In some areas. Tributes to the former england Football Manager graham taylor, whos died at the age of 72. And we speak to the writer of la la land the man whos brought the art of the musical back to hollywood. And coming up in sportsday later in the hour on bbc news, west hams star player Dimitri Payet Goes On Strike and demands a transfer, but the club say they wont sell him. Good evening. Donald trump seems to be at odds with some of his key Cabinet Nominees on some of the vital questions facing the new administration. His choice for new head of the cia, mike pompeo, has strongly endorsed the work of the Us Intelligence Community Hours after it was criticised by the President Elect. And generaljames mattis, nominated for defense secretary, accused russia of trying to break up nato and of being a threat to europe in contrast to mr trumps wish for much closer ties with President Putin. Our correspondent nick bryant reports from washington. A week before inauguration day, its usually an
Whats the latest on these ceasefire talks taking place in belarus . Those talks are actually schedule would to start any minute now, but theres been criticism leveled against them, because this is a contact group. Nobody sitting around the table has any authority to sign anything. If there is some sort of ceasefire agreed upon, certainly significant ithey will sign the. Sending a strong message to russia on what they call an incursion on ukraine. We stand united. Those words backed bay 20 million package comprised mostly of nonlethal aid and solidarity, surrounded by World Leaders promising more action against russia. President obama is very committed to moving on the next sanctions. Those sanctions are expected to be announced today even as peace talks between moscow, kiev and prorussian separatists are set to begin this morning. Thursday, ukrainian president poroshenko said he is hoping of a lasting peace, but cautiously optimistic. I can say careful optimism for tomorrow meeting of
Place. But its not quite what it seems. Find out why, shortly. The Ukrainian Government has announced a preliminary ceasefire with prorussian rebels in the countrys east. The ukrainian president has ordered his army to stop firing within an hour, but our reporter in ukraine says the fighting is still going on for now. Lets check in with Harry Fawcett who joins us from mariupol. It is in about an hour that thats fire is supposed to take effect. So what is happening there now, harry . Are you still seeing signs of fighting . Reporter we havent seen any signs for the last half hour or 40 minutes, apart from one crack of small arms fire. But just about an hour ago there was an extremely heavy volume of artillery, and rockets coming into our position about 2 kilometers away. We think it might have been targeting a small Infantry Group that moved off in that direction. One to five howitzers were told. And then they left. But we do have this news from all from both sides of the fighting now t
Summit in wales. There are not much faith in talks producing peace. We report from the town calais where the mayor is threatening to block the port. Also in the program, alice is here. Look at whats happening in business. Russias relations with the west are high on the business agenda. Absolutely right. Tightening the screws. Europe preparing to deepen sanctions over russias role in ukraine. Hello there. Thanks for joining us. Midday in london, 7 00 a. M. Washington 2 00 where talks have just got underway. Representatives from kiev, pro russian rebels are seeking to Reach Agreement there. That conflict is top of the agenda for western countries attending the second day of a nato summit in new port in wales. Alliance has been showing off air power friday morning with this fly over demonstration accusing russia of arm ago and funding the rebels in ukraine. European and u. S. Leaders are preparing to tighten sanctions on moscow if peace talks fail to Reach Agreement. In ukraine itself, fi
Thanks to the supreme court. Kurdish and Iraqi Forces Push forward in tikrit. Im phil lavelle at tvenice Film Festival where a wedding is taking place. In a moment well be looking at that major announcement by nato. High on its priority list is of course ukraine. There are peace talks in the belarus capitol minsk. A ceasefire was supposed to have been implemented now, but there is still fighting going on in mariupol. And the advance from russia into that country, appears still to be going on. Harry there is talk of this possible ceasefire deal, but it seems the fighting is still going on there in mariupol. It is, yeah, if you saw me looking around, thats because we just heard system of the closest artillery shelling that we have heard all day here. You can see overmy left shoulder, there is a pretty large column of heavy artillery, two howitzers that have just arrived. The Ukrainian Forces say they have been up for the last 48 hours, they have been firing, and they have encircled the t