Daily briefing Sunday 16th November

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0:36This is the Times News Briefing for Sunday, the 16th of November. The Home Secretary has told the Sunday Times illegal migration is tearing the country apart as she pledges to end what she calls Britain's golden ticket for asylum seekers. Shabana Mahmood is to announce new measures tomorrow that include forcing refugees to go back to their home countries once deemed safe and extending the wait time until they can apply for permanent settlement. Dr S Chelvern is an immigration law specialist. He told Times radio threats to make migrants wait 20 years to settle, they'd just be a way of grabbing headlines.

1:07Those who come to the UK to claim sign-up will still come to the UK. What the Home Secretary is proposing is that the initial grant of leave is reduced from five years to 30 months and there'll be active review. There's already active review after five years. So that's already a policy and the burden of proof will be on the Home Office to prove that it's not safe to go back to their country of origin. The clean-up and recovery is underway after Storm Claudia, even as four severe flood warnings remain in place for south-east Wales. Dozens of people were rescued or evacuated from their homes in Monmouth as rivers burst their banks, flooding the town centre.

1:41Liz Perkins is a reporter there and saw the danger firsthand. I think the most terrifying situation faced by one family was when their 4x4 got stuck and they had to manage to clam onto the roof. And even though the water was piling on there, and they were having to cling to trees just to survive and just wait for the fire service to arrive who did a brilliant job of actually rescuing them. I mean, it has been quite scary for a lot of people there. Meanwhile, forecasters are warning temperatures will drop next week as a cold snap brings with us a chance of snow. Angela Rayner has condemned infighting in the Labour Party as arrogant tittle-tattle.

2:19The former deputy prime minister told a newspaper claims of anonymous briefings and leadership bids are detached from the challenges real people face. It comes as the Sunday Times reports on a very angry and shouty phone call between Wes Streeting and No. 10 Chief of Staff Morgan McSweeney. BBC bosses are under pressure not to use licence fee money to settle Donald Trump's legal threats. He claimed on Saturday he'll probably sue the corporation for up to$5 billion this week over the editing of a speech that the BBC has apologised for. Trump has had a number of legal settlements with American broadcasters, but the media lawyer Mark Stevens told Times Radio this case is unlikely to get to court.

2:57When he got those massive out-of-court settlements from both ABC and CBS, I mean, multi-million pound settlements, they were in the middle of incredibly valuable commercial deals that needed Trump government approval, and he could have withheld them. Paying out over the odds, even on American terms, was probably sensible business. He doesn't have that same leverage over the BBC. And the family of a railway worker says he has a long recovery ahead after suffering injuries during a knife attack on a train in Cambridgeshire. Samezitouni has been discharged from hospital. He was praised for saving lives on the LNER service two weeks ago.

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