as the clock ticks towards the point when it is thought the secretary of state will call elections. and we will be taking a health check of the state of the nhs in england. good morning. it is monday the 16th of january. i am joanna gosling. welcome to bbc newsroom live. donald trump has promised that a trade deal between britain and the united states will be a priority when he takes office on friday. he was speaking to the former justice secretary and prominent brexit campaigner michael gove for the times newspaper in his first british interview since becoming us president elect. here s our political correspondent vicky young. theresa may is about to tell us more about how she thinks the uk can prosper outside of the european union. her critics say the economy will suffer if britain leaves the single market and is no longer able to trade freely with the eu. but the president elect donald trump says he will offer britain a quick and fair trade deal with america within weeks o
a libyan man has won the right to sue the former foreign secretary, jack straw, over claims of kidnap and torture. an 18 year old man has been arrested on suspicion of murdering a teenage girl in rotherham. three years after the malaysia airlines flight mh370 went missing, the search is called off, leaving families devastated. good morning. welcome to bbc newsroom live. theresa may is due to set out her strategy for brexit this lunchtime. in a speech in central london, the prime minister is expected to signal she wants a full break from the european union rather than a deal that leaves britain half in, half out . her speech comes as new figures show the rate of inflation increased sharply last month, exceeding some economists‘ predictions. the cost of living was 1.6% higher than a year earlier. that s up from an annual rate of 1.2% the previous month. we can go to vishala sri pathma in the city. tell us more about these figures? as you say, it is higher than the previous m
i saw the spacecraft every single day because our docking port was right next to the cupola window, so for six months in space, every time i opened the window, i would look out and see the soyuz spacecraft. i m martin bashir, and i ll be reporting live from here in westminster where senior politicians, dignitaries and religious leaders will gather for a commemorative event to mark the holocaust. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. theresa may is expected to become the first world leader to meet america s new president this evening when she addresses senior republicans in philadelphia. tomorrow she will travel to the white house for formal talks with mr trump. the prime minister is expected to tell her audience tonight that a sovereign, global britain wants to strengthen ties with old friends . but some politicians here have reacted to the meeting with misgivings, after the president said he supports the use of waterboarding in interrogations. here s our political corre
then a leave minister said they had waited their life to do it. theresa may wants to get on and trigger article 50 well before her self imposed deadline of the end of march. the possible date is the ninth or 10th of march. it has to be a formal letter from the uk. the reason why they want to get an early if they have been advised the european commission and the european council will be able to give their formal response before the first round of the presidential election on the 23rd of april, but only if they go early. obviously, if they do not go early, the second round of the french presidential election is made seventh. hugh knows. may. not a great day for labour. divided, 47 mps defied a three line whip, three members of the shadow cabinet resigned, although between ten and 13 labour frontbenchers are still in place and as i understand itjeremy corbyn is in no rush to do the usual thing, to sack them, he s going to wait for next week and see if any of the amendments we
protect trump from a special prosecutor. that s right. he blames him for two things number one, the president is a combatant. he likes people who fight. so he doesn t like that instead of fighting, sessions recused himself. but he believes initial step what set in motion the process that led to special counsel robert mueller who is causing tremendous headaches for the president and his family. his understanding of the role of the attorney generalship. can you square that what most people think an attorney general should be today? man or woman since at least janet reno, they re seen as the country s attorney general, not the president s personal lawyer. that s right. there have been people very close to them as the attorney general, like kennedy. or bobby kennedy. he would be the prime example but that s not what we think of. we don t think of the attorney general being the president s lawyer. we think of him being the lawyer
for the country. in a way that s very important