17/02/2018 BBC Weekend News

Good evening.

Team GB is celebrating

its most successful day

in Winter Olympic history.

Lizzy Yarnold won gold

in the women's skeleton -

becoming the first Briton ever

to defend a Winter Olympic title.

There was a bronze too in the event

for her team-mate Laura Deas,

and a bronze in the ski

slopestyle for Izzy Atkin.

But there was disappointment for

the medal favourite Elise Christie -

who crashed in the semi-final

of the 1500 metre speed skating -

and was taken to hospital.

David Ornstein reports

from Pyeongchang.

Guiding Great Britain to

unprecedented glory, Lizzy Yarnold

and Laura Deas turning dreams into

reality, rewriting the record books.

COMMENTATOR:

Lizzy Yarnold next, the Olympic

champion, can she make history and

win it again?

Yarnold went into her

final slide in second place but

conjured an imperious display and

the fastest time any woman has

produced on this track to enter

sporting folklore.

That is a gold

medal winning run, I'm sure of it.

So it's gold for Lizzy Yarnold.

She's defended her title and become

the most decorated British Winter

Olympian in history. She was joined

on the podium by team-mate Laura

Deas. The pair rounding off the most

successful day their nation has ever

seen at a Winter Games. As Yarnold

jumped into the crowd to join the

celebrations, how did she feel?

Exhausted!

Now a back-to-back

champion, the 29-year-old couldn't

hide her delight.

I'm just so

relieved that I've done the race,

been consistent and Laura and I are

on the podium together.

For her

parents, Judith and Clive, another

moment to savour.

From the mixed

season she's had to win the gold

medal here

medal here today and we have a

bronze medal as well through Laura,

is absolutely mind-boggling.

A

success story was started by the

youngest member of Team GB,

19-year-old Izzy Atkin saving her

best until last to take bronze in

the slopestyle and become Britain's

first official Olympic skiing

medallist. Great Britain's Izzy

Atkin takes a bronze.

I'm still kind

of speechless. I can't... I'm really

excited, really happy, I'm stoked

with how I skied and also stoked to

win the bronze.

The day was however

tinged with disappointment as Elise

Christie crashed out of the 1500

metres short track speed skating and

was later disqualified.

COMMENTATOR:

Christie has crashed again now in

the semifinal.

She went to hospital

as a precaution but was given the

all clear and may get race in the

1000 metres as she bids to avoid a

repeat of her nightmare in Sochi

four years ago. But that will do

little to dampen the British

euphoria as they delivered on snow

and ice Super Saturday to live long

in the memory. David Ornstein, BBC

News, in Pyeongchang.

Theresa May has said

cooperation on security

with the European Union after Brexit

calls for a new "deep

and special partnership".

In a speech in Germany,

the Prime Minister warned that

failing to work together would put

everyone at risk.

In response, the President

of the European Commission said he'd

welcome a close security alliance -

but that it must be negotiated

separately from other Brexit issues.

Our political correspondent

Vicki Young reports from Munich.

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 that the close

partnership can continue.

Failure to agree one would have

damaging consequences, she said.

We must do whatever is most

practical and pragmatic

in ensuring our collective security.

Those who threaten our security

would like nothing more

than to see us fractured.

Some listening to this

were left bewildered.

Te Brexit decision from the point

of view of us inside the EU

is extremely regretable.

Things would be so much

easier if you stayed,

so here comes the question.

APPLAUSE.

Mrs May pointed out that Brexit

was a democratic decision

politicians should respect.

One senior Brussels

figure seemed to agree.

The Commission President Jean-Claude

Juncker 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 couldn't mix it

up with other issues.

So it's a pretty familiar

message from Theresa May.

The UK is leaving the European Union

but that doesn't mean that close

cooperation needs to end and it's

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 today's speech

will show it's acting responsibly,

not wanting to drag the important

issue of security into fraught

Brexit negotiations.

Downing Street has left Germany

pretty encouraged by the warm words

from Angela Merkel, the German

leader, yesterday, and then the warm

reception to the speech today. They

feel that it shows the Prime

Minister really seizing the

initiative. Now of course there is

no guarantee the EU will accept what

she wants on security and some will

look further ahead into next week,

where may be an even bigger

challenge has Theresa May gets her

senior cabinet members around her

and they try to thrash out a deal to

agree what their future relationship

with the EU will look like.

Vicki Young, thank you.

In the last hour, Ukip have voted

to remove their leader Henry Bolton.

63% of party members supported

the motion of no confidence,

following the controversy over

racist messages sent

by his then partner.

Our political correspondent

Alex Forsyth is in Birmingham.

Where does this leave Ukip?

Well, in

the short term there is an interim

leader, the MEP Gerard Batten but

beyond that another leadership

contest. This will be the party's

fourth in just over 18 months, since

Nigel Farage stepped down. There are

some here who fear Ukip simply won't

survive another divisive contest.

There are others though, in fact the

majority, who thought it was the

right decision for Henry Bolton to

because they said his personal life

had become too much of a distraction

from the job. So he has now stepped

aside. Either way you look at this

Ukip was a party that was riding

high after the Brexit referendum,

but since then it has struggled with

internal infighting, to find

direction, search for leadership and

there's a danger now that while

today has passed with no high drama

there is broad acceptance of this

result, in the long term this will

only deepen, not heal, the party's

divisions.

Alex, thank you.

President Trump has met survivors

of Wednesday's high school

shooting in Florida,

in which 17 people died.

It comes as pressure mounts

on the FBI over the agency's failure

to act on a tip-off that

Nikolas Cruz, the suspected gunman,

might carry out an attack.

Aleem Maqbool reports.

Some survivors of the school attack

are still being treated in hospital.

As he promised, the president

visited here, albeit very briefly.

REPORTER:

Did you see some

victims, Mr President?

Yes, I did, I did indeed

and it was very sad,

something like that could happen,

but the jobs the doctors do,

the nurses, the hospital,

first responders, law

enforcement, really incredible.

Donald Trump also met officials

from the emergency services.

What he didn't do though was answer

any questions about the need

to tighten gun laws.

More funerals are being held

for the 17 people who died.

Most of them teenagers shot

in their classrooms.

This gun show was advertised

close to the very school

where the shooting took place.

We weren't allowed in but spoke

to people as they left.

Is it worth sacrificing guns if it

means there will not be any mass

shootings or school shootings?

I don't think it would

make a difference,

that's my honest opinion.

If it was proven to me,

sure, but unfortunately

that's not the case.

Life is delicate, you could kill

somebody with a pencil.

Barking up the wrong tree.

And with more than 300 million

firearms in circulation in this

country, how do you change a gun

culture that's become such

an integral part of American life?

Aleem Maqbool, BBC News, in Florida.

A mini-earthquake has shaken Wales

and parts of west England.

You can see the large red lines here

from The British Geological Survey.

They show the tremor,

which was a magnitude of 4.4.

The epicentre was around 12

miles outside Swansea.

Tremors of this scale are only felt

in the UK every two to three years.

There's more throughout the evening

on the BBC News Channel.

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