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A nswe is where will they play . All the answers coming up where will they play . All the answers coming up for england and the other 31 teams in the world cup draw which starts at three oclock. It will be very exciting. Thanks, catherine. Tomas has all the weather technically the first day of winter . Yes, meteorologists considered the 1st of december the first day of winter, and we have a great afternoon on the way, in terms of sunshine, and it will be turning milder. Also coming up Health Inspectors order a review of all nhs Radiology Services in england, after a hospital in portsmouth failed to spot three cases of lung cancer. Hello, everyone this is afternoon live im ben brown. Friends of the embattled cabinet minister damian green have been rallying around him today after new claims that police found thousands of pornographic images on his parliamentary computer. A retired Scotland Yard detective has told the bbc he was shocked at the volume of pornographic materialfound during a raid on mr greens Westminster Office almost ten years ago. Damien green, in effect theresa mays deputy, has again strongly denied looking at pornography on his computer. Our Home Affairs Correspondent danny shaw reports. Hes theresa mays oldest and most trusted political ally. But now, damian green is facing a battle for political survival, with claims he viewed pornography on his work computer. Mr green has vehemently denied the allegations. But now, the detective who examined the device has given me his account. The shocking thing was, as i was viewing it, i noticed a lot of pornography, thumbnails, which indicated web browsing. But a lot. There was a lot of them. So i was surprised to see that on a parliamentary computer. How many images did you see . Thousands. Thousands of pornographic images . Thumbnail images. The computer had been seized in 2008, after police raided damian greens offices. The mp, then in opposition, was the subject of an unrelated enquiry into home office leaks. He was never charged. How can you be sure that it was damian green who was accessing that pornography . Theres a sort of phrase you cant put fingers on a keyboard. So i cant say that, but the computer was in mr greens office, on his desk, logged in to his accounts, his name. In between browsing pornography, he was sending e mails from his account, his personal account, reading documents, writing documents. 0utside his home in kent today, damian green maintained his innocence. A Cabinet Office enquiry is continuing into his conduct. Mr green. Ive said im not commenting any further while the investigation is going on. Ive maintained all along, i still maintain, it is the truth that i didnt download or look at pornography on my computer. But obviously, while the investigation is going on, i cant say any more. And one of mr greens political allies rallied to his defence. Mr green has been absolutely emphatic in what he has said. Hes said repeatedly that he never downloaded nor viewed this material. And i think that mr green is entitled to be believed. After all, you are not guilty until proven so in this country. Scotland yard has said for the first time that it is cooperating with the Cabinet Office enquiry, though neil lewis has not been asked to give evidence. The force is also looking into the circumstances of how mr lewis apparently put confidential information about mr green into the Public Domain. Danny shaw, bbc news. Back to nottingham, prince harry and his fiancee Meghan Markle continuing their visit. Their First Official royal engagement together since they publicly announced they were getting married. They have been raising awareness of hiv and aids, and also reduce crime youth crime. The sunshine is that a Meghan Markle is looking very relaxed. Is out and Meghan Markle is looking very relaxed. We can speak to our correspondent, sarah, by looking very relaxed. That is what everyone said, the first time they appeared in nottingham, how tactile they were with each other and with members of the public, but how relaxed and confident they are. We are at notre dame academy, very Large Secondary School on the outskirts of Nottingham Nottingham academy. This is the third visit prince harry has made here this year, eu supporting a project called full effect he is supporting a project. It tries to help cut youth crime. The early intervention. He has become involved with this issue and the fact he has visited here three times and has chosen this place to be where he introduces Meghan Markle really shows the importance of full effect to him and the importance of that issue. Looking at them, they look very relaxed and happy to chat to as many people as possible. Meghan markle, an actress, used to meeting people and Red Carpet Events but this is her first chance to interact with the british public. Cant quite hear what they are saying from here. Laughter i know, its annoying. The first royal engagement of what potentially will be hundreds maybe thousands for Meghan Markle. Absolutely. She said in the engagement interview on monday that she wanted between now and the wedding, to have boots on the ground and to be out and about and do as much meeting and greeting in the uk and in the commonwealth as possible. This is the start of that. This is bread and butter of what she will be doing for the next however many decades as a high profile member of the royal family. Many decades as a high profile member of the royalfamily. Meeting people and promoting issues that she and prince harry believe in, that are important. She was wearing a coat early on, now looking more relaxed. Chatting to students, who are very excited. This is where they have chosen to come and speak and they are very excited about that. Prince harry, whenever you see him on walkabouts, hes always very animated, he takes time to talk to as many people as possible, shaking hands and talking to people. You can see in both of them, it is clearly pa rt see in both of them, it is clearly part of her personality, her character, which means they will Work Together and they will be a force to be reckoned with when it comes to carrying out the work that the Royal Foundation wants to carry out. This is their last engagement of the day. The first was in the middle of the city of nottingham, highlighting the issue of aids awareness, because this is world aids day. This is their second and final engagement. Thanks forjoining us. With me is royal commentator and former Buckingham Palace spokesman dickie arbiter. Prince harry is used to this, and to a degree, Meghan Markle is used to this, as well, but this is different, as a royal. It is very different. And nottingham has a variety of different accents and so she might find some of them difficult to understand. They will go back at the end of the day today, after this engagement, to kensington palace, but their feet up and think ofa palace, but their feet up and think of a job well done, because that is exactly what it is. You are a team, and this is their first royal engagement, First Official royal engagement, First Official royal engagement, and they will be carrying out maybe hundreds of engagements over the course of the coming years. I remember. Harry putting his arm on her back. I remember years ago when i was a reporter at the time of the engagement of the prince of wales and diana. Referring to them once they had got married as a good double act. This has the makings of a very good double act because they communicate with each other and with people, and they are there on the ground, doing what is necessary, and thatis ground, doing what is necessary, and that is high profile, whatever the event. That is the end of their day, they are off back home. They have high profiled everything they have done today, Terrence Higgins trust, the event they are leaving, all very important to harry and will be imported to Meghan Markle, as well. Important. Imported to Meghan Markle, as well. Important. That is it for the moment. Sarah campbell just important. That is it for the moment. Sarah campbelljust back there, stepping into shot very elegantly. Beautifully done. The weather has improved. They did not need their coats on at the end. Weather has improved. They did not need their coats on at the endm was significantly colder in the centre of nottingham for their first engagement, i can tell you. Even then, to the delight of the crowd, Meghan Markle did not wear gloves and everyone got to shake her hand and everyone got to shake her hand and was able to look at the diamond ring which caused excitement. It is fairto ring which caused excitement. It is fair to say, the reaction from the crowds, here at the academy and in the city centre, has been overwhelmingly positive with people happy to see someone who looked very relaxed and confident and someone who can take wildlife in their stride. That would be how people would reflect on it who can take royal life in their stride. I think they will become a good Team Together and as part of the Royal Foundation, it will now be prince harry and Meghan Markle, he has the personal support as well. Sarah, thanks forjoining us. Under the blue skies of nottingham. And thanks to my guest in the studio. And now back to our top story. Damian green again denying downloading and viewing pornography on his parliamentary computer, despite a former policeman saying he had found extensive use of the computerfor had found extensive use of the computer for pa nagarry. Had found extensive use of the computer for panagarry. Pornography. 0ur Political Correspondent iain watson is in westminster. Very song was a supporter damian green, though . Very strong words of support. Yes, Andy Mitchell came out earlier, he was questioning why the police had put this in the Public Domain andrea mitchell. Andrew mitchell. I also spoke to crispin blunt, but the most significant development, somebody around the cabinet table speaking out very clearly the damian green, and david davis making it very clear, not on the record yet, but very clear that downing street should not consider dismissing damian green on the basis of the new allegations which we have broadcast today. It is the view of those key allies that nothing has been said today which should in itself constitute his resignation and what he and his allies are trying to do is shift the focus back on to the police to ask the question, why is confidential information obtained during the inquiry nine years ago into Something Else entirely, how can it be right that that has got into the Public Domain. And the wider implications for this. The met police backed that up, as well. Theres a political rescue job going on in terms of damian greens career but there is also the Cabinet Office inquiry into damian greens behaviour and conduct, allegation he behaved improperly to a young female journalist, which he denies. We are expecting to get that report very soon. We cant say he will be safe in hisjob from now soon. We cant say he will be safe in his job from now on soon. We cant say he will be safe in hisjob from now on but he and allies like david davis dont believe that anything they have heard today should result in his resignation. As this continues and rumbles on, and we wait for the result of the inquiry, this is another saga hanging over the government and theresa may. Yes, this is not something she will welcome, she meets the European Commission president Jean Claude Juncker next week, talking about the improved british offer on the brexit will and then there is the Crucial European Union summit that will decide whether britain can actually move decide whether britain can actually m ove o nto decide whether britain can actually move onto trade talks with the european union. Behind the scenes, damian green is playing a pivotal role, he chairs several committees and subcommittees that are looking at brexit and he sits on a key Strategy Committee along with the prime minister. She has all the last couple of cabinet ministers for Different Reasons but she wont want to lose a genuine friend and a genuine ally, the question is whether the Cabinet Office report makes it impossible for her to continue with damian green. But at the moment it will be far from welcome to downing street to have new and further allegations doing the rounds when they are focusing on what happens next week in brussels and what happens the week after, crucial to the national interest, and the brexit secretary himself david davis, he is absolutely on site, trying to keep damian green on site, trying to keep damian green on board. On side. On site, trying to keep damian green on board. On side. Thanks for joining us. Youre watching afternoon live, these are our headlines. These are the headlines. Damian green has once again denied viewing pornographic material on his parliamentary computer. Prince harry and Meghan Markle have been beating the public in nottingham. And in the sport. Not long to go now before we find out wholl play who in next years world cup in russia. The draw gets under way at 3 oclock. Craig 0verton has been added to the england squad for the second ashes test, moeen ali bowled in the nets today despite his injured finger, but he may only be fit to bat in adelaide. Englands men have been beaten in their opening match of the World Hockey League final in india. They lost 2 0 to germany and play the hosts in their next match tomorrow, before facing australia. The royal bank of scotland has announced its to close 259 rbs and natwest branches, with the loss of 680 jobs. The state owned company said more people are now choosing to bank via computers and mobile phones. 0ur personal finance correspondent Simon Gompertz reports. The cull of Bank Branches is speeding up. This one is on the list in stockwell in london. Its the biggest Closure Programme rbs natwest has ever announced. Theyve closed our post office. There is nowhere for anybody to go. We have no other banks in this area at all. Well, we need it. Its very useful to this area. We are getting a bit more modern, arent we . I guess we have to roll with the times. There are 58 branches going in london and the south east. 62 in scotland, in wales and the south west 69. Many more in the midlands and the north of england. Heres the reason. So many of us are doing our banking on mobile phones instead or the internet. But there will still be an impact. The people most affected are the ones who cant access Online Banking because they live in areas with poor mobile connection or poor broadband. And people who dont want to engage with Online Banking. People who are maybe older, more vulnerable or simply dont trust those systems and prefer to bank face to face. Here, theyre promising to keep the cashpoint going. The rest shuts in six months. Rbs natwest says that most of its customers dont go into a branch more than once every three months whereas its getting 3500 log ins per minute from people using mobile phones to do banking. So the question is, should they be keeping more of these open for the people who still want them, even though the bank says theyre uneconomic . Remember in 2008, the british taxpayer bailed out rbs. We still own 71 . Its a british bank owned by the british people. But theyve not been consulted about these Branch Closures or job losses. We want the banks to provide a service to the public. A service to the communities. If we own the bank we should have some say in whether branches stay open or are closed. This rbs branch near inverness is another one going its a heavy blow for customers in less populated areas. There will be no banks in the area, there is none in the next village or the next two for that matter. The village has been developing, a lot of people have been doing things it will be hard to understand theyll have no bank in the village. Rbs says its providing banks on wheels in remote places and Community Bankers to help customers find services after the closures. But this is the end for hundreds more branches that people have depended on. We can bring you some breaking news coming from washington. We are hearing that the office of the special counsel has said that mike flynn is being charged with making a false. Wilfully making a false statement to the fbi. Injanuary this year. That he falsely stated that he did not ask the Russian Ambassador to delay a vote on pending Un Security Council resolution, so we are hearing the office of the special counsel in washington saying that Michael Flynn actually. We are hearing that cbs news have confirmed that Michael Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the fbi about his conversations with the Russian Ambassador. That is only on cbs news, but they are saying Michael Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the fbi about his conversations with the Russian Ambassador, so clearly important developments on that whole rush investigation in washington. We will bring you more on that as it comes in russia investigation. The draw for the world cup is less than an hour away, the england manager Gareth Southgate has said his team are prepared for whatever comes. It will be critical. 0ur Sports Correspondent is in moscow. Every nation wants to avoid the so called group of death. What are the chances for england . Yes, the group of death, nobody wants to be in that group, and england will have to ta ke in that group, and england will have to take their chances when the draw is made at the kremlin state palace here this afternoon. 11100 guests will be here to view the ceremony, they are starting to arrive slowly through the snow here in moscow and thenit through the snow here in moscow and then it will be time for gary lineker. He is taking the lead role in the draw and he will be assisted bya group in the draw and he will be assisted by a group of former legends of the game including Diego Maradona, fabio cannavaro, and others, as we find out who will play next year in russia. Vladimir putin will be here, as well, and he might take to the stage to say a few words and that speaks to the importance of this tournament to russia and the russian people and to Vladimir Putin himself stop this is their big moment. The power and the glory todays world cup draw will take place in the very heart of the kremlin, russias moment in the sporting spotlight has arrived once more. The tournament itself is now within touching distance. Fifa and the russian government presenting a united front today, despite the issue still facing them ahead of nextjunes opening game. From what ive seen so far, im convinced that russia 2018 will be the best world cup ever. As for england, the team will be based in a village just north of St Petersburg. It could mean long journeys if drawn to play in the south or east of the country, but englands manager believes the camp will provide a relaxing environment for the players. Weve looked at whats best in terms of hotel paired with training ground, paired with travel, paired with climate. Of course, when youre looking at any venue, you never get absolutely everything that youd like, but we feel that that was the best option for us. Star attractions both on and off the pitch will draw thousands of fans here to russia next summer. Now, organisers say everyone will be welcomed for what they believe will be a festival of football. Nevertheless, the game here has had problems in the recent past, specifically with racism and violence, but campaigners are cautiously optimistic that things may be improving. Weve moved from a position of denial to a state where the russians understand that they need to clean up the stadiums, deal with some of the fans that are the hard core. Otherwise people wont want to come and it may well rebound back at them during the world cup. Today, though, the focus is on the big draw, with all 32 teams keen to discover their footballing fate. In the final dress rehearsal this morning, england got argentina, panama and sweden, and are not entirely sure that Gareth Southgate would be too happy with that. Im not. We will see what happens for real when the draw gets underway in about one hour from real when the draw gets underway in about one hourfrom now. We will real when the draw gets underway in about one hour from now. We will be backin about one hour from now. We will be back ina about one hour from now. We will be back in a little while. Richard, many thanks. We will have full coverage of that all important draw from 315 here on bbc news. More now on developments in washington, Donald Trumps former National Security adviser Michael Flynn has been charged with making a false statement to the fbi back in january, he was forced to resign the month afterwards, after misleading the white house about meeting the Russian Ambassador before donald trump took office, and former National Security adviser Michael Flynn, lying to the fbi according to those charges, that is the us special counsels office, charging him ina special counsels office, charging him in a court filing that has been made public. There will be a plea hearing which is set for about 330 ourtime, so hearing which is set for about 330 our time, so 1030 hearing which is set for about 330 ourtime, so 1030 in hearing which is set for about 330 our time, so 1030 in washington. We are hearing from cbs news, at the plea hearing, Michael Flynn is pleading guilty to lying to the fbi about his conversations with the Russian Ambassador. He has only said he is no longer cooperating with donald trump and his advisers so thatis donald trump and his advisers so that is potentially very serious news for the white house and for the Trump Administration. Very significant development. The former national adviser, National Security adviser, Michael Flynn, being charged with making a false statement to the fbi, back in january, and Michael Flynn was forced to resign after that, after misleading the white house, so we will see what the white house reaction is to all that. We will bring you the latest development is from our correspondents in washington. Very important developments there. Meanwhile, lets have a look at the weather forecast. This is the first day of winter . Yes, we have some snow yesterday, but also across europe. Pictures from france, much more snow than we have had here in the uk. It has been a large area snow left acting europe, slovakia, austria snow affecting. Also in poland and around the baltic, and pictures of the kremlin with snow. Lots of wintry weather. And now the forecast here in the uk, just one more picture from earlier today, this is from the north of scotland. Much of this snow which has fallen in the last 48 hours will be melting, we have milder weather coming in for this weekend. Also sunshine, beautiful weather as i speak across many parts of england and wales, stunning blue skies, and the forecast for the next 24, 48 hours, things will be turning milder. Milder air out there in the atla ntic milder. Milder air out there in the atlantic which is coming our way but still out in the atlantic for the time being, and we still have the jet stream here, still glowing from the north, still dragging in colder air, so this is what it looks like in the afternoon. A few showers across eastern areas but they are now mostly rain, so we are not forecasting any snow today. Looking at rush hour, three degrees in the lowla nds at rush hour, three degrees in the lowlands of scotland, but picking up in Northern Ireland, reaching seven, and it will take time for england and it will take time for england and wales to warm up. When we have had a few days of cold air it tends to stick to the ground, quite heavy, like honey, and the mild air coming from the atlantic is sliding over it and it will take time for things to warm up. Even though it is coming in close to the ground around towns and cities, it will still be cold, and it will still be a cold night, temperatures, 2 3 in many areas and there will be a touch of frost in many areas, but the mild air is here, starting to push in, and this is the view of saturday. We are losing the cold air. Being pushed into the continent. The mild air pushing in off the atlantic. First thing on saturday morning, it will start quite cloudy across many northern and western parts of the uk, a little bit of drizzle, but the sunshine will come out in some areas, probably southern parts of england, maybe eastern anglia east anglia. Temperatures closer to around 5 7, and sunday, we are up to double figures, and out of the two days, i think sunday will be lightly brighter day. That milder weather continues into the week, monday and tuesday, temperatures around 9 10, and then later in the week it looks like things are going to turn a bit colder once again. This is bbc news. Our latest headlines friends of the cabinet minister damien green rally round him after new claims he had pornography on his parliamentary computer. Hes again denied it. Ive maintained all along and i still maintain i didnt download or look at pornography on my computer. 0bviously while the investigation is going on i cant say anymore. President trump National Security offers has been charged with lying to to security agents. Rbs is closing 259 branches, one in four of its outlets, and cutting 680 jobs as more Customers Bank online. The bank said it would try to minimise compulsory redundancies. Prince harry and Meghan Markle in nottingham this afternoon for their First Official visit since announcing their engagement. Pope francis has used the word rohingya in public for the first time. He had avoided using the word before today and during the first part of his asia trip in myanmar, where the government doesnt recognise the rohingya as an ethnic group. In a moment a hospital failed to spot cases of lung cancer because it did not check patients chest x rays properly. Well have the latest. Let us get all of the sports news now. We arejust we are just waiting for the world cup draw in the kremlin. Yes, what a fantastic setting. Id saw you talking to our Sports Correspondent earlier inside the grounds of the kremlin with the snowboarding. An axa lately spectacular backdrop for the world cup draw which now takes place in about 30 minutes. Then after that the inevitable discussion will take place about the england chances of success in the world cup. Gareth southgate says he is not worrying himself silly with whom i come out of the pot for england. He says it is hisjob to prepare england for whoever might come out of the pot. Just 30 minutes now until england and their fans on the other 31 countries in the drawer find out who they could face. The worst Case Scenario for england is then facing five times world champions brazil and they could have a group with the seven time africa cup of nations champions egypt. Serbia are a dangerous side and even the dreaded draw against germany, nobody wants that in the group stages. England football fa ns that in the group stages. England football fans are waiting for that but meanwhile, england cricket fans are waiting for the second ashes test. Not so good in the first, how does it for the second . Craig 0verton has been added to the england squad for the second ashes test, which starts tomorrow. He joins the 11 players that lost the opening match. Moeen ali bowled in the nets today despite his injured finger, but he may only be fit to bat in adelaide. The decision was given an extra day of trying to rest and cf it was as ready as it can be. We will have another look at things after practice and see how e is then and see if there is any more damage to it and make a decision from there. At the end of practice there will be a clear indication about whether he is fit to bowl. His batting has been a huge part of our team for a long time now so i think you would still play. Sam burgess will captain england in tomorrows Rugby League World cup final. He replaces sean 0loughlin, who has a thigh strain. England take on australia in brisbane for a title theyve never won. It is not ideal to lose sean. He is a huge part of our success in getting here. Over the past couple of years, it is not ideal to use him and lose him add a bittersweet moment but i am super excited and super proud to captain the team tomorrow. It is not a job i take lightly and i really enjoyed doing it. If i am honest, not a lot will change for me tomorrow. We have a group of great players and a full squad of staff and everyone and eve ryo ne squad of staff and everyone and everyone has a role to do tomorrow and mine will still be the saviour has been throughout the whole tournament. Britains Paralympic Champion gordon reid has made a remarkable comeback at the wheelchair masters tennis at loughborough. He was 5 1 down in the deciding set against Gustavo Fernandez of argentina before going on to take it 7 5. Thats two wins from three Group Matches for reid. Englands men have been beaten in their opening match of the World Hockey League final in india. They lost 2 0 to germany and play the hosts in their next match tomorrow, before facing australia. The three games determine who theyll face in the knockouts next week. Birmingham has competition from three other cities for the right to host the Commonwealth Games in 2022. Birmingham was the only Interested Party before the original deadline but the cut off was extended when organisers said the bid was not fully compliant. They have now received updates from australia, canada and malaysia. That is all the sport for now. I will have more and all the latest including the world cup draw in russia in the next 30 minutes. Health inspectors have ordered a review of all nhs Radiology Services in england, after it emerged that a hospital in portsmouth failed to spot cases of lung cancer because it did not check chest x rays properly. The investigation by the Care Quality Commission also found a backlog of more than 20,000 chest scans waiting to be assessed at the Queen Alexandra hospital. The trust has apologised to the families affected. Earlier our Health Editor hugh pym told us more about the cqcs findings. The Care Quality Commission are making clear that in the case of the Portsmouth Hospitals trust this was a very alarming case that they are not saying that it is being repeated with 23,000 images, chest x rays, going back 12 months, is not reviewed by a qualified clinician, a radiologist. Some are given to Junior Doctors who feel they are not qualified. In three cases patients suffered harm because their lung cancer was not diagnosed in a timely fashion. The Care Quality Commission is now saying it was information from all hospitals around england on backlogs of scans and other imaging. There is no proper target for delivering results of scans so they wa nt to delivering results of scans so they want to find out what is going on. The Royal College of radiologists we re the Royal College of radiologists were coming this. They say they have warned for some time there is a real problem here. The demand for scans has risen very rapidly and patients wa nt to has risen very rapidly and Patients Want to get scanned, understandably, and there is more Sophisticated Technology available and the demand is rising three times faster than the number of radiologists equipped to actually read the scans. In many cases there are scans and x rays laying unreported for more than one month. They say there is a big workforce problem that needs to be dealt with and the cqc will no doubt be addressing that problem as it carries out the review. We can now speak to Siobhain Mccurrach from healthwatch portsmouth, which has been working with the hospital to address some of the issues highlighted by the cqc. Thank you very much indeed for being with us. How worried are you buy this . What you think of the implications potentially nationwide . We are worried about the impact on patients families and carers and we are concerned about. There is work carried out between 2016 and 2017 and the implications nationwide are for a National Review that i would welcome because clearly there are delays here and there may well be similar delays nationwide so a review would be very welcome and people can feed in their thoughts and opinions on how services can be improved in radiology. They should go to their local healthwatch 0rganisation go to their local healthwatch organisation and feeding information and then the power Public Feedback can help to influence informed Decision Making. Can help to influence informed decisionmaking. People will be astonished how this happened, when they . People will be astonished that this mistake was made. Yes, i think they will be. Healthwatch portsmouth is a principal french to hospitals and commissioners and social care providers but in cases like this we have to be more critical than friends and we are offering to work with the trust to gather patient feedback and provide them with insight that the patients have about how to improve the services. Thank you very much for being with us. Let me bring you some breaking news because David Dearlove has been jailed at court for life after the murder back in 1968 of his 19 month old stepson paul booth. This is a remarkable case. An extraordinary case really. He is a stepfather and he swung the toddler by the ankles and bashed his head against a fireplace and lied about it for almost half a century. He is convicted of murder earlier on today at Teesside Crown court. David dea rlove at Teesside Crown court. David dearlove was at Teesside Crown court. David dea rlove was seen at Teesside Crown court. David dearlove was seen attacking 19 month old paul booth back in 1968 by the little boy s brother, peter, who was then aged only three when he came downstairs for a drink, and there was an inquest into the death of paul in 1968 and it recorded an open verdict. A couple of years ago peter went to the police after seeing a photo once facebook offers little brother sitting on david dea rlove s little brother sitting on David Dearlove s knee. He is now 71 years of age and he has beenjailed at Teesside Crown court for life with a minimum term of 13 years for the murder back in 1968, half a century ago. The murder of his 19 month old stepson, paul booth. The mayor of london sadiq khan is to take over control of the london stadium, the home of west ham united. It comes as an independent review is published into the stadiums conversion after the london 2012 0lympics. The report says there was a catalogue of disasters which has cost the taxpayer millions of pounds. The london mayor said it beggers belief the tax payer was contributing so much financially to the stadium. When i first discovered the full scale of the costs of the stadium, i ordered a review with one of the countrys leading forensic accountancy firms to do this review andi accountancy firms to do this review and i read it yesterday and today and i read it yesterday and today and it beggars belief. It is staggering the numbers of bungled decisions made by the previous mayor, a failure to properly understand the cost of transforming the stadium from an athletic stadium toa the stadium from an athletic stadium to a football stadium. Their estimates were £190 million at it is costing taxpayers more than £300 million. The cost of the retractable seats they thought would be £50 million but it is more than £10 million. The deal with west ham has led to huge losses for the taxpayer and it beggars belief. Led to huge losses for the taxpayer and it beggars belieflj led to huge losses for the taxpayer and it beggars belief. I using the taxpayer should have had to pay much . I am saying that the amount we had to pay should have been recovera ble had to pay should have been recoverable from others think relation to continuing costs. It beggars belief that west ham got the deal of the century. They probably cannot believe their luck. Who could blame them for biting the hand of borisjohnson when they blame them for biting the hand of Boris Johnson when they were blame them for biting the hand of borisjohnson when they were offered this deal. Warbles youve done . No wouldve made sure we got proper estimates the cost of transforming it into a football stadium and making sure we tested the figures to make sure they were right and making sure we had value for money. When it came to the reports of the retra cta ble came to the reports of the retractable seats, checking the reports made sense. Nobody was saying that the figures were going to add up. They should have been tested. Entering into deals with west ham united and uk athletics and others has led to the taxpayer subsidising these football clubs. Why should the london taxpayer be subsidising the premier league club . Why should taxpayers around the country be subsidising on an annual basis up to £20 million multipurpose venue . What i would have done is made sure we entered into commercial deals that doesnt lead to the taxpayer losing money but leads to companies and businesses that make profits are paying their fair share. That is sadiq khan, the mayor of london. In a moment the Business News vishala sri pathma. First a look at the headlines on afternoon live. Damian green has denied fresh claims that he looked at pornography at work. Detectives said he was shocked with the amount of pornography found ona with the amount of pornography found on a computer seized from mr green s office. President trumps former National Security adviser, Michael Flynn, has been charged with lying to fbi agents. The charges form part of an investigation into alleged russian meddling in the 2016 us election. Hundreds of people have welcomed prince harry and Meghan Markle to nottingham the couple are on their First Official trip since they announced their engagement. Heres your business headlines on afternoon live. Job losses at royal bank of scotland. Its closing 259 rbs and natwest branches, with the loss of 680 jobs. The bank said more people were choosing to bank via computers and mobile phones. In scotland, the rbs closures represent one in four of its branches. The uk landed record Foreign Investment in year of brexit vote boosted by major takeovers. Thats according to figures released by the 0ns today. More on this in a moment. British factories enjoyed their best month in more than four years in november according to a closely watched survey the ihs Markit Purchasing Managers index showed that activity rose to a four year high of 58. 2 compared to 56. 6 in october. Some businesses noted higher sales to clients in europe, the americas, asia and the middle east. And thomas cook announces plans to close 50 of its 690 stores by next march as part of a review of its uk retail network. Up to 400 staff at thomas cook and co operative travel Branded Stores with be affected. You have more on a new report out today says there should be a new commission to involve local people in big construction projects. Think tac has said today that the way the government goes about Infrastructure Projects are not local enough. They are to national and it doesnt get local people involved in projects that affect them and they cited examples of airports and Railway Networks and they think that local groups and lobby groups need to be more involved in the Decision Making process to make life more effective recognition for them. We are joined by someone from the group that has released that report today. Joining us now from westminster is emma norris, a programme director, at the institute for government. Let us start with a claim that the government are not efficient enough. It is said that this is the first infrastructure assessment that has been set up and there is a Public Consultation on that, is it good enough . We think the National Infrastructure commission is doing excellent work can we say in the report that it is a brilliant step forward for a Real National strategy on infrastructure but there are real challenges in being as efficient as we can be. At the moment delays to infrastructure and Decision Making are costing the uk up to £4 billion are costing the uk up to £4 billion a yearand are costing the uk up to £4 billion a year and some of those delays are caused by public opposition to Infrastructure Projects, often because the public are not involved, particularly local communities are not involved. It is only when Decision Making gets along with down the track. Is not the nature of politics that there is opposition and both arguments are heard . We believe there are ways to do it better. We looked at how other countries involved communities in Decision Making and france has a really interesting model. When it comes to big controversial projects raqqa third runway at heathrow or hs2 they involve their systems much early on in the Decision Making process and typically makes decisions being made much more quickly and the organisation that france have only saw six projects abandoned and the others all got through albeit slightly amended on the basis of public involvement. We are suggesting there is commission for Public Engagement that ensure citizens get involved earlier on and it avoids investing money and getting quite far down the track and finding out you have to abandon the project because you simply cannot get people on board. Is that not a bit presumptuous to think that if you involve the public early on then the process will become more efficient . I think it will be more efficient . I think it will be more efficient than the current process. At the moment with the current process you involve people quite far down the track can only find out at a later date the peoples concerns are too great and having invested already quite a lot of money in an Infrastructure Project i have to abandon it and what we are suggesting is that it is fairer to everybody if you involve people earlier on and then they get a real say in thinking through what the options are and providing their input and then there is a higher chance for government and those communities that you come up with an option that everyone can agree with and it is delivered in a smooth away and it is delivered in a smooth away and it is delivered in a smooth away and it saves money. Thank you for joining us. Let us talk about anchor branches. It is the old conundrum that rbs is closing quite a lot and the people who do not use the Bank Branches are using their mobiles or online but the others are really quite reliant on it. 0nline banking is up and branch visits have gone down by about 40 so the numbers are there, but like you said, it is part of an institution visiting your local branch, and there was a report out a few months ago looking into local Branch Closures and they referred to it as Branch Closures and they referred to itasa Branch Closures and they referred to it as a bit ofa Branch Closures and they referred to it as a bit of a bereavement. People see it as a local part of their community and so there is a way of trying to integrate both of those processes with the local community encouraging people to get to the post office perhaps instead, if they miss the trip to the local branch. It is part of the fabric of the high street, isnt it . The local bank branch. Absolutely. There is the transition period of moving from stores to online and also mobile. A quick look at the markets. What do you have . The ftse 100 a quick look at the markets. What do you have . The ftse100 is doing quite well. Fairly flapped in the positive set territory. Babcock shares slightly down after a broker was not optimistic about their results. Thank you. Theyre known as hidden disabilies and they affect 1. 4 million children across the uk. All this week, bbc breakfast has focused on special Educational Needs and, today they looked at speech, language and communication needs. Jayne mccubbin reports. Harry is happy and playful but with profound autism he struggles to communicate. Despite being twice assessed as having a problem he has never been under the treatment of a speech and language therapist on the nhs. We have pushed and pushed to see someone. We have a multi Agency Meeting every 12 weeks for harry and each time we attended there is never a speech therapist. We ask if she could attend the next one and the same thing happens at the next one. It has gone on for over 18 months. Rather than therapy for harry the nhs has offered jaded training which they say can be very beneficial. She now pays for private therapy. They say can be very beneficial. She now pays for private therapylj they say can be very beneficial. She now pays for private therapy. I am ina now pays for private therapy. I am in a really good position that i am able to do that but i know a lot of families are not. Here at Nelson Mandela primary in birmingham they also feel badly let down. As a class sta rts also feel badly let down. As a class starts the teacher tries to hold their attention. They are more interested in our camera. Most are eventually able to follow the song andjoin in the eventually able to follow the song and join in the actions. Some really struggle. Notjust to speak, but to Pay Attention and understand and follow instructions. It is all part of the speech, language and communication need. It is frustrating for us because we get children must feel they have been written off because sometimes parents have already noticed there was a problem and they have tried to get out and they have gone to their doctor and nothing has happened. This is why the school brought in diana. She was part of a speech and Language Team in the nhs before being laid off with a number of collea g u es being laid off with a number of colleagues five years ago. Developing childrens speech and language is not a target like cancer or heart or diabetes. If you do not get the speech and language right, what else goes wrong . You dont learn to read and write. Ten years ago the government commissioned a report that flagged up problems here and lead to promises to deliver Better Services for children like this. The department for health says there are around 160 more therapists today and the government has invested in and the government has invested in an extra 2 million into therapy. Look at this from a recent cqc and 0fsted report. Services are overstretched, being reduced, rising referrals and unacceptable long waiting times. Today a new survey fa ns waiting times. Today a new survey fans only 15 of parents and therapists believe there are enough services in their area and they say will have consequences. Data shows that over 60 at least have communication difficulty in the youth justice system. Name any Vulnerable Group of children, in that looked after system or Mental Health issues or those that are excluded or on the fringe of being excluded, in the youth justice system, they all, the majority have communication difficulties. Communication underpins everything from reading and writing to making friends and making a future. Get it wrong and many kids will flounder. Let us check out the latest weather prospects with tomasz. The wintry showers we have had for the last couple of days are turning to rain and over the next 24 hours or so it will turn a little milder. Not a lot milder but you will notice it. For the time being, for the rest of today, the jet stream is coming in from the north just about from scandinavia and the arctic but the milderair scandinavia and the arctic but the milder air here out on the atlantic will be coming our way from tomorrow, in fact from tonight. This is what it looks like this afternoon. Still shower was across the east. This is the rush hour and starting in scotland, even here across the north and east of scotland, any showers are mostly rain. By 6pm in Northern Ireland the temperatures are up to 8 degrees. Across the lowlands of scotland and across northern and eastern parts of england temperatures are still about two or three degrees so nfp evening again on the way. The same goes down to the south coast of england. 0nly 4 degrees at 6pm and you can see showers in the east midlands and east anglia and london. This is rain so we do not expect any snow this evening. 0vernight tonight the wind sta rts evening. 0vernight tonight the wind starts to change direction. We have had a northerly for a few days and by the time you get the early hours of saturday it is coming off the atlantic. Quite a bit of cold air is close to the ground and that means it will take a while for things to warm up. This is saturday. Here is the jet stream pushing warm up. This is saturday. Here is thejet stream pushing in warm up. This is saturday. Here is the jet stream pushing in the warm up. This is saturday. Here is thejet stream pushing in the milder air in ourdirection. Thejet stream pushing in the milder air in our direction. The colder air gets pushed towards the east and into the continent. Saturday morning the westerly winds drag in a lot of clout to many western parts of the uk and there will be drizzle and it will feel damp and not very pleasant. For some of us the cloud will break up and there will be sunshine around. The temperatures climb up to around six or 8 degrees. By climb up to around six or 8 degrees. By sunday it could get up to double figures even across the north of england and a bit of sunshine as well so sunday looks like a slightly brighter day. This relatively mild weather is going to last into the early pa rt weather is going to last into the early part of next week. Let us ride the weekend. It will turn milder with more cloud around and there will be a bit of rain am particularly across northern and western areas. Hello, youre watching afternoon live im ben brown. Today at 3pm. President trumps former National Security adviser, Michael Flynn, has been charged with lying to fbi agents over alleged russian meddling in the 2016 us election. Friends of the cabinet minister damien green rally round him after new claims he had pornography on his parliamentary computer hes again denied it ive maintained all along, i still maintain, it is the truth i didnt download or look at pornography on my computer but obviously while the investigation is going on i cant say anymore. Cheering prince harry and Meghan Markle arrive to cheers in nottingham today they are making their First Official visit since announcing their engagement. Tomas has all the weather technically the first day of winter . There is a change on the way, in that it looks like it will turn milder over the weekend. Also coming up. Tesla has turned on the worlds biggest lithium ion battery in south australia. Its designed to store energy generated by renewable sources. Well be analysing the story. Hello, everyone this is afternoon live im ben brown. President Donald Trumps former National Security adviser, Michael Flynn, has been charged with lying to fbi agents. The charges have been brought by the special counsel, Robert Mueller, as part of his investigation into alleged russian meddling in the 2016 us election. A plea hearing is set for half an hours time and some reports in the us suggest that mr flynn is likely to plead guilty. Jacob parakilas the deputy head of the Us Americas Programme at the Chatham House thinktank is here. How significant is this development . There has been an investigation into russian interference in the us elections, shortly after the elections, shortly after the election itself, there was a step change in may when the president fired james comey the director of the fbi and Robert Mueller the former director of the fbi was appointed by the director attorney general to take over the investigation and run as a semi independent arm of the justice department. We have begun to see the first criminal charges, first against paul. And then a plea deal with george papadopoulos, now Michael Flynn, who was briefly the security adviser for the first 24 days of the donald Trump Administration, he has been charged with a minor count of lying to the fbi. We hear he is pleading guilty, what is the significance of that . We are not sure yet, there is only a bit of information, the charging document is very brief, two pages, relating to statements he made about meetings with the Russian Ambassador in december. What is relatively clear, Michael Flynns lawyers have stopped connor braid sync with the lawyers for the president and for other officials who might be implicated have stopped cooperating with the lawyers. Which possibly means Michael Flynn is making a plea deal with Robert Mueller and the investigators. Making a plea deal with Robert Mueller and the investigatorsm that bad news for the white house . Probably bad news, but it remains to be seen. Having a former National Security adviser, the person closest to the president on National Security matters, even for short time, having that person indicted for perjury is a significant thing, evenif for perjury is a significant thing, even if it goes no further. The indication is it will go further, but where exactly, where this ends up, idont but where exactly, where this ends up, i dont think anyone knows, possibly not even Robert Mueller. That is a massive issue, it would be a massive issue for any white house, an indictment of a Senior Security adviser. Special prosecutor, indictments, this has echoes of watergate, is it anything like that scale . It is wise to resist speculating about the precise. There are some echoes, and some common terminology and a sense of harking back to that mid 70s candle, the first scandal in modern american politics, but it is premature and it will be some years before we can compare them and compare them to other major president ial scandals like iran cant and seeing be what the closest parallel is. Underlying is this is the central allegation that the russians and the kremlin wa nted that the russians and the kremlin wanted donald trump in the white house. And were prepared to work on that happen trump knew that, and they were working with the russians and they were working with the russians and donald trump you that. Knew that. It is widely known that was the intention of the russian side of things, but the involvement, it is hard to know, that is wise to step back and let the special counsel and his team do theirjob, and not get out in front of ourselves and declare that the second half of that charge has been proven true, and it might be in the future, maybe not, but the first pa rt future, maybe not, but the first part is fairly well established at this point. Thank you for those words of cautions. Lets get more on this from our correspondent in washington anthony zurcher. How surprised is washington going to be by these latest developments . There have been hints that this could be coming, we learned last week that Michael Flynns defence tea m week that Michael Flynns defence team was not cooperating with the donald trump teams lawyers, and maybe there was a plea agreement or some kind of charges in the works, and here today we find out that is the case. That Michael Flynn has been indicted for lying to the fbi, whether this is part of some larger plea agreement is still to be determined by what we do know, Michael Flynn has turned himself over to the fbi this morning, quietly and out of view of cameras, hes expecting to be in the court room later today, where he will plead guilty to the charges, reportedly, and then we will see what happens. If Michael Flynn is now cooperating with Robert Mueller and his investigations, into possible ties between the Trump Campaign and the russian government, thatis campaign and the russian government, that is a significant development, because Michael Flynn was in the inner circle of the Donald Trump White House in those early days and his position as security adviser is one of the top jobs in the white house, the senior voice to the president coordinating information on National Security and run policy, and throughout the campaign he was and throughout the campaign he was an adviser to the Trump Campaigning he was an outspoken advocate for the Trump Campaign. I remember him condemning Hillary Clinton and boosting donald trump as the next president. If there is some sort of plea deal, how damaging would that be potentially to the white house and for donald trump, how worried with a deep . How worried would they be. It is about the contact Michael Flynn had with the Russian Ambassador in december, about sanctions the Us Government had imposed on the russian government for what the Us Government said was meddling in the 2016th president ial elections. If that is what this is, we have to wonder who did Michael Flynn talk about, anyone else in the Trump Administration, or will see freelancing, what kind of connections did he have two other members of the Trump Administration, jared kushner, trumps son in law who also had contact with russian connected officials in that december transition period, reportedly. I imagine this would be a concern for the trauma and white house about lisicki what the trump white house. What are the ties with russia . Is this a broad investigation which is being carried out . This is being carried out by Robert Mueller, independent counsel investigation, the mandate for this investigation, the mandate for this investigation was any ties between the Trump Campaign and the russian government and anything arising out of it. It was a very wide sweeping mandate and we have seen from what has come out of the council office, a guilty plea from george papadopoulos, he was a member of the Foreign Policy Advisory Team for donald trump, charges against paul mana fought and his assistant. It was the Campaign Chairman on unrelated involvement with ukrainian interests, and he has a bunch of different red he is attempting to track down, but we havent seen the big picture bunch of different threads. So, we dont know the big picture yet but it appears to be a very wide ranging and methodical investigation. Anthony, thanks for joining us. Another piece in the jigsaw puzzle, really, as we try to get the big picture. Our correspondent in washington for the backis correspondent in washington for the back is the scene at the federal courthouse where we are expecting the plea hearing with some reports suggesting that Michael Flynn, the former National Security adviser to donald trump, that he is expected to enter a plea bargain to plead guilty, he is known on the cooperating with Donald Trumps lawyers but he is cooperating with the special counsel Robert Mueller as we have been discussing. Potentially worrying news for the white house but we will bring more on this as it comes into us. Friends of the embattled cabinet minister damian green have been rallying around him today after new claims that police found thousands of pornographic images on his parliamentary computer. A retired Scotland Yard detective has told the bbc he was shocked at the volume of pornographic materialfound during a raid on mr greens Westminster Office almost ten years ago. Damien green, in effect theresa mays deputy, has again strongly denied looking at pornography on his computer. Our Home Affairs Correspondent danny shaw reports. Hes theresa mays oldest and most trusted political ally. But now, damian green is facing a battle for political survival, with claims he viewed pornography on his work computer. Mr green has vehemently denied the allegations. But now, the detective who examined the device has given me his account. The shocking thing was, as i was viewing it, i noticed a lot of pornography, thumbnails, which indicated web browsing. But a lot. There was a lot of them. So i was surprised to see that on a parliamentary computer. How many images did you see . Thousands. Thousands of pornographic images . Thumbnail images. The computer had been seized in 2008, after police raided damian greens offices. The mp, then in opposition, was the subject of an unrelated enquiry into home office leaks he was never charged. How can you be sure that it was damian green who was accessing that pornography . Theres a sort of phrase you cant put fingers on a keyboard. So i cant say that, but the computer was in mr greens office, on his desk, logged in to his accounts, his name. In between browsing pornography, he was sending e mails from his account, his personal account, reading documents, writing documents. 0utside his home in kent today, damian green maintained his innocence. A Cabinet Office enquiry is continuing into his conduct. Mr green. Ive said im not commenting any further while the investigation is going on. Ive maintained all along, i still maintain, it is the truth that i didnt download or look at pornography on my computer. But obviously, while the investigation is going on, i cant say any more. And one of mr greens political allies rallied to his defence. Mr green has been absolutely emphatic in what he has said. Hes said repeatedly that he never downloaded nor viewed this material. And i think that mr green is entitled to be believed. After all, you are not guilty until proven so in this country. Scotland yard has said for the first time that it is cooperating with the Cabinet Office enquiry, though neil lewis has not been asked to give evidence. The force is also looking into the circumstances of how mr lewis apparently put confidential information about mr green into the Public Domain. Danny shaw, bbc news. Youre watching afternoon live, these are our headlines. President trumps former National Security adviser, Michael Flynn, has been charged with lying to fbi agents. The charges form part of an investigation into alleged russian meddling in the 2016 us election. Damian green has denied fresh claims that he looked at pornography at work. A former detective told bbc news he was shocked by the amount of pornography he claims was on a computer seized from mr greens office. Hundreds of people have welcomed prince harry and Meghan Markle to nottingham the couple are on their First Official trip since they announced their engagement. The world cup draw is getting under way in moscow. The stage is set. There are four pots of team. England are in the second pot. The england football manager, Gareth Southgate, says the team is prepared for whatever comes. 0ur Sports Correspondent Richard Conway is in moscow. Gareth southgate is prepared for whatever comes but there are tough draws an easier drawers. He will be hoping to avoid the group of death. And easier draws. Hoping to avoid the group of death. And easier draws. He wont want to be in with the likes of brazil or argentina. That could happen for england. The ceremony is underway and we heard from the russian president Vladimir Putin, and the fifa president , welcoming the 1400 audience here at the moscow kremlin state palace. Miroslav klose is on stage with the trophy at the moment. Soon we will know who will play who and where, but england will have to come up against one of the top teams, the highest ranked teams, the exception is the hosts russia, they are ranked 65 in the world and they are ranked 65 in the world and they are in pot won because they are the hosts and so maybe england will want to see if they fancy their chances against russia, but the hosts will be playing for points and also for pride, so that will be high pressure. We have had dancing and singing and speakers and very soon gary lineker will be the master of ceremonies and he will be joined by former legendary players as they picked the ball is out of the balls to determine who will play who when it gets underway injune next year. The balls out of the bowls. It gets underway injune next year. The balls out of the bowls. It is being done slightly different . The balls out of the bowls. It is being done slightly different7m terms of what . The draw, being based on world rankings, the pots. The 0ctober rankings are used as the baseline effectively for where the teams will be positioned. So there are four pots and eight teams in each. It will make some interesting match ups of course. Many of the big nations, have not qualified, like italy, the usa, cameroon, the african champions. But we have the likes of iceland, who impressed everybody at the last European Championship in 2016, panama, making their debut. It will be a different world cup, the organisers confident that a new chapter will be written even though some of those big names will be missing like the netherlands, who were finalists a couple of years ago. The dancing is continuing on stage here at moscow, russia using this moment to showcase all of its artistic prowess and its history and heritage and architecture, and next summer it will want to do the same in a football context throughout this vast country. England might want to play russia, you said, because they are relatively low down the world rankings, in terms of who else england might prefer, who would be the slightly easier teams they might fancy . It is one of those things, Gareth Southgate will say we have to play the best at some stage, so hes not too fussed about who they play and when, but what would be more interesting is the geography. They have placed themselves in a small Village North of St Petersburg and if they get the worse possible draw and they have to play in the east of russia or the south in sochi that will require long distances, 1400 miles down to sochi. And then the late return, but Gareth Southgate says they are not worried about such a lengthy journey. We says they are not worried about such a lengthyjourney. We will see what happens. In terms of teams, from the first pot, the likes of russia, and nigeria, senegal, they could come up against england. Iran. But they were very strong qualifiers from the asian for the federation. There will be something which will therapy storyline, generating memories of previous tournaments which will throw up a storyline. Gareth southgate and england will want to know who they are playing. Some people are worried about this world cup and they point to the fact that russian fans are not always the best behaved and there has been racism and violence occasionally associated with them. That is right. We saw the scenes in marseille during the European Championship, russian fans battling with england supporters very extensive injuries, the British Police said they had seen nothing like it in terms of the organisation and the level of brutality from those russian fans. We have been speaking this week to organisations who combat racism and xenophobia in european football and they say they have noticed a slight change in attitude over the last 6 12 months from the russian authorities, pointing to the fact that spartak moscow, one of the giants of russian football, have been fined for the islamophobic chancing of some of theirfans. Islamophobic chancing of some of their fans. They say in previous yea rs their fans. They say in previous years that would not have happened chanting. The russian authorities are keen to be serious and they do not want anything to detract from the festival football they are hoping to put on next summer. We can now go to washington. We can see Michael Flynn arriving at the federal court. Some questions shouted out at him, Michael Flynn, there, the former National Security adviser charged with lying to fbi agents, charges brought by the special counsel Robert Mueller into his special counsel Robert Mueller into his as part of his investigation into alleged russian meddling with the us president ial election last year. Michael flynn is expected to plead guilty and spec elation he has entered a plea bargaining arrangement with the Robert Mueller investigation speculation. Hes no longer cooperating with donald trump his legal team. So that is the latest from washington, dramatic developments as part of the ongoing Robert Mueller investigation, the special counsel appointed to investigate alleged russian meddling in last years president ial election. Speaking to our correspondent in washington, he said this is a significant development. He clearly knows an awful lot about what contacts there were with russia from the trump tomb, Michael Flynn. Team. We can speak to our guest in the united states. How significant is this . Casts an even darker cloud around this administration because it completely blows up the narrative that we have seen come of the Trump Administration, because so far they have said theres nothing to see here and there has been no collusion with russia and that many of the plea deals and people who have already been ensnared in the investigation, they say they are low level, they had no significant role in the campaign and in the administration, but now we have one of the highest officials, one Donald Trumps closest confidants, the former National Security adviser, who has agreed to a guilty plea, and what donald trump now has to do, he has to understand that what could be coming down the path, possibly and potentially even his own family could now be injeopardy potentially even his own family could now be in jeopardy as a result. Vickers, and this is only speculation, as a result of a guilty plea, Michael Flynn has agreed to cooperate with the Robert Mueller investigation because. Given that you have such a high profile figure in the former National Security adviser, the question now begs, who else is on the hook and who could now be next to have to walk this tightrope . Donald trump has to get very nervous tightrope . Donald trump has to get very nervous and tightrope . Donald trump has to get very nervous and also i think this wea ke ns very nervous and also i think this weakens him politically and legislatively in washington. A very stunning development. We are seeing those pictures of him arriving at the courthouse. When you say donald trump needs to be worried. Is the idea conceivably that Michael Flynn if hes going into a plea bargain arrangement, is going to spill everything that he knows about potential links that there were between the trump team and russia and the kremlin . Again, and if you understand how the federal system works, he is now accused he is pleading guilty to lying to the fbi, thatis pleading guilty to lying to the fbi, that is an automatic five using prison, and in the federal system, if you are found guilty of a federal crime you have got to serve at least 90 of your sentence automatic five years in prison for the martha stewart, very famous and influential figure, who was found to have lied to the fbi, and did present time. So what he is doing, he is agreeing to this guilty plea in exchange for a lighter sentence, so im sure he will not do five years, and also keepin will not do five years, and also keep in mind, his son was actually in the cross hairs of the Robert Mueller investigation, so this might gets his son off the hook and also lessens his time, and i do believe Robert Mueller will want to want something in return for that. So he does have a lot to give up. Remember, President Trump went to james comey the head of the fbi to get him to end his investigation of Michael Flynn, so we do know that the stakes are very this president very high for this president because he has admitted obstructing justice in defence of Michael Flynn, so that suggests Michael Flynn has the goods and this will probably get much worse for the president and those around him. People see echoes of watergate, talk of indictment and plea bargains, but is this potentially that serious for the white house almeria absolutely. White house almeria absolutely. White house . You have the National Security adviser who has agreed to a guilty plea, this puts our National Security at interest and the president at interest, so many of our allies at stake right now, the fa ct our allies at stake right now, the fact you have a guilty plea, i think this is only going to go much higher. Remember Sarah Huckabee sanders said chicks back to this investigation to wrap up in a matter of months, that this would be over by now said she expected this investigation. But now this investigation. But now this investigation is only ramping up and i believe Robert Mueller has so much up i believe Robert Mueller has so much up his sleeve, and it has cast a dark cloud over this administration and will make it that much more difficult for them to be affective going forward. What about Donald Trumps fellow republicans . He has had a pretty up and down relationship with the republican party. Look at the backdrop of what is taking place as the guilty plea is taking place as the guilty plea is being entered, the Senate Republicans are looking to move the first major legislation of the Trump Administration which is a tax bill which is very unpopular in this country, and it also looks as though the Us Government is heading towards a fiscal and financial cliff, because if there is no deal by the end of next week the government might shut down. You have the potential for major legislation, the first accomplishment of this administration is hanging in the balance. Banks macro. We are going to go back to moscow thanks for joining us. This is where the draw for the world cup is getting underway. So, england are in the second pot, looking to see what kind of group they are going to get. Serbia, nigeria, australia, japan, morocco, panama, and saudi arabia. We will draw the pots one at a time. Starting with pot one, ending with four. As the teams are drawn they populate the groups alphabetically from a to h. The teams in pot one occu py from a to h. The teams in pot one occupy the first position in each group. So a1, b1, c1 and so on. Those are the red balls you see in each of the groups to my right. The teams in pots two, three and four will be placed in one of the other three positions in the group where they are drawn. Those positions are drawn randomly from the three white balls that you can see in each group pot. The one constraint to keep in mind is that no two teams from the same qualifying zone can be drawn in the same group. The exception, of course, are the european teams, as there are 14 of them. So all groups will have a minimum of one and a maximum of two european teams. Thats where you might see us skipping through the groups in order to ensure that no two teams from the same region are drawn in the same group. Nice and simple 0k. Same region are drawn in the same group. Nice and simple ok. So explanation is over. Lets get going with the draw. We know where this is going to be, we know that a1 will be russia. Interesting that Diego Maradona has the england feature in his hands. Russia and we are so happy to welcome you here for your first world cup in history. Yes, an historic moment indeed. Russia occupy the place of a1. Gordon, could you take out the red ball to confirm that for us, please. A1. There we go. Russia go into the position in a1. She is saying in your hands you hold the fate of entire nations portugal, european champions led by the fifa best player of the year, cristiano ronaldo. If you take the red ball from b, please, gordon. That goes into b1. B1. There you have it. B1 for portugal. They kick off in sochi, down south. A seaside resort. So the next team drawn will be. France. The 19988 world champions. France. The 19988 world champions. France go into group c. Diego, can i ask you to come forward to take the red ball. France have reached the last two world cup finals. Confirmation there of france, c1. Kicking off from moscow. A city of 1,000 years old. Argentina. Argentina, two time world cup champions. Led by superstar, messi. That will be a group can group d. Di that will be a group can group d. D1 for argentina. Kick off in moscow in the saturday yack stadium. Spartac stadium. He looks remarkably well, gordon. 91 yea rs of he looks remarkably well, gordon. 91 years of age. Brazil. Five times world champions, the most Successful Team in history. Yes one of the favourites with one of the most expensive Football Players in the world, neymar. They have reached the last eight of the last 11 world cups, brazil. E1 for brazil. Three teams left in ball one. So, no south American Team can be drawn in with brazil. Germany. The reigning world cup and Confederations Cup champions. Germany go into group f. Laurent, group f, please. F1. F1. F1 for four times f1. F1 forfour times world f1. F1 for four times world cup winners, germany. What team is in connection . Belgium or poland . Belgium, many peoples dark horses. Belgium. Undefeated during qualification, scoring 43 goals. Ca rles if i qualification, scoring 43 goals. Carles if i ask you to go to group g. Gi. G. G1. Yes, g1 for belgium. That will kick off on the 18th of june. Poland. With a superscorer, lewandowski. 0nce lewandowski. Once again, carles. Please. H1 for poland. That concludes all the teams from pot one. We now move to pot two which includes spain, peru, switzerland, england, columbia, mexico, uruguay and croatia. Diego, lets start with you, please. Uruguay. Winners of the world cup in 1950. They go in the host nations group. A2, this is the opening game. A2, this is the opening game. A sayre pair of hands yes, indeed. Is a sayre pair of hands yes, indeed. Is safe pair of hands. A4 for uruguay. The last game in the group to be played between russia and uruguay. Uruguay kick off their game in the furthest east venue. 0h, spain. That a very strong group. Spain play against their near neighbours, portugal, including ronaldo, of course. 15 goals in qualification, by which position in the group will they be . Gordon, group b, please. B26789 b2, the opening game in group b will be portuguese versus spain. That is sochi on the 15th ofjune. Friday night at 7. 00pm. Peak time peru, returning to the world cup for the first time in 36 years. They will go into group c. Diego can i ask you to come forward to help determine their position. C3 for peru. Diego, lets do the honours. Croatia. They finished third at the fifa world cup in france in 1998. Yes, diego picked out croatia to play against his argentina but diego has always been good with his hands. We go to group d, please, diego. They conceded five goals in qualifying, croatia. Not been beyond the group stages. They play in kalingrad their opening game. The pa rt kalingrad their opening game. The part of russia between poland and lithuania on the baltic sea. A hotly disputed city. Switzerland. They played two tough matches against Northern Ireland in the European Play offs. Yes, they will be the same group as brazil. Laurent, group e, please. E2 for switzerland. Their first game will be brazil. Will Diego Maradona pull england out with germany . Mexico. They were here in russia this year. They were here in russia this year. They reached the semis of the Confederations Cup. Mexico go into group f with germany. They were out of the group in the last six world cups. 0n last six world cups. On to the quarterfinals in 1986. F2 for mexico. An opening fixture with germany. Is this england . It is england. Your home nation, gary. Yes, in with belgium. Well, there we are. England and there is Gareth Southgate, the england manager. In group g with belgium. Not the worst of draws. We could have had argentina or brazil or germany. But of course belgium are a tough proposition. Lets bring in Richard Conway watching it unfold there for us in moscow. What do you think that Gareth Southgate will make of that, belgium . He will know the players very well. A lot of belgium teams are playing in the premier league. The likes of vincent kompany, manchester city, and hazard, of course at chelsea. A talented team. A team that impressed greatly. They are ranked fifth in the world right now, belgium. That will be a tricky fixture for england. But when you are talking about playing the likes of brazil, or germany, going up against the hosts in russia, i think gareth may be philosophical and think he knows what he is dealing with in belgium to a certain extent. He may be all right with that. But belgium, of course, they were there in 2014 at the brazil world cup. A best place of fourth in 1986. This current team are seen as a bit of a golden generation for them. So they will have high hopes. It will be an interesting tie for england. We will see in due course who else we get now that we know that england are in group g. It could have been betterfor england, it could have been, with no disrespect to russia and poland but it could have been russia or poland, which would have been easier but it could have been worse. It could have been germany, brazil, argentina . Exactly. That is the slings and the arrows of world cup draws. Especially when not in pot one, one of the top seeds. We are seeing the further draw taking place. There are fantastic ties in there. Fans will be looking forward to them. Portugal and spainfor be looking forward to them. Portugal and spain for example. That is how they start their world cup campaign. 0ld rivals. So they will go up against each other there. Germany, mexico, that is another one that many will be looking forward to, given the germans and a theyre defending world champions. And mexico is a team that always entertain and attract a number of fans. So good ties. But from englands point of view, yes, certainly one of the better draws to begin with. But we will see which are the two opponents drawn against them in due course, we should know within the next 15 minutes. How will it work at the tournament, richard . If you dont win your group, not being overly pessimistic already but if belgium win the group, say, and england come second, what does it mean for england . M means a tougher path in theory to get to the final. What will happen, england, if they finish second in the group, go up against a group stage winners. So you will have to face one of the more fancied teams, one of the giants of World Football ina one of the giants of World Football in a second round knock out game. We have seen it happen many times in the past. So the advantage of winning your group is that you face opposition of a weaker quality. But again, all of the teams here will have claims to wanting to get to the knock out stages. The trick is to try to get on, to get to the top of the group and see if you can forge a good path towards the latter stages. Im sure that is what Gareth Southgate and england will want to happen. But belgium, they will be philosophical about the start. And iceland there, englands nemesis, of course. What is happening next . We are seeing gary lineker, the master of ceremonies, a host of legends of the game helping him take part in drawing the various teams. We will go through the various permutations. Iceland are drawn in group d with argentina and croatia. Iceland winning a lot of fans and admiration for the way that they performed in the European Championships in 2016. Knocking england out in the knock out stages. They will be back. Their fans, england out in the knock out stages. They will be back. Theirfans, of course, also widely admired for the way that they go about supporting their team. They will no doubt come in manya their team. They will no doubt come in many a number to russia to support their side. So we are seeing now the group positions being drawn. It starts to get a little complicated now as two for one teams from the same continent with the exception of europe can be drawn in the same pot. So you, for example, we will see them having to tackle that now as we get down to the last few slots. But the master of ceremonies, gary lineker is familiar to the bbc viewers is taking a firm hand on this, ensuring that everything is going to plan. They have rehearsed this many, many times this week. Four or five different rehearsals to ensure that nothing goes wrong. That nothing is left to chance. Now we are back to group g and with esee who england get as another opponent. Richard, thank you very much. Lets go back to gary lineker and jonathan pears. The moment is approaching when england find out their next competitor if group g. Lets listen in. F3. Two lets listen in. F3. Two teams left from pot three. Tunisia. Tunisia. Tunisia in with england as they were in france 1998. A good game down in marseille. That was with alan shearer and paul scholes. And g3 for tunisia to play their first game against england. There we are, tunisia, also in group g alongside england a and belgium. So that group is taking shape. Not exactly a group of death, really. As richard was telling us, belgium has a golden generation but players well known to Gareth Southgate and the england team. Many play in the premier league. And tunisia, richard, what are your thoughts . Again, that is a very welcome sight for the Football Association and for england. Englands manager, Gareth Southgate, that will be a team that they are pleased to see. Tunisia are ranked 28th in the world. They have been to the world cup a number of times. Four times in total to reach the group stages but again that will be very good, they will be keen to see that. That will be englands first game and then going on to play belgium in the last game of the group in kalingrad. So a little bit of travelling but that was inevitable. But so far, the england Management Team will be thinking this is good. England have had such a chequered parts in tournaments. 0ften qualifying well, getting through the group stages but failing at the knockout stages, richard . Group stages but failing at the knockout stages, richard . W group stages but failing at the knockout stages, richard . It has been, over 50 years of hurt since 1966. Many times, the players dubbed the golden generation have failed to deliver when it quite mattered. You have to think back to the goran eriksen era, and when they lost to brazil. And similarly in European Championships and in other world cups when they have fallen short, often, it has to be said on penalties. So this time around, Gareth Southgate saying that he expects the group of players to peak in two to four years time. But still he feels this is a great chance. The players have played together in many years in youth tournaments. He is not writing it off as an opportunity for england to win but looking at this crop of players, thinking that they will mature over the next few years, looking to the Qatar World Cup in 2022 or to 26 but he will be keen to see just how far they can get. Richard. Lets go back to moscow and join the master of ceremonies there, the bbcs gary lynne car. Gary lineker. Morocco. They were absent for 20 yea rs, morocco. They were absent for 20 years, now they are back to the world cup. We go back to group b where morocco fit. They are with portugal, spain and iran. And gordan, the final ball, please. Morocco. Their first game against the Islamic Republic of iran. Australia. Yes, australia slot into group c. Confirm that for us please, diego. This is the first game for france, australia. C2 for australia with france, peru and denmark. Panama are still in there. The first world cup finals for them. Nigeria. The superegos with undefeated in qualification. Nigeria to go into group d. I ask you to take your final ball, please, diego. That will be five nigeria argentina games in six world cup appearances for nigeria. D4 for nigeria with iceland, argentina and croatia. There are some good groups building up there are some good groups building up here. We are trying to work out what england will get at the last two. Panama, looking forward to seeing them play in their first world cup in history. Good luck to panama. They dont go into group f. Mexico are the same federation. We skip to group g. Carlos, can we go to g, please. Gz. Carlos, can we go to g, please. G2. Panamas carlos, can we go to g, please. G2. Pa namas first carlos, can we go to g, please. G2. Panamas first ever world cup game will be against belgium. Also in that group, tunisia and england. Ranked 56, panama. That completes englands group. Group g, england with tunisia, panama and belgium. Gareth southgate has to be happy with that. I think he will be. Very pleased with that group. Panama making their first appearance at a world cup finals. Tunisia are ranked 28th in the world. I think that will be a tie that they will be confident of winning. And belgium which will, in effect, be a premier league versus premier league game, given the number of belgium players who ply their trade in england. So i that i this Gareth Southgate, we will hear from him in due course to get his thoughts on it but that is not a bad draw indeed for england. He will be confident, im sure, that they can top that group and get a better path into the knockout stages. It is certainly not a group of death. If you look at for example, d,d death. If you look at for example, d, dfor death. If you look at for example, d, d for death, death. If you look at for example, d, dfor death, richard, thats death. If you look at for example, d, d for death, richard, thats a pretty tough one with nigeria, argentina, so on and croatia. So england could have done a lot worse . Yes. The group of death. There is always one. Look at that, argentina, iceland, croatia, nigeria, strong teams there. Argentina, nigeria, they know all about each other. They have played one another a number of times. Iceland, their first appearance at a world cup but they play with a confidence and a style that suggests that they will want to go deep into the tournament. And then elsewhere in the groups, some good ties. Brazil, switzerland, and costa rica and serbia, that is and costa rica and serbia, that is an interesting group. Costa rica could be interesting. Costa rica performing well in brazil in 2014. As always, interesting things for us to pore over in the coming hours. We now know where everyone will play. Where the games are taking place and the fans, of course, they can start to map their route, book their travel and look forward to those games nextjune and july. What a tantalising prospect, richard thank you so much. England with belgium, tunisia, panama, avoiding the group of death. More on that coming up. Now, lets look ahead to predict the weather with tomasz schafernaker. Well, after all the talk of snow, the weather is turning milder. We are going to lose the cloud and the drizzle. Showers in the north and the eastern areas. Mostly of rain and overnight tonight it may be that there is a touch of frost where the skies are clear over the south of the uk. Most towns and cities are above freezing. Two or three celsius. They are in the far north west of the country. Temperatures up to six celsius there. Tomorrow, a wind change, the wind coming from the atlantic, dragging in thicker cloud. Bits of drizzle in the west and the north. But also a little bit of sunshine and it is going to feel a little less cold but not desperately mild. Hello are watching afternoon live. President trumps former National Security adviser, Michael Flynn, arrives in court after being charged with lying to fbi agents over alleged russian meddling in the 2016 us election. Friends of the cabinet minister damien green rally round him after new claims he had pornography on his parliamentary computer hes again denied it ive maintianed all along i still maintain i didnt download or look at pornography on my computer obviously while the investigation is going on, i cant say any more. Prince harry and Meghan Markle wre greeted by cheering crowds in nottingham today they are making their First Official visit since announcing their engagement. Coming to 2in to wit 1 m hearing is taking place. We can talk to hearing is taking place. We can talk to the political commentator now to the political commentator eric hamm in washington. 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