Well get advice from other mums who gave birth at the age of 50. Hello. Welcome to the programme, were live until 11 00 this morning. As always, well bring you the latest Breaking News and developing stories and were really keen to hear from you. A little later well be hearing how four days into january some fat cat bosses have already earned more this year than the average british worker will earn in the entire year your thoughts on that welcome. Use the hashtag victoria live and if you text, you will be charged at the Standard Network rate. Our top story today. Britains outgoing ambassador to the European Union, sir ivan rogers, has strongly criticised the governments preparations for brexit. In his Resignation Letter he said he didnt know what ministers Negotiating Objectives were and called on his colleagues to challenge what he called Muddled Thinking. Our diplomatic correspondent, james landale, reports. Sir ivan rogers has been britains ambassador to the eu for three years, and
says it is likely michael flynn could be called to testify as a senate intelligence committee investigates. no doubt if and when the retired general is called upon he will face tough questions about which staffers, which aides within the trump campaign were in that frequent and constant communication with which senior russian officials. i have with me the author of debriefing the president john nixon, a former analyst with the cia, also eli lake, columnist for bloomberg view. thank you much for joining me. you gave this sobering sort of 30,000-foot view of this current
coalition in 2003. former cia senior analyst john nixon grilled hussein after his capture and writes about it in a new book, debriefing the president the integration of saddam hussein. we spoke recently. really a fascinating profile, as you look at saddam hussein here. and you describe him as a man of contradictions, charming on the one hand, charismatic, but also brute just brutally vicious. yes, yes. he was, from the very beginning, our talks has a certain pattern, and in the beginning, he was very kind, very gentle, very nice, very smart, and self-deprecating is and witty, but over time, another saddam emerged, and that was a saddam that seemed to be kind of nasty and mean-spirited and vicious and a little scary at times. in a sense, he was very human in that regard. yeah, well, web s saw that i