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And jon sopel is in washington. Seven years into the Syrian Civil War the battlefield grows ever more complicated. Turkey has made incursions in the north, russia and iran are fighting with the regime, and the us has sided with kurdish militias that helped to defeat Islamic State. The rebel territory that once spanned the country has now shrunk to small pockets in the north west, the south, and the Eastern Ghouta region just oustide damascus. This week over 200 people have been killed in Eastern Ghouta, its the deadliest period of fighting in syria in three years. Today the United Nations called for an immediate ceasefire. Our middle east editor jeremy bowen reports. This could be the beginning of the end of a rebellion in Eastern Ghouta that began in 2012. All the other smaller rebel held enclaves around damascus have been starved and bombed into submission. Explosion. Now, it looks to be Eastern Ghoutas turn as the regime pushes for decisive victory around the capital. All the other smaller rebel held enclaves around damascus have been starved and bombed into submission. Explosion. Now, it looks to be Eastern Ghoutas turn as the regime pushes for decisive victory around the capital. Activists say this is as bad as its been. We can hear the shout and crying of women and children through the windows of their homes under the missiles and mortars dropping on us like rain. There is nowhere to hide from this nightmare in Eastern Ghouta. A generation has been born into the war. Dozens have been killed by it in the last few hours in Eastern Ghouta. Over the years of siege, theyve set up a network of underground hospitals. This girl, named in arabic, angel, escaped the worst, but will have to go back to the streets to get home. In and this is her area. With the regime dropping what appears to be a barrel bomb, unguided an indiscriminate killer. The Syrian Regime denies attacking civilians. It says its trying to liberate Eastern Ghouta from terrorists. Eastern ghouta is a sprawling mix of concrete suburbs and farmland, starting about nine miles east of Damascus City centre. The Syrian Rebels that have controlled it since 2012 include several islamist militias, including one with its roots in alqaeda. Eastern ghouta is surrounded by Syrian Government forces. Before the war, it was just a short drive from the syrian president ial palace. Officially, its been designated a de escalation zone, that is an empty phrase. Force decides what happens in syria. After seven years, syrias war isnt ending, but its changing. President assad, with the help of russia and iran, is now secure, but syria is linked into a web of war and power politics, which guarantees more bloodshed. How many times in the last seven years have syrians dug through the rubble for survivors . Theres talk of safe corridors out for civilians, but based on past form, the regime wants victory in Eastern Ghouta and the surrender of the rebels. Jeremy bowen, bbc news. And war which is threatened to go out and clear the forces. Why has that such dangerous implications . Can return to the northern border which is under the control of the kurdish militia. Yes, this is the third area along the border controlled by the militia. The turks essentially have had enough. They launched an incursion as you do go towards the east to drive militias away from that area. A couple of weeks ago they launched another incursion to drive the Kurdish Forces out of this area entirely. They have not made a huge amount of progress so they have not made a huge amount of progress so far. They have not reached the main town of the area, but turkish government is saying thatis but turkish government is saying that is there even, they would take that is there even, they would take that time. Today we saw a new development. It was broadcast on syrian state media that the Syrian Military would get involved. Not the regular army but the militia which has been doing much of the fighting on behalf of syria. They went into the region. The turks say they were heading towards the main city and got close and then shelled them. I think the idea was not to kill them but to warn them off. We are concerned because generally speaking these big powers now in syria filling the holes are still there. If we look at the map, were in a third stage of the war, rebels have been defeated, so called Islamic State has gone and we have the major powers, america, turkey and russia and iran in the mix, weird is from here . This is the fear that these powers using proxy forces, either in support of the rebels or in support of the rebels, both of those battles are almost over so they are facing up are almost over so they are facing up against each other. This particular conflict pits the turks against the hated states, so two nato allies. The us have to make a decision. The United States. Essentially, if they become too much trouble, will be quietly let them go . That begs the question, what is the us strategy in syria . Originally it was just to defeat is but what is it was just to defeat is but what is it now . It has moved on. Originally it now . It has moved on. Originally it was to make sure that the coalition defeats is and that has happened but the us is saying that even though they have been defeated territorially, is could still come back so us troops need to be there to make sure that does not happen but you have the russians and the iranians who backed president assad. They are saying we came at the invitation of the sovereign government, you did not. You have no reason to be here any more. The Us Government does not really have a strong chance to that statement. Thank you. No sign at the moment of any solutions. Special Counsel Robert Mueller has unveiled new charges in the russia probe. Alex van der zwaan is accused of making false statements and misleading investigators regarding his communications with rick gates, a partner of former Trump Campaign manager paul manafort, who has also been charged in the probe. On friday mueller indicted 13 russians. President trump has been tweeting about the investigation ever since. Among todays numerous entries was this one tweet i have been much tougher on russia than obama, just look at the facts. Total fake news for more on the investigation and the president s response we arejoined by david frum former speechwriter for George W Bush and author of trumpocracy. On that last tweet, is it true donald trump has been tougher on the russians . It could not be a more extreme version of the truth. President trump thinks no one can remember more than 12 hours in the past but throughout the election of 2016, President Trump implored russian help and benefited from it. His campaign delivered on a series of lea ks, his campaign delivered on a series of leaks, including his campaign delivered on a series of lea ks, including the his campaign delivered on a series of leaks, including the sanctions that Congress Almost passed for helping trump which have not been implemented. The tendency is to focus on the personality of donald trump but your book says focus on what is happening. You argue there are constitutional scenes which are starting to split . Exactly. United states is a big bureaucratic state, one person can only do so much on its own. Donald trump is at the centre of the system which failed to stop and no enables them. There is hope that a lot of institutions will check him but it is just a fancy way of seeing acting together and it does not happen automatically. Remember the question about how many people does it take in poland, romania or albania to screw in a light bulb . That is just like the question about institutions. Regarding the russian investigation, a lot of people are saying that russians have infected the american political system but perhaps the disease was already there and the russians have exacerbated the problems . That is also true. We talk about pre existing conditions which enabled donald trump. American democracy has been going wrong for some time. Democracy has gone wrong around the world. Were in democratic recession. If you ask people, is it indispensable to live ina people, is it indispensable to live in a Democratic State . People in the 19305, 90 in a Democratic State . People in the 1930s, 90 say yes. Lets say yes after that. Less safe. Characters like donald trump and Marine Le Pen are taking advantage of decay in democracy. The title of your book is trumpocracy, is it possible to have a trumpocracy and a liberal democracy . We are going to have issues. Democracy is a system of power that does not accept a lot of restraints. It also challenges the idea of universal voting. One thing which has happened in United States is that the republican parties of which i am a member, has signed up a agenda not as; people be increasingly difficult for people to vote, in ways that gradually shrink who the electorate is. Thank you so much for being with us. A great pleasure to have you. Its notjust the United States where the trump name is making waves. India has been hosting the eldest son of the President Donald Trump jr who is on a promotional tour to sell trump branded flats to wealthy indian customers. But his visit is also raising questions about the trump familys business interests, and the lines between personal profit and politics. As rajini Vaidya Nathan reports from new delhi. Trump has arrived, have you . Thats what these front page ads across a number of National Newspapers are asking as they promote donald trumers visit to india this week. India is an incredibly important market to our brand. It is now home to the largest portfolio of Trump Properties outside of north america. The president s son is here to sell some of the trump corporations apartments in india, including a number of flats which will be built here, which is a suburb of delhi, about an hour from the city. When they are finished they will be a 47 storey high luxury luxury apartment building. With a price tag of over 1 million. They can be seen from everywhere. Anyone who pays a deposit for a flat this week also gets an invite to dinner and a conversation with the man himself. There are concerns that even if hes not a politician, this amounts to selling access to the president s son, that said, the buzz around this visit is attracting potential buyers. This is a criminal lawyer who is considering a purchase. Because of its brand value, we were more attracted to this project. That is correct. Do you like the trump family . Of course, in india, the majority of people like the trump family. What do you like about them . The way they carry themselves. It is the way they project themselves. This project is going to be a masterpiece, notjust for the city but also for the trump portfolio. We do not know what is on the menu for fridays dinner but indian media is reporting that donald jr has a particular liking for dal makhani and chicken tikka masala. On friday he will be delivering a speech on indo pacific relations at a conference where the indian Prime Minister will also be speaking. That has raised some questions, why is donaldjr, a nonpolitical member of the family and not part of the administration, delivering what appears to be a Foreign Policy speech when he is here in india to sell flats . Our reporter is spending a bit of time delay. It is so fascinating. Ethically, how do you separate everything, business from government . There are no hermetically sealed boxes where you can do this because it is a Family Business and it is a brand with the name trump. I remember the first day of becoming president and he stood in front of the table with all these files of his businesses and he said, iam files of his businesses and he said, i am putting these all to one side when i am president , they will be assigned to the family but perhaps thatis assigned to the family but perhaps that is no dividing line between the president and the family. If you add a diplomat coming to washington, which hotel will you stay in . At the marriott, hilton or trump tower . Complicated. Anyway, let us move on. The environment secretary, michael gove, has signalled the government will support moves to ensure a special deal for eu farm workers after brexit. Speaking at the National Farmers Union Conference in birmingham he outlined his plans to replace the present system of subsidies with funding for issues such as conservation and animal welfare. At present payments amounting to £3bn a year to uk farmers are based on the amount of land that they own. Campaigners say the government should criminalise upskirting as a sexual offence after police data showed one complainant was 10 years old. The practice of covertly photographing under the skirts of women is currently not recognised as a specific offence. Figures released following a freedom of information have found there have been just 11 charges related to upskirting since 2015. Another athlete from the Winter Olympics in south korea has been banned for doping. 29 year old slovenian mens ice hockey player, ziga jeglic has tested positive for the asthma drug, fenoterol. Jeglic scored the shoot out winner against slovakia at the weekend. Hes been ordered to leave the Olympic Village within the next 2a hours and reportedly accepted an anti doping rule violation. There is always an air of chaos about italian politics. There have been more than 60 different heads of government since the second world war. And the election in two weeks time will be no different. The electoral rules will prevent any one party from taking power. So, whatever happens on march 4th, there will be a period of coalition building, which as we have seen in germany is never straight forward. So heres a quick explainer. The populist five Star Movement is leading in virtually every poll and looks set to gain the largest number of seats in the lower house, the chamber of deputies. The Ruling Centre Left Democratic Party is trailing in second place. And even with the support of two smaller centre left allies more europe and together looks to be short of the votes it needs. Then, there is forza italia, the centre right party of silvio berlusconi. He is banned from Holding Office but he remains the leader of his party and a powerful figure in italian politics. With the support of the smaller populist parties on the right, lega nord, the brothers of italy and us with italy, they could end up with the biggest share of the vote, but without a parliamentary majority. Marchello sorjee is Political Editor with the la stampa and joins me. Good evening. 5Star Movement, promised to take on the endemic corruption in italian politics and now finds itself embroiled in its own scandal, tell us about that. According to the polls, the 5 Star Movement continues to be the first party for votes. I think the electors say that the scandal regarded 1. 5 million euros. But 21 million have been returned. Sue the electors see 5 star is essentially an Anti Corruption party and to maintain the integrity of mps against the mps they see are totally dishonest. It is important the scandal because in the south of italy, the competition is between the 5 Star Movement and centre right. This could affect the way people vote. The shape of constituencies could change the results of the election. We have seenin results of the election. We have seen in france and holland the populist parties have been seen off but, it shows people how it works, the 5 star moment might not have enough votes. Might not other parties on the right to form a majority . At the moment, the 5star Moment Movement is rejecting any alliance. It is really difficult that one single party could win the election. Because the vote is to thirst proportional and one third single. So to win elections, a party or coalition needs 40 of the votes and 70 in the constituencies. It is impossible to take 70 of the seats in the constituencies. If the 5 Star Movement changes its plan after the vote and for example, goes to an alliance with leg, probably they would go to a new government. If the 5 Star Movement becomes the Biggest Party in the parliament, what does that mean for the European Parliament for the eu because they are not pro european . parliament for the eu because they are not proeuropean . I think they are not proeuropean . I think the italian elections have always been important. We cannot forget in italy there was the most important communist party. I think this time the italian elections are important to europe because they are similar to europe because they are similar to france, germany and uk elections. In the era of populism and uncontrolled migration from africa, the italian election is important. Thank you very much for coming in and we will hear from you a lot more in the run up to the election. Right, forget brexit, the biggest crisis facing the uk, right now, is the chicken shortage at kfc. Branches around the uk have remained closed today much to the frustration of regular customers. Sima kotecha has been on a chicken hunt in birmingham. For chicken lovers and fast food fans it is another day of sadness. Hundreds of kfc Stores Closed across the country because of a shortage of britains most popular bird meat. Absolutely unbelievable, how could you run out of chicken in a kfc . Of chicken in a kfc . This kfc in the centre of birmingham is open but it has a limited menu. It serves only chicken popcorn. The chain says almost 600 remain closed around the country and it is not clear when they will be back open. Kfc says it has happened because it has changed distributors. It used to use South African owned company bidvest to transport chicken but recently changed to dhl, and that is why they say they have had some teething problems. We saw this coming weeks ago, people last week were earning money, working on a good product, providing Good Customer Service and today they will struggle to put food on the table. Then looking at the people working in the 900 kfc stores, they have been sent home with no pay. Dhl says due to operational reasons a number of deliveries in recent days have been incomplete. They moved what looked like a relatively uncomplicated supply chain to a more complicated one and they do not seem to have pressure tested it at all. For any organisation to do that seems bizarre at best. Customers have complained and social media. The chain says some staff will still be paid but many of its outlets are franchises, so it is likely they will make losses. Fried chicken is not everybodys favoured but for those who love it, patience is wearing thin. Kfc says more deliveries are being made each day but it expects disruption at some restaurants for the rest of the week. I guarantee she has never delivered a piece to camera like that, there is only popcorn at this restaurant. Is this that happened when i was a student, there would be hysteria at our student student digs. If you look at the kfc website, they have drawn a useful map with all the towns which have chicken and all those which do not. So if you have to signa those which do not. So if you have to sign a shop with chicken, you can find on the map. They will send the lorries round another time. This is beyond 100 days from the bbc. Coming up for viewers on the bbc news channel and bbc world news we speak to a Florida High School student preparing to march for greater gun control in the wake of last weeks shooting. And the underdog comes out on top shock as one of europes best football teams is bested in the fa cup. Thats still to come. Hello there. Plenty of fair weather on the way for the British Isles for the next few days, even into next week but it will be cold. Today we had a weather front in the east, bringing patchy outbreaks of rain and drizzle and a little more of that to come this evening and overnight. Close will keep the temperature is up. A few spots reaching pleasing but further north and west with clear skies we will get overnight lows of minus two or minus three. That weather front is a short lived a feeling the east, High Pressure is eroding it over the next 2a hours. By wednesday it will practically have gone. High pressure will dominate for the next ten days. More on that in a moment. For wednesday, a largely fine day, still from cloud left over from that weather front. Perhaps the odd spot of drizzle in the england and wales but most boys will get brightness. A little colder than today with highs of seven or eight degrees. Thursday, High Pressure holes weather france id be out in the atlantic. Fine weather. Weather fronts. Just for degrees in norwich on thursday. It will feel colder. That wind will come into play by the weekend and next week, notice easterly winds remaining strong for london and cardiff. A fine weekend to come far as but the era coming our way comes all the way from siberia, particularly cold at the moment, that cold air are starting to push across the British Isles come monday and tuesday and we will feel it. Next week a lot of fine weather and decent sunshine with widespread frost. That wind will be especially raw. This is beyond one hundred days, with me Christian Fraser in london jon sopels in washington. Our top stories. Its believed up to 200 are dead in the suburbs of syrias capital damascus as Government Forces attack the last rebel stronghold. A british based lawyer has been charged with making false statements to investigators looking at links between Donald Trumps Election Campaign team and russia. Coming up in the next half hour. The uk brexit secretary david davis tells Business Leaders in vienna that the uk doesnt want to undermine its neighbours when it leaves the eu. Fa cup team Wigan Athletic pull off a huge upset, beating top of the league, runaway leaders, Manchester City in last nights fifth round tie. Let us know your thoughts by using the hashtag beyond one hundred days when senior figures in the British Government meet this thursday at the Prime Ministers country residence, chequers, to discuss brexit, they will be taking part in one of the most crucial discussions thus far. At stake, the pivotal question what does the cabinet want the future customs arrangements with the eu to be . Today in vienna ahead of that thursday meeting, the brexit secretary david davis said the uk wants close, even handed co operation with eu regulatory authorities, even after it has withdrawn from the bloc. Brexit will inevitably mean a change in the Way Companies do business. It has two before we are to make good on the referendum result and cava power for on the referendum result and cava powerfor britain to on the referendum result and cava power for britain to strike at seven trade deals, have its own immigration policy and make our courts sovereign once more. My message to you in this room is that these goals will not change the kind of country that britain is. A dynamic and open country. That supports businesses to grow, innovate, in a competitive, open and fair market. One leading a race to the top and global standards. Trade as frictionless as possible, is the phrase ministers keep using. But what kind of framework would reassure investors. Over the next month in the run up to march 29th, by which point the uk will have just one year left until it leaves the eu, we are going to talk some of the countrys leading business brains. And we are going to start today, with scotlands first billionaire, the investor sir tom hunter. The idea of making our own decisions, getting rid of bureaucracy in brussels, and getting on with it would appeal to me. But we are nearly two years down the line from taking the vote and things are not that much clearer. We still do not have the facts of why this is good for britain. As a businessman do you think that we should have some freedom and pull away from the Customs Union so we can do our own trade deals with whoever we like, and businessmen like that kind of freedom, or do you think we should tie ourselves to our biggest market even if that takes away some of that freedom . As a businessman i want to do the easiest way of doing business with europe and indeed the rest of the world that there is. No tariffs, no regulation, as little periods to do these deals as we can. Itjust seems to me that there is no clarity and the one thing businesses hate is uncertainty. So how does that affect west coast capital, your company . You invest them in a broad portfolio of companies in retail, in property, technology, do you look at certain sectors of the british economy and say that is high risk because of all the uncertainties there are, do you stay away from those sectors and pick others . We do invest in companies who are doing business in europe but some of them are having to take on extra overhead, building a new Logistics Warehouse in europe, in the eventuality of what may happen. You are already seeing that happening . Im already seeing that happening. But frankly these companies are having to guess, having to second guess the politicians as to where were going to end up. And i know that some of the companies are not making these Investment Decisions. So some people are just doing nothing. But would you invest in them, would brexit stop you from investing in British Companies . I do know of some companies who are putting off Investment Decisions today because of the uncertainty. I must ask you since you are one of the billionaires in scotland, not the only any more, i think there are now a couple. There are plenty now. Ok so Nicola Sturgeon post brexit, argued that because scotland had voted to remain the question of another independence referendum was back on the table. Can you make an argument for scotland going its own way post brexit . My argument at the present time is look at all the uncertainty that voting to leave europe has caused. And try and put that in the context of scotland trying to leave the union. I think we would be in an unholy mess if we did that today. Im not saying never. Im saying definitely not now. So let me press you just to finish, if you were sitting round the table with a board of directors and had to get a deal tomorrow on brexit, what would you be pushing for . Well from a business point of view i want to have friction free trade. So i do not want regulation, i do not want any tariffs, i do not want any red tape. So can brexit deliver that for British Business . And if a politician made the argument which said to me in the short term, up to three years, we may be worse off but in the long term, over ten years, we will be better off, that is an argument that i would listen to. But i have not heard that articulated from any politician as of yet. So is there a model which might satisfy sir tom and investors like him . Some seniorfigures in the conservative party are warming to a solution thats been put forward by the uks institute of directors. The iod is advocating leaving the Customs Union, in line with the pms lancaster house statement, and the uk instead signing up to a bespoke, partial Customs Union with the eu. The agreement would cover industrial goods and some processed agricultural goods, which would remove they say any need for Technical Information relating to the origin of products. That could be combined with a free trade agreement, which would allow trade in certain goods to be as frictionless as possible, including with ireland. The author of the iod proposal is allie renson, she joins us from our dundee studio. Great to have you with us. So not the Customs Union, not a Customs Union but a partial Customs Union. Yes i think we need to separate out what is inevitable. We are living Customs Union, it is difficult to see how the uk could stay part of it. It is in the eu treaties. And thenit it. It is in the eu treaties. And then it is difficult to make the argument that we should be in a full Customs Union and part of eu trade agreements because they do not negotiate trade agreements with other people. So we need that flexibility anyway and the question is how you square that with trying to avoid costly rules of origin applying to manufacturing and industrial goods. This is how we see a way of squaring the circle to a degree. But isnt it is not without friction but slightly less friction . Well we are clear in the report it does not remove all barriers to trade with the eu and far from it. You would have to look at the regulatory relationship we have with the Single Market once we are outside it. There is a lot of technical facilitating solutions we need to be added on to make that border in ireland frictionless but it removes a huge barrier to trade for manufacturers concerned about the supply chain being disrupted by having rules of origin applied to trade with the eu. The Prime Minister tells us not to look at models that already exist but the models that already exist but the model you describe sounds pretty similarto model you describe sounds pretty similar to the turkish model. Structure in terms of what it covers potentially is the same starting point. The differences when some people argue that without constraint the eu would be hampered in finding trade agreements with third countries, turkey has been somewhat unable to do the same in terms of getting reciprocal Market Access every time the eu does a trade agreement. But the eu and turkey have different starting positions with respect to their global trade ambitions. So i think this is a good base on which to build and try to fix some deficiencies that exist in the turkish model which actually are already being addressed between turkey and the eu. The Prime Minister said says she will lock them into chequers until they come up them into chequers until they come up with a solution. Is this the right balance then . I think it is pa rt right balance then . I think it is part of the puzzle and important bits of it. But the reason we were keen to get the message out is to say that being in a partial Customs Union does not mean in any way that youre constrained from negotiating your own trade agreements. That is an Important Message for certain parts of government to realise. An Important Message for certain parts of government to realiselj can parts of government to realise. can think of worse places to be locked into them chequers right now busses loaded with students from parkland, florida are headed to the states capital. Less than a week after their high school was the scene of a mass shooting which left 17 people dead they are calling for change in gun control laws. Tomorrow they will be marching and meeting with legislators in tallahassee. Giuliana matamoros is among those making the trip and she spoke to me right before she left. Tell me what youre doing today, how many people you are travelling with, what your expectations are . We are going to tallahassee. Were going to get there around eight oclock. Im going with about 100 kids. And our expectations for tomorrow, because that is when all the meetings are, is to be able to talk to these representatives, people who have authority, and for them to listen to us. For them to consider a change so nothing like this can happen again. We really want our voices to be heard. To have an opportunity to be able to talk to them is amazing. We are making history, we are doing this for our angels that we gained. And im so very proud of my school that were doing this. Im proud of my nation for supporting us. And are you going to the meetings with a list of demands about the changes you want to see in the gun laws or are you just going to say look guys, you figure it out, there has to be change . No, we are going with proposals, that is what were going to discuss during the bus ride there. Since everyone is going to be together, that is a chance for all of us to talk and see what were going demand. Were notjust going there just to talk, were going there to talk and for them to listen and take action. Do you think that there is something in the atmosphere that has changed which means that all these young people coming together to talk about the need for change will actually lead to change in the United States . I think now it is different. Because we have all this technology, we have a bigger audience we can reach out to. I feel the atmosphere is just unity, we do not want this to happen any more, were tired of hearing it on the news. We just want action, we need it to happen. 3000 kids in one school, that is a big family enough. And having a lot of the nation coming in and supporting us as well, that is what is changing. We are able to have that voice and able to be heard. Thank you very much indeed for being with us. And i will be in tallahassee with that demonstration tomorrow. And she said they would discuss their policy position on the bus. Theyre not a conventional Political Force which may be a bigger weakness but also their strength. People are rallying and thinking maybe they have a message that we need to listen to. saw a couple of drafts of bipartisan proposals that have been put forward and the Florida State house, their statement goes much further with proposals on semiautomatic weapons, background checks, time outs for those who should not have guns. The Congress Version looks like just an imposition of the law that is already there. I think there is a change in the air. It may come to nothing but these young people are driving something at the moment and it could lead to change, who knows. Oxfam is at the centre of a storm of allegations of abusive behaviour and management cover up now the entire aid sector is under scrutiny for safeguarding failures. The charity says its investigating a further 26 cases of alleged Sexual Misconduct of some of its former staff in haiti. The Bbcs Stephen Sackur has been speaking to Amira Malik Miller an experienced aid worker who witnessed misconduct at first hand. In 2004 while working for an ngo in liberia, she blew the whistle on a senior staff member who she witnessed having a sexual relationship with a young local woman. The man and other senior managers were subsequently dismissed. At the weekend i went into the kitchen, other people were around as well but i went into the kitchen and found one of the senior Staff Members there with a quite young liberian girl. I do not know what age she was, 16, 18. But what i saw was something i was not comfortable with and which i deem to be inappropriate. I confronted that person right there and then. Sexually inappropriate . Yes. There was a lot of touching and so on. I certainly felt it was inappropriate and went against our code of conduct. That is why i confronted that man straightaway and why i then the following monday morning went to head office and said this has happened, im not comfortable with this i do not think it is according toa this i do not think it is according to a code of conduct and someone. And i would expect you to do something. Amira malik miller talking to Stephen Sackur for bbc hardtalk. And you can watch that fascinating interview in full here on bbc world news on wednesday at the times in gmt you can see on your screen now. The us and uk are in talks about what to do with two men from west london who were detained in syria last month on suspicion of terrorist activity. Allexanda kotey and El Shafee Elsheikh are believed to be two members of the Islamic State cell known as the beatles that killed western hostages. The bbc understands the pair have been stripped of their uk citizenship and the home secretary, amber rudd says that they should go on trial. A court in bangkok has awarded a japanese man full Paternity Rights for thirteen babies that he fathered through commercial surrogacy. Mitsutoki shigeta became the focus of the so called baby factory scandal in 2014 when it was revealed that he had fathered multiple infants through thai surrogates. His case led to thailand banning commercial surrogacy for foreigners. The rising tide of plastic pollution in our oceans is breaking international law, according to a new report. Campaigners say some of the worlds biggest polluters including china and india could be forced to pay compensation to island nations whose coastlines are being ruined. Still to come a huge shot in the fa cup last night as we can celebrate their win over Manchester City. Sarah lancashire reports now on Free School Meals for some schools in scotland. Yeah, theres all different food you can get. My favourites chicken curry. Its tomato pasta. So this is your favourite meal youve got today . Yeah. You get lettuce, and you have tomato and you have all the pasta. When i was at school, School Lunches were not something you looked forward to, but are they actually good here . Yeah. Really good. All the kids here do seem to really enjoy their school meals, and the teachers know that, for some of them, its the best meal theyre going to eat all day. When the schools close, quite a few of these kids do, sadly, go hungry. Thats why North Lanarkshire council are to pilot a scheme providing free lunches to kids who need them, not just on school days, but every day. Every so often, you can spot that someones hungrier than we would like them to be after a weekend, or after a holiday period in particular. It can be individual children, we know that food is an issue. If youre hungry, you wont learn and you wont achieve. Other councils in the uk provide meals during school holidays. North lanarkshire will be the first to make free lunches available 365 days a year, from primary one up to the third year of secondary school. I know there are children out there that dont get a meal. Some adults go without to give their kids during the holidays. The children get full meals at school, so in the holidays and that, you give them a piece for lunch, and theyre, like, where is my hot dinner . , ken . About 40 of these children qualify for Free School Meals. But the school works hard to make sure its not obvious who to avoid any stigma. For the same reasons, kids wont be coming into school at weekends and holidays meals will be served in leisure centres or community halls. It will cost around £500,000 a year to feed kids who might not otherwise eat a proper meal over the weekend. Theres a Critical Division between the countries in the east of the eu, and those in the west. That was one of the themes from hungarys Prime Minister in his annual state of the Union Address this week. Victor orban whose tough line on migration has enraged the eu said his country was endangered by politicians in brussels, berlin and paris. Jenny hill has been to the hungarian border with serbia. Divisive, defiant. Hungry is standing its ground. A borderfence, no migrant quotas, a different vision for europe. Translation it is thanks to our political leaders that hungary and its people have a profile in europe. People recognise us, they look at us and say hungary, you are ok. But victor orban unsettles his eu peers. Do not expect him to back down over asylum policy, the crisis may be over but he and his are seeking re election. This wave of refugees and immigrants to hungary and to europe came as kind of a heavenly gift to victor orban and many other politicians in the region. They could exaggerate the potential threats and risks and then appear as saviours. Watch out for the dress rehearsal. Local elections in this town. The fidesz candidate expected to win. How do you justify to voters here . Even so he was not keen to speak to us. Can we just ask you about the eu . Your party is in trouble with the eu. How do you justify that to voters here who depend on eu money so much . Let alone discuss the eu. Sorry, i have to go. Goodbye. Corruption allegations, xenophobia, Victor Orbans dream of what he calls an illiberal democracy. Translation the only thing they do right is keeping migrants out. Apart from that they do not do anything good. They might say the economy is thriving but we do not feel it. The only people who do well are those close to fidesz. Translation the courts, the police, the administration, all completely under the influence of fidesz and people are scared. I do not know what will happen to me for speaking out but im not afraid. But out here in the countryside, there is concern. Farms like this depend on funding from the eu. Translation the European Union should not be small minded with hungarian Dairy Farmers just because it has quarrelled with the hungarian government. It would be irresponsible to punish the country and its people. The end results could be the eu falls apart. For many of course this is all about security. But the fence has come to define hungary and its decision to put National Interests first. Here on the very outer edge of the eu it is a symbol of defiance. After all, this country knows what it means to be left outside. I have stood on the border and watch them unravelling that razor wire in 2015. We talked about italy and immigration is the central theme driving politics in these countries. It may not push the populist parties into power but tasers shaping the debate and politics and has an effect on where mainstream politics stands at any one time. Would agree it has been a thread running through the programme. Talking about trump and immigration being a big part of that. We have been discussing the brexit fallout. Brexit decisions largely driven by immigration as well. And politicians are still struggling to catch up with this in terms of often what the public are thinking. Absolutely. Whatever your sport, we all like a spot of giant killing. And last night in the fa cup wigan pulled off one of the all time upsets, beating top of the league, runaway leaders, Manchester City. The league one side, 46 places below city in the english football league, won 1 0 in theirfifth round tie. Beating one of the best sides in europe. Theyll now face southampton in the quarterfinal. And the scorer of that goal, cult hero will grigg. In terms of the calibre of their players and how they have been doing asa players and how they have been doing as a team, the manager, it is the highlight of my careerjust how bad night panned out. And to get that goal was something special. He has given rise to the greatest football chant ever you know the words . Will grigg on fire, your defence chant ever you know the words . Will grigg on fiie, your defence is terrified. Here is a flavour. Will grigg on fire. Will grigg on fire. Your defence is terrified. Your defence is terrified. Will grigg on fire. Will grigg on fire. Your defence is terrified. And that was surely every pub last night in wigan. Did you ever imagine we would be showing film from inside a pub in wigan where they are doing a pub in wigan where they are doing a soccer chant do not let anyone say we do not have a broader agenda one friend said to me the dream of a wigan rochdale final lives on. Who are rochdale playing in the next round . Theyre not going into the next round because spurs are going to beat them i thought you would like that the wigan manager is paul cook, a former burnley player. So some burnley fans rooting for them. Thank you for watching. We will see you at the same time tomorrow. Goodbye. Hello there. Wednesday is a brighter day for most of us but today we had some cloud across eastern areas. The weather front moving from west to east. But through tuesday night the wind shift direction. The easterly wind with us for quite some time. Through the night the easterly wind blowing the clu b night the easterly wind blowing the club back on itself back into england so increasing amounts of cloud and generally frost free across many central and southern areas. But temperatures dipping away across scotland and northern ireland. So High Pressure around. The wind is light, we will have areas of sunshine and more cloud and where the cloud is thicker you could get some spots of rain but nothing more than that. Temperatures around six or 7 degrees tomorrow. And then wednesday night into thursday again clearing skies in some areas so frost on the way. First thing on thursday the frost will be a bit more widespread. You can see how cold it is on the confident. Two or three degrees in towns and cities. On thursday that cold easterly is well established across central europe, and reaching the uk. So from thursday onwards the temperatures start to lower. We will notice that around east anglia, lincolnshire, temperatures really struggling. And on balance i think still a bright data come from any pop up that bright weather continues into friday, saturday and sunday. So not an awful lot will change as we go through the next few days. Just a gradual drop in the temperature by day and later in the week we start to see this huge High Pressure linking through scandinavia and into siberia and around this high we start to get the cold winds. Not reaching us just yet. This is bbc news. Im ben brown. The headlines at 8pm. As oxfam investigates 26 more cases of alleged Sexual Misconduct, its revealed around 7,000 people have stopped donating money following the revelations that some staff used prostitutes in haiti. The suburbs of syrias capital reports of up to 200 dead, as Government Forces attack the last rebel stronghold near damascus. Jeremy corbyn condemns the owners of four National Newspapers after the titles ran a series of stories about his past. A high courtjudge rules doctors can stop providing life support treatment to 21 month old alfie evans against his parents wishes. This is not over. This isjust the start. I am going to