17/02/2018 BBC Weekend News

Good afternoon.

Theresa May has called

for a new "deep and special

partnership" after Brexit to ensure

the UK and EU can continue to work

together on security.

In a speech in Germany,

the Prime Minister said

that the UK's commitment

to protecting Europe from threats

was "unconditional" but warned that

failing to cooperate

would put everyone at risk.

In response the President

of the European Commission said

he would welcome a close security

alliance but it must be negotiated

separately from Brexit.

Our political correspondent

Vicki Young reports.

In defence and security,

the UK is a significant player

and the Prime Minister hopes that

will get her a special deal.

She arrived in Munich, keen to lay

out Britain's contribution.

Generous spending on defence

and expertise it wants

to share, even after Brexit.

Theresa May urged the EU to take

a practical approach.

This cannot be a time

when any of us allow

competition between partners,

rigid, institutional restrictions,

or deep-seated ideology

to inhibit our cooperation

and jeopardise the security

of our citizens.

She's calling for a new security

treaty so the close

partnership can continue.

Failure to agree one would have

damaging consequences, she said.

We must do what ever

is practical and pragmatic

in ensuring our collective security.

Those who threaten our security

would like nothing more

than to see us fractured,

so let the message ring out

loud and clear today,

we will not let that happen.

Some listening to this

were left bewildered.

Things would be so much

easier if you stayed,

so here comes the questions.

Mrs May didn't agree.

Brexit was a democratic decision

that politicians had to respect

and one senior Brussels figure

seemed to agree.

The commission president said the EU

wasn't at war with the UK and didn't

want to take revenge

on the British people.

He said the security bridge

would be maintained,

but you cannot mix it up

with other issues.

So it is a familiar

message from Theresa May.

The UK is leaving the

European Union, but that doesn't

mean close cooperation needs to end.

And it is a blunt message too.

Saying to Europe's leaders, don't

let your ideology get in the way of

the safety of our citizens. The

government hopes this speech shows

it is acting responsibly, not

wanting to drag the important issue

of security into fraught Brexit

negotiations.

Vicki is in Munich now.

This is a staging post on the road

to Brexit, was the much on the sort

of security relationship in the UK

wants with the rest of Europe?

It is

interesting that this is seen as a

trump card for the British

government. We have got a lot to

offer when it comes to defence and

security. But some say Theresa May

shouldn't have thrown it away saying

she will offer this unconditionally,

but there are others who think this

will show Britain behaving in a very

responsible way. It doesn't mean all

the detail is pinned down. Say if

Britain decides it wants to stay in

the European arrest warrant? The

European Court of Justice might have

justice over that and it wouldn't go

down well with all the

conservatives. But let's not pretend

a special deal or treaty on Security

translates into bespoke deal on

trade. That necessarily isn't going

to be the case.

Vicky Young, very

much.

President Trump has met survivors

of Wednesday's high school

shooting in Florida,

in which 17 people died.

He thanked the emergency

services and medical staff

who treated the wounded.

It comes as pressure mounts

on the FBI over the agency's failure

to act on a tip that suspect

Nikolas Cruz might

carry out an attack.

Barbara Plett-Usher reports.

The funerals have begun.

These students were saying goodbye

to a 14-year-old classmate.

They and their parents have

been calling for action

from President Trump,

so other teenagers

won't die this way.

He and the First Lady visited some

of the injured still in hospital.

Including a woman who had

been shot four times.

He congratulated

the medical staff...

Do our gun laws need to be

changed, Mr President?

..But ignored a question

about tougher gun control.

This is where the president

is in his element, meeting first

responders who rescued the wounded

and captured the killer.

He piled on the praise

for their speed and bravery.

His wife thanked them

for protecting the children.

They are the future

and let's take care of them

because they will go through a lot

with what they experienced two

days ago and we need

to take care of them.

The president is talking

about making schools safer and has

linked the violence to mental health

issues, rather than guns.

The young man who carried out

the attack, Nikolas Cruz,

was a troubled youth who loved guns

and found it easy to buy them.

It's emerged that the FBI ignored

a tip-off about him last month.

The caller warned he had

the potential to carry

out a school shooting.

So mistakes by law enforcement add

a new twist to grimly

familiar arguments.

Mass shootings in America revive

continuing debate about gun

violence and gun control.

But a school attack like this one

boils the issue down

to a stark question -

how can we keep our children safe?

The people he will judge

their president on how

The people here will judge

their president on how

he responds to that.

Barbara Plett-Usher,

BBC News, southern Florida.

A court in Pakistan has sentenced

a man to death for the murder

and rape of a six-year-old girl.

Zainub Ansari's body was found

on a rubbish dump in the city

of Kasur in January.

24-year-old Imran Ali confessed

to the killing and to attacks

on other young girls.

Her murder triggered riots

across the country over

alleged police incompetence

in the investigation

into Zainub's murder.

Members of Ukip will vote this

afternoon on whether Henry Bolton

should remain the party's leader.

Ukip's National Executive Committee

backed a vote of no confidence

in him last month, after it

emerged his former girlfriend had

sent a series of racist messages

about Prince Harry's fiance,

Meghan Markle.

He has refused to stand out but says

he will respect the outcome of

today's vote.

The President of Haiti has called

for an investigation

into the conduct of aid workers,

saying that the sexual misconduct

scandal involving some Oxfam workers

after the 2010 earthquake was just

the tip of the iceberg.

It comes as the head of Oxfam UK has

warned that attacks on the charity

are out of proportion.

Our correspondent Matt Cole is here.

This has been a week in which Oxfam

has been trying to get its message

across, trying even harder this

weekend?

In addition to Mark

Goldring, its chief executive giving

an interview, Oxfam has taken out a

full-page national newspaper advert

in the Guardian saying, we are so

sorry. It apologises for things that

happened in its name and tried to

explain in the advert what it has

tried to do differently since. But

some might wonder why Mark Goldring,

in that interview, tried to question

the motives of those attacking Oxfam

and the strength of their attacks by

saying, what did we do? We murdered

babies in their cots? The point he

was trying to raise is that some

people might be using this to attack

the principle of international

development aid. I think the

newspaper headlines and those

phrases have suggested his message

might have been overshadowed by his

choice of language. Elsewhere, the

president of Haiti calling for an

enquiry, questioning the behaviour

of medicines on frontier workers in

Haiti at the time as well. But it is

unjust Oxfam but will have to offer

reassurance about safeguarding

measures and clearly Oxfam will have

some work to do to reassure people

on that point still.

Thank you very

much.

It was dubbed 'Super Saturday'

at the Winter Olympics and it's

certainly proving that way.

In the last few minutes

Lizzy Yarnold has won Team GB's

first gold of The Games,

defending her title

in the skeleton and team mate

Laura Deas took bronze.

David Ornstein is in Pyeongchang.

It was at the London summer 2012

Olympics but Britain first created a

Super Saturday, but the Olympians in

the winter sports have done it here.

The celebrations behind us were wild

short time ago, three medals in a

Winter games has never been done

before by Great Britain. It was

started by Lizzie Atkin this morning

but it continued here at the sliding

venue with Lizzy Yarnold winning the

gold and Laura Deas, taking the

bronze. Lizzy Yarnold with a

spectacular performance to defend

her Olympic Kampl daily-macro title.

She becomes the first woman to do

that in winter sports and becomes

the most decorated Winter Olympian

of all time. It is an incredible

achievement and justifies

scalloped's record funding from UK

sport. With all the action of today,

here is Joel Lynch ski.

Weeks and months on snow and ice

can come down to just an instant.

At these games, a few seconds

can turn joy to despair.

This was Elise Christie's

second medal shot.

With a lap to go,

she had a route to the final.

She had to finish in the top

two, but this happened.

And it's between Zhou Yang

and Christie now...

And Christie has crashed again now!

This most brutal sport can have

the most painful ending.

And for Christie,

heartbreak also comes with jeopardy,

her favourite event

starts in three days' time.

She now has a race to recover.

Right now, I'm not bothered

about medals, I'm thinking

about Elise right now.

And hopefully, the injury's

not a significant one.

But as I say, as a precaution, she's

gone to hospital to get a scan.

But it looked

a pretty heavy fall to me.

For Christie, this has

been the cruelest week,

but her bad luck comes as

her team's fortunes are improving.

For Izzy Atkin,

this was a twist into history,

bronze in slopestyle is

a first British medal won on skis.

The American-born teenager

needed a flawless final run.

She had the tricks

and the nerve to see it through.

I was standing at the bottom

after my third and final run.

I know I had skied the best I could.

And I was just waiting, you know,

for that last was it three

or four goals to drop,

and my heart was racing.

But yeah, I can't believe it.

For Team GB, these games have been

ground-breaking and heartbreaking.

At the Olympics, four years hard

work can be defined in a moment.

As you saw, there was disappointment

for Elise Christie. She was taken to

hospital, underwent an x-ray but

there were no broken bones and she

will be assessed ahead of her

potential competing in the 1000

metres, her favourite event. But

today belongs to Britain and

especially Lizzy Yarnold.

David in

South Korea, the Winter Olympics

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