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Good evening and welcome to bbc news. Britains most senior diplomat at the european union, sir ivan rogers, has resigned just months before he was due to play an Important Role in the complex negotiations on the uks exit from the eu. Sir ivan faced criticism last month when it emerged that hed warned the Prime Minister that securing a post brexit trade deal could take a decade. Tonight the bbc has obtained his Resignation E Mail to his staff in which he urged them to continue to speak the truth to those in power and to challenge Muddled Thinking and ill founded arguments. We can speak to our Political Correspondent tom bateman. We got a bit of a sense of why sir ivan resigned from the e mail. It sounds as if he was just hacked off . It was pages e mail that he sent to his team in brussels, quite a lot to say. On one level this is an e mail from our boss to his team saying, it was great working with you, that it went on to say a sense in which he wa nts went on to say a sense in which he wants his team to continue the work. These are the comments that are likely to be widely interpreted as a glimpse into what his frustrations are in terms of working for his political masters. He says, i hope you will continue to challenge ill founded arguments and Muddled Thinking and wont be afraid to speak the truth to those in power. He goes on to detail what appears to be some of the challenges ahead when it comes to setting up a team to negotiate brexit. Theresa may wants this to get under way by the end march. He says the structure of the Negotiating Team and the structure of roles and responsibilities to support the team needs rapid resolution. He goes on to talk about the Negotiating Experience in West Minister saying that serious multilateral Negotiating Experience is in short supply in whitehall. That is not the case in the commission and the council. He is this letter will be interpreted as an explosive intervention into the debate around brexit and what we had tonight are the allies of sir ivan who are saying he is another person who are saying he is another person who has been pushed to the margins in the campaign for brexit and in the words of one mp, the people that havent dropped the brexit kool aid. On the other hand, those who campaigned for brexit says sir ivan wasnt the right man for the job. It has been a fast day of reaction. Behind the darkened windows, at the Prime Ministers side, as she arrived at last months eu summit, sir ivan rogers tried to keep a low profile. But his warning that it could take the uk ten years to get a new eu trade deal overshadowed what was already a difficult occasion for theresa may. He was criticised for being too pessimistic. Some whove worked with sir ivan believe his departure is a real loss to the government. The only way were going to deliver a successful, Workable Brexit is precisely with the expertise of people like ivan rogers, whos now been forced to the margins, forced to the side lines, because of the angry Zeal Of Brexiteers Who just wont accept anyone who says anything different to what they so happen to believe in. Theresa may is losing someone who knows the corridors of the eu better than anyone. He was a key member of the former Prime Ministers team as he tried to get an agreement on a new relationship with the eu before the referendum. In an unusually unspoken tweet outspoken, the top Civil Service of the treasury lord macpherson said. But leading Brexit Campaigners are delighted hes gone. Sir ivan is part of the establishment that, frankly, havent accepted the Referendum Result and are hoping that, frankly, it will never happen. Im sorry to say, but the Foreign Office is stuffed full of these people, from top to bottom. For decades, theyve been taking britain in completely the wrong direction, and i hope sir ivans departure is followed by many, many more. While Downing Street is determined to betray a positive brexit message should, those who know sir ivan and brussels well says his warnings of the difficulties ahead with dismissed because it didnt fit the narrative and they fear it will be difficult to find a replacement who knows and about how europe works and is acceptable to ministers in london. And whoever takes over as the uk representative to the eu will play a critical role. Its important we have someone in the job as sir ivan was doing and no doubt his Successof Ivan was doing and no doubt his successor will do as well who will report back to the British Government and through the government and through the government to parliament about what the other Member States are saying and thinking because in a negotiation, it really pays to know whether where the other side is coming from. Theresa may will trigger article 50 by the end of march and it wont be easy to get someone march and it wont be easy to get someone in place and ready for the start of the crucial brexit negotiations. Carol is making the point that it went the easy to find somebody. As went the easy to find somebody. As we said, there were tensions between sir ivan and number ten. Is that suggest that whoever is called in to replace him probably has to be at declared brexiteers . Remember the Civil Service and that includes diplomats working in broad abroad, should be in partial. Impartial. You heard from nigel farage that they believe he was in Effect Somebody who believed in britain remaining in the eu. That he was part of the political project in brussels and believed in it. Do you now have a situation where Downing Street have to look for somebody who is by Heart Brexiteer . I think an open process may be held with his job. It might not be advertised for people already working in the Civil Service. Could you then have a situation where you perhaps take somebody from business or somebody who has worked diplomatically in another field . Who has worked diplomatically in another field 7 that, who has worked diplomatically in another field . That, we who has worked diplomatically in anotherfield . That, we will who has worked diplomatically in another field . That, we will have to wait and see. I think all of this also talks to another interesting point. We have heard from former Civil Servant about brexit, some of whom have been saying it will be a big, complex tasks. Is that saying we will get more Civil Servants creeping under . We have heard from not just one but creeping under . We have heard from notjust one but two very recent former Civil Servant saying this will be a problem. Tom, fascinating stuff. The independent Police Complaints commission, which is investigating the shooting of a man by armed officers on the m62 motorway, says a firearm was found in his car. Yassar yaqub, who was 28, was shot dead yesterday evening in what police have called a pre planned operation at ainley top, just north of huddersfield. Our correspondent danny savage has the details his report contains flashing images. For much of the day, the cars involved in the incident remained exactly where they stopped last night. The two dark coloured vehicles and the silver mercedes in front of them are Unmarked Police cars. The two white cars were the target of the operation. As police boxed them in and stopped, shots we re boxed them in and stopped, shots were fired. Loopholes can be seen in the windscreen of a white audi. One man was killed and investigated confirmed a nonpolice issue firearm was found in the car he was in. Yassar yaqub was a 28 year old father from yassar yaqub was a 28 year old fatherfrom huddersfield. He was cleared of track to ship dead two people eight years ago. One friend on facebook wrote, you were no angel but did not deserve this. The incident happened just outside huddersfield as the cars came off the M62 Atjunction 24. They drove onto the slip road and were brought we re onto the slip road and were brought were stopped by police. Shortly after that, shots were fired and yassar yaqub was killed. Three people were arrested at the scene. At the same time in bradford, another vehicle was stopped as part of the same operation and two others arrested. As the busy Motorway Junction was closed down last night, any people were caught up in the chaos. There were Rapid Response vehicles that kept pulling up, then a couple of ambulances turned up. As soon a couple of ambulances turned up. As soon as a couple of ambulances turned up. As soon as the ambulance pulled up, some of the policeman ran up and told them to get down as soon as possible to where the incident took place. It looked like somebody needed Urgent Medical help. At yassar yaqubs family home, armed police are right this afternoon making enquiries. Friends and relatives who are visiting soon left. The operation related to information received about a criminal possession of a firearm and i have been fully updated by the police comfortable. The incident is not terrorism related. Co mforta ble. Not terrorism related. Comfortable. The vehicles are finally being taken away for further examination and it appears includes the car yassar yaqub was found in and begun. The Complaints Commission is now overseeing the investigation and they are asking the question did yassar yaqub pose an imminent threat . Police officers in West Yorkshire do not wear body cameras. The main suspect in the new year Terror Attack on a nightclub in istanbul which left 39 people dead is still on the run. Turkish police have detained more than a dozen people so far. Our turkey correspondent mark lowen has been allowed into the club where the massacre took place. Three days ago, this place was full ofjoy, of life, of celebration. Today, Reina Nightclub is a crime scene, scarred by terror. We were the only british media allowed in, briefly. A rare glimpse of where 39 people were killed on new years eve. Imagine the horror is 180 bullets were sprayed here. People jumping into the freezing bosporus to escape. The owners of Reina Nightclub say they will open the nightclub say they will open the nightclub again will stop it is a sign of the defiant mood here. Yes, people are sombre and fearful but turks have lived for the Terrorist Threat for decades albeit on a smaller scale and they are determined not to let it defeat them. Watch the right hand side of this footage from the attack. A man jumps over a low fence outside the nightclub to avoid the bullets. Then the gunmen of runs up to the door, shooting his way into Reina Nightclub. That man on the right of the video was Nightclub Manager who had a miraculous escape. Translation i felt bullets exploded next to me and threw myself over the fence but tripped and fell. The bullets went centimetres over my head. When i fell, i thought he thought i hit me so he went inside and her terrible sounds. The suspect still hasnt been caught. New pictures show him at a bus station in the central city of konjuh before travelling to istanbul. Islamic state called him dead brave soldier. The turkish authorities have given no more information about him. Rates tonight in a part of istanbul from where he is thought to have travelled to the nightclub raids. No arrests were made. Security is being tightened our monthly is is could strike again here in revenge for turkeys operations against the group in syria. They have been others detained including two foreigners at istanbul airport. Its not clear what link, if any, they are thought to have had with the attack. Those tired of terror went to the scene of the massacre today, a quiet commemoration. Tributes were laid and thoughts gathered about how their country can rebuild and how their country can rebuild and how the Net Generation can regain a sense of safety. I dont want to cry any more while i am watching the news, you know . It makes me really sad. And they dont want my daughter to grow up in this kind of environment, you know . With this news, all the background and everything. I want her to be happy. And so nervous wait to see if those who protect this country are really closing in on the man who brought horror to new years eve. Mark lowen, bbc news, istanbul. Thats a summary of the news. Newsday is coming up at midnight. Now on bbc news, its time for newsnight. Happy new year. Or is it . As we all head back to school after the christmas holiday, weve assembled a class of the very brightest students. And were giving them a first day test. The class quiz of 2017. The Big Questions for the year ahead. On trump and the shifting structure of super power politics. When do you see the United Nations solving problems . They dont. They cause problems. On britain, brexit and politics here. We have set ourselves on a new direction. And on the european project is it populism and retreat this year,