according to the daily telegraph. it comes after a leak from brussels which suggested she "begged" eu leaders to help her kick—start brexit negotiations at a meeting last week. the times business reports that shares in british car dealership pendragon plummeted on monday after the company warned about its full—year profit, blaming a fall in demand for new cars. the number of profit warnings by british companies jumped to 75 in the third quarter, the biggest quarterly rise in almost six years. iran's president hassan rouhani wants to rein in the revolutionary guards whose many companies have allowed iran to survive years of sanctions. that's according to the new york times. he says their monopoly on large sectors of the economy is hindering economic growth. and in china business daily, yoghurt sales are expected to overtake milk sales in the country, according to new data. currently, china is the second— largest dairy market in the world after the united states.

let's begin. we havejust in with us, the director of southern investment management. let's start with angela merkel and her thyroid opposition. how will she lived with those strange bedfellows? there was an editorial at the bottom of the page speaking about the phantoms of the rock star and talking about the last time you had extreme right wingers there. —— reichstag. the french press take this quite seriously because the remember one thing, this much is it ever happen ain? thing, this much is it ever happen again? the difference between us and mainland europe is they were occupied and involved so directly but we, we do not experience it is

deeply. one argument is allowing extremists within the parliamentary syste m extremists within the parliamentary system is that the parliamentary syste m system is that the parliamentary system does dissipate extremism and they out to be strawmen. then you can actually see what they stand for when you shine a light on it. angela merkel has partially caused this because of her policy, that unpopular policy about immigration. figaro is turning back and saying well, actually, you're partly responsible. hours after the election result came out, one of the c0— election result came out, one of the co— leaders of afd, sensationally quit saying she would not lead the party in parliament. they have their work cut out for them trying to establish a coherent approach to their new legislative role. these parties don't have one primary issue

and once that falls away... yes, once you start discussing welfare or something like that, they have not thought about it much. talking about single issue politics there is an issue dominating british political agenda. i need not tell you what it is, there on the front of the daily telegraph. oh, spare me. ifeel sorry for her when they have these lea ks sorry for her when they have these leaks saying she was looking depressed and tired. that's what she looks like! do we know what they we re looks like! do we know what they were saying? remember the image of angela merkel, emmanuel macron and theresa may walking into the summit and they were covering their malls. everyone was speculating. apparently they were not discussing brexit, they were not discussing brexit, they were not discussing brexit, they were discussing iran. that is why they looked rather animated. they were being quite polite with a

couple of toothpicks. they had a nasty bit of meat stuck in their teeth. the front page of the telegraph is interesting because yesterday we were talking in a newspaper review about a campaign for more transparency thank people need to know what is happening in the negotiations. this is an example ofa the negotiations. this is an example of a negotiation being out in the open and, you know, this is, i suppose, the unsavoury side. duigan the open. realistically you want a good deal. you go to a dark room to do itand good deal. you go to a dark room to do it and you sort it out and come with a result. the trouble is doing it like this. every single nuance will be discussed and debated. not actually about brexit but what people look like and all the other elements. that deflects from what needs to be achieved. an interesting point, she wanted everything to be done behind closed doors and people had an outcry. this is the result.

every single race of rumour comes out and is taken as fact. loan out of all proportion. —— blown out of all proportion. i understand it all. iam com pletely completely in control i remember covering this. the slump in cost in september. people were highlighting it saying that september is meant to bea it saying that september is meant to be a boomer months, when dealerships make a lot of sales. there are a couple of things here. we have a cessation of car sales as the level of debt, personal to bet because of the new structures they have had. then you also have preregistration where car salespeople preregister ca i’s where car salespeople preregister cars is being sold when they are yet to be sold. brilliant! so it looks much better than it is but eventually catches up and that is has happened here. how big a danger is car finance? it is a bubble. i am

not in car sales, you are talking to the owner of a 1964 morris traveller. nonetheless this seems to be in one of those consumer bubbles which is rather worrisome. i am concerned and the fact that last quarter we 35 companies giving us profit warming summit warnings and i'iow profit warming summit warnings and now we have 75. join the dots... your morris, is it a 1964. is that caught by the new emissions thing?” have not told anybody yet.” caught by the new emissions thing?” have not told anybody yet. i bring it in quietly. i checked mine. it only came in yesterday, i pull my registration in to check and i am caught by a. is there an exception for a vintage car? so if it is pouring smoke out the back you can call them vintage curran will be fine? pendragon is interesting. you would think that people would be

encouraged and renew their cars to think that it will be cheaper in the long run. is, even then, car dealerships are struggling,...m long run. is, even then, car dealerships are struggling,... it is boom that people are used to co nsta ntly boom that people are used to constantly changing their car every few years. is never used to happen before. what next, revolutionary guard or yoghurt? let's save yoghurt for desert. the revolutionary guards here, looking at the powers of the iranian president and the fact he is i'iow iranian president and the fact he is now taking on some of the bastions of the revolutionary guard which employs1.5 of the revolutionary guard which employs 1.5 million people in a complex structure of companies. he wants to address this, break it up and this illustrates that in the economy we must have free competition. this is not what you would expect from iran. it is

similarto china, would expect from iran. it is similar to china, the zombie companies there. they find it difficult. howdy one pick them? and the control, particularly by the internal body. is as fascinating. is taking on these areas of the country and he is doing quite well. taking on these areas of the country and he is doing quite wellm taking on these areas of the country and he is doing quite well. it is a battle as well as an economic battle. yes the revolutionary guard are quite powerful. and remember, this is a very nationalist issue. dinner when i started doing? i started having yoghurt with my serial. just to mix it up a bit —— i started to have yoghurt with my muesli. it is lovely. my problem with yoghurt is that my name comes out as yoghurt stuart. and all i can do is turn around and say yes, thick and rich. what is fascinating about this is because the chinese do not normally have dairy products.

traditionally, westerners were considered as smelling of cheese. this is a radical change. and there was a big fuss years ago when the chinese started to bid for it big french yoghurt producer and the french yoghurt producer and the french countered that by registering the known as a strategic defence company. registering danone is a strategic defence company. always a pleasure. thank you very much. we will return with breakfast scene. —— return with breakfast soon. hello there. it's a messy weather story for this week. if you're a fan of the mild weather, both by day and night, then you'll be pretty glad with this week because we'll have a run

of south—westerly winds. that's going to feed in, though, a lot of moisture off the sea. and as you can see, this trail of cloud is heading in towards our shores. so sunshine really will be at a premium throughout the week. and we'll see weather fronts continuing to wax and wane across the country. that'll bring outbreaks of rain. as we start tuesday, we'll see a such weather front pushing into southern and western areas to bring some rain at times. so for tuesday, it's another mild day, but rather cloudy with further outbreaks of rain in places. now, that rain will be across many western areas to begin the day. for the south—west, though, it's going to be very mild. a little bit of light rain and drizzle, some mist and murk too. temperatures 15 or 16 degrees to start the day. further north, though, we'll have this weather front bringing outbreaks of rain. so quite a wet morning commute across parts of wales,

in towards the midlands into north—west england. it looks like it will be quite wet as well for parts of northern ireland, certainly for scotland. some of the rain will be quite heavy, it will also be quite breezy too, particularly across western areas. and then through the day, that rain moves northwards and eastwards. it remains quite breezy across northern ireland and scotland. but conditions may improve here, bit of sunshine for northern ireland. that sunshine getting in towards scotland as well. but it stays rather damp through the central slice of the uk. to the south of the weather front, though, should be fairly dry and very mild, 18 or 19 degrees here, closer to the mid to upper teens celsius further north. there's our weather front — it's waxing and waning across the uk. it'll be lying across central southern parts of the country on wednesday. so i think here we'll see the lion's share of the damp weather. whereas further north, brighter with good spells of sunshine, quite breezy, though, across scotland and northern ireland. there'll be plenty of showers across western scotland. temperatures here around the mid—teens celsius. but again, where that weather front is, and particularly to the south of it, very mild, 17 or 18 celsius.

onto thursday, that weather front shifts a little bit further northwards. it looks like we'll be on the very mild side in the south. 18 degrees in the cloud. given some sunshine, we could see 20, maybe 21 celsius. further north, around the mid teens once again. but we start to see a change on into friday. this area of high pressure nudges in and also brings in some cooler air, which will topple in around it and that will push the weather front southwards, introduce some brighter conditions, but it will also introduce, as we head into the weekend, some cooler and fresher air, particularly across northern areas. so a bit of a change as we head on towards the weekend. it will be brighter for many with some sunshine. but it will turn noticeably cooler, particularly in the north. hello, this is breakfast with louise minchin and dan walker. hospitals are told they could do hundreds of thousands of extra operations if they were better organised. a health watchdog claims hours are being wasted in operating theatres in england because of inefficiency. good morning.

it's tuesday, 24th october. also this morning: a sharp rise in reports of trolling and online harassment. new figures suggest more than 200 offences are being recorded every day. fewer elephants are being killed by poachers in africa, but the authorities say they seized a record amount of illegal ivory last year.