Up treatment which dentists may recommend as a result of the check up the party says in the long term it wants to abolish all dental charges the B.B.C.'s Panorama program and the Sunday Times has spoken to a dozen British detectives who say they found credible evidence that British soldiers were involved in war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan their investigations were closed down in 2017 without any prosecutions the Ministry of Defense has denied there's been a cover up and says it's passed the claims to military police and prosecutors his right to Bilton panorama has examined a number of cases where detectives wanted to bring charges against soldiers for illegal killings and senior officers for covering up evidence all were rejected by military prosecutors some detectives that claim the Ministry of Defense never had any intention of prosecuting soldiers and said the investigations were shut down for political reasons the m.o deep says military operations conducted lawfully and the decisions not to prosecute were made after extensive investigation riot police in Hong Kong have fired tear gas at student protesters at the Polytechnic University in callin close to a major tunnel under the harbor has been blocked since Tuesday the students have been throwing petrol bombs at officers say they are expecting the police to make a concerted attempt to clear them from the campus. In Sri Lanka the controversial former defense minister go to be Rajapaksa has claimed victory in the presidential election he emerged as the clear favorite in the Senhor majority areas in the south but his main rival subject let the polls internal districts Yaga tell him a reports from Colombo. It's been a hard fought contest and it a country that saw deadly bombings 7 months ago Security has dominated discourse wartime defense chief go to a Rajapaksa entered the presidential race soon after the attacks he's often credited with ending the civil war and joining the campaign he projected himself as the man who can once again keep the country safe he is a divisive figure though as defense chief during the end of the war he's accused of brutally crushing the Tamil insurgency in the north at the cost of civilian lives Mr Rajapaksa has always denied the accusations against him an Italian football coach whose team thrashed their opponents $27.00 nil has been rewarded with the sack the president of the club in Greece a tour in Tuscany said he learned of the junior teams triumph with amazement and regret and criticised the overwhelming victory as disrespectful he apologised to the losing team b.b.c. News. B.b.c. Radio 4 where will go from Guy foraging in half an hour but 1st a look ahead to tomorrow when we begin a satire from one of France's greatest writers. This is presumably some kind of joke an 18th century masterpiece it's comedy. About terrible misfortune to dreadful chain of calamities bursting and blind optimism did you continue to believe that all this for the best is for the best Adrian Scarborough reads Condy Voltaire's novel of ideas about good and evil if this is the best of all possible. The State of us big magic this Monday to Friday night at 1045 on b.b.c. Radio 4 that is we'll say on familiar places new experiences and fresh adventures on the cards now as Mark tally presents this week's edition of something understood. One reason we seek the unfamiliar the title of our program is to get relief from monotony. But both the kids find life so monotonous or so dreary even the unfamiliar provides relief. One gets into what. If they don't get it turns to change the scene. I could not believe that life could not be true. If I lived inside. To murder rather amusing. My way through. He bought me the Black Sea for my eyes maiming. The nerds an. Hour or so many days salt air I sniffed I was shipwrecked and a cast adrift with a man who were not like Montgomery Clift. Monotonous . Goddard's words throughout the years and known as. Down but when they go on comes up I like. Good sound as mud. Just made a new style of all me I even mean Johnny raised miles from me a camel once walked. Me. Monotonous. I could not believe. Life could not be to. Live I lived in. As been known to stab me her eyes is even arise and her me carry us from one place. To mine and. C C C C C C C C C C other for whom the unfamiliar has become deja vu of course there are many other reasons apart from the relief from monotony that we seek the unfamiliar but nowadays there's a common complaint that so much has become familiar it's difficult to find the unfamiliar and even harder to find exotica in his book infelicities representation is all the exotic the anthropologist and art historian peter mason says today with the presence of immigrants from virtually all over the world in europe and the opening up of the 3rd world to western torres some and the global dissemination of a metropolitan technology the exotic has acquired a deja vu quality as eartha kitt found however the 14th century sufi poet known as huffy is is not the only person in this something understood who says we are programmed to search for the unfamiliar and therefore we must go on looking for it the mind is ever a tourist wanting to touch him by a new things then toss them into an already filled closet so i craft my words into those guides that will offer you something fresh from the hidden state have been few things a stronger than the mines need for a diverse experience i'm glad not many men or women can remain faithful love as to the unreal. It was a kind of adultery that God encourages ill spirit needs to leave the bed of fear the gross the subtle the mental worlds become as a worthless husband women need to utilize to superior intelligence about. So that their powers legacy can make us all stronger and more clement. Sometimes a poem happens like this on. The meal I sit on while I recite tonsil from one direction. But then gets. Lost in the end. The strange ending of her thesis poem is I think the poet letting his pain rip and take him off into an entirely different and unfamiliar terrain. In the 16th and 17th centuries trade with the East 1st created a European interest in Asian art this interesting creased with the spread of colonialism and eventually flowered in the late 19th century with the exoticism movement which includes 2 European painting decorative art and music. Music was composed to evoke the atmosphere of distant unfamiliar lands imagined to be exalted toward the blue sea it was influenced by the exotic trip. His composition for solo flute called sitting recalls exotic times rather than exotic places ancient times when mythological god some other mythological beings flourished. 6 2 2 2 he said fear holds us back from fulfilling our need for diverse experiences and fear is surely a factor in the racism which rejects the otherness the unfamiliarity of different races but in Shakespeare's tragedy in the otherness of Othello which 1st tracks as the mone up the father left me. Invited me still questioned me the story of my life from year to year the battle scenes his fortunes that I have cost. I ran it through even from my boyish days to the very moment that he badly tended her and I spake of most disastrous chances of moving accidents by flood and field of hair breath's Cape Cod imminent deadly breach of being taken by the nets and phone and sold to slavery of my redemption bents importance in my travels history wherein of untraceable and desert sidle rough quarries wrongs and Hills whose heads touch heaven it was my hint to speak such was the Princess and of the cannibals that each other eat the anthroposophy guy and men whose heads do grow been if their shoulders based here Desdemona us seriously inclined but still the house affairs would draw have ends which ever as she good with haste dispatch she come again and with a greedy ear devour my discourse which I observing took once I and hour and found good means to draw from our prayer of and this tart that I would all my pilgrimage dilate were of by parcel she had something heard but not intend to flee I did consent and often did beguile there of tears when I did speak of some distress for stroke that my youth suffered my story being done she gave me for my pains a world of size she swore in favor to a strange house passing strange twas pitiful wondrous pedophile she wished she had not had it she wished but Heaven that had made her such a man. We here of the Faroe Islands when we listen to the shipping forecast on the radio but few of us visit them there remain for most of us a name which can conjure up images of the exotic when the composer Gavin Bryars was a schoolboy hearing the word pharaohs had a mysterious magical quality the islands represented somewhere in an imaginary north he 1st visited the islands in 2004 to work with the fairies Rooney Bratton back for the composer discovering these islands which run till then unfamiliar exotic places he only imagined led to them becoming a very special place one of the most beautiful in the world cabin bribers has composed the setting of a fair always poem called in translation the company of the blind. The poem suggests that we tend to go through life blind but if we did early on our journey don't give up we'll find someone some exotica which opens our eyes and as the poet says gives life and will. I. Feel a little. A little. So why should we go on that journey in such of the unfamiliar why not be content to stay at home surrounded by the comforting Familia and comforting familiar surroundings familiar friends and familiar places certainly. Well the American Christian philosopher who died a few years ago Dale Andrews suggested we needed the unfamiliar to keep us going on the journey to discover selves every so often it pays to get a 1000 miles away that you will find the familiar and the unfamiliar the familiar will keep you feeling secure. Am familiar will give you an opportunity to see life from a new perspective you cannot stand on the edge of the Grand Canyon and come away the same person humanity has always loved it smashed into peaks shorelines cliffs great trees and starry nights some of those things and thereby But there's something about a 1000 miles between away you are what you call home that does wonders for your perspective I like sleeping in my car in the middle of nowhere making up I'm wondering where you are is a real trip it makes you appreciate your orientation abilities but before they could gain his sense of wonder that makes such a strange trip worthwhile we are over convinced of who we think we are each day in the familia is the reinforcement of self delusion our emotional wooden props become granite with social we know ourselves and all the while we may be drifting away from our real selves. No wonder the keynote of Christianity is to be cold away finding your ultimate purpose is seldom discovered in the predictable world created by your ego. But we didn't need to go to the fair Islands or the Grand Canyon to come across the unfamiliar wherever we are every day we wake up we face the unfamiliar no matter how programmed all life is we don't know what will happen that day each dawn is a blank page we still have to write on the poet Rita Darva imagines the whole of the dawn sky is her blank page and she calls her poem Dawn revisited. Imagine you wake up. With a 2nd chance the Blue Jay Hawks is pretty Wes and the still stands spreading glorious shade if you don't know. The future never happens. How good to rising sun light in the prodigal smell of biscuits and sausage on the grill the whole sky is furious to write or blown open to a blank page come on shake a leg. You never know who's down at frying those eggs if you don't get up and see. The all over. 'd 'd him to the door on one of Gustav posts he means from the Rig Veda the oldest of the sacred books of him to his. Home. The. The. Road. The. Low Low. One. The it. Vision. 'd 'd the own the data the road Murray the road the. The Ood. The. Day. Many Hindus greet the with the 12 yoga known as. The son. Union to Islam and Buddhism living in the present oh mindfulness. Is very important and if you think of it mindfulness is living with Familia because it involves being aware of the difference of every moment and every moment is indeed different. Johnny Cash calls one of his songs I've been everywhere in his introduction to the song he says he's still climbing into the cab of a lorry attempting to find one mole unfamiliar place so for all his traveling he still gripped by the edge which has had fees puts it makes the mind ever a tourist. I was told my pack go along the dusty one I'm up the road. When along came a semi with my hand was covered Lol if you call no one to love. You can Johnny Cash about to set off on another journey into the unknown. Which gripped Johnny Cash cause John Mace fields to write his famous poem see fever in another of his poems call goes misfiled indicates that the ordinary as well as the exotic can arise the color of the sea for cold to keep sailing in such of the unfamiliar in this foot in the raw exotic ships and exotic conquerors and that's a very ordinary familiar ship the dirty British coast Queen choir eem of Nineveh from distant of. Growing to have even in sunny Palestine. With a cargo of I very and a peacock's sandal would see the wood in sweet white wine stately Spanish galleon coming from the Islamists dipping through the tropics by the Palm green shows the cargo of diamonds emeralds amethysts Topaz is cinnamon and gold Moyet Dawes dirty British coaster with caked smokes that butting through the channel in the Mad March days with a cargo of time coal road radio pay good head firewood ion wear and cheap tin trainees whenever I hear John Mace feels cargoes or his sea fever I feel the call of the sea myself for cold to sail across vast oceans with no land in sight and to feel I'm sailing into the. But the phrase that a struck me most in this something understood on unfamiliarity is the phrase from Dale Andrews things I say to myself each day the familiar is the reinforcement of self delusion. The self delusion is the illusion that the familiar is all we need to experience and all we need to know it was only when I went to India and came across unfamiliar religions that I became aware Christianity is not the only way to God friends list gave his 3 suites for piano the title years of pilgrimage because it is the title of a famous novel of self realisation by gutter. The music list said portrayed a few of his strongest sensations and most lively impressions while he was traveling in many new countries so the music is his fond by lists experience of the I'm familiar. The nocturne and the bells of Geneva is one pot of the Swiss wheat of yez a pilgrimage. The caption list chose to give it is I live not in myself but become portion of that around me a quotation from Baden's Chiles Herald which conveys the impression that list has become a home in the unfamiliar. Close to Jeanette by friends let's bring in this week's edition of something understood to a close the readers were papa a c. a Do and n. a Patent the program was presented by Mark Kelly and produced by Frank Stirling it was a 7 digital production for b.b.c. Radio 4 b.b.c. Sound. It's dark you're underground in a modern case Tom Why did after. You've been thinking away at the back to Earth in front of you for hours in the wake of all. What's what makes clear. Weather than a moment of the earth around you could collapse in the back of your life that water gently dripping into the enclosed space has nowhere else to go or the soldier on patrol just a few metres above your head with a stick and with an open fire. Tunnel $29.00 the pub cost about a remarkable true escape underneath the Berlin wall download the free b.b.c. Found out to listen now Radio $4.00 is time for on your farm today Verity shop is with a writer and mushroom experts Longleat woon. What have we got here 3. Quite a lot right now looking for mushrooms we've just found it's about $150.00. 120 but this is a real cluster isn't it it's a big plastic with. That if you're looking for food I have to disappoint you. And this mushroom belongs to the genus that Caprino suggests the shagging mushroom which you might have heard out yeah yeah so this is it's cousin and this is Martin edible Ok And you can see it's already turning to ink Yeah yeah we're in the woods Yeah with you long. Because we are so delighted that you've come to the u.k. . With this wonderful book that you've written about your journey into mushrooming which you came through through a really incredible story of pain and loss and grief which we'll talk about probably as we go through these woods where I am very pleased to be in a world with you in Washington experts and already cvs give me some very sound advice about Paisley which ones not to pick but we go on a really deep. Deep. So it's this is sort of woodland that you're used to foraging you know Ok so you you live in Norway Yeah now but you were born in Malaysia but know what Norwegian woods how do they differ Well it would be spruce and pine sometimes s s s Helias this but often not and on the pine needles in a spruce need sets where to find the mushrooms and today we've brought you to a mixed broadleaf woodland haven't we that looks like it's been here quite a long time on questioning time which is why we probably puffing that. Just bending down to. A branch that's been to quite a while covered in Marks and when you picked up something that oh yeah I bet when I cut this open this little sphere that just looks like a ball actually a bit brown on the outside that I guess that is going to be black inside I'm going . To be with you scalpel and you're absolutely right Ok that's amazing this is a poisonous mushroom put tat right up yeah it's amazingly dense or you sliced open Is there anything about that one that tells you it's poisonous if you haven't studied it like you have very good question the answer is no because you have to know your mushrooms you know some people say that all mushrooms who you know color red or whatever you know cannot be didn't know you know some washrooms are red and they can be eaten so much from the red and it cannot be done you just have to know what you have in your hand yeah Ok could smell that one too Yes Well it's very important info about it running. We're going to. Let you know about a tense a canopy and here there are some nice young trees in here. Just spotting some open more open area up there you reckon yeah yeah let's go. To the top of the hills we're going to find something else. Except in a lot of rain recently which is good for mushrooms or in some way right yeah they like vaunted one advantage of being a mushroom and that is you know if the weather is sunny you can be happy if the weather is rainy You are also happy to get is you know that after the rain. The mushrooms come that's what brings them what I love that was the fact that they always here on the ground don't like you actually very rarely see mushrooms because they're all about the roots on the mycelium Yeah yeah you going to pick lettuce I don't know it's called mycelium and it's underneath us so this place you could say was mushrooms but we cannot see them and. From this my c.m. Which looks like Fred you know it looks like. A Met of threads you know fungal threads and from this my c.v. And when the conditions are right the temperature rainfall the stock. And everything is aligned then the mushrooms were fruit and they come with a force you know you can see I've seen photographs of mushrooms pushing out of estop to you know Tom Hanks Yeah yeah. Again this is a very interesting match remember very glad you found it Ok did I find it because I said it I found it Ok. Ok would you like to look Ok I'm turning it upside down I'm you know I'm tossing this mushroom do you know and you're bringing that cat to you and no Ok so I need to give this a good sniff Yeah you can go close it is in that. Account getting all. Is that good this belongs to a guy Rico's group genus Actually it's called if you want to be correct you know the button mushroom that you find. In the supermarket this is the the same usher in the wild Ok and this tastes 10 times better right and the way I identify this mushroom is through the smell Ok I mean of course they also see that you know that the ring and they can see the good so when you turn out so you when you say this ring Yes this is lying on this on this so in this room isn't it like a rough that it's got on its stem yet so when you turn it over you can see that rough underneath the cap that overhangs the whole thing and she's very pink comes an 8th when you're on the outside it's white just looks like a fairly ordinary mushroom turned upside down it's beautiful going to summon pink color and all the gills of course which is just it's still when you have a mushrooming in hand you need to engage all the senses you know what does it look like you know what color is it what does it feel like you know and and what does it smell like you know this is a good find this is our 1st edible fine I would say is another one behind you you see. The death ever one through 3 they come in clumps the come in colonies you find one. And you might find another so when you find one you you should just. Stop you know and be still and look around you and you know not run off because it is this a good time said that I was around you Ok Should we stop and be still more you know this story about how you came to mushroom as well oh hang on already what a lovely night this is what I'd call a break from it but it's probably until tomorrow another one is that Ok And these would be the ones that you can make that brooch out of your Dr Yeah they're beautiful it looks like scallops edged the brown. Many shades of brown but around the edge of the scalloping They're very bright white Yeah so that you can make a little brooch out of if you just dried it I have a friend who has a brooch like that this way he wants talking about that let's find a location that's good for the people. We found ourselves a very good look. Comes we're just going to yes just what you say actually can sort of connect with our immediate surroundings because I can see already I can see bits of it from God and all those sorts of things just but of course when. I'd love to know how you got into mushrooming. Yeah well I lost my husband very suddenly and. It took me a while before I got into mushrooming but it was it was actually accidental and by chance. I was. In the belief when group and. Everybody was you know just talking about what they were doing and you know some had tried meditation and others your Basically everyone was in pain I was just looking for some weight some kind of relief. And. Somebody mentioned you know a mushroom in course will begin this and I was so desperate. You know I did everything that that that was on the table you know that was suggested so I thought you know much for me you know why not begin I like to eat mushrooms and the husband and I we had talked about going you know such a course many years ago never did it of course so why not so I thought that on this course and. This causes a very practical course that So you know we would take into the woods almost immediately and there lo and behold I fall on you know my 1st edible mushroom and there was just this feeling of you know Joy or. Happiness felt for a long time and and that I didn't know if I was going to feel again so I was it was it was a you know an important moment for me and. I knew then that even though. I did not know what mushrooming could lead to I knew then that. You know I have to follow this path because basically there was nothing else this was the only thing that sort of. You know lit up my day so can I just take you back to when to how you met your husband was it he that brought you to Norway because you were born in Malaysia I was born in Malaysia I went to know always an exchange student I was supposed to be there for a year stay with a Norwegian family go to No we didn't school. That was the plan but I met my husband. Almost immediately and yet plans changed so young when he got married. I met him when I was 18 so you know when he died we had been together for 32 years so you know it was a fairly long time yeah and also my yes yes definitely sort of a character. Who was. He was quiet he was very well read he was funny his hand be he knew a lot of stuff. Was just good to be around yeah. So when you lost one of his a painful thing to kind of break up but you've written this very beautiful book. About it and related to this journey that you went on to your mushroom experience which is just beautifully done. That day because basically he went. To work one day and did not come home. So that day my my life just changed you know completely. You know you would sort of. I wished of course that I could turn the time you know on the clock back and all that kind of thing but you could not so did you just get a cool yes yes yes yes I got a call from the from the hospital asking me if if you know if. It was my husband and I said yes. And then he just gave me the message there was. Unreal. Unreal. And actually it took me a long time to get used to that fact actually I mean even though you know I saw him you know I saw saw him in the coffin you know and it takes a long time to get used to that fact so when people say. You have to accept it you know you have to move on. How can you move on if you if you can't even accept the fact you're not you know you're not there yet so the 1st you have to get used to you know the idea. Yeah so you were on a course that 1st what would have stories about the people that had come to the course was. Drawn to learning all times young people of all types of people and that was one of the things that that I found very charming about this is this cause because. You know it seemed to me like this was a classless type of you know society you know there were or were young we were there just because we had we shared a common interest and that's all you talked about presumably yes you didn't have to know you know Larry also Larry you know no you know you know what their last names were are you know you just talk about mushroom. Yeah did your family think you'd lost the plot well maybe some of them did but I think everybody was happy my family and friends were happy that I found something that engaged me that you know gave me something to look forward to that got me out of the house that made me new friends they were happy for me so as we're sitting here and or to you what is going through your mind about I mean it's it is kind of practical as well that could be mushrooms over the last hour you just literally because we're hearing a lot of. The world and just taking in the forest taking in this the light that it's that we see here in this clearing of course all these birds all the sounds it's very peaceful the smells Yeah and just yeah being here is a beautiful but in your book where you talk about going into a sense of flow when you're looking for mushrooms Can you describe that. For me at least it's. It's one time stand still right nothing else Metis you know when you want to be here at this moment and you only want to do what you're doing right now picking that mushroom You know you're not thinking about what are you going to cook for dinner all what does everybody think about my hair it's just being there in the moment and those wonderful moments to collect to forage for you know yeah and I magine it's that sort of moment that is the thing that gets you addicted Jagger and the addict. Yeah. Well I write about this. Diagnosis you know Michael Mania When you. Mushroom mad and at 1st I I did when I describe it I was describing other people and then there's this moment in the book where you know when I run I realize that you know I need to you know I have become one of them. But your mike I mean you know I mean you've you've turned in your professional Now they take you very serious in a wait and then you can do qualifications which you did quite quickly Yeah you know we have this wonderful unique system where you can take a diploma and when you have passed this exam you will be given a role. And the role is checking other people's mushrooms So basically during mushroom season we would set up like checkpoints normally like at the car park right by the woods you know where you know people are coming out with the mushrooms in their bags of mushrooms or baskets of mushrooms and we'd have a table there and they come and we would check their mushrooms saw them at no charge and tell them what you can take home and what they cannot Yeah so this has been going on since the fifty's and people are really thankful for that and for some of the mushroom was this is like this gives them a purpose in life you know yeah there and we have statistics you know of you know the number of deadly mushrooms that we have picked up out of out of people's pickings it's about 10 percent is it yeah that's quite a responsibility for you isn't it yes and stop Yes Yes So we do not take unnecessary risks and I'll be very careful and cautious. Let's move on a little bit and see if we can find some more mushrooms. I'm going to follow you because I think you've got all your senses well tuned. Leader on Ok I'll do my best. For you go. Yeah you. Found quite a collection here actually have me there like a sort of a scattering of of the white but I was going to say they look like the white but most but actually they're the tops a very different they've got to so they look a little bit like. Pebbles or. Finish on the can you see that they're growing in there like a very ring. Watch that. These here and you just follow your wow yeah you know I was looking at a very small very rare you acting out that you believe diameter of this very ring is about to make this yeah yeah. So is this we are in a fairy ring which means there was a tree here that you know a great means that you can make a wish. This particular mushroom You know when we pick it up. Again to. Get the earth. Dusted a bit turn it upside down and this was actually sealed isn't it so you can see those gills it's it's not a guilt mushroom it is. A legal battle Don is to let you know or decide to feed me but anyway it is spongy and you see so cutting through that this is just dense flash moment and he really looks like what's everyone doing in Norway this would be a mushroom that one could eat does it smell can I yeah can I take a smile and see good just learning fast. Now that's a very strong smell and they're enduring from the one very different you smell just now I've shut my eyes when I smile do you do that because you have to block out that sense of yeah shut their eyes and then actually you cut the mushroom You know you Cup it due to intensify the smell. The whole sensory multisensory. Do you think of it this way of you overcoming your grief because there you were with so little going on you know you're almost sounds like you're much shut down and yet through this it's this awakening of all these senses I mean you talked about that sort of euphoria of joy there's an awful lot more sensory awakening definitely because when my husband died you know you've heard this before people lose their appetite and I certainly did because food tasted like paper you know so and the rest of your senses and you know I felt that there when they were not working and definitely when you want to identify a mushroom you have to engage I had to really engage wake up all my senses you know and in that way it also just walked me out of this coma that I was in and when you see since you and you use your senses in a new way you you know you can become a new person I was very sharp with the producer in Bristol was Beatrice Fenton. Now let's check out the weather forecast for this morning and the Tylers with the other mass Hello there Tom very good morning to all well with a very light winds through the night into this morning what you'll find is the weather hasn't changed a great deal from what you had yesterday so for those of you in southeast England East and across the Midlands it does mean a lot to dry weather again to come today there will be some hazy sunshine around this morning Touch of Frost where skies remain clear is through the night if we can see some rain what's going to continue across the coastal areas of Kent and Sussex in particular and certainly to begin the day there be some splashes of rain maybe light and patchy across parts of the North and West Midlands but said most will stay dry temperatures of around 8 or 9 degrees for Southwest England Wales and Northern England so it's going to stay fairly close be fairly gloomy for many it will be a little bit of sunshine here in there chiefly across that parts of Devon and Somerset but for most of said cloud to stay in place some outbreaks of rain or just a company going through the day it's Northern England most prone to the odd heavier burst particularly through this morning but not much wind to stir things around and temperatures still only around 6 to 8 degrees for the vast majority Northern Island a slight change to yesterday that we start with a lot more Claudette this morning it will be some sherry rain just for a time that will clear through into the afternoon the 2nd half the day looking brighter then this morning temperatures of around 6 to 9 degrees and across Scotland again here a lot more clothes around to begin with a touch of frost across some central and eastern areas some eastern areas there will have a broad today than we see saw through yesterday but she was a work away from west to east through this morning and into the afternoon sunshine with develop more widely once again towards the West End temperatures of around $4.00 to $8.00 Celsius into tonight with close skies in Scotland Northern Ireland or the widespread Frost just about frost free to the south and east but Monday and Tuesday looking a lot drier brighter for many welcome to stop like you at the next weekends we ponder politics from across the pond. The United States Capitol Building gleaming and bright autumn sunshine is a dramatic sight. And now the people's representatives who work here are gearing up for the most dramatic act a presidential impeachment how the means to address serious misconduct became a political weapon what is the process of impeachment What is it like to be caught up in a small if your present state you are held to a higher order well I'm not a crook I burn everything I got or democracy will erode in evaporate material and join me Michael Goldfarb for high crimes and misdemeanors us presidential impeachment next Saturday night at 8 on b.b.c. Radio 4. B.b.c. News at 7 o'clock on Sunday the 17th of November Good morning this is Jane Steele Prince Andrew has denied claims that he slept with a 17 year old American girl in London saying at the time he was in a pizza restaurant and looking after his children detectives investigated alleged war crimes by British troops in Afghanistan and Iraq have accused the ministry of defense of a cover up Sri Lanka's presidential election has been won by a former minister he's been accused of widespread human rights abuses during the country's civil war. Prince Andrew has given his 1st detailed response to allegations by an American woman that she had sex with him in 2001 when she was just 17 after being flown to London by the billionaire Peter found Geoffrey had seen the prince has been criticized by some newspapers and commentators for not showing remorse during the hour long interview with the B.B.C.'s Newsnight program correspondent Jonny Dunn and reports in a wide ranging and detailed interview Prince Andrew sought to defend himself against the flood tide of allegations related to his decade long friendship with Geoffrey Epstein of the most serious allegation that he had slept with Virginia Roberts then 17 who says she was trafficked by Epstein the prince said it did not happen she says they met and went to a club where he danced with her brother sweat early and then went to a friend's house and had sex he says that night he took his daughter to a pizza party before looking after his children at home he was asked why he remembered the detail so well because going to peter expressing working is an unusual thing for me to do a very unusual thing for me to do I've never been I've only been through working a couple of times and I remember it weirdly distinctly He also said he didn't sweat at the time a medical condition brought on by his service in the Falklands which has now abated as to why he stayed with Epstein in New York after the businessman had been convicted and imprisoned for child sex offenses he said he went so as to tell abstain that he could no longer see him and that it would have been chicken to use the phone the interview raised a fair number of questions and the tone with little regret expressed has come in for shop criticism from some. The government and armed forces have been accused of covering up illegal killings by British troops in Afghanistan and Iraq and investigation by the B.B.C.'s Panorama program and the Sunday Times has spoken to a dozen British detectives who say they found credible evidence of war crimes but the investigators say strong cases were not prosecuted and evidence of torture and murder would disregarded the Ministry of Defense has denied the claims his riches built in in 2017 the government announced it was closing separate investigations into war crimes in Iraq and in Afghanistan not a single soldier has been prosecuted now panorama has spoken to insiders who worked on the Iraqi storage allegations team and operation north more which looked at war crimes in Afghanistan panorama has examined a number of cases where detectives wanted to bring charges against soldiers for illegal killings and senior officers for covering up evidence all were rejected by military prosecutors some detectives that claim the Ministry of Defense never had any intention of prosecuting soldiers and said the investigations were shut down for political reasons the m.o deep says military operations are conducted lawfully and the decisions not to prosecute were made after extensive investigation it says the b.b.c. Is claims have been passed to the service police and the service Prosecuting Authority who remain open to considering allegations Sri Lanka's controversial former defense secretary good Rajapaksa has claimed victory in the country's presidential election the official results have yet to be declared but his main rival the housing minister Sajid payment has conceded you could tell in a report from Colombo it's been a hard fought contest and it a country that saw deadly bombings 7 months ago Security has dominated discourse. Wartime defense chief go to our Rajapaksa entered the presidential race soon after the attacks he's often credited with ending the civil war and during the campaign he projected himself as the man who can once again keep the country safe he is a divisive figure though as defense chief during the end of the war he's accused of brutally crushing the Tamil insurgency in the north at the cost of civilian lives many also allege he is behind the disappearance and murders of Tamils and of journalists who were critical of him Mr Rajapaksa has always denied the accusations against him Sri Lanka is set to once again be ruled by a member of its most powerful political family riot police in Hong Kong have fired tear gas at student protesters at the Polytechnic University encounter loon close to a major tunnel that's been blocked since Tuesday the students who've been throwing petrol bombs at officers say they're expecting the police to make a concerted attempt to clear them from the campus earlier squads of Chinese soldiers emerge from their barracks to help residents clear debris from the roads the conservatives have set out details of their post breaks it immigration plans to end preferential treatment for the e.u. Nationals they say the aim is to treat all immigrants equally so the u.k. Can attract the brightest and the best from all over the world more from our political correspondent Jessica Parker. The plans focus as expected on ending free movement and applying rules to e.u. Migrants that already exist for non e.u. Workers for example the conservatives say the vast majority of migrants wherever they come from would need a job offer to come and work in the u.k. That typically be a 5 year wait before benefits could be claimed and a charge that allows foreign workers access to the n.h.s. Would rise from $400.00 pounds a year to $625.00 but businesses will want reassurance the British Chambers of Commerce said that firms must be able to recruit people at all skills levels on both a temporary and permanent basis Meanwhile as a meeting to hammer out its manifesto yesterday is understood Labor decided not to make an explicit commitment to extend free movement an idea that had been voted for at the party's conference Labor is promising to scrap charges for dental checkups in England they cost nearly $23.00 pounds but children pregnant women and people on low income benefits are exempt checkups are already.