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In a crucial week for talks with the eu over future trade arrangements, the home secretary says the uk will not surrender too quickly in its bid for a bespoke deal. Amber rudd also hit out at the brexiteer conservative mps, saying the cabinet was more united on brexit than they might think. Tomorrow, the eus chief negotiator, michel barnier, will be in london for talks. Michel barnier, will be later in the week, a Cabinet Committee will be seeking to agree on future policy. Committee will be seeking our political correspondent, eleanor garnier, reports. Putting the uk on the world map, the Prime Ministers been preparing for life outside the eu, taking tea in china, and helping to secure billions of pounds of business deals. Billions of pounds of business but reaching agreement on the other side of the world perhaps much easier than solving disagreements in her own of disunity about the type of brexit they want. I have a surprise for the brexiteers, which is the committee that meet in o
The warning from the first minister. And a woman from shotton in flintshire goes on trial accused of murdering her baby son. Good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. Senior officials from oxfam are in emergency talks today with the International Development secretary, to try to prevent government funding being cut, following the scandal involving some of its aid workers and prostitutes. Its claimed the charity failed to give the government full details of what happened, in the wake of the devastating earthquake in haiti in 2010. Oxfam denies theres been a cover up. Matt cole reports. In the worst imaginable circumstances, oxfam staff were meant to be in haiti to help. Its now clear son had a very different agenda. Amidst claims of sex parties and prostitutes, oxfam sacked four staff and allowed three others to quit including their country director who went on to secure work with another aid organisation. Oxfam denies it has covered up what happened but now it has emerged the
Sounds a bit like home yes, more of that income, a combination of heavy snow and strong winds overnight. We will also be looking further afield where gita, a cyclone, is currently hitting tonga. Thanks. Also coming up. Thats cool scientists release the first video of a giant iceberg thats broken off the Antarctic Ice shelf its four times the size of london and weighs i trillion tonnes. Well be talking to a member of the British Antarctic survey. Hello everyone this is afternoon live im simon mccoy. As though dealing with a sex scandal on its own wasnt bad enough now oxfam is facing claims of a cover up claims it denies. Senior officials from the charity are in emergency talks with the International Development secretary, to try to prevent government funding being cut, following the scandal involving some of its aid workers and prostitutes. Its claimed the charity failed to give full details of what happened in the wake of the devastating earthquake in haiti in 2010. All this as many do
Exploring its urban and desert landscapes. Good evening and welcome to bbc news. The home secretary has played down the governments divisions over brexit at the start of a crucial week in the negotiations. Amber rudd said she had a surprise message for conservative critics of the Prime Minister that the cabinet was more united than they thought. Tomorrow the European Unions chief negotiator, michel barnier, will be in london for talks. And the cabinets Brexit Committee will meet later this week, seeking an agreement on the way forward. Our political correspondent, eleanor garnier, reports. Putting the uk on the world map last week the Prime Minister was making friends in china and signing billions of pounds of business deals. But this week it is her own cabinet she needs to win over amid claims of disunity over brexit. I have a surprise for the brexiteers, the committee that meets is more united than they think. We meet privately for discussion and i think we will arrive at something w