we re not in election mode any more. now we have a president. until he s impeached. i think that s coming very soon. but i still love you. hello, i am katty kay in london, christian fraser is in london. i m in i m in washington. here is a picture you may have seen before. donald trump s former national security adviser, mike flynn sitting alongside vladimir putin at a gala dinner in moscow in december 2015. we have shown it to you many times before and it was widely circulated in the us media before gen flynn was appointed to his post. he was paid $45,000 dollars for that appearance by the kremlin s television station, russia today. a payment he s now accused of not disclosing when he joined the white house staff, and that would be illegal. today, the house oversight committee revealed that in 2014, general flynn was warened by the pentagon not to take money from foreign governments. the committee has been given documents from the department of defence which suggest gene
the police and intelligence services. let s get more on this with major general chip chapman, who is former head of counter terrorism at the ministry of defence. he is in our westminster studio. thank you forjoining us. what was your response to this incident, i don t know if you watched it unfolding, what were you thinking at the time? i was in whitehall at the time andi the time? i was in whitehall at the time and i think the first thing you can say in terms of the threat, it is three components, intent, capability and opportunity. whitehall is a credit place so he had the opportunity and the police officially separated the man with the intent from the capability which was the loaded weapons. in a very british fashion. they took the weapons away from him, he is no longer a threat, then they arrested him. lots of police forces in the world would have used excessive force so it was a very british police operation. also relevant to the fact that the head of mi5 said last year
borisjohnson used a newspaper column to describejeremy corbyn as one, but what is a mugwump? good evening and welcome to bbc news. police have arrested a man after another terror alert just yards away from last month s deadly attack in westminster. the man is being held under the terrorism act and a number of knives he was carrying were seized. it s now clear that the suspect who was captured on whitehall was under surveillance by scotland yard s anti terror squad. asjune kelly reports, there s been a high profile police presence in the area since khaled massood killed five people including pc keith palmer in march. under arrest in the shadow of government buildings in whitehall. the man was detained by armed officers near parliament square. this wasn t a random stop, search and arrest. it is understood the man was targeted by police as part of an ongoing operation by scotland yard s counterterrorism command. it was just before 2:30pm this afternoon that officers move
from hypothermia, obviously, you know, been out overnight and all that following day in the water. he was in surprisingly good condition. the family of the man shot by intruders at his home in dorset pay tribute to him police say it was a targeted attack. in the next hour the german chancellor, angela merkel, begins talks with president putin, in the black sea resort of sochi. we expect a news conference within the hour. it is two leaders have been discussing the conflict in ukraine, which are strained relations between the countries. and also the war in syria. and paula radcliffe s marathon world record set in 2003 we will be hearing why new proposals to tackle doping could mean it s all rewritten. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. the labour leaderjeremy corbyn has defended his shadow home secretary after she appeared confused over the cost of the party s plans to put an 10,000 extra police officers on the streets. jeremy corbyn insisted he wasn t embarrassed in t
details on that. labour having a turbulent time in england, scotland and wales, parts thereof. strong challenge from the snp. in wales they ve lost bridgend and merthyr tydfil, keeping hold of cardiff, swa nsea tydfil, keeping hold of cardiff, swansea and newport. in england they ve lost more than 100 councillors, many to the tories. they ve won the male role contest in the liverpool city region. lost the liverpool city region. lost the mayoral contest. and it has been a terrible night for ukip, overnight they lost every seat they were defending. and the party has been wiped out on councils like lincolnshire, hampshire and essex. their vote share is down dramatically, most of it going straight to the conservatives. in scotland the snp have managed to deprive labour of an overall majority in glasgow but we are not yet sure if they have won overall control of scotland s biggest city for themselves. we re still waiting for most of the results in scotland. we ll keep a cl