03/04/2017 Newsnight

Tonight, an exclusive interview with John Brennan,

the head of the CIA, until Donald Trump

What does he think of the presidential Twitter strategy?

I think that there are some things that have been tweeted coming out of

Washington, where the care was not taken and that was, it was not, the

individual who tweeted it was not mindful of the importance that

people attach to the words of a president.

He warns about the dangers of America going it alone

against North Korea and tells us there should be a competency

-- and decries Trump's plans for a travel ban.

The St Petersburg blast, which has killed as many as ten people

The Russian Prime minister is nvestigating a suicide bombing.

We'll ask who is the prime suspect in a country with no

We remember the civil rights ( activist Darcus Howe.

I believe that we are faced with a serious potential, that is the

overwhelming intervention of blacks on the current stage of history in

Britain. And the war on airborne

Deisel particulates. The Mayor of London is expected

to announce tomorrow morning a toxin tax on the fuel,

forcing drivers to pay In the studio, a former Top Gear

presenter says it's all nonsense. Friends of the Earth

says it's about time. He was Barack Obama's head

of the CIA - in the situation room -- he departed office the day Donald

Trump became president. John Brennan will deliver

the Dimbleby Lecture on BBC One tomorrow night,

but tonight, he talks to Newsnight about the threat from North Korea,

and whether Donald Trump's promise of US unilateral action is wise

if China will not help. He is scathing about the president's

proposed ban on travellers from certain Muslim countries,

and he told us the Trump White House notion of a deep state -

including the intelligence agencies I began by asking him

if President Trump was right to say that if China won't solve the issue

of North Korea, America will do. North Korea does pose a very serious

challenge for The Asian region and for the world because of its

continued march on a nuclear weapons programme. China holds a lot of sway

with North Korea. I think it's critically important for the United

States to continue and to deepen the discussion with China about how best

to manage this North Korean challenge. But the North Korean

issue is a complicated and complex one. It doesn't lend itself to

simple solutions. There's no the a simple military solution to it,

given that North Korea has a tremendous amount of fire power,

artillery that could rain down on Seoul, if there was going to be

military action. So I am just hoping that Mr Trump and his advisors have

spent the last couple months really learning and understanding what the

challenge is, what the implications are of certain policy courses. This

is something that requires a very thoughtful and measure add preach.

President Trump says that using the term "radical Islamic terrorism"

will help win the US win the War on Terror, do you agree? No, I don't. A

lot of people say that. When you refer to the terrorists as following

radical Islam, it legitimises the terrorists, in terms that they're

actually carrying out a legitimate tenant of the Islamic faith and

they're not. Do you think that Donald Trump's proposed ban on

several Muslim majority countries would make America safer? I think

it's very important that there be measures taken to protect countries

from individuals who may be trying to enter the borders for terrorist

purposes. This proposed executive order really, I think, was too

simplistic and misguided. Do you think it would be counterproductive?

I do. Because first of all, a lot of citizens from those countries, who

have very legitimate reason to travel to the United States, family,

personal, professional, educational. I think they will really see this as

reflecting a different approach and a different tone from the United

States, which has prided itself over our 241 years welcoming people from

all walks of life in all countries and to me, I think they're going to

see it as profiling specifically nationalities. US intelligence is

suggesting that WikiLeaks are helping the Russiansment do you

think Julian Assange is unwittingly being used by the Russians? He may

be unwittingly being used by the Russians but I think he's wittingly

advancing Russian interests and making sure that their objectives

and goals and agendas are being pursued. Maybe he is naive enough or

uninformed enough that he is being duped by the Russians. I think he is

well aware that he is a pawn in their hands. Why do you think Donald

Trump's so well disposed to Vladimir Putin? You'd have to ask him. Have

you actually seen evidence that the Russians have been compromising

material, for example, what the Russians call compromat on Trump for

example. There are active investigations about Russian

involvement in the last presidential election. There are two

investigations in the Congress as well as FBI investigations. I am

going to leave to them to make determinations about what the

Russians did or what they might have. Actually when Trump says only

the fake news media think his team were included with Russia. Clearly

you're not ruling this out either. These are ongoing investigations.

Just like the chairman of the Senate intelligence committee, involved in

the investigation, said it would be premature at this time to make any

determination or rule anything out. The British Home Secretary said that

the Government should be given access to what's April, another end

to -- what's app, an encryption service. Do you think she's right?

There needs to be a way for the Government to work with these

companies, such as what's app, so the Government can carry out its

responsibilities to protect society and to carry out the rule of law.

When there are these very sophisticated technologies it really

impedes the Government's ability to protect its citizens. The lecture

you're giving tomorrow you're saying clearly that you're concerned about

the pretense of some poll -- competence of some politicians to

enter positions of authorities that don't have the skills for carrying

out their solemn governmental responsibility with competence,

integrity and efficacy. Who are you thinking of? I can think of a lot of

government leaders around the world who arrive in those positions

without the needed experience, the needed knowledge to carry out these

responsibilities in a very complicated world. You talk about a

variety of people you might, the kinds of people that you might be

talking about. You said if this person came from, even in an

unrelated celebrity inducing field. I mean you're being coy. You're

talking about Donald Trump, aren't you? I am expressing my views and

concerns about how important these government positions and leadership

positions are and how we as societies need to have confidence

that the individuals who have such power and authority are up to the

task. Was Donald Trump right to tweet his accusation that President

Obama wiretapped him before the election, was he right to say that?

I guess a president can say whatever he wants, particularly one that

tweets. I think that there is a solemn obligation on the part of an

individual, such as the president, to tweet or to message information

that is accurate, that is - that is measured and that is not just a

spontaneous or impulsive number of words that they're trying to say. I

think that there are some things that have been tweeted, coming out

of Washington, where the care was not taken and the individual who

tweet today was not mindful of the importance that people attach to the

words of a president. Donald Trump would say that the real story that's

going on, what's going on just now, is leaks for the intelligence

community not the team's alleged links with Russia, is he right? He

is certainly right that these leaks are appalling. They need to stop.

Any unauthorised disclosure of classified information is something

that needs to be addressed. One of Donald Trump's first outings when he

became president was to make a speech in front of the CIA memorial.

He talked about his disputed inauguration attendance figures

rather than actually paying tribute to the CIA agents who had fallen in

the course of duty. What went through your mind when you saw that?

That wall of honour is hallowed ground for the agency. I know many

of the individuals who are represented on that wall with those

stars. So, when I saw Mr Trump up there, talking about politics, it

really struck a nerve and it was not just my nerve that was struck. Many

of my colleagues, former and current employees of the CIA, felt that was

something that should not have taken place. I felt I had to give voice to

the concerns of agency officers, which I did. Because you criticised

Donald Trump for comparing Intel agencies to Nazi Germany. I wonder

how that was received by the intelligence agency, not what you

said, what he said. The intelligence professionals at CIA and other parts

of the community take great pride in their work. They don't do it for

public ack La mags or ticker tape parades -- acclamation. They do it

silently and most times their great work is never known. When there is

criticism and baseless criticism and imPuning the integrity, the mission

of intelligence officers, yeah, intelligence officers take up bridge

at that. -- umbridge. The White House all but accused GCHQ of

helping President Obama wiretap Donald Trump. I mean, was that

justified? Did it damage the five eyes alliance? Again, there are a

lot of things that have been said and tweeted and whatever that I just

- I am mystified over. As to why they were done. If at the end of

these investigations, into the leaks, it is found that there has

been leaks by CIA officers themselves, they will undermine

their own organisation. They will undermine the organisation that

you've served for all these years, if that's found to be the case.

Anybody who releases classified information, whether it be to a

foreign intelligence service or to the media, to me, is carrying out a

treasonous act against their country. They should be held to

account. There have been instances where CIA officers in the past, just

like British intelligence officers of the past, have gone bad. The deep

state. Well, no. These are individuals who have violated their

Oath of Office. You don't believe in the deep state? I do not, absolutely

not. That's ridiculous that there's a deep state trying to undermine

either the credibility of the presidency or is trying to pursue

other policies. That's what Donald Trump and Steve Bannon thinks.

Anybody who thinks there is a deep state and the CIA is part of it in

the US government is delusional. Thank you very much indeed. Thank

you very much. The former Director of the CIA

talking to me this afternoon. We'll put up the whole of that

interview with John Brennan on Newsnight's YouTube

channel later on. And you can see his Richard Dimbleby

Lecture on BBC One tomorrow night. At 2.30pm in Russia's second city,

a suspected bomb detonated on a metro train, killing at least

ten people and injuring many more. St Petersburg is Vladimir Putin's

home town, and tonight he laid Russia is used to terror attacks by

Chechen separatists. But the country's involvement in Syria has

also brought threats from IS propaganda groups.

Here's John Sweeney with what we know, and a warning

that his film does contain some upsetting images.

The fog of terror in St Petersburg metro today.

The bomb packed with shrapnel was powerful enough

This is the moment passengers struggled to escape

Long before the authorities arrived, passengers did their best

11 dead, 50 injured and little clarity on the big questions.

A bomb on the tube train travelling between Sennaya Ploshchad

and Tekhnologichesky Institut stations, exploded.

Another device was defused at a nearby station.

Relatives were desperate to hear news from the missing.

TRANSLATION: She was supposed to have left school by three

I talked to a couple of witnesses who were more or less OK,

They said that people were trying to help each other,

to get out of this hell as fast as possible.

Terror attacks against ordinary people on tubes, trains and planes

Feeding conspiracy theories but the Kremlin itself might be

Feeding conspiracy theories that the Kremlin itself might be

But the most likely culprits are attackers

My immediate suspicion is to look towards Islamist networks

these sort of attacks in Russia, against public transport in this

sort of co-ordinated fashion, it would seem insting stingtively

you would see the attack being linked in that direction.

Vladimir Putin is fighting wars in Syria and Ukraine.

Blood is being spilt in Russia's always troubled

And one pro Kremlin voice even pointed the finger

at anti-corruption protestors, but tonight law enforcement sources

said that a suicide bomber was responsible, who could have

links to radical Islamist groups banned in Republican.

This is how the master of the Kremlin responded.

TRANSLATION: Law enforcement bodies and special services are working,

and will do all they can in order to find out the cause

But Putin has built his reputation on being the guarantor

an attack while he was in the city, an attack on public transport,

in a sort of multiple potential devices in this co-ordinated way

suggests a dramatic security failure which ultimately will be seen

Tonight, while what drove the killer to commit 24

atrocity remains unclear, ordinary people are yet again

Oksana Antonenko is a Russia expert at the London School of Economics.

Good evening. From what you know and what we are saying here, there are a

number of different possibilities. The Russian Government says it is

investigating a suicide bombing. What do you think might have

happened? First of all let me start by expressing my deepest condolences

to everybody affected. It was a well planned and orchestrated attack,

which was aimed at inflicting the largest possible damage for the

civilians, in fact this metro station is very close to number of

Russian universities, and the time of the bomb coincided with the time

and the lectures finished at the university and the students were

going home. So it was very well planned and executed and the fact

that the second bomb was found at another station, reportedly

concealed as a fire extinguisher shows it wasn't just a lone suicide

bomber, it was a very well orchestrated and well researched and

co-ordinated attack, therefore, it is clearly, work of an organisation

at least several people than it is just a lone extremist. There are of

course several theories, most point to links with IS. It could be some

Russian nationals or even nationals from central Asia who were fighting

in Syria, on the side of IS. The estimates indicate round 10,000 or

more Russians were fighting in Syria, and probably round 4-6,000

central Asians who were many radicalised during their time in

Russia, as migrants, working in Russia. The second potential herery

and that someone is seriously investigated at the moment, that it

is linked to the indigenous IS linked groups within Russia, in

fact, terrorism in Russia has been continuing, now, for a while. Last

year, alone, in the knot Caucasus 200 Russian law enforcement

personnel and civilians were killed in the IS linked attacks and just a

few days ago, on 24th March, there was a very large attack outside of,

at the National Guard, again organised by the IS linked local

group, so leer clearly we have a large network of IS affiliated

groups. But it would be fair to say recently in the Caucasus

particularly these have been bombs in less populated area, areas that

do not attract so much media attention, this presumably on the

day that Vladimir Putin was there to meet the President of Belarus, this

was timed to make the maximum impact abroad? Well, not only abroad. It is

to make the maximum impact on Russia itself. Russia of course is entering

the Presidential election campaign, it is a time when the politics I

again, coming to the forefront, I think we are seen the protests

recently, and it is really something which is aimed in my view, mostly at

the domestic audience. I think one perhaps big question of whether it

is really an IS affiliated attack is no-one has claimed the

responsibility for this attack. Usually IS, in, declares that

responsibility. Tell me though, Vladimir Putin, you know, it will be

laid at his door, the commentators said in the film, because he see

himself as a strong man, the idea is he going to going to keep Russia

safe, how destabilising will this be? During those kind of attacks the

nation usually rallies round the flag. I don't think it will be, if

it is just one attack, it is not going to be something which is going

to undermine I think Putin's very high popularity rating. If on the

other hand we are present at the beginning of another campaign and we

remember in the mid 2000s there were bombs going on in the transport

system. In Russia almost on a weekly basis and clearly they are still

going, as I mentioned in the north Caucasus and can be in other parts

of Russia, then, of course, we will see much more I think tensions

building up before the election campaign, but I think one terrorist

attack is not going to be in my view very damaging to Putin but other --

rather will strengthen his popularity. Thank you for joining

Time was when Co2 emissions were the main target for Government

action on the environment, but if the expected announcement

tomorrow by the Mayor of London is anything to go by,

the focus has swung hard to nitrogen oxides - or noxes -

Siddiq Khan looks like he's going to announce that he is fast

forwarding a toxin tax on diesel cars in the city, and other towns

and cities in England are expected to follow suit.

Naysayers insist that diesel cars only make up 10%

Campaigners retort that the other polluters aren't at ground level

Air pollution, a problem that refuses to fade.

Its stench has lingered far too long in the UK.

The Government attributes 40,000 premature deaths a year to it.

And it wants to be seen to be doing something about it.

The government will publish its plans in a couple of week, according

to the Sunday Times I will clamp-down on diesel vehicle, a

toxin tax could be charged, in the ten worst affected, diesel cars as

well as commercial vehicles could be banned during peak hours.

We have had a government that has simply rested on giving advice to

people to stay at home when air pollution is high, that is nowhere

near good enough, we need much more proactive action when it comes to

tax tackling air pollution at source. Air pollution, let us

remember is not only responsible for many thousands of premature deaths

but also costing the economy anywhere up to ?20 billion in terms

of ill health and so forth. So we do need action like low-emission zones,

we need the Government to step up, just as many Governments are already

doing across the rest of the world. Tell me what this is? A poster about

air pollution. Yeah? And to stop the dust getting in the air, so

healthier life for all of us. I like that. The Mayor of London recently

introduced a new ?10 toxicity charge, dubbed the T charge. It is

reported that tomorrow, he will announce a charge of 12.50 for every

polluting vehicle entering any part of Greater London. Not just the

centre of the the city. London is one of the worst affected areas in

the UK by air pollution. Here on Oxford Street, the limits for

nitrous dioxide were breached 16 times last year, that is 150 more

than is allowed. Now transport accounts for 80% of

the UK's total nitrous oxide emissions by the roadside. Diesel

engines emitt on average more than petrol and that is why the

Government is so keen to reduce their use, especially in spins.

Testify Nearly one in two new cars bought last year were diesel. They

are seen as more economical and when it comes to carbon dioxide emissions

less harmful. However in recent years studies have focus on nigh

rows oxide as more harmful. It is confusing. Volkswagen was found

guilty of falsifying emissions data on its diesel vehicles, pretending

they were cleaner than they were. That was for its laboratory tests,

however, now there is doubts being cast over the value of tests done by

all auto makers in a controlled environment. A UK Government study

compared laboratory test results with the actual performance of

vehicles on the road. The dotted line shows the emissions target,

which the vehicles met under laboratory test conditions. The bars

show that all models emitted more nitrous oxides on the road. On

average the readings were six times worse.

So how can drivers be deterred from diesel? A tax is another way of

trying to tackle emissions from diesel car, they can be applied

nationally, with more flexibility and they can also be a revenue

generator to invest in low-emission transport, including public

transport, low-emissions buses and active transport such as walking and

cycling. Road vehicles are not responsible for the majority of

diesel emission, some are report suggest they contribute to just 10%.

15 of the biggest cargo ships currently pollute more nitrogen and

sull for ox IEDses than all the world's cars put together. Aircraft

emissions are still rising. Regulations are being tightened for

them but travellers on the road are likely to feel the pinch first.

The motor journalist and former Top Gear presenter

Alongside, Oliver Hayes, the lead air pollution campaigner

The diesel is a killers it has to be stopped. Nobody is talking about

what the real pollutants are. Defra said that PM 10, 2.5, the ultra fine

particles, 73% of that pollution comes from what is known as

commercial public and residential combustion, that is burning wood. So

you have got this 10% of cars, that are producing this tiny sliver of

pollution, and nobody is doing anything about these pollutants that

are add pedestrian level. So it is an easy target, where you are

hitting peep who are trying to do their best because they were told

that new diesel cars were environmentally-friendly. When we

talk about air pollution, what we are talking about is children

growing up with smaller lungs. We are talking about people having

worsen asthma symptoms and changes in the brain associated with

Alzheimer's. Would you rather not go after the cargo ship, the aircraft,

than going after 10% which is cars. I think as your introduction made

clear, what is crucial is where the pollution takes place, now, most of

us, don't live near a big chimney or next to a big cargo ship but most of

us do live near a road and that is why road transport is the biggest

problem, diesel vehicles are the worse of all. The Government is

clear on that. It is true if you take to Oxford Street, the amount of

breaches in one year is phenomenal. 260 buses an hour on Oxford Street.

That is your problem. With respect, nobody is talking about ship,s, that

is 80% of background pollution. Nobody is talking about rail. Ground

machinery, digger, road roller, 14% of background pollution, nobody is

talking about this. Instead as always we demonise the diesel drive.

It was that 1998 budget that Gordon Brown brought in that did the 3

pence cut in diesel, and Greenpeace were advising and Friends of the

Earth was advising Gordon Brown for that. So, this is the unintended

consequence. That is not true. We were saying clearly in 1999 and 2000

we were not advising diesel cars because of the clear health

pollutant. How do you help people? These are people who perhaps have a

small family car, they have bought it thinking it is

environmentally-friendly. They have to drive to get to work, a lot of

these marginal seats around cities and commuter, the Conservatives will

have a problem with that, you will hit these people who are having to

travel to work? I agree that drivers are rightly angry, Most people

driving diesel cars bought them because they were told they were the

greener choice, they did so in good faith. Give them ten years, to sell

their car and move on to another car, but, the word is they are going

to be hit in the next 12 months. We need to get action on diesel cars at

the earliest opportunity. Every day of inaction is another day of lives

lost. Isn't it the case if you gave people help to get through this it

would be better for everybody, more electric car, fewer diesel cars it

would be better. I have been campaigning for electric cars for

year, I saw the Secretary of State, telling him to get his accuse

together. But the cost to consumers who were told to buy diesel. If you

say every dicele calf will have its value reduced by 5,00 pounds because

move this hysteria, that is 75 billion we will be costing

consumers. Tell me how, we know that, now we are talking with the

Greater London area, but you have the congestion charge, that is

monitored you can tell cars coming in, but when it comes to Newcastle

or Leicester, how are you actual going to monitor this? That is why

our position is clear, we need the so-called clean air zones to be

properly funded and to be mandatory, we need Local Authorities to be

supported to introduce the... By central Government Absolutely. It is

not fair to same police say you must introduce the clean air zone but

provide no support to do it. I would like to go back to the point about

the cost to drivers, because you know, people driving dicele cars are

just about as much at risk of air pollution as people on the street.

We know if you are stuck in traffic and your car is bridging in air from

the exhaust in front of you, you are getting poisoned by this stuff. So

we need to support action for everybody. It may be you are asking

people to pay the congestion charge in London to pay an extra 15.50 to

bring their car in London. That will hit trade in London as wellen is it.

We are clear three things need to happen. We knee to restrict want

December doole cars can go. We need to get existence between exhaust

pipes and children's lungs. Would you like to see every dicele bus

taken off the streets? We are seeing good progress. Once swept have Petit

Cambodge a, we have enough surveillance cameras so it will be

easy to monitor number plates and charge people. And we will miss the

worst polluters we don't measure ultra fine particles. It is not in

the MoT. Or the vehicle exist duty, so we will be missing the pollution

that is out there. Would you agree that diesel cars

that aren't the most environmentally friendly, 10, 15, 20 years old,

scrap them? We should be testing for more particulate pollution. We don't

do that. So change the MOT. That's not always being enforced as it

should be. We know filters that take out particulates are being removed.

That process is legal. Particulates are never being measured. They are.

The point is about particulates is that we have seen huge action

bringing the particulate emissions from diesels down, we haven't seen

action on nox. The car makers have been lying to us. Under the

Government's watch and EU's watch. Those regimes were supervised by the

Government and EU. We are in a public health crisis. We know that

nox is not under control. We know that the UK Government is breaking

the law. It's a simple point. The UK is obliged to meet legal limits on

nitrogen dioxide and it isn't. Thank you very much very much indeed.

If you're black and grew up in Britain in the '70s or '80s,

perhaps the first person of a similar background

you would have seen on a programme like this was Darcus Howe.

An anti-racism campaigner, a member of the British

Black Panther movement, writer, agitator, public

intellectual and a broadcaster and documentary maker,

Howe's death was announced at the weekend.

He had been living with prostate cancer for more six years.

He edited Race Today for 11 years, working alongside Farruk Dhondy

and Linton Kweisi Johnson, and is credited with

a transformative role in immigrants' rights.

In a life that spanned 74 years and began in Trinidad,

Darcus Howe saw Britain transformed, and often he was the heart

I'm sitting opposite a man, he knows nothing,

The result is he is a trenchant buffoon.

He has no idea how to present television shows, he looks

ridiculous in that fashionwear, he swans around all the time hoping

that people will recognise him, when in fact nobody's

He's taking up enough time on this show already,

Sorry, that's the introduction to Robert Elms.

I've just read out the introduction to Robert Elms.

Heroic and uncharacteristic restraint from Darcus Howe.

A formidable civil rights campaigner and broadcaster.

Back in the '70s, Howe was more than a match for the Met,

when he and others were charged over disturbances in west

London, following police raids on a restaurant.

Officers told the Old Bailey they'd seen Howe orchestrating a crowd

The lawyer said Darcus, please, exhibits are...

So they bring the van and there were these slits at the back.

The four policemen seeing the same thing, seeing the same

So I measured it quietly while the judge and they

were round the side, and went home, cut out

a piece of paper, foolscap, the size of the slit.

Recalled the witness and said "Tell me, how four of you could see

the same thing at the same time, through that slit?"

He say "My eye was here, Rhys's eye was here.

Roger's eye was here, and the next eye was here."

And that is what eventually broke the spirit of the prosecution.

Darcus absolutely, by defending himself, was the star of the show,

out of the nine defendants, and with Shakespeare quotations

He stood up in the dock and was very impressive.

Darcus was a fearless warrior, in the struggle against racial

People talking about the civil rights movement.

There was no civil rights movement in this country, there were -

anti-racist struggles were being raged and Darcus

No-one got a free pass from Darcus Howe, who went

on to be a high profile and punchy broadcaster.

Being an A-lister was no guarantee of an easy ride

The other story I want to tell you is about a family of nine

children, who had talent, but made it to the top

because of terror and violence, from parents driven by ambition.

But he met his match in comedienne Joan Rivers, on Radio 4.

Black does not offend, me, how dare you!

Can we just say that you don't think Joan is a racist

I don't know whether she's a racist or not, I don't care.

That is the stupidest thing I ever heard.

Normally I don't, wouldn't ever meet you in my life.

Howe was in demand as a commentator on issues of race and identity.

Whether discussing symbols of Britishness...

I like living here but I'm not a patriot.

You could like the country, I love the countryside,

I get along beautifully with the English people,

we are part of a space, but I am not patriot.

Did you ever sense this was going to happen?

I have a grandson, who's 15, and who cannot count

the number of times he was stopped and searched.

I think Darcus, in a way more than anybody else,

He still had the trust and confidence of the black

community, but to some extent, at least, he had the trust and

Utterly unbiddable, his own man, Darcus Howe wouldn't let

anyone off the hook, no matter how celebrated.

Just as we were coming to grips with our new hero.

Tomorrow morning's front pages. We gun with the Sun which reprises an

old headline, this time, it's up yours senor. There is the picture of

Gibraltar. The guardian seeks to ease tensions over Gibraltar. The

Mail, 3 million of car debts they can't repay.

And finally a story in the telegraph, the story that the

National Trust has air brushed Easter. Church of England condemns

rebrand egg hunt. The National Trust has dropped the word Easter from the

annual Easter egg hunt. That's just about it tonight. We leave you with

our new Brexit correspondent, Bob Danvers Walker. Who filed this

report on Gibraltar's preparation on life post EU. Along the entire

length of Gibraltar bay, it is a grand panorama of ships of war. Safe

from tore r torpedo attack, proudly ride the floating Arsenals of the

British navy. Always in the foreground is the

navy. The people of Gibraltar like to feel there's a manowar about the

house. So Gibraltar stands, watchdog of empire.

Hello there, good evening, and it's a bit of a grey start

to the day across much of eastern England, with soem outbreaks of rain

for East Anglia and the south-east, and some of that rain will linger

Meanwhile, for the afternoon, in Northern Ireland,

Bright and breezy, 11 or 12 degrees, more like ten or 11

It will always be quite windy the further north

you go, particularly up towards Orkney and Shetland.

There will be some showers rattling through on that wind.

There will be some showers too in the north-west of Scotland.