knowing what we did, but with hindsight, that is the moment we should have done it, three weeks earlier, and it would have saved many, many lives. alistair darling, the labour politician who was chancellor during the 2008 global financial crash, dies at the age of 70. members of the rmt union except a pay deal ending their involvement in a long running series of rail strikes. hello, i m matthew amroliwala. hello, i m lewis vaughanjones. welcome to the programme. the pogues frontman shane macgowan has died at the age of 65. he was discharge from hospital last week. his wife confirmed he had died in social media. macgowan fronted the pogues from 1982 until their break up in 2014. the band are best known for the christmas hit song fairytale of new york. our arts correspondent david sillito reports. # it was christmas eve, babe # in the drunk tank # an old man said to me. # happy christmas, your ours, i pray god it s our last. fairytale of new york, a bleak, drink sodden duet
dies at the age of 70. sport and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre, hello from the bbc sport centre mark mccall, saracens director of rugby criticised the shameful treatment of his captain owen farrell in what he believes should be a wake up call for the game. farrell who also skippers england, will miss the men s six nations after deciding to take a break from international rugby in order to prioritise his and his family s mental well being . he will though continue to play club rugby. mccall says just like england head coach steve borthwick, he s fully behind farrell s decision to step away. social to step away. media we have zero control over. social media we have zero control over. but for me this began in the mainstream media, and the narrative that was created around on from everybody, and soaking up from everybody. that is what happened, i think everybody will, somewhere in their heads, agree with him, and then there was a pylon on social media, but i
you talk to sources on both sides, don, they said, look, there s a recognition that both sides need one another, it s a relationship they have to have over the course of the next four years. this was the first stop of this process. there are going to be disagreements and there certainly are on issues like immigration. some issues on taxes. but this was the start of a dialogue that will happen, quarterly from here on out, don. phil, there is a lot of discussion about the role of donald trump s children in this meeting. what andcan you tell us about t? reporter: jared kushner was in the meeting, ivanka trump in the neat imeeting. they re going to move down to d.c. and have a role there. the big question marks were that eric trump and don jr. were also in this meeting. these are the individuals that the president-elect, himself, tweeted earlier this week would be responsible for running the trump organization. it s not just in this meeting with tech titans, it was also eric trump was
over the course of the next four years. this was the first step of this process. there are going to be disagreements and there certainly are on issues like immigration. some issues on taxes. but this was the start of a tie log start of a dialogue that will move forward. that will happen cardly from here on out,son. phil, there is a lot of discussion about the role of donald trump s children in this meeting. what can you tell us about that? reporter: jared kushner was in the meeting, ivanka trump in the meeting. they re going to move down to d.c. and have a role there. the big question marks were that eric trump and don jr. were also in this meeting. these are the individuals that the president-elect, himself, tweeted earlier this week would be responsible for running the trump organization. it s not just in this meeting with tech titans, it was also eric trump was involved in the vetting of the secretary of state process. don jr. was involved in the vetting of the interior secret
in his transition in one appointment. what do you mean? think of how many lines intersect here. first, you have the preference for an executive experience over necessarily policy expertise. a lot of business executives and generals in this cabinet. that s clearly what he feels most comfortable with. you have the move right on environmental issues, despite the recent change of tone from exxon. certainly, it is a company that faced many questions over the years about its views about climate change. faced lawsuits on whether it was misleading investors about its exposure there. then you have kind of the explosive russia connection, which is part of this extraordinary part of this story. in a kind of unconventional secretary of state process, this may be the most conventional moment, where trump and his team put up something like a trial balloon around tillerson. if that is the case, it s taken a fair degree of shrapnel. marco rubio, lindsey graham, john mccain raising serious question