Does explication cut both ways . I will ask the chippendales if they feel objectified. Do you enjoy being touched . I do. But mostly because. It is not the touching itself, it is. People are having fun. And as iceland proposes a ban on male circumcision, we will ask if the practice is a violation or a religious right. Good evening. The pressure to talk about gun laws is now coming from americas young. Students in florida who survived last weeks mass shooting have received the support of others around the nation. Marches are now being planned all over america to amplify their message of stricter gun control. And when school kids, showing a maturity and a drive their elders may have lost, threaten to march on washington, the optics dont look good for a president. Perhaps with that in mind, President Trump today signalled his support for a cross party effort to improve the National System of background checks. Its a small move. And, since being in office, hes rolled back more checks than hes created. But the irony is perhaps this one a man who has no particular affinity with gun culture but is backed squarely by the rump of those who do including the National Rifle association could not be better placed to change one of the most critical, corrosive terrors of modern america. Will he . Having mulled it over at his Florida Country Club this weekend, President Trump is ready to shift ground on gun control. Donald trump has signalled through his press secretary that he is interested in considering and potentially supporting a bipartisan bill by two senators that were tried to close loopholes in the national and criminal background check system to make it harder for felons to purchase guns and to be more effective in checking registration and licensing before things are sold. I would not call that a rethink. This piece of legislation has been floating around for a while. Its a small step, for sure, but the americans love their guns, and its striking for the fact it is almost exactly one year ago President Trump rolled back obama registration rolls that made it harder for those mentally ill to buy guns. It is unusual given his emphatic support for what he would term gun rights, a pro gun position. The measure you are referring to pertains to people with mental issues being able to buy guns. More broadly, he has been extremely supportive of those who favour the second amendment. With the first of the florida victims buried yesterday and further funerals due, this could signal a change. A huge youth march has been called for next month and the massacres survivors are taking aim at the gun lobby and its captive politicians. This is our opportunity to talk to President Trump, governor rick scott, and the state senator marco rubio to make sure that they know we are talking directly to them and all other members of the United States government that are being funded by the nra to tell them now is the time to get on the right side of this. So, trump consulted people at his golf club, reportedly asking about tighter checks and bans on selling assault weapons to under 21s. Quite different from his pledge at the nra convention. You have a true friend and champion in the white house, no longer will federal agencies be coming after law abiding gun owners. Until today, the president focused on First Responders and characterise the Florida Shooting in terms of Mental Illness but gun control is creeping onto the agenda. Years ago, trump did write in favour of it but given the millions he has taken from the gun lobby, todays move may be tactical in nature. It seems as though his new found support for gun control, especially this very basic not at all controversial legislation, is a way to regain cover, to say hes doing something, to show he cares. Even though it isnt much of anything he has done. But the florida victims, both those whose names were recited by protesters today, and the articulate survivors, are having an impact. If they can build momentum, trump could face a more serious reckoning, one which would require him to position himself as the gun owners friend and the architect of new restrictions. Joining me now from dallas is Antonia Okafor shes a member of the National Rifle association and founded empowered, an organisation to promote armed self defence in us colleges. You support an organisation most people marching today find abhorrent and vile, what is your response to them . That isnt true for all young people in america. As a millennial, i support the nra and the gun rights movements and groups, and there are thousands if not millions of young people who also believe it is about empowering few law abiding citizens who are doing the right and correct thing, the rights we want to protect and defend when the situation comes. So i dont think. Groups like bloomberg, they are not representative of all young people in america. This is a hard one, as i know you know, for a british audience. Take us inside the mind of an nra member. Did what happened in florida shift your support at all . Did what happened in vegas last year shift your support at all . Do these register for you . Absolutely, and it registered for millions of americans. If not worldwide. There was a study which showed that American People are sick and tired of what people would call gun control, it isnt working. I grew up in an era when we had columbine, and those situations are why i have the position that law abiding citizens, even students on campus, should be able to protect themselves. Just because these things happen doesnt mean we are going to come to agreement on how we should proceed in the future. I believe that. The solution is more guns . More arming, more students . Is that honestly how you see it . The solution is that the right people have firearms, the right people are the ones when Something Like what happened at the shooting in florida, when we expect the students and administrators to defend our students, but we dont give them to the tools to defend them, that is the problem. People are ready, especially now, to try Something Different because what has been happening before isnt working. Could trying Something Different been making gun laws tighter . When you see the impassioned voice of emma gonzalez, when you see the students staging a sit in to represent corpses of their colleagues and friends killed, do you not start to think you might be on the wrong side of history here . No. I am not on the wrong side of history, i am on the right side of history. If anything, we can look at baltimore, saint lewis, chicago who have the strictest gun laws in america to date but, yet, we are seeing hundreds of People Killed every day. What has been going on in terms of gun control isnt working so i am saying people are sick of gun control when nothing is changing. The presidency looks worried today. Probably the optics of young people marching on washington after their colleagues and friends have died isnt good for a president that has been so heavily financially backed by the nra. Is he right to start to look again at background checks . Well, sandy hook happened during president obamas term. And he did look at those checks. Im he did try to introduce measures, that is the difference between them, isnt it . No, President Trump has said he was going to look at Mental Health reform. He said hes going to look into a background check system. The bill we are talking about, that took place in november after what happened in texas. It is really looking into what we should already have implemented. The air force failed to talk about the Domestic Abuse that happened in south texas with the perpetrator. They failed with the fbi to go multiple times to restrict this person from having a firearm. Nobody is against that. We are against making it harder for law abiding citizens who just want to make sure they are able to protect themselves. One of the suggestions is we should change it from 18 to 21. We have people as young as seven who grew up with hunting rifles. With the greatest respect, though, the young people marching on washington today are not looking at that. They are saying we need, altogether, stronger controls and we will go after the legislators that are supported and financed by the nra. Should that worry legislators . No, it shouldnt. Again, i am saying these people are not representative of all americans when it comes to this issue. We have to make different ideas of what it looks like. Of course, we want to make sure students are safer. But unfortunately we continue to think gun control is the answer. Im here to say that isnt true and there are millions behind me who believe that as well. Thank you forjoining us. You can read it as reassurance or as a climb down but are the brexit secretary will seek to quell fears. David davis will talk of those who sense brexit leading to an anglo saxon race to the bottom, a mad max style world borrowed from dystopian fiction. And he will explain why thats not going to happen. Our political editor, nick watt, has some of the details and joins me now. So, that is good news . That arresting phrase, mad max, that should make the front page of the guardian. What is david davis saying . He says there are people in the eu who are concerned the uk will be a mad max world. He says they fear brexit could fear to an anglo saxon race to the bottom with britain plunged into a mad max style world borrowed from dystopian fiction. What is he saying . Hes saying the uk has high standards and will continue to have high standards and doesnt want to use brexit to undercut the eu. And what he is doing is burying the singapore model. This was the model in the dim distance past of january last year when Philip Hammond said if the eu fails to agree a deal with the uk, maybe the uk will have to think of remodelling its economy. There is an if in his speech. He says the eu does need to agree a free trade deal with the uk. That needs to include Financial Services and, if that happens, you can then have the mutual recognition by the uk and eu of those high standards. Who is he talking to . Is this to remainers . The hard core brexiteers . This is one of a series of speeches by cabinet ministers in the run up to the march summit where eu leaders are meant to agree the guidelines on the future trade negotiations. Interestingly, the cbi tonight, they say that they are pleased david davis is talking about high standards. They say it is important to align rules and have no divergence. The government is saying youre missing the point. What were talking about is mutual recognition, as i was saying, for Financial Services that is breaking new ground because it isnt going to be about passports, and it isnt about this idea of equivalence where the uk would say we will have the equivalent rules to the eu. That wouldnt be any good because that would be a supplicant. This is going along with mutual recognition, an idea that has been put together by mark hoban, the former conservative city minister. 0k, thank you. When formula one confirmed at the end of last month that grid girls would no longer be used in its world championships, a new conversation began. Are the women who do a job they enjoy now told theyre demeaning themselves by doing them . And should the same standards apply to men who use their looks, their bodies and their sexuality in their daily work . Or do we have different standards . I went to meet one of the most famed male Adult Entertainment acts in the business, the chippendales. They dance, they striptease, and they get endlessly touched by their audience. I wanted to know if they felt a cultural shift now and if they would describe their own jobs as exploitative and demeaning . The chippendales describe their work as heart showed him half party and they reveal a little more. They call it having fun with the audience. They seep girls celebrating but they will see men here as well. Gay and straight. Some women even bring their partners. Have you seen them before . I am actually a regular. I ama before . I am actually a regular. I am a local groupie. They are awesome. They dance with you, it is clea n awesome. They dance with you, it is clean fun. You dont have to worry about anyone like in a club. It is good, clean fun. During the course of the evening, encompassing around 15 dance routines, fancy costume changes and roleplay, women are able to participate as much or as little as they like. Touching is encouraged above the waist only. But the hands, they confided, tend to get everywhere. So what brings me to a chippendales show . Well, weve all been asking a lot of questions recently about abuse, objectification, on where to draw the line between appropriate and inappropriate sexual behaviour. We have mainly, rightly, focused on women be it at the president s club dinners or on the formula i grid. But what happens if we turn it around and ask professional men the same questions . Are the responses the same . Do they feel objectified, belittled in the same way many women have described . I was here anyway on holiday, so i thought id try to find out if the me too movement had left its mark on men who choose striptease entertainment for a living. I talked to ryan kelsey, the chippendales dance captain. Hes 32, and hes been with the company for four years. On an average night, how many hands would you say touch you . Oh, thats a great question. Probably somewhere in the 40, 50 range, iwould guess. I mean, we run through our crowd, our house holds a max of about 350 here, so even in a totally full night, if you pass through the audience, youre interacting with a bunch of people. We call them crowd runs, so my crowd run, you know, try to get to as many people as we can. We try not to stay in one area too long just so everyone gets the maximum chippendales experience. And do you enjoy that . I love it. Do you enjoy the touching . I do, i do enjoy the touching. But its mostly because. Its not so much the touching itself, i mean, people are having fun, you know, yes, again, its cheeky, but you see the brightness in their eyes, theyre smiling, theyre laughing, theyre giggly, you walk away, they giggle with their friends. Like, its more thejoy that is created from it rather than the actual sensation itself. Would you say it makes you feel empowered, then, or it doesnt make you feel belittled . The big difference here is that, you know, i know what thisjob is. I willingly show up to work every day. So its not a surprise, its not getting, you know, catcalled on the street, maybe something unwanted. So its not belittling to me, because its voluntary. You know what i mean . I willingly show up every day, i know what im getting in for. If i was uncomfortable, then it would behove me to find other work that was more in line with my comfortibility. Are there than incidents where the fans have got a little too physical . Yeah, it has happened, the nails are usually. If something happens, which is very rare. Its usually out of excitement, theyre having fun, hands on the chest, theyre getting excited, and you get a little claw mark, but its usually not from a place of malice or weird intent itsjust, again, not knowing quite where the line is. But you dont come off stage thinking, that was really painful . I mean, you know, a scratch is a scratch. But again, i know where i work, i understand that even though thats not really in our rules, that its in the scope of possibility, you know, and if you feel someone starts to do it, again, hey, no, that is not ok. You can touch, dont do that. Do you see yourselves as having the same job as female strippers, strip dancers . We have no tipping at our show, so theres no dollars, theres no interaction based on how much money you have that day or that moment. Its one of my favourite things about the show. So the idea behind the no tipping is that nobody is paying for sex or sexual favours . Well, not even so much sexual favours, its just you cant even influence, you know, attention, you know, if someone, you know, if someone is well off and well to do, they cantjust. Im sure it would spread very quickly through the cast, oh, my god, this lady is loaded, shes throwing out 20s, shes throwing out hundreds, and we could gravitate there. Somebody else who maybe saved up their whole allowance for weeks and months and got this trip to vegas and barely scraped by to get our show could get ignored. The me too movement has raised awareness of the way women have been abused or objectified. Does the question also need to be asked about men, do you think . These kind of roles . Well, i mean, i think it is, in general, great to. I love what the me too movement is doing, and i love the amount of awareness its created, including in myself. You know, i like theoretically knew some of my friends stories, but watching them actually type them out on facebook, and hearing them, just made it tangible to something i havent experienced. As far as it relates to our show, again, kind of like i said earlier, i think its a little different, because we are voluntary participants, you know what i mean . Youre not going about your day, youre not getting a coffee, or even thinking youre on a nice date and get forced into a corner, your theoretical or your literal back against a wall, trying to escape. This is somewhere i choose to work, i choose to be employed here. So i think, you know, just participating in that way changes the dynamic. You know, i know that im going to be looked at just strictly for my muscles, but ive engaged in that agreement, i work here. Do you feel objectified . No, because, again, im participating, so i feel like im being admired for my physicality, you know what i mean . Objectification means someone is reducing you against your will, which its not against my will, like, hey, iworked hard, i did some push ups, and i enjoy it, youre enjoying it, its going to be wonderful symbiotic relationship. Thats whats so great, that if youre not ok with that, you can go get a differentjob, you can work somewhere else where youre going to feel comfortable, which is whats different from the me too thing. You know, if everyone, you know, trying to crack into hollywood has to go through harvey weinstein, thats a little bit of a tougher situation. Weve seen a move in the uk, the disappearance, we hear, of grid girls or walk on girls or the same in boxing what is your sense, is that a move in the right direction, or do think that is a denial of. . Yeah, its complicated, because if anyone of those girls was, you know, proud to do that, proud to be there, maybe proud of their body, you know, enjoy the money, thought it was easy, thought it was a fun job if they were there 100 voluntarily, then its hard to argue against it. But that said, though, things have been clearly, as all the stories are coming out, things have been wrong for so long, you know, that we might need to overcorrect for a while before we find the middle ground that we all want to live at. So just a basic premise of taking away something that looks, on the surface, especially because females have been repressed for so long, i know there is a lot of guys with stories too, but as a whole females have been pushed back or been objectified so many times and so often that, you know, things that sort of personified that old guard might need to drop off for a second. So like, socially, i feel one way, then towards individual rights i feel another its tricky. That was the chippendales dance captain, ryan kelsey. One of the stories of the last election was labour winning heavily amongst the young. Today was time for the tory fightback with a speech from the Prime Minister in derby on higher and further education. The current system, she explained, is broken, and her government is working out a way to fix it, just as soon as the review she ordered today wraps up in 12 months time. So what happens now . Chris cook been covering education since the last such review in 2010, and hes with me now. What do you make of all this, chris . Well, the big thing today from the sector is just a sort of weary sigh. Starting in 2010, we had the browne review on how to reshape the system, then we raised fees in 2012, we got rid of the rules on how big universities could be, then recently, we introduced this teaching excellence, giving gongs to universities for academic teaching these are huge structural reforms. And we have this enormous Evidence Base about how it is working, there is an active conversation within Higher Education on how to reform itself, so there is a sense of, we know all of this, ministers just have to choose. This review goes into further education, where the situation is more extreme. They had their last big structural review on the future of further education only 18 months ago, so recently that the consultation on how to implement that review only closed 11 days ago. We are literally going from review into review, back to back, without any time in between. With me in the studio is universities minister sam gyimah. This must be very frustrating for you as a new minister, to hotfoot from one change, one reform, straight into a new one. It doesnt suggest a lot of confidence, does it . It is a time of opportunity. I think chris mischaracterised the situation, but since 2010, a lot of us happened in Higher Education, we have more disadvantaged people going to university than ever before as a result of those changes. Should it be more orfewer now, what do you think . But we also have world class universities, four in the top ten, six in the top 100, so these reviews have actually brought. So should it be more now orfewer, is the number about right, the number going to university . Were not capping aspiration, we want anyone whos capable going to university to go. Does that mean more people . The numbers that can go to university as uncapped, we do not put a limit. You must have a broad idea whether this feels like the right number or whether people are going to university when they should be doing more practical courses, or more practical degrees, or do you think it is about right . What is your sense . What the Prime Minister said, and what i agree with, is that we want more options at the 18 stage, and you do not want the default to be university, because if you do not go, you do not feel bright enough, and that means having more technical options, there are some great technical options within universities, like southbank university, not far away, do a great technical option in construction, but there are also technical options outside of universities, and within the system we want different types of options, two year degrees, community degrees, degree and apprenticeships. And the secretary of state was signalling at the weekend, courses varying depending on cost, benefit they give to our country, youre backing that, are you . There is a review, there is a panel which will make recommendations. There is no point in writing the outcome of the review before the review. But you here to tell us something, you are presumably backing your boss. If you would bear with me, there are 500,000 people accept a University Place every year. It cant be that all of them have the same desires and aspirations when it comes to the type of course they have to study. And yet, the default option at most of our institutions is three years on campus, full degree, and we say there should be more variety. You have me that point well, but one of the things we heard was that fees for courses should vary according to cost, according to the benefits to the individual and the benefit they give our country. Would you back that . I think the review should look at it. The review should definitely look at value for money that every course provides for the student. So if you are looking, for example, at value for money, you might say an english degree would have a lower rate of return than a science degree . How do you know that . Well, i am asking, it is not your idea, your secretary of state has said we will look at cost and benefits to the country, so is that something you can quantify . Look, stevejobs studied calligraphy. Who would have known the value of that . So you cant agree with your own boss, right . I dont think its for ministers to say which causes have value, but it is right for a review to look at the different courses, Different Institutions, and the returns, for independent experts to look at it and make recommendations. Would independent experts decide, if you like, a pecking order of degrees that you value . Are some going to be worth more to the country and some less . Of course not. I dont understand it, then. What is the point of getting independent reviewers to decide that some degrees are worth more and some less . I think you can look at is, does every Different Institution have different offerings . Every institution does not have to have the same offering for every subject across the country, it can definitely have diversity of provision. You can have english in one university that is a 2 year degree, in another, it is three years. They will not prescribe but they can look at what has happened across the system and look at ways in which we can have that diversity of provision. What are you doing in the education department, then . The sector has been in the state of reform since 2010. We know the options. We know youve looked at them for years. New stuff happens every year and now you have to make the choices, you have to show leadership on theirs. I think youve misunderstood what has happened. In 2012, a big move, the student invested a huge amount of money in their own education. As a result of that change, the whole architecture around student finance had to change and we had to go through a system. And now youve decided that change was the wrong one. Canifinish . The architecture. For example, if students are now investing their money, someone needs to be there to make sure they are getting value for money and that is why we have a new regulator coming into force. Those changes were necessary to reflect those changes. No one is saying £9,000 is wrong. A good degree is a good investment. The point is youre making it very easy for labour now and making them happy i think you are making it very easy for labour. Here is the point. If you are confident in what your project was, and if youre confident because you are in powerfor a long time. Youve been unable to tell me anything. We know. We know that if you make University Education free, the numbers will be capped and therefore it will be exclusive. Lord mandelson, a former labour minister, said it would be a bonanza for the well off. That is the labour offer. Our offer is we want world class universities that are properly funded open to the disadvantaged. Im going to invite you back in 12 months and ask you what youve decided about. Thank you very much. The Icelandic Parliament is considering legislation that would make male circumcision illegal, the first country in europe to do so. It would jail any practitioner of the surgical operation for up to six years. Muslims and jews both practice male circumcision on newborn babies. Leaders of both faiths have condemned the plans as an attack on religious freedom. So, is it a violation of the rights of boys too young to choose . Or an unnecessary and alienating cultural ban . Joining me now isjonathan arkush, who is president of the board of deputies of britishjews, and dr antony lempert, a gp and chair of the secular medical forum, is in our birmingham studio. Dr antony lempert, would you, do you feel uncomfortable performing these operations . Certainly, every operation that any doctor or surgeon performed should have a valid medical reason and the absence of one, the person themselves should be in the position to give consent to that. Children of a young age are not yet mature enough to have the capacity to consent to this procedure. And every procedure has risks but particularly a procedure on the most intimate part of a childs body should be something a person chooses for themselves. Let me ask you, you were brought up in a jewish home, you understand the cultural significance this means to dues and muslims. I do understand it and i realise that many people. Actually havent given it much thought because i was one of them. Even into adulthood. It wasnt something you gave much thought, it was a minor slip that didnt cause much harm. The reality, when you look at the evidence is quite different. This is something that if you ask many intact men would you like us to snip of this bit of body, theyd say, no this is one of the most sensitive and important parts of my body. And, really, to assume any child is going to belong to the religion of their parents and even if they choose that belief, they are going to want to have a branding procedure, to be marked. It is extraordinary. Do you accept we dont think about that enough, that people go ahead with that procedure because it is ritual and cultural, they dont think . As a jewish father myself of a son, i absolutely thought about it, as did my wife, and we had no doubt whatsoever we wanted our son brought up in traditionaljewish religious values and complying with what we understand to be the divine commandment in the torah. If you hadnt gone ahead with it, how would you have felt, your wife and your son have felt . I wouldnt have wanted my son to have grown up with otherjewish boys, going into the changing rooms, Swimming Pool and being different. I wouldnt have thanked my parents if, under antony lemperts rule, and 16 i was asked whether i want the procedure, and told it is painful and hazardous. I much rather they did it at eight days old and i thank them that they did it. You called it branding a second ago. What about identity, that is whatjonathan is talking about, isnt it . It is forcing your child to adopt the identity of its parents choice. We do it all the time, whether it is the language we teach them or their religion whether or not we pierce their ears, all of these are choices we make. Any permanent modification is something that shouldnt be done by pa rents. Parents should share their values with their children but there are limits to this. Sharing ideas is one thing but making a permanent bodily change particularly to the most intimate part is really going too far and breaks all the codes of child safeguarding that i am involved in. Id like to say one more thing. It is the irreversibility, isnt it, that makes this different thing else, a child has no chance and no choice. I dont know any jewish boy who would ever want to reverse it. We are proud of the way we look, it is integral to our core values and our identity, and i am delighted that my parents enabled me to have the procedure, to be part of that identity and i wouldnt want to have to choose. If iceland goes ahead and the Parliament Bans it, how will you feel about that . The most amazing thing is that iceland is a liberal country and is doing something something extremely liberal. Just banning something because you dont approve it. Why dont you ban smoking which causes real harm, including two people that dont smoke . I wonder what message the Icelandic Parliament sends out by doing this . I think it sends out a message of protecting religious freedom. True religious freedom means allowing people to choose for themselves. Jonathan arkush articulated it well when he said i dont know anyjewish boy who. I do remember his final sentence, that doesnt like it. He ignores the people that dont want it because perhaps they are notjewish or. There are a lot ofjewish people having a peaceful welcome ceremony into the World Without cutting a bit of body. Is it possible to go through the understanding and ceremony without getting surgical . Not injewish religious law. And it is an attack on religious freedom in iceland, not a protection. It is a straightforward attack and the bishop of reykjavik, and the catholic bishops of europe, have criticised this ban as an infringement of religious freedom and they are right to do so. Gentlemen, thank you very much indeed. Lets take you through the front pages of the papers and we start with the guardian, which you heard from nick talks about that mad max dystopia or rather what david davis is promising brexit will not be. And then theyve got a picture of britains most schnmoozed councillor. In the times, the University Strike puts the final exams in danger. And an oxfam chief investigated over the sex claims. And our interview with the chippendales at the top. The daily telegraph, call been urged to relieve his stasi file. Theresa may puts the labour leader under pressure to authorise release of east german records. He is denying all of that, it goes without saying. That is all we have time for tonight. But before we go, wed like to reflect on the fowl news that might have troubled many of you who felt a bit peckish today. Kfc were forced to close most of their 900 restaurants after the firm had its wings clipped by a shortage of chicken. The news ruffled more than a few feathers across country but there was one group who may have felt relieved that, for now at least, they wont be kicking the bucket. I promise you i didnt write this. We leave you with a chick flick made specially for newsnight viewers. Goodnight. Music one day ill fly away by Randy Crawford one day ill fly away leave your love to yesterday what more can your love do for me . When will love be through with me . Genius. Good evening. One of those days for the most part. Can things improve . For many, it can. The reason why so many improve . For many, it can. The reason why so many areas are improve . For many, it can. The reason why so many areas are the void of sunshine, it is this weather front draped across a good part of the british isles. Through the rest of the night, a reverse of rain in the northern extremity as it goes towards the east of the british isles. Behind that, skies clearing. A cool start to the day in the west of the british isles. 2 3 degrees. Not the case further east because of cloud and rain and onshore breeze. 68. Cloud and rain and onshore breeze. 6 8. When you get sunshine, 10 12 or so. High pressure is tried to build in through the weather front. Squeezing moisture like getting a damp towel and twisting it. Temperatures will be kept up here. Either side, starting with a cool note. Get used to it. Increasingly, we will tap into cool a already sitting across the continent. Air. That has the tendency to break up air. That has the tendency to break up some of the cloud. Breaking up sunshine. Forget about the 10 12 if you ever got there because these are the temperatures. Not that much different for thursday. High pressure tending to keep the atla ntic pressure tending to keep the atlantic fronts at bay for many parts of the uk. Clouding over in the west. The onshore breeze. Five degrees only. Sheltered western parts perhaps getting a degrees. From the weekend onwards, they cold their sitting across the continent, we will begin to tap into it. 8 degrees. These are pointing at the british isles. As a consequence, we tap into the really cold air already in place over siberia, scandinavia, such that that is what you could be witnessing by the weekend, and certainly into the first part of the next week. This is newsday on the bbc. Im rico hizon in singapore. The headlines enough is enough as florida students call for tighter arms controls, President Trump says he supports efforts to tighten background checks on gun owners. More than 2. 5 million newborn babies around the world die before theyre a month old, but most of those deaths are preventable. Im Sharanjit Leyl in london. Also in the programme the court of arbitration for sport begins proceedings against the russian olympic medallist, Alexander Krushelnitsky after he failed a doping test. And kfc without the c the fast food chain closes hundreds of its restaurants across the uk and ireland after running out of chicken