it is reported he has struck a deal to meet with robert muller and his team instead. they are investigating russia's alleged goodling in the 2016 presidential election and secured a subpoena to compel bannan to testify. we reported yesterday the special counsel robert muller's team had issued the sabina to get steve bannon to give evidence to investigators while today it has emerged there are reports he has agreed now to a sit down interview with those investigators. a much more with those investigators. a much m ore cosy with those investigators. a much more cosy affair in which his lawyer can be present. it is not public as a grandjury hearing can be present. it is not public as a grand jury hearing would have been. advantage is therefore steve bannon. his evidence seen as crucial not only to the robert muller investigation, but to the three congressional inquiries currently under way into alleged links between the trump campaign and russia. steve bannon a man with insight into the transition period of the trump administration and the early days of this white house,

arguably the most important, the work of this man, robert muller. he is leading an investigation into those alleged ties between the trump campaign and russia. we have an update on that, in the last few minutes this copy has come into the newsroom , minutes this copy has come into the newsroom, telling us that mr trump's campaign manager paul manafort has sued robert muller, saying it exceeded his legal authority. tell us exceeded his legal authority. tell us more, that sounds significant. as you remember, paul manafort has been indicted for money laundering and corruption charges dating back to when he was before donald trump was my campaign manager to his lobbying activities on the part of ukrainian government officials. here he is now attempting to challenge that indictment, saying robert muller had overstepped his bounds. saying he should surely be focusing on this russia collusion investigation. it echoes a lot of what the white house is saying, that independent investigation is running wild. here we have a legal challenge authority. i don't th

what i think robert muller will want to know, was there a clear causal relationship? was james komi know, was there a clear causal relationship? wasjames komi fired because of russia and if that was the case, was there and obstruction ofjustice. if there is an obstruction ofjustice ofjustice. if there is an obstruction of justice and ofjustice. if there is an obstruction ofjustice and an attempt to obstruct justice, well then that is one of the crimes are misdemeanours that could lead to impeachment. but that is clearly the direction in which robert muller is travelling and having interviewed a lot of relatively junior travelling and having interviewed a lot of relativelyjunior people, it is now getting a lot closer to donald trump. 0k, jon sopel, thank you very much forjoining us. a quick look at other news around the world. on the fourth day of its afrin offensive, turkish troops been targeting kurdish positions in northern syria with air and artillery fire. turkish media reports ground troops pushing several kilometres into the enclave. kurdish leaders in afrin hav

muller. out too the chief of staff, having failed to stop leaks from the oval office, in came generaljohn kelly. fbi directorjames comey was fired for his role in the russia investigation, replaced by christopher wray, and sean spicer, the press secretary resigned the day after. the mooch lasted six day, spicer was replaced by sara huckerby sander, then there is steve bannon, the chief strategist, the self proclaimed architect of trump's election victory, buried like no other. this week he was subpoenaed by the special counsel following his explosive comments to michael wolf, author of fire and future. so quite author of fire and future. so quite a year. the president has persisted with the mandate but approval ratings remain low, he has lost special elections in virginia and alabama. perhaps the ultimate test will come later this year with the midterms. british tourists travelling to jamaica are being advised to stay in their resorts after a state of emergency was declared around montego bay

in the middle of of an investigation headed by robert muller. it matters domestically for the reasons i have set out. it matters initially as well, because the president is commander—in—chief, and it raises questions not least in american minds about his suitability to take big decisions, in relation to north korea, to iran and the wider middle east. many thanks. the environment secretary has set out how farming subsidies will be dealt with after brexit, saying farmers will receive payments to protect the countryside. farmers are also guaranteed the current eu level of subsidies until 2022. michael gove said measures such as planting wildflower meadows, and improving water quality would be included — current payments are based on how much land farmers own. duncan kennedy reports. britain has more than 200,000 farm holdings, but the imminence of brexit has put farmers and food policy into a state of uncertainty. a healthy rural economy... that's why issues of animal welfare, food standards and trade deals dominated today's farmers' conferen

if donald trump is called for an interview by special prosecutor robert muller, how would that actually work? and piercing, under oath? all of those questions are releva nt to oath? all of those questions are relevant to reports that discussions between the camps have just begun. donald trump has repeatedly said mr trump has repeatedly said that there was no collusion between russia and his campaign. he also says he understands he is not personally under investigation. but the fbi probe is wide ranging, many people in the president‘s inner circle have been interviewed and there is certainly much that mr mueller would like to ask mr trump. with us now is former federal prosector barak cohen. thank you for coming to the studio. how does this work when a special prosecutor decides that they want to talk to the president? situations like this, rare. we understand that. but how it has worked in the past, what likely is going to happen, the special counsel will be negotiating with lawyers. presumably, the president wants to keep his lawyer with him? absolutely. preferring to do this in writ

campaign and russia. —— robert muller. we have been told a deal has been done and the grand jury appearance isn't certain to happen. katty kay in washington has been helping me understand. the subpoena for mr bannon to appear before a grand jury hasn't been totally rescinded, it is hanging out there like a shadow over his shoulder. he has agreed to have a more informal chat and composition with robert mueller‘s team, along the lines of what other people in donald trump's inner circle have done. it is a much more friendly environment for steve bannon. it comes on the heels of that committee meeting that he went to yesterday in the house of representatives in which he refused to answer some of the questions. i think if he plays the questions. i think if he plays the same card with robert mueller the same card with robert mueller the special prosecutor the special counsel would be particularly impressed. evidently mr bannon is talking to the investigators he was less talkative in front of a congressional committee yesterday

it is a sit down with either robert muller himself or a member to visiting to talk about the issues. he can take breaks. it is different to the grand jury that it looked like steve bannon was going to be subjected to, until he made his own deal with the mueller team. there's been a series of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions in the past 2a hours. mount kusatsu—shirane has erupted in japan. mount mayon in the philippines began erupting a few days ago. and then there have been earthquakes off the coast of java in indonesia, and off the coast of alaska. let's look at images from these events. i these from japan, where the eruption caused an avalanche. a soldier was killed. 14 others were injured. these are timelapse images of mount mayon in the philippines. these pictures are from indonesia. these workers and residents injakarta fleeing from high rise buildings that swayed after a 5.3 earthquake. and this is a trafficjam in alaska after people followed police orders to evacuate. that earthquake measured 7.9 and triggered a tsunami warning. that warning is no longer in place, by the w

robert lewandowski and muller spearheaded the comeback and shared the goals. this was muller's second, putting the game beyond doubt. the win takes bayern 16 points clear of bayer leverkusen. a late header snatched a point for inter against roma. a former milan forward put roma ahead. the equaliser came four minutes from time, but inter‘s winless run goes on. they have not won serie —— are serie a game since december. earlier on sunday, dries mertens ended a long goal drought to give napoli a 1—0 victory at atalanta, that saw the serie a leaders move four points clear. lazio scored five goals for the second league game in a row, as they hammered chievo 5—1. milan move up to seventh, after a 2—1win at cagliari. second—placed juventus clash with genoa on monday. harry kane struck his 99th premier league goal to save tottenham with a 1—1 draw against southampton. kane is nowjust a goal away from becoming the 27th member of the 100 club. the result moves spurs to within two points of fourth—placed liverpool, who have a game in hand. mauricio poch

muller's investigation into possible ties between the trump campaign and the russian government. as you mentioned, he said it was plausibly treasonous, the meeting between donald trump jr and paul manafort. he said he is following the money through donald trump junior and. .. donald trump called that a witchhunt. now here is steve banahan saying, there could be real problems for the white house. —— steve bannon. that is one reason. another reason is that he was going after trump's family directly. he said ivanka trump was dumber than a brick. does slights. donald trump ta kes brick. does slights. donald trump takes everything said about him very seriously and pushes back as hard as he can. by reacting so furiously to this book, in a sense donald trump is probably going to promote it, may ita is probably going to promote it, may it a best seller. that is if he does not succeed in stopping its publication? i don't think he will succeed in stopping its publication. the letter sent out was a threat of legal action. it wasn't actual legal action. to satisfy the libel law bar in th

muller. a spokesman said this meeting took place sometime last week. the nominations for this year's academy awards have been announced in los angeles. the british stars gary 0ldman, daniel day—lewis and daniel kaluuya are all up for the best actor 0scar but the shape of water leads the way with 13 nominations. 0ur entertainment correspondent lizo mzimba is here. the shape of water, and this bag of nominations is impressive. it is a cold war love story, a science—fiction fantasy were you to cleaning woman falls in love with the mysterious water creature. the cleaning woman is played by sally hawkins. it is very stylistically done, very different but has ca ptu red done, very different but has captured the heart of oscar voters and leading the way in the nominations. use a surprisingly, but when you look at the range of 13, does it encompass an signal to us this is clearly. one to beat? does it encompass an signal to us this is clearly . one to beat? it this is clearly the one to beat7m is