host: joining us is chris walsh. he is here to talk about attorney general jeff sessions' decision to reverse a federal obama air of marijuana enforcement policy and how it can impact the marijuana industry. thank you for joining us. guest: thank you for having me. host: talk about the recreational marijuana industry now that we have had states legalizing it. how big is it? guest: this is a multibillion dollar industry. several billion dollars a year are in retail sales from the recreational site. it has surpassed the medical marijuana industry, where you have 30 states legalized. it has stormed onto the scene. industry in the states that legalized it. host: a market watch piece called it a 50 bali are -- a $50 billion industry. how many jobs are created in the states voting to legalize marijuana? guest: you have over 200,000 jobs in general. number is set to double or triple, just like retail sales in the coming years as off.ornia's markets takes there is a lot of growth on the horizon. host: back to the market watc

the syracuse mayor, ben walsh. kathy sheehan, mike spano. we are joined by our county executives, from my hometown all the way to suffolk. latimer.ns, george [applause] i would also like to recognize -- congratulations on your reelection. [applause] there was a cold inauguration, but i will let it slide. i would like them to stand and be recognized. applause >> i would like to welcome --

former deputy chief of staff katey walsh is quoted as saying that mr. trump's leadership style is like trying to figure out what a child wants. >> the book reportedly claims that the president's long time friend thomas berrick described him to another friend this way. he's not only crazy, he's stupid. both walsh and berrick deny they said those quotes that we mentioned. author michael wolff writes that mr. trump never expected or wanted to win the election. and most everyone in his campaign agreed he probably shouldn't be president. listen to this passage about the moment they realized victory was at hand. there was in the space of little more than an hour and steve bannon's not unamused observation a befuddled trump morphing into a disbelieving trump and then into a horrified trump. but still to come was the final transformation suddenly. donald trump became a man who believed that he deserved to be and was fully capable of being the president of the united states. all right. let's bring back the panel for more lively discussion. jack, starting with yo

host: joining us is chris walsh.is here to talk about attorney general jeff sessions' decision to reverse a federal obama air of marijuana enforcement policy and how it can impact the marijuana industry. thank you for joining us. guest: thank you for having me. host: talk about the recreational marijuana industry now that we have had states legalizing it. how big is it? guest: this is a multibillion dollar industry. several billion dollars a year are in retail sales from the recreational site.

fergus walsh, bbc news.orts are being made in the us senate to prevent a shutdown of the government. it comes as president trump prepares to mark one year in power. with republicans and democrats bitterly divided over immigration, what's called the ‘budget bill‘ is unlikely to pass. if there's no agreement by the midnight deadline, many government services will grind to a halt. president trump has said there has been some progress to avoid shutdown and has called for a funding extension, that is in the last 0ur north american editor jon sopel reports. so help me god. congratulations, mr president. a year ago today, donald trump stood on the steps of the capitol, promising to make america great again, promising to drain the swamp, promising to fix the nation's broken politics. this american carnage stops right here and stops right now. one year on, the government stands being paralysed by the prospect of a shutdown that nobody wants, with democrats and republicans fighting bitterly over a funding deal for fed

kayte walsh is a good example. i don't think she's somebody necessarily disloyal. first of all, she wasn't necessarily a trump person, more of an establishment person. >> steve bannon with him in the fight. >> big surprise you get in steve bannon and this happens? should we be surprised? if you look at the think walsh says, i did find those the most concerning things. she talks about it's like trying to figure out what a child wants, dealing with the president. she scad jared kushner tell me what his top three priorities are. he said i can't. portrays basically, what we have observed from the outside she really lends credence to the idea that the president is in over his head. >> kayte walsh has come up tonight. she has completely and flatly denied saying this. >> the last hour. >> i've been communicating with someone close to her. they believe bannon is saying these things and attributing them to katye for the author. >> we reached out to her. she said she -- >> some of these anecdotes is the sourcing correct on this may tear down this author's credibility. >> i w

or no, it rings true, whether katie walsh said it or not. which i'm sure she did, but if she didn't, 30 about people did. have you the gary cohn memo, absolutely devastating, saying things we heard about before. we will get back to that portion in a second. jeremy bash, let's just talk about the law the prosecution, if are you a prosecutor and are you looking at this situation, you are looking at a cast of characterers that one by one by one are turning on the president of the united states and all the president's men and all the president's women, right now, it's looking like of the loyalists around donald trump, it's now boiled down to trump and his children who are still loyal to him. what is the impact of having the national security adviser who spent more time complaining in 2016 and seen as the guy that trump trusted to have around him the most, now cooperating with the feds. what does it mean to have the campaign manager now, of course, if trouble with the feds, possibly facing a lifetime if jamie? what does it mean when you have one

nick payton walsh live in london.you. >> facebook overhauling its news feed to focus on posts from your friends and family instead of publishers and brands. in an exclusive interview from cnn's lori siegl, adam said facebook will change how it ranks posts. >> the idea is to try and focus more on bringing people together by trying to put more emphasis on facilitating more meaningful social interactions between people. and the way we do that in ranking is to value things like commenting or writing a long comment more and valuing things like how long we might -- how long we think you watch a video for or less. >> facebook will elevate posts you interact with, demote news posts. facebook has 2 billion users. so, any change is a seismic event. but this update comes after a year of criticism, big criticism about the content on facebook including fake news and posts used to meddle in the elections. a lot of criticism that they've been done this too late, that they were for too long allowing their platform to be used for misi

let's go to london and bring in nick paton walsh. what is the view in europe? >> reporter: there is con pucks among european allies of the trump administration still wants after a year of officially being in power. certainly crucial like the iran nuclear agreement and the prutr white house talked change. and the retweet of the british first group. a right wing group has left many confused. also, too, the paris climate agreement pulling out of that has left people concerned over u.s. leadership of climate change. perhaps an element of relief that the worst fears have not come through. we have not seen the korean peninsula for example even flamflame -- enflamed in ways. trepidation over what could happen in the next three years. >> nick paton walsh, thank you. >>> huge gains against isis in iraq. the opinion of the u.s. leadership has taken a hit in the past year. we have arwa damon live in er l erbil. give us the sentiment there. when you talk to trump supporters in the united states, they point out that isis is almost objeliterated and on the run. >> reporter:

accused walsh of leaking about him.y phone records versus yours, he went in there protecting donald trump? anyone feel they shouldn't be leaking to the press about what's going on inside the white house? >> no, the biggest leaker was donald trump. i mean, many of the leaks that he would come out and rail against started because he gets on the phone at night, with his codery of friends and billionaires, and motor mouths. i mean, is donald trump aware of what he's saying? i would suspect not all of it. and it just goes. and then -- and then they call other people to say, oh, my god, this is what he said. and then those people call other people and suddenly you have leaked -- you know, you have the fact that reince priebus is going to be fired tomorrow, steve bannon is going to be fired tomorrow, everybody is going to be fired tomorrow, this is all donald trump. >> you talk a lot about his mental stability, his fitness for office, his preparation for office, his willingness to learn, you describe a lot of the character of

joan walsh on cnn an annual list over there was asked a moment ago, would you rather live in haiti ororway. she said with a straight face, i can't say. now, that's lying. if we have gotten to the point where we all have to pretend every country is as exactly as nice as every other country then we are being dishonest. >> basically they are talking about -- i think the outrage here is about the insult on the people who come from these countries, making a living in the united states. contributing fully to the u.s. talking specifically aboutut el salvador and haiti where tps was revoked by the trump administration. between these countries we are talking, people from those countries they are contributing close tore $170 billion in g.d.p. a year and they are making a full contribution to the economy. >> tucker: it's a complicated picture but i agree with you, if you are saying that a lot of people coming from those countries are good people, of course i agree.ely the idea that you are not allowed to say that they are pretty crummy countries haiti, for example, or el salvador, i have been to

for example, during the presentation, commander walsh twice apologized for going over time. no one stopped him. no one was concerned about it. he was, and i think that was respectful of him to say that. but that the woman that was speaking for us, kristina maria was cutoff immediately and the sound killed at exactly two minutes with no opportunity or respect for her to say, could you wind it up, could you -- other people want to speak. you know you're a respected member of the community. no, she was just cutoff. and so again, there was not -- no one informed us of where that meeting was moved to, and people were locked out of city hall, and that is not legal, so we're going to fight this tazer thing, and we're going to keep being the best city in this country to not have violence and people being killed or tazered with electric shock that we at first also was never discussing was fatal. and now of course we have to own that that's the truth and over 1,000 people have died from tazers. and by the way, you know, the mental health issues within the police department and with of

there is no pressure from joan walsh or the american left. chinese to absorb immigration from any of those regions at all. they are not denounced as racist for keeping their borders totally closed to everybody. why is that? i wonder. >> well, because china is allowed to advance its own interests. so it's bought, for example, a big box industry in jamaica. it doesn't feel along with that it has to import a big bunch of jamaicans to its country. people can object to what president trump says. but it actually makes far more sense than if you look at what pat leahy said who just sent out this tweet in response bleeping that's not who we are. it's not enough to actually say that's not who we are. and, in fact, that's the response to everyone of these so-called problems. that's not who we are. they never actually say who we are. that's that's not who we're. who we are seems to be devolving into the people who say that's not who we are. everybody else, china, haiti, norway is allowed to be who we are and act as a nation in its own national interests

appointment, lawrence walsh the independent counsel, trying to get him disqualified.i think this is even less likely to succeed as north's suit did not succeed. it might have a somewhat bit e bett -- better chance as a motion to dismiss the indictment once he gets to trial as opposed to a entirely different lawsuit but just another example of how every tool is being used to try to discredit mueller. and now it is his -- now he doesn't have the right to do what he's doing. his staff is biased. you just see day after day this is going on. >> does it tell you, carl, about where the investigation is. >> a lot. this is a -- part of a concerted effort by people around donald trump to make this investigation go away. and what we have seen in the past 24 hours with these tweets, my button is bigger than your button and i stopped airplane crashes and now this extraordinary book that goes to the same picture that all of us have known about donald trump, and have talked about -- for months. this is about a toxic president and a tox is presidency and a dangerous presidency. and m

let's go to london and bring in nick paton walsh. nick, feelings of the u.s. have taken a hit in europe. what is the view? >> reporter: i think to some degree the recognition of the things could have been worse. there is still quite a lot of consternation among european allies. particularly when it comes to the iran deal for example which the europeans still steadfastly stand by, but are surprised to see the level of rhetoric from the trump administration. there continues to threaten to get rid of it, but not necessarily taking that particular action. on top of that as well, we have seen in retweeting tweets from the right wing group which is convicted of criminal activity. that caused surprise here and in the middle of the night whether he c-- night where he canceled the trip to the london area for the embassy opening. the rhetoric doesn't always match the actions. >> thank you, nick. you have the stock market at record highs and low unemployment. you have an economy that is certainly moving in the right direction. the president takes credit for it. will he g

here's our medical correspondent fergus walsh.en years since ali was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. it is rare for anyone with the disease to survive that long. there is no screening programme, so tumours are usually found too late. a blood test would make a big difference. if we are able to get more people diagnosed sooner, like me, then it's going to make me feel a lot happier. there are only 1% of us who are surviving, like me, to ten years, and it's a bit of a lonely place. there aren't many of us around. and i would really like pancreatic cancer to become more of a chronic disease rather than such an acute, deadly disease, as it is now. scientists atjohns hopkins university in baltimore have made significant progress towards a blood test for cancer. the team examined blood samples from around 1,000 cancer patients. they had one of eight different common cancers — lung, liver, pancreas, colon, oesophagus, breast, stomach or ovary. now, cancer cells shed bits of dna, which circulate in the blood, so the test looked for 16 ge

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walsh later denied that remark. >> i absolutely spoke to the president. >> reporter: sanders said the author, michael wolff, only had limit the access to mr. trump, a claim wolff disputed this morning. >> i mean, i've spent about three hours with the president over the course of the campaign and in the white house. >> reporter: in a tweet today, the president called that book phony, said it was full of lies, and implied that wolff has made a career out of inventing stories. jeff. >> glor: margaret brennan, thank you very much. the f.b.i. is once again investigating a charity the president often brings up, the clinton foundation. here's jfs correspondent jeff pegues. >> this program has created more and more opportunities. >> reporter: cbs news has learned in recent weeks f.b.i. agents have been re-examining the clinton foundation were made in exchange for political favors between 2009 and 2013 when hillary clinton was secretary of state. >> my theory about all this is disclose everything, and then let people make their judgments. >> reporter: since president clinton left office, his f

en oakland pilar nino noticiero telemundo 48 ---identifican a "michelle nanette walsh" de 58 aÑos dedel auto conducido por su hijo durante una persecucin en dakota del sur . --una autopsia fue realizada el dia de ayer y an se esperan los resultados, autoridades recavaron evidencia en la casa de walsh en palm springs y segun las autoridades habian antecedentes de violencia domestica y disputa sobre unos cheques del welfare. ---- el sujeto termin arrestado ---la fecha para solicitar la nueva licencia y tarjeta de identificacin conocida como "real id" con el departamento de vehiculos motorizados de california se aproxima . pero hay muchas preguntas sobre esta identificacin.. ---pero como nos dice david gonzlez, las personas indocumentadas y los menores de edad, no calificaran para esta renovacin. banner armando ana david joshua nats "now serving number g-25 on window number 6" este llamado para servicio al cliente, calificado por muchos californianos como uno de los más arduos y laboriosos podría incrementar en las próximas dos semanas... sot armando botello vocero del departamento de m

fergus walsh, bbc news, rome.ub itself has not yet been seen. staff at the highland wildlife park say they first heard the baby‘s cries in late december. but they don‘t expect the cub — or possibly cubs — to emerge until march. up in the snowy hills of highlands, listen carefully. a sound which has not been heard in the uk for 25 years — the cries of a new—born polar bear cub emerged from this den the week before the christmas. and they have been heard every day since. this is dad arctos, he is in a separate enclosure. he can feed and play. for new, mum victoria must not be disturbed, but the park is very excited. we discovered the cub when my colleague nicky went up there on one of my days off and she rang me very excitedly to tell me that she could hear a cub in the den. it is a very distinctive, very loud noise that the cubs make. so she was incredibly excited and then the next day i heard the noise for myself. arks to and victoria mated last year. this footage shows a polar bear club born in the netherlands. t

the bbc‘s fergus walsh there.h his young children. the star said he would say goodbye to fans with a series concerts spanning three years. nick bryant has been speaking to the singer. eltonjohn used elton john used a eltonjohn used a virtual reality show of previous performances to announce that he doesn't want to do the real thing any more. after almost 50 years of performing around the world, he has finally decided where is future lies. and it is away from departure land, immigration halls and 180 flights per year. from departure land, immigration halls and 180 flights per yearlj have found a house were we both could live. he wants to spend more time with his family. i've never had that before, i've never had children. it has changed my life, i love them so much and i like being with them and i don't like leaving them behind and wherever i go they say please daddy, don't go. i facetime them now, i said say please daddy, don't go. i facetime them now, isaid ijust announced my last two, they said you will be here.

here's fergus walsh. and five months pregnant, laura faced childbirth and then cancer treatment. she carries a brca gene mutation and so, like many women in her position, she opted to have both breasts removed. i decided to have a double mastectomy. my oncologist was keen for me to have it and i was, as well, because i was told that the risk of me getting cancer again was 50%, so it didn't seem worth the risk, really. a new study followed nearly 3,000 women aged 40 or younger diagnosed with breast cancer in britain. it found no difference in survival between those who carried brca breast cancer genes and those who didn't. and it found no survival benefit from a double mastectomy. after ten years, around seven in ten women survived in all groups. so what does this mean for women carrying a brca gene? i think the key message is that it allows them time to consider all of their options. so they may still need to go ahead and have a double mastectomy because of their risk and for long—term survival. but i thi

fergus walsh, bbc news, rome. here's our briefing on some of the key events happening later.nd losing three wickets in the first session. australia have already won the ashes 3-0. australia have already won the ashes 3—0. let's bring you the rest of the sports news now. hello there. i'm tulsen tollett. coming up in your thursday sport briefing, london rivals tottenham and west ham prepare to face off in the premier league. we'll hear from golf‘s world number threejustin thomas ahead of the tournament of champions in hawaii. and what would you do if someone threw a chocolate bar at you? we'll show you how one scottish footballer reacted. the relentless schedule in the english premier league continues on thursday with tottenham hotspur hosting west ham at wembley. both sides have had only 48 hours to recover from their last matches. spurs won 2—0 at swansea on tuesday. west ham snatched a late victory at home to west bromwich albion thanks to a second goal on the night from andy carroll. that win helped david moyes side out of the relegation zone. over in spain, it's the turn o

fergus walsh, bbc news.washington to prevent a shutdown of the us government. with republicans and democrats bitterly divided over immigration, what's called the budget bill is unlikely to pass. if there's no agreement by tonight's midnight deadline, many government services will simply grind to a halt, government offices will shut and hundreds of thousands of employees are likely to be sent home — though essential services will still run. 0ur north american editor jon sopel reports. so help me god. congratulations, mr president. a year ago today, donald trump stood on the steps of the capitol, promising to make america great again, promising to drain the swamp, promising to fix the nation's broken politics. this american carnage stops right here and stops right now. one year on, the government stands being paralysed by the prospect of shutdown that nobody wants, with democrats and republicans fighting bitterly over a funding deal for federal institutions. and at times like this, washington goes into its fav

fergus walsh, bbc news.l our stories including news, business and sport on the website or reaction and analysis from around the world including updated live pages. reports from our correspondence based on 80 international locations and eyewitness accounts. just go to the website. president trump sparks outrage after allegedly making racist comments about african countries. a surgeon who branded his initials on to the livers of two transplant patient is fined £10,000 and given a community service order. president trump's visit to britain next month is off. he had been due to attend the official opening of the new us embassy in south london. but he tweeted he was not a "big fan" of the new building and blamed barack obama's administration for a "bad deal". downing street says an invitation for a state visit still stands, although no date has been set. our diplomatic correspondent james landale has more. the new us embassy, on the south bank of the river thames in london. a monument, we are told, to america's c

it was, said, walsh, like trying to figure out what a child wants. walsh denies making these remarks but it is similar to an article published in this. i got as far as the fourth amendment before his finger is pulling down on his lip and his eyes are rolling back in his head. the white house vehemently denying the accounts saying the book is filled with false and misleading accounts from individuals who have no access or influence with the white house. the president holds several meetings today, none of which are spbgted to be open to the media for the third straight day. the low profile believed to be over anger with the russia investigation. chris and alisyn, back to you. >> joe, thank you very much. let's discuss all of this. joining is us now are cnn political analysts, john avlon and gregory. there is so much intrigue, it's hard to know where to start. let's start with bannon was on the radio last night and all he said was the president is a good man. he didn't deny this stuff. if president trump is really ex communicating steve bannon with the

fergus walsh, bbc news, rome. 2017 was a great year for the music industry.stest rate since the 1990s, and british artists accounted for eight out of ten of last year's bestselling albums. it is notjust digital downloads. there has been a vinyl revival, too. our consumer affairs correspondent nina warhurst reports. 2018 is set to be big for francis lung, releasing his first album on manchester's buzzing music scene. because of the internet, he doesn't need the backing of a big label to be heard. i've got the power to put it online immediately, and everybody that's waiting for it can hear it. whereas before, i would have to wait for someone to give me permission, wait for somebody to tell me that it's good enough for other people to hear. last year, we streamed more music than ever, 68 billion songs, the equivalent of more than 1,000 each. father christmas brought it... perhaps more surprising is how the tables have turned with vinyl records. for some, who had flirted with digital, a return to their first love. i think, and looking after it, making sure doesn'

fergus walsh, bbc news. it's the queen as you've never seen or heard her before.as been giving a unique insight into the day and what it meant to her. she's been speaking to the royal commentator alastair bruce for a bbc programme. a key piece of advice for any would—be monarch — don't look down — as our royal correspondent nicholas witchell reports. she famously doesn't do interviews. this is probably as close as she'll get. a conversation with questions about the coronation, the crownjewels, and the imperial state crown worn by her and her father, king george vi. fortunately, my father and i have about the same sort of shaped head. once you put it on, it stays. it just remains itself. you have to keep your head very still? yes. it was huge then. yes. very unwieldy. you can't look down to read a speech, you have take the speech up, because if you did, your neck would break, it would fall off. it's difficult to always remember that diamonds are stones, so very heavy. yes. so there are some disadvantages to crowns. but otherwise, they're quite important things. she

i am very comfortable with how i reported what katy walsh said and, by the way, i don't say katy walshing out and, in fact, saying she did not say this. i think she says steve bannon, she was quoting steve bannon or something like that. but i will -- and i uh will go further, there is not one person in lows proximity to the president in the west wing who has not used the term that he is like a child. sometimes it's an 11-year-old, sometimes a 6-year-old, sometimes a 2-year-old. always, he is viewed as a child because he is someone who needs immediate and absolute gratification when, where and when he wants it, now. >> woodruff: you mentioned steve bannon, central figure in the book, somebody you talked to a lot here. he did issue a statement over the weekend, pushback, especially -- or drew back the comments you said he made about the president's son, don, jr. why would he do that if he's somebody you -- >> well, i mean, first of all, he didn't. he didn't say anything that i quoted as saying was untrue or even misquoted. what he does try to do in a very try angulated apology in which h

it was, said, walsh, like trying to figure out what a child wants. walsh denies making these remarks but it is similar to an article published in "new york" magazine from sam nunberg who said this about trump's attention span. i got as far as the fourth amendment before his finger is pulling down on his lip and his eyes are rolling back in his head. the white house vehemently denying the accounts saying the book is filled with false and misleading accounts from individuals who have no access or influence with the white house. >> reporter: the president has several meetings with republicans scheduled for today. anger over the russia investigation likely an explanation for the president's low profile this week. chris and alisyn? >> his twitter feed is all about everything but this book this morning. that's obviously a signal that he knows we'll be talking about it and with good reason. joining us once again is cnn political analysts who will come in and talk about this book. john avlon, david gregory. it's interesting. one more reason that it is hard t

i know miss walsh has denied that to axios, but there are tapes of miss walsh?hat particular statement, but, yes, we hear that steve bannon -- katy walsh, the former deputy chief of staff are among those taped by michael wolff. we heard earlier there was little cooperation with michael wolff. michael wolff had unbelievable ak sechls we've been talking to him over many months. the white house said he was formally cleared in to the white house less than 20 times, but for somebody who's going into private areas of the white house including the then chief of staff's auvgs reince priebus's office, that's a lot. and during those early days, we know how much confusion there was. michael wolff would sit in the white house lobby and all of you have seen what the white house lobby is like. everyone comes and goes through there. if you're sitting there waiting for an appointment, you can catch up with a lot of people. michael wolff without get dope from people walking through. sometimes they would walk across the park. >> mike, despite all these bannon comments, he said la

fergus walsh, bbc news. not guilty to trying to kill passengers in a bomb attack on the london underground. ahmed hassan, who's 18, denied attempted murder and causing an explosion at parsons green tube station in west london last september. 30 passengers were taken to hospital. his trial has been set for the 5th of march. ajudge has demanded the police and crown prosecution service explain to him what went wrong in a rape case against an oxford university student, after it collapsed just days before the trial. 0liver mears had spent two years on bail when the cps dropped the case on the basis of fresh evidence. surrey police admit there were flaws in the investigation, including not looking at the complainant's social media history. a couple who are accused of imprisoning, abusing and torturing 12 of their children at their home in california, have appeared in court. david and louise turpin were arrested on sunday after one of their children escaped and raised the alarm. police say the children were fed ver

fergus walsh, bbc news, rome. of lives and driven millions to the brink of starvation. the current crisis started three years ago when houthi rebels took control of parts of the country. last year yemen was hit by the world's worst cholera outbreak. now diphtheria — not widely seen in the country for 30 years — has returned. the bbc‘s nawal al maghafi travelled to the remote village of beit al haboob where more than a0 people have contracted the deadly, yet preventable, disease. hidden between mountains, beit al haboob has mostly been spared the violence of yemen's civil war, but not its consequences. the people in this isolated village, halfway between the warring cities of sanaa and aden, have endured starvation, cholera, have had no schools and no healthcare. now they face a new and entirely preventable threat. 14—year—old raqma has diphtheria, a bacterial infection of the throat. if left untreated, it can kill within days. it's been virtually eradicated in most of the world, but has now come to yemen. translat

fergus walsh, bbc news. england. they lost the final test to give australia a 4—0 victory overall. bowlerjames anderson acknowledged that the visitors had lost to a far better side, and said england were now looking to the future. joe wilson reports. scorched in sydney. at least the morning torture of hearing the ashes score is now over. england 180 all—out in theirfinal innings. nothing left except the hows and whys? we know we've got to improve in a lot of areas. i know the management will be thinking exactly the same, there's improvements everyone can make. you're always looking to improve, but particularly after a loss. so what next? well, the big issue for english cricket is to prepare players for australia in a very different hemisphere. never mind 40 degrees, it's about four here in loughborough. the future mightjust be behind me. this is england's pace programme. promising youngsters in wintertraining. australia had a group of 90 mile an hour men in the ashes, but england don't have fast bowlers. do

cnn's nick payton walsh is live in london. what can you tell us, nick?rter: christine, it is supposed to be protected by a ring of steel. this is near a military university. isis claimed responsibility and they seop to be in tem to be in the longer term insurgency in the area with the taliban. and an ambulance used as a suicide car bomb claimed over 100 lives there and left 150 people still in hospital now. staggering devastation. that, too, in an area that is supposed to be secure and diplomatic corridor. isis claimed responsibility a few days earlier for hitting a children's charity in the east of the country and wind back to last weekend, the previous saturday, that is when we saw the intercontinental hotel in kabul hit by the taliban. it appears these groups are trying to show which one is the most prevalent in under mining kabul security. this is under the issues of president trump will be winning here and it makes afghan to look to the police to protect it in the capital particularly when so many fled the violence. bear in mind, that attack on the

fergus walsh, bbc news, rome. a member of the qatari royalfamily. police say at least two thieves took a brooch and earrings with a minimum value of a million dollars. it happened on the last day of an exhibition called treasures of the mughals and the maharajahs. the police chief has suggested the exhibition's security system failed. he claimed the alarm on the glass case holding the jewels went off late, if at all. in the uk at polar bear has given before the first time in 35 years and you can see victoria with her companion. staff at the highland wildlife park in scotland say they are thrilled and they will keep victoria's enclosure closed until march to give the offspring every chance of survival. and just briefly the main story again — president trump has fallen out very publicly indeed with one of his former key advisers, accusing him of losing his mind. steve bannon was mr trump's chief strategist and widely credited with helping him win the white house. he's quoted in a new book as saying that a meeting he

fergus walsh, bbc news, rome. 2017 was a great year for the music industry.nloaded rose at its fastest rate since the 1990s. and home grown artists like ed sheeran accounted for eight out of ten of last year's best selling albums. 0ur consumer affairs correspondent nina warhurst has been looking at the figures. # i have no time... 2018 is set to be big for francis lung. # give it back... releasing his first album on manchester's buzzing music scene. because of the internet, he doesn't need the backing of a big label to be heard. i've got the power to put it online immediately and everybody that is waiting for it can hear it. whereas before, i would have to wait for someone to give me permission, wait for somebody to tell me that it is good enough for other people to hear. last year we streamed more music than ever, 68 billion songs. the equivalent of more than a thousand each. father christmas brought it, and that is elbow... perhaps more surprising is how the tables have turned with vinyl records. as some who had flirted with digital returned to their first

fergus walsh, bbc news.an markle were an hour late for their first official visit to wales this afternoon because their train was delayed. that didn't stop hundreds of people braving the cold to greet them with cheers outside cardiff castle. the couple — who are due to marry in may — are on a tour of uk cities to introduce meghan to her new home. the pope has performed an impromptu wedding ceremony on a flight over chile. the couple, both employees of the airline, approached the pope with their request during the flight. 0ur religion editor martin bashir has the story. they'd walked up the aisles on many occasions, but never in church. flight attendants paula ruiz and carlos elorriga married in a civil ceremony because their church in santiago had been destroyed by an earthquake eight years ago. and so they asked the pope if he would bless their union. but pope francis, who wrote about love in the family

fergus walsh, thank you. -- and no reputable scientist wants to clone humans.k has risen to a record high. unemployment in the uk fell by 3000 to 1.41; million in the three months to november. but the data from the office for national statistics also shows that wage growth remained below the level of inflation. it's emerged that victims of the rapistjohn worboys were sent letters by police and prosecutors after his conviction — telling them he'd be injailfor a long time. many are angry that the 60—year—old former taxi driver has been approved for release from prison by the parole board nine years after his trial. the former prime minister david cameron has been caught on camera saying that the uk's decision to leave the european union was a mistake, not a disaster. mr cameron was chatting at the world economic forum in davos and heard saying that brexit has turned out "less badly than we first thought." 0ur political editor laura kuenssberg reports. davos — where the great and good allegedly work out what is going on in the world. what happens to the uk outside

fergus walsh, bbc news, rome.n his former chief strategist, someone on his former chief strategist, someone he had called a friend as well. he says when steve bannon was fired by her maidenjust well. he says when steve bannon was fired by her maiden just loses well. he says when steve bannon was fired by her maidenjust losesjob, he lost his mind. in fact, an extraordinary attack on a man who worked very hard to get donald trump into the white house. more on that tomorrow no doubt, thanks for watching, i will see you then quite a storm cover tuesday night into the early hours of wednesday across the uk. the good news is no storms in the short—term. but let's have a look at those gale force winds, in fact storm force winds in the north of the country, 100 mph, great dun fell, even west london itself 73 mph and in london we had some damage as well, in big cities we don't get winds of that sort of strength. a lot of trees falling down across many parts of the uk, masonry falling off some buildings as well. really dang