and great britain. we're calling on both sides to reach an agreement and on british leaders to support the transition of things but us but that would give companies until twenty twenty before they have to adjust their business model is it. the car industry will be hardest hit according to a study the industry will have to shoulder at least three billion euros in extra costs cars are among germany's most important export products. last year germany's exports to britain totaled around eighty four point four billion euros that made britain germany's fifth largest export market and german imports from britain came to around thirty seven point one billion euros brics it will be especially hard on smaller german companies up until now many have had very little experience with trade outside the e.u. but just how complicated the priest breaks it trade groups will become is not yet clear that's still being negotiated. for more on the waging breck's of debate hans venison joined us earlier he is one of germany's

of the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov to britain. counts he was equally key but willing to give me a lot of reviews are highly experienced polished diplomat and actually a pretty good foreign minister i mean well it's written showing that he's not welcome here but ok so what we say you're not welcome to talk if frankly far is the prime minister i'd be saying i hope he will soon come because we need some very frank dialogue about what he's going wrong in the relations between our two countries. and clearly if there was a poison attempt something has gone badly wrong and the russian state is one of the british state need to get to the bottom of what's happened aside from the geopolitical context and the atrocity and saw israel because the you're on the house of lords international relations committee and you mentioned business how will worse relations with russia affect breaks in britain it's difficult sorry to be quite honest we can only speculate at the moment but it's hardly going to make the russian government feel more co-operativ

the situation is new with a negotiation is not so easy in this country and britain is. definitely. has has to find the solutions with the european union and for the time being i don't see any results from the from the negotiations and they have in order to divert the attention from the bridge that they have to see to present something to the public that could move to it and there's a great possibility to launch this into russian campaign and to russian attack and so this is this is this is this is in the area which was written in london but . but from my point to you this is a very short sighted it's an area because in the long run. britain have to explain what is behind all these things and sold very i think they have to explain what they're doing in this secret chemical laboratory which is eight miles from from the from the source very. where were the investigated the substance based on their information on the samples based on the certain standards the have and this i think this would be the question that we have to clear a fly. in the organization for proliferation of the chemi

look at the russian threat narrative and how it will affect the future of a post directed britain i'm now joined by lord valve member of the international relations committee at the house of lords and former member of the european parliament. thanks for being on the green outside parliament twenty three russian diplomats being chucked out of the country in the next few days your reaction to tourism is statement. i can't see what. i mean what it will achieve is presumably twenty three pushed diplomats will be thrown out of russia some say more than maybe. but so the asians have no choice everyone is saying in the house behind us because she has the evidence that the kremlin ordered an atrocity in england. i mean what i have no to seize these apparently the russian also or she's of oste need with the investigation to be given some samples of the nerve agent and that's been refused there that doesn't seem to me like trying to solve the problem there in this was very clear that there was security considerations as to why she cannot reveal certain bugs the information just as in the public

that britain has a lot of business interests in russia. what would the reaction be here if there presumably would be some russian retaliation if they said well we'll have some sanctions against british business where do we end up with this we don't gamed up in a good place and also we don't yet know what the full facts of this case saw apart from the fact that anyone who tried to poison his obviously don't pretty competent because they failed obviously some ascribe the popularity of that of your putin in russia to being someone who dragged in public to crack down on the all agog says stole all the money from the russian people and you do brazilian back the measures being taken to freeze assets and that's where they're freezing the assets in london and then giving it to the russian people do welcome those policies i think clearly the. seniors in particular would rate for russia and a lot of money went out of the country that belongs to the russian people and one canary needs support a government which attempts to turn that around i would be

all great britain could do is watch and wait. they needed no way to lose against slovakia if britain were to stand any chance of making it through to the play—offs. another nail—biting match between norway and slovakia. it went to an extra end and they even needed to bring out the measuring device to see who's stone was closest to the centre. in the end, norway won, which means they take the fourth play—off position. great britain are out the curling tournament. they will not win a medal at the paralympic games. huge disappointment for them. but britain did not have long to dwell on that news. they had another match to play against china, one of the top teams in the round—robin standings. unsurprisingly, they faced another defeat. a disappointing day for great britain. they leave these games without a medal, a real shame, because it was going to play a big pa rt because it was going to play a big part in the medals target that was set for them before the games, and will put a lot of pressure on the rest of paralympics gb

britain and the european union say they've reached an agreement on a transition phase following britain's withdrawal from the european union the agreement should provide clarity for businesses and citizens although they remain sticking points over the issue of the irish border. you're watching the news for all of us here thanks for the company we're back at the top of the hour with more world news as. every journey begins with the first step and every language but the first word has been the. coaches in germany to learn german why not learn some simple online on your mobile and free stuff from the d w e learning course we can speak german made easy. german state by state. the most colorful.

in great britain. getting to break it open and there is a big question for us for russians why what is happening such kind of getting poisoning only in great britain. what is this soil what is the air in great britain that killed people that russian people because as the last person as if he was there helen dolan done well after freeing mean from then. from the. irish to ok he was absolutely clean when he when they left their country and now it has no. no. for them as as i don't. have. math he could it all right matthew goodwin a look i want to ask you a question about about britain's response and whether russia has miscalculated but it just occurs to me we now i could see do you think a campaign of russian with the misinformation and obfuscation aimed at a british and us audience is now. i think that's likely that certainly consistent with russia's past action what we've heard even during this conversation is a lot of talk about international relations a lot of talk about the russian election we've no

do you think the britain this response has been robust enough. well they expectations or said quite high with mrs may speech on monday then measures that for a modern announced on wednesday expulsion of. some diplomats in effect that the official delegation of britain will not go to a world cup are at this point largely symbolic probably in a couple days it's difficult to come up with effective compressive measures so the jury is still out on what region will do about it. we hear heard in the news that the mic like bush cost death in the u.k. is also being treated. another putin chrissake we've seen an untimely end the police at this stage and not linking the two cases are you looking at them. i don't have enough information to link them and so i'm not a big fan of conspiracy. so given this outbreak of death amongst prominent russian critics of the regime in london i wonder are you worried well i have known towers that russian security services can carry out an assignation and part of the world including the u.k. which probably has a large number

this is you don't reduce live from berlin britain and the european union take a step closer to brings it to the news chief negotiator mission about abuses the two sides have reached an agreement on a two year transition period will make life easier for citizens and businesses our business correspondent has all the details also coming up your foreign ministers condemned the attempted murder of a former russian spy and his daughter they say they take extremely seriously london's assessment that moscow is to blame and turkey promises to push on with this offensive against the kurds in syria after its seized control of the city of i think displacing around one hundred fifty thousand people. on little rock thanks for your company everyone we begin with that briggs it breaks through the european union and britain are one step closer to a greeting a divorce settlement the u.k.'s negotiators says there's been significant progress towards a final deal well according to e.u. chief negotiator michaud about the end the two sides have agreed on a large part of britain's were drawled deal including

we'll ask if britain's measures will have an effect. and whetherjeremy corbyn judged it right, in his response to the prime minister. good evening and welcome to bbc news. britain is expelling twenty three russian diplomats after moscow refused to explain how a military grade nerve agent was used on a former spy in salisbury. it's the biggest such expulsion for more than 30 years. the prime minister told parliament that the "undeclared intelligence officers" have just one week to leave. the uk has also cut off all high level contacts with russia and announced that government ministers and members of the royal family will not attend the world cup. here's our political editor, laura kuenssberg. the midnight deadline came and went, leaving a morning with no new a nswe i’s. leaving a morning with no new answers. theresa may when prepared to prime minister's questions, ready to prime minister's questions, ready to announce the biggest diplomatic action against russia since the cold war. they have treated the use of a military grade nerve a

and got britain done thing what what started your entertainment career. i got started in the military actually i was as you saw the morning the movie good morning vietnam i was good morning vietnam but in the navy but of course i'm coming i was first my first. poem a car pull the cut he says the beetle of they they had a big helping hand from radio caroline how did you end up on this ship. i was a destruct in france at the time. doing bowlby more shit gupta on europe number one and i was also a leader do seen the x. it came from england on tour and i was on stage with sam the sham and the pharoahs when there are a manager came up and he said you know you really good you should be on radio carolina's what's radio caroline. he said well this is a pirate ship that just started in england and i'm good friends with run o'reilly so i said well you know here's a tape bullets see what happens and two weeks later i had a phone call from rodin who said get your so here i need you you know is a pirate radio station what you frightened of going on to some ship that y

and the news on russian tv: britain has been russia's enemy for centuries. the message to viewers: the uk cannot be trusted. russia's foreign minister, sergei lavrov, claimed britain was using the poisoning of sergei skripal to distract attention from brexit. then, pictures from the kremlin. the president meeting his security chiefs to discuss uk sanctions. moscow's response expected soon. russia may be coming under increasing international pressure, but the language coming out of the kremlin is increasingly defiant. vladimir putin's spokesman today described britain's stance as "destructive and provocative". the president, he said, will take the final decision on how russia responds. and just when you think relations can't get any worse, the defence secretary tells russia to shut up. the reaction in moscow? it's not only a mistake, it's worse than a mistake because it's stupid. or it's done on purpose, it's a provocation, they want the russians to be provoked. criticism of russia, too, by nato. it agrees moscow was behind the salisbury attack. all others ag

theresa may has made clear that britain's response to this russian action and any action that britain might take in retaliation will only be decided after a meeting of the national security council next week. the council normally meets on tuesday. that is the norm, so we will wait to see what they decide. at one level, this is a tit—for—tat expulsion of 23, the same number as was expelled from london. on the other hand, it has gone further with that consulate closure in st petersburg and perhaps most important of all in some respects, the closure of british council operations in russia. the british council is the scientific, cultural, educational software our department, if you like, the agency which teaches thousands of russians english through its classes. it does a lot of outreach and is seen as a real way of spreading britain's idea of democratic values across russia. so that is a serious blow. and because of those extra moves, we will have to see whether britain thinks it has to go a bit further in its action. james, thanks. police have launched a murder investigation after t

i mean britain has extensive interests and so. military tree economic security interests so you arabia is often accused of having a system that has bred extremism but equally there in the forefront of the battle against people like al-qaeda. they keep us safe and according to be a member of the committee for arms export control the saudi government isn't even all that repressive anymore. do you not think saudi arabia is a repressive regime it has been i think it's changing because they are now allowing women to drive they are changing the role of women in society they wanting women to get elected into parliament it is moving forward to a democratic society but another member of the british committee labor m.p. lloyd russell moyle has a very different view the argument is not that the sound is a bombing women in saudi arabia the argument is they're bombing the heck out of people in yemen you know kind so what they're doing for people in saudi is neither here nor there when we're talking about the arms now actually the fact that the

you know britain has the fortress britain because i'm sure. there's that from the bennett wing of labor would always say it was internationalist to be outside the european union anyway but any news about anna gabriel of the spanish politician having to leave the norn european union switzerland you know because arrest warrant has been put out for you and the the leader of the catalans live living in brussels because he dare not move back or he'll be put in jail or britain after breaks it could be a haven of freedom away from the european union which shows he was to be allowing the jailing of its politicians that might be the case i mean what's the european union would probably say is that national policy is the national action is a matter for individual member states the united nations has been criticising leave for human rights over its treatment of refugees coming over from libya libya of course destroyed by an alliance including many european union nations and also you know the bus been happening in hungary with a big fans there to keep peop

this is deja vu news live from berlin escalating tensions between russia and britain the russian foreign ministry hits back at london's response to what it's calling a nerve agent attack on a former spy on british soil prime minister theresa may has kicked out twenty three russian diplomats it is the biggest such expulsions since the cold war. and as slovakia's political crisis heats up prime minister robert feet so says he'll step down but that move is unlikely to stop public anger over the murder of an investigative journalist looking into government corruption. plus it's now officially the happiest place on earth and no it's not disneyland find out which country has topped the un's happiness ranking this year. i'm brian thomas great to have you with us the united states says it is standing with britain in the dispute with russia over an assassination attempt on a former double spied london says the kremlin is behind the poisoning of sergei script all his daughter the two were exposed to a russian made nerve agent moscow denies any involvement prime minister theresa may has responded b

britain takes its case against moscow to the u.n. after announcing the expulsion of russian diplomats over the poisoning of a former spy. i'm richelle carey this is al jazeera live from doha also coming out. of her job on the lovely although seven years of fighting a bloodshed dispossession and fail to plough missi you look at the war in syria from its beginnings until today. you know labor moves its headquarters from london to rotterdam and this comes at a crucial point and the u.k.'s brics it negotiations plus. i'm andrew thomas at the opening of sydney's b.n. ali this is the first ever to have an altruistic director i'll be explaining why significant what you say is about rule to change its. society. britain russia have exchanged strong words at the un security council is the u.k. accused moscow of poisoning a former russian spy and his daughter in england but received support from its allies on the council including the u.s. its ambassador to the u.n. called the suspected attack a defining moment emergency meeting came just hours

forty four years off the joining the european union britain's ambassador to the e.u. deliver us the breck that notification left in brussels the u.k. has formally triggers an optical fifty to leave the european club. so it is. six pages. there notification from fragments that there is some triggering article fifty. britain sex it is now officially set for march twenty ninth two thousand and nineteen or. we. think by. june two thousand and seventeen a snap election backfires for theresa may new government is fresh on. this government will guide the country through the crucial brecht steps towards let's begin in just ten a day progress has been made on the bill citizen rights and the irish border we want to find a solution without rebuilding any kind of border but the u.k. offers no solutions and only draws red lines david davis is told the u.k. will not be allowed to cherry pick the u.k. it wants to take back control wants to adopt its own stand outs and regulations. but it also wants to have some dogs recognized automatically indeed there she simply impossible. the br

i‘m absolutely convinced that britain can rely on europe. even though the british have decided to leave the eu as an institution, britain is still a part of europe. because so far britain has been disappointed by its traditional allies, in that in the brexit negotiations, denmark, the netherlands, ireland, in the negotiations have chosen, if you like, the eu over ally uk. well, i wouldn‘t put it that way. even though i love britain, i mean, i have to be aware of what the danish interest is in this case. i have to protect my business environment in the same way that theresa may has to protect the british business community. and you believe that changing rules for the uk would damage the single market? that could be the case. it could be, you know, followed by other countries wanting to go down the same lane, if we allow this kind of cherry picking. but denmark is keen on some cherry picking of its own. it‘s one of the world‘s biggest exporters of fish but danish fishermen rely heavily on access to uk waters. they want that to continue a

red line for britain why would we want to britain want to be a part of a living institution are we to deceive or everywhere indoors maybe while we have evil in their arguing against them or you don't side letting them get on with it's you know it's the local and the international for the brother you know britain as the fortress britain because i'm sure. there's that from the bennett wing of labor would always say it was internationalist to be outside the european union anyway but any news about anna gabriel of the spanish politician having to leave the norn european union switzerland because arrest warrant has been put out for you and the leader of the catalans living in brussels because he dare not move back or he'll be put in jail in nazi britain after breaks it could be a haven of freedom away from the european union which shows he was to be allowing the jailing of its politicians that might be the case i mean what's the european union would probably say is that national policies the national action is a matter for individual member states the united nations has been criticizing le

union in britain announced they've agreed on a two year transition period for the u.k. to complete its exit but there is still no guarantee that that is a guarantee we'll get more from our correspondent in london also coming up no pull back at the border turkey promises to push on with its offensive against the kurds in syria now that the city of afternoons been seized and one hundred fifty thousand people displaced plus facebook facing more blowback a whistleblower says fifty million user profiles were plundered to help create fake news and he says to put in the white house. it's good to have you with us tonight we know it will be a slightly longer divorce britain and the european union have laid out plans for a two year transition period following brags that the deal includes concessions from the u.k. which will allow it to stay in the single market in the customs union until the end of the year twenty twenty now for business isn't ordinary citizens this is good news but for the future of bright city itself the uncertainty remains. a rare sight the two chief negotiato

britain is not alone. that is good news for british diplomats, who insists there has now been agreement that russia was behind it, that something needs to behind it, that something needs to be done. when it comes to actions, they point out the level of the knob is already turned quite high in terms of sanctions against russia because of eu sanctions imposed over ukraine and the earlier alexander litvinenko case, but they are also looking with their allies to see what further practical steps can be taken to bring the pressure on moscow taken to bring the pressure on m oscow eve n taken to bring the pressure on moscow even higher. let's take a look at the weather prospects, an interesting weekend there have been contrasting fortunes on the weather front across the british isles through the day and that continues overnight with quite a bit of rain and snow across the east of scotland and eastern england and we will see another feature bringing heavy rain to wales and the south west. not an especially cold sta

diplomats after western allies accused it of attempting to murder a former russian spy in britain in a joint declaration yesterday the u.s. joint france germany and britain indirectly blaming moscow for last week's attack using a nerve agent it comes as washington separately announced sanctions against russia for allegedly meddling in its elections. british prime minister to reason may is one of the few visitors to salzburg these days traders in the cathedral town say tourists and shoppers are staying away in the wake of the poisoning of former russian double agent sergei script and his daughter yulia mae visited the restaurant where the chemical attack took place and put the blame squarely on moscow. it is right that the u.k. government reacts in a robust way to what has happened here in seoul bring that is exactly what we've done i've announced that we will expand it be expecting twenty three russian diplomats who declare that intelligence offices will have an impact on the intelligence network the we all the measures will be taking britain's allies are showing their support france

if britain goes further, which they have hinted they might, russia will respond. you could see the whole thing ratcheting up and already it is a febrile atmosphere between the countries — the relationship is absolutely at rock bottom. but at least they say they want to maintain some kind of relationship despite everything that has happened — they don't want to break the relationship completely which is critical. because then it would leave a very precarious situation between the countries. our diplomatic correspondent james robbins explained to me the impact of russia's response. i think it hurts because the russians have gone a little bit beyond that. by closing the consulate in russia's ancient historic previous capital, the historic city, st petersburg. that is an escalation from the russian side and, so, i think almost more important, perhaps, the forced closure of british council activity in russia. this is really significant, because the british council fosters people to people links, it provides education in english language to thousands upon thousands

a disappointing day for great britain. they leave these games without a medal, a real shame, because it was going to play a big pa rt because it was going to play a big part in the medals target that was set for them before the games, and will put a lot of pressure on the rest of paralympics gb to step up and find medals elsewhere. that's all from sportsday. coming up ina that's all from sportsday. coming up in a moment, the papers. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are martin bentham, home affairs editor at the london evening standard and jason beattie, head of politics at the daily mirror. good to have you with us. let's bring you up to date on what the front pages are already saying. the telegraph claims the nerve agent used to poison sergei skripal and his daughter yulia may have been planted in her suitcase. excuse me. it pictures a british nuclear—powered submarine, deployed in the arctic. the metro has the headline putin the pariah after britain gained

the man britain believes poisoned him is andrei lugovoy. today, he dismissed claims that moscow had attacked sergei skripal as propaganda. translation: why do they say he was poisoned? perhaps he poisoned himself. or had a heart attack. you talk about propaganda, but what about alexander litvinenko. the enquiry in britain into his death found that you had poisoned him, probably on the orders of vladimir putin. translation: there was no official investigation into litvinenko's death. there was an attempt to accuse russia and a russian citizen, me, of poisoning him in britain with polonium. as for the kremlin, well, it's been saying very little today about sergei skripal. president putin's spokesman told me earlier that, "we have no information about what happened. we cannot comment." although he did add it was a tragic situation. but catching spies has become one of vladimir putin's priorities. yesterday, he congratulated russia's security service, the fsb. it uncovered 397 spies last year. spy—mania, and now a former double agent collapsi

we have to see now how britain will react. there is going to bea britain will react. there is going to be a meeting of the national security council in london next week, at which they will discuss the next steps and whether they will see these measures of closing the british council and the consulate as being an escalation of the situation between the two sides. those next steps a re between the two sides. those next steps are interesting, because there is clearly anger on both sides. but some commentators are making the point that which is not in anybody‘s interests to cut off dialogue totally between the two countries. and it is notjust commentators, but the actual sides have been saying that, which is extremely important. if you cut off all relations, event becomes a very precarious and volatile situation between the two countries. it seems that the moment that neither side wants that to happen. the retaliatory measures on both sides seem to be calibrated to avoid that at this stage. richard, thank you. meanwhile, the metropolitan police have appealed for anyone

is saying, they are saying that britain's claims are groundless. porton down is an isolated facility on salisbury plain that has operated since the first world war and it is that expertise built up over a century that is the foundation of its world—class reputation for testing chemical weapons. the team from the organisation for the prohibition of chemical weapons was invited here by the government. they are expected to spend up to a week talking to scientists and others involved in the investigation buzzed up involved in the investigation buzzed up the process will be very rigorous, they are the professional body. they are investigators from the un, very experienced operators and they do this all over the place. they have been to syria many times to investigate chemical weapons. for two weeks experts have been filmed taking what looks like samples from across salisbury. it has not been made public whether the nerve agent in board was delivered at a powder, liquid or otherform. the team that has arrived at porton down will be crucial to confirmin

looked very isolated and this is also something that's good because britain is far more isolated. and i think the british position in the world is far weaker because it's withdrawing from . so i think getting this statement today was. really words that are with me and here in the studio was this an easy decision for berlin well first of all those were very strong words coming from not only berlin but also france the u.k. and the united states and if you consider the usually very diplomatic tone of she called this attack worrying she called for maintaining the dialogue that was the initial response to this attack and this is the sound of anglo-american that we usually no no if you look at the sound of that although the wording of that letter in comparison there we're talking about an attack on the sovereignty of the united kingdom the first use of a chemical agent in europe since the end of the second world war that russia is very likely behind it because there would be no other logical explanation and what that will mean is certainly and in a breach of international law not only t

forty four years of the joining the european union britain's ambassador to the e.u. delivers the breck that notification left in brussels the u.k. for when the trigger optical fifty two leave the european club. so. sick spacious. there notification from the figure. fifty. britain is now officially. twenty nine two thousand and nineteen. june two thousand and seventeen. backfires for to resubmit a new government is fresh on. this government of the country through the crucial. that begin in just ten days. they begin with a huge compromise britain's press secretary david davis agrees that trade talks will have to wait until sufficient progress has been made on the. citizen rights and the irish border we want to find a solution without. any kind of border but the u.k. offers no solutions and only draws red lines david davis is told the u.k. will not be allowed to cherry pick the u.k. it wants to take back control wants to adopt it own stand outs and regulations. but if bush wants to have these dogs recognized early indeed this is simply impossible. the british prime mini

this is day eight of leaders live from berlin britain expels twenty three russian diplomats and the fallout from the poisoning of a former double agent temperatures oil prime minister theresa may gives them a week to leave the ukraine's largest diplomatic expulsions for thirteen years and also on the program. a new government that takes office at last nearly six months after the election and america will be sworn in for a fourth term. school students across the united states will walk out of class calling for tougher gun laws and remembering the seventeen people killed at a florida high school four weeks ago. i'm still gail welcome to the program. britain's imposing fresh sanctions on russia after it failed to meet a deadline to explain a poison attack against a former russian spy and his daughter in the u.k. moscow has pledged to retaliate so prime minister to resign my outline the u.k. she responds in parliament including the expulsion of twenty three russian diplomats the withdrawal of an invitation to russia's foreign minister and a limit on bilateral contacts with moscow the case the s

former ambassador william patey that we support saudi arabia and britain has extensive interests and saudi arabia. military tree economic security interests so you often accused of having a system that has bred extremism but equally there in the forefront of the battle against people like al qaida. they keep us safe and according to tory m.p. a member of the committee for arms export control the saudi government isn't even all that repressive anymore. do you not think saudi arabia is a repressive regime it has been i think it's changing because they are now allowing women to drive they are changing the role of women in society they wanting women to get elected into parliament it is moving forward to a democratic society but another member of the british committee labor m.p. lloyd russell moyle has a very different view the argument is not that the sound is a bombing women in saudi arabia the argument is they're bombing the heck out of people in yemen you know kind so what they're doing for people in saudi is neither here nor there when we're talking about the arms now actually the fa

shadow chancellor john mcdonnell prepared to attend the world economic forum in switzerland britain's entire nuclear program today is judge ruled to be in trouble because of strike action while firefighters strike at sellafield site of the worst ever nuclear incident in british history is important is clear just how many people could be killed by an uncontrolled fire and what's at stake at sellafield on the irish sea in the northwest of england so are those big enough to hold six double decker buses filled to the brim with some of the most dangerous radioactive waste in the world and there's a lot of it there are twenty two silos like this in the sense why building housing and to home runs move radioactivity released by the chernobyl disaster it took fifty years before the state mandated b.b.c. could reveal the truth about how successive british governments covered up the circumstances surrounding a fired windscale as sellafield was called before its p.r. name change the fire in one hundred fifty seven could according to the b.b.c. have irrevocably altered the u.k. u.s. special relati

politics or for the great britain very friendly with russia so i think it is going on the same. trends in our relations i think that it's no good but it's not our troops ok it's not your choice barbara the british prime minister met with her security team met today to discuss more possible measures against moscow what could just possibly be. there's a number of measures that are being discussed one is for instance to restrict to travel for certain people from russia certain people from the circle of flooding refuting the president there is also talk about seizing russian property if it is explained if the owners here in britain cannot explain where the money came from and also of course to tighten rules against money laundering because it is well known it's been known for at least a decade that britain is regarded as one of the worldwide capitals of money laundering and there are billions of russian money spent on sort of floating around for lodging around london and a commentator here in one of the big national newspapers wrote to britain has to sort of wean itself off its love

border to keep britain in the e.u. because the british side is trying to use the border question as a blueprint perhaps for the bigger relationship because after all if we if we can work out a fluid very open easy border between the parts of britain that the only. britain has a land border with the e.u. why can't we do that for britain and france all the rest of the eat it why can't we have this easy fluid border that the british want to have in an open dynamic trading relationship with the e.u. you think this is border engine earring going on here that we're seeing it's a battle over a very particular and quite complicated subject that we've discussed tonight but it's crucial to the bigger picture of how the the great britain eventually ends up having a relationship with the european union and the british want that to be as fluid and as open as possible and then they haven't really accepted the e.u. position which is no you're leaving our customs union on our single market and you've got you've got to then accept that

soil britain so far has failed to provide any evidence of russia's guilt of the last london is blaming russia for the attack and over twenty countries have expelled moscow's diplomats in solidarity with the u.k. in response russia's taken similar moves against those states that are my colleague andrew farmer discussed the consequences for moscow's relations with the u.k. with our correspondent right against the this is part of russia's response to the mirror response for every russian diplomat expelled from great britain the united states and two dozen or other countries most of them either need two states or countries that are seeking to do in nato for every russian diplomat expelled russia is expelling one of those countries diplomats from russia in the case with great britain twenty three diplomats have been expelled. it doesn't end there russia has also lost the u.k. to reduce its diplomatic staff in russia by an additional fifty this is the number of russian diplomats in great britain and the number of british diplomats in russia same to establish parity this is i suppose you coul

kick twenty three russian embassy staff out of the country this comes as western allies rally around britain in responding to a poison attack on a former russian double h. . and on the trail of the peace diamond in sierra leone it was supposed to bring prosperity to the villagers who founded instead its bread discontent we have an exclusive report. well i'm terry martin good to have you with us russia's foreign minister has said today that moscow will expel u.k. diplomats after western allies accused of attempting to murder a former russian spy in britain in a joint declaration yesterday the u.s. joined france germany and britain indirectly blaming moscow for last week's attack using a nerve agent it comes as washington separately announced sanctions against russia for allegedly meddling in its elections. british prime minister to reason may is one of the few visitors to salzburg these days traders in the cathedral town say tourists and shoppers are staying away in the wake of the poisoning of former russian double agent stg a script and his daughter yulia may visit at the restaurant where t

and france britain and the u.s. sent embassy workers instead a crimp spokesperson reacted to the u.k. decision by saying that it showed willingness to hear russia's answers to its questions that moscow to date has denied any involvement in the attempted murders. and so this diplomatic spat that has gone on for a while now looks to continue to go on for some time former russian officer was jailed in russia for handing secrets to british intelligence move to the u.k. spy swap and twenty three weeks ago his daughter were found critically ill in salisbury u.k. police expect their probe on the alleged poisoning to take months however british politicians very quick to pin the blame on moscow britain's foreign secretary becoming the latest to lash out. as they responded with. distortion and delay and that is their tactic. this information middling in european election campaigns to say nothing of election campaigns. has got to be moved. i want to be very clear that we do wish to engage in a new cold war. that. i remember. t