for our ageing trafalgar class post that were designed in the 1980s, that are to be withdrawn from serviceass, are the navy's latest attack submarines. for more are due to go into service by 202a. the bbc understands that the navy are struggling to maintained a trafalgar submarines, and the astute—class have suffered teething problems. one submarine is being repaired after colliding with of if g hms astute gibraltar last vear. and hms astute understood gibraltar last vear. and hms astu.te understood to be at sea, but only is understood to be at sea, but only to conduct trials after being repaired. the ministry of defence said it would not comment on specific submarine operations, but said the royal navy continues to meet all of its operational tasking, deploying globally on operations and protecting our national interests. a ministry of defence source insisted they were attack submarines that we re they were attack submarines that were operationally capable and ready, but where they might be is clearly sensitive operational information that the ministry of defence would not comment on. but

four are ageing trafalgar—class boats that were designed in the 1980s.from next year. the other three, the astute class, are the navy's latest attack submarines. four more are due to enter service by 202a. the bbc understands that the navy's struggling to maintain the trafalgar submarines, and the bigger astute class have suffered teething problems. one submarine has been repaired after colliding with a merchant vessel off gibraltar last year. and hms astute is understood to be at sea, but only to conduct trials after being repaired. the ministry of defence said it would not comment on specific submarine operations, but said the royal navy continues to meet all of its operational tasking, deploying globally on operations, and protecting our national interests. an mod source insisted that there were attack submarines that were operationally capable and ready, but where they might be was clearly sensitive operational information that the mod would not comment on. but not having one on active operations will raise fresh questions about the effectiveness of

the event taking place here in trafalgar square is a protest.ue about the bond between a group of middle—aged footballers who gather once or twice a week come rain or shine to play 5—a—side. but it wasn't until our next guest, journalist james brown suddenly lost one of his team mates that he realised just how remarkable a bond it is. so much so that he decided to write a book about it. hejoins us now. morning to you. tell us the tale. this is a group of middle—aged men? i have been playing amateurfootball all my life. 14 months ago a friend died. he was the organiser of our team. i realise that the funeral i have never seen any of the mourners in clothes before, they were always in shorts and tight tops. it was very sad that james passed away. he had not been ill or anything. ijust thought about this world of passionate footballers. we play in rain and shine. no one cheers us on. you're basically living out the dream. every week someone scores an amazing goal. if it had been on match of the day it would be goal of the week. i really wanted to g

four are ageing trafalgar—class boats that were designed in the 1980s.y's latest attack submarines. four more are due to enter service by 2024. the bbc understands that the navy's struggling to maintain the trafalgar submarines, and the bigger astute class have suffered teething problems. 0ne submarine has been repaired after colliding with a merchant vessel off gibraltar last year. after being repaired. the ministry of defence said it would not comment on specific submarine operations, but said the royal navy continues to meet all of its operational tasking, deploying globally on operations, and protecting our national interests. an mod source insisted that there were attack submarines that were operationally capable and ready, but where they might be was clearly sensitive operational information that the mod would not comment on. but not having one on active operations will raise fresh questions about the effectiveness of britain's naval fleet. more than 400 whales have beached on the coast of new zealand, one of the worst whale strandings ever seen in

. >>> massive crowds in trafalgar square and they're gathered for the first open-air screening by theity. matt is there in the thick of things. let's talk about what this is all about and what folks will see. >> reporter: politics always follow behind the academy awards or not so far behind, excuse me. this is no different. this year we're seeing the outrage and anger washing up on to european shores and so just today as we're getting ready for the academy awards in l.a. we're seeing an outdoor premiere screening of "the salesman" by iranian director askar farhadi, before donald trump implemented the immigration restrictions, he was going to be traveling to l.a. and now he still is in tehran where he addressed us just moments ago and this huge square gathered in iconic trafalgar square. i spoke with the london mayor sadiq khan. take a listen to what he said. >> at a time when people are putting up ban, they're trying to motivate people by fear there's talk of walls being built, we want to send a message of hope, building bridges and showing the world that you can bring people together

there are some people who are coming because they want to see a great film in trafalgar square.here are some people coming because they're disgusted with what their leader is doing with the travel ban. my motivation for showing the film is to show the world that we are the cultural capital of the world, to show the world that where others are talking about bans, we're going to welcome people. >> reporter: so this big event is coming under #londonisopen and this is what mayor sadiq khan is trying to impress upon not just the american public, and not just donald trump and the british public, that this is about opening up to cultural differences and making an inclusive london and projecting that to the world and just one more thing, alex. what's interesting here is this film is made by an iranian filmmaker who said he wasn't able to go to the united states because of the immigration limitations, but there is an interesting american element to this film. much of this plot actually revolves around a group of iranians staging arthur miller's "death of a salesman" that's where the titl

in addition, former nasa official, and sadiq khan hosted a free screening of the film in trafalgar square tonight. a syrian cinematographer who shot the oscar nominated netflix documentary "white helmets" will also be a no-show at tonight's awards. the film which profiles the civilian team of first responders behind iconic images of rescues like these, was nominated for best documentary short. khaled khateeb was granted rmrmission by the u.s. to attend it the awards but according to i a statement his passport was revoked by the syrian government. the film's director and other crew members are expected to attend. syrian president bashar al-assad has accused the white helmets as being a front for al-qaeda. and of faking footage of the aftermath of air strikes. charges the group themselves deny. elaine. >> quijano: jonathan vigliotti, thanks. natalie portman is sitting out the oscars tonight, nominated for best lead actress for her portrayal of jacqueline kennedy in jackie. portman says her pregnancy will prevent her from attending. she is in her third trimester. as hollywood celebrates its

yes, in trafalgar square in the middle of the night, a huge turnout and he is a brilliant director.an. it was called taxi came round. amazingly he is anti— regime and yet he works. they have not done anything punitive to him in a run. —— in iran. he is angry about the dance so he will not come to the ceremony. the ceremony sta rts come to the ceremony. the ceremony starts in five minutes. thank you very much. we will have lots more on the oscars when that ceremony starts. hello, good morning. the weekend brought us some wet and windy weather, but at least it was on the mild side. some of the wettest weather was around glasgow area, so we had scenes like this sent in by one of our weather watchers, and most of that rain came due to storm ewan. that area of low pressure is running to the north of scotland, but it could return on tuesday as a much weaker feature. in its wake, though, we are drawing down some cold air. that brings with it the risk of some frost, ice and some snow as well. and the risk is greatest by the morning across the northern half of the uk, some snow over the hill

actors keira knightley and dominic west were in trafalgar square yesterday, and not at the oscars, ashar farhadi, was boycotting the awards in protest at the travel ban initiated by president trump. the mayor of london was in the square, too, and then hours later the film itself won the award for best foreign language film. a little—known victorian chapel in east london could be lost because it has been damaged by leaking rainwater. the chapel is hidden inside the roof of oxford house, in bethnal green, which is well over 100 years old. it provides programmes for the community, but needs a lot of work. the roof needs to be replaced. we need to do lots of major repairs to the windows. the lift that services where the chapel is, upon the third floor, is broken. we can't afford to fix it. it is going to be a really challenging time. at its worst we might have to sell the building. i hope we won't have to do that. it is too important a placejust hope we won't have to do that. it is too important a place just to hope we won't have to do that. it is too important a placejust to be turned ho

we'll be in trafalgar square where campaigners are calling on ministers to make cycling safer.. not a great morning for emerging from under the duvet but as temperatures rise, a lot of the snow will turn back to rain with not much disruption around. a slight covering here and over the hills. to show you where it's been over the last few hours, parts of eastern scotland and the pennines and eastern parts of wales. the odd flurry elsewhere in england and wales and especially to the south and east. not cloudy and raining and snowing everywhere because western scotland and northern ireland have sunshine this morning but a frost sees temperatures down to —10 in parts of the highlands. eastern scotland above freezing just about but rain on the coast, a bit of sleet and snow inland, the same in northern england and to eastern parts of wales, mainly light snow falling at the moment. some in the south—west and wales will see some sunshine but for most in england and wales, a great start, some snow possible in kent, sussex and southwark. a lot of places that sees no first thing will get

he‘s on parliament square and not trafalgar square! nhs trusts in england report an overspend of nearly £900 million in the first nine months of the financial year despite extra funding from the government. a big rise in council tax bills across england as local authorities try to tackle the social care crisis. most households could be charged 5% more from april. hello. now a look at how the markets in europe have ended the trading session. in london, the ftse 100 has been struggling today. it has had some big fallers — with unilever and bovis homes down considerably. royal bank of scotland are doing well today. rbs has struggled to find a buyer. analyst at morgan stanley said the move could add 10% to profits by 2019. rbs is expected to report a lossen friday, but the bank‘s boss said it would return to the black next year. bovis homes announced it is setting aside £7 million to compensate customers who were sold unfinished orfaulty homes. it customers who were sold unfinished or faulty homes. it announced a customers who were sold un

our home affairs correspondent, nick beake, is at the demonstration in trafalgar square and joins uss hoped? well, we're just adding to lose the light in westminster, you can see that big ben is now illuminated, and in the last half—hour or so more people have been arriving in parliament square. certainly not the sizeable crowd we saw a few weeks ago when they were responding to the news that there would be a state visit. we expect more people to arrive for about six o'clock, and there is a stage behind me, and there will be speakers, and we have got politicians, activists, musicians, including the paloma faith and lily allen. we got a flavour of the debate inside parliament, some four, some against the state visit. they are some against the state visit. they a re really of some against the state visit. they are really of one voice here, people are really of one voice here, people are completely against the visit, and they cite the way that donald trump has treated migrants, particularly the ban on people from mainly muslim countries getting into the united states of america. so we e

another wonderful book by recently deceased friend of mine about the spanish navy at trafalgar, which you should buy after you buy my book. that will give you a more balanced view of how these babies worked. they were all professional. they did their duty and their bids us. by the way, they were all royal navies. in my book is a british navy ranch because it was the british royal navy. and it's armando rayon and spanish. all very, very good. sorry. >> benjamin lincoln, the guy that except to the surrender at yorktown, and see an ancestor of abraham lincoln? >> intriguing question that i am willing to bet it's probably answerable quickly, but i don't know. i hope somebody here baby afterwards. anybody in the audience happen to know the answer? if you could come to the microphone. [inaudible] >> okay, the answer to the question was benjamin lincoln's second in command to george washington could than in charleston, by the way. was he an ancestor direct of abraham lincoln and this gentleman says no biography of benjamin lincoln mentioned. thank you. so let's look into this. if you find so

after my book and another wonderful book by a recently-deceased friend of mine about spanish navy at trafalgarhich you should buy after you buy my book. that will give you a more balanced view how these navies worked. they were all professional. they knew their duties and very professional. by the way they were all royal navies. in my book i say british, pan r spanish french. there was l.a. royale in french and royale armada in spanish. they were all royal navies and very, very good. sir? >> benjamin lincoln, the guy that accepted surrender at yorktown, he is a ancestor of abraham lincoln? >> intriguing question that i am willing to bet is probably answerable quickly but i don't know. and i hope somebody here, maybe afterwards anybody in the audience know that answer. if you could come to the microphone so that -- >> repeat the question. >> no biography of lincoln i'm aware of mentions this man as his ancestor. >> so the question was, was benjamin lincoln the second-in-command to george washington who had been at charleston by the way, was he an ancestor direct of abraham lincoln? and this gen

here to penalise british citizens who for one reason or another might not be earning a very ash trafalgar out. they are being penalised because they have married somebody who is from outside the european economic area. thank you for coming on the programme. clearly, you're together, living in newcastle and you have a child as well. but i think leanne, because you don't earn the minimum income requirement, you don't earn enough according to the government then you aj can't stay as you're an american citizen? yeah, that's right. we have been fighting an immigration battle with this for four years now just immigration battle with this for four years nowjust basically trying to get them to see the human aspect side of things. you know, i don't earn £18600, that isn't an average salary within my area. you know, and you know, it is a struggle to try and hit that amount of money and for that reason, we have been fighting a visa, you know, fighting a battle with the immigration. obviously if aj was to be removed, it would cause some problems for our son who, you know, who would be devastated by t

the sun newspaper is also reporting that four trafalgar class boats are also non—operational. it doesn't comment on specific operations, but that the royal navy "continues to meet all operational tasking." campaigners are at the high court to challenge the government's handling of the arrival of unaccompanied child refugees from europe. ministers have decided to end the scheme once 350 vulnerable children have been admitted. some news comedian in the last hour, french police sources say four people have been arrested by anti—terror police in montpellier in southern france. they are reportedly being held on suspicion of planning an attack on an unnamed tourist site. we can cross to our correspondent, naomi grimely, who has more on this. they are saying this was an imminent attack? indeed, it sounds like the police believe they have foiled something that was fairly along in its planning. what we know so far is that four people were arrested including a 16—year—old girl and three men. they are believed to have got hold of acetone, which is a highly flammable liquid, and that is s

the london mayor says that it will play in traffic will square -- in trafalgar square the same day ass, 24 hours a day, powered by more than 2600 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. i'm mark crumpton. this is bloomberg. oliver: let's head back to the bloomberg sports business summit, where we are talking to some of the biggest names in the industry. scarlet fu is standing by. scarlet: we are speaking with the ceo of the u.s. olympic committee. great to see you. >> thank you for having me. scarlet: the presidents immigration ban does not affect olympic athletes at all, does it? >> we do host a lot of competitions in the u.s. one of the things were so proud of is over the last five or six years, we have reached out and tried to host events in some of the lower profile olympic sports. we have to make sure that those events are open to athletes from all around the world so that when we have a competition here we will coordinate very closely with the state department, which has been great with us tom at to make sure that athletes have access. we have 21 iranian archers admitted

over in south—east london we‘ve got westbound delays on the a206 trafalgar road, from blackwall laneain around through the morning rush—hour, but a lot of dry weather. and then the main rain band is headed in, pushing in from the west, headed into the morning, through to the first part of the afternoon, with the odd heavy burst of rain. then it will clear as we head into the late afternoon. perhaps even a little late brightness too. top temperatures, 10—11. quite windy, and the wind will strengthen through the overnight period too. a few spots of rain but otherwise mostly dry. it will feel a bit chilly tonight, overnight lows of six or seven. now, tomorrow, we have a met office weather warning for the strength of the wind. it‘s going to be quite windy through the day, but it will be especially strong through the evening rush hour, perhaps gusting as high as up to 40 mph. and then a decent start with sunny spells. then we get the rain. it will start to cloud over, heading into the afternoon. that‘s when we see the strong wind as we head into the first part of the evening. hello, this

and i am in trafalgar square where hundreds of cyclists are staging a protest following the deaths ofhree cyclists on london's roads in just one week. and matt has the weather. a cold feeling day for all of us today, limited slow to begin. a coating in some places, but for many, that snow will turn back to rain. good morning. first, our main story. schoolchildren are to be offered lessons in cyber—security to encourage more younger people to pursue a career in defending britain from online attacks. it's hoped that thousands of teenagers in england will spend up to four hours a week on the subject, over the next five years. here's our home affairs correspondent tom symonds. daniel kelly is a convicted teenage hacker facing a jail sentence. in 2015, he took part in a massive digital break—in of talktalk. what if his potential had been harnessed at an earlier age? he may have ended upjoining a new breed of apprentices learning the cyber security trade, like these at bt‘s headquarters. with that in mind, the government is putting up £20 million for nearly we will always keep it under revi