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Im katty kay in washington and Christian Fraser is in london. Students from parkland, florida, Want Congress to act. Republicans in congress made it pretty clear today they arent interested. On the issue of whether to add new laws to restrict the sale of guns in america, the Republican Leadership is unlikely to take up any new proposals. But polling in the country does show Public Opinion has shifted on the issue even among republican voters. Take a look at this cbs survey. In december last year, 29 of republicans said laws covering gun sales should be stricter. When they were asked the same question again last week the percentage went up to 43 . Or in this cnn poll asking the general public if they favoured or opposed stricter gun laws. In october 2017 just after the mass shooting in las vegas 52 said they favoured them versus 44 against. Compare that to now and 70 of those asked were in favour of stricter gun laws. Whilst those against drops to 27 . Those numbers seem to be out of synch with House Speaker paul ryan, speaking earlier. We shouldnt be banning guns for law abiding citizens we should be focusing on making sure that citizens who shouldnt get guns in the first place dont get those guns and that is why we see a big breakdown in the system. In this case there were a lot of breakdowns. A short while ago i spoke to democratic representative, val demings from florida, who previously headed the Orlando Police department. Congresswoman, it seems pretty clear from listening to republicans after they met on the issue of School Shootings today, they are not prepared to do very much, if anything at all, in terms of new legislation around gun control in the country. Are you disappointed . Did you expect the shooting at parkland might have changed their minds . What i do expect is that the young people who are advocating for change are not going away. These students, most of them not old enough to vote yet, have had the blood of their friends and their classmates splattered upon them. They are not going to let it go. I have been disappointed though in the republicans responds. How many more shootings . 150,000 children in this country have been exposed to School Shootings. What i do know is this group of young people will not let it go. This is the generation we have taught when things are wrong, you work to make them right. They are going to hold republicans and all of congress accountable. It does seem those floridians are asking more than congress is contemplating. Let me ask you about the issue of Mental Health. This is something the president has raised and your republican colleagues are raising as the primary issue behind the School Shootings. You were a former chief police in the 0rlando district. Was there something under florida law that you could have done to prevent somebody like Nicholas Cruz from owning a gun . We need to work on our laws because unless the person has made a threat against a specific person, then it is tough to consider that a crime. When i hear the president and the Republican Party talk about mental illness, it is just a distraction. What we need to do is get serious about legislation that will keep guns out of the hands of dangerous people, those who are mentally ill, criminals, terrorists and others. We have got to work on the legislation. My understanding, congresswoman, is the bar for people who are in Law Enforcement, a Police Officer like you used to be, to go into somebodys home and take their weapons away from them, even if they are somebody who has been reported as having mental problems, the barfor doing that is very high. You may not have been able as a Police Officer to take Nicholas Cruzs weapons away from him. That is correct and that is why we are pushing the gun violence restraining order act. It would have given the Sheriffs Office and other Law Enforcement over the country the opportunity to go in and temporarily remove weapons from the home of someone who had made statements, someone who exhibited behaviour that family members thought was a danger to themselves or others. Legislation like that would have given Law Enforcement the tools they would have needed to remove those weapons. As a former Police Officer, what do you make of the president s idea of Arming Teachers in schools . It is an idea i have heard before but when it comes out of the mouth of the commander in chief, i know of nothing that has been proposed yet that is more ridiculous than arming our teachers and our head teachers. I talked to several of them in the district, they reminded me as a law maker that they signed up to educate our children. They did not sign up to get in a gunfight with an active shooter. It is the most ridiculous thing i have heard and i hope the president and others will abandon that idea. Congresswoman, thank you forjoining me. Thank you. Clearly there are stiff headwind is coming from congress. I can see where some of the republicans are coming from. They have primaries in the spring and they are unlikely to get into a row of Second Amendment supporters at home. Which sort of position as the president going to adopt, that is not clear. He has been vague, talking about doing something about Mental Health and making it impossible for somebody to get gansu has a Mental Health problem. In practical terms, get gansu has a Mental Health problem. In practicalterms, it get gansu has a Mental Health problem. In practical terms, it is ha rd to problem. In practical terms, it is hard to get guns away from people. The background checks might be tightened up a little bit. I think last week there was some perception at looking at what is happening in the United States and those students who turned up in florida that something new with happen. That is what i am sceptical about this week. The energy in favour of tighter gun laws has evaporated in the country and people, even though the hearing from florida, we want more, i am very surprised if they moved on with that. It is that standpoint, guns is solved by more guns, it is not understood on this site of the continent. Understandably. Before we move on, can we just revisit this meeting the president had with the governors yesterday. You might have seen that he was confronted during that meeting by the Washington State governorjay inslee, who doesnt like the idea of Arming Teachers. I have under stood you have suggested this. We recommend things and then they do not look good later. I suggest less tweeting and more listening and lets take that off of the table and move forward. We are going to watch that again but we are going to watch it with the camera on president trump. It is a study in body language. Watch this. I suggest we need more listening and lets ta ke i suggest we need more listening and lets take that off of the table and move forward. Thank you very much. I am going to move the microphone and i know where i would like to put it. Please can you shut up now . It is fabulous. He did not love that, did he . No, i do not think the governor is his cup of tea. You might lock him up with hillary clinton. He might not get an invite back. The first five hour ceasefire in the syrian enclave of Eastern Ghouta has ended in failure. The brief pause was ordered by syrias ally russia, which said, it would be repeated daily to allow civilians to leave. An estimated 400 thousand people are trapped in Eastern Ghouta which is held by syrian rebels, and in the last week more than 560 people have been killed. In the uk hundreds of schools have been shut today. Yes, the weather front from russia has brought snow and strong winds but it has put Vulnerable People at risk. He sings. For some, it is an excuse to pose a quirky video. But for people, and animals, it is hard getting around right now in places such as hungary. It is dangerous, too. The driver of this lorry in serbia was lucky. He was left hanging in his cabin for two hours before being rescued. Even the island of corsica, more associated with sunny summer holidays, woke to this. In brussels, controversial measures to get Homeless People off of the streets. The Authorities Say if people refuse to move, the police will detain them and bring them to shelters like this one. They come here, says the volunteer. They have a bed and paper sheets. Ten people were detained last night and slept here, he says. Translation i realise that Homeless People really refuse to move. I worked with my colleague this weekend to draft a decree to force those people to accept accommodation. Rome is not itself either. A fight not normally witnessed at the coliseum. There hasnt been snowed here for six yea rs. Further east in cities like bucharest, schools have been closed. There has been major disruption for those travelling by road and by rail. Lets get more from syria. Women in syria are being sexually exploited by men who are delivering aid on behalf of the United Nations. The bbc has uncovered evidence that aid workers have traded food and transport for sexual favours. There were warnings about this abuse three years ago. But it seems its continuing in the south of the country. Today the British Foreign secretary borisjohnson said his government would not fund any agency or International Charity that failed to tackle the exploitation of women. Our Diplomatic Correspondent James Landale reports. The fighting in syria continues. Here, in rebel held Eastern Ghouta and elsewhere. And it has now emerged that some refugees fleeing the conflict have faced demands for sex from local syrian officials delivering aid on behalf of international charities. They were withholding the aid that had been delivered and then using these women for sex. So, this was a range of women, there were women of different ages in the group. Some had experienced it themselves. Some were very distraught. Danielle spencers an experienced aid worker. She heard these stories from women who had fled tojordan and they told her that many refused to go to distribution centres because people would assume they had offered their bodies for aid. Two charities, care and the International Rescue committee, warned about this abuse three years ago and tightened up their procedures. But a report from the Un Population fund late last year confirmed that sex was still being traded for aid. Sexual exploitation and abuse of women and girls has been ignored. Its been known about and its been ignored for seven years. This war is seven years old. The un and the system, as it currently stands, have chosen for womens bodies to be sacrificed. The department for International Development said it was not aware of any cases like this involving uk aid, and if there were, the foreign secretary said the funding would be stopped. Obviously, we have talked a great deal about this in the last few weeks since the whole business broke with oxfam and so on, and Penny Mordaunt and i are absolutely committed to a zero tolerance approach. Can it be stopped . Well, we will not support agencies that engage in that kind of activity. Un agencies and charities said they had zero tolerance of exploitation, but were not aware of any cases of abuse by their own partner organisations, and one un spokesman played down the reports, saying they were incomplete, fragmented and unsubstantiated. James landale, bbc news. The bbcs Diplomatic Correspondent, James Landale reporting there and hes with us now. It is not as if the un has not faced this problem before. I was saying last week that 13 years ago i did a similar story. You said there were reports about this two or three yea rs reports about this two or three years ago and have not taken action. We did take some action. In 2015, two eight agencies heard about this. The brought it to a meeting at the headquarters. The mood of that meeting was we need to find out more about this. Some then carried out more research, others said, we are going to tighter our procedures, improved training. Clearly, others did not take as much action because all the evidence is, from a report by the United Nations itself, says it is still going on. James, can i ask you about the ceasefire, or at the meant to be ceasefire that seems to be broken and the reports seems to be broken and the reports seems to be that both sides are complaining that the other side did not live up to the truce on what are you hearing and what are the chances this can be resumed tomorrow and later dates . I think there is very little expectation that any kind of ceasefire, whatever kind of language you want to use, is going to happen. The problem is you have got an illustration of the power struggles that are going on. You have the International Community is saying, we want a 30 day ceasefire. You have the russians saying, we want a five hour pause each day. It is possible to get humanitarian aid in. You have the Syrian Regime are doing their own thing. What we are seeing is there are limits on how much external actors can control what is going on in the ground. Thank you very much for coming in. Few people are closer to donald trump than hope hicks who has spent today in the company of the House Intelligence Committee thats investigating russian meddling. This is pretty much as close to the president as this investigation can get. So what do we know about hope hicks . As Communications Director she is one of the most influential figures in the inner circle and only 29 years old. Her family are well known in the pr world she started work in 2012 with a pr firm in new york, and later went on to represent ivanka trumps fashion brand. She was a political novice but very soon was drafted into help on the trump campaign. She has been there, right from the beginning. Through the transition. And is now a key figure in the oval office. Which is why she is of such interest to Robert Muellers team. She was interviewed by him in december and this is herfirst appearance before the House Intelligence Committee. Specifically they want to know about a flight on airforce one last summer during which mr trump dictated a statement about the rationale for a Campaign Meeting between trumps son don and a russian operative. Hope hicks was on that flight. The are going to grill her on that element of the investigation. The real question is how forthcoming she is going to be. There were mixed reports about this as she came out of the enquiry today. You had some lawmakers saying it was boring and no news came out of it, others was saying she was and swearing questions. Others said she was not and drink the questions. It is hard to explain how close she is to donald trump. Imagine her as your favourite niece, someone you see as your prodigy and the president has kept hope hicks very close to him during the campaign and during the white house. That is why investigators are keen to talk to her. She knows pretty much everything. She has been in the meetings and heard what donald trump has said. She was sitting on that plane when they were working out the strategy to deal with the story that was breaking about the meeting in trump tower. The others, steve bannon and jeff sessions, they have invoked executive privilege. If she does that again today, there is a problem for congress, isnt there . Never before have we seen executive privilege used in this kind of way. Yes, it would be a problem. We have not heard she has done that, by the way. It would get them in the position we are the white house is stonewalling. You have to leave it up stonewalling. You have to leave it up to bob miller how he is going to respond to that and push to make sure these people answer questions. He wants them to answer. Lets look at some other news that has come in from around the world. In a landmark ruling, a federal court in germany has decided that cities can ban some diesel cars in order to tackle air pollution. Environmental groups had brought the case against two german cities stuttgart and dusseldorf, but it will apply nationwide. The measures could affect more than nine million vehicles which fail to meet eu environmental standards. The biggest cable tv operator in the United States has made a thirty one billion dollar bid to buy the british broadcaster, sky. The offer from comcast which owns nbc and Universal Pictures is higher than an existing one from Rupert Murdochs 21st century fox. Fox already owns 39 of sky and has offered to buy the remainder but thats been opposed by britains competition watchdog. The film director Lewis Gilbert the british director of alfie, educating rita and three james bond films has died at the age of 97. He directed more than a0 films during his long career and our arts correspondent david silito looks back at his life. Thats it, its fine. When Lewis Gilbert took on bond in you only live twice, he was already a director with 20 films to his name. He had directed orson welles dirk bogart, but 007 with its seemingly unlimited budget was new territory. I have made 25 films and ive never been on one where this doesnt ever come up. If i said today, i want 5000 people flown in from tokyo, im sure they would be flown in. In the 50s, Lewis Gilbert had made his name with a string of tales of stiff upper lip wartime british valour. And then in the 60s, a film that helped define a very different era alfie. My understanding of woman only goes as far as the pleasure. When it comes to the pain, im like every other bloke. I dont want to know. No, no, no, michael, we are going right. On set, he was easy going, charming, unflappable. A child of musical performance, he had spent his life in show business. And 17 years after alfie, he was reunited with Michael Caine in educating rita. I thought it was something serious. After that, another willie rosol adaptation shirley valentine. Willy russell. Lewis gilbert, providing some ofjames bonds greatest moments. Lewis gilbert whos died at the age of 97. You only live twice. Moon break with roger moore. That was one of my favourite movies. Who is your favourite movies. Who is your favourite james bond . Favourite movies. Who is your favourite james bond . I love roger mirror because he used to take the mickey out of the genre. Roger mirror. It has to be sean connery. He could have no pictures at all and listened to him all day. Do you think you grow up with a james bond . Mine is daniel craig. We all have a crush on daniel craig. I have a crush on daniel craig. I have a crush on daniel craig. I have a crush on daniel craig as well, we can be honest about this. He doesnt own stu nts can be honest about this. He doesnt own stunts and he has the greedy atmosphere, you do not know what he is thinking. Moody atmosphere. I mustve seen his films 15 times. One of the best films ever. Goldeneye is fantastic. Diamonds are forever. I liked that film. I do like sean connery. They are in black and white, some of them. Can you do it for us . Surely not. No, i cannot. 0k. For us . Surely not. No, i cannot. Ok. My very favourite sean connery movie. This is my advice to you, we are talking about the weather, this is what people can be doing. I know it is a nightmare when your children cannot go to school. We get snowfla kes children cannot go to school. We get snowflakes in washington and all the schools are shut. When you are stuck at home with your kids, hunt for red october. The advantages of the beast from the east. That is not sean connery, by the way. This is beyond 100 days from the bbc. Coming up for viewers on the bbc news channel and bbc world news what these photographs tell us about modern day slavery, on a main street near you. You will be surprised. And usain bolts turns his attention to football which clubs he signed with. And why . We will tell you. Thats still to come. First came the cold and then the snow. Most of us have had snow. More snow. Most of us have had snow. More snow on the horizon. This picture from kent. On the menu, further heavy snow showers in places. More travel disruption. The wind chill becomes more of an issue as well. In the short term, the end to the flow of cold aircoming the short term, the end to the flow of cold air coming in from siberia. You can see the extent of the cold across europe. Any snow showers will produce accumulation. It runs from east to west in the uk. Drier and clearer across western parts. The focus of the showers, into north east scotland into the night. Minus eight celsius in some places. We are concerned about these no piling up. An Amber Met Office weather warning to be prepared. Nasty travel conditions for parts of the central belt in scotland as we go from wednesday to thursday, due to the frequency and intensity of the snow showers. Some spots will get a heavy snow shower after another. Scattered snow showers around on wednesday. These are the top temperatures. The chilly night but by day these are the temperatures. This is what it feels like in the wind, minus figures. The easterly wind picks up a little bit. This area of low pressure comes in from the south, feeding moisture into the cold air across the uk. Snow showers continued thursday and we are going to see a spell of snow in northern parts and blizzards and icy conditions building up into friday across southern parts of the uk. Still running into north east england and parts of scotland. We minted in amberwarnings england and parts of scotland. We minted in amber warnings into first date we maintain. This is going into thursday, heavy and disruptive snow and another bitterly cold day. This is beyond 100 days, with me katty kay in washington Christian Frasers in london. Our top stories as republicans in Congress Meet to discuss gun controls after the Parkland School shooting one florida congresswoman and former Orlando Police chief gives us her view on Arming Teachers. I know of nothing that has been proposed yet that is more ridiculous than arming our teachers and our principles. In syria, a temporary humanitarian ceasefire in the rebel held territory of Eastern Ghouta collapses on its first day. Coming up in the next half hour the decades old dispute over the name, macedonia, and why it could be an obstacle to its future membership of the eu we hearfrom the Prime Minister. The powerful pictures highlighting modern day slavery in cities across the world. Let us know your thoughts by using the hashtag. Its notjust syria where russia is making its influence felt in the middle east. On monday, moscow vetoed a bid at the United Nations to criticise iran for allowing its weapons to end up in the hands of Yemens Houthi rebels. For the past three years the houthis have been waging war against the government backed by a saudi led coalition. 10,000 people have dead and millions have been forced from their homes. Joining us now is the former Us Ambassador to yemen stephen seche. Thank you for coming in here. The finger is pointed at iran. To what extent finger is pointed at iran. To what exte nt d o finger is pointed at iran. To what extent do you think iran is manipulating the situation in yemen . That is the case. A lot of it had to do when saudi arabia ended with its coalition and it was an invitation for iran to deepen its involvement. What we have seen is clear evidence they have been transporting missiles into yemen for use by the houthis. It poses an enormous risk of escalation. In conversations i have had with saudi officials, what they are saying is this is an existential issue and they are resolute that they will make sure there is never has blah on the border. Is that what you are hearing . The pressures for them or they are vulnerable to Ballistic Missiles and incursions. That is why they entered the region. Is differential similar to the war in syria. If the us is going to engage in yemen, it has to understand what the houthis want. |j hope we are trying to back channel information and there was an opportunity when one of the houthi negotiators went to iran where they had abducted and were releasing. He sat there with the intention of being available to International Western diplomats to discuss this issue. Work there the sun watching who talk about the hypocrisy of the United States in the uk. We have had a former government minister who is the only british pollen politician who has been to yemen. He said we are dangerously in danger of becoming complicit in the saudi policy towards yemen. We are arming the saudis. The American Government is in the same position. It is difficult to do so is the assaults from the impact the air campaign has over yemen and the humanitarian toll. It makes us less than an honest broker when we try to speak to other parties in the conflict. We have the white house talking about the prospect of increasing its military ties with the saudi government and they are proud they are doing so and saying this is a great opportunity for them. Is there any concern that the Trump Administration could be tainted by the saudis actions in yemen and the damage this is causing to civilians in the country . I do detect concerned in their white house. We need to do more and we have been reticent to mix it up and insist they need to do something. They dont understand how deep the whole is that they have dug for themselves and they need to stop digging immediately. We will see if they listen. Thank you very much for coming in. Slavery has many modern forms. There are children who work as domestic servants, farm hands and factory workers, bonded labourers who are tied to ever mounting debts, victims of sex trafficking who endure some horrific abuse. The business of exploiting these people is a Global Industry worth 150 billion dollars a year. Perhaps as many as a0 Million People globally are trapped in this modern slavery. One in four victims are children. Here is the story of a nigerian man, who came to britain searching a better life but soon ran out of money and ended up on the streets. My my name is tippee and i am from nigeria. 28 years old from nigeria. I was the victim of modern slavery bill. When i got to the uk, i have some money. Before my money ran out, iran some money. Before my money ran out, i ran out of cash some money. Before my money ran out, iran out of cash and i was on the streets. I felt the only people who could be of help to me were people from nigeria. I met this lady in a salon and some of them were nigerians. They said they were going to arrange for me to meet their boss and told me what i was going to do and told me what i was going to do and that if i am very loyal to him, he will sort me out. Every night, i got to the club and they would go to the toilet and when they came out, you would give them some aftershave and some spray and they were dropping a pound or two macro pounds. They would hand it over to the boss and they took everything. We were just living our lives for this man. They never allowed me to use my phone and they never allowed me to make friends. Some signs sometimes they would hit you and use swear words on you but i couldnt go to the police because they kept lingering and kept echoing saying if you go to the police, you will be in trouble. That scared me, that i couldnt even go to the police. There is currently an exhibition invisible people which is touring the uk. The photographer rory carniegie has recreated the lives of people who are known to have been trafficked into the uk. And well take a look at some of those images as we go. But with me in the studio, is the retired court of appealjudge baroness butler sloss, who now sits as the co chair of the all Party Parliamentary group on Human Trafficking and anti slavery. There is great awareness now around the world about this scourge of human travertine and i was listening toa human travertine and i was listening to a senator in congress the other day saying that what we need to do is apply best practice across the west to do with the problem. Where do you think we can put more effort . We have an extremely good modern slavery bill act passed in 2015, but it has only been partially implemented and if we can get the government to get this tragedy together and start to implement parts of the modern slavery bill act, we will have made progress. Parts of the modern slavery bill act, we will have made progressm is that prosecution of people perpetrating the crime that is the problem. In 2016, there are 9000 convictions worldwide which is extraordinary when you think of the number of people being trafficked. The trouble is the people who are trafficked for a variety of reasons dont want to give evidence. Also we are not looking after them in england and wales to a degree that makes them want to come forward and give evidence and stop speaking as a former lawyer, if you dont have that good evidence, it is difficult to get a conviction from the jury. To what extent do all of us every day as we are going about our lives encounter or come across people that are in slavery without us realising it . They walk down the street, we dont know. One of the problems is the lack of Awareness Among ordinary people. The churches are beginning to do some good work, particularly the pope and the vatican who is mobilising is people across the world to look for this. The church of england, the Roman Catholic church in england are doing good work but we do not know enough about them. Even the police dont yet know enough about it. It is an industry thatis enough about it. It is an industry that is now making Something Like 150 billion a year. Who is that money going to . It is at least thats because trafficking of people across the world, it is the second most valuable illegal trade in the world. It is going to those who wore enslaving people. They are traffickers right across the world will stop a great many eastern europe, a great many the far east. Vietnamese boys are in fact brought to england and are asked to work in cannabis farms which are rented accommodation. They are enslaved by being locked in. One of the things you said is you need people to come forward and to talk about their experience in slavery. One of the problems in this country and i suppose it is common in the us, is when they come forward, sometimes they are returned to their home countries. If they have taken great risk to get here in the first place and put themselves in the hands of these human traffickers, they are not likely to come forward if they think they are going to be returned. We are not generous to those that have been found positively identified as having been enslaved. We ought to be much more generous that they have no right to remain in this country. It is one of the things we are battling in our Parliamentary Group to try and get at least a few months for people to be allowed to stay, to find out whether or not it is safe to let them go back to their own country. It isa them go back to their own country. It is a pleasure to have you in the studio, thank you very much. We are not generous, that sums up the frustration of people trying to combat this. You try and encourage people to come forward and without them, it is difficult to crack down on the gangs and the groups and rings perpetrating this slavery. When they do come forwards, they face the prospect of being deported. There is some action in the us will stop the head of the Foreign Relations committee has pushed this issue vigorously and went to asia in 2014 and came back and were shocked by what he saw. He has managed to raise several millions of dollars for this but whether that is going to manage to break this legal logjam is hard to see. I won i watched one of the hearings are countries that identified as not doing enough to tackle Human Trafficking, they we re to tackle Human Trafficking, they were let off the hook because america didnt want to paris them. The other thing i was going to say was that is different practices even here in the uk. Scotland bringing in a90 here in the uk. Scotland bringing in a 90 day period after these people come forward to say they have been trafficked, they were going to care for 90 days which gives them more time. One of the real problems at the moment is people who have been victims of trafficking are trafficked because they are either put back on the street or put back in the hands of these traffickers. That is one of the things she was recommending. There is best practice out there which needs to be shared more liberally. The irish broadcaster has said a d raft the irish broadcaster has said a draft legal task about the eu will see Northern Ireland may be considered part of eu customs territory after brexit. This text will put into legal terms the agreement between the uk which will be reached last december. Some said it was a fudge and we didnt have the details and they didnt know how they would avoid this hard border between Northern Ireland and the irish republic. They will print this document tomorrow. 120 pages. There are several things in there and it will be dense. The European Unions chief brexit negotiator, michel barnier, says there are still significant points of disagreement with the uk over britains withdrawal from the eu. It doesnt mean that this is to be no border between the north and south and the border will be putting the irish sea. It is there as a backstop. Is saying they will have the solution if they cant find another way to get forward on the irish issue. I was going to ask whether this settled the question but i think you have and sedate. Prosecutors in south korea are seeking a 30 yearjail sentence for their former president. Park geun hye, who is standing trial on charges including bribery and abuse of power, was ousted last year after being impeached over a corruption scandal. Shes been held in custody for almost a year. A village in the southern germany has decided to keep a nazi era bell hanging in a local church. The bell bears the engraving all for the fatherland adolf hitler above a large swastika. After months of dispute, the churchs Parish Council has now decided to keep it, and put up a plaque explaining the bells history. Donald trump has picked one of his political strategists as Campaign Manager for his 2020 re election campaign. The Trump Organization hired Brad Parscale in 2011 as a Digital Media guru. He was asked in 2015 to create a website for mr trumps exploratory white house bid, and a year later became the campaigns digital director. This is beyond 100 days. Still to come. Usain bolt reveals the mystery Football Club hes signed for and why. Heavy snow and freezing temperatures have caused disruption and treacherous driving conditions across much of the uk. In lincolnshire, there were 20 accidents in three hours. In one crash, three people were killed. Forecasters have warned of worse weather conditions to come. The east coast had time to prepare. Travellers had a taste of what this week has in store. Lincolnshire police dealt with 20 accidents in a three hour period. Three people died ina three hour period. Three people died in a collision on a15 edgbaston and a school bus veered off the road are deepening saint james. In a school bus veered off the road are deepening saintjames. In essex, a car passenger filmed 17 damaged or abandoned vehicles alongside the a120 close to colchester. In kent where the county council had declared a snow emergency, grifters worked flat out to cover as many roads as possible but like traffic overnight meant salt couldnt do its work and by the time the morning commute began, accidents and ice had closed a series of routes. Drivers posted video images of the m20 where traffic was brought to a halt north of maidstone and the weald. Up to ten centimetres of snow fell across kent, surrey and east sussex where farmers helped to keep minor roads open. More than 300 schools were closed. The village of leeds was com pletely closed. The village of leeds was completely is cut off a time as ice and compacted snow was stranded cars and compacted snow was stranded cars and lorries. Across the eastern counties, traffic crawled and travellers waited for news on cancelled rail services. Operators have run empty trains through the night to keep the tracks open but for a while, this snow defeated them. Temperatures falling again. Travelling will remain unpredictable and hazardous in the coming days. This week the European Commission president Jean Claude Junker has been visiting the new prospective members of the eu. Hes been on a whirlwind tour of the western balkan countries the republic of macedonia, albania, serbia, montenegro, Bosnia Herzegovina and kosovo. Its an area of europe that has seen more than its fair share of war and not so long ago. The trip said mrjunkers staff is intended to serve as an encouraging gesture to these counties. And one country that certainly thinks it can benefit from eu membership is macedonia. One of the things that stands in their places their name. Greeks have argued that the name, macedonia, represents a territorial claim of greeces Northern Province which is also named macedonia. I have been speaking to the Prime Minister and i put it to him that greece is not likely to budge on the issue of the name. We are the republic of macedonia. We understand our good friends in greece. They have another part of the country called macedonia. Now the country called macedonia. Now the problem is how to distinguish between our country and the regional macedonia in the greek side. We try to understand completely and because of that, we are in sight of negotiations with the Prime Minister in greece. We are positive in our way to find a solution. We are prepared to accept geographical distinction in our new name and what will be used for every country. We try to find a way how we will protect the interests of our country but the interests of greece. We must ta ke but the interests of greece. We must take care of each other because we can agree on anything but our institutions must vote for that and give support for that. The group promised has made encouraging noises but his defence secretary has been adamant macedonia cannot be part of your name if you want to be a member of the European Union. They have done that all this year. Nothing moves. We have positive recommendation since 2009 to start negotiations. We have an open invitation from nato since 2008 and we didnt become a member of nato and we participate in all nations in afghanistan and everywhere in the world. There is a consensus of decisions in nato and the European Union and we try to encourage greece that they accept. You saying macedonia must be in the name somewhere. It is in our country and greece. The bigger party. We accept it isa greece. The bigger party. We accept it is a fact. With countries like yours that are trying to get up to the european average, the best talent in the country leaves for the biggest western economies. We have seen biggest western economies. We have seen it with bulgaria and romania. Are you worried that might happen with macedonia . We have expectations when to become a member of the European Union. It is an open market now. We believe in the values and these values will be more guaranteed for you to remain in our country. We hope to improve our economy and standard because we attract a lot of foreign investors. They push the economy and increase salaries. The Prime Minister that of macedonia. It would mean a lot to country. The Unemployment Rate in macedonia is 2296 Unemployment Rate in macedonia is 22 and they have been meeting finance yeas here in london and one of them the European Development bank, says it will take them 60 yea rs bank, says it will take them 60 years to get up to the eu gdp average per person in macedonia. That is how far they are behind. It isa that is how far they are behind. It is a long road for these countries because they have to get their courts in order, freedom of the press, political unity in the country. There is a lot to do. The point thatjean Claude Juncker is making us why do we want a country like that as member of the European Union was to mark this as part of the european neighbourhood and it is not so long ago that we have war in the western balkans and the best way to avoid that is for them to set aside political differences and become part of the european family. Their chances or have they improved or not with britain leaving the European Union . Is there a desire of things they have to do to get their governments in order . Is there more ofa governments in order . Is there more of a desire from the European Commission to have new members . They would say they are already solving the european problems. I have been on the border between greece and macedonia years ago when migrants we re macedonia years ago when migrants were flowing through the western balkans into europe. You want us to be part of the solution to the migrant issue but you dont want us to be part of the European Union. They would say they are an integral pa rt they would say they are an integral part of the Security Solution within the European Union and that is why they should be fast tracked. And taking the consequences of the position they are in. This is my favourite story of the day. Usain bolt who has always harboured an ambition to be a professional footballer, posted a rather mischevious tweet the other day. He said he was signing for a new football team. Which got tongues wagging. Today we learn that he will make his footballing debut at the theatre of dream, old trafford in a Charity Soccer aid match on the tenthjune. Yes the eight time olympic gold medallist will captain a team of international celebrities. He is a massive Manchester United fan. His team will take on Robbie Williams team to raise money for unicef. Heres the promo. A brand new captain for this soccer aid world 11. Robbie, let me entertain you. You can run but you cant hide. Stick to singing and leave the football for me. Robbie williams looks like he is in good health at the moment. Usain bolt looks a little bit alive. It will be interesting to see how they move around the pitch. Are you saying Robbie Williams looks fitter than usain bolt . Quite the reverse. I thought your eyes need testing again. I would wonder how you would mark someone like usain bolt. Give him 30 yards and see if you can catch him. Would you even go on the pitch if you knew usain bolt was on there. I am a distance runner. Hes one of the most charming characters. That would be set alight. It is for a good cause, unicef. He is playing at Manchester United and he is a big Manchester United fan. You made a good stab at sean connery. Give us the lightning bolts. You can do it. I have no reputation left. Coming up on the programme, we will have the latest headlines from carole walker. I will be back with some more impressions tomorrow. Thanks very much for watching. First came the cold, then the snow. More of us have had snow during the course of today. We have more snow on the horizon. This is one for you from kent. Apart badly hit today. We have further heavy snow showers in places. That will bring more travel disruption. The wind chill becomes more of an issue as well. In the short term, the end of this cold air coming from siberia but you can see the extent of the cold across europe. Anything falling from the sky is of snow. More of us turning dry and clearer across western parts. You can see the focus of the snow showers. Some sports will dip as low as minus seven celsius. We are concerned about the snow piling up. We have an Amber Met Office warning meaning be prepared. Some nasty travelling conditions getting going through parts of the central belt and some of those major routes around the central belt from wednesday to thursday. Due to the frequency of these snow showers, some spots will get one heavy snow shower after another. On wednesday, scattered snow showers around. Sun some sunny spells and this will bea some sunny spells and this will be a very cold day. Feeling like minus double figures with the easterly wind. It will strengthen further as the week goes on duty this low pressure coming from the south feeding moisture into the very cold air in place across the uk. Snow showers continue on thursday across northern parts of the uk and we will see a spell of snow and blizzards and icy conditions building up thursday into friday across south western parts of the uk into wales. Snow showers for Northern Ireland and still for North Eastern england. We maintain amber warnings into thursday. This isa amber warnings into thursday. This is a new one for south western parts and wales going into thursday where we will see some heavy and disruptive snow and another bitterly cold day. This is bbc news. The headlines at eight. The big freeze continues. Sub zero temperatures are predicted overnight and more disruption on the way. As commuters battled the roads, others beard that most of the day of school. The International Trade secretary rejects labours call to remain within a Customs Union as a sell out of britains interests. Ifa if a bbc survey finds. 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