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Correspondent in Watson effectively even if we were to stay in the single market and a customs union the closest possible relationship that over a 15 year period every region of Britain is expected to grow less fast than it would had we stayed as members of the European Union but again of course many brigadiers will tell you that forecasts have often been wrong or wrong but will it happen immediately after the referendum the High Court has ruled that 2 victims of the serial sex attack a John Worboys can begin a legal challenge against the decision to release him on parole they'll be a judicial review next month separately a report has found failings in the way probation staff maintained contact with will boys his victims the chair of the parole board Nick Hardwick has been questioned by M.P.'s You might argue that some of the current problems in the criminal justice because what seemed to be good I do is push through without necessarily thinking through or consequences so what my plea really is let's make change this might be a challenge but let's think it through. The parents of James Bulger wearing quarter as one of his killers that was jailed again John Venables admitted challenges of having indecent images of children and a paedophile manual he's been sentenced to 3 years and 4 months Jane says Father Ralph Bulger says it's too lenient it was and salsa James is a sexual deviant 1st Venables is a paedophile and a fish waiting for the effect of the let's make sure it is no more victims people where we should buy a British manage doing course later this month to face the terror charges are going to Syria to fight the Islamic state group 43 year old Jim Matthews from London joined up with Kurdish forces he's alleged to have attended a place used for terrorist training. Research suggests a widely occurring amino acids found in asparagus and other feeds can effect the spread of cancer scientists in Cambridge experimenting on mice with breast cancer cells they found Cheema struggle to spread when deprived of asperity and the political experts his children burst in on a live b.b.c. Interview says they've now become stars in their own rights Professor Robert Kelly has one t.v. Moment of 2017 after the video went viral it shows his wife battling to get their toddler and baby out of his office they're all these are my Twitter feed of like my daughter as like president of the world people that I really cared and so there was a couple in Brooklyn that may be a little cartoon series out of it and another make like a children's book and stuff you know there are all these gifts and means and whatever I mean it just goes and goes and goes down by the Has your sports column overcame a spirited display from league to Newport to advance in the f.a. Cup I Dan Butler own goal and an Erik Lamela strikes the Spurs through the face League One Rochdale in the next round in the Women's Super League Arsenal beat Liverpool 3 nil the head of the Football League Sean Harvey has told the b.b.c. That a winter break would not work for the championship or leagues one and 2 the Premier League is looking for options to introduce a break similar to other top year rippin leagues Harvey suggests that shuttle is already too packed what for kept in Troy Deeney will not face any formal action days goal celebration in their 41 win over Chelsea Patrice Evra says he's thankful to West Ham after they sign him until the end of the season the 36 year old left back at his contract counselled by Ma say in November after kicking one of the club's own fans Great Britain easily beat Portugal $3000000.00 that Fed Cup tie and Roger Federer has accepted a wildcard into the a.t.p. Event in Rotterdam so could be the oldest ever male world number one by the end of the month this. Is b.b.c. 5 live on digital online smartphone and stop at the weather That sounds of rain and health thank you Scotland sound over 9 and so nice hatching into northwest Wales on opening day and. Minus 3 the 6 nations surrounding. On am f.m. Around the u.k. On digital and online I'm Raj Sharma and we're up all night. The Democratic minority leader and former Speaker of the u.s. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi is a young looking $77.00 this would not normally be germane to anything but yesterday must close he achieved defeat were cheered when good going for anyone not wearing foreign shields starting just after 10 in the morning in the chamber where debate has a far different meaning from what it does and neither the Commons or the large She spoke for a record 8 hours on interrupted about the plight of the $700000.00 young immigrants who will be the losers under a deal now being carved out to keep the u.s. Government running. After 4 months of political stalemate Germany is very much closer to having a government after the 2 biggest political parties Anglo-American conservatives see the use e.s.u. And the center left Social Democrats the s.p.d. Agreed to farm another coalition but it comes at a price for the junior partner of the s.p.d. And almost $100.00 seats in the new Bundestag will be occupied by deputies from the hard right party that if the I asked Jeremy cliff from The Economist bureau and Berlin what still needs to be done before we can say that Germany has a government we now have a coalition tail between calls Christian Democrats that's the center right in the Social Democrats and the center left but of for a proper government can be fooled in the ministers can take their jobs the s.p.d.m. Membership that's the Social Democratic membership gets a vote on whether or not the party can join a new government and it's really not clear how that vote will go to party voted for the rest last time around in 2013 by about 3 quarters but a lot of them are pretty fed up with government with anger Merkel the party didn't do very well only election and it's hard to tell how the vote will go and of course if they don't know it's back to the drawing board. So they really have to pay the price of any government decisions that are unpopular with their base exactly I mean the general trend is that the junior coalition partner gets punished in Germany particular when they're in government but angle of Merkel she has a habit of appropriating partner's most popular policies and claiming them to herself and somehow foisting the less popular stuff onto them and I think the bigger a bit fed up with every day we're in government with Mrs Merkel between 2005 and 2009 again from 20000 last year and their support level has fallen and fallen and at the last election September their 10th their worst result since the war and I think some of them are just saying we cannot do this again or we're going to disappear is the party. So now we have a assuming this all goes together we have a seriously conservative opposition where the $93.00 members so it's not nothing there for the how are they going to use the power what's it going to be like for Mrs America to have a really tough hard right opposition Yeah as you as you say the s.p.d. Going into government does not go means that the a.f.p. This party becomes the largest opposition I should add that it isn't the only opposition party there are 3 other large opposition parties the Greens the liberals and socialists the d.f.t. Is the largest that there is and it's a very significant moment generally until last September No the far right party has been in the German Bundestag since the war it's obviously a particularly sensitive subject in Germany the a.f.d. I would not go as far as to say that it's a neo nazi party but it certainly contains some people with links to that scene it has what many would consider a very very hostile attitude to foreigners and particularly Muslims and having that knowledge contingent to the bizarre gives it a lot of power particularly with the s.p.d. In government it means that it's the loudest opposition voice it's it gets rights to go on t.v. And political talk shows and interviews and stage its arguments it gets a claim to committee chairmanships which is very important in the German system just the other week in fact it took the chairmanship of the powerful finance committee says a lot it can do the ticking of the F.E.D.'s not going into opposition long side up . So is it is it powerful enough to upset the voting pattern as a powerful enough to the private Mrs Marco a victory on an important vote. It's certainly possible although that would have to be a vote where there is extensive opposition from other parties I mean you see say the d.f.t. Has just under 100 votes. In the start has 700 seats and so it's it can block legislation by itself but there are certainly subjects where it might add and I should add by the way that the Christian Democrats and America's party and other parties have said they weren't cooperate with it on many many votes they weren't kind of conspired to bring down an image station but it is possible that for example if the government tries to push through a new major new bailout for example for Greece or for another part of the euro zone or any contentious legislation letting in immigrants or another subject that would aggravate the far right but also parts of the center ground that you have a sort of ad hoc coalition of conservatives maybe the old liberal with the f.t. Said it could it could affect things but the biggest effect is that it just withdraws a whole lot of been the stock seat from the grasp of the mainstream parties and that's one of the reasons in fact why Mrs Merkel has been forced back into another loveless marriage with the Senate Democrats they just aren't any of the coalition options available and what does this do for our image of German politics where sooner or later everybody agrees and their way is pretty much done in the middle Yeah I mean you look at politics since the war it's been characterized by a very small number of parties for a long time of just 3 parties in the Bundestag. That tended to broadly shared the same worldview with a few differences in emphasis in could negotiate a disagreements in a very consensual very kind of mature way now the South has a record number of parties there are 7 parties in the Bundestag including the f.t. That makes it forming majorities more complicated and if any f.t. Brings a more strident tone of politics that is actually spreading to some of the other parties you know generality. It doesn't work quite like British politics way used in Britain to the idea of the opposition and the government on opposite benches going at each other folk out it in and Germany they sit in a heavy cycle it's more it's calmer it's quieter but the f.t. Has really started to shake that up so I think it yes it is it is changing the culture of gender politics. Jerry cliff from The Economist Well the u.s. Government is talking about itself again and other words talking about whether or not the money is there to keep it going and to do this the leaders of the Senate Republicans and the Democrats majority leader Mitch McConnell and minority leader Chuck Schumer have announced a deal to fund the u.s. Government for the next 2 years crucially this deal would exclude any funding for President Obama's to ferret Action for Childhood Arrivals Program otherwise known as Dhaka which involves the people who have been referred to as the dreamers and at the moment the dark a program is due to run a next month well that's not all it's been happening in the House of Representatives the House Democratic minority leader Nancy Pelosi set a new record for the longest recorded speech on the floor of the House of Representatives and what did she speak about but the dreamers Well our correspondent David Willis joins us now from Washington hello David. Well I obviously must close in you very well what was happening up in the Senate and and that was why she wanted to speak about the dreamers indeed and to raise the profile of the dreamers whose plight says she clearly believes is absent as far as that bipartisan budget deal is concerned in the Senate rod one that would provide to me is 2 years solution to the sort of budget brinkmanship that we've become used to here in Washington mosque at the same time increasing the federal government the federal deficit I should say by a couple of 100 but many hundreds of billions of dollars money that will be spent on military equipment disaster relief infrastructure even fighting the war. On the opioid crisis here but this was it's a major step towards avoiding a government shutdown the bill still needs approval from the house before President Trump can sign it into law. And there are people in the House who we might describe as deficit hawks who might have a thing to say about us well absolutely some fiscal conservatives them Rodham bulking says such a significant increase in the federal deficit they don't want to see it ballooning out of control or suggestions that next year we could see that deficit reach trillion us dollars So what's happening basically is that Nancy Pelosi who you mentioned there is calling for this sort of commitment from her Republican opposite number Paul Ryan that's the man who's the leader of the house that Chuck Schumer the Democratic leader in the Senate got from the Senate leader Mitch McConnell which is basically a commitment to end that legislation addressing the issue of the dreamers in return for the passage of this federal spending of this federal budget bill so that's what's at stake tomorrow when after the Senate has voted on its bill the legislation goes then to the House of Representatives So is there a sense that in fact the 2 parties in the Senate are starting to work a bit better together there is very much so and then yeah that's not necessarily the case in the house but no it's not and it's very unusual in the Senate but Chuck Schumer and Mitch McConnell appear to have found common ground they've been working behind the scenes on this this is a bipartisan group in the Senate who've been working on matters a budget send indeed immigration for quite some time but it does seem to be bearing fruit that sort of effort and what is of concern I suppose is the fact that it doesn't seem to be replicated in the House of Representatives where come tomorrow given the opposition of some fiscal conservatives Paul Ryan may well need the support of Democrats if he said to get that bill adopted and passed through the house. And in all his discussion about increasing deficit anybody happened to mention the fact that him the tax cutting the overage went through us year and were over all the tax system is estimated to cost the federal budget about one and a half trillion dollars salute me yes I've seen that mentioned throughout the day here as well is all adding to the concern of those who say you know that all we heard from Republicans about government debts when they were you know there was a Democrat in the White House in the shape of Barack Obama all seeming a little bit well hyperbolic Now perhaps there was talk of overreach and brink of economic calamity all that sort of stuff for them we don't hear much talk of that from the river for Britain's right now and yet it wasn't so very long ago that said they were sounding such warnings fraud. David thank you very much well it's winter in Paris and the heaviest snow to hit the city in the 30 years has colos died in the Eiffel Tower so it must be really bad David says. Militarily or from central Paris which is blissfully peaceful but on the outskirts everything is in chaos here is what he told me. It started a couple of days ago and in the past 24 hours we've had $5.00 to $8.00 inches of snow falling in Paris and the surrounding areas now central Paris most of the parts that tourists are familiar with have been less badly affected but this has brought chaos and misery on the roads especially in the suburbs and outlying areas a lot of motorists have been forced to abandon their vehicles about 2000 people were forced to spend Tuesday night in their cars and some of them are still stranded about 600 people slept in emergency shelters on Tuesday night and hundreds of others were also stranded at railway stations and airports the Eiffel tower is closed a lot of trains and flights have been cancelled or delayed bus services of ground to hold and lorries have also been stranded and they've been record traffic jams stretching more than 430 miles in total now Paris is unusually packed with people and traffic but it's been eerily empty shops have had very few customers and a lot of people who traveling to work in the central areas from the suburbs have been unable to get in. So thinking about Paris in a little bit that one no is is it from the para free end that everything's got a bit quiet as is that the line of the worst snow really the sort of the Persian ring road no is the other way round the worst snow is in the suburban areas outside the ring road but Paris has been very quiet because a lot of buses haven't been running and all the thousands and thousands of people who come into work in the central areas from the suburbs who've been unable to come into work and a lot of people have heeded the call by the police to leave their cars or so the central areas have been quite delightful in some ways because they've been quite and see very little traffic a lot less pollution so it hasn't all been Mr goal for schoolchildren it's been snowball time instead of class time and we've seen skiers and snowboarders having huge fun slaloming down the hill near the sacré Kerber silica in the moment criticise draped a lot of Parisians have been enjoying the un characteristically quiet city in sort of Winter Wonderland feeling and people have been posting pictures of white coated Paris landmarks on social media a lot of people photograph the palace of. Much further south from Paris some of the chateau in the our valley looking like fairytale castles in the snow. If it was Britain I think a lot of people be saying Well where did it go wrong you know why didn't the forecast tell us it was going to Paris bad was that the case that is absolutely the case according to the mayor's office it's Paris's heaviest snowfall in 31 years but even so it's not a huge amount too it was for. Forecast well ahead of time a lot of people are even questioning whether it really is the worst snow in 30 years and people are asking why were the or Forrest he's not better prepared how come one of the world's most developed cities has been brought to a standstill by what's after all just a few inches of snow and it's become a political issue too because the opposition Conservative Party the Republican news for criticizing the government of Emanuel macro for what they say is amateurism the party issued a statement saying that the government appears to have only just realised that it does know in winter now the government spokesman hit back and he said it was difficult to predict how many of inch inches of snow would full but that's not something that's gone down particularly well with the public given that the 4 cards to the forecast did predict it and in very good time however the mare of Paris has acknowledged that the or for a tease didn't do enough to prepare and she's promised that they'll do better in future. So if you take a measuring stick out into the cellar sleazier something like that and stuck it in the ground how many inches would you half Well you wouldn't have more than a an inch or 2 at most in the actual road in the pavements there's if there's any snow a tall it's mostly slush there because there still has been enough traffic just to sort of melt the snow mainly as it fell and the pavements a mostly clear air except there are icy patches so it's it's a little bit treacherous for pedestrians but it doesn't look particularly bad on the seans Ailey's a or in the central areas the really bad scenes of much more snow are

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