keeping pace with the big guns in the premier league. aston villa show why they're title contenders — as victory over arsenal moves them within two points of the top. discovering history. the skull of a 150—million—year—old sea monster has been excavated from the cliffs of the jurassic coast. yesterday was a wet and windy day and today it should be a bit quieter. some sunshine but also some rain moving in. i will have the full forecast throughout the programme. it's sunday the tenth of december. our main story: the head of the israeli army has called for the military campaign in gaza to be stepped up, claiming there are signs that hamas - which is classed as a terror group by most western governments — is falling apart.

it comes as a senior un aid official warned that half of gaza's population is starving, saying deliveries of food are now "almost impossible" because of the fierce fighting and aerial bombardment. our middle east correspondent yolande knell has the latest. the misery of life under canvas. fourin the misery of life under canvas. four in five gazans have now fled their home and they are still fighting to survive, with severe shortages of food and drinking water. aid agencies say they are struggling to deliver the basics, even close to the egypt order where supplies come in.— supplies come in. humanitarian aid at the moment _ supplies come in. humanitarian aid at the moment is _ supplies come in. humanitarian aid at the moment is the _ supplies come in. humanitarian aid at the moment is the only - supplies come in. humanitarian aid at the moment is the only lifeline l at the moment is the only lifeline for people and we are simply not able to get the access that we need to get through, for the past four, five, six days, aid agencies such as unicef have only been able to access rafah and even that it has been very limited aid and people are going to really, really struggle because there isn't enough water, there

isn't enough food, there isn't any shelter. , ., �* , isn't enough food, there isn't any shelter. , . �*, ., isn't enough food, there isn't any shelter. �*, ., , shelter. israel's ground campaign is now focused — shelter. israel's ground campaign is now focused on _ shelter. israel's ground campaign is now focused on the _ shelter. israel's ground campaign is now focused on the southern - shelter. israel's ground campaign is now focused on the southern city i shelter. israel's ground campaign is now focused on the southern city of| now focused on the southern city of khan younis. trips are saved they are going house to house and tunnelled our tunnel the israeli army is calling for the offensive in gaza to be stepped up amid signs he says that hamas is falling apart. here in the north, the battles are at close quarters. one local told the bbc they've received no food or water for five days. the bbc they've received no food or waterforfive days. israel the bbc they've received no food or water for five days. israel is under growing international pressure to spare gaza's civilians. translation: other countries _ spare gaza's civilians. translation: other countries should _ spare gaza's civilians. translation: other countries should also _ other countries should also understand it is impossible on the one hand to support the elimination of hamas and and the other hand call for an end the war which will prevent the elimination of hamas. after this group of men and boys taken by israeli forces five days ago were released, they claimed they were tortured. among them, muhammad mood salim held separately from his dad. they made him sleep naked, he

said, and kept hitting us with their guns. they hit me when i asked where my dad was. they hit us with wires". the bbc has asked the israeli military for response. new aerial shots show palestine square, previously a bustling spot of gaza city, now under control of israeli forces marking thejewish chanukah holiday. after two months of the most intense ever war between israel and the palestinians, the scale of the suffering and devastation here is unprecedented. that report was by our middle east correspondent yolande knell, who joins us now from jerusalem. good morning. it seems the fighting has escalated in recent days. what is the situation this morning? looking at the horizon from gaza now, you can see there is plenty of smoke rising up on the horizon there. evidence of the ongoing fighting. we know there has been

heavy bombardment across the territory once again overnight and then in a khan younis, the biggest city in the south of the gaza strip, thatis city in the south of the gaza strip, that is a real focus of israel's ground offensive at the moment where it says this is a hamas stronghold, may the leaders of hamas are hiding out there in underground tunnels, well, we had a resident there, a witness who is a man who is displaced from the north now staying at one of the main hospitals in the city. he said that overnight there was a constant state of terror and fear, hours and hours of artillery shelling and fierce battles going on in the streets nearby. this is israel has told people to evacuate from central neighbourhoods there. people saying it is really difficult to go to the south, to reach rafah now because the fighting it stands along the main road to the south and that will make the distribution of aid even more difficult because at this point it is notjust about aid getting into the gaza strip, it is about what happens to it once it is there. with the main roads

effectively blocked by the main fighting —— ongoing fighting and staff not able to reach the rafah crossing. the aided distribution effort is really all held up very badly. the un is saying this. that problem with aid is something that has also reached the attention of iran backed who the rebels in yemen because they are coming out with their focus of the new comments about aid. they are saying they are going to stop any ship heading to israeli ports through the arabian sea until aid can enter gaza freely —— houthi rebels. sea until aid can enter gaza freely -- houthi rebels.— sea until aid can enter gaza freely -- houthi rebels. yolande, thank you for bringing — -- houthi rebels. yolande, thank you for bringing us _ -- houthi rebels. yolande, thank you for bringing us that. _ -- houthi rebels. yolande, thank you for bringing us that. that _ -- houthi rebels. yolande, thank you for bringing us that. that was - -- houthi rebels. yolande, thank you for bringing us that. that was our - for bringing us that. that was our correspondent yolande knell and she will be bringing us more updates later on. and ben, the prime minister? a big da from and ben, the prime minister? a big day from rishi _ and ben, the prime minister? a big day from rishi sunak. _ rishi sunak is facing more dissent

from his own mps over revised plans to send asylum seekers to rwanda — with a senior backbencher claiming that a group of lawyers has looked at the wording of the bill and found it not fit for purpose. sir bill cash — who represents a group of pro—brexit mps — made the comments in today's sunday telegraph, ahead of a commons vote on tuesday. here's our political correspondent helen catt. this is a blow to rishi sunak because the verdict of this so—called star chamber of lawyers is seen as pretty crucial to informing the decision of mp5 on the right of the conservative party. as the bill is written in the sunday telegraph, at present, they don't think the wording of this legislation is sufficiently watertight. they're going to publish a full report ahead of the vote on tuesday. the now, a government source has said they will consider that report carefully but remain confident the current drafting will best allow them to get flights off to rwanda in the spring. it's notjust mp5 on the right who have concerns about this. the one nation group already has concerns and it has asked for its own legal advice.

we don't know the outcome of that yet. rishi sunak is appealing to labour — labour is planning to vote against this on tuesday — he's called on labour to act in the national interest and rise above political games. labour's sir keir starmer is preparing to give a speech on tuesday, where he's going to say that mr sunak�*s ability to govern has collapsed. he will accuse the tories of fighting like rats in a sack. now, even if the vote does pass, does go rishi sunak�*s way on tuesday, there is the potential for a lot more trouble down the line because quite often, what mps who don't agree with legislation will do is vote it through at this stage but then try to change it further down the track. and before we even get to tuesday's vote, on a completely different subject, rishi sunak is facing challenges. he is going before the covid inquiry tomorrow. he's likely to face tough questions,

particularly about the eat out to help out scheme he launched as chancellor, after scientists told the inquiry they didn't know about it in advance. helen catt there. hundreds of homes in the north—west of england are without electricity after storm elin brought high winds to large parts of the uk. some rail services have also been disrupted after fallen trees blocked lines, and tracks were flooded. more wind and rain is expected today as storm fergus takes over from storm elin. a murder investigation is under way after the body of a newborn baby was found in ipswich. paramedics were called to norwich road but the child was declared dead at the scene. two men and a woman are being held on suspicion of murder. a report has warned that the most disadvantaged people in britain are no better off than they were 15 years ago. the research — commissioned by the right—leaning centre for socialjustice — blames issues including stagnant wages, family breakdown,

poor housing and crime. australians are dealing with the effects of two different types of extreme weather — a fierce heatwave across most of the country and a cyclone bearing down on the queensland coast. our correspondent phil mercer is in sydney. phil, the heatwave seems to have broken but high winds are on their way? certainly on coastal parts of eastern australia, the heat is nowhere near as extreme as it was 24—hour is ago here in sydney for example temperatures reached about 44 celsius in western parts of the city on saturday was job today it is in the mid— 20s. pretty nice summer �*s day. in other parts of new south wales, this is australia pot most populous state, there are still large areas under severe heat wave alerts so away from the coast it is still pretty warm and very dangerous. in the past week across australia we have had heat wave and

catastrophic fire conditions in the state of south australia and also that looming cyclone off the coast of northern queensland so all of this in the first week of the australian summer stop when it comes to heatwave, scientists do warn that climate change is making heat waves in this country more intense, and last longer. in this country more intense, and last longer-— last longer. phil, thank you very much for the — last longer. phil, thank you very much for the update. _ last longer. phil, thank you very much for the update. phil- last longer. phil, thank you very | much for the update. phil mercer there in sydney. if you're a doctor who fan who hasn't seen last night's episode, now is the time to look away and cover your ears. the final 60th anniversary special aired last night, and we've now met the new doctor, played by ncuti gatwa. what? what? no way! david tennant�*s doctor had a bit of an unconventional regeneration as he handed over

to the 15th incarnation of the time lord. he'll have his first full episode on christmas day. something look forward to. let's have a look at the weather forecast with simon. it was blustery, to put it mildly, last night. very wet and windy. you said earlier in the news felt about storm elin. the swirl of cloud affecting northern ireland in the northern parts of england and that is where we had the strongest of the wind yesterday. the north of wales, gusts up yesterday. the north of wales, gusts up to 80 mph and quite widely those gusts of 50—70 miles now and that is why we saw some issues with some trees down and power cuts this morning as well but today should be a little bit quieter. certainly this morning we have some dry weather and more rain moving its way in from the

southwest. storm elin is moving away and this one here is storm fergus. it won't affect the uk really, it is mainly across the republic of ireland that will see the biggest impact. it will turn windy later on this afternoon. this morning, we can see the area of rain moving north and eastward across the uk. it is a narrower band of rain and won't last long for many of us. through wales, the midlands and southern areas of england, they will be some sunshine into the afternoon. temperatures here 13— ia celsius but as it moves north, 7—9 further north. the rain will move north but then the rains will move north but then the rains will pick a little bit with storm fergus and —— pickup. but not as many storms as yesterday. some windy conditions across southern areas with the rain moving eastward. the temperatures overnight into the start of the new working week — about 2— four across scotland and eight or nine soldiers across england and wales. how about monday? storm fergus is moving away and then

we are in a window of fine weather. original high—pressure moving in on monday. a drier day and a sunny day for many of us. we may still have a few showers coming in off the north sea around north—eastern areas of scotland. a few showers coming into the southeast as well but for most of us on monday, not a bad day with some dry weather and sunshine and top temperature is about seven — ii top temperature is about seven — 11 degrees. by tuesday we will see another weather system slowly move its way in, so the winds are picking up its way in, so the winds are picking up a touch on tuesday. that some outbreaks of rain and some of them could be on the heavy side as we go through the day as well but as i said, as we get to the early part of next week, largely dry. thank you, simon, largely positive. we will speak to you a bit later. imagine a sea monster with 130 razor—sharp teeth, the biting force of a t—rex and a head alone measuring more than six feet in length. it might sound like the stuff

of legend, but this creature really did exist around 75 million years ago. it was called a pliosaur, and a fossil of its enormous skull has been found off dorset�*s jurassic coast. our science editor rebecca morelle went for an exclusive look. 0k. 0h, ok. oh, wow! there you go. it's hue! ok. oh, wow! there you go. it's huge! unveiling _ ok. oh, wow! there you go. it's huge! unveiling a _ ok. oh, wow! there you go. it's huge! unveiling a jurassic - ok. oh, wow! there you go. it's huge! unveiling a jurassic sea i huge! unveiling a jurassic sea monster. this is the two metre long skull of a pliosaur, one of the most fearsome predators the world has ever seen. �*, ., , fearsome predators the world has ever seen-— ever seen. so, it's got big teeth, excellent for _ ever seen. so, it's got big teeth, excellent for stabbing _ ever seen. so, it's got big teeth, excellent for stabbing and - ever seen. so, it's got big teeth, excellent for stabbing and killing i excellent for stabbing and killing its prey. it does not chew its food, its prey. it does not chew its food, it makes it into peace and... throws it makes it into peace and... throws it back there- _ it makes it into peace and... throws it back there. steve _ it makes it into peace and... throws it back there. steve levy _ it makes it into peace and... throws it back there. steve levy efforts - it makes it into peace and... throws it back there. steve levy efforts to i it back there. steve levy efforts to unearth and prepare ancient aquatica beast. —— led to the efforts. so beast. -- led to the efforts. so what beast. —— led to the efforts. sr what makes this unique is it is complete. the lowerjaw and upper skull is meshed together as it would be in life and to find that i think worldwide is hardly ever specimens ever found about level of detail and if they are, a lot of the bits

missing whereas this, although it's a slightly distorted, it's got every bone present. it's one of the best fossils i've ever worked on. i will never probably work on another one. snout was discovered by fossil enthusiast near a beach in dorset. i just found something quite extraordinary. it is the jaw of a massive pliosaur. it's enormous. it must�*vejust massive pliosaur. it's enormous. it must�*ve just come out of the cliff up must�*ve just come out of the cliff up there somewhere. must've just come out of the cliff up there somewhere.— must've just come out of the cliff up there somewhere. over the course of weeks, up there somewhere. over the course of weeks. the — up there somewhere. over the course of weeks, the rest _ up there somewhere. over the course of weeks, the rest was _ up there somewhere. over the course of weeks, the rest was excavated, - up there somewhere. over the course of weeks, the rest was excavated, a l of weeks, the rest was excavated, a perilous process with steve and the team dangling off ropes halfway down a fast eroding cliff face. it was all followed by a bbc documentary team and sir david attenborough. in these waters underneath my feet, lurked to the ultimate marine predator, the player saw. ——

pliosaur. predator, the player saw. -- pliosaur-_ predator, the player saw. -- pliosaur. this gigantic reptile lived 150 million _ pliosaur. this gigantic reptile lived 150 million years - pliosaur. this gigantic reptile lived 150 million years ago, l lived 150 million years ago, reaching more than 12 metres in length, its bulky body was powered through the water with huge paddle —like limbs and it would have terrorised the oceans. 50. -like limbs and it would have terrorised the oceans. so, what we are looking — terrorised the oceans. so, what we are looking at _ terrorised the oceans. so, what we are looking at here _ terrorised the oceans. so, what we are looking at here is _ terrorised the oceans. so, what we are looking at here is a _ terrorised the oceans. so, what we are looking at here is a surface - are looking at here is a surface scan of the skull of the pliosaur. scientists have scanned the fossil to try to learn more about its bite with his 130 razor sharp teeth. they've calculated it had a bite force similar to a t rex. i think what we're _ force similar to a t rex. i think what we're looking _ force similar to a t rex. i think what we're looking at - force similar to a t rex. i think what we're looking at here - force similar to a t rex. i think what we're looking at here is i force similar to a t rex. i think. what we're looking at here is the top predator in environment. this animal had a huge bite. it would have been able to eat pretty much anything else that was around in the water at that time, including some other very large animals as well, other very large animals as well, other pliosaurs and plesiosaur is, ichthyosaurs, other carillion ——

other aquatica millions as well. the ducklo of dorsa's bay is rich in fossils. ~ , , ., ducklo of dorsa's bay is rich in fossils. ~ , , . ., ducklo of dorsa's bay is rich in fossils. ~ , , ., ., :: fossils. why is that? hundred and 50 million years — fossils. why is that? hundred and 50 million years ago. — fossils. why is that? hundred and 50 million years ago, this _ fossils. why is that? hundred and 50 million years ago, this whole - fossils. why is that? hundred and 50 million years ago, this whole area i million years ago, this whole area would have been a tropical ocean. and the cliffs behind me with a mud on the seafloor where the bodies prehistoric sea creatures would have been buried and now they remain, hidden away for millions of years. it is only now as the rocks crumble that these fossilised skeletons are finally being revealed. the exact location where the pliosaur�*s head was found as a closely guarded secret. the team believes the rest of the skeleton is still embedded in the cliffs. i of the skeleton is still embedded in the cliffs. ., , . ~ , ., the cliffs. i would stake my life on -- but the — the cliffs. i would stake my life on -- but the rest — the cliffs. i would stake my life on -- but the rest of _ the cliffs. i would stake my life on -- but the rest of the _ the cliffs. i would stake my life on -- but the rest of the animal - the cliffs. i would stake my life on -- but the rest of the animal is i —— but the rest of the animal is there. it should come out because it's in a rapidly eroding environment. as part of the cliff is going back by feet a year and it won't be long before the rest of it drops out and gets lost so it would

be advantageous to do this because the opportunity is once—in—a—lifetime. the opportunity is once-in-a-lifetime. , ., , . once-in-a-lifetime. the pliosaur will be put _ once-in-a-lifetime. the pliosaur will be put on — once-in-a-lifetime. the pliosaur will be put on display _ once-in-a-lifetime. the pliosaur will be put on display in - once-in-a-lifetime. the pliosaur will be put on display in dorset l once-in-a-lifetime. the pliosaur| will be put on display in dorset in the new year and will bring scientists from all over the world to study it to learn more about this monster of the seas and the world and lived in all those millions of years ago. rebecca morelle, bbc news. i called it a pliosaur, rebecca pronounced it differently. let's call the whole thing off. it is not around to _ call the whole thing off. it is not around to get — call the whole thing off. it is not around to get upset _ call the whole thing off. it is not around to get upset about i call the whole thing off. it is not around to get upset about your. around to get upset about your pronunciation. rebecca was talking about the bite force, it's twice as forceful, its bite power, as a crocodile which has the strongest living, strongest living creature with a bite power, about six times, if not more, seven times as powerful as a lion's. , . if not more, seven times as powerful as a lion's-— if not more, seven times as powerful as a lion's-— as a lion's. there is a great chart if ou no as a lion's. there is a great chart if you go to _ as a lion's. there is a great chart if you go to the _ as a lion's. there is a great chart if you go to the bbc _ as a lion's. there is a great chart if you go to the bbc website, i as a lion's. there is a great chart if you go to the bbc website, a l if you go to the bbc website, a chart showing the different bite forces of different creatures,

including the pliosaur? what did we agree on? ii including the pliosaur? what did we aaree on? , ., including the pliosaur? what did we aaree on? i. . . . ,, agree on? if you have an appetite for the gory _ agree on? if you have an appetite for the gory details, _ agree on? if you have an appetite for the gory details, what - agree on? if you have an appetite for the gory details, what kinds i agree on? if you have an appetite j for the gory details, what kinds of things the pliosaur would have eaten and how it would have eaten them but we will stay that right now. aha, and how it would have eaten them but we will stay that right now. b. bit we will stay that right now. a bit earl for we will stay that right now. a bit early for that — we will stay that right now. a bit early for that but _ we will stay that right now. a bit early for that but incredible graphics and something out of jurassic park, the franchise. amazing. you can see more on that extraordinary story in attenborough and the giant sea monster. it's on bbc one and iplayer at 8pm on new year's day. an additional national treasure thrown in there as well with sir david let's take a look at some of today's papers. the observer leads on labour giving its strongest criticism yet of israel's attacks on gaza with the shadow foreign secretary david lammy describing the destruction as "intolerable". the sunday times has details of that study we mentioned earlier, which claims the pandemic has left britain with a social divide that mirrors the "two nations" of the victorian era.

"millions of children at risk from killer mould" is the headline on the front of the independent. the paper says one in three young families are now living in properties with a reoccurring mould problem as millions struggle to heat their homes. and the sunday telegraph features an image of the prince and princess of wales' official christmas card, showing the couple alongside princes george and louis and princess charlotte. the image, which also appears on several other front pages, is described by the paper as a "christmas cracker". yes, that's right, it's on a lot of the front pages in monochrome. very stylish in black and white. indeed. it's been a huge year for the video gaming industry but while sales are soaring, not everyone has been able to play. blind and partially sighted gamers have often been left out of the fun, but new technology and some gaming companies are working to change that. andrew rogers reports.

video games have never looked better. with lifelike visuals and stylish cinematics, many are a feast for the eyes. but some players have to rely on other senses. players like ben, also known as sightlesskombat, are testing out a new kind of game, code name project black kat, based entirely on sound. there are basic visuals there that can be used to play the game with site but also as well, there is menu narration, so it will speak the menus as you go through. audio clossa , menus as you go through. audio glossary, choose _ menus as you go through. audio glossary, choose to _ menus as you go through. audio glossary, choose to select. i there's menus that will speak as you go through and it will speak the tutorials. there's audio description before. ad: a cold corridor. extends before you. slightly ahead to the right is a wooden — slightly ahead to the right is a wooden crate. it's kind of hand—holding but it's a way of doing it that feels relatively dynamic as you play through. he's also an ambassador for the royal national institute of blind people and livestreams his gaming on twitch to thousands around the world.

and ijust wanted to showcase how things work from my perspective, having no sight whatsoever. i had a lot of people come in and be very friendly, very curious, very interested and watching me and saying, "wait — you can't see?! "and you're better than i am at this?!" so, that's always a fun compliment to have paid. as more of us start picking up a controller, game studios like this one in oxford are finding ways to make sure their games can be played by everyone. one way is hiring specialist accessibility consultants. people like cari, who designed the game. so more people can join in and play them. it's the bestjob in games. my entirejob is helping more people play games. that's just the bestjob. her game isjust a prototype for now. she hoping it can get more studios thinking about accessibility is in their games. yay! we're seeing progress and progress will snowball and hopefully,

those platforms will realise — eventually, at least — that accessibility, if you want to be really shallow about it, increased accessibility means increased sales. cari says access isn'tjust about reaching more disabled players but future—proofing the games industry. i still want to be playing games when i'm 80. if there is still a platform! i want to play games when i'm older. but my capabilities change as i age, and so does everybody�*s. it's a case of wanting to make sure games are still supporting people who have been playing games all their life. everyone should be able to play. whether you have site or not, whatever— whether you have site or not, whatever your situation is, you should — whatever your situation is, you should he _ whatever your situation is, you should be able to enjoy the same games— should be able to enjoy the same games as — should be able to enjoy the same games as everybody else. until then, ben and cari can still play some of their favourite titles by sharing the controls. giving them just another reason to game together. andrew rogers, bbc news. the gaming industry is apparently bigger than music and movie industry combined so it's about time it

became a bit more accessible. find became a bit more accessible. and ou have became a bit more accessible. and you have these _ became a bit more accessible. inc you have these huge competitions which fill arenas and big money involved so absolutely right that they should be open and accessible to everyone. let's chat sport now. chatham is with us. —— chetan. everyone is wondering if arsenal are going to do what villa did, even though the captain is banning all talk of the title. haste though the captain is banning all talk of the title.— though the captain is banning all talk of the title. we are 16 games in so fans won't _ talk of the title. we are 16 games in so fans won't want _ talk of the title. we are 16 games in so fans won't want to - talk of the title. we are 16 games in so fans won't want to get i talk of the title. we are 16 games in so fans won't want to get too l in so fans won't want to get too carried away. we can make some 2016 leicester comparisons. with city fans will tell you nothing will come close to what they did, they got relegated one season then and won the league and i think villa were seventh last season so not as big of a jump but no—one thought they could keep pace with liverpool and arsenal and manchester city at this stage of the season but they beat arsenal a few days after beating manchester silly falsities are if you are villa fan, you are living your best life

right now, it's fair to say. arsenal could have reclaimed top spot but they were beaten 1—0 by aston villa in saturday's late game. villa are now two points behind liverpool after recording a club record 15th straight home league victory. nick parrott reports. this is the season ofjoy for aston villa fans with the club's record books in need of updating after wins over champions manchester city and now arsenal. the action unfold about villa park as a frenetic pace, captainjohn mcginn firing them in front injust the captainjohn mcginn firing them in front in just the seventh minute. from then on, it was a case of hanging on. they shed blood and sweat to earn the win, var ruled out this arsenal goal for handball. watching from the director's box because of a touch line band, mikel arteta could not believe what he was seeing. do you have any frustrations with decisions against you or is it not something you comment on? it’s not something you comment on? it's clear and not something you comment on? it�*s clear and obvious. not something you comment on? it's clear and obvious. in _ not something you comment on? it's clear and obvious. in what _ not something you comment on? it's clear and obvious. in what way? i clear and obvious. in what way?

should have _ clear and obvious. in what way? should have had _ clear and obvious. in what way? should have had something i clear and obvious. in what way? should have had something and| should have had something and didn't? i should have had something and didn't? ., should have had something and didn't? . ., , ., didn't? i leave it to your interpretation. - didn't? i leave it to your interpretation. when i didn't? i leave it to your| interpretation. when you didn't? i leave it to your- interpretation. when you beat didn't? i leave it to your— interpretation. when you beat city and arsenal _ interpretation. when you beat city and arsenal in _ interpretation. when you beat city and arsenal in a _ interpretation. when you beat city and arsenal in a week, _ interpretation. when you beat city and arsenal in a week, like, i've i and arsenal in a week, like, i've never_ and arsenal in a week, like, i've never seen _ and arsenal in a week, like, i've never seen manchester city being controlled and suffering against arsenal — controlled and suffering against arsenal for 85 minutes and managing to win _ arsenal for 85 minutes and managing to win again, i am a believer, mate. villa _ to win again, i am a believer, mate. villa are _ to win again, i am a believer, mate. villa are now— to win again, i am a believer, mate. villa are now in the title base, just a point and a place behind arsenal who slip second before because liverpool beat mr pallas at lunchtime. once again, they had to come from behind to win. —— crystal palace. mo salah levelled with his 200th goal for the club. harvey elliott snatched a winner in injury time. if that wasn't a surprise, this was. manchester united using before losing to bournemouth at old trafford in the first time in their history, 3—0 defeat coming days after erik ten hag was named manager of the month. the home vegans were understandably —— home fans were understandably —— home fans were understandably upset at the whistle.

we are upset for not giving the result and performance we wanted and now it's about us to look forward and get back to our truck. fist now it's about us to look forward and get back to our truck.- and get back to our truck. at the bottom of— and get back to our truck. at the bottom of the — and get back to our truck. at the bottom of the table _ and get back to our truck. at the bottom of the table despair i and get back to our truck. at the bottom of the table despair was | bottom of the table despair was making way forjoy fisherfield united, chris wilder masterminding a 1-0 united, chris wilder masterminding a 1—0 victory over brentford in just his second match back in charge. nick parrott, bbc news. scottish champions celtic are looking to restore their eight point lead at the top against kilmarnock this afternoon — that's after rangers came from behind to close the gap to five points. they beat dundee 3—1 at ibrox. abdallah sima with the pick of the goals. in the women's super league, lauren hemp scored twice in four minutes to help manchester city beat aston villa 2—1. afterfalling behind in the seventh minute, hemp drew the hosts level in the second half when she headed in chloe kelly's cross at the far post. the england international then scored a second soon after to seal the deal and put city second. third—placed arsenal play the leaders chelsea later today.

england's men have lost their one—day series with west indies after falling to a four wicket defeat in a rain—shortened third odi in barbados. ben duckett top scored with 71 to help england post 206/9 from a0 overs after a rain delay and a further downpour left west indies with a revised target of 188 from 3a overs, which they achieved with 1a balls to spare to give them a first home series win over england in the format since 1998. the two sides will now prepare for the five—match t20 series that begins on tuesday, also in barbados. better for england's women, though. they play against india this afternoon in their final t20 match but the series is already over. england have an unassailable 2—0 lead after they put in a dominant display in the second match in mumbai, bowling india out forjust 80. they laboured slightly

in their chase, but alice capsey top—scored as england won by four wickets to wrap up the series before today's match. next to a dramatic late win for exeter chiefs on the opening weekend of the champions cup as henry slade's injury time conversion saw them edge past toulon 19—18. with the hosts having failed to score a point in the second half, two exeter tries saw the momentum shift. it left slade with the chance to kick for victory and it was an opportunity he took, sparking these celebrations amongst his team—mates. elsewhere, a dominant second—half display saw bath beat ulster 37—1a. the home side scored four unanswered tries after the break with matt gallagher putting the seal on a strong performance at the recreation ground. bath securing the bonus point victory. it was a debut to remember for toulouse's blair kinghorn as the full—back ran in two tries in their 52—7 victory over cardiff. the scotland international struck in both halves, the french side easing to victory to go top of pool a. it was cardiff's heaviest european defeat for 17 years.

saracens started their cup campaign with a 27—16 defeat away to the bulls in south africa. springbok duo kurt—lee arendse and canan moodie did the damage in the second half. poor discipline was again a problem for saracens with billy vunipola getting sent off for direct head contact. in the women's premiership, merryn doidge scored a hat—trick as the exeter chiefs beat harlequins 52—27. the chiefs led by 22 points at the break before taking total control in the second period to make it three wins from three and keep up the pressure on saracens at the top of the table. mark allen won the snooker shoot out in swansea. this event differs to traditional snooker events with a shot clock in operation throughout and frames lasting a maximum of ten minutes. and it was the top seed allen who beat china's cao yupeng in the final to take the title and the £50,000 winner's cheque.

in netball, south africa have taken england to a final—game decider in their three—game series after a 61—59 victory in nottingham. england took the lead in the final quarter but south africa went ahead with three minutes left and held on to seal victory with less than 30 seconds remaining. the final match will take place later today. that gets going at two o'clock this afternoon in nottingham. it is that time of year _ afternoon in nottingham. it is that time of year where _ afternoon in nottingham. it is that time of year where if _ afternoon in nottingham. it is that time of year where if you - afternoon in nottingham. it is that time of year where if you are i time of year where if you are organised you have written, sent christmas cards.— christmas cards. who is that organised? _ christmas cards. who is that organised? i— christmas cards. who is that organised? i haven't - christmas cards. who is that organised? i haven't even i christmas cards. who is that i organised? i haven't even started! those dates are rapidly approaching. it's an incredibly busy time of year for the royal mail — and i'll be at a sorting office tomorrow.

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hello and welcome to unspun world, the last before the christmas break, and then we'll be back in early january. we're up here on the roof of the bbc�*s headquarters in central london. in our last programme of 2023, not a particularly happy year, we'll be asking, what's morale like in the ukrainian front line as winter closes in? there are some areas where morale is higher, where there have been some gains, and there's a strong belief in why they are fighting, but in others there is a deep resentment. why can't the un do more to get the kind of world peace that most of us long to see? you've got a structure here in the united nations that reflects a post—second world war order. the new order, the new balances of power, are not reflected in it. and what are meteorites made of? for that matter,

what's space made of? when scientists add up all the matter, all the stuff we can see in the galaxy, that matter doesn't create enough gravity to hold that galaxy together, so there has to be something else there. on the battlefields of eastern and southern ukraine at the moment, the temperatures are bitter and the fighting is inevitably limited. but as the russian invasion approaches its second anniversary, things aren't going particularly well for ukraine. there's political infighting in kyiv, with angry arguments about the way forward and criticism of president zelensky�*s decision—making. millions of innocents suffering...

the biden administration in washington is getting worried about the level of support the us can give ukraine. and anyway, a lot of its attention is directed towards israel and gaza, which will probably turn out to define the limits of american influence even more than ukraine will. we've heard outgoing mortarfire... the bbc ukraine correspondent james waterhouse has just got back to london after touring the front lines, so i asked him about the situation as he had found it. there's a tension for the first time. i think you remember early on in the invasion, when it was a simpler story — it was a story of the oppressor versus the oppressed. you had a wartime leader, president zelensky, who stayed, despite the very real risk to his life, and ukraine has mounted the extraordinary defence that it did and continues to do. and here we are now, where president zelensky is starting to receive the political scrutiny that you would expect in a political period of peacetime. there seems to be a frustration between the ukrainian government, president zelensky, who handles the political side of things, where he has to talk up whatever gains have happened for his side on the battlefield to appease

western allies and western critics. but there's also a change of view, really, from his generals, notably the head of his armed forces, valery zaluzhny, who has described the war as being in a stalemate. we've spoken to soldiers across the 700—mile front line, and the view really does vary. there are some areas where morale is higher, where there have been some gains, and there's a strong belief in why they are fighting. but in others, there is a deep resentment at being ordered to throw themselves forward where they are suffering losses, notably in the east and north—eastern parts of the front line, and where they describe the orders as being politically influenced, where ukraine is trying to push where it can,

regardless of the military logic to it. so we are starting to see a growing tension, and ukraine's position hasn't changed. it still wants to defend itself no matter what and ultimately liberate all of its territory. that doesn't seem quite so likely now, though, does it, the liberation business? well, it's a tall order. there is a possibility still that crimea could be retaken, and i know that sounds extraordinary, cos crimea, the southern peninsula, is seen as the cornerstone of russia's occupation. it's somewhere that vladimir putin has framed as being part of russia, unlike other parts of ukraine, where he formed that false justification of trying to "de—nazify the country", in his words. because there are so few entry points into crimea, it is possible that russian troops could be isolated, like we saw with the liberations of last year. and to me, that is still the most likely avenue to some kind of ukrainian victory. if crimea were to fall back to the ukrainians, that makes it very difficult for vladimir putin to continue to justify this war to his people and the families, the countless families who have lost

sons to the fighting. do you find the old mood of determination to throw the russians out, is that fading? we've spoken to soldiers whose daily priority is to stay alive. and, of course, there are other areas where there are soldiers who are "prepared to die", in their own words, because of the cause they believe in and the fact that they are fighting for freedom, and ukraine still has a clearer motivator than the russians. all the recent polling suggests that there is still an overwhelming appetite for ukraine to fight this war. when you hear talk or proposals of a negotiation or concession, that would allude to some kind of middle ground, but for ukraine, that doesn't exist in their eyes. because a middle ground could be territorial concession, it could be some kind of ceasefire, but what president zelenskyy and people tell you all the time is, over the past nine—and—a—bit years,

russia never recognised ceasefires in the east. they never recognised those early ceasefires in the full—scale invasion. and even if ukraine was to agree to some kind of deal and the western help was to wane, russia, because it can, would stay on a warfooting. they would mobilise once more, and in maybe two, three, four, five years' time, they would simply have another go on kyiv and to try and take what they wanted to in the first place. so it suits russia, i think, to hold out for that pause, that ceasefire. and for ukraine, as ever, it's a nonstarter. in a war of attrition, when you're the smaller boxer in the ring, it suits the bigger beast in this fight. you'll be spending christmas in ukraine. what's it like for you personally? it's... it's poignant, really, ithink, em...

i think when you speak to people and hear and share stories, there is a fatigue. but i think also this christmas is interesting, because, for the first time, ukraine is having christmas on the 25th of december to further distance itself from moscow and the russian orthodox church, which has its christmas in early january. and so it feeds into that hardening of ukrainian identity as it tries to pull away from russia by any means possible. archive: now the final| signing of the charter... there was a time when people still had the feeling that the world's leaders had a duty to step in and bring wars like the one in ukraine to a stop. the time for action is here now! that is, after all, what the united nations was intended to do when it was first planned by america and britain, while the second world war was at its height. but, of course, the political divisions in the world have made that impossible.

and recently un peacekeepers have been thrown out of several countries in africa, sometimes on the grounds that they were making things worse. is there any serious future for the united nations, or has itjust become a powerless talking shop? james landale is the bbc diplomatic correspondent. on the one hand, at the top, politically, strategically, as a venue for collective security, a place where peace can be agreed, where conflicts can be sorted out, that is much diminished. but there's still, on the other hand, a very large part of the un machinery delivering humanitarian aid, whether it is short—term or long—term development — that still carries on, and, you know, the un is having a real impact on the ground whenever aid is allowed in. well, i remember being in afghanistan and having a taliban government minister saying that, without the un world food programme, the entire country would collapse, so that is true.

but these are sticking plasters, and the un seems incapable of stopping the problem in the first place, isn't it? well, the un very rarely stops problems. it quite often comes in to try and resolve them when they come, and the problem it's got at the moment is that, for a variety of reasons, it's either being ignored by world powers thatjust make decisions — so, for example, you know russia invades ukraine. russia is a permanent member of the security council, the p5, as they're known, and just against all the precepts and rules of the united nations, the un charter, it invades territorially another country. this is what the un was set up to do, was to try and prevent that sort of thing happening. it clearly isn't working now.

and this is because russia, china, france, britain and the united states each have a veto. yeah. sometimes the un has worked, particularly at the end of the cold war, there was a period where, um... there were events, conflicts, where the un could play a role, where it wasn't seen as part of sort of big—power politics. but then, you know, iraq happened without the permission of the un. there's been a trend for, whenever people wanted to make peace, they've done it in a different way. governments like sudan, mali just say to the united nations, "we don't want your troops here as peacekeepers any more. "get out." yeah, because they think that either the un will be a threat,

or they think that it won't actually help. the fundamental problem is that you've got a structure here in the united nations that reflects a post—second world war order and the new... the new order, the new balances of power, are not reflected in it. so what that means is that people don't trust it, they don't want to go to it, and, um, er... they don't feel that it's going to have an impact for them. and what's been really interesting, particularly as a result of russia's invasion of ukraine, is that the role of the security council, which used to be the sort of the peak of it, has diminished, but the general assembly, which is the un body that encompasses all 190—plus members, has become much more influential. that's where the key votes took place about whether or not russia's invasion of ukraine was legal. that's where a lot of the politics is going on, thejockeying for position, people trying to get onto — you know, chairman of that committee

and that commission and things like that because they know that's where there is, at least, a little bit of influence to be leveraged. there's no possibility of changing it, is there? everybody pays lip service to reform to varying lesser degrees. they all have their own pet plans for who they think should be on the security council and what powers they should have but ultimately, whenever there's an attempt to get this going, it very rarely gets beyond the first base, which is why people now fear that what's going to happen is the un is just going to tail off and become more and more — i wouldn't say illegitimate but lacking legitimacy in the eyes of the rest of the world. there is, of course, that awful precedent of what happened to the league of nations, isn't there? i mean, do you think that the united nations is now starting to go down that slope? i think there is a desire out there to have some kind of organisation that has some kind of supranational authority,

that can be an area and a forum and a vehicle to discuss collective security because i think most countries accept the idea that some form of collective security, where you pool a bit of sovereignty and say, "look, we're going to allow you to discuss, "collectively, issues" — there is benefit to that. whether it remains to be done in the form of the un, i think, remains to be seen. but at the moment, if you think about it, the uk sees reform of the un as a way of currying favour with middle powers. so, the big new trend and theme in sort of geopolitics at the moment is for the big countries to talk to the "middle powers". they haven't come up with a better phrase for it. a lot of middle powers don't like being called middle powers but that's the name they've got at the moment. and it's essentially saying, "ok, we the big powers, you know, "the big european powers, the americans, the russians, "the chinese have to engage with the global south, "other countries around the world," because they're becoming more

important, because old alliances are breaking down. but in terms of 19a5, when the united nations was going to be the policeman that stopped wars in the future — i mean, that's all long gone. yeah. that — as we have seen in recent years, that has all gone. russia has been, you know, repeatedly denounced on the floor of the un security council for its invasion of ukraine. nothing. it hasn't changed anything. and whenever there have been discussions involving the ukrainians and the russians, by and large, it's been hosted by the turks and outside the forum of the un. so, i think the challenge for the un is to prove its relevance once again. while we're obsessing about what's going on down here on earth, all sorts of exciting and interesting things are happening in space. we have liftoff.

elon musk�*s organisation has sent up a rocket as part of a plan to build a base on the moon. the european space agency's euclid telescope is producing extraordinary data which may give us clues about the nature of dark matter and dark energy. and nasa hasjust handed british universities and museums a teaspoon full of dust and rock which it's extracted from a potentially dangerous asteroid 500m across called bennu that's spinning rather dangerously towards us in space. i spoke to rebecca morrell, the bbc�*s science editor, about these things. i first asked her for more details about bennu. it has been a really quite an audacious mission in some ways. so a few years ago, they sent this spacecraft, osiris—rex, up into space. it spent a couple of years travelling to bennu,

spent some time orbiting around it and then, in this kind of smash—and—grab manoeuvre, it unfurled a robotic arm down to the surface of the asteroid and grabbed sort of a handful — i mean, it kind of was a handful, about 200g of material, from the surface. oh, yeah, that is.... yeah, so not that much. and it's precious for a couple of reasons. so, first of all, you know, the most dangerous space rock, that's a good reason to study it. should we ever need to try and bat away a bit of asteroid, it's kind of a good idea to know what it's made of. but there's another really good reason. asteroids are geological remnants from the very beginnings of our solar system a.5 billion years ago. so, they're bits of rock that have been... bits of rock that didn't turn into planet. exactly — they're the leftovers. so, studying one of these pristine bits of space rocks gives you an idea of what was going on a.5 billion years ago. one theory is that early on in the earth's history,

asteroids like bennu crashed into our planet and they delivered these essential compounds. they delivered water, they delivered carbon — so, all of the stuff we needed to make our own planet habitable. and the only way you can really test this theory is by actually studying the pristine material grabbed from a space rock. elon musk�*s rocket — what's it, starship? starship. that didn't go as planned, did it? so spacex is elon musk�*s rocket company. spacex do do things in a slightly different way. they like to test their stuff, they like to break it. they like to look at it to see what went wrong, how they can make it better, and then they have another go. so, for spacex, the fact that they got a bit further this time with the test, for them, that would've been seen as a success. why does nasa need spacex?

why can't itjust do it itself and just carry on doing what it was doing in the �*605 and �*705? before, it was all kind of pretty much done in—house. now, they're outsourcing a lot of the technology to different companies. america would say, you know, this is to kind of boost the space economy in the country, too, so that's playing a role. i mean, it's different as well from the apollo missions. nasa don'tjust want this to be sort of a one—off visit or where astronauts kind of go down, they walk on the surface for a few days and then they come back again. they want to start looking at building a permanent base there, so that astronauts can go to the moon, stay on the moon, study what's on the moon, but it's also with an eye to going further as well. so, ultimately, they're looking to get to mars and even... from the moon? from the moon. but is the reason that they're

bringing in big corporations that nasa can't afford it or is it just that they want a wider kind of pool to draw from? it's a bit of both in some ways. you know, it's really expensive building your own rockets. they would say as well, you know, working with different companies helps them to move a bit faster as well. i suppose you've got kind of multiple places doing multiple things all at the same time. and the third thing i wanted to ask you about was europe's euclid telescope. how can they look for dark matter when it can't be seen? i mean, it's tricky, isn't it? i mean, the concepts behind this arejust mind—blowing, really. the idea is that as we're talking to each other, trillions of dark—matter particles — if they are particles — are thought to be streaming through us, but they don't interact... what, now? now, yeah, now. they're almost like these ghost—like particles but we know they're there

because when scientists look out in space at the bigger picture and they look at, say, a galaxy, and they add up all the matter, all the stuff we can see in the galaxy, that matter doesn't create enough gravity to hold that galaxy together, so there has to be something else there. i see. so, they think there's this dark matter, this matter that we can't see, that's kind of acting a bit like the glue that's holding things together, so they're going to be trying to find that. but how does a telescope find it? they're not going to see the dark matter but by looking at the sky — so, they're going to be mapping, creating a 3d map of about a third of the heavens. they'll be looking for these tiny distortions in the galaxies and stars, little wobbles, which infers that it's there. the other thing is dark energy — and dark energy is really cool. so, when the big bang happened, everything started kind of hurtling outwards over time. you know, it started from a single point,

everything kind of started spewing out, the universe started to grow. so, they think there's this force called dark energy, which is creating a kind of pushing force which is causing the universe to sort of speed up in its growth. now, if you know what dark energy is, it helps you to understand kind of what was going on at the beginnings of time but it also gives you an idea as to what's going to happen in ourfuture. you know, is our universe going to keep on sort of speeding up and just stretching, stretching, stretching? is it going to pull itself apart or is it going to reach a certain point and then start collapsing back in on itself at the end, too? so, you know, it kind of has consequences for our beginnings and perhaps our end also. so, again, they're not going to be able to see dark energy but by looking at these very small distortions in the billions of galaxies that they're going to see, they should be able to get an idea of what this stuff must be like. so, three quite sort

of positive things. it does say something rather good about humankind, doesn't it? for me, covering these stories, it's about sort of, you know, it's the human imagination, the kind of, you know, the endeavour. it shows us what's possible, i guess and, you know, that the extraordinary is possible sometimes with some of these space stories. becky morrell, science editor, helping to raise our heads above the mess we're making on this planet of ours. but down here, as we get close to the end of a difficult and violent year, three things seem to be happening. ukraine certainly isn't winning the war that russia unleashed on it. israel, even if its war with hamas succeeds, is in serious danger of losing the peace. and the way things are going, it looks perfectly possible that,

a yearfrom now, donald trump will become us president again. as a result of these things, the entire world order could be turned on its head in 202a. of course, events can change very fast. it's only six months since yevgeny prigozhin, head of the wagner mercenary group, was threatening to capture moscow. then, he abandoned his coup and a few months later, his plane crashed and he was dead. vladimir putin, who had looked as though he was on the ropes, emerged triumphant. and since then, ukraine's long—planned counteroffensive has spluttered to a halt and russia, with 170,000 new recruits in training, is starting to push back at the increasingly exhausted ukrainians.

some, at least, of the western weaponry which helped ukraine score its major successes is now being diverted to israel for use in the war on hamas. if donald trump wins the us election injust under a year, he could well shut off american weapons to ukraine altogether and europe — as ever, nervous and disorganised — will have to decide if it'll go alone in resisting russia. russia's survived, thanks in part to the help it's had from china and from what the west regards as an unsavoury collection of countries, especially iran and north korea. and much of the developing world doesn't seem too worried that russia has broken international treaties and invaded the country next door. vladimir putin doesn't seem to have altogether persuaded his own people, though.

a recent opinion poll showed that three quarters of russians want peace now, and an expensive propaganda feature film all about heroic russians crushing the evil neo—nazis of ukraine has been a complete flop at the box office. still, as i say, things can change fast. so, what seems like a pretty worrying future this december may look quite different by the spring. yet, even though, as the old song says, there may be trouble ahead, enjoy the christmas holidays and unspun world will be back in early january. so, from the unspun team and from me, every good wish until we meet again.

good morning. it is sunday the 10th of december. our headlines today: the head of the israeli army has told his troops to step up the fighting in gaza. another blow for prime minister rishi sunak: conservative lawyers find his rwanda bill isn't fit for purpose.

good morning. another defeat for england's cricketers this morning as they lose their first one—day series in west indies for 25 years. say yes to the dress, but not to the rest: we meet the bridal shop inviting women to try on their dream gown, even though they have no plans to marry. yesterday was a wet and windy day, and today, it should be a little bit quieter. there'll be some sunshine, but also, some rain moving in. i will have the full forecast throughout the programme. hello. good morning. it's sunday december 10. our main story at 7:00: the head of the israeli army has called for the military campaign in gaza to be stepped up, claiming there are signs that hamas — which is classed as a terror group by most western governments — is falling apart. it comes as a senior un aid official warned that half of gaza's population is starving,

saying deliveries of food are now "almost impossible" because of the fierce fighting and aerial bombardment. our middle east correspondent yolande knell has the latest. the misery of life under canvas. four in five gazans have now fled their homes, and away from the front lines, they're still fighting to survive, with severe shortages of food and drinking water. aid agencies say that they're struggling to deliver the basics, even close to the egypt border where supplies come in. humanitarian aid at the moment is the only lifeline for people and we're simply not able to get the access that we need to get through. for the past four, five, six days, aid agencies such as unicef have only been able to access the rafah governorate, and even then, it's been with very limited aid, and if we can't get through soon, people are going to really, really struggle because there isn't enough water, there isn't enough food, there isn't any shelter. israel's ground campaign is now focused on the southern city of khan younis.

troops saying they're going house to house and tunnel to tunnel. and the head of the israeli army is calling for the offensive in gaza to be stepped up amid signs, he says, that hamas is falling apart. here injabalia in the north, the battles are at close quarters. one local told the bbc they've received no food or water for five days. israel is under growing international pressure to spare gaza's civilians. translation: other countries should also understand - that it is impossible on the one hand to support the elimination of hamas and on the other hand, to call for an end to the war, which will prevent the elimination of hamas. after this group of men and boys taken by israeli forces five days ago were released, they claimed they were tortured. among them, muhammad mahmood salim held separately from his dad. "they made us sleep naked," he said, "and kept hitting us with their guns. "they hit me when i asked where my dad was. "they hit us with wires." the bbc has asked the

israeli military for a response. new aerial shots show palestine square, previously a bustling spot of gaza city, now under control of israeli forces marking thejewish hanukkah holiday. after two months of the most intense ever war between israel and the palestinians, the scale of the suffering and devastation here is unprecedented. that report was by our middle east correspondent yolande knell, who joins us now from jerusalem. we have seen the fighting appears to have escalated over recent days. what's the situation this morning? looking at the horizon where you can see the north of gaza from the very south of israel, you can see plenty of smoke rising up, real evidence of the heavy bombardment that has taken place overnight once again, and in khan younis, the main focus of israeli ground forces in the south of the strip has seen as a

stranglehold of hamas, one palestinian witness who is taking shelter at the main hospital there told us it had been a night of terror and fear, constant cell of artillery fire, he said, and also atheist battle taking place in streets nearby. israel has now issued more evacuation orders for people in the centre of khan younis to leave but with fighting extending along the main ride to rafah, doesn't like that can be done easily. hundreds and thousands of gone down towards the egyptian border in the course now with fighting going increasingly in that direction, that will make the humanitarian aid effort more difficult and then on top of all of that we have had warnings from the houthi backed rebels in yemen, they say they will stop ships from passing through the arabian sea and the red sea. until aid can enter into gaza freely. and we have had the french navy saying one of its

ships in the red sea has shot down two drones overnight. it already raises concerns of this conflict spreading more regionally. thank ou. that spreading more regionally. thank you- that is _ spreading more regionally. thank you. that is our _ spreading more regionally. thank you. that is our middle _ spreading more regionally. thank you. that is our middle east i you. that is our middle east correspondentjoining us from jerusalem. she will have the latest for us in an hour. let's now find out about the day's avenues from ben. there may be trouble ahead for our prime minister. a big week ahead for rishi sunak. rishi sunak is facing more dissent from his own mps over revised plans to send asylum seekers to rwanda it comes from a senior backbencher in the pages of the sunday telegraph. our political correspondent peter saull can tell us more. pete, more problems for the prime minister ahead of a crucial week for him. yes, good morning. this is an article from the european research group of right—wing conservative mps who have been consulting legal experts in recent days of other legislation that was published last

week, and he says they have concluded that it is not watertight enough to meet the government's objectives. is that there is still work to do, perhaps leaving open the opportunity for the government to make some changes or other like—minded conservatives to try and amend the legislation at a later stage as it continues its passage through the house of commons. not clear how they will vote on tuesday, they will publish a full report ahead of that vote. they might decide to allow it to go through at that stage and then try to amend it at some point in the future. the problem for rishi sunak is he has other conservatives who have a very different set of concerns. the one nation group who consider themselves more moderate are worried about the idea of languidly declaring that the wonder is a safe country. rishi sunak has argued you cannot go any further in that, because the rwandans were not accepted. suella

braverman, the former home secretary, has told the newspaper this morning she has never heard any such concerns from the rwandans more conversation she had had with him in recent months. a different one for the promise to put out a statement of not attending to deflect attention away from problems in his own party. labour needs to act in the national interest and vote this through on tuesday. sir keir starmer is planning a vote in which he will say all this proves the conservatives are totally unfit to govern and they are fighting like a rat in a sack. govern and they are fighting like a rat in a sack-— govern and they are fighting like a rat in a sack. thank you very much. 0ur political _ rat in a sack. thank you very much. our political correspondence i rat in a sack. thank you very much. our political correspondence there. hundreds of homes in the northwest of england are without electricity after storm elin brought high winds to large parts of the uk. some rail services have also been disrupted after fallen trees blocked lines and tracks were flooded. more wind and rain is expected today as storm fergus takes over from storm elin. a murder investigation is under way

after the body of a newborn baby was found in ipswich. paramedics were called to norwich road, but the child was declared dead at the scene. two men and a woman are being held on suspicion of murder. a report has warned that the most disadvantaged people in britain are no better off than they were 15 years ago. the research — commissioned by the right—leaning centre for socialjustice — blames issues including stagnant wages, family breakdown, poor housing and crime. australians are dealing with the effects of two different types of extreme weather — a fierce heatwave across most of the country and a cyclone bearing down on the queensland coast. our correspondent phil mercer is in sydney. phil, the heatwave seems to have broken, but high winds are on their way? this time yesterday parts of sydney, australia's biggest city, were sweltering through temperatures up

to aa degrees celsius, so certainly on the coast we have a reprieve today, sunday. but there still is a severe heat wave warning for much of new south wales. this is australia's largest state, so we are just over a week into summer already did wave warnings have been issued for parts of every australian state and territory except the island of tasmania. we have had catastrophic fire conditions in the state of south australia and, as you say, tropical cyclone jasper is slowly moving towards the coast of north—eastern australia. so unpredictable times for many australians. when it comes through the heat, this is australia's deadliest natural hazard. you speak to climate scientists and those who say that heatwaves are a silent killer, and they believe that climate change is making the heat more intense, making these heatwaves

last longer and becoming more common. down in south australia in the last few days, they have been battling very severe fires. the authorities there say these are the worst fire conditions they faced in many years, but today, sunday, there is the hope of very heavy rain, which in turn brings the threat of flooding. fourth, tropical cyclone jasper slowly moving towards the queensland coast. it is expected to hit landfall possibly on wednesday. cyclone season in this country runs from november through to april, so cyclones are not unusual in this part of the world, but overall, scientists are saying that global warming is making the impact of cyclones, heatwaves and bushfires far more pronounced and exacerbated in this country and there is a forecast that the rest of this summer here in australia will be an absolute scorcher. bic

summer here in australia will be an absolute scorcher._ absolute scorcher. ok. thank you very much- _ at least six people, including a child, have died in tennessee after tornadoes and severe storms hit the us state. 23 people are in hospital in montgomery county and a state of emergency has been declared in clarksville. buildings there have been reduced to rubble, and according to the latest figures, almost 60,000 people have been affected by power outages. thanks for your company on breakfast this morning. if you still haven't sent your christmas cards, don't worry, you've gotjust over a week until the postal deadlines. in the meantime, here's some royal inspiration for you. the prince and princess of wales have released their official card. it's a black—and—white portrait showing william, catherine and their three children looking relaxed in jeans and white shirts.

that's in contrast to king charles and queen camilla, who have gone for a more formal look in their card, which shows them in full regalia in the buckingham palace throne room on coronation day, may 6. it feels like an eternity ago. i can't help but wonder if they included a round—robin letter that people send out, an update on what the family has been up to. can you imagine? a busy year, quite a bit of travel and the coronation. just imagine? a busy year, quite a bit of travel and the coronation.— travel and the coronation. just an u date travel and the coronation. just an update for _ travel and the coronation. just an update for you! — travel and the coronation. just an update for you! in _ travel and the coronation. just an update for you! in case _ travel and the coronation. just an update for you! in case you i travel and the coronation. just an | update for you! in case you missed it. ithink update for you! in case you missed it. i think part of the reason i have not got around to christmas shopping is because the weather has not been very festive. it shopping is because the weather has not been very festive.— not been very festive. it has felt more autumnal— not been very festive. it has felt more autumnal recently. - not been very festive. it has felt more autumnal recently. it i not been very festive. it has felt more autumnal recently. it has. | not been very festive. it has felt i more autumnal recently. it has. we had a cold snap _ more autumnal recently. it has. we had a cold snap at _ more autumnal recently. it has. we had a cold snap at the _ more autumnal recently. it has. we had a cold snap at the beginning i more autumnal recently. it has. we had a cold snap at the beginning of| had a cold snap at the beginning of december but now it is wetter and windier. good morning. yesterday was all about storm elin. you can see this world of cloud and we had some very strong winds around north wales, northern parts of england. it

has cleared away, and behind me this is storm fergus that has been named by the irish meta— service. for the uk, not too many impacts, when the wind is strengthening later this afternoon into this evening. there will be some sunshine but also a bit of rain moving in as well. this is the pressure charter and you can see the pressure charter and you can see the storm to the west. the weather fronts are moving north and east so there will be some rain which will be quite heavy this morning across northern ireland, wales and south—western part of england stop at a narrow band of rain compared to the rain yesterday. quite quickly in some sunny spells developing here into the midlands, southeast england as well. the rain spreads north into scotland and northern ireland later again and temperatures about seven to 10 degrees. further south, sunshine, 13, 1a degrees and feel quite mild. this evening is when the squeeze on the isobars, stronger winds across the irish sea as we go

into monday morning stop that system moves fairly quickly eastward and as we go into the working week, will be a quieter start. temperatures first thing on monday morning could get close to freezing in scotland. typically about seven to nine celsius. monday, one system moves to the east and another to the west but in between, just as a ridge of higher pressure and what that means is it will be a bit more settled. maybe some drier weather around on monday and some sunshine at times as well. one or two showers around the northeast of scotland, northeast and parts of england, a few showers in the southwest as well but on the whole it will be a dry day with the sunshine, temperatures seven to ten or 11 degrees. by tuesday, that will turn more unsettled again. another area of low pressure will move in from the west. nothing too significant here but we will see some spells of rain moving north and east. perhaps a blustery wind as

well, especially around southern coastal areas and the north seacoast as well. temperatures on tuesday, about seven to 12 celsius. into the rest of the week, the area of low pressure moves away. one or two weather fronts coming in pressure moves away. one or two weatherfronts coming in but pressure moves away. one or two weather fronts coming in but on the whole, high—pressure moving in from the southwest. it means for the end of the week things settling down, some sunshine and hemmant is about 11 celsius. brute some sunshine and hemmant is about 11 celsius. ~ . , 11 celsius. we will catch up with ou aaain 11 celsius. we will catch up with you again in _ 11 celsius. we will catch up with you again in about _ 11 celsius. we will catch up with l you again in about half-an-hour. working in a shop can be a tough job at any time of year but the festive period with its extra stress, queues and alcohol can make attacks on retail staff even more likely. from verbal abuse to being spat at, punched and threatened with knives, unions say their members are facing unacceptable levels of violence on a daily basis. stuart whincup has been looking into this. attacked behind the counter. some

staff say they've been spat at, punched and abused while trying to serve customers. parvez has seen it all before. in his shop, he has been robbed, racially abused and had threats made against his life. from the last year. _ threats made against his life. from the last year, people _ threats made against his life. fr'rrnn the last year, people coming at me with a knife, people coming with weapons, i mean, some peoplejust come in abusing, go back to your country and these things, you know what i mean? you don't know who i am. �* , . ., am. the british retail consortium sa s eve am. the british retail consortium says every day. — am. the british retail consortium says every day, hundreds - am. the british retail consortium says every day, hundreds of i am. the british retail consortium says every day, hundreds of shop | says every day, hundreds of shop owners are dealing with abuse and violence. when union described the situation as shocking. brute violence. when union described the situation as shocking.— violence. when union described the situation as shocking. we are seeing a massive increase _ situation as shocking. we are seeing a massive increase in _ situation as shocking. we are seeing a massive increase in threats, i a massive increase in threats, verbal abuse, shoplifting. it gets worse and our members are just not sure what they are walking into. liz twist mp letter debate at westminster about retail violence, recalling the experience of local

shop workers. recalling the experience of local shop workers-— recalling the experience of local sho workers. �* . . .., shop workers. i've had name-calling, threats of being _ shop workers. i've had name-calling, threats of being hit _ shop workers. i've had name-calling, threats of being hit with _ shop workers. i've had name-calling, threats of being hit with bottles, i threats of being hit with bottles, needles and actual assaults. another person said shoplifters swing crutches, punches and bags. they've made threats on my life and talked of getting mejumped. and another, i've been pushed over, punched in the head and jostled by a large group. the head and 'ostled by a large a rou . _ �* , , , the head and 'ostled by a large r-rou.�* , ,, . , ., the head and 'ostled by a large r-rou.�*, ,, . , . , group. business leaders want better rotection group. business leaders want better protection for _ group. business leaders want better protection for staff _ group. business leaders want better protection for staff and _ group. business leaders want better protection for staff and tougher i protection for staff and tougher penalties for offenders. and more shop workers are now wearing body worn cameras. truth? shop workers are now wearing body worn cameras-— shop workers are now wearing body worn cameras. why are you punching me? get out. — worn cameras. why are you punching me? get out, now. _ worn cameras. why are you punching me? get out, now. the _ worn cameras. why are you punching me? get out, now. the governmentl me? get out, now. the government sa s it is me? get out, now. the government says it is completely _ me? get out, now. the government says it is completely unacceptable i says it is completely unacceptable to threaten or assault shop workers and its changes in sentencing show these crimes will not be tolerated. stuart whincup, bbc news. to talk more, we're nowjoined by chris brook—carter, the chief executive of the retail trust. he's in buckinghamshire. thank you forjoining us. the survey, the

research done by your group, retail trust, has found two in five retail workers face abuse from customers regularly. but it shocking enough but some of the examples of actual violence, being threatened with knives, how prevalent is that? it’s knives, how prevalent is that? it's reall knives, how prevalent is that? it�*s really quite worrying, as you say. we are seeing about a0% of all retail workers tell us that they are facing this kind of abuse, whether it is threatening with violence or actual assaults or being spat on or shouted at happening on a weekly basis and that's risen from about 30% from last year. worryingly, about half of all retail sale of all workers are nothing that fearful of going in to work each week every single day and i think we all have a right to get up in morning and get dressed and go to work and not expect to face these levels of abuse orany expect to face these levels of abuse or any abuse or threats to violence at all and yet for far too many people, it has become quite normalised in their day—to—day work.

the rise has coincided with the cost of living crisis. how much of that is causation rather than just simply correlation? is causation rather than 'ust simply correlation?— correlation? well, it's difficult to extract that _ correlation? well, it's difficult to extract that and _ correlation? well, it's difficult to extract that and what _ correlation? well, it's difficult to extract that and what we - correlation? well, it's difficult to i extract that and what we definitely understanding is that shoplifting is the major contributor, the single largest contributor to the violence and abuse that store workers are facing. some of it is petty theft but some of it is also organised crime as well. unfortunately, as i say, the impact on people in stores is quite significant. no—one wants to go to work and have to witness a crime, be faced with that level of hostility on a day—to—day and weekly basis. it is causing a great deal of anxiety and we are seeing almost a third of retail workers telling us they are considering leaving the sector as well which is something i think we should be all worried about. retail remains the largest single employer in the uk and is the

largest employer of young people and is often everyone's firstjob and we all her friends, is often everyone's firstjob and we all herfriends, family, i'm sure, who started their careers in retail and the high streets play an incredibly important part in our society and what we are seeing here is that position being significantly eroded by these assaults and levels of assaults and crime. i eroded by these assaults and levels of assaults and crime.— eroded by these assaults and levels of assaults and crime. i suppose how can we tackle — of assaults and crime. i suppose how can we tackle this, _ of assaults and crime. i suppose how can we tackle this, then? _ of assaults and crime. i suppose how can we tackle this, then? some i can we tackle this, then? some retail bosses say the police need to take these things more seriously. what more do you think police forces should be doing? the what more do you think police forces should be doing?— should be doing? the truth is i think this is — should be doing? the truth is i think this is can _ should be doing? the truth is i think this is can --an - should be doing? the truth is i | think this is can --an incredibly think this is can ——an incredibly compact issue and albarri worry is it's become normalised and getting it's become normalised and getting it to change now will take a significant effort from across society —— our worry. we would like to see stricter laws put in place by government and we definitely need to see the police better resourced to deal with the huge numbers of crime and assault that's happening every single day across the country. we

would like to see the real kaiso dates were —— retail sector as well invest in the safety of its workers, whether through body cams or investing in training for their people and making sure there is the right policies in place and that staff understand what to do in these situations and we need retail staff themselves to report these incidents. fartoo themselves to report these incidents. far too many, themselves to report these incidents. fartoo many, i themselves to report these incidents. far too many, ithink about one in four don't report the incidents of abuse and crime when they happen because they don't think anything will happen. we need those to be reported so the scale of the issue becomes apparent and then, of course, we need public themselves to recognise these are human beings behind the counter. it got families to go back to, they may be mothers or fathers and many of the times that you are getting cross or fed up, it's not the fault of those people behind the counter and please check yourselves on tape deep breaths and come down and be kind,

securely in the run—up to christmas which, of course, is meant to be a period ofjoy and giving. which, of course, is meant to be a period of joy and giving.— which, of course, is meant to be a period of joy and giving. period of 'oy and giving. thank you, chris, period ofjoy and giving. thank you, chris, for talking _ period ofjoy and giving. thank you, chris, for talking us _ period ofjoy and giving. thank you, chris, for talking us through - period ofjoy and giving. thank you, chris, for talking us through some l chris, for talking us through some of the issues. chris bull carter, the chief executive of retail trust. —— brooke carter. on yesterday's breakfast, we showed you how some hospital patients were being lined up for hours in corridors outside wards because beds are full. that was in the queen's medical centre in nottingham, which is trying to alleviate the problem with a new discharge unit, designed to help patients get home quicker. rob sissons has the details. we've seen the problems. patients on a busy monday morning in a&e having to wait hours in a corridor for a busy monday morning in a&e having to wait hours in a corridorfor a bed on board. managers say there are not any quick fixes. it is a symptom of problems with the flow of patients across health and social care. but as every waterbed counts, wishes to free up more are being tried. this for example is the new 2a—hour seven day a week discharge

lounge at the queen's medical centre. it is for patients deemed ready to leave hospital. there are 20 chairs and 20 beds. i just ready to leave hospital. there are 20 chairs and 20 beds. i 'ust think it's a 20 chairs and 20 beds. i 'ust think its a great — 20 chairs and 20 beds. i 'ust think its a great way h 20 chairs and 20 beds. i 'ust think it's a great way to i 20 chairs and 20 beds. ijust think it's a great way to alleviating i 20 chairs and 20 beds. ijust think it's a great way to alleviating the i it's a great way to alleviating the bed pressures in the hospital, to try and get as many people down here as possible on the date of discharge all the day before discharge and then we can try to create capacity and flow and help those patients in ed find a quicker pathway to getting into award. .,, , . , , ._ , ed find a quicker pathway to getting into award. , . , , , . into award. hospitals these days are seeini into award. hospitals these days are seeing more — into award. hospitals these days are seeing more complex _ into award. hospitals these days are seeing more complex cases. - into award. hospitals these days are seeing more complex cases. june i into award. hospitals these days are seeing more complex cases. june is| seeing more complex cases. june is on the mend after two months in hospital following a fall. she is pleased to be finally going home. i can walk but i cannot pleased to be finally going home. i can walk but i cannot walk well. pleased to be finally going home. i i can walk but i cannot walk well. how does it feel — can walk but i cannot walk well. how does it feel today, _ can walk but i cannot walk well. how does it feel today, two long months in hospital and finally going home? god. ~ . . in hospital and finally going home? god. ~ ., ., ., ., in hospital and finally going home? god. ., ., ., ., ., god. what are you looking forward to most? a nice — god. what are you looking forward to most? a nice cup _ god. what are you looking forward to most? a nice cup of _ god. what are you looking forward to most? a nice cup of tea. _ god. what are you looking forward to most? a nice cup of tea. a _ god. what are you looking forward to most? a nice cup of tea. a good - god. what are you looking forward to most? a nice cup of tea. a good cup| most? a nice cup of tea. a good cup of tea. most? a nice cup of tea. a good cup of tea- and — most? a nice cup of tea. a good cup of tea- and a — most? a nice cup of tea. a good cup of tea. and a nice _ most? a nice cup of tea. a good cup of tea. and a nice sit _ most? a nice cup of tea. a good cup of tea. and a nice sit down, - most? a nice cup of tea. a good cup of tea. and a nice sit down, watch . of tea. and a nice sit down, watch my tv. i've had no tv for two

months. my tv. i've had no tv for two months-_ my tv. i've had no tv for two months. �* ., , , months. and marion is benefiting from a new— months. and marion is benefiting from a new same-day _ months. and marion is benefitingi from a new same-day emergency months. and marion is benefiting - from a new same-day emergency care from a new same—day emergency care centre. she should get a scan and medication without the need for an overnight stay. it’s medication without the need for an overnight stay-— overnight stay. it's really good. comfortable — overnight stay. it's really good. comfortable seating _ overnight stay. it's really good. comfortable seating and - overnight stay. it's really good. comfortable seating and i - overnight stay. it's really good. comfortable seating and i don't overnight stay. it's really good. - comfortable seating and i don't mind waiting for a bed. as long as it gets sorted and i can go away. i've got small little clots in my lower leg. i think it's due for an operation i had for an appendix. so the unity said to be preventing some ward beds having to be used. each one counts. ward beds having to be used. each one counte— ward beds having to be used. each one counts. , ., , one counts. many of those patients, about more — one counts. many of those patients, about more than _ one counts. many of those patients, about more than a _ one counts. many of those patients, about more than a year— one counts. many of those patients, about more than a year ago, - one counts. many of those patients, about more than a year ago, maybe | one counts. many of those patients, l about more than a year ago, maybe 18 months ago, when i found themselves in a bed for a couple of days while receiving treatment and now we have new methods of doing that and ensuring the safe, effective care as well. ., ., , ., , ., , well. none of these latest ideas in themselves _ well. none of these latest ideas in themselves will _ well. none of these latest ideas in themselves will be _ well. none of these latest ideas in themselves will be enough - well. none of these latest ideas in themselves will be enough to - well. none of these latest ideas in themselves will be enough to sort| themselves will be enough to sort out the strain on the nhs in winter and the feeling here at the start of it is that things are going to get tougher. rob sissons, bbc news.

i now for sport —— time. chetan, man city are struggling lately and they should, what should be something to restore their confidence if things go to plan later?— restore their confidence if things go to plan later? yes. a lot there and ou go to plan later? yes. a lot there and you are _ go to plan later? yes. a lot there and you are right, _ go to plan later? yes. a lot there and you are right, by _ go to plan later? yes. a lot there and you are right, by their - and you are right, by their standards they are struggling, written away today, a great game, they nearly won it, lost at 4— three and got a draw against liverpool and we are not used to seeing guardiola looking so pensive and worried. they are trying to win a fourth premier league title but it hasn't been going well lately and if they were not to beat luton today he's never gone five games in his managerial career in a row without winning one match. if chelsea, liverpool, tottenham and villa, failing to win any of those. no shame they are playing catch up at the top of the premier league. manchester city will look to regain some ground on the leaders as they travel to luton this afternoon. the champions are winless in four premier league games, most recently suffering defeat to aston villa on wednesday. pep guardiola has never had a run

of five games without a win in his entire managerial career with city currently seven points behind liverpool at the top of the table. i need to step back to realise, pepper, come on, wake up. something is wrong. what happened? why are we playing worse now? come on. so always myself, myself, i have to realise, yes, it is a good warning for me. scottish champions celtic are looking to restore their 8—point lead at the top against kilmarnock this afternoon — that's after rangers came from behind to close the gap to five points. they beat dundee 3—1 at ibrox. abdallah sima with the pick of the goals. in the women's super league, lauren hemp scored twice in four minutes to help manchester city beat aston villa 2—1. afterfalling behind in the seventh minute, hemp drew the hosts level in the second half when she headed in chloe kelly's cross at the far post. the england international then scored a second soon after to seal the deal and put city second. third—placed arsenal play

the leaders chelsea later today. rugby union's prestigious european club competition, the champions cup, has returned but there were mixed fortunes for british clubs. cardiff fell to their heaviest european defeat in 17 years but there was a confidence boosting victory for exeter and bath also began their campaign with a win. nesta mcgregor reports. owing to their respective leagues, bath went into this game as the in—form side. as for ulster, well, three defeats in four, could the cup provide much—needed relief? the early signs were good. albeit after a closely contested opening it was bath who scored first. commentator: over the top! cokanasiga run—in! ulster showed character, though. first, billy burns with the luck of the bounce... burns skips through! ..then moments later, a powerful 30—yard run from winger james hume. ulster with a 1a—8 lead at half—time. and ulster have turned this on its head!

if the first half was evenly contested, the second was anything but. after a powerful maul a few metres from the line, it was tom dunn who lunged over. then a huge turning point in the game — ulster went a man down, bath took full advantage. three unanswered tries as the home side tired. a win and a bonus point — it finished bath 37—1li. elsewhere, england's henry slade was given an injury time opportunity to decide the game. henry slade, you decide! this ranks high! his exeter chiefs squeezing past toulouse. the first weekend of the champions cup living up to its billing. nesta mcgregor, bbc news. in the women's premiership, merryn doidge scored a hat—trick as the exeter chiefs beat harlequins 52—27. the chiefs led by 22 points at the break before taking total

control in the second period to make it three wins from three and keep up the pressure on saracens at the top of the table. england's men have lost their one—day series with west indies after falling to a four—wicket defeat in a rain—shortened third odi in barbados. ben duckett top scored with 71 to help england post 206—9 from a0 overs after a rain delay and a further downpour left west indies with a revised target of 188 from 3a overs, which they achieved with 1a balls to spare to give them a first home series win over england in the format since 1998. the two sides will now prepare for the five—match t20 series that begins on tuesday, also in barbados. hopefully some better weather then! england's women are in action against india this afternoon but the t20 series is already over. they put in a dominant display in the second match in mumbai to wrap up the series, bowling the hosts out forjust 80. craig templeton reports. saturday night under the mumbai lights and england were ready

to put on a show. charlie dean provided the opening act. virma gone for none and then mandana, one of the world's best batters, would follow suit. dean and england flying. sophie ecclestone was about to join her. a remarkable catch that only sped up india's four. —— a remarkable catch that only sped up india's fall. when the world's best t20 bowler took a wicket as usual, india were all out forjust 80 — their third lowest total in this format. crisis talks at the interval but the star from the first match was shining again. nat sciver—brunt with a six. this effort gave the home fans something to cheer. england laboured over the line but ecclestone's mis—hit won a match that was a comedy, a drama and a tragedy rolled all into one. england won't care — the series is theirs.

craig templeton, bbc news. things are looking good for england. mark allen won the snooker shoot out in swansea. this event differs to traditional snooker events with a shot clock in operation throughout and frames lasting a maximum of ten minutes. and it was the top seed allen who beat china's cao yupeng in the final to take the title and the £50,000 winner's cheque. in netball, south africa have taken england to a final game decider in their three game series after a 61—59 victory in nottingham. england took the lead in the final quarter but south africa went ahead with three minutes left and held on to seal victory with less than 30 seconds remaining. the final match will take place later today. and finally, this is japanese baseball sensation shohei 0htani, who has signed a gigantic $700 million contract in major league baseball. one of the biggest sports stars of the planet. he was a free agent after his

contract at the los angeles angels expired at the end of last season but he won't be going far as he has decided tojoin the los angeles dodgers. the contract is — wait for it — a 10—year deal, so $70 million a year. that works out at just over £550 million over the course of the next decade. i think it is fair to say that he is a very happy man. my word! i think i have taken more seriously playing rounders at school! thank you, chetan. sunday with laura kuenssberg is on bbc one at 9:00 this morning and we can find out now what she has in store. morning, laura. plenty for you to get stuck into this morning?— plenty for you to get stuck into this morning? that's right, there is, and this morning? that's right, there is. and so _ this morning? that's right, there is, and so much _ this morning? that's right, there is, and so much going _ this morning? that's right, there is, and so much going on - this morning? that's right, there is, and so much going on in - this morning? that's right, there is, and so much going on in the i is, and so much going on in the world but two really big stories. one is the government's mess over its plans to send migrants to rwanda and we will talk exclusively to the man who quit the government, robert jenrick, who was the immigration minister. he walked out this weekend will be here this morning talking about his decisions and what does it all mean for the tory party, how

messy could things be for rishi sunak? it was all know this week there have been real concerns about whether or not ukraine will keep getting the cash it needs to keep fighting the war. we've been to kyiv and spoken exclusively to the first lady olena zelenska. we will have that interview here for you along with a few other bits and pieces here at nine o'clock on bbc one. laura, thank you. see you then. and some things that she mentioned, the politics, will cover on breakfast as well after eight am. we're here on the bbc news channel and bbc two until 9:00 this morning. still to come between now and then: we'll hear about the huge fossilfound in dorset, which sheds new light on the enormous predator that stalked our coastline millions of years ago. happy 50th birthday to the high—and—low. take a drive down memory lane as one of the uk's most impressive stretches of road, the split—level viaduct on the m5 at clevedon, marks its half—century. former king of thejungle christopher biggins will help us look ahead

to tonight's final of i'm a celebrity... get me out of here! a former winner and it will be good to hear his thoughts on the current series. that's all still to come if you're watching breakfast on bbc two or the news channel. but this is where we say goodbye to viewers on bbc one. bye for now.

hello. welcome to viewers from bbc one who have switched over. this is breakfast with ben boulos and luxmy gopal. it's a classic moment in so many romantic films and tv shows — when a bride—to—be tries on her perfect wedding dress for the very first time, often surrounded by her family and friends. but what about the women who want to have that "wow" moment, even if they have no plans to marry?

i will be following this one very closely! one bridal shop in skipton, north yorkshire, is giving them the chance, as cathy killick reports. dank day in december is not the busiest time for bridal shops, but it is cinderella 's in skipton it is here. oh, yes. the ladies here are all dressed up and having a ball. but not one of them is getting married. they can try on dresses thanks to the woman who inspired the try on sessions. i got thanks to the woman who inspired the try on sessions-— try on sessions. i got secondary breast cancer _ try on sessions. i got secondary breast cancer and _ try on sessions. i got secondary breast cancer and when - try on sessions. i got secondary breast cancer and when i - try on sessions. i got secondary breast cancer and when i got. breast cancer and when i got diagnosed injuly 2020, i started a bucket list of things i wanted to do, and this was my third thing on the bucket list. i have been engaged twice and never been married and i wanted to try on dresses, i wanted to be a bride!— wanted to try on dresses, i wanted to be a bride!_ molly's to be a bride! look at that! molly's fairy godmother — to be a bride! look at that! molly's fairy godmother is _ to be a bride! look at that! molly's fairy godmother is cinderella's - fairy godmother is cinderella's owner mandy. when she saw the effect

of the dresses on molly, she decided to let others do the same. so in this quiet week, non— brides are allowed to dress up and dream. the: atmosphere is allowed to dress up and dream. tt9 atmosphere is always electric, allowed to dress up and dream. tt9: atmosphere is always electric, it allowed to dress up and dream. tt9 atmosphere is always electric, it is very giggly, we have lots of fun, we get girls of all ages and sizes and shapes, everybody is welcome. it is such a confidence booster because they look amazing and they get these rate smiles on their face and at the end of the day that is what we're looking at, it is how happy they are and that is what is important. t am and that is what is important. i am from addington, _ and that is what is important. i am from addington, i _ and that is what is important. i am from addington, i got _ and that is what is important. i am from addington, i got my wedding dress _ from addington, i got my wedding dress from manly 18 years ago and i thought— dress from manly 18 years ago and i thought it _ dress from manly 18 years ago and i thought it would be lovely to try on wedding _ thought it would be lovely to try on wedding dresses again. | thought it would be lovely to try on wedding dresses again. i am heather and we are swimming _ wedding dresses again. i am heather and we are swimming buddies - wedding dresses again. i am heather and we are swimming buddies and i i and we are swimming buddies and i have lost_ and we are swimming buddies and i have lost some _ and we are swimming buddies and i have lost some weight _ and we are swimming buddies and i have lost some weight so _ and we are swimming buddies and i have lost some weight so i- and we are swimming buddies and i have lost some weight so i thought| have lost some weight so i thought it would _ have lost some weight so i thought it would he — have lost some weight so i thought it would be nice _ have lost some weight so i thought it would be nice to _ have lost some weight so i thought it would be nice to celebrate - have lost some weight so i thought it would be nice to celebrate the i it would be nice to celebrate the fact and — it would be nice to celebrate the fact and we _ it would be nice to celebrate the fact and we are _ it would be nice to celebrate the fact and we are a _ it would be nice to celebrate the fact and we are a fantastic - it would be nice to celebrate the fact and we are a fantastic or. fact and we are a fantastic or distress _ fact and we are a fantastic or distress. ~ :, ~' fact and we are a fantastic or distress-— fact and we are a fantastic or distress. ~ :, ~' :, ~' fact and we are a fantastic or distress. ~ :, ~ :, ~' in, distress. work it, girl, work it! my name is liza _ distress. work it, girl, work it! my name is liza and _ distress. work it, girl, work it! my name is liza and i _ distress. work it, girl, work it! my name is liza and i am _ distress. work it, girl, work it! my name is liza and i am from - name is liza and i am from skipton. i name is liza and i am from skipton. lalwavs_ name is liza and i am from skipton. i always wanted to be a model and

mandy— i always wanted to be a model and mandy gave me the opportunity to be one four— mandy gave me the opportunity to be one four cinderella's, so i am so blessed — one four cinderella's, so i am so blessed. thank you so much! full disclosure. _ blessed. thank you so much! full disclosure. l— blessed. thank you so much! full disclosure, i have _ blessed. thank you so much! fltt disclosure, i have never been married, norseen disclosure, i have never been married, nor seen myself as a bride, but you try saying no to this lot. they are very persuasive. i did feel great, but then i was still wearing my trusty trainers. a modern girl, just like molly. t my trusty trainers. a modern girl, just like molly-— just like molly. i am really not a dress person- — just like molly. i am really not a dress person. i _ just like molly. i am really not a dress person. i always - just like molly. i am really not a dress person. i always wear- just like molly. i am really not a i dress person. i always wearjeans and it was just amazing and i have so many photographs. it was just amazing. i knew! so many photographs. it was just amazing. i knew i would never get married so this was my wedding day. supportive, uplifting and surprisingly moving, they really can do it for themselves. the team here weren't sure about it, but i actually love that idea

because it is being able to put on a lovely dress without the cost of an actual wedding!— actual wedding! they all looked beautiful and _ actual wedding! they all looked beautiful and the _ actual wedding! they all looked beautiful and the women i actual wedding! they all looked beautiful and the women in i actual wedding! they all looked i beautiful and the women in them. this looks such a lovelyjoyous moment there, happiness it was creating. the smiles on their faces were really lovely, really nice. let's see if the weather will be putting a smile on our faces. let's find out from simon. you want some nice sunny weather, or snow. tt is find out from simon. you want some nice sunny weather, or snow.- nice sunny weather, or snow. it is a christmas — nice sunny weather, or snow. it is a christmas wedding. _ nice sunny weather, or snow. it is a christmas wedding. we _ nice sunny weather, or snow. it is a christmas wedding. we will - nice sunny weather, or snow. it is a christmas wedding. we will see i nice sunny weather, or snow. tt 3 — christmas wedding. we will see some sunshine today but it is fairly blustery and there is some rain in the forecast. yesterday we had strom melanoma is that storm of cloud around northern ireland that gave us some strong winds around northern england north wales. 80 miles an hour —— elin. this is storm fergus, named by the irishman service, most impact will be across ireland so we will not see much of any impact for the uk. today there will be a bit of rain at times but also some sunshine as well. this morning we have some

rain moving through northern ireland, ways and the southwest of england, and it could be quite heavy but it will move gradually north and east. some sunshine through wales, the midlands and through southern angry is of england into the afternoon. the rain spreads into scotland and maximum temperatures here around seven or eight celsius. further south you have some fairly light winds and the sunshine, 13 or 14 light winds and the sunshine, 13 or 1a degrees and it will feel mild. tonight is when fergus moves the through, for the uk, not any impact will say some blustery conditions, some rain moving east and we will have some clear skies going into monday morning. temperatures in central part of scotland could be fairly low, close to freezing here. another mild night elsewhere, seven to nine degrees. into monday we lose one area of low pressure, that is the remnants of fergus and another one to the west, but between those two weather systems on monday, a

window of quieter weather. for many, it is dry, some sunshine and showers coming into the northeast of scotland, northeast england, showers down to the southwest as well, but on the whole foremost, a dry day on monday with the sunshine. maximum temperatures in double figures across many parts of england and wales, six or seven degrees further north. the window of finer weather won't last long because as we go into tuesday another area of low pressure will move in from the west. that will bring some spells of rain summer which could quite heavy at times with some showers around the english channel towards the western coast of wales. sunshine into the afternoon but it says quite west in eastern scotland into the afternoon. temperatures around seven or eight degrees in northern areas, ten to 12 celsius further south and east. how about the rest of the week? well, we lose the area of low pressure and we have a few weather fronts moving to

northwest areas, on the whole, high—pressure start to move in from the southwest and high—pressure means more settled weather. as we go through into the end of the week into next weekend it is looking largely dry, spells of sunshine, temperatures down a little bit, nine to ii temperatures down a little bit, nine to 11 or 12 degrees.— to 11 or 12 degrees. simon, thank ou. to 11 or 12 degrees. simon, thank you next _ to 11 or 12 degrees. simon, thank you. next meet _ to 11 or 12 degrees. simon, thank you. next meet -- _ to 11 or 12 degrees. simon, thank you. next meet -- next - to 11 or 12 degrees. simon, thank you. next meet -- next week- to 11 or 12 degrees. simon, thank| you. next meet -- next week and to 11 or 12 degrees. simon, thank i you. next meet -- next week and is not bad at — you. next meet -- next week and is not bad at all! _ you. next meet -- next week and is not bad at all! time _ you. next meet -- next week and is not bad at all! time to _ you. next meet -- next week and is not bad at all! time to fit _ you. next meet -- next week and is not bad at all! time to fit that i you. next meet -- next week and is not bad at all! time to fit that in i not bad at all! time to fit that in if our not bad at all! time to fit that in if your schedules _ not bad at all! time to fit that in if your schedules are _ not bad at all! time to fit that in if your schedules are empty. i not bad at all! time to fit that in i if your schedules are empty. thank you. it's been two months since the prime minister took the controversial decision to scale back the hs2 rail project. our transport correspondent katy austin looks back now at the story of hs2, and the fallout from that decision. big promises... this is a fantastic ro'ect. big promises... this is a fantastic project. protests. _ big promises... this is a fantastic project. protests. no _ big promises. .. this is a fantastic project. protests. no thank- big promises... this is a fantastic project. protests. no thank you! | project. protests. no thank you! peole. project. protests. no thank you! people- we _ project. protests. no thank you! people. we will _ project. protests. no thank you! people. we will buy _ project. protests. no thank you! people. we will buy a _ project. protests. no thank you! people. we will buy a house i project. protests. no thank you! people. we will buy a house you can't aet people. we will buy a house you can't get to? _ people. we will buy a house you can't get to? tens _ people. we will buy a house you can't get to? tens of _ people. we will buy a house you can't get to? tens of billions i people. we will buy a house you can't get to? tens of billions of| can't get to? tens of billions of ounds.

can't get to? tens of billions of pounds- hs2 — can't get to? tens of billions of pounds. hs2 is _ can't get to? tens of billions of pounds. hs2 is the _ can't get to? tens of billions of pounds. hs2 is the flagship i can't get to? tens of billions of pounds. hs2 is the flagship railj pounds. hs2 is the flagship rail scheme knocked off course by rising costs and changing political priorities. so how did this become this... and then this? i have travelled around the hs2 route to ask how we got to this point. and what happens next? first, let three. for more than a decade, political leaders have backed new high—speed railway, arguing it would connect major cities better and faster, spreading economic benefits across the country. economic benefits across the count . : , ., economic benefits across the count . : , :, :, :, :: country. manchester to london in 20 minutes. successive _ country. manchester to london in 20 minutes. successive governments i minutes. successive governments continued to _ minutes. successive governments continued to support _ minutes. successive governments continued to support it. _ minutes. successive governments continued to support it. can't i minutes. successive governments| continued to support it. can't keep dispatching — continued to support it. can't keep dispatching up _ continued to support it. can't keep dispatching up old _ continued to support it. can't keep dispatching up old railways. i continued to support it. can't keep dispatching up old railways. this . continued to support it. can't keep dispatching up old railways. this is about capacity. tit dispatching up old railways. this is about capacity-— dispatching up old railways. this is about capacity. in 2020, then prime minister boris _ about capacity. in 2020, then prime minister boris johnson _ about capacity. in 2020, then prime minister boris johnson decided i about capacity. in 2020, then prime minister boris johnson decided to i

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being built, but only between london and the west midlands. that section is due to open by 2033, seven years after the original date. so this is one of the hs2 construction sites just to the north—west of london and we are about to go into one of the tunnels that is currently being built. we travelled 1.5 miles in, 30 metres under the ground to see where they have got to so far. the scale of the work is enormous. it is a 24—hour operation using purpose—built boring machines. specialist workers brought in from across the globe. here comes a delivery of the large curved slabs which form the tunnel walls. 11

miles of parallel tunnels have been dug so far. butjust minutes away from the building site, i met some local residents. they found it a nightmare to live with what have you got here? nightmare to live with what have you not here? , :, :, ,, got here? these are maps we get every week _ got here? these are maps we get every week from _ got here? these are maps we get every week from hs2 _ got here? these are maps we get every week from hs2 across i got here? these are maps we get i every week from hs2 across the works in our area, showing the major impacts. high impact noise on the local community, orange medium and green. ma; local community, orange medium and ureen. y :, , , local community, orange medium and .reen, ~y ., i, green. my wife and myself bought this house that _ green. my wife and myself bought this house that we _ green. my wife and myself bought this house that we have _ green. my wife and myself bought this house that we have now, i green. my wife and myself bought. this house that we have now, which we really— this house that we have now, which we really like, as being a forever type of— we really like, as being a forever type of house, and we now look out on a site _ type of house, and we now look out on a site that looks more like a world — on a site that looks more like a world war— on a site that looks more like a world war i battleground than it does _ world war i battleground than it does a _ world war i battleground than it does a beautiful pastor that was there _ does a beautiful pastor that was there before hand. and it is all pervading. you cannot get away from it. i pervading. you cannot get away from it. ~ :, , pervading. you cannot get away from it. i know people whose mental health is now _ it. i know people whose mental health is now hurt _ it. i know people whose mental

health is now hurt because i it. i know people whose mental health is now hurt because of. it. i know people whose mental. health is now hurt because ofjust the constant _ health is now hurt because ofjust the constant interruptions- health is now hurt because ofjust the constant interruptions to i health is now hurt because ofjustj the constant interruptions to their life. ,, , :, life. hs2 limited said it tries to avoid or minimise _ life. hs2 limited said it tries to avoid or minimise disruption i life. hs2 limited said it tries to i avoid or minimise disruption where possible and has a dedicated team which supports the local community. ryan and phil now does want them to get on with it and finish work here as soon as possible.— as soon as possible. hs2, no thank ou! as soon as possible. hs2, no thank you! complaints— as soon as possible. hs2, no thank you! complaints from _ as soon as possible. hs2, no thank you! complaints from residents i as soon as possible. hs2, no thank| you! complaints from residents and mps did lead _ you! complaints from residents and mps did lead to _ you! complaints from residents and mps did lead to changes _ you! complaints from residents and mps did lead to changes like - you! complaints from residents and mps did lead to changes like more. mps did lead to changes like more tunnelling through the chiltern hills. when hs2 first opens, trains will terminate at old oak common in west london before eventually going to euston in the capital's heart. there had been speculation it would never happen, leaving passengers miles from central london and having to change trains to get there. the euston scheme has proved a challenge. the site is being cleared, the residents and businesses forced out. this pub was demolished. £31!" businesses forced out. this pub was demolished-— businesses forced out. this pub was demolished. :, , :, :, :, demolished. our house, our home, our livelihood and — demolished. our house, our home, our livelihood and has _ demolished. our house, our home, our livelihood and has been _ demolished. our house, our home, our livelihood and has been for _ demolished. our house, our home, our

livelihood and has been for the - demolished. our house, our home, our livelihood and has been for the last i livelihood and has been for the last nearly 15 years. tt livelihood and has been for the last nearly 15 years-— nearly 15 years. it really is heartbreaking. _ nearly 15 years. it really is heartbreaking. i— nearly 15 years. it really is heartbreaking. i am i nearly 15 years. it really is. heartbreaking. i am getting nearly 15 years. it really is i heartbreaking. i am getting to nearly 15 years. it really is - heartbreaking. i am getting to the stage _ heartbreaking. i am getting to the stage where ijust carry tissues around — stage where ijust carry tissues around permanently. stage where i just carry tissues around permanently.— stage where i just carry tissues around permanently. other locals were stuck— around permanently. other locals were stuck next _ around permanently. other locals were stuck next to _ around permanently. other locals were stuck next to a _ around permanently. other locals were stuck next to a building i around permanently. other locals were stuck next to a building site | were stuck next to a building site for years. were stuck next to a building site foryears. it were stuck next to a building site for years. it is not only the living who have had to make way. 40,000 bodies were moved from an old cemetery. and there have been environmental protests. work was paused in march 2023 because of cost concerns, and now there is a different plan. the government insists hs2 will reach euston if private developers agree to pay for a smaller station. but there are unanswered questions. who will pay for the tunnel?— for the tunnel? those questions are auoin to for the tunnel? those questions are going to be — for the tunnel? those questions are going to be part— for the tunnel? those questions are going to be part of— for the tunnel? those questions are going to be part of what _ for the tunnel? those questions are going to be part of what this - for the tunnel? those questions are going to be part of what this whole | going to be part of what this whole euston project looks like, so we will have to cut the size of the development opportunity... you don't know... development opportunity... you don't know- -- how — development opportunity... you don't know... how much _ development opportunity... you don't know... how much private-sector i know... how much private-sector money we — know... how much private-sector money we can _ know... how much private-sector money we can get _ know... how much private-sector money we can get here. -

know... how much private-sectori money we can get here. continuing know... how much private-sector i money we can get here. continuing up the route, money we can get here. continuing up the route. you — money we can get here. continuing up the route. you get _ money we can get here. continuing up the route, you get to _ money we can get here. continuing up the route, you get to birmingham, i the route, you get to birmingham, where the site for a vast new station has already been cleared. now, there will be no more hs2 stations north of here. do you think it was the right thing for it not to go beyond birmingham, that most recent decision?— recent decision? because of the amount of— recent decision? because of the amount of money _ recent decision? because of the amount of money that - recent decision? because of the amount of money that was i recent decision? because of the | amount of money that was spent on it, it would have been the most responsible thing to stop it, but i am not sure it would have gone ahead in the first place. i think the destruction it has caused is too extreme. t0 destruction it has caused is too extreme. :, :, :, :, :, extreme. to have a quick thought of train would — extreme. to have a quick thought of train would be _ extreme. to have a quick thought of train would be very _ extreme. to have a quick thought of train would be very useful, - extreme. to have a quick thought of train would be very useful, but i i train would be very useful, but i feel them — train would be very useful, but i feel them stopping it going all the way north is terrible, really. a broken — way north is terrible, really. a broken promise, another one at the end of— broken promise, another one at the end of the _ broken promise, another one at the end of the day. h52 broken promise, another one at the end of the day-— end of the day. hs2 trains will go to manchester, _ end of the day. hs2 trains will go to manchester, joining _ end of the day. hs2 trains will go to manchester, joining existing i to manchester, joining existing slower tracks after the ends at lichfield. people there still face disruption. lichfield. people there still face disrution. ~ :, lichfield. people there still face disruption-— lichfield. people there still face disrution. ~ :, :, :, disruption. like karen. hello. come on in. disruption. like karen. hello. come on in- this— disruption. like karen. hello. come on in. this used _ disruption. like karen. hello. come on in. this used to _ disruption. like karen. hello. come on in. this used to be _ disruption. like karen. hello. come on in. this used to be her— disruption. like karen. hello. come on in. this used to be her dream i on in. this used to be her dream home. on in. this used to be her dream home- these — on in. this used to be her dream home. these are _ on in. this used to be her dream

home. these are all— on in. this used to be her dream home. these are all aerial- on in. this used to be her dream i home. these are all aerial photos, are they? home. these are all aerial photos, are the ? , :, , home. these are all aerial photos, arethe ? , :, , , :, are they? yes, and they show brilliantly _ are they? yes, and they show brilliantly how _ are they? yes, and they show brilliantly how we _ are they? yes, and they show brilliantly how we developed i are they? yes, and they show. brilliantly how we developed it. that is one of the most derelict and gradually over time, until nearer sort of where we are today, you can see all the garden that has been developed. see all the garden that has been developed-— see all the garden that has been develoed. ,, , , developed. hs2 has compulsorily urchased developed. hs2 has compulsorily purchased parts _ developed. hs2 has compulsorily purchased parts of _ developed. hs2 has compulsorily purchased parts of the _ developed. hs2 has compulsorily purchased parts of the garden. i | purchased parts of the garden. i remember sitting on that step purchased parts of the garden. t remember sitting on that step when we heard about it and bursting into tears. itjust rocks your foundations. itjust completely foundations. it just completely takes foundations. itjust completely takes over your whole life. the land that has been bought includes the driveway entrance. karen says this mean she has to trespassed to get to her own home. we haven't come to an official agreement with them. clearly, that has a massive impact on the value of our property. because who is going to buy a house that you cannot get to buy a house that you cannot get to officially? it has been calculated that the value of our house has been reduced by 95%. hsz house has been reduced by 95%. hs2 told us it had —

house has been reduced by 95%. hsz told us it had been in touch with karen and her husband for some time and was trying to find a permanent solution. the decision to cut the second part of hs2 isn't the end of the story. construction hadn't begun between the west midlands and crewe but a longer section alone, more than £200 million had been spent buying up land and property, a third of it was's farmland in whitmore in staffordshire has been compulsorily purchased. the staffordshire has been compulsorily urchased. , , , staffordshire has been compulsorily urchased. , ,, staffordshire has been compulsorily urchased. ,, purchased. the process has taken ten ears but purchased. the process has taken ten years but the — purchased. the process has taken ten years but the actual _ purchased. the process has taken ten years but the actual cpo, _ purchased. the process has taken ten years but the actual cpo, the - purchased. the process has taken ten years but the actual cpo, the final i years but the actual cpo, the final block, main block without 81 a fifth —— thing on the 15th of september which is about 2.5 weeks before we have the cancellation of hs2. iloathed have the cancellation of hs2. what was our have the cancellation of hs2. what was your reaction _ have the cancellation of hs2. what was your reaction when _ have the cancellation of hs2. what was your reaction when you - have the cancellation of h52. what was your reaction when you heard they were not going ahead? hate was your reaction when you heard they were not going ahead? we were not “0 ul. they were not going ahead? we were not joyful- there _ they were not going ahead? we were not joyful. there was _ they were not going ahead? we were not joyful. there was no _ notjoyful. there was no celebration. it was, ijust look at it is a huge loss of my time and worry. there is no victory.

government says it is now developing a plan for selling land that is longer needed. we a plan for selling land that is longer needed.— a plan for selling land that is longer needed. a plan for selling land that is loner needed. ~ :, ~' longer needed. we would like the opportunity _ longer needed. we would like the opportunity to _ longer needed. we would like the opportunity to buy _ longer needed. we would like the opportunity to buy it _ longer needed. we would like the opportunity to buy it back. - longer needed. we would like the opportunity to buy it back. it's i longer needed. we would like the opportunity to buy it back. it's all| opportunity to buy it back. it's all down to what the prices but it's more complicated than that because we have been formally purchased and that puts us into a standard sort of tunnel of communicating and negotiating which we think will take probably 5—10 years. we are just exhausted by it. hsz probably 5-10 years. we are 'ust exhausted by iti exhausted by it. hs2 was also oriainall exhausted by it. hs2 was also originally meant _ exhausted by it. hs2 was also originally meant to _ exhausted by it. hs2 was also originally meant to go - exhausted by it. hs2 was also originally meant to go to i exhausted by it. hs2 was also. originally meant to go to leeds exhausted by it. hs2 was also i originally meant to go to leeds but this part was scaled back in 2021 and axed completely in october 2023. the first plan would have seen people in south yorkshire losing their homes, even you bills like these. y . . , �* their homes, even you bills like these. g . . , �* ., these. my marriage is -- i've heard --eole's these. my marriage is -- i've heard people's marriages _ these. my marriage is -- i've heard people's marriages break— these. my marriage is -- i've heard people's marriages break up, - these. my marriage is -- i've heard l people's marriages break up, people go on antidepressants. there are more effects than people think. it's people's lives were also be undone.

after all that, people's lives were also be undone. afterall that, hs2 people's lives were also be undone. after all that, hs2 won't go through there anymore. aligned to the east midlands state in the plan until autumn 2023. now, that's been scrapped too. people in mitiamo and leicestershire have this reaction. there's a lot of people in this town that have had to go buy houses, sell up that have had to go buy houses, sell up and move and now it's not going through. they have uplifted and gone. through. they have uplifted and one. , through. they have uplifted and .one, , . ., through. they have uplifted and one. , ., through. they have uplifted and one. , u, ., ., through. they have uplifted and one. , ., ., .,, gone. the news came out that it was cominu gone. the news came out that it was coming through- _ gone. the news came out that it was coming through. what's _ gone. the news came out that it was coming through. what's your - gone. the news came out that it was | coming through. what's your reaction to the fact is — coming through. what's your reaction to the fact is not _ coming through. what's your reaction to the fact is not going _ coming through. what's your reaction to the fact is not going to _ coming through. what's your reaction to the fact is not going to be - to the fact is not going to be coming here now? 1 to the fact is not going to be coming here now?— to the fact is not going to be coming here now? to the fact is not going to be cominu here now? ., �* ~ ., , coming here now? i don't know. they want to do one _ coming here now? i don't know. they want to do one thing _ coming here now? i don't know. they want to do one thing and _ coming here now? i don't know. they want to do one thing and spend - coming here now? i don't know. they. want to do one thing and spend money and then_ want to do one thing and spend money and then stop it. it's ridiculous. the final— and then stop it. it's ridiculous. the final stop on our hsz journey is the final stop on our hs2 journey is manchester. cancelling the railway�*s last section of my questions hanging because that bit was going to form part of a rail line across northern england. we part of a rail line across northern encland. ~ ., ., ., england. we need to reimagine what it's auoin to england. we need to reimagine what it's going to look— england. we need to reimagine what it's going to look like _ england. we need to reimagine what it's going to look like around - it's going to look like around manchester. there is still connectivity issues, capacity issues

and infrastructure that needs to be upgraded. £12 and infrastructure that needs to be u- uraded. ' ., ., , upgraded. £12 million will now be rovided upgraded. £12 million will now be provided for _ upgraded. £12 million will now be provided for a _ upgraded. £12 million will now be provided for a new _ upgraded. £12 million will now be provided for a new line _ upgraded. £12 million will now be provided for a new line east - upgraded. £12 million will now be provided for a new line east and i provided for a new line east and west. regional mayors are being asked to help shape it. it west. regional mayors are being asked to help shape it. it doesn't feel as though — asked to help shape it. it doesn't feel as though the _ asked to help shape it. it doesn't feel as though the funding - asked to help shape it. it doesn't feel as though the funding is - asked to help shape it. it doesn't. feel as though the funding is there to deliver all of the ambitions. we are going to really kind of grabbed the opportunity, i guess, and see if we can use that investment to get the railway that we need. i working on a different way, with our private sector. ., ., , , ., , sector. the government argues people do less business _ sector. the government argues people do less business travel _ sector. the government argues people do less business travel now _ sector. the government argues people do less business travel now so - sector. the government argues people do less business travel now so hs2 - do less business travel now so hs2 isn't needed as much. manchester based businesses though hoped it would bring opportunities. we based businesses though hoped it would bring opportunities. we are a secialist would bring opportunities. we are a specialist in — would bring opportunities. we are a specialist in sales _ would bring opportunities. we are a specialist in sales marketing - would bring opportunities. we are a specialist in sales marketing and . specialist in sales marketing and events consultancy. we work with clients across the uk. the fact it is coming up to birmingham and no more, travel on the west coast mainline but not high—speed, kind of defeats the object. the whole point of the hs2 project was to reduce that north—south divide. if this had

started up in the north, in manchester, and worked its way down, would be have had the same result? would it have been scrapped? businesses in the rail supply chains over cancellation of hs2�*s northern means jobs will be lost and investment will go overseas. but what do community manchester think? i'm glad that they scrapped it before they spend more money on it, i guess. before they spend more money on it, i cuess. ., �*, ., i guess. the government's argument was they would — i guess. the government's argument was they would save _ i guess. the government's argument was they would save the _ i guess. the government's argument was they would save the money - i guess. the government's argument was they would save the money that| was they would save the money that they would have spent on the second part of hs2. they would have spent on the second art of hs2. a, they would have spent on the second art of hs2. , they would have spent on the second part of hs2-_ you - they would have spent on the second part of hs2._ you don't - part of hs2. more lies. you don't think that — part of hs2. more lies. you don't think that money _ part of hs2. more lies. you don't think that money saved - part of hs2. more lies. you don't think that money saved from - part of hs2. more lies. you don'tj think that money saved from hs2 part of hs2. more lies. you don't - think that money saved from hs2 will benefit transport that you use? i benefit transport that you use? i don't think it at all. why - benefit transport that you use? i don't think it at all. why should l don't think it at all. why should --eole don't think it at all. why should people trust — don't think it at all. why should people trust that _ don't think it at all. why should people trust that this _ don't think it at all. why should people trust that this latest - don't think it at all. why should l people trust that this latest plans will happen? i people trust that this latest plans will happen?— people trust that this latest plans will ha en? , ., , .,, will happen? i can understand people thinkina will happen? i can understand people thinking that — will happen? i can understand people thinking that but _ will happen? i can understand people thinking that but i _ will happen? i can understand people thinking that but i think _ will happen? i can understand people thinking that but i think it's _ will happen? i can understand people thinking that but i think it's why - thinking that but i think it's why we've been very straightforward with people about why we've changed the decision but also, some of the things that we are delivering, some of them are happening now. buildings such a riant of them are happening now. buildings such a giant process _ of them are happening now. buildings such a giant process isn't _ of them are happening now. buildings such a giant process isn't cheap. -- i such a giant process isn't cheap. —— building such a giant project. they

talked about being roughly £33 billion project but by 2013 it was nearly 56 billion and before the latest cut, the official overall cost wasn't least £71 billion. alan cook was responsible for hs2�*s delivery for nearly three years. in hindsight, being a wonderful thing, it was never, never, in my mind achievable at that sort of figure. we didn't completely understand right at the beginning the ground conditions that we were going to encounter —— allan cook. certainly the relationship of the supply chain was critical and of course schedule changes and scope changes always drives cost. hsz changes and scope changes always drives cost-— drives cost. hs2 critics and other reasons. drives cost. hs2 critics and other reasons- one — drives cost. hs2 critics and other reasons. one is _ drives cost. hs2 critics and other reasons. one is the _ drives cost. hs2 critics and other reasons. one is the specification j reasons. one is the specification for the very _ reasons. one is the specification for the very high _ reasons. one is the specification for the very high speed. - reasons. one is the specification for the very high speed. the - reasons. one is the specification i for the very high speed. the other problem in this country is the ability of government and government projects to employ armies of consultants. it's basically poor management. i consultants. it's basically poor management-— consultants. it's basically poor

management. consultants. it's basically poor manauement. ., , ., , management. i would strongly refute the fact that — management. i would strongly refute the fact that we _ management. i would strongly refute the fact that we had _ management. i would strongly refute the fact that we had a _ the fact that we had a goldplated approach. we were completely transparent with the department and subsequently, with the cabinet office — subsequently, with the cabinet office and number 10. subsequently, with the cabinet office and numberio. in subsequently, with the cabinet office and number 10.- subsequently, with the cabinet office and number 10. office and number10. in the past few years. — office and number10. in the past few years, inflation _ office and number10. in the past few years, inflation has _ office and number10. in the past few years, inflation has pushed i office and number10. in the past| few years, inflation has pushed up the price of materials and labour, putting further pressure on the budget. putting further pressure on the bud . et. putting further pressure on the budaet. . , ., , budget. the decision it is facing was a choice- _ budget. the decision it is facing was a choice- did _ budget. the decision it is facing was a choice- did we _ budget. the decision it is facing was a choice- did we carry - budget. the decision it is facing was a choice- did we carry on i was a choice— did we carry on spending _ was a choice— did we carry on spending significant - was a choice— did we carry on spending significant amountsj was a choice— did we carry on. spending significant amounts of money— spending significant amounts of money on — spending significant amounts of money on the _ spending significant amounts of money on the second _ spending significant amounts of money on the second phase - spending significant amounts of money on the second phase of. spending significant amounts of. money on the second phase of h52 risking _ money on the second phase of h52 risking crowding _ money on the second phase of h52 risking crowding out— money on the second phase of h52 risking crowding out other- risking crowding out other investment— risking crowding out other investment in— risking crowding out other investment in other- risking crowding out other investment in other forms risking crowding out other. investment in other forms of transport _ investment in other forms of transport in _ investment in other forms of transport in the _ investment in other forms of transport in the country - investment in other forms of transport in the country or. investment in other forms of. transport in the country or did investment in other forms of- transport in the country or did we make _ transport in the country or did we make this — transport in the country or did we make this decision _ transport in the country or did we make this decision and _ transport in the country or did we make this decision and it's - transport in the country or did we make this decision and it's worth| make this decision and it's worth remembering _ make this decision and it's worth remembering most— make this decision and it's worth remembering mostjourneys - make this decision and it's worthj remembering most journeys that people _ remembering most journeys that people take _ remembering most journeys that people take our— remembering most journeys that people take our buy— remembering most journeys that people take our buy car- remembering most journeys that people take our buy car and - remembering most journeys thatj people take our buy car and what we've _ people take our buy car and what we've done — people take our buy car and what we've done here _ people take our buy car and what we've done here is _ people take our buy car and what we've done here is reinvested . people take our buy car and what we've done here is reinvested ini people take our buy car and what i we've done here is reinvested in the forms— we've done here is reinvested in the forms of— we've done here is reinvested in the forms of transport _ we've done here is reinvested in the forms of transport people _ we've done here is reinvested in the forms of transport people use - we've done here is reinvested in the forms of transport people use more| forms of transport people use more frequentlv — forms of transport people use more freauentl . ~ ., , , ., frequently. when does this leave us? hs2 looks set — frequently. when does this leave us? hs2 looks set to _ frequently. when does this leave us? hs2 looks set to end _ frequently. when does this leave us? hs2 looks set to end up _ frequently. when does this leave us? hs2 looks set to end up at _ frequently. when does this leave us? hs2 looks set to end up at the - hs2 looks set to end up at the london to birmingham however could cost more than £50 billion with some details are still missing about euston and promised alternatives for the north of england.— the north of england. costs have one u- the north of england. costs have gone up significantly _ the north of england. costs have gone up significantly and - the north of england. costs have gone up significantly and the - gone up significantly and the benefits have reduced. the

gone up significantly and the benefits have reduced. the ways that the costs were _ benefits have reduced. the ways that the costs were inflating, _ benefits have reduced. the ways that the costs were inflating, i _ benefits have reduced. the ways that the costs were inflating, i think - benefits have reduced. the ways that the costs were inflating, i think it - the costs were inflating, i think it is the _ the costs were inflating, i think it is the right— the costs were inflating, i think it is the right decision. the disappointing _ is the right decision. the disappointing bit - is the right decision. the disappointing bit for me is really the midlands _ disappointing bit for me is really the midlands and _ disappointing bit for me is really the midlands and beyond. - disappointing bit for me is really the midlands and beyond. we'lll disappointing bit for me is really. the midlands and beyond. we'll get some _ the midlands and beyond. we'll get some benefit— the midlands and beyond. we'll get some benefit maybe _ the midlands and beyond. we'll get some benefit maybe but _ the midlands and beyond. we'll get some benefit maybe but not - the midlands and beyond. we'll get some benefit maybe but not the . some benefit maybe but not the benefits — some benefit maybe but not the benefits we _ some benefit maybe but not the benefits we were _ some benefit maybe but not the benefits we were sold _ some benefit maybe but not the benefits we were sold in - some benefit maybe but not the benefits we were sold in the - benefits we were sold in the original— benefits we were sold in the original plans _ benefits we were sold in the original plans that _ benefits we were sold in the original plans that we - benefits we were sold in the original plans that we had i benefits we were sold in the| original plans that we had to benefits we were sold in the - original plans that we had to hsz. the impact — original plans that we had to hsz. the impact will _ original plans that we had to hsz. the impact will be _ original plans that we had to hsz. the impact will be in _ original plans that we had to hsz. the impact will be in the - original plans that we had to hsz. the impact will be in the short- original plans that we had to hsz. the impact will be in the short toi the impact will be in the short to medium term, increased levels of disruption, maybe in the next generation. we will live to regret the decision. this generation. we will live to regret the decision.— generation. we will live to regret the decision. �* , , , , ., the decision. as the dust settles on the decision. as the dust settles on the bi est the decision. as the dust settles on the biggest hs2 _ the decision. as the dust settles on the biggest hs2 decision _ the decision. as the dust settles on the biggest hs2 decision yet, - the decision. as the dust settles on the biggest hs2 decision yet, for i the biggest hs2 decision yet, for many people along the route, the journey ahead still involves plenty of questions.

good morning, welcome to breakfast with ben boulos and luxmy gopal. our headlines today. the head of the israeli army has told his troops to step up the fighting in gaza — as a senior un official warns people are being driven towards starvation. another blow for prime minister rishi sunak — conservative lawyers find his rwanda bill isn't fit for purpose. could artificial intelligence be used to ease the pressure on the nhs?

we find out how the technology is helping to keep some patients out of hospital. keeping pace with the big guns in the premier league. aston villa show why they're title contenders — as victory over arsenal moves them within two points of the top. uncovering history. the skull of a 150—million year old sea monster has been excavated from the cliffs of thejurassic coast. today are wet and windy day, it should be quieter. i will have the forecast throughout the programme. it's sunday the tenth of december. our main story. the head of the israeli army has called for the military campaign in gaza to he stepped up, claiming there are signs that hamas - which is classed as a terror group by most western governments — is falling apart. it comes as a senior un aid official warned that half of gaza's population is starving, saying deliveries of food are now "almost impossible" because of the fierce fighting

and aerial bombardment. our middle east correspondent yolande knell has the latest. the misery of life under canvas. four in five gazans have now fled their homes and away from the front lines, they're still fighting to survive, with severe shortages of food and drinking water. aid agencies say that they're struggling to deliver the basics even close to the egypt border where supplies come in. humanitarian aid at the moment is the only lifeline for people, and we're simply not able to get the access that we need to get through. for the past four or five, six days, aid agencies such as unicef have only been able to access the rafah governorate, and even then it's been with very limited aid. and if we can't get through soon, people are going to really, really struggle because there isn't enough water, there isn't enough food, there isn't any shelter. israel's ground campaign is now focused on the southern city of khan younis. troops saying they're going house—to—house and tunnel to tunnel.

and the head of the israeli army is calling for the offensive in gaza to be stepped up amid signs, he says, that hamas is falling apart here injabalya in the north, the battles are at close quarters. here injabalia in the north, the battles are at close quarters. one local told the bbc they've received no food or water for five days. israel is under growing international pressure to spare gaza's civilians. translation: other countries should also understand - that it is impossible, on the one hand, to support the elimination of hamas. and on the other hand, to call for an end to the war which will prevent the elimination of hamas. after this group of men and boys taken by israeli forces five days ago were released, they claimed they were tortured. among them, mohammed mahmoud salim, held separately from his dad. "they made us sleep naked," he said, "and kept hitting us with their guns. they hit me when i asked where my dad was. they hit us with wires." the bbc has asked the israeli

military for a response. new aerial shots show palestine square, previously a bustling spot of gaza city, now under control of israeli forces marking thejewish hanukkah holiday. after two months of the most intense ever war between israel and the palestinians, the scale of the suffering and devastation here is unprecedented. that report was by our middle east correspondent yolande knell, who joins us now from jerusalem. it seems there has been an escalation in fighting.- it seems there has been an escalation in fighting. what is the situation? this _ escalation in fighting. what is the situation? this morning, - escalation in fighting. what is the situation? this morning, if - escalation in fighting. what is the situation? this morning, if you i escalation in fighting. what is the l situation? this morning, if you look across the horizon towards the north of gaza strip from southern israel, what you see is a lot of heavy smoke rising. heavy bombardment overnight and also we have seen smoke up over

khan younis, which has become the focus of the ground offensive by israel, seen as a stronghold of hamas. a witness said it had been a night of terror and fear and he said there had been constant artillery sounds and also fierce fighting on the streets close to the hospital where he is staying with hundreds of others. we understand the fighting extends along the main road to rafah where thousands of palestinians are crammed into the small pocket on the border with egypt. that will make it more difficult, ongoing fighting, to distribute aid. on top of that, we have threats coming from the iran back backed heathy houthi rebels —— houthi rebels. they said they will attack any ships going to israeli ports passing through these. it is a

reminder of how the conflict is spreading widely through the region. thank you. that was our middle east correspondent. we can get the latest on the news. and a big week for the prime minister. rishi sunak is facing more dissent from his own mps over revised plans to send asylum seekers to rwanda today — it comes from a senior backbencher in the pages of the sunday telegraph. our political correspondent peter saull can tell us more. problems for the prime minister ahead of a crucial week for him. yes. we are getting a better sense now of what the different tory tribes think about this legislation. the european research group which you might rememberfrom the brexit years, an influential voice at that time. a senior mp in their ranks, bill cash, wrote an article in which

he says he does not believe the bill is watertight and it will not stop migrants from mounting challenges against deportation to rwanda. it is not clear how this group will vote on tuesday. they will deliver a report ahead of the vote. it might be they decide to wait until a later stage and they might be able to make changes to the legislation. they might back a second reading. rishi sunak has some mps who think the bill does not go far enough. he has others who might see themselves on the moderate wing of the party who think it goes too far. what the prime minister has attempted to do overnight is put out a statement moving attention away from arguments within his party and on to labour. he is calling on them to stop playing politics and to act in the national interest. it is clear the labour party will not vote for this

bill. they described the plan as an expensive gimmick. interesting to note the labour leader keir starmer has decided to give a speech on tuesday designed to cause maximum damage for the prime minister in which he will say the government is totally unfit for office at the moment. a report has warned that the most disadvantaged people in britain are no better off than they were 15 years ago. the research — commissioned by the right—leaning centre for socialjustice — blames issues including stagnant wages, family breakdown, poor housing and crime. the think—tank says britain is at risk of slipping back to a social divide not seen since the victorian era. at least six people, including a child, have died in tennessee after tornadoes and severe storms hit the us state. 23 people are in hospital in montgomery county and a state

of emergency has been declared in clarksville. here, some rail services in north—west england are disrupted after storm elin brought down trees and flooded tracks. the storm also damaged power lines, leaving hundreds of homes without electricity this morning. australians are dealing with the effects of two different types of extreme weather — a fierce heatwave across most of the country and a cyclone bearing down on the queensland coast. our correspondent phil mercer is in sydney. the heatwave seems to have broken but high winds are on their way? certainly it has broken in sydney and other coastal areas. on saturday, temperatures in the biggest city reached about 44 degrees celsius. there was a southerly change that blew away the heat but there is still a severe heatwave warning for much of the state of new south wales. this is australia's most populous state. the

authorities believe climate change is making heatwaves more recurrent and intense and lasting longer. in new south wales we have spoken to fire authorities who say they are aware of 86 fires burning across the state. about 26 of them are not contained. in south australia, they have battled some of their most significant fire conditions in many years. indeed catastrophic conditions were declared in five districts. such is the capricious nature of australia's weather and climate, south australia went from intense heat and a serious bushfire risk to a warning of extreme rain. further north we have tropical cyclone jasper bearing down on the north queensland coast which has been a slow moving system and the first cyclone of the season. the season runs from november through to

april. clearly cyclones are common in this part. but that cyclone is not expected to make landfall until wednesday. some nervous times ahead. australia has always been hot and stormy. it has always been dry. scientists worry these extremes are being made more intense by the impact of global warming and certainly, the national weather bureau forecasts a scorching summer for much of the australian continent. if you're a doctor who fan who hasn't seen last night's episode, now is the time to look away and cover your ears. the final 60th anniversary special aired last night

and we've now met the new doctor, played by ncuti gatwa. what? no way. david tenna nt�*s doctor had a bit of an unconventional regeneration as he handed over to the 15th incarnation of the time lord. he'll have his first full episode on christmas day. christmas day, just over two weeks away. coming around quickly. here's simon with a look at the weather. that is a beautiful scene behind you from jersey. what is the phrase, red sky in the morning. shepherd's morning. i could be a weather forecaster. yes, injersey weather forecaster. yes, in jersey we weather forecaster. yes, injersey we will see rain today. it is a quiet start for many. yesterday we had storm elin. this is

fergus, named by the irish met service. we will see rain moving northwards and eastwards. and with that some sunshine. the rain moving into the channel islands. moving into the channel islands. moving into the channel islands. moving into the south—west. it will push north and east through today. the rain spreading into northern england. temperature is about 7—8 in the north, up to 1a further south. in the sunshine, not feeling too bad. tonight the wind will strengthen slightly across wales, central and southern areas of england. that is storm fergus. monday morning, temperatures down to 7-9. monday morning, temperatures down to 7—9. perhaps colder in central areas of scotland. we could see frost in the glens. monday, an area of low pressure moves east stop another behind but in between, a ridge of high pressure moving in which means

on monday, looking largely dry. some showers. north—eastern scotland, north—east coast of england. showers coming into the south—west. for most, monday is looking like a dry day with sunshine. we will see maximum temperatures of 7—11. perhaps down a degree from this afternoon. tuesday, we have another area of low pressure moving in which will be slow moving and pushing east. some blustery winds, especially the south—west coast of england, english channel. rain moving north—east and it could linger across the east, southeast scotland and north—east england in the afternoon and could be heavy at times. showers around the english channel, wales coast. some could be heavy and perhaps thundery on tuesday afternoon. temperatures 7—8 in the north, up to 12 further south. the rest of the week, low

pressure moves to the east. while we have weather fronts moving to the north, in general, we have an area of high pressure moving in from the south—west. it means as we go through the rest of the week into next weekend, looking largely dry and settled with sunshine at times. temperatures 9—12. thank you and thank you for the hint on how to become a meteorologist. we know the nhs is under severe pressure at this time of year — and one way to alleviate the burden is to treat patients early, before minor ailments turn into serious illnesses. identifying those who need early treatment is hard but artificial intelligence may be able to help. gps in somerset are trialling the technology, as christopher mace reports. # away in a manger. winter often means high rates

of illness in care homes. but here at this home in burnham—on—sea, many of the residents, likejoan, say their recent health has improved. 100% better than i was last year. i can honestly say that, and i've had no antibiotics this year at all. through good sleep, we've now got back and we've got a good chest. yes. which is great, through all the equipment. but that came up through our brave ai. so that's when i worked with my team. and you came up as a high risk. so from 28,000 people, - we can drill down to eight people that would be of interest to the team. _ | from those eight, we can then drill| down to one person and get insights about what is actually driving their risk- of going to hospital. brave ai looks at people's medical histories and assesses how likely it is they'll end up in hospital. the medical personnel say it's essential that all the decisions are made by people, not software. for reassurance, it's not machine learning, artificial—

intelligence in isolation. it's very much about having humans i looking at the record and thinking i about what's right for that person. how can we help? since health care teams using brave ai started visiting this care home, fewer residents have ended up in hospital. it means that we get that knowledge and then i can spread it through the whole teams, even our housekeepers, our kitchen staff. everyone's involved in making sure that we're giving the correct care to the individual. it means that the individual themselves are heard. they feel part of their own life rather than just us talking over the phone to a gp about symptoms, they've actually seeing someone face to face. the next stage of the roll—out will see gp practices in gloucestershire, wiltshire and north somerset using ai in the hope it will help reduce hospital admissions. christopher mace, bbc news. we are nowjoined by dr sarah ormandy and kyle hepburn,

who both worked on the somerset trial of brave ai. good morning. i do not know which is best to take this but how does it work? it best to take this but how does it work? , ., best to take this but how does it work? , . ., ., best to take this but how does it work? , ., ., ., ., ., ., best to take this but how does it work? , ., ., ., work? it is a tool that looks at predicting _ work? it is a tool that looks at predicting admission - work? it is a tool that looks at predicting admission to - work? it is a tool that looks at i predicting admission to hospital work? it is a tool that looks at - predicting admission to hospital and does that by looking for patterns of episodes in their gp record that would predict they are at risk of health deteriorating and admission to hospital. health deteriorating and admission to hosital. , , ., ., ., , to hospital. they use data to the gp has as part — to hospital. they use data to the gp has as part of _ to hospital. they use data to the gp has as part of the _ to hospital. they use data to the gp has as part of the medical— to hospital. they use data to the gp has as part of the medical record? i has as part of the medical record? it is existing gp records, data is held safely in the normal networks on the nhs so it is safe and secure. what is the next stage? it sends an alert to the gp? lute what is the next stage? it sends an alert to the gp?— alert to the gp? we use it to work out as a team _ alert to the gp? we use it to work out as a team where _ alert to the gp? we use it to work out as a team where can - alert to the gp? we use it to work out as a team where can we - alert to the gp? we use it to work| out as a team where can we spend alert to the gp? we use it to work - out as a team where can we spend our time and— out as a team where can we spend our time and it— out as a team where can we spend our time and it highlights things that are potentially helpful areas to look at — are potentially helpful areas to look at. it allows us to be

proactive _ look at. it allows us to be proactive and go in before things .et proactive and go in before things get bad — proactive and go in before things get bad and predicts in the next 12 months _ get bad and predicts in the next 12 months how risk is associated with potential— months how risk is associated with potential going into hospital and looks— potential going into hospital and looks at— potential going into hospital and looks at other factors that helps us to decide — looks at other factors that helps us to decide. this is an area we may need _ to decide. this is an area we may need to— to decide. this is an area we may need to talk— to decide. this is an area we may need to talk to you about because you are _ need to talk to you about because you are not — need to talk to you about because you are not currently unwell but might _ you are not currently unwell but might be — you are not currently unwell but might be going in that direction which _ might be going in that direction which is — might be going in that direction which is a — might be going in that direction which is a valuable tool, to go in beforehand and think something might happen— beforehand and think something might happen but we can do something about it now, _ happen but we can do something about it now, which is the power of the tool~ _ it now, which is the power of the tool. ., , ' it now, which is the power of the tool. ., , , ., it now, which is the power of the tool. ., , ' ., ., tool. how is it different from a human doctor _ tool. how is it different from a human doctor having - tool. how is it different from a human doctor having made - tool. how is it different from a human doctor having made a i tool. how is it different from a - human doctor having made a mark on medical notes if they have had a result that is borderline and they say check in six months. how does it differfrom say check in six months. how does it differ from that? say check in six months. how does it differfrom that? i say check in six months. how does it differ from that?— differ from that? i think looking at the bi aer differ from that? i think looking at the bigger picture _ differ from that? i think looking at the bigger picture on _ differ from that? i think looking at the bigger picture on where - differ from that? i think looking atj the bigger picture on where health care is and the way the workload is, difficulties with recruitment and retention of staff, it is a great tool that takes away maybe 10—15 years ago we had a continuity of patient care and we could spot

trends. now it is harder with the pressure of work to have continuity. we don't seem to know people cradle to grave like we used to. do we don't seem to know people cradle to grave like we used to.— to grave like we used to. do you have the resources _ to grave like we used to. do you have the resources to _ to grave like we used to. do you have the resources to do - to grave like we used to. do you have the resources to do that i to grave like we used to. do you i have the resources to do that side of things. with staffing and resources, you need the people there to assess and look over this. that is what the _ to assess and look over this. that is what the tool _ to assess and look over this. that is what the tool does. _ to assess and look over this. that is what the tool does. it - to assess and look over this. that is what the tool does. it can take in all— is what the tool does. it can take in all the — is what the tool does. it can take in all the information that is in the gp— in all the information that is in the gp record. it maps what you are like against — the gp record. it maps what you are like against the population, it has looked _ like against the population, it has looked at — like against the population, it has looked at your record and works out with this _ looked at your record and works out with this information these are things— with this information these are things that are likely to drive that — things that are likely to drive that it — things that are likely to drive that. it allows us as a team, rather than _ that. it allows us as a team, rather than our— that. it allows us as a team, rather than our sitting three years and years— than our sitting three years and years of— than our sitting three years and years of data, to go these are meaningful things, that potentially cause _ meaningful things, that potentially cause these things to happen. we can work it— cause these things to happen. we can work it through as a team, it is not 'ust work it through as a team, it is not just one _ work it through as a team, it is not just one individual. we use our team in an— just one individual. we use our team in an area, _ just one individual. we use our team in an area, a — just one individual. we use our team in an area, a pharmacist, myself,

occupational— in an area, a pharmacist, myself, occupational therapists, in an area, a pharmacist, myself, occupationaltherapists, gps, care occupational therapists, gps, care coordinators occupationaltherapists, gps, care coordinators and health coaches who interact _ coordinators and health coaches who interact with the patient and we use the tool— interact with the patient and we use the tool to— interact with the patient and we use the tool to say this is where we could _ the tool to say this is where we could start. and then it is people making _ could start. and then it is people making relationships to work out the best way— making relationships to work out the best way for the care to move forward — best way for the care to move forward. ., ., , ., forward. how do patients feel about it? when technology _ forward. how do patients feel about it? when technology is _ forward. how do patients feel about it? when technology is involved, . it? when technology is involved, depending on who owns the technology, some people will worry this programme has access to very sensitive and private details about individuals. where does that data end up? pare individuals. where does that data end u? �* individuals. where does that data endu?�* ., ., end up? are there safeguards? that is an understandable _ end up? are there safeguards? that is an understandable concern - end up? are there safeguards? that is an understandable concern and i end up? are there safeguards? that is an understandable concern and a l is an understandable concern and a concern i would have. the reassurance we have is it is treated in the same manner as the current electronic record which is sensitive and kept in a digitally secure network. ., ., .., ., , network. the data could not then be taken by the — network. the data could not then be taken by the company _ network. the data could not then be taken by the company that - network. the data could not then be taken by the company that made - network. the data could not then be | taken by the company that made the software and sold on? ila. taken by the company that made the

software and sold on?— software and sold on? no. we know from previous _ software and sold on? no. we know from previous research _ software and sold on? no. we know from previous research these - from previous research these concerns are held across a lot of different groups of people. i think the reassurance we have is the clinicians sit at the heart of decision—making. it is a tool that points us in a certain direction but does not replace decision making all the team discussion. it is a clinical approach. the team discussion. it is a clinicalapproach. it the team discussion. it is a clinical approach.— the team discussion. it is a clinical approach. it is a tool that hels. as clinical approach. it is a tool that helps. as ever, _ clinical approach. it is a tool that helps. as ever, ai _ clinical approach. it is a tool that helps. as ever, ai is _ clinical approach. it is a tool that helps. as ever, ai is not - clinical approach. it is a tool that helps. as ever, ai is not a - clinical approach. it is a tool that| helps. as ever, ai is not a perfect tool. is there a risk of overreliance on this that might lead to complacency, actually missing those patients you hoped to detect that might otherwise go under the radar? . . . that might otherwise go under the radar? . , . . that might otherwise go under the radar? . , ., ., . ., radar? that is a valid concern that is raised by _ radar? that is a valid concern that is raised by lots _ radar? that is a valid concern that is raised by lots of _ radar? that is a valid concern that is raised by lots of people - radar? that is a valid concern that is raised by lots of people but - radar? that is a valid concern that is raised by lots of people but we | is raised by lots of people but we do not _ is raised by lots of people but we do not use — is raised by lots of people but we do not use it in that way. it is not diagnostic, — do not use it in that way. it is not diagnostic, it— do not use it in that way. it is not diagnostic, it does not tell us you must _ diagnostic, it does not tell us you must see — diagnostic, it does not tell us you must see this patient, because that is the _ must see this patient, because that is the risk — must see this patient, because that is the risk it— must see this patient, because that is the risk. it gives the opportunity to look at a vast number of people _ opportunity to look at a vast number of people and work out that we know these _ of people and work out that we know these people with the highest risks and see _

these people with the highest risks and see them all the time because they use _ and see them all the time because they use services over and over, but it helps— they use services over and over, but it helps us— they use services over and over, but it helps us find the voice of maybe someone — it helps us find the voice of maybe someone who is not aware they have the problem and allows us to focus on those _ the problem and allows us to focus on those it— the problem and allows us to focus on those. it gives us as a team the opportunity— on those. it gives us as a team the opportunity to say who do we need to look at _ opportunity to say who do we need to look at and _ opportunity to say who do we need to look at and who can we make a difference _ look at and who can we make a difference on? it is still the clinicians _ difference on? it is still the clinicians and patients making the decisions — clinicians and patients making the decisions. the team will ask the patients— decisions. the team will ask the patients on the listing. we have started — patients on the listing. we have started with care home patients and ask for— started with care home patients and ask for their feedback to ask their concerns, — ask for their feedback to ask their concerns, where do you think you are not getting _ concerns, where do you think you are not getting that help? we can use this as _ not getting that help? we can use this as a _ not getting that help? we can use this as a tool to say to someone you might— this as a tool to say to someone you might feel— this as a tool to say to someone you might feel 0k this as a tool to say to someone you might feel ok but there is a 50% chance _ might feel ok but there is a 50% chance you could go into hospital the next — chance you could go into hospital the next year. it changes things massively. if you are talking about numbers, — massively. if you are talking about numbers, you can talk about a relative — numbers, you can talk about a relative risk, that helps.- numbers, you can talk about a relative risk, that helps. what is the next step — relative risk, that helps. what is the next step with _ relative risk, that helps. what is the next step with this? - relative risk, that helps. what is the next step with this? we - relative risk, that helps. what is| the next step with this? we have started, the next step with this? we have started. our— the next step with this? we have started, our patient _ the next step with this? we have started, our patient population i the next step with this? we have i started, our patient population was in care homes. we have other early

projects with different types of populations. the exciting thing is it will be rolled out across the with 1.5 million who have the potential to benefit from it. we may follow u- potential to benefit from it. we may follow up and _ potential to benefit from it. we may follow up and ask— potential to benefit from it. we may follow up and ask you _ potential to benefit from it. we may follow up and ask you about - potential to benefit from it. we may follow up and ask you about how - potential to benefit from it. we may| follow up and ask you about how that is going when we get more data. thank you. imagine a sea monster with 130 razor—sharp teeth, the biting force of a t—rex, and its head alone measuring more than six feet in length. it might sound like the stuff of legend but this creature really did exist millions of years ago. it was called a pliosaur — and a fossil of its enormous skull has been found off dorset�*sjurassic coast. our science editor rebecca morelle went for an exclusive look. 0k. oh, wow! there you go. it's huge!

unveiling a jurassic sea monster. this is the 2m—long skull of a pliosaur, one of the most fearsome predators the planet has ever seen. so it's got big teeth — excellent for stabbing and killing its prey. it doesn't chew its food, itjust breaks into bits and... throws it back to get in there... and digests the bone and everything. steve etches lead the efforts to unearth and prepare this ancient aquatic beast. so what makes this unique is it's complete. so the lowerjaws and upper skull are meshed together, as it would be in life. to find that, i think worldwide, there's hardly ever specimens ever found to that level of detail. if they are, a lot of the bits are missing whereas this, although it's slightly distorted, it's got every bone present. it's one of the best fossils i've ever worked on. i'll never probably work on another one. the snout was discovered by fossil enthusiast near a beach near kimmeridge bay in dorset. ijust found something quite extraordinary. it's the jaw of a massive pliosaur.

it's enormous. it must've just come out of the cliff up there somewhere. over the course of weeks, the rest was excavated — a perilous process with steve and the team dangling off ropes halfway down a fast—eroding cliff face. it was all followed by a bbc documentary team and sir david attenborough. in these waters underneath my feet, lurked the ultimate marine predator, the pliosaur. this gigantic reptile lived 150 million years ago. reaching more than 12m in length, its bulky body was powered through the water with huge paddle—like limbs. it would have terrorised the oceans.

so what we're looking at here is a surface scan of the skull of the pliosaur. scientists have scanned the fossil to try and learn more about its bite with his 130 razor—sharp teeth. they have calculated it had a bite force similar to a t rex. i think what we're looking at here is the top predator in the environment. you know, this animal had a huge bite. it would have been able to eat pretty much everything else that was around in the water at that time, including some other very large animals, as well — other pliosaurs and plesiosaurs, ichthyosaurs, other marine crocodilians as well, would all be potential prey items for this animal. the dark clay of dorset�*s kimmeridge bay is rich in fossils. why is that? 150 million years ago, this whole area would've been a tropical ocean. and the cliffs behind me were the mud on the sea floor, where the bodies of prehistoric sea

creatures would have been buried. and there they remained, hidden away for millions of years. it's only now, as the rocks crumble, that these fossilised skeletons are finally being revealed. the exact location where the pliosaur�*s head was found is a closely guarded secret. the team believes the rest of the skeleton is still embedded in the cliffs. i'll stake my life on the rest of the animal is there, that's for sure. really, it should come out because it's in a very rapidly eroding environment. this part of the cliff is going back by feet a year and it won't be very long before the rest of it sort of drops out and it gets lost, so it would be advantageous to do this because the opportunity is once in a lifetime. the pliosaur will be put on display in dorset in the new year and it will bring scientists from all around the world to study it to learn more about this monster of the seas and the world it lived in all those millions of years ago.

rebecca morelle, bbc news, thejurassic coast in dorset. if they do not use that to make the nextjurassic park film. you can see more on that extraordinary story in "attenborough and the giant sea monster". it's on bbc one and iplayer at 8pm on new year's day. if you've ever driven down the m5 near bristol, you'll know the wynhol viaduct — although you might have called it by its unofficial name — the high—low bit. the split—level viaduct, which carries traffic over the clevedon hills, is turning 50 years old. our reporter dan ayers — who describes himself as a motorway nerd — went to find out more about how it was built. it's an iconic structure that's now 50 years old. the split—level section on the m5 between clevedon and portishead. and in the early '70s,

it took a huge amount of work to remove tons of rock to build this into the landscape. beyond bristol, the motorway builders are hard at work- over the clevedon hills and across somerset. i you may know this part of the m5 as the high—low bit, but its actual name is the wynhol viaduct. that's me just posing. neil manners is a retired civil engineer who helped build this section from avonmouth half a century ago. starting from the avon bridge, it ran on the flat area, past the service area, and then it started to climb slowly up to get to the top of these hills here. and the first blast we did, we threw rock everywhere. i was sheltering in a ditch because it was coming down on top of me. and neil wasn't the only one who had rock flying at him from the construction. this local in tickenham had a rock narrowly miss his house in 1970.

ifound just outside was a large lump of rock, which apparently had come from the top here by the blasting. as a bit of a motorway nerd myself, i have always been obsessed and fascinated by this structure on the m5. think how many holidays and family trips have come down this stretch of motorway and driven past the high—low bit. no one in 1973 thought this structure would still be here, seeing millions of cars going for it. it's one of our iconic structures, it's a bit of a gateway to the southwest. 50—year—old structure is a bit like a 50—year—old person, a 50—year—old car. it needs maintenance. so we are looking at what we need to do for the next 50 years. a unique engineering project carved into the north somerset countryside, which has become a west country landmark. that report from dan ayers. i can't believe you said a 50 row person needs maintenance. when you are a motorway _ person needs maintenance. when you are a motorway now, _ person needs maintenance. when you are a motorway now, so _ person needs maintenance. when you are a motorway now, so confess, -

person needs maintenance. when you are a motorway now, so confess, you| are a motorway now, so confess, you can get away with that. that are a motorway now, so confess, you can get away with that.— can get away with that. that was self-confessed _ can get away with that. that was self-confessed motor _ can get away with that. that was self-confessed motor nerd - can get away with that. that was i self-confessed motor nerd diners. sunday with laura kuennsberg is on bbc one at nine o'clock — and, with a huge week ahead for rishi sunak and the government, she's expecting a busy one. there's so much going on in the world right now, but two really big stories. one is the government's mess over its plans to send migrants to rwanda. well, we will be talking exclusively to the man who quit the government, robertjenrick, who was the immigration minister. he walked out this week, and he will be here this morning talking about his decisions — and what does it all mean for the tory party? how messy could things be for rishi sunak? and viewers will also know this week there have been real concerns about whether or not ukraine is going to keep getting the cash it needs to fight the war. well, we've been to kyiv and spoken exclusively to the first lady, olena zelensky. so, we'll have that interview here for you along with a few other bits and pieces here at 9am on bbc one. let's stay with the subjects of

politics. rishi sunak has got a testing week ahead. the prime minister will give evidence to the covid inquiry tomorrow, then on tuesday he faces a key vote on his plan to send asylum seekers to rwanda — in which he could face a serious rebellion. let's get the thoughts of some professional westminster watchers — george parker from the financial times, and martha gill, of the observer. how much is riding for the prime minister? , . minister? everything. this policy, which initially _ minister? everything. this policy, which initially was _ minister? everything. this policy, which initially was just _ minister? everything. this policy, which initially was just part - minister? everything. this policy, which initially was just part of - minister? everything. this policy, which initially was just part of a i which initially was just part of a five—point plan has become completely totemic. rishi sunak started this year saying stop the boats, and now this is all built up to this moment on tuesday when it stress tests the party, seeing when he can get everyone behind him, both sides of the party. he is treading a

middle way between the right and the left of the party, neither of whom are completely happy with this bill, and if the boat does not go his way, it would be a serious blow to his authority. it would be a serious blow to his authori . . ., ., it would be a serious blow to his authori . , ., ., ., i. it would be a serious blow to his authori . . ., ., ., , ., ~' authority. george, how do you think rishi sunak — authority. george, how do you think rishi sunak should _ authority. george, how do you think rishi sunak should act _ authority. george, how do you think rishi sunak should act to _ authority. george, how do you think rishi sunak should act to prevent i rishi sunak should act to prevent this rebellion that he faces from potentially both sides of the party? if you were in his shoes, what would you do? i if you were in his shoes, what would ou do? .. �* if you were in his shoes, what would oudo? ., ., you do? i think i'd probably do what he tried to do _ you do? i think i'd probably do what he tried to do last _ you do? i think i'd probably do what he tried to do last week, _ you do? i think i'd probably do what he tried to do last week, which i you do? i think i'd probably do what he tried to do last week, which is i he tried to do last week, which is to say— he tried to do last week, which is to say this — he tried to do last week, which is to say this is the best and last hope — to say this is the best and last hope of— to say this is the best and last hope of reviving this policy. i totally — hope of reviving this policy. i totally agree it has become totemic, almost _ totally agree it has become totemic, almost an— totally agree it has become totemic, almost an advertisement, accidentally, for the government, of how hopeless parts of their immigration policy have become, and fixing _ immigration policy have become, and fixing it _ immigration policy have become, and fixing it has _ immigration policy have become, and fixing it has become essential for rishi _ fixing it has become essential for rishi sunak, i think he will say it is as— rishi sunak, i think he will say it is as far— rishi sunak, i think he will say it is as far as— rishi sunak, i think he will say it is as far as we can go, he's got himself— is as far as we can go, he's got himself in— is as far as we can go, he's got himself in this embarrassing situation, he seems to be implying we would _ situation, he seems to be implying we would have trampled on international human rights a bit more, — international human rights a bit

more. but — international human rights a bit more, but the rwandan government told us _ more, but the rwandan government told us not _ more, but the rwandan government told us not to. he will have to speak— told us not to. he will have to speak to _ told us not to. he will have to speak to mps and make them offer is, do some _ speak to mps and make them offer is, do some arm — speak to mps and make them offer is, do some arm twisting, he has to get this bill_ do some arm twisting, he has to get this bill through the commons on tuesday. — this bill through the commons on tuesday, then keep his fingers crossed there's not more fighting, which _ crossed there's not more fighting, which i _ crossed there's not more fighting, which i think there will be, when the bill— which i think there will be, when the bill goes its later parliamentary seats stages when both sides will— parliamentary seats stages when both sides will be trying to amend a bill to either— sides will be trying to amend a bill to either toughen it up or weaken it. , ., , to either toughen it up or weaken it. , . ., , to either toughen it up or weaken it. , .., to either toughen it up or weaken it. this has echoes of the situation that his predecessor, _ it. this has echoes of the situation that his predecessor, theresa i it. this has echoes of the situation | that his predecessor, theresa may, found herself in with the brexit deal, and most impossible situation to reach a place on this issue that will satisfy everyone in the party. there will be those the right side of the party who feel it will not go far enough, and those to the left of the party who feel it goes too far for comfort. the party who feel it goes too far for comfort-— the party who feel it goes too far for comfort. . �*, ., , ., , ., for comfort. yeah, it's a proxy war, if ou for comfort. yeah, it's a proxy war, if you like. — for comfort. yeah, it's a proxy war, if you like, between _ for comfort. yeah, it's a proxy war, if you like, between these - for comfort. yeah, it's a proxy war, if you like, between these two i if you like, between these two different — if you like, between these two different wings of the conservative party _ different wings of the conservative party. there are some on the right

of the _ party. there are some on the right of the party— party. there are some on the right of the party who for a very long time _ of the party who for a very long time of— of the party who for a very long time of one to britain to pull out of the _ time of one to britain to pull out of the european convention on human rights. _ of the european convention on human rights. the _ of the european convention on human rights, the court based in strasbourg, it was the distress this has nothing to do with the eu, but it does— has nothing to do with the eu, but it does have the word european in the title — it does have the word european in the title, but they think this is an affront _ the title, but they think this is an affront to— the title, but they think this is an affront to british democracy and they see — affront to british democracy and they see it as a chance to pull out of the _ they see it as a chance to pull out of the echr, and they will be trying to push— of the echr, and they will be trying to push rishi sunak in a direction. on to push rishi sunak in a direction. 0n the _ to push rishi sunak in a direction. on the other side of the party, around — on the other side of the party, around a — on the other side of the party, around a hundred mps in the so called _ around a hundred mps in the so called one — around a hundred mps in the so called one nation group say this would _ called one nation group say this would he — called one nation group say this would be absolutely intolerable, for britain _ would be absolutely intolerable, for britain to _ would be absolutely intolerable, for britain to join countries like belarus _ britain to join countries like belarus and russia as the only european _ belarus and russia as the only european countries not members of the h _ european countries not members of the i-h echr. it is a european countries not members of the i—h echr. it is a battle for the soul of— the i—h echr. it is a battle for the soul of the — the i—h echr. it is a battle for the soul of the party, which many tory mps are _ soul of the party, which many tory mps are asking, what we do at the next election. if mps are asking, what we do at the next election-— next election. if we look at what is facin: next election. if we look at what is facing him — next election. if we look at what is facing him tomorrow, _ next election. if we look at what is facing him tomorrow, with - next election. if we look at what is facing him tomorrow, with rishi i facing him tomorrow, with rishi sunakfor appearing at facing him tomorrow, with rishi

sunak for appearing at the covid inquiry, as a result of that we have seen the footage reappear and be shown around on the news on things about where he was playing a waiter as part of a publicity stunt for the eat out to help out scheme. how damaging do you think his appearance is going to be for his political position? is going to be for his political osition? ~ ., .., , ., �*, position? well, of course that's likely depends _ position? well, of course that's likely depends on _ position? well, of course that's likely depends on how- position? well, of course that's likely depends on how he i position? well, of course that's i likely depends on how he performs. he might... this is very expected, he will, like borisjohnson did, have been preparing with his lawyers for a long time and how is going to react to these various allegations that were brought up today. one of thoseis that were brought up today. one of those is the eat out to help out scheme, which it is clear may have gone against the advice of the scientist at the time, although rishi sunak said it was not part of the discussions at the time. it will grab the spectre of covid

incompetence from the last government over to this government, which will be a further blow against rishi sunak who is already facing so much difficulty this week. iloathed rishi sunak who is already facing so much difficulty this week.— much difficulty this week. what do ou think much difficulty this week. what do you think the _ much difficulty this week. what do you think the main _ much difficulty this week. what do you think the main opposition i you think the main opposition parties are going to try and do to capitalise on a week when the prime minister is under pressure? any inkling of what their strategy might be? i inkling of what their strategy might be? . .. , be? i mean, ithink they will... he is facin: be? i mean, ithink they will... he is facing so — be? i mean, ithink they will... he is facing so much _ be? i mean, ithink they will... he is facing so much this _ be? i mean, ithink they will... he is facing so much this week, i be? i mean, i think they will... he. is facing so much this week, almost doesn't matter what the opposition party do. the party is completely split on this issue, he has got the covid inquiry, where he will face very difficult questions, and as georgejust said, and other challenges the mindset of his own party is completely split. there is a sort of psychodrama going on. a lot of them are looking ahead beyond unexpected defeat —— and expected

defeat to life after power. unexpected defeat -- and expected defeat to life after power.— defeat to life after power. briefly, how much do _ defeat to life after power. briefly, how much do you _ defeat to life after power. briefly, how much do you think— defeat to life after power. briefly, how much do you think this i defeat to life after power. briefly, how much do you think this will i defeat to life after power. briefly, i how much do you think this will add pressure to rishi sunak in terms of calling a general election? there pressure to rishi sunak in terms of calling a general election?- calling a general election? there is a big debate _ calling a general election? there is a big debate going _ calling a general election? there is a big debate going on _ calling a general election? there is a big debate going on whether- calling a general election? there is a big debate going on whether the| a big debate going on whether the election— a big debate going on whether the election should be early next year later on— election should be early next year later on next year, people have been speaking _ later on next year, people have been speaking to— later on next year, people have been speaking to you are tending towards playing _ speaking to you are tending towards playing it _ speaking to you are tending towards playing it longer rather than shorten _ playing it longer rather than shorter. we've been discussing how they are _ shorter. we've been discussing how they are 20 — shorter. we've been discussing how they are 20 points behind in the opinion— they are 20 points behind in the opinion polls, i'm thinking it will be much — opinion polls, i'm thinking it will be much more likely to be october next year~ — be much more likely to be october next ear. . .. be much more likely to be october next ear. ., ~ , ., be much more likely to be october next ear. . ~' , ., be much more likely to be october next ear. ., ~ ., be much more likely to be october next ear. ., ., next year. thank you both for your thou . hts next year. thank you both for your thoughts this _ next year. thank you both for your thoughts this morning. _ 839, time for some sport. what have you got for us? we will start with aston villa. they are one point off second. they haven't had a start

this good since 1991. i don't that we were expecting to be talking about aston villa as potential winners. that is what they are looking like. they beat manchester city in the week and now they have beaten arsenal by a goal to nil to move within two points of the league leaders, liverpool. liverpool gota late win leaders, liverpool. liverpool got a late win at crystal palace which took them top. nick parrott reports. this is the season ofjoy for aston villa fans with the club's record books in need of updating after wins over champions manchester city and now arsenal. the action unfolded at villa park as a frenetic pace with captain john mcginn firing them in front in just the seventh minute. from then on, it was a case of hanging on. they shed blood and sweat to earn the win as var ruled out this arsenal goal for hand ball.

watching from the director's box because of a touch line ban, gunners boss mikel arteta couldn't believe what he was seeing. do you have any frustrations with decisions against you or is that not something that you comment on at the moment? it's clear and obvious for me, yeah. in what way? just you should've had something and didn't? i leave it to your interpretation. when you beat city and arsenal in a week, like, one game i controlling them — like, | i've never seen man city being controlled — _ then suffering against arsenal for 85 minutes and managing to win again, i'm a believer, mate. - villa are now in the title race, just a point and a place behind arsenal, who slip to second because because liverpool beat crystal palace at lunchtime. once again, they had to come from behind to win. it's something they've done six times this season. mo salah levelled with his 200th goal for the club and harvey elliott snatched the winner in injury time. if that wasn't a surprise, this was — manchester united losing to bournemouth at old trafford for the first time in their history. the 3—0 defeat came just days

after erik ten hag was named manager of the month. crowd boos. the home home fans were understandably upset at the final whistle. we apologise by not giving the performance and the result we wanted and now, it's about us to looking forward and get back to our track. at the bottom of the table, despair was making way forjoy for sheffield united, chris wilder masterminding a 1—0 victory over brentford in just his second match back in charge. nick parrott, bbc news. manchester city will look to regain some ground on the leaders as they travel to luton this afternoon. the champions are winless in four premier league games, most recently suffering defeat to aston villa on wednesday — pep guardiola has never had a run of five games without a win in his entire managerial career. i need to step back to realise, "oh, pep. "come on. "wake up." something wrong. make good analysis with your people. what happened ?

why have we not won in four games, when before, playing even worse than now, we were able to win games? come on. so, always myself. all myself, i have to realise. yes, it's a good warning for me. scottish champions celtic are looking to restore their eight point lead at the top against kilmarnock this afternoon. that's after rangers came from behind to close the gap to five points. they beat dundee 3—1 at ibrox — abdallah sima with the pick of the goals. england's men have lost their one day series with west indies after falling to a four wicket defeat in a rain—shortened third odi in barbados. ben duckett top scored with 71 to help england post 206—9 from a0 overs after a rain delay, and a further downpour left west indies with a revised target of 188 from 31l overs, which they achieved with m balls to spare, to give them a first home series win over england in the format since 1998. the two sides will now prepare for the five—match t20 series that begins on tuesday,

also in barbados. england's women meanwhile have an unassailable 2—0 lead in their t20 series with india, winning by four wickets in the second match in mumbai. they bowled india out forjust 80. alice capsey top—scored for england. the final match is later today. next to a dramatic late win for exeter chiefs on the opening weekend of the champions cup as henry slade's injury—time conversion saw them edge past toulon 19 points to 18. with the hosts having failed to score a point in the second half, two exeter tries saw the momentum shift. it left slade with the chance to kick for victory — and it was an opportunity he took, sparking these celebrations amongst his team—mates. elsewhere, a dominant second—half display saw bath beat ulster 37—11l. the home side scored four unanswered tries after the break, with matt gallagher putting the seal on a strong performance at the recreation ground, bath securing the bonus point victory.

in the women's premiership, merryn doidge scored a hat—trick as the exeter chiefs beat harlequins 52—27. the chiefs led by 22 points at the break before taking total control in the second period, to make it three wins from three and keep up the pressure on saracens at the top of the table. mark allen won the snooker shoot out in swansea. this event differs to traditional snooker events with a shot clock in operation throughout and frames lasting a maximum of ten minutes. and, it was the top seed allen who beat china's cao yupeng in the final to take the title. the title and a £50,000 winners cheque to boot. it doesn't really compare with the baseball money we were talking about earlier! ., . ,. baseball money we were talking about earlier! ,, . ~ ., , earlier! stick with rounders! exactl ! here's simon with a look at this morning's weather.

it's been lost three around us here in salford and manchester, but it looks like things eventually could start to settle once we have got past a couple of storms. i'm not doing the forecast! i past a couple of storms. i'm not doing the forecast!— doing the forecast! i think you're stealin: doing the forecast! i think you're stealing someone's _ doing the forecast! i think you're stealing someone's thunder i doing the forecast! i think you'rel stealing someone's thunder here! carry on, it's absolutely fine! that's all ease got, so over to you for the professional forecast. yesterday we had storm elin, but today a quiet start, storm elin has cleared away, and many of us saw a fairly decent sunrise, but if we look at the satellite imagery, that is storm elin, it is cleared away, this is storm fergus. fergus is going to mostly impact the republic of ireland. the irish met office named the stone. for us, it will

continue to push its way north and eastward through so you may need to plan your plans today to avoid the rain. it's moving north and east was, well is dry with a bit of brightness it's initially northern and eastern parts of the rain moves through. it will be heavy in places, so watch out for that, but for wales, the east midlands, there will be some sunshine. temperatures getting up to about 30, a0 degrees in the south, further north about 7 or 8 celsius. storm fergus will bring some strong winds, as i said, the republic of ireland, but overnight it's strengthening winds, showers making their way through, going into monday morning it's going to be fairly quiet, there could be a frost across central areas of scotland, widely temperatures seven

to 9 celsius. monday, one area of low pressure moving eastward, another in the atlantic, sandwiched in between that we have high pressure. what does that mean? it means for most of us and it will be a dry day with some sunshine. one or two showers in scotland and north—eastern areas of england, some showers as well, but for most of us a try day without sunshine we will see temperatures once again to most parts of england and wales getting up parts of england and wales getting up into double figures, ten to 13 degrees, 607 celsius for the north. by degrees, 607 celsius for the north. by tuesday that area of low pressure ijust by tuesday that area of low pressure i just showed you by tuesday that area of low pressure ijust showed you will start by tuesday that area of low pressure i just showed you will start to by tuesday that area of low pressure ijust showed you will start to move in from the west, something is turning a bit more unsettled. a speu turning a bit more unsettled. a spell of rain, it could linger around parts of scotland and north—eastern england, high winds, heavy showers around the coast of wales in the english channel, there could be thundery. gusty winds, temperatures seven to 12 degrees, for the rest of the week we lose the

area of low pressure, one or two when the fans pushing to the north, otherwise higher pressure starts to build in and that's going to make things a bit more settled for the end of next week. thanks for that very professional forecast! you should do a job share.- very professional forecast! you should do a job share. should do a 'ob share. thank you, we will see should do a 'ob share. thank you, we win you’— should do a job share. thank you, we will see you later. _ it's been a huge year for the video gaming industry — but while sales are soaring, not everyone has been able to play. blind and partially sighted gamers have often been left out of the fun — but new technology, and some gaming companies, are working to change that. andrew rogers reports. video games have never looked better. with lifelike visuals and stylish cinematics, many are a few for the eyes. but some players have to rely on other senses. players like ben, also known as sightless kombat. he is testing out a new kind of game codenamed project black kat,

based entirely on sound. there are basic visuals there that can be used to play the game with sight, but also, as well, there is menu narration, so it will speak the menus as you go through. automation: audio glossary, j button two of five, a to select. and it will speak the tutorial. there is audio description, as well. a long, cold corridor extends before you. | slightly ahead to the right is a wooden crate. - it is kind of handholding, but it's a way of doing it that feels relatively dynamic as you play through. he is also an ambassador for the royal national institute of blind people, and live streams his gaming on twitch to thousands around the world. and i wanted to just showcase how things work from my perspective, having absolutely no sight whatsoever. i've had a lot of people come in and just be very friendly, very curious, very interested in watching me and say, wait, you can't see, and you're better than i about this. so, that's always a fun compliment to have paid. and, as more of us than ever stop picking up a controller,

game studios like this when in oxford are finding ways to make sure their games can be played by everyone. one way they are doing this is by holing specialist accessibility consultants for their games. people like cari, who designed project black kat. i try to help teams make more inclusive and accessible games so that more people canjoin in and play them. it is the bestjob in games. my entire job is helping more people play games. like, that isjust the bestjob. her game isjust a prototype for now, but she's hoping it can get more studios thinking about accessibility accessibility in their games. yeah! we are seeing progress, and progress will snowball and hopefully then those publishers, companies, studios, platforms, we'll all realise eventually, at least, overtime, that accessibility, if you want to be really shallow about it, increased accessibility equals increased sales. cari says access isn'tjust about reaching more disabled players, but future proofing the games industry. i still want to be playing games when i'm 80, if there is a platform! i still want to play games when i'm older, but my capabilities change

as they age, and so does everybody's, and it'sjust a case of wanting to make sure that the games are still supporting people who've been playing games their whole life. everybody should be able to play, you know? whether you've got sight or not, whatever your situation is, you should be able to enjoy the same games as everybody else. until then, ben and cari can still play some of their favourite titles by sharing the controls, giving them just another reason game together. amazing what technology can do. let's start with a spoiler alert — look away now if you haven't yet watched last night's episode of i'm a celebrity...get me out of here! the three camp—mates going into tonight's final are the former ukip leader nigel farage, reality tv star sam thompson and boxer tony bellew. this morning presenterjosie gibson was voted off last night.

before she went, all four contestants got stuck into the celebrity cyclone challenge. they cheer. one, two, three in position. you just need to get in position here. and keep it there. hold on! looks brutal, doesn't it? it does indeed. we're joined now by the tv critic lauren morris, who is your money on to win? we have three caplets — who is your money on to win? we have three caplets left, _ who is your money on to win? we have three caplets left, so _ who is your money on to win? we have three caplets left, so it _ who is your money on to win? we have three caplets left, so it will— who is your money on to win? we have three caplets left, so it will be - three caplets left, so it will be the king of thejungle. i would have

put my money onjosie gibson, but she left last night, unfortunately, which is gutting. i would have said she would have been my pick. otherwise i think it could be sam thompson. he's been a duracell bunny this whole time in the jungle. he's been bringing labrador energy and just getting on so well with everyone, a lovely bromance with tom value. i think you will do a matt hancock who came third place last year. i think nigel will come third place. year. i think nigel will come third lace. ., ., ., ., place. you mention nigel farage, there was controversy _ place. you mention nigel farage, there was controversy about i place. you mention nigel farage, there was controversy about his l there was controversy about his appearance, apparently the highest fee ever paid to an entrance, but the series this year lost viewing figures, didn't it?— the series this year lost viewing figures, didn't it? yes, he was the highest-paid _ figures, didn't it? yes, he was the highest-paid camp _ figures, didn't it? yes, he was the highest-paid camp mate, - figures, didn't it? yes, he was the highest-paid camp mate, with i highest—paid camp mate, with reported £1.5 million fee, whether it was a worthwhile investment, the

viewer ship went down by 2 million based on last year, which had matt hancock in it. the thing is, he hasn't really been involved in that many political debates on the show. you had fred sirieix from first dates saying and others who engaged him with politics, but most run away from it. i don't and they got as much brexit chat as they would have liked, arguments, debates, but what we did get, and i don't think anyone asked for this, was nigel farage in the shower, baring all, which i guess he's trying to make sure viewers get their moneys worth, but i think we saw a bit too much of nigel farage, to be honest! i think we have a clip... _ nigel farage, to be honest! i think we have a clip... no, _ nigel farage, to be honest! i think we have a clip... no, we _ nigel farage, to be honest! i think we have a clip... no, we don't! i we have a clip... no, we don't! thank goodness, save everyone from being put off from the breakfast. why is it that you think viewing

figures fell this year? if why is it that you think viewing figures fell this year?— why is it that you think viewing figures fell this year? if you think about it, the _ figures fell this year? if you think about it, the show _ figures fell this year? if you think about it, the show has _ figures fell this year? if you think about it, the show has been i figures fell this year? if you think| about it, the show has been going figures fell this year? if you think i about it, the show has been going on so long now, it's a format we are all really used to. they did switch it up during covid when they went to the castle in wales, and that gave it a bit of a spice, it freshened up the show, but now the show is back in the jungle and we got used to that again, i think there are just other viewing options with netflix, more streamers around, other reality shows like the masked singer, that being said, they did bring something new this year, they had family members of the companies surprise in thejungle, which is really nice to see, you saw sam thompson, his best friend pete wicks, burst into tears. even so nigel farage with his daughter, which i guess as a side to

the ex politician we haven't seen before. unfortunately the format, we are just getting a bit too used to it. are 'ust getting a bit too used to it. . ., ., , ., are 'ust getting a bit too used to it. . ., ., i. ~ are 'ust getting a bit too used to it. what do you think makes a good contestant on _ it. what do you think makes a good contestant on i'm _ it. what do you think makes a good contestant on i'm a _ it. what do you think makes a good contestant on i'm a celebrity? i i contestant on i'm a celebrity? i think over the years celebrities have you learned the perfect formula to be on the show. in the early years you saw celebrities were not used to it, they didn't know what they were getting info, won't used they were getting info, won't used the rafa living conditions, it created more drama. you had show romances, if you remember katie price and peter andre, and if you now think of this year, i think most of the celebsjust now think of this year, i think most of the celebs just want to come across as well liked and get as much airtime as possible, and in the case of a politician, may redeem themselves a bit and show the public there more human side. i think if anyone smashed it it's probably sam

thompson, because he showed his full personality. a lot of people are sceptical whether that was truly him up sceptical whether that was truly him up if he was putting it on, but that was just him, up if he was putting it on, but that wasjust him, it up if he was putting it on, but that was just him, it seems. up if he was putting it on, but that wasjust him, it seems. it is up if he was putting it on, but that was just him, it seems. it is full of energy, so positive, i think it celebs like that that the public take to the best, win them round. iie take to the best, win them round. he also did a bit of raising awareness of his condition.— of his condition. yes, he spoke about having — of his condition. yes, he spoke about having adhd, _ of his condition. yes, he spoke about having adhd, he - of his condition. yes, he spoke about having adhd, he has i of his condition. yes, he spoke i about having adhd, he has done documentaries about that in the past, i think opening up about that in his relationship with sara mcdermott and his time in reality tv has really shown himself to the public and explained himself, and to be honest i think they've welcome him with open arms, because he has just been such good entertainment. thank you so much for sharing your thoughts with us this morning. lauren morris, deputy tv editor of ck lauren morris, deputy tv editor of 0k magazine. the grand final of i'm a celebrity taking place tonight.—

the grand final of i'm a celebrity taking place tonight. would you ever no on it? taking place tonight. would you ever go on it? no. _ taking place tonight. would you ever go on it? no.1— taking place tonight. would you ever go on it? no, ithink— taking place tonight. would you ever go on it? no, i think i'm _ taking place tonight. would you ever go on it? no, i think i'm not- taking place tonight. would you ever go on it? no, i think i'm not brave . go on it? no, i think i'm not brave enouuh! that's all from us today. breakfast is back from six o'clock tomorrow. (pres)have a lovely day. breakfast is back from six o'clock tomorrow. have a lovely day.

the prime minister's authority is at stake. has rishi sunak still got the keys? he didn't look totally in charge at number 10. notjust because he and the dutch prime minister couldn't get in for a moment. we will get flights off the ground. we will deter illegal migrants from coming here and we will finally stop the boats. the government announced its new laws to get planes with migrants in the air to rwanda,

but foes found them wanting. the conservative party facesj electoral oblivion in a matter of months if we introduce yet another bill destined to fail. i even friends convinced the plans fall short. the minister in charge of immigration quitting. i think the calls... where's robert? he was gone. they can't hold their party together. they do not deserve to run the country. britain deserves better than this. borisjohnson being quizzed on covid wasn't the worst thing to happen to the tories this week. ..and nothing but the truth. the dramatic representations that we're now having of this are absolutely absurd. rishi sunak�*s plan to stop the boats is in trouble. the size of his party pulling apart. so our big question this morning — forget the boats for a sec. can the prime minister stop the chaos? the man who caused some of that chaos by quitting over