Trumps plan for a wall and mexico to play fritz. The last bits might be happening any time soon but the preparations are happening soon and it needs to begin because it will stretch over 3000 kilometres along the border along the us and mexico, estimated costs but anyone is certain of that is not straight. This is a complicated project and will cost is unknown. Landowners in texas have been told to sell their land to the government and 200 firms have submitted bids to build the wall. This is a report from el paso. On the Us Mexico Border a bizarre Beauty Contest is about to begin. Some 200 companies have submitted bids to build Donald Trumps wall. Soon a handful will be invited to make prototypes. The bids include some eye catching designs. There is a wall in the medieval style. Another which doubles as a Nuclear Waste store. This one, made of solar panels, and even a design for a barrier adorned with glittering gems. Some though, are less outlandish. This will be 30 feet high and then six feet below in the footing. Michael evangelista said he had to search his soul before bidding, as a latino who wants to build the wall, he has received numerous death threats. His voice mail is not pleasant. I know that youre trying to build that wall and i think its disgusting, a disgrace. And you are a traitor. So why on earth did he get involved at all . Members of my own family were initially upset about it. But when they understood and i explained to them that the reason why we are entering this conversation is because we do not want this wall to have lethal options including an electrified fence or razor wire. The border wall is a reality and if it is going to be done, we needed it to be done right. It wont be easy. A treaty with mexico prohibits building on the edge of the rio grande. Instead the proposed route slices through private property. Bitter battles loom. This is where they want to build a wall. This would be part of the section that they want, 60 feet wide by over a mile long. But it would be no mans land because who is going to want that property . Noel benavides has received a government letter telling him his land will be cut into by the wall. We need access to the river, we have water rights, we have several feet of water rights from the river that right now were not using, but in the future we probably will. A wall, you go back in history, it has never worked. People just go over it. Youve got a 20 foot wall, but someone is going to build a 21 foot ladder to go over it. He is not the only critic. In fact all along the border there is scepticism. Here in texas opposition to lengthening and strengthening this barrier comes notjust from President Trumps democratic opponents. Notjust from mexico across there. But also from quite a few republicans. Among them is this congressman. Will hurd used to be a cia spy. Now he is battling his own president on the home front. I think building a wall from Sea To Shining sea is the most expensive and least effective way to do border security. We should be using technology, we should be using people, we should be increasing intelligence on the bad guys that we are trying to stop and stop them before they get to our border. These are all things that are better use of american taxpayer dollars. The white house continues to claim that the cost of a bigger, better barrier, will be met in the end by mexico. Critics say that its fantasy. But President Trump still insists that his wall will be built. James cook, bbc news, el paso in texas. In turkey there has been another huge raft of arrests related to the attempted coup last year. Again the numbers are absolutely staggering. Turkish media is saying overfour and a half dozen people have been placed under investigation, 3000 wa rra nts placed under investigation, 3000 warrants have been issued and that is already a thousand people have been detained. To understand what happens to the detainees, here are some more information. They need to wait for the indictments to be prepared. Before the arrests and before the final conclusion is made by the courts they should wait for the indictment to be prepared. And 1000 people being taken to a Detention Centre is a huge event but there have been similar events in there have been similar events in the last few months how significant is this . Today we saw one of the biggest raids in the last few months. Especially after the referendum, this is an important events. 1000 across the country, more than an thousand Police Officers contributing towards the raids, more than 2000 people are still being targeted and they will be caught. This is against people who have links. The secret mm is call who have links. The secret mm is Ca Ll Alerts Who have links. The secret mm is call alerts the turkish authorities we re call alerts the turkish authorities were determined to take this fight. The recent referendum which gave president erred when power is or will do in time. Do you think that is affecting how the government is addressing the issue . In general the alleged blitz in turkey, they havent changed their discourse, the human rights allegations were violated. The next thing i want to play is an interview with the turkish prime minister. As we have been hearing from my colleague earlier the turks voted to add considerable powers to the presidency. We have been putting those consent to the prime minister, here is some of the interview. Translation these brutal criticisms, what is a dictatorship, would you hold elections in a dictatorship, would you have political parties, would people vote ina political parties, would people vote in a dictatorship . I really cant agree. They all went to the ballot boxes, 2a million said no more than 25 million said yes, there is only one a million difference, if we we re one a million difference, if we were a dictatorship we would not decide on his proportions. He also spoke about the expectations of us policy in the region. When we compare this to the Obama Administration, you know the latest events, the chemical weapons being used and innocent children being killed, this led the Trump Administration to act quickly. This isa administration to act quickly. This is a Good Development because in the Obama Administration the region was left to others and not many policies are being produced and the problems increased and led to the strengthening of the regime. Those who backed it became more active. Its relieved the people in the region for there will be a balance established. You can see the full version of that on hard talk on friday. West ham and newcastles ground have been raided. Several people were arrested and it is understood the raids are in connection with suspected income tax and National Insurance fraud. We understand 50 h mrc offices turned up understand 50 h mrc offices turned up here, there were boxes of evidence lined up to be taken away and we understand they have ceased business records, documents, mobile phones, computers, that sort of things. We also know Saintjames S Park was raided and in the high profile Arrest Lee Charnley was arrested. He has been Managing Director since 2008 and this comes days after newcastle were promoted back to the premier league. The Training Grounds of both clubs were raided. We know officers visited chelsea this morning and they are not under investigation, day when notts raided and a spokesman told the bbc in connection with the wider investigation, h mrc have requested information which the club will provide. Look who is back, Maria Sharapova who has made herfirst appearance since she was banned for doping. She has work to do to get back. Now she has to see if she can get a wild card into the french open. Here is a statement from the person who will be overseeing all of that. He will be keeping us Waiting On Whether Maria Sharapova will be playing in the french open. In other big story to talk about fifa today. In the world cup and russian Video Replays will be used. Lets go to the Sports Centre now and speak to mark edwards. This has been in the offing but how is it going to work . First things first, this could be the end of controversial penalties and sending. Just to be clear, they can only review incidents relating to goals, red cards, mistaken identities and penalties. He might have seen it been used in different competitions, the A League In Australia and perhaps during the Clu B World Australia and perhaps during the Club World Cup injapan in december. Spain beat france in an International Friendly and Antoine Griezmann thought he had the lead but the referee reversed his decision after receiving a message that play was offside from the Video Assistant Referee sat outside the stadium while the second goal by spain was awarded by the Video Official after an Assistant Referee wrongly flagged rosyth. There appeared to be no play a protest about either decision which is surely a good thing. We have also gotjust quickly three matches, arsenal have given their Champions League hopes with a Big Those Totte N Ha M League hopes with a big those Tottenham Hotspur three minutes away from cutting the lead of chelsea. Christian eriksen with the only goal, they are down, they are not out, they are six points from safety with that win. One final line, Have A Mascherano who is synonymous with Success A Mascherano who is synonymous with success at barcelona scored his first goal in seven years, that should deserve a little club from us. Should deserve a little club from us. Lets see if he is watching. Good stuff. Stay with us because in a little while we will play this report from Steve Rosenberg on the battle for supremacy in the arctic. He has been to Russian Military base. A team of uk scientists have developed a blood test which can detect the return of lung cancer of the year before it would show on a scan. Stored at 80 celsius, thousands of samples from Cancer Patients here at the Crick Institute in london. Dna analysis has revealed what drives lung cancer to spread. Lung cancer is by far the biggest Cancer Killer of men and women, and this is the most detailed Genetic Analysis ever made of how it evolves. Lung cancer is by far the biggest Cancer Killer of men and women, and this is the biggest and most detailed Genetic Analysis ever made of how lung cancer evolves. Researchers analysed tumours removed from around 100 patients and found that those with the most unstable chromosomes, the most abnormal dna, were four times more likely to see their lung cancer return. Armed with this discovery, they then analysed blood taken from the patients and were able to find tiny amounts of tumour dna circulating in the blood stream. They spotted 13 out 01 14 patients whose cancer was going to come back, up to a year before the tumour was detectable on a scan. In future, that should mean earlier drug therapy for patients. We hope that by treating the disease when there are very few cells in the body that are beginning to show their signs and mutations in blood, we will be able to increase the chance of curing the patient, and we can now go on to set up Clinical Trials where we can test that hypothesis. Janet maitland lost her husband to lung cancer and was diagnosed with it herself last year. But now, after surgery and chemotherapy, she is feeling positive. I am extremely optimistic that ifeel great, to be honest, because i dontjust feel better than i did since the diagnosis, i feel better than i have done for quite a long time. Janet is part of the trial and so will have regular blood tests to monitor her health. Dna analysis will eventually be the norm for cancer, and this study shows the Great Potential of genetics to change the way cancer is both diagnosed and treated. Fergus walsh, bbc news. We are live here in the bbc newsroom , oui we are live here in the bbc newsroom, our lead story concerns the korean peninsula. The entire us senate has been in a closed briefing about career and both sides of the border there have military exercises. Have been. Were going to finish by going to china, to saturn and to the arctic but here is a poster of chinas first Aircraft Carrier. To the untrained Eye Everything looks normal but a few people started to spot this is a russian plane, not a chinese plane these two boats over here are american warships, nothing to do with the Chinese Military but despite all of this, this ship does exist and it was launched today and Steve Mcdonald did make this report. This will worry people they will see this launch is the latest stage in the Peoples Liberation army being able to project its will further and further from the chinese mainland. Western intelligence agencies will be poring over this Television Footage but for the this is not an emotional matter, its a cold analytical process and what they will see is a vessel built in parts using plans from the soviet union era which is technologically inferior to the ten Aircraft Carriers operated by the united states. Nevertheless this is a significant element for the Chinese Military. This countrys Aircraft Carrier programme remains a state secret but it is hard to imagine china being satisfied with one second hand carried from the uk which is being refitted. Ukraine. China says the South China Sea is its own but its neighbours do not see it that way, the potential for some type of conflict in that theatre remains enormous. Then there is the deteriorating relationship with north korea, a traditional ally. The us says north korea has to give up its Nuclear Weapons and that all options are on the table. Its using the Carl Vinson Battle Group to press the point. That is exactly the type of power which china would like to have and that is why this is not the last Aircraft Carrier and we will see rolling off the production line. A report from Steve Rosenberg in the arctic, moscow is talking to limerick. This is partly being driven by politics, but also by the environment. This is what has happened over 32 years to the arctic ice cover. There is a lot less here than back in 1984 and this video which has been provided by nasa gives you a different perspective of the changes and one of the consequences of what has happened to theiceis consequences of what has happened to the ice is that new Shipping Lanes have opened up, on top of that russia is laying claim to some of the largest oil and gas deposits in the largest oil and gas deposits in the world which are in the arctic so if we focus in the north west of russia we have marked a number of Russian Military bases in that region. Steve rosenberg has been to one and here is his report. Russia is flexing its muscles, this is its Arctic Brigade in training, in case theres confrontation. In the arctic now there is a battle for supremacy that russia is determined to win. This base close to finland is normally off limits to Western Media but we have been invited to meet Russias Arctic army. It is the ultimate cold war, temperatures here can go to 40 centigrade. Today the brigade is on exercises, repelling an enemy attack. Recently, washington Accused Moscow of acting aggressively in the arctic to increases military pleasa nts, aggressively in the arctic to increases military pleasants, the response from russia was what is the problem . I think any crabtree no matter where it says has its own interests. This is our land, russian land and we would offend. This is the first time foreign journalists have been here and by bringing us here they are sending a clear message to the outside world that russia is ready and determined to protect its National Interests in the arctic. Thats because there is money to be made here. The arctic waters are thought to contain one quarter of the planets undiscovered oil and gas. With polar ice shrinking there is an opportunity to extra ct shrinking there is an opportunity to extract this energy. There are new Shipping Lanes and russia is competing with other arctic powers for a slice of the profits. Its also building a string of bases, President Putin visited one last month. Russias attempt to back up its economic claims with a show of strength. Its a fashion show we are treated to back on base. To survive the arctic you need the right clothes, and the right food. For the Arctic Brigade, that means russian sausages and fresh fish. Then its back on patrol. Russia says it doesnt seek conflict in the arctic but there are competing interest in this region and russia is in no mood to back down. Perhaps we should finish in space because a us probe called cassini is going to make it close approach on saturn. We have been promised images and data which would change our view of saturn and its will plunge into the atmosphere and that will be that. This is a risky manoeuvre which started taking place a few hours ago more than a billion, to sway. It is travelling 10,000 kilometres an hour and it started to make this descent through the ring system between a narrow gap in the atmosphere. To do this is risky, it could basically be hit by all sorts of dust and ice and rock so all sorts of dust and ice and rock so it had to turn communications aft to act as a shield which is unusual. This is handy, however its means it is out of Radio Contact so we do not know what it is doing and we wont know what it is doing and we wont know until tomorrow morning. If you once more on the Science Stories you can find coverage on almost all of them on the bbc news app. Thats it for todays edition well see tomorrow at same time. Hello there are a fairly cold day across all parts of the uk, there was some sunshine to be had, there isa was some sunshine to be had, there is a photo from our Weather Watcher in south wales. A lovely picture here but not like that for all, angry looking clouds across the midlands and Eastern England delivering sleet, snow and hail. Very cold on thursday in the cell first thing but a bright start here which wont last too long because cloud and patchy rain will be sinking at the self first thing but a bright start here which wont last too long because cloud and patchy rain will be sinking ever southwards. We were see some sunshine coming through, maybe any 9 degrees were 12 or 13 in glasgow. A fair bit of cloud the rain to speak of. The odd heavy bursts, in the southernmost counties we will see the cloud drifting and will be bringing light and patchy rain and a similar story. As we go into the evening there will be a heavy burst through a time but that edges and then fizzles out. Major towns and cities are a few degrees at the lowest. Itll be a focal point for flickr cloud flickr cloud and a dry and brighter start for many but it will be chilly as i say, i shall the most places will be fine and dry with variable cloud, spells of sunshine and the winds are not strong rider. Tim butcher s getting up strong rider. Tim butcher s getting up to 11 12 for glasgow or belfast, not so bad, temperatures getting up. The Weather Front is just drifting away to the south, another Weather Front is trying to push its way into the north west of the uk but it wont make too much progress. Ahead of that it will the rain away. Elsewhere its a largely dry picture. More than the south Easterly Breeze as we get into sunday and noticed the error of low pressure which with a focal point for what weather. It will get into Northern Ireland later on but the further north needs to go should stay fine and dry and temperatures as high as 16. And then into Bank Holiday Monday we that south Easterly Breeze and that of the importing milder habits we have an area of brain. Rain. Will become lighter and patchy with time and as we head beyond the bank holiday there may be early rain on tuesday, the weather after the bank holiday will be adjusting its way across with High Pressure and thatll settle things down nicely after an thatll settle things down nicely after a n u nsettled thatll settle things down nicely after an unsettled bank holiday. Things are settling down for a lot of dry weather, it looks like itll be warming up and lets look at the warming trend. This is for the midlands. There will be the middle teens but a trend to see the temperatures rise getting up to 16 as we head up into the following weekend at some places especially to the south could go higher. Tonight at 10pm, deepening tension on the korean peninsula, as the americans say theyll bring north korea to its senses. In south korea, the us takes part injoint exercises, and says that an advanced Missile Defence system will be operational within days. In washington, as senators were taken to the white house for a briefing on north koreas missile programme, the us military delivered this warning. All options are on the table. We want to bring kim jong un to his senses, not to his knees. Well have the latest from washington, where the State Department has just said it is still open to negotiations to resolve the crisis. Also tonight. Speaker prime minister. At the final session of prime ministers questions before