hello, you're watching afternoon live. i'm simon mccoy. today at 2pm. the chancellor's choice, he says he won't spend money on preparing for a no—deal brexit at the expense of health and education. every pound we spend on a contingent preparations for a hard customs border is a pound that we can't spend on the nhs or social care or education or deficit reduction. the pain in spain. catalonia is put on notice that it could face direct rule from madrid. turning up the heat on energy suppliers. ofgem extends a price cap to1 million more households. coming up on afternoon live all the sport. in argentina the latest to get through, although i think the whole country were holding their breath last night, just a0 seconds ecuador scoring a goal but lionel mathie hat—trick has secured their place at

the world cup finals. more from you later. thank you. phil has the weather. it is miserable in the legs. it certainly is and if you wa nt to legs. it certainly is and if you want to know whether you are going to go from something like this to something a little bit brighter, i will have all the details with simon in the studio in about 30 minutes. see you then. also coming up: as harvey weinstein‘s hollywood past catches up with him, we'll talk to an agent to the stars about the impact on the business of show business. hello, everyone. this is afternoon live. the chancellor philip hammond has said taxpayers‘ money will not be spent on preparing for a no—deal brexit just to send a message to the eu. mr hammond also warned that flights between the uk and the eu could be grounded if there were no agreement before march 2019.

here's our political correspondent leila nathoo. still smiles for now, but brexit talks are faltering and so the no deal scenario has begun to loom. this morning in the times, the chancellor philip hammond akiva main voice in the cabinet wrote that he was preparing for that and all outcomes but would only spend money when it was responsible to do so. speaking to the commons treasury committee this morning, he clarified his comments. every pound we spend on contingent preparations for a ha rd on contingent preparations for a hard customs border, if a pound that we can't spend on the nhs or social ca re we can't spend on the nhs or social care or education or deficit reduction so we will be ready, we will spend the money in a timely fashion to ensure that we are ready, but we will not spend it earlier than necessary just to but we will not spend it earlier than necessaryjust to make some demonstration. at pm questions, theresa may said £250 million of new

money had already been given the departments to prepare for brexit but she denied giving up to sever ties. we are not ramping up a no deal scenario, we are actively working, actively working with the negotiations with the european union to ensure that we set out, we get a good deal, the right dealfor britain, for a brighter future good deal, the right dealfor britain, for a brighterfuture for this country. but brexiteers in parliament are frustrated at the progress of negotiations and brussels and systems that divorce matters must be settled first before talks can turn the trade. they want the chancellor to show the eu he is serious about leaving without an agreement. he needs to do the sums andi agreement. he needs to do the sums and i think he needs to set aside precisely the sort of sums that we need which i would imagine will run into billions of pounds. but what we can't have is a state of affairs where if we do terminate the negotiations or the eu indicates that it negotiations or the eu indicates thatitis negotiations or the eu indicates that it is not prepared to do a deal with those we are then left

scrambling to find the infrastructure that we need to operate the new systems. business is banking on a transition period to adjust to a new relationship with the eu, but there is anxiety about the eu, but there is anxiety about the two side not striking a deal in time and how any new arrangements on customs and the rest would be brought in. i think it is right that cut contingency plans are starting to be drawn up. our concern is the length of time left to put those plans in operation. they talk in the white paper about setting up an inland customs port, if you like. clearly the wetland would have to be bought, systems introduced, people recruited and trained. there is not one to go. a quarter of the way through brexit negotiations there is not yet any sign of a deal. within government, preparing for that eventuality is also a premature admission of defeat, while for others it is a show of strength that britain will not be pushed around. all camps want the talks to move on, but it is for brussels to decide when. live to westminster and our chief

political correspondent vicki young. the chancellor is saying i'm not wasting money at this stage just give you happy. that is right. all attention is on chancellor philip hammond andi attention is on chancellor philip hammond and i guess it is whether you think he is a pessimist about brexit whether you think is the realist. certainly his appearing this morning in front of a select committee, he wasn't pulling his punches. he was giving quite a stark assessment of the work that needs to be done head of brexit but the talk around here this week, it has changed. lots of people are talking about no deal. the question is how much do you prepare for that given that the government do want to get the deal. what about pm questions, theresa may was asked about this. that's right. she was asked how if she would vote remain or not. as the labour spokesman spoke to was afterwards, he was asked the same

question, what would jeremy corbyn do, he too did not answer. enjoin by members of the select committee who questioned the common today. is philip hammond wrong not to prepare for a no deal and start splashing the cash now? uncertainty is our enemy is the chancellor rightly says but resilience is our friend and there was a lot of investment we have needed to make for a long time. from lorry parks the road upgrades. the point i made the chancellor today, why wouldn't we want world—class borders anyway so we should be bringing forward in any event. its argument is you can't start paying for it and making it when you don't know what it is because we don't know what the shape of our relationship will be with you. what argument fundamentally says is that the uk government won't start spending the money we need to spend until it is too late. let's look at that simple example, a lorry parked... park somewhere near dover.

if there is customs lay on either side of the border and it is not built, it is going to be completely clogged up. you could do that now. it is probably needed anyway. there are a numberof it is probably needed anyway. there are a number of measures are not just looking at them but doing them because the time to deliver, if it is as bad as it could be, will be far too long the mac long for this insert a place. we have had people saying the treasury have a jaundiced view of brexit. the way i see it, we cannot wait for the european union to get back together. we should be ready on day one so we can forge ahead on day two. we don't know what the terms of the deal, if there is one, will be. and that is the key point. we need to be prepared for every eventuality. deal or no deal. why wouldn't we want world—class customs? why wouldn't we want world—class border information systems? why wouldn't we want

world—class infrastructure and investment to make sure that whatever happens we are leading the way and have a smooth flowing in and out of the united kingdom? labour said they would vote against a no deal scenario. presumably the snp would follow the same line on that? we have been very clear in what we want. we want to stay in the single market and the customs union. and the free right of movement for people to travel. we think that makes a lot of sense. remember theresa may has been wittering on for some months saying a bad deal is worse than no deal. she is wrong. no deal is the worst possible outcome. we would revert to... loss ofjobs and gdp that i would imply. it would be catastrophic. we would not support that if those weather conditions. do you agree with that? that is how we conduct most of our trade with the entire world outside

the european union. it is also important to remember that 90% of future global growth is coming from outside of europe. not my figures, not the government's figures, the figures from the european union. we need to look outwards to the world, work with europe yes but work with the world is that is where future growth is coming from. is that the case with menu can do deals with other countries, there is a world out there. of course. but these deals take years to put into place. they haven't even started doing them and the thing about benefiting from the growth outside the eu and they very much hope we do, is that the eu we re very much hope we do, is that the eu were leading these trade negotiations. this government was so unprepared for brexit, they don't have anyone to do the trade deals negotiations which will be essential evenif negotiations which will be essential even if the fill part of the gap we may lose from loss of trade with europe. thank you. so brexit very much dominating here. the chancellor philip hammond has been accused of

scaremongering when he said planes may stop flying between britain and the eu on day one after brexit. he said it was theoretically conceivable. in the same way that you could become prime minister. yes. i'm not ruling it out. you can be my chancellor. thank you very much. we will see later on. all the ways to get in touch with the programme are on screen. you can programme are on screen. you can text is. tweet us using the hashtag afternoonlive. if you're not sure what the catalan leader's announcement on independence meant last night, it seems you're not alone. the spanish prime minister, says he too wants clarification from catalonia, which says it has suspended its declaration. james reynolds reports now from madrid. the spanish cabinet, meeting this morning in madrid. wants catalonia to stay inside spain. for now, the government

has put off emergency measures against the region. instead, the prime minister has a simple question for the catalan leader. we need him to formally tell us whether or not he has declared independence, mariano rajoy says, and this will give our citizens the certainty they need. this is the speech that confuses the spanish government. last night, carles puigdemont, catalan president, said his region had won the right to independence but would suspend its declaration. possibly trying to have it both ways. this morning, catalans in barcelona were unsure of what may come next. translation: we are in the same position, or worse off, than we were yesterday. and there is more doubt now, it would be difficult for a state to arrange dialogue. translation: how much longer will this go on, we will be like this for some weeks,

then we will go back to the drama. i really don't understand. among people out this morning in madrid, a feeling of uncertainty. translation: in my opinion, carles puigdemont realised he was getting into big trouble, this is like a truce, but after the way he did it, i'm not quite sure how we he will solve the situation. it is very complicated for us but above all for catala ns. translation: i think the whole of spain should vote, and decide if we want catalonia to remain in spain or not. here in madrid, there is a mood among some for tough action. conservatives scorn and dismiss the authorities over in catalonia. they say that catalonia must obey the laws of spain. this afternoon, spain's prime minister will come to this, the country's parliament, to discuss catalonia, all in this capital,

now waiting to hear back from the catalan leader. tim willcox is in barcelona. confused, yes i am along with a lot of people here as well. carles puigdemont seems to have ended up upsetting everyone not only in madrid but also here his hard left coalition parties, a coup for example who are the kingmakers in the catalan parliament. they wanted him to go much further and make that declaration and achieve the goal that all of them have been pushing for full several years now. like speak to the president of the... would you make of this? good morning. confusion, confusion, anger, deceit, that is the main feeling of citizens in catalonia now. it cannot go on, can it? there

has been a flight of capital from catalonia. it is affecting the market for madrid as a whole, how do you stop the uncertainty unless you invoke that nuclear clause 155 by madrid and say that this cannot continue. i hope we don't arrive to this point but is puidgemont goes further with this legal permission, it must be because our rule of law has the wrong function. they have to go on with the rule of our constitution. talk about the constitution, one thing that mr rajoy has given ground on is the constitution. we live in a democracy so constitution. we live in a democracy so it has to attend to the rules. if

we're not majority, we won't have the independence and if we are, we will achieve it so that is the rule of democracy. do you think that mr puidgemont political career is going to be quite short lives now? he seems to have upset his hard—line supporters and, of course, upset madrid as we know because they say he is outside the constitution and this referendum was illegal. he is outside the constitution and this referendum was illegallj he is outside the constitution and this referendum was illegal. i don't know about his career but i know his declaration has been the shortest in the world. 36 seconds. so catalonia was an independent state for 35 seconds until the suspended at. sorry? it was a state for 35 seconds and then it wasn't. thank you very much. simon, we are not that much clearer, but mr rajoy is addressing parliament injust clearer, but mr rajoy is addressing parliament in just about a0 minutes time so maybe we will learn some more then. back to you. maybe rather

optimistic but we will contact you anyway. thank you very much. you're watching afternoon live, these are our headlines: the chancellor says he will wait until the last moment before spending money on preparing for the uk to leave the eu without a deal. the spanish by melissa says his government will ask for former clarification from the catalan authorities on whether or not the region has actually declared independence. the wife of film producer harbour when steam british fashion designer georgina chapman so she's leaving him after allegations of his sexual harassment from several women. in sportjust nine spots left for the world cup finals in russia despite an early scare last night, argentina will be there asa last night, argentina will be there as a hat—trick secured their place next year. celebrations for panama to and even a national holiday as they qualify for the first world cup in their history. misery for the united states, though, as they miss out on the tournament for the first time since 1986. and chris coleman look set to stay at wales is the

football association have anything to do with it. they say they want him to remain manager despite wales failure to reach the world cup finals. i will be back with more and all of those stories at 2:30pm. if you have had to put the heating on in the last few days... the energy regulator has announced a price cap on energy bills for a million low—income households, saving them on average £120 a year. but a wider cap, proposed by the prime minister last week for millions more customers, is unlikely to happen before the winter. here's our personal finance correspondent simon gompertz. how to put a lid on gas and electricity prices for 12 million households on high, standard variable tariffs? the government has been pushing the regulator 0fgem to do it. 0fgem thinks it doesn't have the power to go that far. that is a matter for parliament and we will see how quickly that will go through. i cannot tell you how quickly that will or will not go through parliament. but what i can tell you is that we will be ready to implement it as soon as it does. the prime minister said she would move to impose a full cap.

this government will publish a draft bill to put a price cap on energy bills. the government hoped the bill would not be needed in the end if 0fgem took action. but now a full cap for this winter looks unlikely. what will this mean for customers' energy bills? there will be a limited price cap from this february. that will come in for the 1 million households which qualify for the warm home discount. they are expected to save around £120 a year. and next year 0fgem has plans to extend that cap. that will mean savings for a further 2 million vulnerable households. so it is something to control gas and electricity bills but not as much as ministers wanted. i welcome their recognition that the market is not working for many consumers. but i do not think it goes far enough and fast enough. i think it is important that consumers who are overpaying should be given some relief from that. so that is why i will proceed

and bring forward legislation later this week that will compel them to do that. meanwhile, suppliers say more people are switching energy deals to get their bills down. and several have signalled that they will soon start phasing out standard variable tariffs. as of the first quarter of next year we're going to be moving thousands customers every day off the svt. and we will move them onto one of our other tariffs. at its most basic that will be fixed price deal which will be priced lower than the standard variable tariff. which means just as a government cap on expensive energy comes in in time for winter a yearfrom now, suppliers could be well into a programme of moving customers away from those problems tariffs in any case. simon gompertz, bbc news. so what does all this mean for households? pete moorey from consumer group which? is with me now. you just said that this is a mess,

it is, isn't it? the whole situation with energy is a bit of a mess. whose responsibility is it? the regulators of the government? we are left in a situation where the day the energy which later is coming out quite rightly and saying we're going to protect the bills of vulnerable households but tomorrow we're going to have a of adulation laid down in parliament —— legislation laid down in parliament. we have talked about this for a long time. a lot longer than two years and i think consumers are fed up with it. yes, i speak as one. in terms of other consumers, good news for the most vulnerable with this announcement, but what about the others who face at least one more winter without having any protection? absolutely. we need to remember that this is for 1 million vulnerable customers. it is right that they are helped, they are not going to be helped until february and they will save about £120. that is great good, but what about

everybody else? we know millions of people never ever switch in this market and for too long they have got a very raw deal as a result. they could be saving as much as £300. this seems to be the answer to everything. you can always switch. it is never that simple. people find it quite difficult to do and are frightened of a process. very often it is for the sake of a few pence. it is easier than you think. and if you come to which we will help you. we have seen people saving as much as £300 on their bills so just bringing ina as £300 on their bills so just bringing in a cap for everyone else is not necessarily the answer. we need moves that shake up the markets. get the energy companies to work harderfor our markets. get the energy companies to work harder for our custom. why don't they just get work harder for our custom. why don't theyjust get rid of the standard tariff which seems to be pa rt standard tariff which seems to be part of many peoples problems? there does seem to be movement on this. we are seeing many of the big surprise saying they will get rid of it. today 0fgem has said that rather than when they come to the end of their fixed term deal they go the standard tariff, they will put you on another fixed in deal,

standard tariff, they will put you on anotherfixed in deal, that might bea on anotherfixed in deal, that might be a good option but we have to make sure that the new fixed term deals actually are good for people. it will be no good for people. it will be no vote if that fixed term deal is only £1 cheaper than a standard tariff. as long as it works well, that might be part of the way forward. briefly, in pr terms, people mistrust of their providers gets bigger and bigger, what is the a nswer gets bigger and bigger, what is the answer here is the big energy companies are to regain that the trust? is it a conspiracy where all they are doing is trying to make as much money out of us as possible or could they quite justifiably claim that you don't really understand how ha rd that you don't really understand how hard this business is?|j that you don't really understand how hard this business is? i don't think they have worked hard enough of the last three years. we had this big competition inquiry into the energy market which was meant to sort this out. coming out of it, what did they do? they rest on their laurels, they did not work harder to try and keep their loyal customers but also regain other customers. that is what we need to see in this market. the energy companies doing much to

deliver better services, to innovate, to offer better prices, and that is when we might start of the trust from the consumer going up. i know the one thing, you will be back to talk about this before it is resolved. thank you very much. golferjustin rose and swimmer adam peaty have been awarded mbes in recognition of their contribution to sport. both men won gold medals at the 2016 rio 0lympics. and there was more success this summer when adam peaty broke his own world record twice at the world championships in budapest. 0ur royal correspondent daniela relph reports from buckingham palace. mradding mr adding peaty fort services for swimming. he is only 22 years old but dominating his sport. european and commonwealth champion, world record holder and now mbe. gold in rio he said was just the start, he described himself as being nowhere near his peak. then injuly at the

world championships in budapest, he broke his own world record price. today's on, a mark of his achievements and potential. you can win the gold, you can do all of that and get the world records, but you have to beat people to it. it is nice to get the recognition from the royalfamily nice to get the recognition from the royal family and the people of britain. it is a new —— it is a amazing honour. it was an honours ceremony where further sporting success ceremony where further sporting su ccess was ceremony where further sporting success was recognised. goal... justin rose received an mbe for services to his sport. a professional career spanning back 20 yea rs. professional career spanning back 20 years. but this is said was better than any tournament he had one. there was much criticism of golf‘s inclusion in the big games but justin rose showed even multimillionaire sportsmen can find something special in an olympic gold and is now an mbe. this is something

that other people have recommended you fall and other people have decided that you are sitting and where the file so you appreciate it. it is much more humbling than some other victories. today's ceremony recognised the gentlemen of golf who believes he is at the top of his game. alongside the fastest woman in history. full of ambition with so much more to come. let's get the weather now. it was from someone who is nowhere near buckingham palace. ijust want i just want to talk about the flood alerts. it is. i know you holiday frequently there. not frequently. i will do the caribbean forecast a minute. 175 millimetres of lame...

rain. that has really mounted up. it is miserable. not only there, but also down into the north of wales. it has all come thanks to this slow moving weather front. it has been winning for about 18 hours or so. it is not like it everywhere. there is not much rain in the south—east and behind the weather front, no great complaints it has to be said because there are blue skies to be had. there is a little bit of cloud though and it has the ability to produce showery burst of rain. there isa produce showery burst of rain. there is a chance of some sunshine. eventually we will get it into cumbria and the north and west of wales as well. the rain is going to gradually ease its way further south and east during the course of the afternoon and into the early evening. down in kent and east anglia the rain will arise after dark, i would say. high pressure then moves in and calm things down nicely for the greater part of the

british isles. underneath the skies, it will be another cold night. especially in the countryside. well down into single figures. a bright start but a chilly one on thursday. if you're fed up with the rain, this is the day for you. there is a bit of cloud with showers across northern and western parts of scotla nd northern and western parts of scotland and perhaps northern ireland as well. a fresh appeal to the day but you won't need many layers because we will have temperatures into the teens. friday, a new band of cloud and wind and rain coming across western scotland and the cumbrian fells and northern ireland. first signs of the heat we have been suggesting around for some this weekend. it will not be 22, 20 three degrees for everybody. further north will be cooler. you are on the cooler side of the warm front. it is the greater part of invalid and wales but along with that differentiation in the temperatures

we have also got this thing of cloud and rain extending into parts of scotla nd and rain extending into parts of scotland and the cumbrian fells. sunday we have more rain coming into the western parts of scotland and northern ireland but generally speaking the further south you are the drier and finer and warm your day will be. this is bbc news. our latest headlines: the chancellor, phillip hammond, has rejected calls for him to spend money now on preparing for the possibility of there being no post—brexit deal with the european union. the spanish prime minister, mariano rajoy, has called on the regional government in catalonia to clarify whether it has declared independence, during an emergency meeting of the spanish cabinet. 0fgem extends a price cap to one million more households. and it was called the ‘battle of the sexes‘ — the story of the 1973 tennis match between billiejean king and bobby riggs, now made into a movie. sport now on afternoon live,

with holly hamilton. a holiday in panama, this restoration takes a strange turn. that's right, simon. those places are starting to fill up fast — after a rather remarkable night of football last night — we saw portugal, argentina and even panama go through for the first time in their history. the dutch won't be there though, neither will chile and perhaps the biggest shock of them all — no usa either — the first time they'll be missing since 1986, simon! not many people saw that coming. but you could have seen argentina and you could put money on who would score the girls. lionel messi has scored all the girls of argentina and the only goal

he has not scored was an own goal from another team. we're talking about the usa missing out — imagine if argentina didn't make it, that would be the first time since 1970! but last night, when ecuador scored in the very first minute, i think the whole of argentina held their breath. and they needed to win this game to qualify, remember. but it wasn't long before lionel messi did what he does best. he managed to score a hat—trick to give them a 3—1win over ecuador, and seal their place in russia. afterwards, messi said it wasn't easy to play in the high altitude and it would've been "crazy" if they hadn't made it to russia. qualification hadn't been certain for portugal either, but they too have avoided the play—offs with victory over switzerland. the european champions were cheered on by none other than madonna — she's moved to lisbon with her son david, who's in the benfica youth academy. portugal won 2—0, to go straight through as group winners. the swiss take the play—off place,

where they could face northern ireland or the republic of ireland. it's been described as the most "embarrasssing night in us soccer history" and "simply devastating" by american journalists — the usa failing to reach the world cup for the first time since 1986. a draw against trinidad and tobago would've been enough, but they lost 2—1, including an own goal by 0mar gonzalez, who was inconsolable after the game. the united states' elimination was in part thanks to panama's win last night. they beat costa rica to reach the world cup finals for the very first time. the president of panama has declared today to be a national holiday. the football association of wales want chris coleman to stay on as manager of the national team, despite their failure to reach the world cup finals. his contract expires next summer and after their defeat to the republic of ireland on monday, coleman said he would let the dust settle before thinking about his future. the association is aware that most players and fans are keen for him to stay in the job and they're due to begin talks with him in the next couple of weeks.

england's former director of professional rugby, rob andrew, has told the bbc a player strike is ‘feasible' over the next 12 months. he says the current level of injuries to players is not sustainable in the intense schedule, and believes they may well choose to take industrial action over the issue. players will have something to say over the next 12, 18 months. to try and find this holy grail, and i was involved in trying to search for that for a long time as well and it is difficult, but something will give and eventually, if the players feel that it is too much and if they decide not to turn out, then there is not much of a product if nobody is not much of a product if nobody is on the pitch. controversial australian tennis player nick kyrgios is in trouble again. he's been stripped of his first—round prize money and fined an extra £7,500 after he retired

from his match at the shanghai 0pen. he claimed he was suffering with stomach problems, but he'd been heard threatening to walk out if he lost the first set against stevejohnson, which he did. ritain's number two, aljaz bedene, lasted only 12 minutes of his second—round match. he was up against alexander zverev, but he's been struggling with a knee injury and he was forced to retire for the second time in two weeks. and in the past few minutes, scotland have named seven uncapped players in their rugby league world cup squad, including brothers kane and andrew bentley of toulouse 0lympique. that's all the sport for now. i'll have more for you on afternoon live in the next hour. simon. breaking news from the home office. the survivors of the grenfell tower fire whose immigration status was certain to be given the chance to become permanent residence in britain. that announcement coming through, a one—year amnesty was

granted for foreign national survivors of the fire, which was on june 1a, they have now been given a route to permanent residence. the immigration minister saying a 12 month limited leave granted to eligible individuals is now extendable and it will lead to a permanent right to remain in the uk after five years, subject to meeting security, criminality and fraud checks. that is just coming in from the home office. as more of hollywood's biggest names emerge to accuse the film producer harvey weinstein of sexual harassment and abuse, his british wife georgina chapman has announced that she's leaving him. she's not the only one who's upset — former us president barack 0bama and his wife michelle have expressed their disgust about the reports of weinstein's behaviour. 0ur entertainment correspondent lizo mzimba reports. as the accusations against harvey weinstein become an avalanche, his wife, british fashion designer georgina chapman, has announced she is leaving him, saying our heart brea ks is leaving him, saying our heart breaks for all the women who have

suffered pain because of him. high—profile former friends are also distancing themselves. in a statement, former president 0bama said... earlier today, model and actress zoe brock told the bbc that during the 1997 cannes film festival, he brought her back to a hotel under false pretences. hardly what out of the room and came back in naked. he came back naked. naked. what did you say? and he said that he wanted a massage, could i give him a massage? and i said, no. weinstein has said all encounters with women have been consensual. i hope he's watching. so that's to my face. harvey. i would

happily stand in a courtroom and testify. happily. silver linings playbook. there have been hollywood rumours about weinstein's haiti for many years, rumours about weinstein's haiti for many yea rs, even rumours about weinstein's haiti for many years, even beenjoked rumours about weinstein's haiti for many years, even been joked about at an oscars announcement. congratulations, you five ladies no longer have the pretend to be attracted to harvey weinstein. actresses who now say they were the targets of u nwa nted actresses who now say they were the targets of unwanted advances from him include some of hollywood's biggest names. gwyneth paltrow, angelina jolie and ashleyjudd. three other women have accused weinstein of rape, accusations he says are totally untrue. his pope dashes spokesperson said... there are reports that weinstein has now left america to get treatment. hollywood and the world is asking,

how many women have been caused on thinkable pain by his actions? with me is professorjonathan shalit —— chairman of the talent management company roar global. you have two clients who have made similar accusations about harvey weinstein, so accusations about harvey weinstein, so this has been known about everywhere for a while. it has been an open secret in the film industry that harvey weinstein was a grotesque sexual predator and it is no sprays it has come out. the truth is it is no surprise nobody asked him before. it is easy for people to be sacrosanct in hindsight him earlier, but the truth is, harvey weinstein was quite simply one of the most important and powerful people in the film world and he controlled access to great parts and if these people took him on, they run the risk of losing a great career opportunities. so they we re great career opportunities. so they were scared. in old parlance, that

is the casting couch. it is the casting couch. 0ne is the casting couch. it is the casting couch. one of my clients and iam not casting couch. one of my clients and i am not giving away a secret, dame joan collins gives away this story about when they were casting for antony and cleopatra, she was told she would get the role if she had sex with the producer. she said no, she did not get the role, elizabeth taylor did and so read into that what you will! well, we will move on! iamjust what you will! well, we will move on! i am just moving and that i am just wondering about the man, people are saying a bully and a sexual bully. what was it that made him so powerful, what was he so good at? he was good at making movies. his movies are historical, look at the king's speech. he took a small side story of what happened when the king of england was making a speech and made it into one of the most important movies in the world. as a movie reducer, nobody can question his brilliance. the tragedy of the man was he felt the need to behave in this way to his employees, there

was no need for that, it is grotesque, but he chose to behave like that and take advantage. even more surprising, he had two gorgeous wives can he had a family, your children and he still behaved in this way. what is it about hollywood that creates such a man, to have such power? that is bullying in many workplaces, but this seems different. i'm not sure it is that different. i'm not sure it is that different. hollywood gets talked about because it is glamorous but the truth is, you get bullies in all workplaces and people watching this programme from the uk and all over the world will know people in their workplace who bully people, they will know men and women who make sexual comments against female and males. the difference in —— the difference in harvey weinstein, he took it to be extreme and tried to get people to go to his hotel room. we have heard from the audio tape the way he talked to that young lady was totally u na cce pta ble. the way he talked to that young lady was totally unacceptable. to say he

is sick, like his brother has, i do not necessarily believe that, he knows it is wrong, it is grotesque, he should not have done it, and story. but it should have ended a long time ago and it didn't. there was a team of people around him who allowed this to happen his staff, and the conspiracy of silence over his behaviour has been going on for a long time. as you say, hindsight isa a long time. as you say, hindsight is a wonderful thing, but why did so many people keep quiet. along? that 0fgem kinds of people. actresses and actresses who are employees and senior executives who work alongside him. you are right, the senior business executives who dealt with him day—to—day should have outed him for what he was. the senior executives have now fired him, but it isa executives have now fired him, but it is a bit late and a bit rich. we have seen this before, a lot of people claimed they knew what was going on with savile and they never outed him. not the first time a

grotesque human being has not been outed by his colleagues. is it the last time, are there others? i'm sure there are people in the workplace in all businesses who will continue to behave inappropriately but the messages, you can challenge your bosses if you think you are being treated in a criminal way in the workplace can make you need to talk to somebody about it. the positive things about working environment is, treatment of employees is ta ken environment is, treatment of employees is taken much more seriously so in my own company, have taken on an external hr to allow people to have the opportunity to speak to somebody about something they are not happy with with their boss. i know the bbc have a fantastic hr department so if an employee was not happy, they have somebody to talk to. most companies ta ke somebody to talk to. most companies take treatment of employees very seriously. so it would be harder, but it will still happen where individuals can take advantage of their power, wrongly. it is good to see you, thank you, jonathan. the number of people dying from heroin or morphine abuse has

doubled in five years to more than1,600 in england, wales and scotland — the highest on record. four of the uk's police and crime commissioners have told the bbc they'd like drugs decriminalised for personal use to be considered. our special correspondent, ed thomas, reports. county durham, searching for the next hit. i haven't got time to look for a job. being a drug addict is a full—timejob. every day, the same. by the time i do get sorted, it's time to start all over again. and this is lisa's life. a mother, ruled by heroin. i put it before my children. do you need heroin more than your children? yeah. i do. before all this, lisa was married with five children, two jobs. then she faced violence, heroin, and despair. i lost my oldest daughter and that's basically where, i've been on it since. i just use that as,

like, a coping... i haven't really dealt with her death. ijust buried my head in the sand. every five hours in the uk, someone dies after taking heroin or morphine. in the north—east, there are more drug—related deaths than anywhere else in the world. how many friends have you lost? there's loads. how many? at least 20. 20 friends? from heroin overdoses? yeah. and this is the cost of addiction on our streets. walked in, noticed the fridge was gone. came in to the kitchen, cooker gone. look at all the needles you've got lying around in there. 0n patrol with durham police. there's uncapped needles there. every day, the same. the only way they're going to fund that habit is by dishonest means, which is going to be stealing stuff. 0ne adult male, shoplifting... the government says up to half

of all crimes like shoplifting, theft and robbery are committed by offenders who use cocaine, crack cocaine and heroin. the majority of the people we deal with are repeat people all the time. whether it be thefts from shops, small, low—level crime, to fund an addiction. are you seeing the same faces again and again? yes. constantly. the same faces. again. and again. can you tell us how you feel? just sick. how many times have you been arrested? over 100. now there's a call for radical change. i think the first thing is to actually decriminalise personal use. of heroin? of all drugs. if we go down that particular route, that then opens the door for a medical solution

to the problem. they tend to ask for less and less, rather than more. it's called heroin assisted treatment. he believes it can reduce crime and save lives. it costs around £15,000 per year, per patient. for some, the idea of bringing this to durham is controversial. what do you say to people who say, i've worked all my life, so why on earth are these people — many of them offenders — getting money from the state for heroin? i don't hear any outcry about people getting nicotine patches to give up nicotine. but it's a health problem. i don't hear criticism about people getting help with their alcoholism. it's a health problem. the policies we've adopted so far haven't worked. we need to radically change those. lisa knows this could

one day kill her. she wants change and believes heroin assisted treatments could save her life. what would that mean to you? everything. it would mean i could actually start living again without having to run about like a headless chicken just trying to sort my day out. because by the time i do get sorted, it's time to start all over again. and that's all every day consists of. we arejust we are just hearing bafta has informed harvey weinstein his membership has been suspended effective immediately. it sells well bafta has previously been a beneficiary of his support for its charitable work, it considers the reported alleged behaviour com pletely u na cce pta ble reported alleged behaviour completely unacceptable and income ata completely unacceptable and income at a ball with the values of migratory and this has led to the suspension of mweinstein, followed

bya suspension of mweinstein, followed by a formal process as lead —— laid out in the constitution bafta, that news coming in. reports that all flights will be grounded, rachel, we will find all about that. the chancellor says he will wait until the last moment before spending money on preparing for the uk to leave the eu without a deal. the spanish payments to says his government will ask for more clarification from the catalan authorities on whether or not the region has declared independence. and the wife the film producer harvey weinstein, british fashion designer georgina chapman, say she is leaving him after allegations of sexual harassment from several women. hello. we are talking about energy prices. a price cap on energy bills proposed by the prime minister last week is unlikely to take effect before winter. theresa may promised to revive a plan to limit charges for an extra 12 million consumers.

but regulator 0fgem says it needs to wait for legislation before it enforces the new rules. until then a more limited price cap will cover another one million low—income households. the government is threatening to punish firms like facebook and twitter if they don't make the internet safer. it also says there needs to be a levy on firms to fund policing the net, as well as a code of practice on removing intimidating or humiliating content from social media. credit agency equifax says many more uk customers were affected by a data breach than first thought. it says more than 690,000 people in the uk had their details stolen in the cyber attack this year. equifax says it will contact all uk customers affected to offer them help. soa so a warning that on the day the uk leaves the eu, all flights will be grounded. possibly. the chancellor, phillip hammond, was speaking in the house of commons he said it was theoretically

possible flights could be grounded. this is what he had to say. 0bviously, one can plan for the most extreme scenario. 0bviously, one can plan for the most extreme scenario. let me give you an example. it is theoretically conceivable that in a no—deal scenario, there will be no air traffic moving between the uk and the european union. 0n traffic moving between the uk and the european union. on march the 29th, 2019. but! the european union. on march the 29th, 2019. but i don't think anybody seriously believes that that is where we will get to. so it is not happening at all? he believes there will be enough mutual interest that a travel deal will be struck, and a lot of people talk about leaving without a deal but we hear this caveat we do need a travel deal. here to tell us a bit more about how all this works is simon calder — travel editor from the independent. simon, just explain to us

what is the current open skies agreement — how does it work? since 1992, british travellers and eve ryo ne since 1992, british travellers and everyone else in the eu have benefited enormously from this treaty which basically says any european airline can fly between any two european airports. subject of course to getting slots at places like heathrow. and this has allowed airlines such as easyjet and ryanair in ireland to drive, and there is now about one third, surrey, three times more people playing now within europe than there were when it was first set up. and it has cut the cost of air travel dramatically. most fa res cost of air travel dramatically. most fares have halved and the number of options open to people has multiplied. so it is a very good time to be a traveller right now, whether that will still be the case on march the 29th 2019 is anybody‘s gas. if the uk were to leave the eu we no

deal, are there any world trade organisation rules we can fall back on? no, that is a fallback for a ha rd on? no, that is a fallback for a hard brexit. you have got these rules in place which cover moving goods to and fro, but they do not cover moving people and more particularly aircraft. no airline, no airline can take off from any uk airport to europe if there is no deal. and so you have this bizarre situation that if you consider heathrow, britain's busiest airport, you can fly to places like belgrade and gibraltarand you can fly to places like belgrade and gibraltar and all the long haul services which continue, but you simply would not be able to fly to frankfurt, to nice, the rome, to anywhere in the eu. that sounds like anywhere in the eu. that sounds like an absurd situation, but we have heard many times from brussels the mantra that nothing is agreed until everything is agreed. and there is a growing fear in the travel industry

that if aviation is part of that, it could be very, very serious indeed. the give me for interfering, it is simon. i can see you up in the is yours, ina simon. i can see you up in the is yours, in a jacket and tie, what is going on, are you on holiday? -- the azu res. i going on, are you on holiday? -- the azures. i am at a travel convention and have been talking to the great and have been talking to the great and good of the travel industry and they say what the chancellor has been saying is an absolute worst case scenario and they are confident some deal will be struck. but they are already selling post—brexit holidays and if you look at the terms and conditions for thomas cook, there is a caveat which says if we have any space issues, which could indeed arise if there is no dealfor could indeed arise if there is no deal for flying, could indeed arise if there is no dealforflying, we will could indeed arise if there is no deal for flying, we will not be able to pay any compensation. there is real concern not just to pay any compensation. there is real concern notjust that on march the 29th 2019 we wake up and find we cannot fly to bowling any more, but more that you are not going to get

an agreement in place by march 2018 —— to bowling. that is what you need to celtic for a year ahead. thank you very much for that. more pressure on facebook and other media sites from the culture secretary. they want the uk to be the safest place to go online and they want big social media sites to sign up to a number of things, a code of conduct, to make people more aware and to have an annual transparency report to show what complaints are being made and what they are doing to tackle issues online, and what they have said is if behaviour is unacceptable in the real world, it should also be an acceptable online. this is what the chief executive of get safe online had to say. it is quite sad that it has taken this long and we have had to regulate these companies. and i know this is a consultation process,

but we really need to protect the children that are out there. we are seeing more and more times. i go to police forces all the time, where they talk to me about suicides and that is on a month by month basis. and even worse that we can see and we can hear about. yes, we are very supportive on the get safe online team that this is coming in and that we can talk to everybody because it is all our possibilities to get people safer when on the internet. a lot of uncertainty on the markets. well stocks have hit a record high. the japanese market is at a record high. we said yesterday, albeit certainty hits the markets and it has gone up. you said it. simon was right. spanish traders are relieved. a pause going on on the independence declaration. the ibex is up more than a percent. the company which makes paper and packaging is worth

twice as much as sainsbury‘s and morrisons and they have issued a profits warning, the share price is down and that has hit the ftse. that is mondi. the energy stocks are not there! the owner british gas and sse, two of the big six energy providers, we had news about the price cut across the industry before the winter, that will not come into place before the winter and energy prices, what have they done? very good, simon, they have gone up. yes, i went like that! bright, very good, simon, they have gone up. yes, iwent like that! bright, don't go away. are you scared of heights? it depends how high is. this may not be one for you. a tourist attraction in northern china has used special effects on a glass—bottomed walkway to make the panels appear to crack — at almost a,000 feet. that man was not warned and he almost has a heart attack and i would have done as well! a terrified tour guide. that is horrendous! wobbly and

crawling. the park has apologised for giving him such a shock. those are remarkable. they should give him a free ticket as compensation if he wants to go back! and would you be brave enough to rescue a trapped shock? again, no, why? it woman in australia was, watch this. she has been filmed rescuing the shark by picking it up from a rock pool and she thenjust picking it up from a rock pool and she then just threw it into the sea. calmly. you and i would not be doing this. look! she picks up the shark and releases it into the sea. this is in sydney where she was having a swim. the animal, believed to be a jackson shark, was in distress and she put it out of its misery but terrified the rest of us. more from you later and we might

have those figures! that is rachel. time for a look at the weather. here's phil avery. your impression of the weather will relate to where you are in relation to this weather front. from the north east of scotland towards the south—west of england. through the rest of the day, it continues further south. but while that is around, you get an area of cloud and rain and breeze. brighter skies behind, but showers across the north of britain. which persisted during the night. in towns and cities, down to single figures. we will do in the countryside. a fresh start to the day on thursday. but this is the thing, a much drierand day on thursday. but this is the thing, a much drier and brighter day apart from the far north of scotland. a lot of sunshine around. a fresh appeal despite the presence of that sunshine. a high of around 16,17, of that sunshine. a high of around 16, 17, 18. of that sunshine. a high of around 16,17,18. by friday, a new area of cloud and wind and rain again across northern and western parts of the

british isles. slightly drier and warmer further south. hello, you're watching afternoon live. i'm simon mccoy. today at 3pm: the chancellor's choice — he says he won't spend money on preparing for a "no deal" brexit at the expense of health and education. every pound we spend on contingent preparations for a hard customs border is a pound that we can't spend on the nhs or social care or education or deficit reduction. the pain in spain — catalonia is put on notice that it could face direct rule from madrid. turning up the heat on energy suppliers — 0fgem extends a price cap to one million more households. coming up on afternoon live all the sport. and that race to russia. that's right, simon. 23 seams have booked their ticket to russia. just nine more to go. last night we saw portugal, argentina and panama go through for the first time in their history. more later. thanks holly, and phil has all the weather.

heavy rain has brought scenes like this to a number of location across the british isles. whilst at the same time, others have enjoyed a bit of blue sky. i'll have more details in half an hour. also coming up, harvey weinstein's hollywood past catches up with him — he's now been suspended from bafta. we'll get the details from our entertainment correspondent. hello everyone. this is afternoon live. i'm simon mccoy. the chancellor philip hammond has said taxpayers' money will not be spent on preparing for a "no deal" brexit " — just to send a message to the eu. mr hammond also warned that flights between the uk and the eu could be grounded if there were no agreement before march 2019. here's our political correspondent leila nathoo. still smiles for now, but brexit talks are faltering, and so, the no deal scenario has

begun to loom. this morning, in the times, the chancellor, philip hammond, a key remain voice in the cabinet, wrote that he was preparing for that and all outcomes, but would only spend money when it was responsible to do so. speaking to the commons treasury committee this morning, he clarified his comments. every pound we spend on contingent preparations for a hard customs border is a pound that we can't spend on the nhs or social care or education or deficit reduction. so we will be ready. we will spend the money in a timely fashion to ensure that we're ready, but we will not spend it earlier than necessaryjust to make some demonstration point. at prime minister's questions, theresa may said £250 million of new money had already been given to departments to prepare for brexit but she denied

gearing up to sever ties. we're not ramping up by no deal scenario, we are actively working, actively working with negotiations with the european union to ensure that we set out and get a good deal, the right dealfor britain, for a brighter future for this country. but brexiteers in parliament are frustrated at the progress of negotiations and the insistence by brussels that divorce matters must be resolved first before talks can turn to trade. they want the chancellor to show the eu he is serious about leaving without an agreement. he needs to do the sums. i think he needs to set aside precisely the sort of sums we need, which i imagine will run into billions of pounds. what we cannot have is a state of affairs where if we do terminate negotiations or the eu indicates it is not prepared to do a deal, we are then left scrambling to find the infrastructure we need to operate new systems. business is banking on a transition period to adjust to a new relationship with the eu but there is anxiety about the two

sides not striking a deal in time and how any new arrangements on customs or the rest would be brought in. i think it is right that the contingency plan to be drawn up, the concern is the length of time left to bring those contingency plans into operation. they talk in the white paper they talk about setting up an inland custom support, so, clearly, things like land would have to be bought, systems introduced. there is not long to go. more than a quarter of the way through brexit negotiations, there is not any sign of a deal, within government, preparing for that eventuality is for some admission of defeat. while for others it is a show of strength that britain will not be pushed around. all camps want the talks to move on, but it's for brussels to decide when. live to westminster and our chief political correspondent vicki young. those corridors that you prowl so effectively in the last few weeks,

no one mentioned a no deal brexit before. it is suddenly the topic? that's because there is a feeling that the talks in brussels might have stalled a little bit, don't forget president british government wa nted forget president british government wanted us to be moving on to the next stage, moving on to our future relationship. what happens after that maybe transition period that may or may not be negotiated, what is the bigger picture. now hasn't happened. the eu are saying that is because we haven't given enough when it comes to the rights of eu citizens, about how much we're willing to pay into the coffers and about the thorny issue of the irish border. so, in that sense, the talks are stalled, although the government insists that there has been a better tone coming from the eu after that speech that theresa may made in florence. so i think that's why some people are now talking about a no deal, because those who campaigned for brexit who actually think that no deal wouldn't be the end of the

world. it is betterfor us no deal wouldn't be the end of the world. it is better for us to no deal wouldn't be the end of the world. it is betterfor us to be com pletely world. it is betterfor us to be completely out. we can get on with things on our own and have the new trade deals with other countries. i think that's why that is happening, but the government insisted it is working towards a deal because they think that would be best for us and for the european union as well. do you think theresa may is ruing her decision last night not to a nswer her decision last night not to answer the question on whether she would vote for brexit now? what is fascinating, she said she would weigh up the scenarios, many people saying she didn't have confidence in brexit or in her government's ability to get a good deal. after prime minister's questions journalists were talking to a labour spokesman who was asked the same question aboutjeremy corbyn. what would he do and he didn't answer. we are ina would he do and he didn't answer. we are in a bizarre situation where theresa may, who was a remainor has got lots in her party on the other side of the argument. jeremy corbyn has different views, but his

spokesman said thatjeremy corbyn campaigned for remain and answered the question many times that he voted for remain. my guest is back, stephen hammond who was at the treasury select committee this morning. questioning philip hammond. now, lots of people are saying that he was basically saying i'm not prepared to spend money for a no deal scenario and then a few minutes later theresa may gets up in the house of commons and says we are spending money, £250 million. she is slapping him down again? no, that's not right. anyone who was in the committee would have heard the treasury are prepared to spend that money. what the prime minister was doing was confirming what the chancellor had said two the treasury select committee this morning. what he made clear, of course, is we have to be properly prepared, but we're not going to waste money and not spend money that we don't need to spend. wouldn't it help though if the government looked serious about the government looked serious about the no deal prospect? because that would maybe get us a better deal if we look as if we are ready and

willing to walk away from the negotiating table what the government needs to be doing and i hope it is doing is consent traying on getting a deal. as philip hammond said, no deal is a position which means it is a bad place to be and we don't want to be there. what the government should be doing, it is concentrating on making sure we are putting together a position and tone so putting together a position and tone so that we can go to the europeans and say to them come to the negotiating team of table. even philip hammond, as we know, an arch remainor sounds frustrated with our eu counterparts saying things like the irish border question, you can't possibly solve that without looking at the broader picture of what our relationship will be like at the end. i think philip hammond was right. he is understandably frustrated and it is a frustration for everybody on all sides that the europeans aren't coming to the table. why would you want to determine your whole trading relationship and your whole border relationship and your whole border relationship and your whole border relationship and customs relationship and customs relationship onjust one border? you

clearly wouldn't. philip hammond was right to say we need to get that relationship right. now, what about those in your own party who say that the treasury and by this, they mean philip hammond, of course, they have a jaund issed view of brexit and we need a more positive approach? one man'sjaundice need a more positive approach? one man's jaundice view is another man's realistic view and philip is being realistic. there are going to be opportunities for us out there when after brexit. clearly, these are not going to fall into britain's lap. we have to work hard. not all will be as big as some people think they will be and almost all will not be as easy as some people expect and the chancellor again said that this morning. anyone who thinks there is anything easy in this process is mistaken. do you think now that no deal is more likely? itjust feels this week as if there has been more chat about it. that there is the very real possibility now that we will not be able to make progress, that our eu partners don't like what we're offering them, we won't be able to give them anymore and that's the scenario we are looking at?

well, i think you're right in that it has become more common for parliament to talk about it this week. we should be doing everything week. we should be doing everything we can to get in and deal because that's in britain's economic interest. if we were to go towards no deal, you would see alnumber of major industries saying this is the worst position we could be in so let's work for a deal. as a remain mp, are you concerned that the brexiteers in your party have too much influence over the prime minister? as the prime minister said we are leeching the european union. the question is, for most people, how we do that. and someone like me makes the judgment that the best way for to us do that is to have a deal with what will be our ex—partners, but people who we want to be in friendly relationships and work with them to deals by them and also by ourselves elsewhere in the world. but again, it feels we are not making enough progress on the issue

of eu citizens. what are you hearing about that? given that the prime minister is suggesting that we're getting close to some kind of deal? you know, actually the only difference now between the two sides andl difference now between the two sides and i think the europeans need to acknowledge that is, post brexit, who should have the jurisdiction, the ultimate jurisdiction? really, who should have the jurisdiction, the ultimatejurisdiction? really, i think on this particular point, almost all remainers and all leavers are one. in any other country you wouldn't say some outside court has jurisdiction on uk law so why should it on this matter? the prime minister made a big offer. the europeans and the britons need to get together and give certainty to our eu citizens. stephen hammond, thank you very much indeed. so, i think yet again today, and in the last couple of days we have seen theresa may trying to keep together her party a party that's full of people who have rather different views about the european union. thank you very much. the spanish prime minister is

addressing mps. let's hearfrom him. translation: we have been living through days of anxieties and we all have a duty of making sure that we re—establish calm and tranquillity and continue to uphold our values and continue to uphold our values and freedom. on 1st october, ladies and freedom. on 1st october, ladies and gentlemen, there was a referendum staged which was illegal. it wasn't democratic. it wasn't spontaneous and it was an attempt to foist their will on the totality of colognian society. in order to understand how we should act, we have to make sure that we see this date in context. and to avoid that

it should happen in the future and we have to go back to 2012 where spanish society was going through a rather difficult moment. particularly with regard to the difficulties experienced by the autonomous regions. 0n difficulties experienced by the autonomous regions. on 20th september of that year, the then representative of the party asked for a meeting and reported on the economic situation and talked about the enormous deficit. and he also stated that it was impossible to come up with an economic agreement for catalonia. and it couldn't be a nswered for catalonia. and it couldn't be answered either by the whole of spain in this dramatic moment. so, here we are seeing the consequences,

ladies and gentlemen. the desire for dialogue or a referendum, i want to make it absolutely clear to you that i was always prepared for a dialogue with the officials as of any officials of any awe month tus region and that in order to collaborate and co—operate in solving the problem of catalonia. a similar outcome of the referendum happened as a result of 2012 in 201a and it was later in 2015 with the consequences which we are all aware of. it never had the democratic support of all the catalans

particularly the question of independence. so, instead of looking for alliances between the majority parties in catalonia, the government actually supported minority movements and this, of course, led to the sacrifice of — in public and it led to the referendum we have just lived through. we cannot agree with them because this is simply not legitimate. all these years the autonomous region had access to 70,000 euros for this purpose and i

would like to remind you that this chamber also awarded them in april of 2017, the possibility of voting. studio: we will be talking to tim willcox our correspondent in barcelona to see what reaction to what's going on is. so that's the prime minister talking to us. i want to stay with brexit. we were talking about vicki young about what was going on and talks of a no deal, seemingly gaining traction at westminster. i want to show you a tweet we have had from adam fleming our correspondent in brussels which suggests that, well, they don't think any progress has been done. his understanding is that the eu 27 have post poped their meeting today which was supposed to review progress in the brexit talks. frankly, well because there has been no progress. that tweet coming. just

keeping in touch with what's going on in brussels there. the headlines, the chancellor encyst the uk will be ready if there is no deal on brexit, but says he is not setting aside money for it yet. the spanish prime minister says all opings remain open for catalonia, putting the region on notice that it could face direct rule from madrid. harvey weinstein is suspended by ba fta over harvey weinstein is suspended by bafta over allegation of sexual harassment. the academy says such behaviour has no place in the industry. just nine spots left for the ryder cup finals in russia. despite an early scare, argentina will be there as a lionel messi hat—trick secures their place next year. celebration for panama too and even a national holiday! as they qualify for the first world cup in their history. misery for the united states as they miss out in the tournament for the first time since 1986. chris coleman looks set to stay at the welsh football association. they say they want him

to remain manager despite wales' failure to reach the world cup finals. i'll be back with more on those stories at 3.30pm. the energy regulator has announced a price cap on energy bills for a million low—income households, saving them on average £120 a year. but a wider cap, proposed by the prime minister last week for millions more customers, is unlikely to happen before the winter. here's our personal finance correspondent simon gompertz. how to put a lid on gas and electricity prices for 12 million households on high, standard variable tariffs? the government has been pushing the regulator 0fgem to do it. 0fgem thinks it doesn't have the power to go that far. that is a matter for parliament and we will see how quickly that will go through. i can't tell you how quickly that will or will not go through parliament. but what i can tell you is that we will be ready to implement it as soon as it does. the prime minister said she would move to impose a full cap. this government will publish a draft bill to put a price

cap on energy bills. the government hoped the bill would not be needed in the end if 0fgem took action. but now a full cap for this winter looks unlikely. what will this mean for customers' energy bills? there will be a limited price cap from this february. that will come in for the one million households which qualify for the warm home discount. they are expected to save around £120 a year. and next year 0fgem has plans to extend that cap. that will mean savings for a further two million vulnerable households. so it is something to control gas and electricity bills but not as much as ministers wanted. i welcome their recognition that the market is not working for many consumers. but i don't think it goes far enough and fast enough. i think it's important that consumers who are overpaying should be given some relief from that. so that's why i will proceed and bring forward legislation later this week that will compel them to do that.

meanwhile, suppliers say more people are switching energy deals to get their bills down. and several have signalled that they will soon start phasing out standard variable tariffs. as of the first quarter of next year, we're going to be moving thousands customers every day off the svt. and we will move them on to one of our other tariffs. at its most basic that will be fixed price deal which will be priced lower than the standard variable tariff. which means just as a government cap on expensive energy comes in in time for winter a yearfrom now, suppliers could be well into a programme of moving customers away from those problems tariffs in any case. the home office has announced changes to the survivors of the g re nfell tower. changes to the survivors of the grenfell tower. previously eligible foreign nationals affected by the

fire with uncertain immigration status could be granted 12 months to remain in the uk with full access to support and assistance. today's announcement enables those who qualify and come forward before 30th november to have their limited leave extended and qualify for permanent residence after a total period of five months leave grapted under the policy. that news just coming in. as more of hollywood's biggest names emerge to accuse the film producer harvey weinstein of sexual harassment and abuse, his british wife georgina chapman has announced that she's leaving him. she's not the only one who's upset — former us president barack 0bama and his wife michelle have expressed their disgust about the reports of weinstein's behaviour. 0ur entertainment correspondent lizo mzimba reports. as the accusations against harvey weinstein become an avalanche, his wife, british fashion designer georgina chapman, has announced leaving him, saying her heart breaks for all the women who have suffered pain because of him. high—profile former friends too are distancing themselves. former president 0bama said, "michelle and i have been disgusted

by the recent reports about harvey weinstein. any man who demeans and degrades women in such fashion needs to be condemned and held accountable. regardless of wealth or status." earlier today model and actress zoe brock told the bbc that during the 1997 cannes film festival he brought her back to a hotel under false pretences. harvey walked out of the room and he came back naked. he came back naked? he came back naked. and he said he wanted a massage. isaid, no. harvey weinstein has said that all encounters with women have been consensual. i hope he's watching. say that to my face, harvey. i would happily stand in a court room and testify. happily. silver linings playbook.

there have been rumours about his behaviour for many years, even being joked about at an oscar ‘s announcement. congratulations, you five ladies no longer have to pretend to be attracted to harvey weinstein. some of hollywood's biggest names say that they have repelled his advances, when paltrow, angelina jolie, ashleyjudd. three other women have accused him of rape, accusations that he says are totally untrue. his spokesperson said: there are reports that weinstein has left america to seek treatment, hollywood and the world is asking how many women have been caused unthinkable pain by his actions? well, the ramifications continue

this side of the pond because bafta and he puts a lot of money into ba fta. and he puts a lot of money into bafta. they are not happy either? and he puts a lot of money into bafta. they are not happy either7m is not that he puts money into ba fta. is not that he puts money into bafta. it is the symbolic nature of it. it doesn't affect the films that are entered for the award, but what does is bafta sending a signal that the behaviour he is being accused of is something they feel is unacceptable. is something they feel is u na cce pta ble. ba fta is something they feel is unacceptable. bafta is best known for its big awards, the tv awards, the film awards, but it is a charity that does a lot of work in promoting people coming through the industry, training in the industry, identifying talent, good practise in the industry, that's where a lot of its effort goes and the behaviour that's harvey weinstein has been accused of is at odds to the kind of things that bafta stands for. so, this year, it won't affect particularly any films that he has been involved with. it doesn't work like that, but his membership, as

one of the members of bafta in new york that's been suspended. every picture we show seems to be of him ona picture we show seems to be of him on a red carpet. he is at every event, whether it is bafta or the 0scars, it just event, whether it is bafta or the 0scars, itjust underlines the scale of this spiral of disaster for him personally, but the disgrace that he has brought upon himself? he is one of the biggest names in hollywood. he has been well—known for his 0scar campaigning, films like shakespeare in love and lion last year. and the king's speech. perhaps his biggest triumph was taking the artist with no really big name stars and pushing it to mum till 0scar wins. he is on

the red carpet and seen by many as being unassailable. that's changed in the last few weeks with the accusations which has undone the work he has done. a lot of the people involved in his films said they are devastated by the reports and his work has been tainted by the accusations. there has been unfair, most people would say, criticism. people like angelina jolie saying why are you coming out now with the claims? the focus should be kept on harvey weinstein and what he is accused of having done wrong. some people argue that it's too much shifting the blame on to potential victims to actually say this happened to you, it was terrible, you should have done this, this and this. people react in all sorts of different ways. they might want to wish it never happened and might wish it never happened and might wish no attention to be drawn for it and there is a lot of feeling out there in some quarters that the

emphasis shouldn't be taken away from what harvey weinstein is accused of doing rather than saying pressure should have been piled on people who were potential victims. he gotan people who were potential victims. he got an award from the queen. so what happens with that? he has an honorary cbe. what will happen with that, there has been pressure for that, there has been pressure for that to be taken away from him. this operates by the secret honours forfeit committee. there was a lot of talk about sir philip green and about whether his knighthood should be taken away from him. the committee never advertises that it is meeting and never advertises what is meeting and never advertises what is on the agenda. it has the ability, usually when criminal charges have been brought, it has latitude to say an horror brought the honours system into disrepute. it has the power to say we have decided that his cbe should be taken away. thank you. we will be going nationwide as ever and sometimes i walk into the studio

without knowing who is coming in. i do, because sally taylor has tweeted. she is from south london, she said the lovely... 0h, tweeted. she is from south london, she said the lovely... oh, that's nice. she is coming in at a.30pm. there was a huge plan for a tourism site on thejurassic coast. it has fallen by the way side. she will be telling us about that. someone else i will be talking to at a.30pm is bbc spotlight from plymouth. this is victoria graham. she is talking about st ives and their new gallery. it has opened another wing in the tate gallery in st ives. she and i have been there together. i will tell you why later on! a new came pain has been launched to make the internet safer.

lego life, a website where children can safely meet and share what they have built. the government says this is an example of how to build a safe internet experience, and it wants other tech firms to act to protect users young and old from harm. the internet safety strategy calls for a new code of conduct, where social media firms agree to work together against bullying and abuse, a tax on the internet industry to fund an awareness campaign, and an annual report where firms reveal what progress they have made in tackling abuse. children's charities have been consulted about the strategy. they say parents need more help from the technology industry. what we find is that parents are being overwhelmed with information. they are getting loads of information, but what they are not getting is help when something goes wrong. and that is really, really important when you think that most children get a mobile phone by the time they are eight years old. this is something that parents

of even very young children are having to try and deal with. facebook says it is already working with the government to make the online world safer. but the question now is whether the uk can impose a new code on powerful globalfirms. a lot of people rushing back to see afternoon live on their televisions. for those of you who may have been driving through bedfordshire, you may have noticed something dramatic as one white van driver, i don't know if he was desperate to get to the television, but that's one way he did t he crashed through the front door of a thatched cottage. it is thought the van had come off at a bend before crossing a grass verge and then going through a hedge and dramatically embedding himself in the house. the people who live in the house. the people who live in the cottage says there was a dreadful noise like an earthquake. police arrested a 3a—year—old man for being unable to drive through drink or drugs. phil avery has the weather forecast.

your impression of the weather will relate to where you are in relation to this weather front. from the north east of scotland towards the south—west of england. through the rest of the day, it continues further south. but while that is around, you get an area of cloud and rain and breeze. brighter skies behind, but showers across the north of britain. which persist during the night. in towns and cities, down to single figures. we will do in the countryside. a fresh start to the day on thursday. but this is the thing, a much drier and brighter day, apart from the far north of scotland. a lot of sunshine around. a fresher feel, despite the presence of that sunshine. a high of around 16, 17, 18. by friday, a new area of cloud and wind and rain again across northern and western parts of the british isles. slightly drier and warmer further south. this is bbc news.

our latest headlines: the chancellor, philip hammond, says he's not yet ready to authorise the expenditure needed to prepare for britain leaving the european union without a deal. the spanish government is asking the regional authorities in catalonia to clarify whether or not they have declared independence. the energy regulator, 0fgem, has said it will extend its prepayment price cap to one million vulnerable households this winter. harvey weinstein is suspended by bafta over allegations of sexual offences. the organisation says such behaviour has no place in the industry. sport now. panama, who knew? that's right, simon. those places are starting to fill up fast — after a rather remarkable night of football last night — we saw portugal, argentina and even panama go through for the first time

in their history. the dutch won't be there, though, neither will chile and perhaps the biggest shock of them all — no usa either. the first time they'll be missing since 1986, simon! my my prediction is we have not seen the last of the lionel messi! backwardness, we could not have a world cup without him. imagine if argentina did not make it. but last night, when ecuador scored in the very first minute, i think the whole of argentina held their breath. and they needed to win this game to qualify, remember. but it wasn't long before lionel messi did what he does best. he managed to score a hat—trick, to give them a 3—1win over ecuador, and seal their place in russia. afterwards, messi said it wasn't easy to play in the high altitude and it would've been "crazy"

if they hadn't made it to russia. it has been described as the most embarrassing night in us soccer history, failing to reach the world cup for the first time since 1986. a draw against trinidad and tobago would have been enough but they lost 2-1, would have been enough but they lost 2—1, including an own goal by gonzales he was inconsolable after the game. the united states' elimination was in part thanks to panama's win last night. they beat costa rica to reach the world cup finals for the very first time. the president of panama has declared today to be a national holiday. the inga and seven teams have got two wins from two, beating mexico 3-2 two wins from two, beating mexico 3—2 in india. brewster opened the scoring for steve cooper's site six minutes before the break. two further goals ensured victory

despite a late comeback from mexico and they will take on iraq next on saturday. the football association of wales want chris coleman to stay on as manager of the national team, despite their failure to reach the world cup finals. his contract expires next summer and, after their defeat to the republic of ireland on monday, coleman said he would let the dust settle before thinking about his future. the association is aware that most players and fans are keen for him to stay in the job and they're due to begin talks with him in the next couple of weeks. england's former director of professional rugby, rob andrew, has told the bbc a player strike is ‘feasible' over the next 12 months. he says the current level of injuries to players is not sustainable in the intense schedule, and believes they may well choose to take industrial action over the issue. players will have a big say over the next 12, 18 months, to try and find this holy grail. and i was involved in trying to search for that for a long time

as well and it is difficult, but something will give. and eventually, if the players feel that it's too much and if they decide not to turn out, then there isn't much of a product if nobody‘s on the pitch. scotland have named seven uncapped players in their rugby league world cup squad, including brothers kane and andrew bentley of toulouse 0lympique. scotla nd scotland managed to draw against the former champions last year. their campaign starts at the end of the month against tonga, in cairns. controversial australian tennis player nick kyrgios is in trouble again. he's been stripped of his first—round prize money and fined an extra £7,500 after he retired from his match at the shanghai 0pen. he claimed he was suffering with stomach problems, but he'd been heard threatening to walk out if he lost the first set against stevejohnson, which he did. britain's number two, aljaz bedene,

lasted only 12 minutes of his second—round match. he was up against alexander zverev, but he's been struggling with a knee injury and he was forced to retire for the second time in two weeks. that's all the sport for now. i'll have more for you on afternoon live in the next hour. simon. thank you. the number of people dying from heroin or morphine abuse has doubled in five years to more than1,600 in england, wales and scotland — the highest on record. four of the uk's police and crime commissioners have told the bbc they'd like drugs decriminalised for personal use to be considered. our special correspondent, ed thomas, reports. county durham, searching for the next hit. i haven't got time to look for a job. being a drug addict is a full—timejob. every day, the same. by the time i do get sorted, it's time to start all over again. and this is lisa's life. a mother, ruled by heroin. i put it before my children. do you need heroin more than your children? yeah.

i do. before all this, lisa was married with five children, two jobs. then she faced violence, heroin, and despair. i lost my oldest daughter and that's basically where, i've been on it since. i just use that as, like, a coping... i haven't really dealt with her death. ijust buried my head in the sand. every five hours in the uk, someone dies after taking heroin or morphine. in the north—east, there are more drug—related deaths than anywhere else in the world. than anywhere else in england. how many friends have you lost? aye, there's loads. how many? at least 20. 20 friends? from heroin overdoses? yeah.

and this is the cost of addiction on our streets. walked in, noticed the fridge was gone. came in to the kitchen, cooker gone. all the needles you've got lying around in there. 0n patrol with durham police. there's uncapped needles there. every day, the same. the only way they're going to fund that habit is by dishonest means, which is going to be stealing stuff. 0ne adult male, shoplifting... the government says up to half of all crimes like shoplifting, theft and robbery are committed by offenders who use cocaine, crack cocaine and heroin. the majority of the people we deal with are repeat people all the time. whether it be thefts from shops, small, low—level crime, to fund an addiction. are you seeing the same faces again and again? yes. constantly. the same faces. again. and again. can you tell us how you feel?

just sick. how many times have you been arrested? 0ver100. now there's a call for radical change. i think the first thing is to actually decriminalise personal use. of heroin? of all drugs. if we go down that particular route, that then opens the door for a medical solution to the problem. in switzerland, durham's police and crime commissioner is looking for that medical solution. they tend to ask for less and less, rather than more. it's called heroin assisted treatment. he believes it can reduce crime and save lives. it costs around £15,000 per year, per patient. for some, the idea of bringing this to durham is controversial. what do you say to people who say, i've worked all my life, so why on earth are these people — many of them offenders — getting money from the state for heroin?

i don't hear any outcry about people getting nicotine patches to give up nicotine. but it's a health problem. i don't hear criticism about people getting help with their alcoholism. it's a health problem. the policies we've adopted so far haven't worked. we need to radically change those. lisa knows this could one day kill her. she wants change and believes heroin assisted treatments could save her life. what would that mean to you? everything. it would mean i could actually start living again without having to run about like a headless chicken to try and sort my day out. because by the time i do get sorted, it's time to start all over again. and that's all every day consists of. more now on the news that

angelina jolie and gwyneth paltrow have joined a growing list of women accusing harvey weinstein of sexual harassment. he says he "unequivocally" denies all the allegations, including three of rape. i spoke to the chairman of the talent management company rule lowball and he says this has been an open secret for years. yeah, it's been an open secret in the film industry that harvey weinstein was a grotesque, thuggish sexual predator. it's of no surprise that it's come out. and in truth, it's no surprise that no—one outed him before. it's very easy for people to be sacrosanct in hindsight and say, these famous people like angelina jolie and gwyneth paltrow should have outed him and they should have done it earlier, but the truth is harvey weinstein was quite simply one of the most important, powerful people in the film world and he controlled access to great parts. and if these people took him on, they run the risk of losing great career opportunities.

so they were scared to. in old parlance, that's the casting couch. in old parlance, it is the casting couch. you know, one of my clients, i'm not giving away a secret here because damejoan collins tells a story of how when they were when they were casting for antony and cleopatra, she was told she was told she would get the role if she had sex with the producer or director, playing cleopatra. in fact, she didn't, she said no. she didn't get the role, elizabeth taylor got the role. so read into that what you will. well, we'll move on! but i'm just wondering about the man. a bully is what people are saying. and a sexual bully. but what was it that made him so powerful, what was he so good at? he was good at making movies. i mean, his movies are historical. look at the king's speech. he took a small side story of what happened when the king of england was making a speech and made it into one of the most important movies in the world. as a movie producer, no—one can question harvey weinstein's brilliance. the tragedy of the man was he felt the need to behave in this way to his employees. there was no need for that. it's grotesque. but he chose to behave like that and take advantage. what's even more surprising,

he had two gorgeous wives. he had a family, he had children, and yet he still behaved in this way. what is it about hollywood that creates such a man, to have such power? i mean, there is bullying in many workplaces, but this seems different. i'm not sure it's that different. i mean, hollywood gets talked about because it's glamorous but the truth is you get bullies in all workplaces. and people watching this programme from all of the uk and all over the world will know people in the workplace who bully people. they will know men and women who make sexual comments against female and male is. the difference in harvey weinstein's case, he took it to the extreme. he tried to get people to come into his hotel rooms as we all heard from the audio tape released today. the way he talked to that young lady was totally unacceptable. to say he is sick, like his brother has committee is an ill man, i don't necessarily believe all that. he

knows it's wrong it is grotesquely wrong, you should not have done it, end of. but the trouble is it should have ended a long, long time ago and it didn't. there was a whole team of people who allowed this to happen and his staff. and the conspiracy of silence over his behaviour, it's been going on for an awfully long time. as you say, hindsight is a wonderful thing but why did so many people keep quiet for that long? there are two kinds of people, the actors and actresses who are the employees and clearly they don't wa nt to ta ke employees and clearly they don't want to take him on because they might not get roles and their senior executives who work alongside him. you are absolutely right, the senior business executives who dealt with him day—to—day should have outed him for what he was. yes, the company have now fired him but it is a bit late and a bit rich. but we have seen late and a bit rich. but we have seen it before withjimmy savile for example, a lot of people claimed they knew what was going on but never outed him. this is not the first time a grotesque and being has not been outed by his colleagues.

will it be the last time, the others out there? i'm sure that people in the workplace in all businesses will continue to behave inappropriately but the messages, you can challenge bosses. if you believe you are being treated in a criminal type way in the workplace, you need to talk to somebody about it. the positive things about work environment is now its treatment of the employees is taken much more seriously. so in my own company, i have taken on an external hr to allow people to have the opportunity speak to someone if they are not happy with something about their bosses. i know the bbc have a fantastic hr department so if an employee was not happy, they had someone an employee was not happy, they had someone to talk to. i think most companies take treatment of employees very seriously. so i think it will be harder but it will store happen where individuals can take advantage of that power, wrongly. rachel is here and we will currently

be talking about credit card debt for the over 55 group. the chancellor insists the uk will be ready if there's no deal on brexit, but says he's not setting aside money for it yet. the spanish prime minister says all options remain open for catalonia, the spanish prime minister says all options remain open for catalonia, putting the region on notice that it could face direct rule from madrid. film producer harvey weinstein is suspended by bafta over allegations of sexual harassment. the academy says such behaviour has no place in the industry. hello. we have been talking about energy prices. a price cap on energy bills proposed by the prime minister last week is unlikely to take effect before winter. theresa may promised to revive a plan to limit charges for an extra 12 million consumers. but regulator 0fgem says it needs to wait for legislation before it enforces the new rules. until then, a more limited price cap will cover another one million low—income households. the government is threatening to punish firms like facebook and twitter if they don't make the internet safer. it also says there needs

to be a levy on firms to fund policing the net, as well as a code of practice on removing intimidating or humiliating content from social media. credit agency equifax says many more uk customers were affected by a data breach than first thought. it says more than 690,000 people in the uk had their details stolen in the cyber attack this year. equifax says it will contact all uk customers affected to offer them help. the bank of england worried about levels of personal borrowing. we have not talked about this in the over 55 section before. this is a survey done by aviva company and they say credit card debt among the migratory group is on a six—year highs, on the rise. credit card debt? yes, credit card debt. a lot of them you would imagine what her mortgage is paid off and they have a good mortgage to

look forward to. you would expect them to look forward to a debt free retirement. this research shows a third have yet to pay off their mortgage and an increasing number are using unsecured debt like personal loans and overd rafts are using unsecured debt like personal loans and overdrafts as a kind of day—to—day financial solution. we will talk about that with alistair maclean, head of savings and retirement at aviva. you have called this report are the real retirement report, what is the real retirement report, what is the real story of retirement for the over—55s in the uk today? we are witnessing a transformation of retirement in the uk. debt is traditionally is something the younger generation and those in the working life face, student debt or paying off your mortgage during your working life. the expectation to move into retirement is debt free. the figures published today show that world is a world of the past. mortgage debt is up for the over—55s, credit card debt is up, overd rafts have gone over—55s, credit card debt is up, overdrafts have gone up. increasingly, we cannot expect to

move into retirement with that debt free environment and that is going to change the way we planned for later life. why is that? with a record low interest rate, which are the over—55s taking on more debt? you have identified one of the reasons. there is a reason debt is ata reasons. there is a reason debt is at a record low level of cost, the bank of england facing a record low level. it is more than ten years since the bank of england last raised the base rate. interest rates rising is an alien concept to many and a forgotten concept to many in later life. that is one reason, people had been attracted to debt. the second reason, incomes are at a lower level, savings are down, people have to make ends meet and they are reaching the credit cards, ove rd rafts, they are reaching the credit cards, overd rafts, of the they are reaching the credit cards, overdrafts, of the borrowing facilities to bridge that gap. and one of the number—1 thing is keeping older people worried and awake at night is fear of the rising cost of living. they realise they are at the

edge and if interest rates went up, this put greater pressure on those borrowing. when it comes to pensions, it is something many of the younger generations are told they need to save for retirement but it could have been assumed the over—55s would benefit from the more traditional pension systems and should have a healthy pension to look forward to, so why are they having to use overdrafts and unsecured loans to support them? are their pensions letting them down? i would not say that, you have identified many people approaching retirement have had the golden generation of pensions, final salary pensions to carry them into later life. at this is not universal, it is not everybody that has this approaching retirement, many people have not been any fortunate situation and some are relying on the state pension of £8,000 a year. with that level of income, you can see why people are looking elsewhere to borrow. it is time for the uk to

re—educate itself and realise debt is part of our life, notjust the young or the mid part of our lives but in later life. it is a challenge we have the race to. thank you for your time. a report saying the financial world is still aggressively masculine. the world of financial services is "aggressively masculine" and puts women off buying mortgages, pensions and investments. that's according to a report by the research firm kantar. they spoke to 30,000 women and found that many felt financial experts there is a sense women are confident when it comes to household finances, but with the high—value paddocks like a mortgage or investments or pensions, the industry is very male dominated and women do not feel co mforta ble. dominated and women do not feel comfortable. so women are more likely to leave them money in a savings account rather than investigating other options. rather than to be talked down to?

yes, research included examples of women going along for a mortgage advice session and the mortgage adviser only talking to their male partner and they disengaged from that. i spoke to amy cashman from cancer uk and she says the industry needs to change. i think the first thing is to understand women's context is quite different from men's's. women are really interested in finding out about supporting their families and those around them, men with financial services tend to be more focused on individual products and what that means for them. the other thing gives women are a bit more risk averse and they like to see more validation from their peer group around the decisions they make in the financial services, so they look more to things like social media to check for information and to see what others think of their decisions. and things like that are not necessarily the way banks approach and communicate with women. so they don't necessarily apply that kind of female lens to their communications. so, the markets.

six big energy providers in the uk, we are talking about the headline of the price cap many hoped would comment for many more in winter and it will not come in, it is an extra 1 million low—income households. so looking at the big energy companies and the impact on stock prices. six big providers in the uk, do you know them? yes. a good answer! all right, all right, british gas, edf, and power... british gas, edf, and power... british guide is owned by? centrica. very good! as is sse listed on the stock exchange. do you want to do the markets? so centrica and sse listed on the ftse. their share prices have gone up. and you will see we have put up the ibex which was down 8% yesterday

and now the catalan leadership has paused on that independence bid, the price has rallied and a sense of relief among traders that what they thought might happen, it might not happen, it might not happen for a while, so taking breathing space. ok! more markets in an hour. thank you so much! you are welcome. golferjustin rose and swimmer adam peaty have been awarded mbes in recognition of their contribution to sport. both men won gold medals at the 2016 rio 0lympics. with adam peaty breaking his own world record. 0ur royal correspondent daniela relph reports mr adam peaty, for services to swimming. he's just 22 years old, but dominating his sport. adam peaty, 0lympic, world, european and commonwealth champion, world—record holder and now mbe.

gold in rio, he said, was just the start. he described himself as being nowhere near his peak. then injuly, at the world championships in budapest, he broke his own world record twice. the honour today a mark of his achievement and his potential. you can win the gold medal and do all that, but you have to beat other people to it and to get recognition from the people of the uk is an amazing honour. ever since i was a kid, i have been doing it, so to come here today is amazing. further sporting success was also recognised in the ceremony. golferjustin rose received an mbe for services to his sport. his professional career stretched back almost 20 years, but he said this was better than any tournament he had one. it's gold.

there was much criticism of his inclusion in the olympic games for golf, but he showed that he could find something special in an olympic gold and now an mbe. this is something that other people have recommended you for and decided you are fitting and worthy for. so you appreciate it, it is much more humbling than some other victories. the ceremony today recognised a gentleman of golf. at the top of his game. alongside the fastest swimmer in history. full of ambition, with so much more to come. would you be brave enough to rescue a trapped shark? one woman in australia certainly was. melissa hatheier has been filmed rescuing a shark by calmly picking it up from a rock pool and throwing it into the sea. this was in sydney and the shark was in distress. shejust this was in sydney and the shark was in distress. she just released it into the sea, as you do. her mother noticed

a fin in the sydney pool where she was swimming. the shark quickly swam away when released. a look at the weather now. your impression of the weather will relate to where you are in relation to this weather front. draped from the north east of scotland towards the south—west of england. through the rest of the day, it continues further south. but while that is around, you'll get an area of cloud and rain and breeze. brighter skies behind, but showers across the north of britain. which persist during the night. in towns and cities, we may get down to single figures. we will do in the countryside. a fresh start to the day on thursday. but this is the thing — a much drier and brighter day, apart from the very far north of scotland. a lot of sunshine around. a fresher feel, despite the presence of that sunshine.

a high of around 16, 17, 18. by friday, a new area of cloud and wind and rain again across northern and western parts of the british isles. slightly drier and warmer further south. hello, you're watching afternoon live. i'm simon mccoy. today at apm: the chancellor's choice, he says he won't spend money on preparing for a "no deal" brexit at the expense of health and education. every pound we spend on contingent preparations for a hard customs border is a pound that we can't spend on the nhs or social care or education or deficit reduction. "disloyal and dangerous", spain's prime minister accuses the catalan authorities of attacking the country's constitution. turning up the heat on energy suppliers, 0fgem extends a price cap to one million more households. coming up on afternoon live all the sport. huw‘s here. it is still the race to russia we're talking about? it is, good

afternoon, simon. we will be talking about who has and hasn't made it to the world cup in russia next year. the good news for football fans, cristiano ronaldo's portugal and lionel messi with argentina will be there. thank you very much. also coming up, we take a sneak preview of the new £20 million gallery "sunk into the cliff" in st ives. we'll be talking about it in nationwide. hello everyone. this is afternoon live. i'm simon mccoy. the chancellor philip hammond has said taxpayers' money will not be spent on preparing for a "no—deal" brexit" just to send a message to the eu. however, downing street says the £250 million allocated this year for brexit preparations does include the possibility of a "no deal" scenario. mr hammond also said flights between the uk and the eu could be grounded if there were no agreement before march 2019, but he didn't see it as likely.

here's our political correspondent leila nathoo. still smiles for now, but brexit talks are faltering, and so, the no deal scenario has begun to loom. this morning in the times, the chancellor, philip hammond, a key remain voice in the cabinet, wrote he was preparing for that and all outcomes, but would only spend money when it was responsible to do so. speaking to the commons treasury committee this morning, he clarified his comments. every pound we spend on contingent preparations for a hard customs border is a pound that we can't spend on the nhs or social care or education or deficit reduction. so we will be ready. we will spend the money in a timely fashion to ensure that we're ready, but we will not spend it earlier than necessaryjust to make some demonstration point. at prime minister's questions, theresa may said £250 million of new money had already been given

to departments to prepare for brexit, but she denied gearing up to sever ties. we're not ramping up by no deal scenario. we are actively working, actively working, with negotiations with the european union to ensure that we set out and we get a good deal, the right dealfor britain, for a brighter future for this country. but brexiteers in parliament are frustrated at the progress of negotiations and the insistence by brussels that divorce matters must be resolved first before talks can turn to trade. they want the chancellor to show the eu he's serious about leaving without an agreement. he needs to do the sums. i think he needs to set aside precisely the sort of sums that we need, which i imagine will run into billions of pounds. but what we cannot have is a state of affairs where if we do terminate the negotiations or the eu indicates it is not prepared to do a deal, we are then left scrambling to find the infrastructure we need

to operate new systems. business is banking on a transition period to adjust to a new relationship with the eu, but there's anxiety about the two sides not striking a deal in time and how any new arrangements on customs and the rest would be brought in. i think it's right that the contingency plan to be drawn up, the concern is the length of time left to bring those contingency plans into operation. they talk in their white paper they talk about setting up an inland custom support, so, clearly, things like land would have to be bought, systems introduced and people trained. there is not long to go. more than a quarter of the way through brexit negotiations, there is not any sign of a deal, within government, preparing for that eventuality is for some admission of defeat. while for others it is a show of strength that britain will not be pushed around. all camps want the talks to move on, but it's for brussels to decide when. live to westminster and our chief

political correspondent vicki young. these two words, "no deal" they were nowhere a few weeks ago? that's right. that's partly because there are some here who feel that the talks have stalled a little bit. that the eu seems unwilling to move on to talk about the second stage that's our future relationship once we have left the european union. and so, people are saying that britain must start to prepare for a no deal. there is no point reaching a cliff edge and then just dropping off. we have to make preparations. the row really is about how much you spend and when you spend it, trying to do that and really it's the an old fault line that there is within the conservative party with some who we re conservative party with some who were on the brexit side of the argument in the referendum and deeply suspicious of philip hammond, the chancellor, they think that he's not doing enough to be positive about how good brexit could be for this country. ok, we are having a

problem with that particular clip. we saw at prime minister's questions theresa may is still under pressure over her inability to answer that question as to how she would vote if there was a brexit referendum now? yesterday, she was asked that question and said she would weigh up the questions. some say that's showing that she is not positive. afterwards jeremy corbyn spokesman was asked the same question, how would mr corbyn. he had the same answer. there is no referendum, so we won't be answering hypothetical questions. i'm hoping thatjohn whittingdale will answer some of my questions. how much should we spend on the possibility of no deal? isn't ita on the possibility of no deal? isn't it a waste of money pumping billions into something that may never happen? peu would hope it wouldn't cost billions. it is sensible if you are negotiating to get the best possible deal to have the

alternative of not reaching a deal as an option. we are much more likely to get a good deal out of europe if they recognise that there are circumstances where we would be prepared to walk away. so, i think it is right that we should be preparing for that eventuality now, not necessarily because that's what is going to happen but because it will strengthen our position in trying to get the best possible deal. do you think philip hammond is wrong to say he is not willing to ta ke wrong to say he is not willing to take money from the nhs to put into that and he won't spend the money until the last moment? that and he won't spend the money untilthe last moment? any chancellor will say he is not going to spend money until he has to do. i heard the prime minister answer the question at prime minister's questions earlier today where she said that we were preparing for that possibility and that we would put money into the preparations in order that it was a realistic alternative if it became necessary. that is quite confusing to people from the outside. in the morning we have the

chancellor saying i'm not going to do itand chancellor saying i'm not going to do it and then we have got the prime minister saying we are doing it already. the chancellor saying there is the possible tilt of no deal is something we have to take certificate crewsly and prepare for. he said he didn't want to spend a lot of money until it was sensible to do so. you wouldn't expect a chancellor to say less. there are preparations we can make which don't require a great deal of expenditure, there is expenditure which we have to make whether or not we reach a deal. there will be new arrangements for trade, for customs, for immigration control, which will require, it investment in software, potentially some new posts at borders, all those are things which we need to start thinking about and might well still need to do even if we reach a deal. some of your collea g u es we reach a deal. some of your colleagues said that they feel the treasury has a jaundiced view of brexit. there needs to be more positivity s that what you think?|j

positivity s that what you think?” think we have heard less from the treasury about the positive benefits which will come from our no longer being part of the union. i believe there are —— european union, i believe there are huge opportunities which will flow. the most direct benefit from the treasury is they will no longer be paying this huge amount of money that we have to pay each year into the european union coffers. so it will be a dividend. it maybe that the transitional arrangement undera it maybe that the transitional arrangement under a deal that we have to go on paying something for a while, but there will come a point where the treasury is going to get a win fall because we are no longer having to make that contribution. thank you very much indeed. theresa may making it clear that she is willing to spend some money, £250 million has been put aside this year and being spent. vicki young, thank you. in the past hour spain's prime minister, mariano rajoy, has accused the catalan authorities of mounting a disloyal and very dangerous attack

on the country's constitution, by holding last month's referendum. catalonia says it has ‘suspended' its declaration of independence. tim willcox is in barcelona. the prime minister seems a bit confused. i'm confused. are you? i'm confused. i'm confused. are you? i'm confused about lots of thingsks simon, as you know. on this one it is clearer now. but so, as far as i'm concerned and what we gathered and having spoken to the various separatist parties here last night, independence was declared, but only for a few seconds before he suspended it. basically what the spanish prime minister was doing today was starting the legal process by invoking article 155 which potentially could actually take rule back to madrid and he would suspend the autonomous region of cat loan that. i think the legal process potentially is starting. that's why he needs to know precisely what the

cata la n he needs to know precisely what the catalan president meant in his speech last night. let's bring in a someone speech last night. let's bring in a someone had who is pro—independence. wave red line here. the red line is democracy. it's bearing in mind that the decision belongs to the people. ultimately, we can't betray the people. we can't surrender democracy. whatever development comes, we'll have to obey that basic rule. will there be an official response from the catalan president to the spanish prime minister's request to know what was agreed last night? there has been a response by the catalan president saying please let's talk. let's sit on both ends of the table and start talking. the

prime minister wanted to establish what was agreed last night?m prime minister wanted to establish what was agreed last night? it is obvious mr rajoy hasn't understood a thing for years. a—lot of us don't either. yes, you declared independence and then you suspended it. that's clear. there was a declaration of independence. the law which was approved by the referendum stated clearly if the result was a yes and it was, 90%, yes, there would be a declaration. it was signed afterwards, but he also suspended it in the sense that let's give ourselves a break and this break is for having a last chance, opening the last door for talks and negotiations with prime minister rajoy. the spanish government didn't agree with the referendum and didn't agree with the referendum and didn't agree with the law in the catalan parliament which said if there was a majority it would automatically trigger a vote of independence. so

you're dealing in parallel universes here, aren't you? i guess so. but we must say this is not about legal procedures, maybe rajoy thinks it is about legal procedures. we think it is about something more important. it is about fundamental rights, democratic rights and democracy and it's about what democracy means which is the rule of the people. now, we think that's much more important than legal procedures which might change and might be adapted to different realities. isn't the real problem here is that no other sovereign state in the world accepts your position? well, as you know, all declarations in the world, declarations of independence have had to wait for any international recognition. and that's been happening throughout history. always. but what discussions have you had with other countries saying yes, we will support you when you declare? well, the ways of the diplomacy are discreet. you haven't got any, have

you? we can't reveal that, but we can tell you right now we're talking to you. for the first time there is big attention focussed on catalonia and that's because we declared independence. otherwise, you wouldn't be here. you wouldn't have this group of the elders, ban ki—moon and desmond tutu. this group of the elders, ban ki-moon and desmond tutu. who are the elders and what does this international organisation which is offering to mediate? well, it is something i invented, it is elderly people who are very well acknowledged statesmen who are volunteering to mediate in the talks. the only details we need somebody at the other end of the table and rajoy is not sitting down for talks. there you go, simon, is that clearer? yes, tim, much! he nearly caught me out there. no, much clearer. you're watching afternoon live, these are our headlines

the chancellor insists the uk will be ready if there's no deal on brexit, but says he's not setting aside money for it yet. spain's prime minister accuses the catalan authorities of mounting a disloyal and dangerous attack on the country's constitution. film producer harvey weinstein is suspended by bafta over allegations of sexual harassment. the academy says such behaviour has no place in the industry. ina in a moment, adam peaty is honoured at buckingham palace. in sport, lionel messi is the hero for argentina again. his hat—trick against equador meant they secured a place at the world cup next summer. celebrations for panama too and a national holiday today as they qualified for their first world cup at the expense of the united states. and the welsh football association say they do want chris coleman to stay at their manager despite wales' failure to reach russia. i will be back with more on those stories just after a.30pm. the energy regulator has announced a price cap on energy bills

for a million low—income households, saving them on average £120 a year. but a wider cap, proposed by the prime minister last week for millions more customers, is unlikely to happen before the winter. here's our personal finance correspondent simon gompertz. how to put a lid on gas and electricity prices for 12 million households on high, standard variable tariffs? the government has been pushing the regulator ofgem to do it. ofgem thinks it doesn't have the power to go that far. that is a matter for parliament and we will see how quickly that will go through. i can't tell you how quickly that will or won't go through parliament. but what i can tell you is that we will be ready to implement it as soon as it does. the prime minister said she would move to impose a full cap. this government will publish a draft bill to put a price cap on energy bills. the government hoped the bill would not be needed in the end if ofgem took action.

but now a full cap for this winter looks unlikely. what will this mean for customers' energy bills? there will be a limited price cap from this february. that will come in for the one million households which qualify for the warm home discount. they are expected to save around £120 a year. and next year ofgem has plans to extend that cap. that'll mean savings for a further two million vulnerable households. so it's something to control gas and electricity bills but not as much as ministers wanted. i welcome their recognition that the market is not working for many consumers. but i don't think it goes far enough and fast enough. i think it's important that consumers who are overpaying should be given some relief from that. so that's why i will proceed and bring forward legislation later this week that will compel them to do that. meanwhile, suppliers say more people are switching energy deals to get their bills down. and several have signalled that they will soon start phasing out standard variable tariffs. as of the first quarter of next

year, we're going to be moving thousands customers every day off the svt. and we will move them on to one of our other tariffs. at its most basic that will be fixed price deal which will be priced lower than the standard variable tariff. which means just as a government cap on expensive energy comes in in time for winter a yearfrom now, suppliers could be well into a programme of moving customers away from those problems tariffs in any case. as more of hollywood's biggest names emerge to accuse the film producer harvey weinstein of sexual harassment and abuse, his british wife georgina chapman has announced that she's leaving him. she's not the only one who's upset — former us president barack 0bama and his wife michelle have expressed their disgust about the reports of weinstein's behaviour. our entertainment correspondent lizo mzimba reports.

as the accusations against harvey weinstein become an avalanche, his wife, british fashion designer georgina chapman, has announced leaving him, saying her heart breaks for all the women who have suffered as the accusations against harvey weinstein become an avalanche, his wife, british fashion designer georgina chapman, has announced leaving him, saying her heart breaks for all the women who have suffered pain because of him. high—profile former friends too are distancing themselves. former president 0bama said, "michelle and i have been disgusted by the recent reports about harvey weinstein. any man who demeans and degrades women in such fashion needs to be condemned and held accountable. regardless of wealth or status." earlier today model and actress zoe brock told the bbc that during the 1997 cannes film festival he brought her back to a hotel under false pretences. harvey walked out of the room and he back in naked. naked? he came back naked and he said

he wanted a massage. isaid, no. harvey weinstein has said that all encounters with women have been consensual. i hope he's watching. say that to my face, harvey. i would happily stand in a court room and testify. happily. silver linings playbook... there have been rumours about his behaviour for many years, even being joked about at an oscar ‘s announcement. congratulations, you five ladies no longer have to pretend to be attracted to harvey weinstein! actresses who say they were the target of advances include some of the biggest names, three other women have accused him of rape, accusations that he says are totally untrue. his spokesperson said:

there are reports that weinstein has left america to seek treatment, hollywood and the world is asking how many women have been caused unthinkable pain by his actions? 13 suspects implicated by a loyalist paramilitary commander—turned supergrass, including two former police intelligence officers, will not be prosecuted. a5—year—old gary haggarty pleaded guilty to two hundred terrorist offences injune, including five murders. but northern ireland's public prosecution service said there was "insufficient corroborating evidence" to support the allegations he made about 13 individuals. the chief inspector of schools in england has warned that too much emphasis on coaching children to pass exams is leaving them with only a flimsy understanding of a subject. amanda spielman said the focus on results was not giving children the benefit of a wider,

more creative curriculum. swimmer adam peaty and golfer justin rose have been awarded mbes in recognition of their contribution to sport. both men won gold medals at the 2016 rio olympics. there was more success this summer when adam peaty broke his own world record twice at the world championships in budapest. our royal correspondent daniela relph reports from buckingham palace. mradam mr adam peaty for services to swimming. he isjust 22 years old, but dominating his sport. adam peaty, olympic world, european and commonwealth champion, world record holder and now mbe. adam peaty ta kes record holder and now mbe. adam peaty takes olympic gold. gold in rio wasjust the peaty takes olympic gold. gold in rio was just the start. he described himself as being nowhere near his peak. and then in july, peak. and then injuly, at the world championships in budapest, he broke

his own world record twice. today's honour, a mark of his achievements and his potential. you can win the golds and do all that and get the world records, but you have to beat people. i get the recognition from the royal family and the people of britain, it is amazing. an amazing honour. i have been very patriotic and to come here and to get it today has been amazing. it was an honours ceremony where further sporting success ceremony where further sporting su ccess was ceremony where further sporting success was recognised. justin rose seems an mbe from the duke of cambridge for services to his sport. a professional career stretching back almost 20 years, but this, he said, was better than any tournament he'd won. it's gold! there was much criticism of golf‘s inclusion in the olympic games, butjustin rose showed even multi—millionaire sportsmen can find something special in an olympic gold and now an mbe. this is something that other people have recommended you for and other

people have decided that you're fitting and worthy for. you kind of appreciate it. it is much more humbling than some other victories. today's ceremony recognised the gentlemen of golf who believes he is at the top of his game alongside the fastest swimmer in history, full of ambition with so much more to come. this is a tourist attraction in northern children. it is a,000 feet above ground and they thought this would make people laugh! it's not funny! a tourist attraction in northern china has used special effects on a glass bottomed walkway to make the panels appear to crack — at almost a,000 feet. this footage shows one terrified tour guide wobbling and crawling on the walk way as soon as he sees what's happening. have video has emerged to make the point, the publicity that goes with it says they have to apologise to

that man for giving him such a shock! if you have been in bedfordshire, you might have seen a dramatic scene. you might have seen a dramatic scene. a white van crashing through the front door of a 16th century cottage. the van came off a bend. the police, not surprisingly involved, the driver is being held on suspicion of driving over the influence. ok. influence. 0k. just to look ahead, we have got nationwide coming up and a couple of the bbc regions. we will be talking to three, but at least two of them, i have they have tweeted, sally taylor in southampton is coming on at a.30pm. she is talking jurassiaca and we will be going down to plymouth because victoria graham is going to be coming in, she will be

talking about the tate gallery in st ives which has just had a huge refit and renovation and it is built in the cliff. we will be talking about that later. now it is time for a look at the weather. phil avery is here. flooding, we were talking about this earlier, in cumbria it has already hit. yes, are you going to show the pictures or do you want to show the pictures or do you want to see my stats? let's see the pictures. there you are, as you were predicting a bit of flash flooding. i hope you have got that one recorded. it has taken years and for him to get his own show! thank you, for that simon, you made my day. can i officially retire from the bbc? it can't get any better than this. many people are suggesting you did sometime ago! those conditions are brought about by the sort of rainfall totals that i am about to show you. it hasn'tjust rained for an hourortwo

show you. it hasn'tjust rained for an hour or two heavily, i think we're coming up almost as we speak now live to almost 2a hours of rain falling across the cumbrian fells, a very active weather front and i have updated the total from the environment agency gauges. they are telling us they have had eight inches of rain or so in that neck of the woods. and this was the miserable scene that accompanied that, this was one of our weather watchers who braved the conditions earlier on today. and we are not done with that weather feature yet. i have to say straightaway, yes, many of you have seen those conditions, but get north of the weather front and it has been a different kettle of fish. not com pletely different kettle of fish. not completely dry, but we have had a number of people tweeting in from scotla nd number of people tweeting in from scotland about just how number of people tweeting in from scotland aboutjust how more clemant the conditions are there. that weather front will work its way into the south east to finish off the day, not with the intensity of rain that we have seen there for example. i have crossed the cumbrian fells, that's the worst it has been by a long, long way. overnight with the

clearing skies, in the countryside, it is going to be a chilly old do. as you step out tomorrow morning, bright enough, yes, but you might just be encouraged to wear another layer compared to today, it will be a bright enough start, but a cold one. we will have the breeze again and a scattering of showers. not much more than that for the northern parts of scotland. this is the day, dry, fine, sunny, for the most part. so if you have got an outdoorjob to do, i would encourage you to do it then. come friday, we are back into then. come friday, we are back into the same old, same old with the cloud and the win and the rain coming into western scotland and central scotland, again across the cumbrian fells and into northern ireland. on friday, there is a suggestion of the warmth that some will see as we get on into the weekend. there will be a lot of chat about 20 something temperatures, well, they won't be there to be had to the north of that weather front. that is the demarcation between the warmth in the south and central parts and something cooler and a wee bit wetter as well. on saturday, so

that rain flirts with the north of northern ireland, it pushes i think into parts of western scotland. now, i have changed the day here to sunday and notice that again, there isa sunday and notice that again, there is a lot more rain to come in the north western quarter of scotland, but this is the day where many people across england and wales and for many in northern ireland too, you will have a drier day. a bright day, and i suspect it's there that we will see the temperatures at around 21 celsius, 22 celsius or so. just while we are on this particular picture, i want to point out the fa ct picture, i want to point out the fact out towards the western side of ireland, as we get into the start of the new week, you may hear some chat about a very vigorous storm on the way to those western parts of the british isles. we will keep you updated, of course, in the coming days here on afternoon live with, who else? but simon mccoy! this is bbc news. our latest headlines: the chancellor, philip hammond, says he's not yet ready to authorise the expenditure needed to prepare for britain leaving the european union without a deal.

spain's prime minister, mariano rajoy, has accused the catalan authorities of mounting a disloyal and very dangerous attack on the country's constitution. the energy regulator ofgem has said it will extend its prepayment price cap to one million vulnerable households this winter. film producer harvey weinstein is suspended by bafta over allegations of sexual harassment. the academy says such behaviour has no place in the industry. sport now on afternoon live. and we are talking about that move to russia. that's right, simon. still some play—offs to go around the world, but the groups concluded with a tense, and ultimately entertaining night of football — at least, for the neutral. portugal and argentina are through, as are panama, for the first time in their history. the netherlands won't be there, though, nor will alexis sanchez and his chile teammates.

but a sense of disappointment and dejection came from the united states, it's the first time they'll be missing a world cup since 1986, simon! yes, and we will see a lot of argentina and particularly lionel messi. yes, we are talking about the disappointment of the united states. imagine if argentina didn't make it. that would be the first time since 1970! but last night, when ecuador scored in the very first minute, i think the whole of argentina held their breath. and they needed to win this game to qualify, remember. but it wasn't long before a certain lionel messi did what he does best. the reason many consider him to be the best ever. he managed to score a hat—trick, to give them a 3—1win over ecuador, and seal their place in russia. afterwards, messi said it wasn't easy to play in the high altitude and it would've been "crazy" if they hadn't qualified. their happiness is going to be

shared by panama and not by the united states. it's been described as the most "embarrasssing night in us soccer h isto ry". the usa failing to reach the world cup for the first time since 1986. a draw against trinidad and tobago would've been enough, but they lost 2—1. the united states' elimination was in part thanks to panama's win last night. they beat costa rica to reach the world cup finals for the very first time. the president of panama has declared today to be a national holiday. and it was celebrated last night, as you can see. meanwhile, england have qualifed for the knock—out stages of the under—17s world cup in india. they beat mexico 3—2, making it two wins from two. rhian brewster opened the scoring six minutes before the break. further goals from phil foden and jadon sancho. ensuring victory, despite a late comeback from mexico. they take on iraq in the final group game on saturday. england women's interim manager

mo marley has named her first squad for the team's friendly away to france next friday. there are three absentees from the squad that beat russia last month, in what was mark sampson's final match in charge, but there were no new call—ups. goalkeeper karen bardsley and striker ellen white miss out through injury, whilst defender laura bassett is unavailable after joining australia club canberra united. the football association of wales want chris coleman to stay on as manager of the national team, despite their failure to reach the world cup finals. his contract expires next summer and, after their defeat to the republic of ireland on monday, coleman said he would let the dust settle before thinking about his future. the association is aware that most players and fans are keen for him to stay in the job and they're due to begin talks with him in the next couple of weeks. england's former director of professional rugby, rob andrew, has told the bbc a player strike is ‘feasible' over the next 12 months. he says the current level of injuries to players is not sustainable in their intense

schedule, and believes they may well choose to take industrial action over the issue. players will have a big say over the next 12, 18 months, to try and find this holy grail. and i was involved in trying to search for that for a long time as well and it is difficult, but something will give. and eventually, if the players feel that it's too much and if they decide not to turn out, then there isn't much of a product if nobody‘s on the pitch. scotland have named seven uncapped players in their rugby league world cup squad, including brothers kane and andrew bentley, of toulouse 0lympique. scotland will be hoping to emulate similar performances as this one against new zealand last year, when they managed to draw against the former world champions. their world cup campaign starts at the end of this month against tonga, in cairns. that's all the sport for now. i'll have more for you in the next hour.

simon. thank you. now on afternoon live, let's go nationwide, and see what's happening around the country, in our daily visit to the bbc newsrooms around the uk. in dorset, a promised tourist attraction, meant to showcase the area's prehistoric past, has been shelved. bbc south today's sally taylor can explain more. and in a moment, we'll be speaking to bbc spotlight‘s victoria graham about the reopening of a popular tourist destination in cornwall. but first, to sally. jurassica, a huge project, but sadly no more. sadly not. it was a huge idea and a huge plan. the problem, as we hear so often, was money. how do fund something like that? it was planned for an £80 million dinosaur themed museum on portland. you could call it a dinosaur theme park with swimming and giant aquariums. the

idea of bringing thisjurassic period back to life in a world heritage site on thejurassic coast. it would be in a quarry which they would cover with a glass roof, and a trim, displays all around it. a lot of support at the time, most notably sir david attenborough was well behind the project. but after they failed to get enough funding, the man whose inspiration this was, he sadly died. and although the team vowed to continue, it was a struggle so vowed to continue, it was a struggle so there were a lot of things going on that meant it was never going to happen. interestingly, today, they have decided tojoin happen. interestingly, today, they have decided to join forces with another project and together, the plans will be for a much smaller experience set in the tunnels of the portland minds whether famous stone is quarried. it will be called the journey. a new visitor attraction to include an underground jurassic ra i nfo rest, include an underground jurassic rainforest, can you believe? that is significant because one person on

the ward is sir tim smit, the co—founder of the eden project and we know the success of that. the question again, where is the money coming from? they will be looking for £16 million. they did not get heritage lottery money last time, they failed on that, and they will hope to attract more than 300,000 visitors. we are told moore plans will be revealed before christmas. we hope it will be nothing like the tourist attraction you just showed us in china! i'm glad you enjoyed that and i'm glad you are here. you are the longest serving regional presenter the bbc has, is that right? am i? that must make me very young! exactly right, you and i both! look forward to talking to you again, thank you. in plymouth, tate st ives has had a lot of money spent on it, hasn't it? it certainly has, it is great to be sitting next to a regional great,

sally taylor today. and thank you so much for including bbc spotlight in this today, it is great to be part of your regional hub, and hugh scully and sue lawley part of that team. but the wonderful south—west, welcome, covering dorsett, somerset, devon and cornwall where we start the story today. the tate st ives is opening of the a four year referred, it had to do dig into the granite cliff and there was controversy about how to build it and people we re about how to build it and people were not happy. when you get beautiful seaside towns like st ives, where do you build? so they dug into the cliffs and if you are showing art, you have to incorporate the light. it is about light in st ives with the artists like barbara hepworth, a famous artist from the south—west. it was about the light coming in so they had to get light through the cliffs into this big

hundred square—foot gallery which is opening this weekend. we will show that on spotlight tonight. it is over but it's because they could not build on land, they had to build into the cliffs. it was supposed to be 12 million and it is 20 million, but greeted with open arms as it is worth so much to the regional economy and cornwall and it will bring in about £11 million every year. it was a visitor attraction in 1993 when it opens and it was designed to house around 70,000 visitors. it already brings in 250,000 visitors, aiming for 300,000. so important. so that is a top story tonight. and because we cover dorsett, we are interested in south today and their story about thejurassic south today and their story about the jurassic project which south today and their story about thejurassic project which is also not turning out the way it should, some running stories on that. a varied news programme on spotlight and you can see that on the bbc iplayer and online if you are not in

the region. oh, my word! i have never had to interrupt you before and that is quite something! i have never listened to you before! that is my wife! see you later, thank you. and we decided two regions wasn't enough for today, so let's go now to look north's carol malia, in newcastle. carol, many of us will remember the video footage ofjo milne hearing for the first time. it was an incredibly emotional watch, wasn't it? so just sojust explain so just explain what happened and leaders into that moment which a lot of us will remember. i think so, it was in 201a and jo milne was largely deaf because of a condition she had. she had cochlear implants and the moment that that implant was switched on was caught on camera and i think this clip says it all. monday, tuesday, wednesday,

thursday... it's all right! it is a big, big, life changing day today. can you hear your own voice? yes. it hasjust been can you hear your own voice? yes. it has just been fantastic! i remember that. that went viral around the world. and you have been to see her since. i have, because three short years later, life has com pletely three short years later, life has completely changed for jo. three short years later, life has completely changed forjo. she has met a partner, partly because she is more confident, she met a new man in a pub in gateshead and he is very nice! she moved into a new house and three weeks ago, she has had a little baby boy, baby teddy. life has changed forjo because of this

one medical advance and she herself said she really would not have expected this amount of emotional change in structure is short space of time. they say life begins at 40 and that is what i believe because ever since i had this switched on, everything seems to have happened. all the big life events have happened since i have had that implant. just incredible. and how is the hearing now? it has taken a lot of getting used to and still very overwhelming. i wish i had it done years ago. and carol, in remarkable lady and still facing adversity. yes, there isa still facing adversity. yes, there is a sad note to this story because her syndrome also affects her site and her vision is declining by the day. she has now got tunnel vision and cannot see anything underneath, she has the focus on what she can

see through the middle. very difficult with a new baby boy she wa nts to difficult with a new baby boy she wants to see growing up. she is doing work around the world to raise awareness of usher syndrome. so having a time for this is a good thing. a lot more on your programme tonight, thank you so much, your first appearance on the show, long may it continue. they give very much, pleasure. rachel is here with business news, we have energy and a lot talk about andi we have energy and a lot talk about and i will get to energy in a moment. first, a look at the headlines on afternoon live: the chancellor insists the uk will be ready if there's no deal on brexit, but says he's not setting aside money for it yet. spain's prime minister accuses the catalan authorities of mounting a disloyal and dangerous attack on the country's constitution. film producer harvey weinstein is suspended by bafta over allegations of sexual harassment. the academy says such behaviour has no place in the industry. hello.

we have been talking about energy prices. a cap on energy bills proposed by the prime minister last week is unlikely to take effect before winter. theresa may promised to revive a plan to limit charges for an extra 12 million consumers. but regulator ofgem says it needs to wait for legislation before it enforces the new rules. until then, a more limited price cap will cover another one million low—income households. the government is threatening to punish firms like facebook and twitter if they don't make the internet safer. it also says there needs to be a levy on firms to fund policing the net, as well as a code of practice on removing intimidating or humiliating content from social media. credit agency equifax says many more uk customers were affected by a data breach than first thought. it says more than 690,000 people in the uk had their details stolen in the cyber attack this year. equifax says it will contact all uk customers affected to offer them help. if there is one thing markets hate,

it is uncertainty, i have heard it for years, but not in spain! we talked about this yesterday, we work waiting for an announcement from ca rles work waiting for an announcement from carles puigdemont, the catalan leader, and we were looking at the spanish market, the ibex. he has pressed pause on the independence bed and the ibex has gone up 1.5%, so bed and the ibex has gone up 1.5%, so looking at that in a minute, asking why when markets hate uncertainty have they embrace this uncertainty? uk energy stocks. yes, we had lined that that ofgem said they are not able to introduce that winter cap many were looking forward to. it will be introduced for a small number of low—income households but not a 12 minute rain many thought, and not by winter. that has had an impact and energy stocks. and on the website, we are talking

about farm profits which may halve after brexit, another one in. this comes from the agriculture and horticultural development board which have modelled a worst—case saying average farm profits could permit from £38,000 to £15,000 which would be devastating for many people. they have modelled it on the effects of cheap imported food, reduced subsidies and more expensive labour. the government has said this is highly unlikely, this scenario. but the uk farming industry is very important to the economy and it is worth just important to the economy and it is worthjust under 1% important to the economy and it is worth just under 1% of gross domestic product last year generating more than £8 billion. speaking to mike bell, a global marketing strategist. and jamie morgan. how have the markets reacted to these figures that could impact the agriculture sector? they have not really reacted in the markets today. the key thing is that

the outlook the uk economy and the agriculture sector is one part of that. it remains hugely uncertain because of the uncertainty around the negotiations of brexit and what that means for huge swathes of the uk economy of which agriculture is one important part. let's talk about the ibex, it has gone up almost 1.5%, were always told the market hates uncertainty but we almost have this continued uncertainty in spain and catalonia that has given them some sort of reassurance. what we have seen today is the market reacting to the fact that mariano rajoy, the spanish prime minister, has taken a first step towards potentially revoking the autonomy of catalonia and that would essentially mean that were they to declare independence, madrid would impose direct control and catalonia, meaning that they would still not be independent. i think that is reassuring markets that it looks

increasingly unlikely we will get catalonia leaving spain. an update on the energy stocks and when we heard that the price cap was not going to come into force by the winter, we have seen centrica, the owner of british gas, listed in the uk, the share prices have gone up. you saw during the day share prices rallied on the initial news. since then, they have given up most of the keynes and when i checked five minutes ago, they have given up nearly all of those for the day. the market is looking ahead to the fact this price cap still probably is going to come in next year and when we look at sectors like this, we wa nt to we look at sectors like this, we want to be investing in stocks with clear regulatory uncertainty and thatis clear regulatory uncertainty and that is missing when you look at the energy and utilities because you do not what —— you do not know what price will come in and you cannot predict the earnings. mike bell, thank you very much.

how the markets looking? here we go, have you heard of mondi, a packaging company, very big, worth about 10 billion on the ftse, more valuable than morrisons and sainsbury‘s, they are down with a profits warning. profits moving in the s&p, in the green. that is all i have got either sour! thank you. —— i have got in this hour. buckingham palace has announced a change in arrangements for remembrance sunday. we are talking about arrangements for the queen. yes, for the first time this year, the queen will watch the ceremony of remembrance at the cenotaph on remembrance sunday from the balcony of the foreign office which is normally occupied by less senior members of the royal family,

with her husband who has retired from official duties, and she has asked the prince of wales to lay her wreath on her behalf. in the past, she has missed the ceremony of remembrance on occasions, but because she has been abroad on official duties. this will be the first time she will watch the ceremony from the balcony, but not participate in the wreath laying herself. the reason, not that buckingham palace is saying so, for a person of 91 standing for the best pa rt a person of 91 standing for the best part of half an hour becomes increasingly burdensome and a couple of years ago, there was an attempt to get the leaders of political parties to lay their wreath as a group to speed up the process. they resisted that. this is an indication that at the age of 91, it is more difficult to stand for nearly half an hour while the service takes place or the wreath laying by the

political leaders and the high commissioners from the commonwealth, but nonetheless, it is stressed she will be there watching the ceremony, her wreath will be led by the prince of wales. what buckingham palace is not saying is whether this is now a precedent to be followed. this is simply the arrangement for this year, that she will watch alongside husband. thank you very much. getting news from our political editor at laura kuenssberg, talking about the comments about philip hammond about the prospect of a no deal agreement with the eu, she is saying the bbc understands a row broke out at the weekly cabinet meeting over this issue of contingency funding in the event of a no—deal scenario and two sources have confirmed a robust exchange, but downing street denies a row, but they acknowledged a brief discussion on the preparation for a no—deal scenario. one cabinet source, they said the comments from a critique of

deliberate and divisive or politically stupid, which suggests that story is going to grow. it was called the ‘battle of the sexes‘ — a tennis match like no other. bobby riggs, a former wimbledon tennis champion, took on the greatest female player of the time to show that equality in sport could never happen. but he lost the match and, aa years on, a film based on that encounter has been made. our correspondent david sillito met the woman at the centre of it all, billie—jean king. billie jean king. the greatest female tennis player of her generation. i like pressure. i‘m built for that kind of match. i always was built for that kind of match. this match is for all the guys around the world that feel as i do that the male is king, the male is supreme. bobby riggs, ageing tennis champion and self—confessed male chauvinist pig. the battle of the sexes, one of the most extraordinary matches in the history of tennis. 90 million people were watching. billiejean, a pleasure to meet you.

aa years later, i met the real billie jean, to see what she made of seeing her life turned into a movie. watching that film for the first time, it comes to an end, what‘s going through your mind? wow. that really happened! despite all the bravado, riggs has been working out every evening. this is the real bobby riggs. he was a hustler, he wanted to make some money. but for billiejean, this was more than just a tennis match. it represents so much. it represents equality, it represents freedom. and the women who saw it have come up to me and it empowered them and gave them self—confidence. and the men come up to me and they go, they‘re the ones that are very emotional and sometimes have tears in their eyes, and they‘ll say, i have a daughter now and that absolutely changed my whole outlook on how i‘m going to raise my children. for the first time, wimbledon met little miss chubby legs,

with the owl—like glasses. it was a very different era. billiejean was at the time fighting for fair treatment for women players. but what did she really think of bobby riggs? what makes you think that i won't be able to psych you out of the match just like i did margaret? what makes you think that? i thought he was adorable and i thought he was crazy and he‘s a great promoter and... adorable?! but let him go, he needs the attention! he‘s outrageous! of course he‘s outrageous. myjob is to beat him, and stop all that. so ijust let him go. just let him go, he‘s not going to change. i‘m not going to change bobby riggs. let him be. i got this beautiful lollipop for billie jean, i figure she's going to be a sucker for my love! i figure she's going to be a sucker for my lob! the film simply tells the story of the match. billiejean‘s victory and all the off—camera personal drama. but there was in real life a fascinating, final scene. i stayed in touch with him, and the night before he died, i had a great discussion with him. and he finally understood it was about history because i kept saying, bobby, it‘s about history. he kept saying, no, it‘s about money. that night, he said,

we did make a difference, didn‘t we? i said, yes. you did make a difference. and i really am so happy that we stayed in touch and you are my friend and i love you. and he told me he loved me. and the next day, he passed away. our arts correspondent, david sillito, talking to billiejean king. and finally, like a duck to water — or not — for this baby sea otter, whose first dip into the water didn‘t go swimmingly. it was tough love from this mother, who decided to force her baby to take the plunge instead, as you can see from these pictures from oregon zoo. it‘s clear this otter was thrown in at the deep end. no animals were harmed in the making of this video. we just have to say that! time for a look at the weather. here‘s phil avery. hello. your impression of the weather will relate to where you are in relation to this weather front.

draped from the north east of scotland towards the south—west of england. through the rest of the day, it continues further south. but whilst that is around, you‘ll get an area of cloud and rain and breeze. brighter skies behind, but showers across the north of britain. which persist during the night. in towns and cities, we may get down to single figures. we will do in the countryside. a fresh start to the day on thursday. but this is the thing — a much drier and brighter day, apart from the very far north of scotland. a lot of sunshine around. a fresher feel, despite the presence of that sunshine. a high of around 16, 17, 18. by friday, a new area of cloud and wind and rain again across northern and western parts of the british isles. slightly drier and warmer further south. today at five. the chancellor refuses to spend money to prepare for a ‘no—deal‘ brexit — until the very last moment. he tells mps that he doesn‘t want to take money away from essential areas unless it‘s absolutely necessary.

every pound we spend on contingent preparations for a hard customs border is a pound that we can‘t spend on the nhs or social care or education or deficit reduction. we‘ll have the latest. as the bbc is being told there was a row on this issue of funding at the cabinet meeting yesterday. the other main stories on bbc news at five. the hollywood film producer harvey weinstein is suspended by bafta following allegations of sexual misconduct over three decades. spain‘s prime minister demands clarification from catalonia on whether or not it has formally declared independence.