown, who has sadly died at the age of 77. let's go on to our next newspaper, which is the sunday times, i think. yes. the telegraph, actually. the fear of drone copycats the telegraph, actually. the fear of drone co pycats after the telegraph, actually. the fear of drone copycats after the chaos we have seen at gatwick in the last few days. the scramble to stop fresh drone chaos by copycats. i suppose thatis drone chaos b

tony blair is one of them. there are many others too.resa may quite clear this morning that she thinks the idea of agitating for another referendum, subverting the decision that has taken a couple of yea rs decision that has taken a couple of years ago to leave the european union, very critical of tony blair from the idea that he might be undermining the negotiations that she is carrying out in brussels on the moment. the problem that theresa may has, is is isn'tjust tony blair talking about this. ending the impasse in parliament. interesting. we saw some pictures of david lidington. is reported in a number of papers, to be sounding people out, particularly labour party mps, about the possibility of a second referendum. what we don't know if he is having conversations with people oi’ is having conversations with people or he is sounding out whether or not it isa or he is sounding out whether or not it is a —goer. he is essentially theresa may's deputy. he does a lot of preparation for big political changes. a key role in trying to figure

then you have a situation where you end up supplying information via the british prime minister tony blair of london we approved it just goes through the story ah. well. when it was on christmas nine hundred ninety nine i was coming back from afghanistan and i was already a spy for the u.k. intelligence services. and i was coming back with a letter i was destined for certain members of the jihadi community in london including a book i thought that. at the time i did the second chechen war was raging for about three months and when i called him i said i have letters for you of course basically these letters would be expertly opened by my six known photographed and then put back together again and never told of the contents of course so i have to give the give these two a book a thousand others and he said if you come tonight one of your old friends i will say dakota d. is going to die alone from tbilisi in georgia because he is the head of that or just sticks for the hardest so when i went it was late at night because it was almost done at the time it was late at night and he dialed in as l

tony blair saying that the premier is staring at the mps.oliticians and former prime minister ‘s should note it is easy to give advice to current prime minister ‘s. theresa may i think has done a tremendousjob minister ‘s. theresa may i think has done a tremendous job to get to this point. it she started to demonstrate she is looking at other options as she is looking at other options as she is looking at other options as she is going to point of conclusion it would undermine her position... how sensible isn't too plunge ahead -- is it how sensible isn't too plunge ahead —— is it to plunge ahead to what seems like a defeat next week. she might be saying she is holding her position as she negotiates not only with the eu but everybody else around her who tried to influence and her decision—making. she must stand firm on her position as long as she can to understand all the arguments and then, at the right time for her and the negotiations, she will make a decision. i think she will make a decision. i think she is doing the right thing... i may

in the liberal democrat leader, tony blair had a candid friend., i believe, could become potentially an historic one, but only if it lets go a little, if it relaxes a little, if it tolerates descent a little, if it welcomes diversity a little and if it interferes a little less. charles kennedy is duly elected leader. paddy ashdown resigned the leadership in 1999, handing the baton onto charles kennedy and retiring from the house of commons two years later. he spent time in bosnia, at some personal risk, at the height of the war there. and in 2002 he became the high representative in bosnia and herzegovina. myjob is to create, to help to create the structures of modern european democratic state and then to repatriate the powers the international community has held here back to the bosnians. but he wasn't done with westminster politics. in 2015 after lib dems had spent five years in coalition with the conservatives, lord ashdown returned to chair the party's general election campaign. and we are saying the conservatives are the largest party. famous

tributes have been paid to lord ashdown including from former prime ministers sirjohn major and tony blairlice investigating the drones at gatwick search a house in west sussex, following the arrest of a man and a woman from crawley. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are sian griffiths, the education editor at the sunday times, and martin bentham from the evening standard. good evening to you both. many of tomorrow's front pages are already in. the death of lord ashdown features on the front of the sunday times which has paid tribute to him, saying he made the liberal democrats a "formidable force". the sunda express fronts with a picture of the couple who are being questioned in relation to the gatwick airport chaos. that couple also feature in the daily mail with a rather blunt headline: "are these the morons who ruined christmas?" government ministers are reportedly scrambling to protect britain against similar attacks in the future that's in the telegraph. the independent has a story about the key policies may make has repo

our headlines today: theresa may accuses the former prime minister tony blair of insulting the office he once held through his support for another eu referendum. nearly 200 countries have finally agreed an international celebrations in poland as nearly 200 countries reach a deal to tackle climate change. chester zoo reopens after a devastating fire as staff thank visitors for their support. a frosty weekend for the high street as wild weather keeps thousands of shoppers at home. in sport... manchester city back to the top of the table at least until liverpool play later! the strictly come dancing glitter ball winners are... plus: who came away with the glitterball trophy? we'll look back at the final of this year's strictly. for most of us it would be a quieter weather day than yesterday. more details later. it's sunday the 16th of december, our top story, theresa may has launched a public attack on her predecessor tony blair, after the former prime minister gave his backing to calls for another referendum on brexit. in a statement, mrs may said: we can speak now to our political corr

that was a confession and as a result tony blair change his mind about putin that he wasn't someone who was killing his own people to gain power in a cynical way actually he was a victim of terrorism and that the caucasus became the den of terrorism and jihad itself is a time when there's a photo of blair and booting to get to your way six. you've got to have something for this except the from the top and then call dick cheney goes into proceedings you're doing all this valuable work allegedly only suspect and there's been no admission tell me how ineffective kill your career in two thousand and six after seven and a half years working on that coupled with an open mind and saddles in afghanistan pakistan and saudi arabia lebanon and of course europe and the u.k. in particular. i decided that i wanted to go for a holiday it was the first holiday havoc and just the second day of this holiday the americans ruined it when you trust them at a concert when you're all of that and that's exactly what happened i just received a text message from a former associate of mine and he said go and

tony blair calling for a second brexit vote. we are live in london ahead. it's great when you see a hundred orders come in, a hundred orders come in, but then you realize i've got a hundred orders i have to ship out. shipstation streamlined that wh the order data, the weights of , everything is seamlessly put into shipstation, so when we print the shipping ll everything's pretty much done. it's so much easier so now, we're ready, bring on t. shipstation. the number one ch of online sellers. go to shipstation.com/tv and get two months free. >>> when theresa may stands before the house of commons this afternoon, she is expected to speak out against the possibility of the second brexit referendum. the british prime minister arguing it would harm the uk political system. former prime minister tony blair not buying it. he is backing a second brexit vote and publicly calling on may to do the same. erin mclaughlin is live in london this morning. er erin, good morning to you. she is in a corner once again. >> reporter: that's right. it

he was a fascinating leader, and in many ways, as tony blair has 5aid and in many ways, as tony blairone of the things he and blair we re was one of the things he and blair were talking about prior to 1997, neverthele55 he was a man who had major impact on british politics. on the subject of interesting leaders, somewhat different, in5ide the subject of interesting leaders, somewhat different, inside the ob5erver somewhat different, inside the observer today, this story about donald trump. becoming increasingly isolated because everyone has left. ye5, everyone has left. isolated because everyone has left. yes, everyone has left. it is a double page, actually. there is a job for both of you. according to this very good piece on the observer today, his wife has left, his son has left, they have all left the white house had gone to his place in florida, and he is at home. now, there are lots of stories, so you have to take a lot of stories... just to clarify, they have left to go off for christmas. no, they haven't left him completely. that might have been an exclusive, but no. so he is

coming up, we speak to tony blair about brexit.for a second referendum and we will ask whether theresa may can stay if she doesn't get the vote through and what needs to happen for a second referendum to take place. mr. blair coming up. this is bloomberg. ♪ tom: "bloomberg surveillance" from london, from new york. thank you to our washington team for their assistance. we like to bring up our guest's vision as much as we can. this is from bob michele of jpmorgan, the three-month short spread. you can find -- see the leg down is as simple as that. beough this level, it would profound. what does this mean for the december 19 meeting? flat,see further, short, flattening, what does it signal to the fed? bob: i think they are taking notice of the shape of the yield curve and they do not want repealon expectations to through the market. i would expect dovish rate hikes and some clarity that we are near the end. they talked about being just below what they perceived to be neutral level. i would not mind them throwing in something about the

because when tony blair started talking about national security interests that supposed to be a card that trumps all of those i don't believe the investigation is that it would have led anywhere except to the complete wreckage of a vital strategic relationship for our country in terms of fighting terrorism in terms of the middle east in terms of british interests there. so these things absolutely stunning it seems to be a very expensive way of organizing payment. the military equipment and now the money. blair came to south africa specifically to lobby the b. the british weapons manufacturers one the biggest contract on our arms deal. and the option that they presented was two and a half times more expensive than the plane that the south african air force chile wanted. a the system's real performance real advantage. as monday was about to step down from public life his successor tabel and betty made the decision to spend around ten billion dollars quite scarce public resources on this weaponry that we didn't need. rather than provide lifesaving me. cation for the almost six million s

because i'm convinced that tony blair went to war because of vanity. and the need of the other. of us thought in many ways we're a bit like vishy fronts you know the french pretend they had nothing to do with the persecution of the jews because they did. so we didn't have to go persecute the rockies because that was attempted regime change. the regime just as we know. it's a kind of us look at look at libya look what's happened with isis came because of the power vacuum and then you've got. getting rid of saddam hussein would seem to be a terrible mistake the mother being a monster book away and he was a bulwark against radical islam and this peace in iraq the sound of your silence i mean always he's commenting on the election process he's made by the british army base also talking about the silo vote there in the point is the the war in iraq is but was it could justify that millions of them to have an iraq is double deliberate and most of the people say. yes the the the sculpture up i didn't know how to finish it i thought it would be totally different sculpture but then i thou

the headlines: theresa may accuses the former prime minister tony blair of insulting the office he onceeld by supporting another eu referendum. after two weeks of negotiations, delegates at the un climate conference in poland reach agreement on how to enforce promised cuts to carbon emissions. chester zoo launches a £50,000 fundraising campaign after fire destroyed much of the vast roof covering one of its enclosures yesterday. now on bbc news, we look back at the commemorations throughout the year of the armistice centenary. last month, europe marked the end of the terrible conflict. the first world war cost millions of lives and ruined millions more. a century on from the armistice, this generation paused to remember tragedies both global and personal. you just cannot believe what man can do to man. i am known in the village as 'poppy lady' now. this is the imperial war museum in london. today with sister sites around the uk, it reflects world conflict across the generations. the museum was founded back in 1917 to tell the story of the first world war. last month the duchess of cambri

, which took place between 1992 and 1997, when if tony blair had not achieved the remarkable majoritywould have been an arrangement of some kind between the liberal democrats and tony blair. he was willing to think out of the box. and indeed from time to time to act out of the box. he took great interest in the balkans, even when he was leader, and i used to quite a lot of the time to persuade him not to go because he exposed himself to risks, for example going into sarajevo and running the gauntlet of snipers and shelling and things of that kind. but that is the kind of person he was. what you saw, you got, and a great deal more as well. he was still pretty much involved in politics right up until his death. he couldn't let it go, as it were. it had become an overwhelming part of his life. there are other sides to paddy. he had a remarkable memory for poetry. an extraordinary understanding of classical music, and one of the last time she was in edinburgh we took him to a concert here during the edinburgh festival. he was a man with very wide interests but of course it will mostly be

to put that in context, jeremy corbyn is older than tony blair, and tony blair was prime minister inbeing led by david cameron, ed miliband, nick clegg, all these quite young people, back to a much older leadership at the top of major parties. the exception being the scottish nationalists, i am exception being the scottish nationalists, lam not exception being the scottish nationalists, i am not sure what that means, but it seems relevant. let's turn to the guardian, and a shortage of mental healthcare is putting children at risk. this is coming from gps. so what we have here is another story on the front page about mental health. the last two or three years it has been centrestage. we have the young royals becoming ambassadors for charities. you have high—profile celebrities, sports stars, talking about suffering from all sorts of mental health issues. my problem is it is such a wide umbrella that it becomes, i think... it is such a wide umbrella that it becomes, ithink... it lacks it is such a wide umbrella that it becomes, i think... it lacks a forensics analysis ofjust what bad m

tony blair has hit back, arguing that it is his duty to argue for what he believes in.m pointed out that every other living former prime minister accept david cameron have also endorsed another referendum, including john major. it is something that crosses party divide. it gives you a sense of the angerfrom the divide. it gives you a sense of the anger from the prime divide. it gives you a sense of the angerfrom the prime minister that she comes back again and again that she comes back again and again that she believes it is her duty as prime minister to deliver brexit. she attem pts minister to deliver brexit. she atte m pts to minister to deliver brexit. she attempts to do it now. nobody, least of all her, can be certain where this is going to go now. no sole agent is now in charge of this. we know that because the government isn't in charge of events and we don't know where we will end up. thank you very much for the honest assessment. police in the belgian capital brussels have this afternoon fired teargas at demostrators taking part in an anti—migration protest. th

remainers, leavers, myself, tony blair...nson family is leavers, myself, tony blair... the wholejohnson family is united in that this is a national humiliation and it makes a mockery of brexit. when i'm listening to the speakers, i'm not seeing many people change their position. i'm not downplaying their position. i'm not downplaying the importance of parliamentary democracy and what will happen in the next five days but i think the arguments are very familiar and what we are arguments are very familiar and what we a re really arguments are very familiar and what we are really waiting for is the vote next tuesday. i think what we are waiting for specifically is how big will theresa may's defeat be because i think the margin of loss and i'm presuming it will be a loss, determines what may happen next. quick word about nigel farage. he's not a member of parliament but he had been in leader of the uk independence party, his announced leaving ukip, how does that fit into the political occasion? something i saw pointed out social

tony blair hit back strikingly, saying, no, it was responsible, and not anti—democratic to talk aboutshould be something parliament was willing to entertain if, and it comes back to this, all of the other options are exhausted. too many options! as ever, thank you, chris. the mother and two children who died following a house fire in nottinghamshire have been named as justine, isabella and harvey collison. the blaze in collingham broke out yesterday morning. gerry jackson reports. justine collison and her eight—year—old daughter isabella died in the fire at their home yesterday. today, five—year—old harvey died in hospital. husband and father gavin is fighting for his life. the flames broke out at breakfast time in this quiet village lane, leaving no time for most inside to escape. the child ren‘s grandmother was led to safety. close neighbours had battled to rescue the others. it's an adrenaline rush, to try and get in, to help them, because i saw my dad and this other bloke who were trying to get in so i thought, all efforts to get through the door and help them. but obviously we co

and he's not there anymore but the ex foreign office official gerald russell he used there was tony blair's point of the nine eleven that's right here so obviously the media you know inside the foreign office and then worked very closely with the much of this like to know what is the point of there's no wrongdoing but these journalists and politicians should be declaring this is the public that they will of course that they be the rules on disclosure which should be used but it's not just a question of disclosure is when you put all this together you say you're seeing strong arm tactics to manage and manipulate in century some fart traditions of british democracy and i you know there are many problems of british democracy but this is an extraordinary range and depth of activity which had concrete influence you know the setting up of an inquiry into the muslim brotherhood came as a result only if he was a specific outcome which they got by threatening economic bribery essentially we'll get the government's view on that i'm sure they'll say that they have other accusations but as you say ther