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the diplodocus. good morning. it s the 4th of january. welcome to bbc newsroom live. britain s outgoing ambassador to the european union, sir ivan rogers, has strongly criticised the government s preparations for brexit. in his resignation letter he said he didn t know what ministers‘ negotiating objectives were and called on his colleagues to challenge what he called muddled thinking. our diplomatic correspondent, james landale, reports. sir ivan rogers has been britain s ambassador to the eu for three yea rs, ambassador to the eu for three years, and his criticisms about the government s preparations for brexit will be hard to ignore. in his resignation e mail he said there is a short supply of serious multilateral negotiating experience in whitehall and he said the structure of the uk s negotiating tea m structure of the uk s negotiating team need rapid resolution. he reveals that even he does not know what the government s negotiating objectives for brexit will ....
what? come on! the tv show, the one i was telling you about. congratulations, that s a credible! i feel like i said negative stuff about it before. it is like rebel without a cause. i got the bullets! hello, welcome to the programme. we re live until iiam. as you d expect, we ll bring you the latest breaking news and developing stories. stay tuned for some fascinating footage of chimpanzees which appears to show them developing tools to help them drink water. it s brilliant. that before 10am. if you re getting in touch, use the hashtag #victorialive. our top story today. jeremy corbyn is to explain labour s approach to brexit and immigration. in a speech later, he ll say for the first time that he s not wedded to the principle of free movement of people, and he ll argue that the uk can t afford to lose full access to the single market, as many british jobs and businesses depend on it. why the change of heart from jeremy corbyn? what we get today is the jeremy corbyn r ....
for three or four questions. the gentleman just here, if for three or four questions. the gentlemanjust here, if you could say your name. sure, paulfrom itv news, you say that there is no quick fix but many of your predecessors say there is, simply to send fewer people to prison, isn t that the immediate way to reduce the pressure on our immediate way to reduce the pressure on our prisons? as i pointed out in my speech, we are sending fewer first time offenders to prison and we are sending fewer people to prison, for short sentences. but the fa ct prison, for short sentences. but the fact is, we have seen an increase in prosecution rates, for areas like sex crime, and an increase in sentences for those, which i think reflects the seriousness of those crimes and i think it would be wrong to arbitrarily reduce those sentences are not prosecute as many cases. so we are keeping a steady prison population, that is what has happened for the last six years, we are reducing the ....