and whether romanians are really feeling the benefit. the guardian's business section is covering ‘nudge trials‘ being carried out in britain, which are persuading the public into making healthier and safer choices without them realising it. sounds like parenting to me. and finally, it's enough to make your eyes water — the gulf news reveals you can spend $60,000 to quench your thirst in dubai. that is a bottle of water on the front page. so let's begin. with me is jane foley, who is the head of fx strategy strategy at rabobank. it seems a suitable place to start. the press cannot let go of it. theresa may shifting ground a bit on eu citizens rights? this is the message she put out on her facebook page, it is going to be much easierfor them to her facebook page, it is going to be much easier for them to stay in the uk after brexit and she is

indicating that the application process will be very easy and also very cheap. you have to remember that this is one of those three legacy issues that really has to be compromised on before they move on to the trade talks. and timing is everything. 0n the facebook pagejust as and timing is everything. 0n the facebook page just as the 27 members of the european union come together to discuss the progress of rigs at talks and she knows she has got to make progress, particularly on trade, because everybody in the uk, business leaders, industry groups are exasperated with the lack of progress. that is exact right. many business, they have to make decisions as to whether they move staff quite soon. therefore, they have to make decisions potentially raced on a ha rd decisions potentially raced on a hard brexit scenario, even if that is not what we get. time is running out. this is politically feasible. 0ffering this is politically feasible. offering more cash to brussels the moment is not feasible. this issue about the rights of

citizens, the cash issue and there is northern ireland. people are saying this should be the easiest issue to deal with. its move on to the new york times. always ready to discuss what president trump has done, right, wrong, good, bad, ugly. this is a what he said allegedly when he said, knew what he signed up for. give us your take. it is incredible that someone could be that insensitive. there is another couple of things incredible about this also, and this is the fact that again, he has put a self—inflicted wound to himself. he says he didn't say that. there is nothing from the widow's mother that he did, and there is also a democrat congressional woman saying he said that. it is incredible. it has developed into this bickering that has made it much worse. this isn't

the first time we have seen some it like this. and it won't be the last time either. i tell you what struck me about this, and you mentioned it was new york times, they have their beef with him and they will push these stories, but it does genuinely, in this world of fake news, become difficult to know where the truth lies on any story. and that is not very good when we need to take direction from government. it is when we have so much noise like this, it is not very encouraging. that is going to be on obviously, especially with donald trump being the man, he made that a political story by saying, i am the one who a lwa ys story by saying, i am the one who always reaches out to the relatives of fallen soldiers. and we have accused previous presidents of not reaching out. and they are at times suggesting that it's a false accusation. let's look at the guardian. fa chiefs urged to resign amid blackmail row. this follows the incredible testimony of the ex—

england star allude to. —— aluko. this is quite a story. this is the third accusation that she finally has an apology. this is about the england captain, or the train of the women's team making accusations against, or really using a racist tone. towards her? towards her. and also another colleague of hers. performance was pretty stunning. was composed, the answers were very good. and i think part of that because of the performance she has had so much recognition in the press today. i think the context is very important because this is an organisation, the fa dominated by men, and it is an abuse of power towards people who are perhaps less able to defend themselves. she has pointed out that she was

requested to sign, to write a statement and signage saying there is not institutional racism within the fa in order to get her compensation or second half of it. she says there has been denied by the chief executive at the fa. but she didn't then come out and say thatis she didn't then come out and say that is institutional racism. she kept it very much to her story as to the way in which she had been dealt with, which i felt quite impressed, not overstepping. she didn't actually accuse them of blackmail, and she also said that she was not put on the framework. this was not of her doing, this situation that arose. she answered her questions beautifully. some of the papers have got, the back page, as a stored —— sport story. the guardian is leading. there is a mac about timing in terms of recognition of what is going on behind closed doors. you can

hollywood, looking at the fa not put in the same bracket, but there is something there. the abuse of power. and to say international viewers, she was speaking in front a parliamentary committee yesterday. that is where she was answering questions. as this paper says, a remarkable day. incredibly articulate, i have to say. back to the new york times, international version. say. back to the new york times, internationalversion. it say. back to the new york times, international version. it talks about romania being the fastest growing economy right now in europe. those figures on paper, but quite often they don't necessarily reflect what is going on in the country in the sense of everybody feeling much better off. it is interesting talking about government handouts to individuals and how the money is being spent to fuel the economy and whether it is a long play or a short—term bubble. i think we can look at this in terms of populism. we have seen a lot of

populism across the us and the uk and various parts of europe and what this particular article is talking about is the government is spending money not on building infrastructure, which helps increase productivity and growth, but spending it on handouts to people, which the government will help will get them voted back in. doesn't enhance productivity and the economy. you could say that is surely, if you are using debt to finance growth, you are stealing from york grandchildren and your children because they will ultimately have to pay. this is what the new york times is accusing them of. we have seen this in poland, you could accuse of being populist and huge handouts to people, families with children right now, not necessarily the most productive use of money. to make the point that national debt is quite low. they are not a basket case at the moment as you might say greece would be in terms of their economic infrastructure. you are quite right, but you can't compare the debt ratio and —— ratios

with the developing and on developing countries. the uk has debt, about 90%, it is about 40% in romania. you would be far lower levels of debt in emerging countries. did you know you're in the uk the government has a behavioural insight tea m government has a behavioural insight team in whitehall. not going to talk about how equal expensive it is. they have found the nudge unit is working. we are driving safer, eating better, doing better in our exams. 0ur behaviour is influenced without realising it. this is something i think the camera government signed up for in 2010. this is a subtle way of influencing our choices. some of the tests were in nhs hospitals. signed by fizzy drinks and apparently it does have an influence in our decision—making.

you need a chain and padlock to get my kid away from the fizzy drinks. it is important that this is transparent in a way that we know what they are targeting. is this big brother? have we been influenced for years through marketing, media, advertising? perhaps this is just another form of that. it is nag by another means. thank you very much. we didn't talk about the price of a bottle of water in dubai because it wasjust the price of a bottle of water in dubai because it was just observe. thanks, jane. the bottle is made out of pure gold. that is why it is so expensive. it is not the water. the water is still quite cheap. still a lot of money. hello. if you want to see what the weather has in store for the british isles in the coming days, you basically just have to take a look towards the atlantic,

because low pressures are queueing up. here's one out close to the west at the moment. that's going to come into play thursday evening and into friday. and this slightly more innocuous looking area of cloud will explosively deepen into an area of low pressure to bring stormy conditions on the weekend. more on that in just a moment. first thing, a lot of cloud across the british isles. low cloud at that, misty and murky conditions for the majority to get thursday under way. so grey skies, but it will be a relatively mild start. some rain to go along with that cloud for central, southern england, the midlands and the north—east of england for a time through thursday morning. to the east, with a bit of brightness, it could turn out to be a warmish afternoon, actually. highs of up to 18 or 19. towards the west, some early sunshine, but replaced by cloud, rain and strengthening winds in the south—west of england and wales. northern ireland, getting quite a lot of rain really throughout the course of the day. it's through thursday evening and into the small hours of friday though that that area of low pressure starts to whip up the winds, particularly for the cornish coast,

but really anywhere along the channel coast for the small hours of friday. a mild enough night thanks to the cloud and the wind and the rain. definitely not the prettiest of starts to friday. most areas getting off to a grey and wet start. northern ireland seeing the best improvement through the morning. elsewhere, though, give it a few hours, and most of the rain does clear, as you can see by lunchtime, and the winds fall light. might still be overcast, but a great improvement on the start of the day and for the afternoon, 15 or 16 will be the top temperatures, about right for this time of year. towards the west, though, the first signs of what awaits. that explosively deepening area of low pressure set to bring gales and some heavy rain to almost all parts of the uk at some stage this weekend. here you go — look at all those isobars. the winds particularly strong as the storm gets near to us. but the worst should stay out in the atlantic, starting to weaken somewhat that low as it does push onshore on saturday. but nonetheless, the risk of gales again, particularly for exposed coasts in the west.

but inland gales too. more heavy rain for northern ireland where we've already seen plenty, that could cause some problems. rain for the south—west of england, wales, parts of scotland too. eastern areas perhaps not getting too bad a day on saturday but rain will make its way in on sunday. most areas picking up showers at some stage. still some strong and gusty winds around, as well, and quite sorry temperatures of just 12 to 1a degrees. hello, this is breakfast, with naga munchetty and charlie stayt. theresa may makes a fresh promise to eu citizens living and working in the uk. in an open letter she vows to make it as easy as possible for them to stay ahead of a key summit of european leaders in brussels. good morning — it's thursday the 19th of october. also this morning: hundreds of opportunities for life—saving transplants are being missed, because bereaved

families are objecting to organ donations — a bbc investigation reveals. sir tom jones tells us about sexual harrassment in the music industry — and says it happened to him at the start of his career.