tonight, jez butterworth, who worked with harvey weinstein on the movie the birthday girl, publicly denounces him. i'll ask publishing supreme tina brown, who worked for weinstein, how he got away with years of abusing women when everyone seemed to know and the football players who take the knee for the star spangled banner in america are also doing it in the schools. is this a protest that will last for years, or will it be stamped out? it's not always about football, man. not always about xes and 0s. it's about us people. supposed to be the land of the free, but it's not being free. good evening. the actor cara delvigne is tonight the latest woman to claim that harvey weinstein was a sexual predator, making unwanted advances towards her in a hotel room, in a pattern of abuse — and recent abuse at that — which is sounding horribly familiar

as more and more women come forward. add to that weinstein now faces new multiple allegations of rape. that his behaviour was covered up for years is now hardly in doubt. his marriage is over, and today he was suspended from bafta. there have been calls for weinstein to be removed from the oscars academy, and stripped of his honorary cbe. so if his behaviour was an open secret, how did he get away with it for so long? here's stephen smith. as the once mighty star of harvey weinstein loses its lustre, questions surround prominent institutions in los angeles and elsewhere, concerning what was known by whom of his alleged predatory behaviour towards women. the producer and executive has reportedly flown to europe to seek therapy, as his wife announced she was leaving him. many are asking what role the police could or should have played in investigating weinstein. in a sting operation mounted

by new york detectives two years ago, the mogul was unwittingly taped talking to a model in a hotel. newsnight spoke to law officers in new york about this tape. i don't drink. you must come here now. i don't want to. you said that in a kind of aggressive way. i want to be your friend. please. i'm not going to do anything. i swear on my children. please come here now in one minute. if you want to leave when the guy comes... why yesterday you touched my breasts i'm used to that? you are used to that? i'm not used to that. i will not do it again. sit here for a minute, please. know, i don't want to.

newsnight spoke to law officers in new york about this tape. they told us... they went on... lawyers for mr weinstein said... did the film—maker's immediate colleagues know of his alleged activities? a reporter who has followed the story has made this claim concerning a former employee, lauren o'connor. the board does get a notification that there is a complaint

against harvey, and they are told come into the office, this is serious, come take a look at it. and then they are told right afterwards, oh, the complaint has been withdrawn. now what really happened is a powerful lawyer stepped in and lauren o'connor took a settlement, meaning she took compensation for what happened to her and what she was documenting. then she agreed to stay silent on the matter. so should those board members have pursued things further at that point? the weinstein company says the allegations come as an utter surprise to the board. any suggestion that the board had knowledge of this conduct is false. what about the wider film community? rumours about weinstein‘s behaviour surfaced in an oscar night joke in 2013. congratulations, you five ladies no longer have to pretend to be attracted to harvey weinstein. i'm just really tired. this film from 2000 concerns a film producer who assaults and actors. it stars asia argento,

who also wrote and produced it. so if you give me a massage, just a little massage to relax, then i can read that little story of yours, you know that little scarlet diva thing. she says it's based on her own alleged attack at the hands of harvey weinstein. sexual harassment‘s about power, and you have a lot of powerful people around him, who are protecting him, who were forcing women to sign these agreements, these nondisclosure agreements. things that force women into silence. and people were afraid, there is a lot of fear in the industry about this man. i know from some of my attractive female talent, he'd made passes at them and told them, come to dinner with me, spend time with me, i can help your career. this was in a public place and they said no, so his advances were rebuffed. as more allegations come to light about harvey weinstein, the industry which imagines it lives in la la land is in a rare mood of introspection and recrimination.

0ne writer, screenwriter and director who worked with harvey weinstein, jez butterworth, co—wrote it and directed the birthday in 2001, starring nicole kidman. it was the only time he worked with weinstein. butterworth as a father of two young daughters, and this evening he penned an open letter to harvey weinstein. dear harvey. my daughter's 11 years old, and all her life has dreamed of being a performer. she attends a local drama group and loves to sing, dance and act. were she one day able to realise those dreams, and had ashleyjudd and others not come forward and been brave enough, there's every chance in a few years‘ time she would have been taken to a hotel, duped by your staff,

ended up alone with you, and chased round the suite by you naked, masturbating, threatening her, terrifying her, for your own enjoyment. you have daughters of your own, harvey. unlike you, their lives arejust beginning. as you begin therapy, i suggest you start by thinking of all those 11—year—old girls over the decades whose singular talents you have taken advantage of, whose dreams you have decisively and forever defined. why it was renamed a company after your parents, miriam and max, and swiftly embarked on a concerted campaign entirely to befoul those names. why you then named your next company after their only other name, weinstein, and did precisely the same. and why it was you struck this insane bargain with yourself in the first place, and how it absolutely did not work. because if chocolat were citizen kane, chicago were the battle of algiers, and the king's speech were casablanca, this is still what you will be remembered for. yours, jez butterworth.

why have you decided to write this letter? this is a really important subject to me, because i want this to be a watershed moment, so that people who have behaved like harvey, because it's notjust him, are now scared, and women who feel they've been treated in this way will feel the courage to come forward. what was it like working with him? at that point, harvey was as charming as the next sociopaths. it was quite clear early on that you were dealing with someone who you didn't encounter every day. he didn't mind turning meetings into fights. he didn't mind humiliating people. he had immense charm and intelligence, otherwise he wouldn't be successful

in the business. what struck me more than anything else was that there was something deeply wrong with him. is there something in the film industry that allows this to happen? so many of the people who have come forward has said you are passing it forward backwards and forwards from a business meeting to a sexual encounter and back again, and confusing the hell out of what you were communicating to him. he is obviously practised at this. any situation we have in the future where people are not allowed to kick this into any kind of grey area whatsoever like that, that's how we should try and set up a business. do you say, shame all of the people in his company, shame on the assistance, shame on the people around him who allowed this to happen? absolutely. that was part of the culture of miramax. you could tell harvey was surrounded

by people who were fixing things for him, fixing for him to behave badly. they would witness appalling, threatening behaviour, physically violent behaviour, and it was just accept it. they tried to smooth it over. my second meeting with harvey ended up in a big punch—up in the street in new york. he was trying to separate me from my producer. he said, get rid of that guy and i will give you a three picture deal. a few seconds later, there was a big fight in the street. that was the way he conducted business. why has it come out now? harvey isn't as powerful as he used to be. his stock has dwindled. so people are less afraid of him. harvey's been phenomenally powerful for decades. he's been abusing that power for decades. that has had a falling off recently, and people have realised that they can speak out, i suppose.

did you know he was a sexual predator and the bully? i didn't know. i would only know if it had happened to me. i was 28 when i met him, and i count my lucky stars that i wasn't a woman in that situation, because things would have been vastly different. and that really, really upsets me. all these poor women, all they have been trying to do is do the thing they were born to do and had the talent to do, and men are stepping in there and exploiting that. how important is it that men as well as women speak out? this is a moment where that can all change. if the hideous behaviour that harvey weinstein has shown the world is going to have any use whatsoever, it needs to be used as a watershed moment to get other people to come forward and make similar complaints about other people.

i am nowjoined by publisher tina brown, who ran a magazine for harvey weinstein between 1998 and 2002. she worked closely alongside the producer for much of that time. good evening, tina brown. first of all, we have three allegations of rape, more women coming forward, cara delvigne tonight. do you agree withjez butterworth that there were too many people surrounding him that protected him, and protected themselves in the pursuit of his own self aggrandisement? the fascinating thing about harvey was that he had the whole world on his payroll. he was brilliant at spinning dross into gold. he had pretty much every publicist in the city,

paid and retained by him at miramax. very disappointingly to me, when i took over at talk magazine, half the gossip columnists around town were also on his payroll, with consultancy deals and book contracts, which were never ever called in. there was no deadline. you found some of these, including an air stewardess on an aeroplane. there was a rather comical moment when the book company that i ran, we found some of these advances that had been paid out. one was from a stewardess on a private plane. who knows what that was about. finally, there was the other thing he used to do, which was very effective if not very attractive. he would trade dirt on other people to keep his own name out of the story. he would say, don't do that story, i've got a much better one. then he would give them a piece of juice about somebody. so you were working for him,

and by all accounts earning a lot of money from him, some accounts are 700,000 year. you worked closely with him, and i hear he used to scream at you. were you scared of him? he's a big bulk of a guy, and you hear the jaws music when he walks in. when he beguiled me to come and work with him at talk, he was so seductive, so incredibly appealing about what we could do together, notjust have a magazine but have something that was also books, also films, also radio, a multi—platform idea, which is what we both wanted to do... almost within the first few days i realised, oh, my god, he's entirely different to what i thought. former colleagues also said at least

20 people in the company knew what was going on. did you know, had you heard rumours, had you heard substantial numbers of these rumours? no, i did not know about this sexual... wildness that was going on at all, that wasn't my experience of harvey, he never did that with me, i never saw it, i didn't hang out with him after hours and go to restaurants and bars and screenings i had young children. but you saw the strange contract. you a journalist. i saw the strange contract, they predated me. as a journalist you must have thought there's something very strange about this and that journalistic nose of yours didn't lead to think, i think i should investigate this because i think there's something seriously wrong here? well, look, the contract predated us so there was always a plausible reason, yes, it's going to be a good book, whatever, it wasn't done with me approving his contract,

they were done before. i didn't see that because they have is thejekyll and hyde thing about harvey. at the same time but very interesting as there are many sides to the guy. this anger issue he has, the explosiveness and inappropriateness, i really do think it's about the conflict inside himself, that he is in fact this beauty and the beast coexist within harvey. the beast certainly got the upper hand. i wonder now looking back if there were all these people who knew what was going on, do you wish for the sake of all these women that have suffered, and i suspect there will be more coming along as well, do you wish you had actually done something? do you wish... if i'd known, yes, but i didn't know, i didn't see it, nobody at talk so it, we were in a different building, we weren't in the miramax building, we didn't see what harvey was doing

during the day or night. we didn't actually see harvey doing any of these things. you know, our staff was stunned. i've been hearing e—mails and texts the days of people saying my god, i had no idea this was going on. we heard some rumours that stuff was inappropriate, but you don't start going on in some assault course because you hear somebody... now that you know what you know do you think there is a lot more to come? we are daily hearing about... i do. what i feel is tremendous admiration for ashleyjudd. and the early whistle—blowers. it's not at all easy to be the first one or two people who speak. now there is a sort of tsunami of sleaze coming out. it's the first couple of women you really have to say, thank god they did. you know, it's really a moment in the culture here where people, i think because donald trump, a serial sexual harasser, is in the white house,

and a cumulative rate has been building up among women for a very long time. it's like the women's march is now marching on in a different form. we've seen the demise of roger ailes, the big news chief at fox, the demise of bill 0'reilly, the major anchor at fox. the demise of bill cosby. there have been many incidents where women are saying, in. —— enough. they are also saying, forget influence, we want power, we're sick of this whole thing where we're being told it's getting better, women are basically saying, this is changing this is done. you've got to behave yourself. get out of my face. it's great, wonderful. i think it's really a purifying moment. thank you very much, tina 0'brien. if theresa may thought the fact she seems to have survived last week's aborted tory coup meant she might enjoy even a few days without a row over brexit, then the constant headlines this week about schisms over the issue at the heart

of her cabinet suggest otherwise. today brought more apparentjostling between senior ministers — played out on the pages of the times and on the green benches of the house of commons. 0ur political editor, nick watt, is here. nick, what is this stand—off between number ten and ii? dagg there is immense irritation in number ten with what's described as the obtuse approach of philip hammond to politics. there was fury this morning, they picked up the front page of the times and it had the hardline hammond refuses to budget for huybrechts it. like a red rag to the brexiteers. this was an article philip hammond had written for the times. there wasn't a problem with his article, that was approved in which he said we'll spend the money but only when necessary and responsible to do it. there was annoyance in downing street that he was naive in how he handled his relations with the times and the times quite rightly and justifiably wrote a very dramatic story on the front page. we had to have a bit of an operation by number ten and there was a planted question by iain duncan smith, the former leader of the conservative party.

he said the prime minister, will you give me an assurance all monies will be spent if necessary. the prime minister, i think she knew the question was coming, she had prepared a reply, i will give you that confirmation. this suggests there might be wider tensions, it's notjust necessarily philip hammond not getting the tone quite right. yes, there was what you might describe as a pretty tense discussion at cabinet on tuesday about brexit. as i understand, michael gove asked for regular updates on brexit preparedness. the reason for this is... he's working very hard. in a macro varies immense suspicion at the six strong cabinet subcommittee overseeing brexit negotiations. of those six, only two, david davis and borisjohnson are brexiteers, and the meeting that took place before the florence speech, boris johnson wasn't there. he was in the caribbean. he wasn't there, one of the things that inflamed boris johnson. standing for the national anthem has

been part of the pre—game ritual for american sport for a century. but last summer, san francisco 49ers quarterback colin kaepernick didn't line up with his team—mates. instead, he knelt in protest at what he saw as police brutality against black people. what started with one man has since become a movement — cutting through the raw reality of america's racial politics. in recent weeks, the protest has become a political battleground, after president trump said players who refused to stand for the star spangled banner should be fired. last weekend, vice president pence walked out of a game after several players kneeled. we sent the bbc‘s sports correspondent, richard conway, across america, to see how, in sport and politics, people are taking sides. nothing raises passions in america quite like football. from high school to the big leagues.

from the poorest communities to some of the richest contracts in sport. it's part of the fabric of american society. offering an opportunity for both patriotism and, increasingly, powerful protests, that have divided a nation. it's game day in kansas city. this is trump's heartland. and many of these fans form part of the president's political base. is that going on the bbc? his sustained criticisms of the predominantly black players has turned what began as a protest about police brutality into political mudslinging

about respect for the flag, the national anthem and freedom of speech. i pay my money to watch them play football. i don't come out to watch a political rally. why don't they get off their knees and do something? spend some money. get off their knees and walk the walk. this game was played just hours after the mass shooting in las vegas and the player protests were muted. but would their interviews be, too? american sports encourage their players to speak openly. this is no different. within minutes of the game ending, we are in the dressing room, and we're going to talk to the players. but it soon becomes clear that to make their point the players have to navigate a complex political landscape, pondering every word. honestly, the protest, it happened. and we're not in a good place right now. and pretty much, we're worried about, you know, people in vegas right now.

honestly, so, we just all had to stand. i think it is very important outside of football for this to actually become a change in society instead ofjust being kind of a bash on nfl players for making a protest. to understand race relations in america is to understand the country's history, and the same is true of this issue. what is now a movement started with just one man. the then san francisco 49ers quarterback, colin kaepernick, began protesting in the summer of 2016. it was in response to a spate of controversial police shootings and what he saw as state oppression against african americans and people of colour. it says american, and under it says snapper, so we've got the american sniper and the american snapper. upon seeing that kaepernick was sitting for the anthem, nate boyer, a decorated former special forces soldier who played briefly in the nfl, wrote an open letter, saying he felt the player ‘s actions were disrespectful. in my eyes you might as well burn

it, that's what it felt like when i saw that. that was my initial reaction before i stopped and thought a little bit. i think that's what's happening in our country right now, everybody, they see something and it's like... bloom, reaction. the two men eventually met. kaepernick agreed to kneel with boyer saying he would stand alongside him. i don't want people to stand out of obligation, i don't care if its fans in the stands or players on the field, i want them to stand because they care. so i thought taking a knee was more respectful to people in my community. people will disagree with that, but that's how i felt. this is sitting on the bench, isolated from your team. at least taking a knee alongside them is embracing those around you, it's not saying i'm bigger than this or i'm better than this or i'm, you know... we are still part of this country. but it's demonstrating that right now i don't feel the flag and anthem represents the best in us. it's thursday night and the sporting juggernaut has arrived in tampa, florida. the buccaneers are hosting the most

successful team in recent years, the new england patriots. this is sport on a grander scale. there's a tv audience of millions preparing to tune in and watch tonight. in the stands while the fans are starting to come in, the stadium will be full by kick—off time. and they've got money to spend, of course, on tickets and merchandise. behind it all, there are sponsors falling over themselves to get involved, given the size of the audience, they want some brand recognition. now in the past few weeks this debate has all been about freedom of speech, but in the end, perhaps, it's money that talks. do you worry that money and commercial interests may blunt this, in the end, this protest? well, they can't worry about that, they've got to do what's right, do what in their heart, what the lord puts in their heart, not worry about the money. but i hope they worry about uniting everybody, bringing everybody together in this. and with that, i'd like to ask a very special and talented man and a great friend of mine for a long time, bob kraft,

to say a few words. with money in mind, nfl owners like robert kraft of the new england patriots, a friend of donald trump who donated to his inauguration fund, have had to perform a delicate balancing act. well, you know, i taught the most important thing is having everyone on the same page. and the greatest enemy in sport is division form within. and i personally feel it's very important to respect our flag and ouranthem. but i also respect the right of people in this country to make statements or protests, peacefully, in a way that's appropriate to them. and i think there were some comments made about what our young men were doing that were little inflammatory and inappropriate. and i thought i had to speak out. donald trump's unrelenting campaign for nfl to bend to his will is now in its third week. wouldn't you love to see one of these nfl owners when somebody

disrespects our flag to say, get that son of a bitch off the field right now? out, he's fired. he's fired! so that is mar—a—lago, what president trump refers to as the winter whitehouse. his florida retreat. we drove past it a few minutes ago and saw his son, barron, kicking the ball around on the front lawn. but this, this is as close as we are allowed to film. over the past few weeks it appears that the president's offensive on the protest issue has been somewhat successful. so has the protest movement lost pace, has it lost momentum? has donald trump won? mar—a—lago is nestled in palm beach, one of america's most exclusive ritzy towns. butjust 50 miles away, still in palm beach county, lies belle glade. it's one of the poorest and most deprived areas in the country. at the local high school, football offers hope.

the town has sent over 30 players to the nfl in the past three decades. protest by professional players matters here. it gives them a voice because when those things happen to them, no one's going to listen to them. so these guys are their voices and they want to make sure that those guys continue to speak and be heard because that's the only way change can happen, if those guys out there on the front line are fighting this cause. far away from this school, the under pressure nfl owners will meet next week to discuss the protests, with reports they may consider changing the rules so players must stand. but many here have already been inspired by the players, with 17—year—old courtney ware staging his own small protest to highlight the injustice he says he sees every day. but many here have already been inspired i did it for the police brutality, man. someone got to speak up.

it's already hard for us here, already. keep doing what you're all doing, please. please, we need, as black people need to speak up, everybody needs to speak up. please. it's not always about football, man, it's not always about xs and os, it's about us people. plus, we the land of the free, but it's not being free. all parties to this debate are making a noise and play to the crowd. but with no one willing to back down, sport is now the new front line in america's racial and political divide. and both sides are as keen as ever to make their point. i'm joined from south carolina by pastor mark burn. he's a preacher and trump supporter, who acted as a surrogate for the president during last year's election campaign, and has been a vocal critic of the kneeling protest. good evening.

thank you for coming on the programme. you are one of donald trump's advisors. you speak regularly to his team and you are very much against taking any as a protest. presumably do think it is a legitimate, peaceful protest for people who feel african americans have been treated badly. without question, it is a peaceful protest, and without question, it is the first amendment right for us under the constitution. so my argument is not so much what they are pro testing, it's how they are protesting. for me, the ultimate goal is that change actually comes, and we can get all of america, notjust black america, on the same team. the problem is we are failing to look at the pattern that doctor martin luther king gave us when it came to mass protest and how to get america on board.

doctor king understood that the issue of segregation and the horrible treatment of black people in america at the height of the civil rights movement, in order for it to change, it to cease... it had to cease being a black issue and become an american issue. it has in a way become that. you have players who are not african—american also kneeling in solidarity. dan kraft of the new england patriot said he felt it was a legitimate form of protest. again, we are not talking about the legitimacy of the protest. we are talking about whether the protest will bring real change, or if it will create more smoke and mirrors and more divisiveness, and more drawing a line in the sand.

we've got to protest without forcing people to choose sides. we have to make this a human rights issue, not a black persons issues. most white people in america will not be able to relate... but you advise donald trump regularly. you spoke for him during the campaign. i wonder if you can find any kind of common cause with the language he has been using in this, which,i imagine for a lot of americans, has been inflammatory. i agree that the president could have used a different choice of words, especially when he referred to them as sobs. i'm a christian, and i think there are better words to describe them. but the president speaks with passion, and he speaks for the american people. from the primaries up until now, he has said things that some people disagree

with, but the problem is we are losing focus why the protest is... why they're protesting is losing focus. and that's what we've got to draw back in. the problem is, they are pro testing, which is forcing people to draw lines in the sand. briefly, if people feel that the way they are being treated is not the american way, then in fact they feel that people like donald trump don't speak for them, that it isn't a joined up society in that way. african—america ns feel they have been treated badly by the police, so surely they should make their voices heard? i agree we have a right to hear voices, but i believe overall it is smoke and mirrors in reference to the police...

there are black police, white police, asian police, native american police. we are melting pot of people in america. it is notjust the man against black people, like it was at the height of the civil rights movement. that have been killed by white cops, and many of them, according to the facts, have been justified. thank you very much forjoining us. i'm afraid we are out of time. 0h, 0k. the reputation of the former prime minister, sir edward heath, who died in 2005, has been tarnished by suspicions of child abuse since before an investigation was launched by wiltshire police two years ago. operation conifer — which was published on thursday and cost eli; million — came up with nothing concrete against edward heath. but officers said there remained seven allegations against him over

which heath would have been interviewed under caution had he been alive. it has since emerged that the most serious allegation, that he raped an 11—year—old boy in 1961, is one the police investigated before and dropped. heath's supporters and friends say nothing has been resolved by the two—year report, and that suspicion still hangs in the air. i'm joined by lord robert armstrong, who knew edward heath for 30 years, and was his pps forfour of those years. he was also chairman of the edward heath charitable foundation. he wants a review of the conduct of the police investigation. thank you very much indeed forjoining us, lord armstrong. surely whether someone is dead or alive, if there had been accusations against them, it is the right and the duty of police to investigate? i absolutely agree with that, but the trouble about being dead rather than alive is that, while the investigation can take place, the other processes, the reference to the crown prosecution service, if they so decide a case in court,

where the evidence is tested and the judge and jury can where the defendant can defend themselves, where the evidence is tested and the judge and jury can reach a verdict, that is not available. so where we stand now, the matter rests with the investigation, and there have been several investigations, which i suspect have been as unfounded as all the others, but are still on the books, as it were. justice delayed is justice denied, and the dead are as entitled as the living to justice. so i think, and many others think, that there should be some means whereby that process that would happen in the courts can be imitated or duplicated, or what ever word you want to use, by having a retired judge conduct an independent review,

looking into all the evidence that's been taking, and then have a review. that would give some degree of finality. you have talked about this in the house of lords this afternoon. you have been denied a judicial review. is that the end of it, and it is simply people like you who want to protect the name of edward heath, who have to just keep talking out about it? i hope that's not true. i don't think we have finished exploring whether there could be a judicial review of that kind. the chief comes to himself could institute one. one of the government's reasons for saying it cannot do so is that the police are supposed to be operationally independent of the government. the operation is now over, and we are dealing with the consequences of it.

you still have a chief comes to who was involved in this. it is he, as chief con the... he said in his report that he would not commit the case to an independent review. we could try to persuade him, but we are not at that point yet. we have onlyjust had the report, and as you know, i raised the question in the house of lords this afternoon. we shall have to pursue this argument further. you knew ted heath very well. i was his principal private secretary for his entire time as prime minister, and i really got to know him well. of course you don't know somebody completely, but you get to know them extremely well. i'm not the only person who knew him very well and who thinks it's inconceivable that he could have been doing this kind of thing. thank you forjoining us.

i should say that we did invite wiltshire police's chief constable, mike veale, and the force's police and crime commissioner, angus macpherson, to join us tonight — neither was available. in a statement, the force said its investigation into ted heath was objective and proportionate. that's it for tonight. good night. the weather is very much quieter 110w. the weather is very much quieter now. in fact, the weather is very much quieter now. infact, quite the weather is very much quieter now. in fact, quite chilly out there and clear skies. early on today we had severe weather and we still have. two flood warnings in cumbria following the rain we had in 2a hours. it was as much as 211 millimetres. it was over the fels, hollister, where we had the heaviest

rainfall. it was localised but had an impact. from there, the weather front is clearing away from the south—east corner of england and there is a lot of rain that at all. clear skies behind the showers coming into scotland and northern parts of northern ireland. a chilly night with temperatures dropping two four or five degrees night with temperatures dropping two four orfive degrees in night with temperatures dropping two four or five degrees in the countryside. there have been colder nights this month but this may be the chilly as for the next few. there is still a breeze and will be blustery especially in scotland northern ireland tomorrow. sunshine around, a few showers, may be thick later into northern ireland, threatening rain. fairweather cloud bubbling up with slightly fresher air. more sunshine, temperatures will be similar to those of today. — 17 or possibly 18 degrees. notices thickening cloud. weatherfronts are on the same. a big area of low pressure of running north to scotland. the rain is gathering once

again. we have rain in the morning across scotland and northern ireland double sink slowly southward through the day and again we will see more rain in cumbria. the heaviest of the rain in cumbria. the heaviest of the rain is likely to be over the hills and western scotland. further south and western scotland. further south and east it is likely to be dry. where we get sunshine it will be even warmer. touch and nearly 20 degrees. the temperatures could rise even higher as we head into the weekend. not everywhere, certainly, but enjoying warm air from iberia and that will come into england and wales in particular. south of this we re wales in particular. south of this were the front here, it starts to move again during saturday. sunday at stalls. said they will start with more in the way of cloud across northern england did not a lot of rain, the weather in the north—west later. high temperatures across england and wales, particularly where we see sunshine. that is the difficulty, really, how much sunshine we will get. that will have an impact on the temperatures. still have the rains of scotland and

perhaps northern scotland. went over the western hills of scotland but otherwise is temperatures could be as high as 22 or 23 degrees in the south—east in from sunshine but it will be rather windy. i'm rico hizon in singapore, the headlines: at least 21 people have died in wildfires in california and authorities say they're likely to get worse. as the us flies bombers over the korean peninsula — pyongyang issues fresh threats to the trump administration. i'm kasia madera in london. also in the programme: the harvey weinstein scandal intensifies — hollywood a—listers are the latest to accuse the movie mogul of sexual harassment. and how india's border with china is more porous than you might think — we visit a remote village on the edge of indian territory.