hello. you're watching afternoon live. i'm simon mccoy. today at 2pm: investigating links with russia — the chairman of donald trump's election campaign is charged with conspiracy against the us, and money laundering. cracking down on alleged westminster sex pests — there'll be a commons statement this afternoon. upping the ante — spanish prosecutors charge catalan independence leaders with rebellion, sedition, and misuse of public funds. also, all the sport. it is all about lewis hamilton. good afternoon. hamilton is the history—maker — he's now the most successful british driver in f1, and we'll be asking how many more ttiles he can win. banksy. and all the weather. it is chilly. it certainly is. this was the scene in glasgow this morning. but i'm told things are changing gci’oss but i'm told things are changing across scotland as we speak. also coming up, the missing lynx —

a warning to pet owners and farmers, after a wild cat disappears from a wildlife park in wales. hello, everyone. this is afternoon live. the investigation into alleged links between donald trump's election campaign and russia has taken a dramatic turn, with the news that his former campaign chairman paul manafort, and rick gates — manafort‘s former business associate, have been indicted by a federal grand jury. they face 12 counts — including conspiracy to launder money and conspiracy against the united states. there's been no reaction yet from the white house. jane o'brien is in washington. i have been going through the charge sheet and it appears the conspiracy allegations, which everyone is focusing on, relate to the

money—laundering charges and the alleged efforts by paul manafort and his business associate rick gates to cover them up. the conspiracy in this case appears to relate to the fa ct this case appears to relate to the fact they were defrauding the government and that they were impeding the government's ability to investigate these allegations by lying to get delivered about them. so at the moment it doesn't look as if any of these charges relate directly to the investigation into whether or not the trump campaign couuded whether or not the trump campaign colluded with russia in an attempt to sway the presidential election, but what i suspect will happen is that by bringing these two men into the legal process, they will be under considerable pressure to copper operate more fully with investigators still probing this central issue, whether or not there was collusion with russia. let's speak to stefan halper, who was a white house official in the nixon, ford and reagan administrations. hejoins me on webcam from washington.

how dramatic a change is what has happened in the last two micrograms? i think it's quite dramatic in the sense that it is a concrete step taken by sense that it is a concrete step ta ken by prosecutors sense that it is a concrete step taken by prosecutors who have made clear that they are very serious about proceeding with their effort. and they have returned 12 indictments, as i understand it, and they will use this, more than likely, to apply pressure on ma nafort likely, to apply pressure on manafort and possibly gates to provide additional information on higher up people in the campaign, and possibly trump. the difficulty in all this is pinning down the timing of these investigations, because manafort worked for donald trump in the election period but the charges could predate this. trump in the election period but the charges could predate thism trump in the election period but the charges could predate this. it seems they do. this is very much an

opening gambit. and what we see here is effectively a statement by the prosecutors to the effect that they have the right to enquire into the financial affairs. trump has very clearly said that any financial inquiry is beyond the scope of what was agreed to. so with the prosecutors pushing this financial issue, they are attempting to assert their right to expand or to have the inquiry assume a wider scope. so what that means, presumably, is that trump's tax returns would be available or at least within the scope of the inquiry, and that is something that could be extremely

damaging to trump. so what we're looking at is a slowly building process in which presidents ——joko widodo may be set. if —— in which precedents may be set. he has mentioned a whitewash. it was never a whitewash and we have had an energetic effort by trump to try to shift the subject, the main leads, the stories in the news, but that hasn't worked. he has called this a witchhunt, a whitewash, a variety of things, but the fact is that he now has to deal with the very concrete action taken by the special prosecutor, and that action is aimed

directly at the centre of his position. thank you. the prime minister is said to be "deeply concerned" about allegations of inappropriate behaviour at westminster. number ten says that "any unwanted sexual behaviour in the workplace is unacceptable". mps are calling on the prime minister to strengthen the government's response to the allegations. the issue will be discussed in parliament later. our political correspondent ben wright reports. with its many bars, long hours, young researchers and older mps, the culture of parliament is again under scrutiny. there is now cross—party agreement sexual harassment at westminster has been overlooked for too long. i think that what we have learned over the last few days is that this behaviour is happening in westminster, and i'm glad that we are now speaking about it and it is out in the open because that will be the first step in the way of making people change their behaviour. at the weekend it was revealed that seven years ago the mp mark garnier, now trade minister, once as a former secretary to buy sex toys.

mr barnier did not deny it but called the incident good—humoured hijinks that did not constitute harassment. stephen crabb has reportedly apologised for sending explicit text messages to a woman he interviewed a few years ago. does westminster have a problem with sexual harassment, prime minister? ignoring the question, the prime minister has been quick to show she is serious about the issue, writing to the speaker and calling for a new disciplinary and grievance process for those working in parliament, and an independent mediation service. staff at westminster can call our helpline with any concerns they have and the political parties have their own codes of conduct, but many people here say the real problem is that mps employ their own staff and deal with any complaints about their own behaviour. which is why there are calls for an overhaul of parliament's working practices and employment rules. there has been a culture of cover—up and collusion at

westminster over the years and leaders of all political parties must support young women and young men and take action to stop sexual harassment happening in the first place. we've got to set an example in parliament for the rest of independent place where people can go to to express any concerns or any misdemeanours or inappropriate behaviour they think they have been subject to, but this will require political leadership. mps do have a code of conduct, but it does not cover issues around sexual harassment and personal behaviour. it is nearly all about financial affairs, declarations, lobbying, outside earnings. we need far more discussion about the principles and values by which members of parliament are expected to live, and how we work and relate to our colleagues and employees. we don't know if more allegations will be made or if other mps will be called out for past behaviour, but in the commons later, expect politicians to say there

will be no tolerance of sexual harassment in the future. ben wright, bbc news, westminster. our chief political correspondent, vicki young, is in westminsterfor us. we are expecting some sort of statement in the next hour or two. yes, and downing street said to us this morning the prime minister will be sitting next to andrea leadsom, leader of the house of be sitting next to andrea leadsom, lea makes he house of be sitting next to andrea leadsom, lea makes that ouse of be sitting next to andrea leadsom, lea makes that statement. i think it too makes that statement. i think it will be an urgent question from harriet harman from the labour side. so the question is, what can they do about this? most people are agreed that there is a problem with westminster, with the house of commons. this is not the first time we have talked about this kind of thing. there are rumours circulating, naming mps and possibly ministers as well, but the bbc, radio 5 live, dug their own survey into these kinds of issues last year, and the mps that replied, a

large number said they had experienced sexist comments but also sexual harassment including gripping. the question is, where do people go with a grievance? this is the problem that ben was talking about that. often for researchers, they are employed by mps, they are better line manager, and they cannot complain to their line manager about them. should it be an outside party, not the political party, because they may have a vested interest? theresa may has a theresa may has called for a cross— party theresa may has called for a cross—party resolution into an issue which has been going on for a very long time. thank you. a tweet from the editor of the evening standard, george osborne. theirfront—page evening standard, george osborne. their front—page story is on the right of the page. it is a story about how the 1922 committee blocked mandatory procedures. let's pick

that up with the chairman of the committee. thank you forjoining us. is the newspaper right? what the evening standard says is that we were unhappy with the conservative party and particularly the conservative whips office seeking to create a party political process, and if you read the article, actually, it rather makes that clear. i think that the headline is pretty misleading and out to make mischief. he's talking about including arbitration for staff. sure, but the proposals being put forward in 2014 we re proposals being put forward in 2014 were for the conservative whips proposals being put forward in 2014 were to the conservative whips proposals being put forward in 2014 were to provide ;ervative whips proposals being put forward in 2014 were to provide this ative whips proposals being put forward in 2014 were to provide this service, ps proposals being put forward in 2014 were to provide this service, to office to provide this service, to have an entirely party political process , have an entirely party political process, and as you reported just made clear, obviously there are conflicts of interest inherent in that, but also a very important principle is at stake, in that members of parliament staff are

employed to do parliamentary work, they are not employed to do party political work. they may not be members of the same political party as their employer. they may not even be voters for that party. there is no requirement that that should be the case. so to try to force, as perhaps george osborne did when he was at westminster, to try to force the political party and the party whips into that employment relationship is entirely wrong, so what we wanted, and what i think we would still urge to take place, is a much stronger procedure made available by the house of commons as available by the house of commons as a whole. clearly, this is not a problem that is confined to one petite —— the little party or another, it - even petite —— the little party or another, it- even confined to another, it is not even confined to the house of commons. it is something we all have to take seriously. it must be done on a

cross— party seriously. it must be done on a cross—party basis. seriously. it must be done on a cross-party basis. but why hasn't it been done before? when these conversations happened about three yea rs conversations happened about three years ago, me and my colleagues urged that the house of commons would take on a bigger role. they do have a personal advisory service available to members but it is also available to members but it is also available to members but it is also available to staff to talk to. there is in the standard contract of employment now a grievance procedure, so that is already set out. can you clarify the grievance procedure. the criticism seems no one knows to know what it is. procedure. the criticism seems no one knows to know what it ism procedure. the criticism seems no one knows to know what it is. it is set out at some length. i have not memorised it but i have read it. there is a process staff can go to which would culminate in... mediation, arbitration initially, or ultimately could culminate in an employment tribunal. as has been rightly said, if anyone thinks women

offences have been committed, people should go to the police in any case. -- if should go to the police in any case. —— if anyone thinks criminal offences have been committed. if there were a need for independent arbitration, that would be funded as an independent process. that is available now and has been for several years. available now and has been for several yea rs. few available now and has been for several years. few members and their staff. so there is quite a lot that is already there. —— that is available to members and their staff. there is lot capoue available to people but it has to be clearer to people but it has to be clearer to them how to access it and how it is available. i do not think there is available. i do not think there is anything insurmountable in that. what would be quite wrong would be to make it a party political process. but on the white issue, are you aware of any impending cases that would be brought up —— but on

the wider issue? any arbitration or mediation process would be conducted in private, i would think, as would any legal proceedings, until they might come to a tribunal. thank you. the headlines: trump's campaign manager is charged with offences against the united states. the prime minister will address the issue of sexual harassment by mps in parliament this afternoon. charges of sedition and rebellion are being discussed against members of catalonia's parliament. and the weather wreaks havoc across northern and central europe, with planes unable to land. and in sport...

lewis hamilton has become the most successful british driver in formula one. but that was enough to take the title for a fourth time. he did it with two races to spare. england, scotland, wales and northern ireland will all request permission from fifa to wear poppies during their matches next month. english golfer paul casey is rejoining the european tour after three years on the us circuit. he says his motivation is to play at next years ryder cup. he had been inelibible after giving up his european membership. i will be back with a full update in 15 minutes. the oscar—winning actor kevin spacey has apologised after being accused of making sexual advances towards a teenage boy in the 1980s. the allegation has been made by the actor anthony rapp, who said the incident happened when he was 14. kevin spacey said he didn't remember the encounter but, if it had happened, it would have been "deeply inappropriate". here's our entertainment correspondent lizo mzimba. anthony rapp was 14 and performing in a broadway show when he says the oscar—winning actor made

a sexual advance towards him after a party at spacey‘s new york apartment. he described what happened to buzzfeed news, saying, "kevin spacey picked me up like a groom picks up the bride over the threshold, and then he lays down on top of me. he was trying to seduce me." later on twitter he added, "i came forward with my story, standing on the shoulders of the many courageous women and men who have been speaking out to shine a light and hopefully make a difference, as they have done for me." spacey, one of film, theatre and tv‘s best—known faces, has apologised, saying, "i honestly do not remember the encounter. it would have been over 30 years ago. but if i did behave then as he describes, i owe him the sincerest apology for what would have been deeply inappropriate drunken behaviour, and i'm sorry for the feelings he describes having carried with him all these years." spacey went on to say for the first time

publicly that he has chosen to live as a gay man. it is a real shame that after many, many opportunities that kevin spacey did have to come out in a positive way, that he has ended up coming out in what has been a very negative way, responding to very serious allegations about the assault of a young person many years ago. others have gone further, criticising spacey‘s statement on his sexuality as something that could be seen as an attempt to deflect attention away from what is a serious allegation involving someone who at the time was an underaged child. the spanish attorney general has announced he is bringing charges against catalonia's regional authorities. the government in madrid is in process of taking

direct control of catalonia. my colleague is in barcelona. these are very serious charges on the face of it. extremely serious. there is a possible prison sentence of 30 years if convicted. another development is that this morning started in a surreal way with the former catalan president posting a - on into president posting a picture on into grant saying, a normal working day. we now learn that he was not actually here. he is actually in brussels seeking political asylum there. there was a statement this weekend from a german asylum minister saying that it would not be possible for political crimes. this crisis has just moved possible for political crimes. this crisis hasjust moved into possible for political crimes. this crisis has just moved into another dimension here as well. over the weekend, we knew spain would invoke

article 150 five. spanish prime minister mariano rajoy said there would be consequences for the universal declaration of independence. there have been. the deputy prime minister is now effectively in control. madrid is running 200,000 civil servants here. they have been told not to turn up for work until madrid works out what to do. what will happen with the local police force, 17,000 strong, they are reportedly split, even though their unions have told them to be neutral. we are in a real muddle here and even dell but if they do try to arrest puigdemont for rebellion and sedition, that would be seen as incredibly provocative to the people who support him, but they currently can't because he's in brussels. what about on the streets?

is the madrid government making its presence felt in terms of federal police or anything else? not at all. it is really strange. i think that is obviously deliberate by madrid after those pictures went around the world on october the 1st at the illegal referendum, the national police force tracking people out of polling stations by their hair, people injured. there have been heavy—handed tactics by the police. it is clear madrid does not want a repeat of that, even though the spanish prime minister, the foreign minister, even the king have apologised for excessive force. so it is very strange. we are all gathered here outside the generalitat, waiting for statements from those people, but there is no evidence that madrid is on the ground, apart from the prosecution from the attorney general. thank

you. the influential economic think—tank the institute for fiscal studies says the chancellor is caught between "a rock and a hard place" as he prepares his forthcoming budget. it says philip hammond will have to abandon his target for getting rid of the deficit if he's to meet demands from cabinet colleagues to increase spending. the treasury says it will continue to adopt a "balanced approach". our economics editor kamal ahmed is here. government debts are higher. our taxes are higher and also we, of course, had the public sector cuts as well. i asked pauljohnson, the head of the institute for fiscal studies, whether now was the time, given the pressure from cabinet colleagues, given that political pressure to really raise borrowing to boost the economy? i don't think the chancellor wants to have a big stimulus at the moment, not least because there'sjust so much uncertainty about where we're going to be in a year or two. if he's going to have a stimulus budget i think it's most likely to come in 2019 or 2020 when we see what the shape of brexit looks like,

when we see what the shape of its impact on the economy is. to do something big now, given how much uncertainty there is about where we will be in a couple of years' time, might tie his hands just that bit too much. does he get rid of or lengthen the period at which he says he will balance the books? that's where the pressure will be. philip hammond is a fiscal conservative, but his cabinet colleagues want more money to boost the economy. people have died in storms across europe. hamburg city centre is flooded and hundreds of homes without power.

buffeted by heavy wind, this plane attem pts buffeted by heavy wind, this plane attempts a landing in salzburg but the runway is so busy it is just too dangerous. so the pilot aborts the landing and is forced to fly back to frankfurt. further north, the centre of hamburg has been flooded. the river elbe reached ten feet above its normal level. and just off the coast on its way to hamburg, a freighter carrying almost 2000 tonnes of fuel oil has ran aground. the authorities are trying to rescue the crew and there are concerns the oil might leak. across northern germany, trains cancelled, mainly because of falling trees. in berlin, the fire service announced a state of emergency. in the czech republic, because of falling trees and branches, hundreds of thousands of households have lost electricity. translation: it could have been

worse. the tree has fallen in this direction and not on the house so it has caused less damage. poland was hit hard. the driver of this car was killed by a falling tree. the worst of the storm now appears to be over. but with many train services disrupted, stranded travellers are still feeling the impact. let's just cheer ourselves up. we have some pictures of the england world cup winners, the england under 17 is arriving back clutching the world cup. they are coming off their flight, world cup. they are coming off their flight, understandably weary after what has been a remarkable tournament in india. that was a 5—2

victory in the final when at one point there were 2—0 home. they welcome home to a world cup winning team. let's have a look at the weather. you are going to talk about the storms? yes, this is the scene at the start of the weekend. it wasn't bad in the british isles. it got cold later in the weekend because this weather forecast came down. but it is this mass of cloud that got very angry very quickly in the heart of europe. we have heard about the consequences. it was notjust the strength of the wind, because it absolutely opened the floodgates to lots of cold air pouring down across scandinavia, right across the heart of continental europe and it will be that way for a day all two yes. something of a relation to what we have experienced here in the british isles is to start our new week.

simon has a very interesting story about red berries and how he uses those to forecast the weather. i was always told that if there are lots of red berries around, it will bea lots of red berries around, it will be a harsh winter. you have just thrown that away. you had the whole afternoon to tell that story! ican do story! i can do it again! there was indeed some cold air in the british isles across the weekend, but i'm taking you through today and into tuesday. you will see we are changing the colour altogether. goodness knows what this will due to his red berries. the week so far, cooler and bright. then it goes cloudier and milder with the change in the colour palette. and later in the week, it will turn a bit chilly again. we will look at that more tomorrow. these temperatures, yes, sunshine around, but it is doing nothing for the temperatures at all. by contrast to

last night, tonight mark clyde coming in across scotland. that will help to keep the temperature is up. —— more cloud coming in across scotland. cooler in the south, perhaps, but even here the cloud continues later in the night. the rain will be ever present notjust for tuesday but also rain will be ever present notjust for tuesday 120 |lso rain will be ever present notjust for tuesday 120 millimetres. that is wednesday. 120 millimetres. that is not for downtown glasgow, it is on the worst of the hills. a murky start in the northern hills of england and northern ireland. generally speaking, the further south, the drier your start to the day. even hear a little bit milder than this morning. on through the day, we keep the rain coming in particularly to the western side of scotla nd particularly to the western side of scotland but anywhere across the north, there is the chance of a wee bit of rain for some. more in western scotland. but further south, not a bad afternoon. because we have got rid of that northerly, we are

into a south—westerly. and we keep that going. remember the headlines said the middle part of the week was hijab mild? that is because there is high pressure, keeping the weather front in position across the western side of scotland. something a bit cooler showing its hand across the far north of scotland. later in the week, we dragged under the weather front in from the atlantic down across the british isles. that is where it starts turning to let again. more about where it starts turning to let aga red liore aboutgfé—ff 5 "5" 5 where it starts turning to let aga red berries outlé—55 5 555 5 where it starts turning to let aga red berries later. 65 5 555 5 this is bbc news — our latest headlines. donald trump's election campaign chairman, paul manafort, has been charged with conspiracy against the us after turning himself in to the fbi — manafort denies any collusion. commons leader andrea leadsom is to make a statement on proposed changes to grievance procedures to tackle sexual harassment in parliament. the actor, kevin spacey, has apologised after being accused of making a sexual advance towards a child actor in the 1980's — saying that he does not remember the encounter. as spain looks to take control of the region,

catalonia's leaders face charges including rebellion and sedition, following the areas carbon dioxide in the atmosphere surges to its highest level level in 800,000 years — scientists say human activity and weather phenomena are to blame. and, coming up — the lynx on the loose. i'll be talking to a conservation group about the search for lillith the lynx who escaped from an animal park in wales. sport now on afternoon live, olly foster is with us this afternoon, monday his favourite day. much going on olly? absolutely, i just saw those under 17 is coming back through heathrow. hopefully hear from one of them in the second. a lot of headlines coming out around lewis hamilton but some very, very important football matches coming up in the next couple of weeks. no poppy dramas this year. we'll have more information on that.

and shay given was an earlier today. i had and shay given was an earlier today. ihada and shay given was an earlier today. i had a good chat with him about all things newcastle. a much busier monday then we usually have. and on top of that you got a world champion in lewis hamilton. amazing, wasn't it? he didn't do it as he would've wa nted it? he didn't do it as he would've wanted in mexico yesterday but as it is he's won nine times this year and done it with a couple of races to spare. he is now level with sebastien bettel and alain prost, that'll pushed him neck and neck all year. he's up there on four titles which is a record for a british driver. that is one clear of the great sirjackie stewart. we will hear from great sirjackie stewart. we will hearfrom him in a moment. what else has he got to target? well five could be achieved next year to grow level with fangio. and above all others is michael schumacher on

seven world titles. he won 91 grand prix. hamilton has won 62 races so you work it out, what, 20 odd races every year so it could be matched in the next three years perhaps. it is asking a lot if. wins one every asking a lot if he wins one every season. he says is already thinking about number five though after becoming the most successful british driver. as i say, not as he would've liked it because he couldn't even get onto the podium at the mexican grand prix. he finished ninth. a really dramatic opening lap because his title rival into him. hamilton has a puncture and had to go into the pits. he dropped to the back of the pits. he dropped to the back of the field and clawed his way back to ninth. but the german couldn't achieve the top two finish that he needed to keep the championship alive. hamilton will be 33 by the time the next year's championship

comes round but sirjackie stewart thinks is best used to be had of him. the best years in my opinion are in your mid—305. you have got maturity, you're still vibra nt are in your mid—305. you have got maturity, you're still vibrant and hungry. when you are get older and richer you are more relaxed and not quite as sharp and hungry maybe. richer you are more relaxed and not quite as sharp and hungry maybel michael o'neill has named a squad of 27 for northern ireland's world cup play—off matches against switzerland next month. nottingham forest's jamie ward is back after missing most of their qualifying campaign with a calf problem. aaron hughes is available after misisng the last two qualifiers and sunderland's paddy mcnair is also back in the fold after 11 months out with a cruciate injury. the first—leg against the swiss is on 9 november with the return match in basel three days later. there are several uncapped players

who have been called into the scotla nd who have been called into the scotland squad. remember they play netherlands with neither team having qualified for the world cup. go to the bbc website for the details of that. england, scotland, wales and northern ireland will request permission from fifa to wear poppies during november's international matches. the request comes after the law was changed last month, allowing the home nations to wear a poppy if opposing teams and the competition organiser agree to it. all four countries were fined for displaying poppies during games in november last year. they have all asked for permission. newcastle are at burnley in the premier league tonight. the magpies are currently for sale. a little earlier i spoke to shay given , who spent 12 years at the club. he has written at length about the stewardship of mike ashley in his autobiography and he told me how important it is that he sells to someone willing to build the club. the fans are crying out for success

and mike ashley, the club is for sale and he wants its so and so do the fans and they want new investment. i believe with rafael benitez in charge they have the right man on the football side of things and it's no point someone coming in without money to buy and invest in the team because the stadium and the training ground is there but they need the money to inject into the team and get them back up challenging for trophies and into european competition. they have to have a huge investment. as you been seeing tram from players are back from india. they came from 2—0 down to win 5—2. here is one of their star man, brewster the liverpool striker. he's

got a hat—trick in the quarterfinals, a hat—trick in the semifinals. he also scored in the final as well to claim the golden boot. yeah, i'm home but i'm happy to be home. it has been a long month, a long month for us and i'm so happy to be home right now. it's an amazing achievement for me personally winning the golden boot, something i thank my fellow team—mates for. it's a great achievement for all others and an even bigger achievement to win the world cup. i'm very happy for me, phil and the team. that was phil foden with him who was the player of the tournament. an amazing achievement. donald trump's lawyer has spoken in

the last few minutes saying it has nothing to do with collusion in russia. donald trump himself has tweeted and this is what he is to say, "sorry but this is years ago before paul manafort was part of the trump campaign. but why aren't crooked hillary the dems are the focus? he then makes a quick addition to that and says "also, there is no collusion!" that is his response to rather dramatic development in washington with the news that his former election campaign chairman paul manafort has been charged with money—laundering and conspiracy. much more later. the jury in the trial of an army sergeant accused of sabotaging his wife's parachute has been shown a video of a police interview given by victoria cilliers in the months after the incident. mrs cilliers suffered multiple injuries when both her main and her reserve parachutes failed to open during a jump over salisbury plain. her husband emile cilliers denies the charges; duncan kennedy is following the case at winchester crown court. this was victoria cilliers wearing

sunglasses as she headed to court to give evidence about what she thought of her husband following her parachute accident. emile cilliers, on the left, came in earlier and watched as she spoke of her shock at his possible involvement in her accident. her comments in police interviews made in court revealed her state played in court revealed her state of mind on the day of the accident in 2015, against a backdrop of worries about her family life. she said, "ijumped, but i was absolutely terrified. i did not want to be there. i'd completely lost my whole confidence." mrs cilliers had been recalling events here at the netheravon airfield in wiltshire in 2015. she jumped from 4000 feet, but both her main and reserve chutes failed to open properly. she landed and suffered a number of serious injuries. as an investigation began, the court heard the police told

mrs cilliers her husband was having an affair. so, at her request, she gave another police video interview, this time acknowledging her husband's possible role in her accident. she said, "my gut instinct was ‘no way‘, but afterfinding out all i knew was a lie, i don't know," adding, "initially i was in shock — he's my husband, i loved him automatically, i thought no way he would do that to me." later mrs cilliers said she wanted to clarify things regarding her husband, and asked to see the police again. she said, at the time of the initial police interview, "i had suspicions regarding my husband, i was gunning for him," but added, "i don't think i lied, but some aspects i don't think he was involved with." mrs cilliers is now being questioned in court about the events at the airbase. her husband, emile cilliers, denies two counts of attempted murder and one

of recklessly endangering life. duncan kennedy, bbc news, at winchester crown court. a cancer charity is warning about the amount of what it calls fake news about the disease on the internet. macmillan cancer support is so concerned that it has and unverified statistics that leave some patients terrified. she's called ellen mcpake and her job is to provide online advice about diagnosis and treatment. james shaw has been speaking to her. a cancer diagnosis would be a devastating moment in anyone's life, and according to the charity macmillan, two out of five people who find out that they've got cancer go to the internet to try to search for answers. but how do you know if you can trust what you find? well, i'm just typing in prostate cancer and a lot of the results that are coming back, well, they look ok. for example, nhs choices, that is a reliable site with a lot

of useful information on it. but if you are looking in the wrong place you might not be so lucky. for example, there are downright dangerous claims out there that baking soda can be a cure or that chemotherapy even is more dangerous than cancer. the cancer charity macmillan has appointed a digital nurse to provide answers that people can trust. we know by research that the minute somebody is told they've got cancer they shut down, they don't hear anything else. look, i know you are potentially going to go away after this and you are going to look at the internet and you are going to want to get more information, and i would give them a list of reliable, trustworthy sources and say, "if you are going to do that, here are sites or here are organisations that have got that trustworthy, reliable information, and they can support you." ellen will be based at the charity's headquarters in glasgow, via social media and the macmillan website she will answer questions from across the uk.

james shaw, bbc news, glasgow. just to bring you an update on the elections in kenya, the incumbent president has been re—elected. the turnout was just under 39%, that's less tha n turnout was just under 39%, that's less than half that recorded in the nullified folk back in august. the opposition leader had pulled out of the election and called on his supporters to boycott the vote. so the president is saying he has retained his position but we will wait for reaction from others in kenya following that. the parents of autistic children are not being properly supported in dealing with violent behaviour, according to a charity. the national autistic society says that a special educational needs system should be put in place to provide the support needed

to de—escalate violent behaviour. noel philips reports. we are inside the homes of two families that are facing abuse at the hands of their autistic children. they say they are struggling to cope due to lack of support. i'm scared of him. i've definitely experienced lips, bruising all over. my husband has had scratched cornea from a punch. but it is scratches everywhere. you know, he has knocked me down the stairs before and had just managed to hang on to the banister so i have gone all the way down the stairs. 12—year—old elliott has severe autism. his parents say they are living in a permanent state of worry and have had to take extreme measures to protect him and their other children. this is elliott's room and you can see it's not like most children would have. the most

obvious adjustment is the bars that we have do have across the windows. you kind of get used to that your child's bedroom looks more like a cell of some kind. it is only when you stop and step back and really reflect on it and you go, what a symbol of just how different reflect on it and you go, what a symbol ofjust how different our lives are. this family's story is not a one—off. we have been speaking to many parents across the country and they repeatedly tell is that there is simply not enough support available for their children. some of whom are also very violent. available for their children. some of whom art cameron violent. available for their children. some of whom art cameron was ent. available for their children. some of whom art cameron was diagnosed available for their children. some of w autism cameron was diagnosed available for their children. some of w autism at meron was diagnosed available for their children. some of w autism at age on was diagnosed available for their children. some of w autism at age three. diagnosed available for their children. some of w a to sm at age three. diagnosed available for their children. some of w a to go at age three. diagnosed available for their children. some of w a to go to age three. diagnosed available for their children. some of w a to go to your :hree. diagnosed available for their children. some of w a to go to your telly, diagnosed available for their children. some of w a to go to your telly, i'm gnosed available for their children. some of w a to go to your telly, i'm just ed going to go to your telly, i'm just talking to nile. leave me! excuse me! a minute can be quite dangerous to you being on your own. of this

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and we need to need to work to change the system. local councils in england and wales say they are struggling to provide services at a time when funding is so tight. but as for elliott and cameron, their pa rents a re as for elliott and cameron, their parents are there real lifeline. they may face violence daily but they don't want their children to be misunderstood. all they are asking for is more support. well, nhs england told is out a clear programme for those with learning difficulties and autism to enable more people to live in the community. local government association told us councils are working hard to make sure make sure children with autism get access to the support they need. however, they have been put into an impossible situation due to historic underfunding and demand. president trump's former campaign manager is charged with conspiracy against the us, and money laundering. concerned after allegations of inappropriate behaviour by some mps. the issue will be addressed in parliament this afternoon.

prosecutors in madrid file charges of rebellion and sedition against members of catalonia's government. here's your business headlines on afternoon live: a key think tank says the chancellor is between "a rock and a hard place" when it comes to next month's budget. the institute for fiscal studies warns that philip hammond may have to scrap plans to get rid of the deficit if he wants to increase spending on public services. robots 3d printing and artificial intelligence could all give a much needed boost to manufacturing. that's the conclusion of an independent review — chaired by the boss of siemens uk. the findings will help shape the government's industrial strategy. a big jump in profits for europe's biggest bank. hsbc reports £3.5 billion

pounds in pre—tax profits forjuly to september — and that's up almost 450 % on the same period last year. the bank is based in london — but has beefed up its profits by focusing on asia. a call today for the manufacturing sector to boost the role of digital technology. there has been an independent review of the manufacturing sector by the boss of siemens uk. he has found that we need to boost funding on things like robots, artificial intelligence and 3—d printing. he says if we don't do that we are in danger of missing out on what he calls the fourth industrial revolution. it is that going to harm humanjob so? revolution. it is that going to harm human job so? according to the report they are predicting that over the course of the next ten years if we do get mine to digital technology

and manufacturing that we will see the sector to grow by about £450 billion and create 175,000 jobs. the man who carried out the short is explaining the conclusions. first of all, the overall recommendation is that as great britain, we need to have much stronger ambition and leadership in this fourth, digital, industrial revolution. we really need to drive it hard and make sure we have the right mechanisms for british manufacturing companies to be able to adopt these technologies in a much simpler and easier way. and another key recommendation is to upskill our people. we need to really hit this head on, and we need to be having conversations with people, upskilling them, giving them the skills, so it becomes something that is less of a topic that we are scared of, and instead one that we embrace, as we transition into this new revolution. the boss of the company who

conducted the research. some astonishing results from hsbc. the economist vicky price has been telling us more about the results. over the last quarter they increased profits by 450%, which is absolutely solution. now the bank is based here in the uk but what it is really doing now is focusing on asia. the economist vicky pryce has been tonnes more about these amazing results. they have focused very much on retail and on corporate banking — in other words, it's not really investment bank that has done it for them, but it is the bread and butter stuff that we all understand and love, if you like, when we're looking at banks. but asia has been growing quite significantly and they have benefited because of the focus they have had in terms of the types of services they provide.

if you look at other banks, both in the us and europe, in terms in their business in asia, it hasn't been anything like as good as hsbc has managed. 0k, ok, more from you later will have a look at the markets too. ok, more from you later will have a look at the markets too. a study commissioned by the royal college of nursing and the royal college of veterinary surgeons suggests smoke may have a similar impact on the health of animals as it does on humans. researchers found increased nicotine concentration on the fur of cats and dogs which live in a household where people smoke. ricky boleto reports. go on, millie. let's go in. millie is a chihuahua—jack russell cross, full of energy most of the time, and doesn't mind the camera. amanda cook adopted her two years ago. she is one in a million of a dog. she is my baby. for most of amanda's adult life, she has smoked cigarettes, unsure of the potential damage it might be having on millie's health. when the children come, the grandchildren, i don't smoke. i'm happy to smoke when they're not here, just me and millie.

i've always done it, never really thought that it would harm a pet. while experts say, just like humans, pets are at risk of second—hand smoke. they often spend more time indoors, close to their owners, where they can breathe it in. so, for the first time, both human and veterinary professionals have teamed up to raise awareness. we already know not to smoke around our children, but we're asking you to think twice about where you smoke around your pets. so whether that be on the sofa, out in the car, or on the dog walk, just be aware of the damage that nicotine and smoke particles could be causing to your animals. campaigners say smoking around cats and dogs can increase their risk of developing cancers. smaller pets, like rabbits and guinea pigs, may be prone to eye and skin disease. that's better, isn't it? back to millie. to find out more, a sample of her fur is being analysed by scientists in this lab. we looked at the hair sample that was given to us, and we compared it to a dog which wasn't living in a household

that was subjected to smoking. the key difference that we're looking at here is in the amount of nicotine present, and in the dog, living in a household where there is smoking, the levels of nicotine are significantly higher. the question is how much higher. time for millie and amanda to find out. shall we go to the vet? come on, then. good girl. we've seen the results back from the lab, and i understand the nicotine on her hair levels are high. they're about 70 times higher than some comparison hairs from another dog in a non—smoking household. what do you think you can do to try and help the situation — because you love her to bits, don't you? so we know that there are associations, there are links between inhaling tobacco smoke and some cancers, particularly of the nose and the sinuses, and also questions

whether it can make some breathing problems worse. and, after some good advice, amanda has made a big decision. no, she's my life. where are you going to go from here, do you think? no smoking indoors. a lynx has escaped from an animal park in wales. the animal, which is twice the size of a domestic cat, escaped from borth wild animal kingdom, near aberystwyth. it's been missing for around five days, and they can travel up to 12 miles per day. a little earlier, sergeant gareth cross from dyfed/powys police explained what was being done to find the escapee. we are working with borth wild animal kingdom last night and obviously today, putting in plans in place to search for the animal in the local area, and try and put together some sort of plan to try to capture it. from what the park has led us to believe, this animal has been born and bred in captivity and we believe it could have been seen nearby to the park last night. so there are working theories

at the moment that this is a place where it knows it can get food, so it's likely to stay in that area. at the moment, we're stressing that there is not a general danger to the public, obviously unless someone approaches or tries to trap the animal itself. we don't anticipate it to approach anyone anyway. it's a very solitary animal. let's update you on that breaking news story. paul manafort has been charged with money laundering and conspiracy in relation to links to ukraine. with hearing another adviser... this is george papadopoulos, a former policy adviser to the campaign early last year. he has admitted he had

tentative tried to hide links someone offering... that is only coming out now because of the release of certain court documents. we also hear in the last few minutes that russian state television is stressing that the charges against ma nafort stressing that the charges against manafort offered no proof of russian meddling in the us president election. donald trump is also been tweeting. he is saying this is years ago before paul manafort was part of the tron campaign. why aren't crooked hillary and the dems the focus? so continuing reaction to the news that manafort has been charged. that is mark our main story. that's good weather. 12 spots got as low as minus five celsius, which was by way of a

contrast to the other nights of october. here we are right across the british isles way above what we would expect from my minimum temperatures in some cases around to— three degrees higher than we would expect. in the week to come, sunny and call start, cloudier and milder midweek and just earning call start, cloudier and milder midweek and just turning cooler towards end of the week. things look settled for the rest of the day across of a change with an influx of cloud and rain from the atlantic. that will have the effect of keeping the temperature is up. no more than -5 the temperature is up. no more than —5 by where of contrast as you step out first thing on tuesday morning, look at this, double digits pretty much across the piste here but it will be pretty well, especially across the western hills. a sign of things to come here notjust the tuesday but on into wednesday. and murky in northern ireland. come further south and there is a drier

prospect here. because you are further away from the bulk of the prospect here. because you are furthe the ay from the bulk of the prospect here. because you are furthe the temperatures lk of the prospect here. because you are furthe the temperatures will’ the prospect here. because you are furthe the temperatures will dips cloud, the temperatures will dip into single figures with a touch of frost in some areas. the new day on wednesday and there is something of a north—south split in that the greater part of the brain will be found in the western hills of scotla nd found in the western hills of scotland and parts of the pennines. apart from that not a bad day, 13—14 degrees as high. as we move towards the middle part of the week, the southern part of the british isles still influenced by this ridge of high pressure. relatively mild air is coming in across the greater part of british isles. where we see a change there is more wind and more fresher across the northern parts of scotland. but even here it won't be a cold day by comparison to what you could get at this time of year. that comes a little later in the week. remember the headline said things will turn cooler later on. you will see you we lose the influence of the southerly is, submits coming in from the north and north—west as we move

toward the latter part of the week. colder air eventually showing mixed across northern and western parts. take, goodbye. hello, you're watching afternoon live at 3. investigating links with russia, the chairman of donald trump's election campaign is charged with conspiracy against the us and money laundering. cracking down on alleged westminster sex pests; there'll be a commons statement this afternoon. upping the ante: spanish prosecutors charge catalan independence leaders with rebellion, sedition, and misuse of public funds. coming up on afternoon live, all the sport. we'll be looking at lewis hamilton

and his amazing achievement. yes, simon, good afternoon. he's world champion for a fourth time. he's already targeting a fifth. we'll ask what more hamilton can achieve in formula one. here is the weather with phil avery. the week started on a frosty note for many parts of the british isles but already some are seeing signs of a change. i'll have more details for you on the week's weather prospects in halfan you on the week's weather prospects in half an hour. thank you very much. coming up: a lynx disappears from a wildlife park in wales. the investigation into alleged links between donald trump's election

campaign and russia has taken a dramatic turn with the news that his former campaign chairman paul manafort and rick gates manafort‘s former business associate have been indicted by a federal grand jury. they face 12 counts including conspiracy to launder money and conspiracy against the united states. there's been no reaction yet from the white house. jane o'brien is in washington. it appears the conspiracies relate to the money—laundering charges and the alleged efforts by paul manafot and rick gates. the conspiracy appears to relate to the fact they we re appears to relate to the fact they were defrauding the government and that they were impeding the government's ability to investigate those allegations by lying about

them. so at the moment, it doesn't look as though any of the charges relate directly to the investigation into whether or not the trump campaign colluded with russia in an attempt to sway the course of the presidential election, but what i suspect will happen is that by bringing these two men into the legal process, they will be under considerable pressure to cooperate more fully with investigators still probing this central issue, whether or not there was collusion with russia. joining me now from washington is paul glastris, editor in chief of the washington monthly and president bill clinton's chief speechwriter from 1998 to 2001. in your view, what has changed in the last two hours? well, we have two people close to the trump

campaign who've turned themselves in. as your correspondent said, tremendous pressure on them now to tell what they know broadly about any connections between the trump campaign and russia. the counts of conspiracy, money—laundering, they're serious. these folks if convicted could go to jailfor quite a few years. nowhere in the indictment does it spell out the word trump, but the potential connections are that paul manafort and his partner were in debt to a russian oligarch for millions of dollars and after having been inside

the campaign, manafort opted to give briefings to this oligarch and so there's a lot that could come out. all we have right now is knowledge that the special prosecutor's really put the hammer down on these two individuals, no doubt an attempt to squeeze them for more information. paul, donald trump's tweeted in the last half hour in typical manner, saying basically that no collusion took place, it happened a long time ago, nothing to do with the trump campaign. how nervous do you think he's beginning to feel?” campaign. how nervous do you think he's beginning to feel? i think he's been nervous from the get—go. he comey his fbi director fired james comey his fbi director who he praised saying he wanted him not to be investigating the russian connection. another element of the nervousness is what we have seen in washington in the last week, a

concerted effort by the trump white house some members of conrest and the media to direct the public‘s attention, certainly trump's bases attention, certainly trump's bases attention to other problem with sound. such as a scandal that was talked about and sort of dismissed with hillary clinton and some uranium. this was something that was not in the news and suddenly there's great demand to investigate it. so that sort of misdirection of attention i think is a sign that the trump white house is indeed very nervous. and preparing for a fight and a fight that could get dirty? it could get very dirty. the former fbi director, now the special prosecutor, the

trump white house could simply fire him, via firing perhaps his boss and then provide pardons to all involved, including paul manafort who may indeed be holding out for such a pardon. that would be constitutional crisis, the likes we have not seen since water—gate. constitutional crisis, the likes we have not seen since water-gate. as bad as that? oh, indeed. many people involved in watergate say problem with sound. bernstein investigated a reporter saying this is clearly worse than watergate. thank you very much. the prime minister is said to be ‘deeply concerned' about allegations of inappropriate behaviour at westminster. number ten says that "any unwanted sexual behaviour in the workplace is unacceptable". mps are calling on theresa may to strengthen the government's response to the allegations. the issue will be discussed in parliament later. our political correspondent ben wright reports. the culture of parliament is again under scrutiny.

there is now cross—party agreement sexual harassment at westminster has been overlooked for too long. i think that what we have learned over the last few days is that this behaviour is happening in westminster, and i'm glad that we are now speaking about it and it is out in the open because that will be the first step in the way of making people change their behaviour. at the weekend it was revealed that seven years ago the mp mark garnier, now trade minister, once as a former secretary to buy sex toys. mr barnier did not deny it but called the incident good—humoured hijinks that did not constitute harassment. stephen crabb has reportedly apologised for sending explicit text messages to a woman he interviewed a few years ago. does westminster have a problem with sexual harassment, prime minister? ignoring the question, the prime minister has been quick to show she is serious about the issue, writing to the speaker and calling for a new disciplinary and grievance process for those working

in parliament, and an independent staff at westminster can call our helpline with any concerns they have and the political parties have their own codes of conduct, but many people here say the real problem is that mps employ their own staff and deal with any complaints about their own behaviour. which is why there are calls for an overhaul of parliament's working practices and employment rules. there has been a culture of cover—up and collusion at westminster over the years and leaders of all political parties must support young women and young men and take action to stop sexual harassment happening in the first place. we've got to set an example in parliament for the rest of society, and i think one of the things that we need is an independent place where people can go to to express any concerns or any misdemeanours or inappropriate behaviour they think they have been subject to, but this will require political leadership. mps do have a code of conduct,

but it does not cover issues around sexual harassment and personal behaviour. it is nearly all about financial affairs, declarations, lobbying, outside earnings. we need far more discussion about the principles and values by which members of parliament are expected to live, and how we work and relate to our colleagues and employees. we don't know if more allegations will be made or if other mps will be called out for past behaviour, but in the commons later, expect politicians to say there will be no tolerance of sexual harassment in the future. ben wright, bbc news, westminster. joining me live from westminster is tulip siddiq, mp for hampstead and kilburn who sits on the women and equalities committee. 7? ?? newsub ? ? newsub listening ?? newsub listening to frances o'grady there, of a culture of cover—up and collusion do, you recognise that? i have to be honest, the male mps i worked for becoming

an mp myself, people like sadiq khan and ed miliband, no, i didn't experience a culture like that. those men were nowhere near this sort of behaviour, but hearing what i hear now, i'm deeply troubled. you've said earlier in the programme that the prime minister is taking leadership. perhaps the prime minister should have taken leadership a long time ago. i think there are some serious questions we need to ask. what did the prime minister and the whip's office know about sexual misconduct amongst mps and why wasn't something done earlier. it shouldn't take an expose for the prime minister to say she's taking leadership. she shouldn't have stayed quiet because she's worried about sabotaging her government and her career. you are making this a party political issue, are you? i'm not necessarily making it, i've said the whip's office so i would like to know what the labour whips knew as well, but the fact is the prime minister is a conservative prime minister. when i say whips i say whips from all parties. what did they know and i'm certainly hoping they know and i'm certainly hoping they didn't use those secrets to make mps vote in a certain way as

it's been said. it's deeply troubling and it's appalling, in my opinion. and looking at it, the concerns that have been raised suggest that this has been going on for a long, long time, long before the last labour government, long before previous conservative ones as well. that this isa conservative ones as well. that this is a much bigger issue than perhaps you are suggesting here?“ is a much bigger issue than perhaps you are suggesting here? if it is something that's happened in the past when the labour prime minister was there, yes, the labour prime minister should have taken action if the labour prime minister knew. my point is, who is thinking about the victims? people shouldn't be staying quiet because of their career or because they're worried it won't allow them to advance in their career. . . allow them to advance in their career... but are you happy that there is a grievance procedure there that caters for that at the moment? i don't think it's that caters for that at the moment? i don't think its strong enough actually. i've personally never had to use it myself but from the stories i'm hearing now and the reports, it's obviously not adequate so we do need to strengthen the grievance procedure. can you give me an idea of how big an issue you

think this is. you say you are hearing reports. all places are full of people gossiping and saying things, very different from actually hearing of genuine allegations. i'm just... do you get a sense, are we talking about reports in the tens, in the 20s or something bigger than that? it's hard to say. but what i do know is that it's gone past this gossip or scaremongering or whatever you want to call it. it's not gossip any more, i'm hearing first hand from people who're saying they've been either sexually abused or, if you like, they've been sort of, people have tried it on with them who're mps. so it's not gossip any more. how many then? this is a serious problem. people i've heard it from is in the tens but that's people telling me personally but if you investigate this and delve deeper, i think it probably will be in the hundreds and that's deeply worrying. as someone who is a female fairly young mp, i get invited to speak to women in schools, young girls in school where i talk about how we need toe encourage more women

to come into politics. what am i meant to say when i go into schools now and talk to young women and they ask me if politics is a safe space for them to enter. i'm not really sure i can say with a straight face that yes you should be coming in to politics because i'm deeply worried about what i'm hearing. where are the morals and the principles? i'm deeply concerned. it's not a party political issue, as you are suggesting. i'm saying the prime minister... forgive me, i didn't suggest that, it's just you started the interview suggesting that the tory prime minister needed to deal with that. i'm just sensing if you are saying in the hundreds, this is something that's bigger than the expenses scandal? that's right. i worked in parliament duh the expenses scandal for an mp soy lived through it. but i feel like if this has been covered up, it needs to come out now. i will be in the house for the statement that's being made on this and i will listen carefully and ask the government very carefully what they‘ re and ask the government very carefully what they're planning to do to make sure that the victims are getting the right amount of

attention they need but also that the people who've been doing this are punished. we can't let them get away with it. this can't be a culture that we laugh off and say that was a joke because it's not a joke for the victims who've been subjected to sexual harassment. thank you so much for your time. the oscar—winning actor kevin spacey has apologised after being accused of making sexual advances towards a teenage boy in the 1980s. the allegation's been made by actor anthony rapp who said the incident happened when he was 14. kevin spacey said he didn't remember the encounter but if it had happened it would have been "deeply inappropriate". here's our entertainment correspondent lizo mzimba. anthony rapp was 14 and performing in a broadway show when he says the oscar—winning actor made a sexual advance towards him after a party at spacey‘s new york apartment. he described what happened to buzzfeed news, saying, spacey, one of film, theatre

and tv‘s best—known faces, has apologised, saying. spacey went on to say for the first time publicly that he has chosen to live as a gay man. it is a real shame that after many, many opportunities that kevin spacey did have to come out in a positive way, that he has ended up coming out in what has been a very negative way, responding to very serious allegations

about the assault of a young person many years ago. others have gone further, criticising spacey‘s statement on his sexuality as something that could be seen as an attempt to deflect attention away from what is a serious allegation involving someone who at the time was an underaged child. you're watching afternoon live, these are our headlines. a grandjury a grand jury charges donald trump's former aide with fraud and other indictments including money laundering. downing street says the prime minister's deeply concerned by allegations of inappropriate behaviour by some mps and calls for a cross party response to the problem. spain's chief prosecutor's called for charges of rebellion and sedition to be laid against catalan leaders following their declaration of independence. in sport, lewis

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colleague tim willcox is there. it all looks fairly calm, but there must be tension? there is, simon. but in fact, let's start from the beginning. carles puigdemont, the form erekat london president —— the former cats lang president —— the former cats lang president posted a picture earlier this morning saying it was a normal working day. —— catalan. we heard the spanish attorney general had pressed charges against him and other members of the catalan government for rebellion and sedition and misuse of public funds, very serious charges. he could face up very serious charges. he could face up to 30 years in prison if found guilty of that. an hour later, we heard he wasn't even in catalan any more, he was in brussels reportedly looking for asylum there following a statement by the belgian asylum minister that there would be grounds potentially for him to get political

asylu m potentially for him to get political asylum there for committing something which was a political crime. in the meantime, as marian rajoy promised on friday and saturday, article 155 would be imposed. have saturday, article 155 would be imposed. - have consequences, imposed. actions have consequences, he said. the person in charge now of catalu nya he said. the person in charge now of catalunya as a region is the deputy spanish prime minister who we haven't seen here. but everything now is being run by madrid. when you talk about the tensions, you look around here, it's as if nothing's happened. but we know that this region is now being run by madrid. we haven't seen any clashes, we haven't seen any disturbances, the local police are around, they're still driving around. it all seems very calm. but the fact that mr puigdemont has gone to brussels has raised the stakes in terms of the political international politicisation of this crisis because he's obviously trying to

open up some chinks potentially between the eu, if for example belgium were to grant him political asylum. there has been a rift in the past between belgium and spain, it dates back ten or 15 years ago over a couple alleged to be members of dates back ten or 15 years ago over a couple political o be members of dates back ten or 15 years ago over a couple political wing members of dates back ten or 15 years ago over a couple political wing which ers of dates back ten or 15 years ago over a couple political wing which is s of dates back ten or 15 years ago over a couple political wing which is the dates back ten or 15 years ago over a coup wing .itical wing which is the dates back ten or 15 years ago over a coup wing .it the ving which is the dates back ten or 15 years ago over a coup wing .it the fight vhich is the dates back ten or 15 years ago over a coup wing .it the fight in ch is the dates back ten or 15 years ago over a coup wing .it the fight in the ; the armed wing in the fight in the basque country. it's a tense situation butjudging from the streets you wouldn't notice it. madrid working on the basis that if they do nothing, things stay as they are, but if there is an arrest, if they move in, things will change and change rather fast? yes. one wonders whether that's behind the decision by ca rles whether that's behind the decision by carles puigdemont to go to brussels today. on the actual charges of rebellion sedition, the process here means a prosecutor has to come up and present the charges

to come up and present the charges toa to come up and present the charges to a judge. that is the identity nationale so the outline of charges would go to a judge, judge would then decide if the charges can be pressed and sometimes they have preventative arrests, that would seem to be unlikely now because mr puigdemont and the others are outside spain, or they could ask limb to come and give evidence to the court. but at the moment, we don't know what is going to happen. very much. the the trial of the - the trial of an army sergeant accused of sabotaging his wife's parachute has been shown a video of his wife giving evidence. her main and reserve parachutes failed to open whilst doing a parachutejump. failed to open whilst doing a parachute jump. duncan kennedy failed to open whilst doing a parachutejump. duncan kennedy has been following the case at winchester crown court. this was

victoria crilliers wearing the sunglasses when she came to court, to give evidence about what she thought about her husband after he was accused of sabotaging her parachutes. her comments in police interviews played in court revealed her state of mind on the day of the accident in 2015. against a backdrop of worries about her fanly life, she said: i of w cilliers bout her fanly life, she of w cilliers had : her fanly life, she of w cilliers had been anly life, she events here in april 2015 when she jumped from 4,000 feet. her main and reserve shoots failed to open properly. she landed and suffered a number of serious injuries. as an investigation began, the court heard that the police told mrs cilliers

her husband was having an affair, so at her request, she gave another police video interview, this time acknowledging her husband's possible role in her accident. she said: later, mrs cilliers said she wanted to clarify things regarding her husband and asked to see the police again. she said, i had suspicions regarding my husband... mrs cilliers is being questioned about events at the airbase. her husband denies two counts of attempted murder and one of

recklessly endangering life. the influential economic think—tank the institute for fiscal studies says the chancellor is caught between a rock and a hard place as he prepares his forthcoming budget. it says philip hammond will have to abandon his target for getting rid of the deficit if he's to meet demands from cabinet colleagues to meet demands for spending. kamal cabinet colleagues to meet demands forspending. kamalahmed cabinet colleagues to meet demands for spending. kamal ahmed told us it's given the chancellor a triple headache. government debts are higher, taxes are higher and also we have had those public sector cuts as well. i asked have had those public sector cuts as well. iasked pauljohnson, the have had those public sector cuts as well. i asked pauljohnson, the head of the institute for fiscal studies whether now was the time given pressure from leagues —— from colleagues, to raise borrowing to boost the economy. i don't think the chancellor wants to have a big moment, not

there | moment, not there is ioment, not there is just ent, not there isjust so, not there isjust so much because there isjust so much uncertainty about where they'll be ina yearortwo. uncertainty about where they'll be in a year or two. i think the stimulus is most likely to come in 2019 or 2020 when we see what shape of brexit looks like and what the shape of its impact will be on the economy. to do something big now, given how much uncertainty there is about where we'll be in a couple of years' time might tie his hands a bit too much. does he get rid of or lengthen the period in which he says he needs to balance the books. philip hammond is a fiscal conservative but his cabinet collea g u es conservative but his cabinet colleagues want more money to boost the economy. that was kamal ahmed. at least six people have died in germany and poland and the czech republic after storms swept through northern europe. winds reached more than 100mph in the czech republic while off the coast of northern germany, emergency workers struggle to move a struggling freight ship. the city centre is flooded and hundreds of

thousands of homes are without power. buffeted by heavy winds, this plane attempts a hair—raising landing in salzburg. but the runway is so windy that it is just too dangerous. so the pilot aborts the landing and is forced to fly back to frankfurt. in berlin, the fire service declared a state of emergency. in the czech republic, because of falling trees and branches, hundreds of thousands of households have lost electricity. it could have been worse. the tree has fallen in this direction and not on the house. it's caused less damage. poland was also hit hard. the driver of this car was killed by a falling tree. the worst of the storm now appears

to be over. but with many train services disrupted, stranded travellers are still feeling the impact. from a wildlife park. the animal, which is about twice the size of a domestic cat, disappeared from borth wild animal kingdom near aberystwyth, at some point over the past five days. police say it's unlikely to attack humans, but may attempt to take livestock or pets for food. simon king is a wildlife presenter and presented big cat diary on bbc one. how worried should people be?” don't think they should be worried in the least. lynx are generally shy, retiring creatures in the wild. you have an animal so used to exposure to human beings in captivity. no reason to assume it will be aggressive in any way shape orform. having said will be aggressive in any way shape or form. having said that, will be aggressive in any way shape orform. having said that, if will be aggressive in any way shape or form. having said that, if you did encounter a lynx in the

countryside, probably better to leave it alone. will have ynx were wild in the uk up to 1700. there is a strong argument that they should be back in the british countryside generally. we say a wild lynx but i suppose having been a suppose having been brought up in a zoo suppose having been brought up in a zoo it's not going to be that wild? that's the point exactly. the fact the animal's had consistent exposure to humans means it will be less afraid than a standard wild lynx might be but nonetheless they are shy and retiring so it's unlikely anyone is going to encounter it. they have a preference for hunting problem with sound. we have lost the line to simon king there, but we don't need to panic too much. if you are in the area, pets are at risk, as are some livestock. so we'll be returning to that story a little later on. let's have a look at the weather with phil

avery. the week has started on a quiet note and that's the way it's going to continue for the most part. no great horror stories lurking in the wings out in the atlantic. a band of cloud robbing parts of scotland, northern ireland of sunshine, to finish off the day. that cloud thickens for there to be some rain pushing in towards the northern half of britain. further south under the skies, temperatures will dip away. nowhere near as cold to start tuesday as was the case to start monday. it will be dank and wet across the western slopes of scotla nd across the western slopes of scotland with the rain keeping on coming right through the day on tuesday. bits and pieces getting into northern ireland. after a coolish start further south, not a bad day in prospect with a lot of dry weather around. what news for the rest of the week? sunny and cool to start with. then it turns milder and cloudier in the middle part of the week. it turns

cooler again to finish off. this is bbc news. our latest headlines. donald trump's election campaign chairman, paul manafort, has been charged with money laundering and conspiracy against the us after turning himself in to the fbi. mps are due to discuss the government's response to claims of sexual harassment in westminster. andrea leadsom is also due to make a statement on proposed changes to grievance procedures. of making a sexual advance towards a child actor in the 1980s, saying that he does not remember the encounter. as spain begins to take control of catalonian institutions, the region's leaders face charges including rebellion and sedition. and carbon dioxide in the atmosphere surges to its highest level in 800 years. scientists say human activity and weather phenomena are to blame. mps are discussing allegations

of sexual harassment in westminster. the leader of the commons is setting out an action plan to tackle the issue. andrea leadsom is due to make a statement on proposed changes with calls for a new grievance procedure to be set up following claims of misconduct by mps. our chief political correspondent vicki young is in westminsterfor us. there is concern across the house on this? this is an issue we have been talking about for years in the palace of westminster about whether there is more than sexism and misogyny and whether it goes beyond that to inappropriate sexual behaviour. that's what theresa may is said to feel very concerned about. she has written to the speaker of the house of commons saying that she thinks that the current procedures don't really work. they are not effective enough. they don't have enough teeth. she says, "i do not believe the situation can be tolerated any longer. it is not fair on staff, many of whom are young and in their

firstjob many of whom are young and in their first job post many of whom are young and in their firstjob post education." she says it is vital that the staff and the public have confidence in parliament and resolving this employment irregularity on a cross party basis can play an important role in this. so, emphasising two things there. one is the quirkiness of this place. that you have an mp who has their own office and they get the money directly from the authority that distributes it. they employ people. they are then effectively the line manager. so if there is an issue between a member of staff and an mp who does the member of staff go to with a complaint? if they don't go to the police, if it is not a crim that will activity, there is a hot line, but some say not enough people know about that, the question is do the political parties deal with it? we have seen cases over the years where they have done that. but again, it means does a potentially inexperienced young worker here really feel they can speak out against someone who is in a powerful position? that has always been one of the issues here. so theresa may

has written to the speaker of the house of commons, clearly trying to find some way of sorting this out, but she does want to do it on a cross party basis because it is not just one party that a problem with this kind of thing, it is across the parties. we will have to see though how they respond and what the way forward is really from here. and what are the options open to theresa may? because she is calling for cross party support. some are trying to make this a party political issue? yes, to be honest that never gets anyone anywhere because it means the situation becomes unresolved. last weekend the headlines were about conservatives. next weekend it might be about labour or next weekend it might be about labourorany next weekend it might be about labour or any other party. so in that sense, i think she is clearly trying to rise above that and say to the speaker of the house of commons, you know, the commons authorities really could be the ones who have a role to play here. there are thousands of people who work here and not all of them work for mps. many of them work for the house of commons in various aspects of life here, so that is one element. there isa here, so that is one element. there

is a difficulty, i think, with those who do work for mps because if they came forward and there were sanctions to be made, who has the authority to do that? i think... i thought we might be getting to the statement there, but maybe not. so the question is how do you discipline somebody? who has the authority to do that? and that really remains unresolved. each party does have a code of conduct. there is also the ministerial code of conduct as well. let's listen to the speaker who is speaking now. the speaker: there must be zero tolerance of sexual harassment or bullying here at westminster or elsewhere. whether that involves members ortheir elsewhere. whether that involves members or their staff or parliamentary staff, or those working on or visiting the estate. if there have been assaults, they should be reported to the police here as anywhere else. the house of commons commission,

which i chair, has a duty to provide a safe place to work. in 2014, in addition to introducing the respect policy, providing a proper regime for complaints by parliamentary staff, of bullying or harassment, the commission provided a helpline for members staff to raise personal and work related concerns. and i have consistently supported the workplace equality networks as peer group support for staff. these have all been established since 2010 and are doing important work which i know to be valued by staff. at its monthly meeting this evening, i will be inviting the commission to consider any further action. i also

propose to refer the whole issue of sexual harassment to the commons reference group on representation and inclusion which i established la st and inclusion which i established last year. member's staff are, of course, employed by individual members. that means that they cannot simply be treated as if they were parliamentary employees. nor, of course, parliamentary employees. nor, of course , can parliamentary employees. nor, of course, can members. i parliamentary employees. nor, of course, can members. lam parliamentary employees. nor, of course, can members. i am therefore, glad that the party leaders have, instatements made over the weekend, acknowledged their responsibilities to deal with such behaviour within their respective parties. the prime minister's letter to me written as leader of the conservative party very candidly admits the difficulties the conservative party has had in introducing the sort of

mandatory grievance scheme which some other parties have introduced in recent years. it does not require my intervention for the party to adopt an effective grievance scheme. i hope that all parties will rapidly and thoroughly review the arrangements which they have in place to ensure that those arrangements are credible, enforceable, and accessible, transparent, and come price an independent element. that later notion that any complaint system and grievance procedure must satisfy constituents as well as colleagues, strikes me as important. the prime minister refers in her to the

prospect of a house—wide corporate scheme. i would prospect of a house—wide corporate scheme. iwould be happy prospect of a house—wide corporate scheme. i would be happy to have the idea considered. in the first instance i hope that parties will live up to their responsibilities, demonstrating both an appetite for change, and a practical means of delivering that change without delay. make no mistake, there is a need for the house delay. make no mistake, there is a need for - the house will also need for change. the house will also know that members must abide by a code of conduct which means that alleged breaches can be investigated by the parliamentary commissioner for standards. the commissioner suggested in her september 2016 consultation on the code, a new rule that and i quote, "a member must treat all those who work in

parliament with dignity, cure tosy and respect." parliament with dignity, cure tosy and respect. " dush parliament with dignity, cure tosy and respect." dush curt tosy and respect" i hope the standards committee come pricing equal numbers of members and lay members will take forward suggested revisions to the code with appropriate urgency and come to the house for its decision. i hope i have the support of the house in calling for these issues to be resolved swiftly, and decisively. it should not require endless debate be resolved swiftly, and decisively. it should not re fora endless debate be resolved swiftly, and decisively. it should not re for my dless debate be resolved swiftly, and decisively. it should not re for my part, debate be resolved swiftly, and decisively. it should not re for my part, as bate and discussion. for my part, as speaker, i and discussion. for my part, as speaker, lam happy and discussion. for my part, as speaker, i am happy to do whatever i can. others must do like wise. order. urgent question, harriet harman. the leader of the house will make a statement about her plan to tackle sexual harassment in parliament. the leader of the house,

andrea leadsom. thank you, mr speaker. i was very keen to come to the chamber and make a statement today, but i'm delighted to respond instead to the right honourable lady and i am grateful to you for inviting me to provide a full response. it is absolutely right that the house must address the urgent issue of alleged mistreatment of staff by members of parliament. these allegations make clear that there is a vital need to provide better support, and protection for the thousands of staff members working in westminster and in constituency offices across the country. and in tackling this and in constituency offices across the country. also n tackling this and in constituency offices across the country. also n tacklii recognise problem, we also need to recognise that we have interns, work experience placements, house staff, clerks, and civil servants, all of whom deserve to be afforded our care and our respect. mr speaker, i can confirm that the cabinet office is urgently investigating reports of

specific allegations of misconduct in relation to the ministerial code. iam in relation to the ministerial code. i am well aware that the public rightly expect mps to display the highest standards. and as the prime minister outlined in her letter yesterday, there can be no place for harassment, abuse, or misconduct in politics. your age, gender, harassment, abuse, or misconduct in politics. yourage, gender, orjob title, should have no bearing on the way you are treated in a modern workplace. and nobody is an exception to that. mr speaker, as the nolan principles outline as public servants we must demonstrate accountability, openness and honesty in our behaviour. regardless of role or position, and a new approach will need to cover everyone working for parliament. if someone is made to feel uncomfortable, or believes that others have acted inappropriately towards them, they should be able to

contact an external, independent specially trained support team via phone, the intranet orface—to—face so that any issue can be raised confidentiality and appropriate advice and support can be given. everyone in this house must be clear that whenever a serious allegation is made, the individual should go to the police and be supported in doing so. however, it is clear that the current system is inadequate. it is for parliament to come together to resolve this. but the government believes there should be some guiding principles. first, as in any other workplace, everyone in parliament should have the right to feel at ease as they go about their work. irrespective of position, age or seniority. second, whilst we have had a confidentialal helpline in place for several years, it must now be strengthened as a dedicated support team made more accessible, given more resources, and its role

and responsibilities highlighted to all who work here. third, the support team should have the ability to recommend onward referral of a case to ensure appropriate investigation and action takes place. fourth, the support team should recommend specialised pastoral support for anyone who is experiencing distress as a consequence of their treatment in the workplace. fifth, the support tea m the workplace. fifth, the support team should strongly recommend reporting any allegations which maybe criminal directly to the police. sixth and in addition, there maybe further action which government and political parties themselves can take to ensure high standards of conduct and that inappropriate behaviour is properly dealt with. this is the very least we can do. as the prime minister outlined yesterday in her letter to party leaders, we must establish a house—wide mediation service, complimented by a code of conduct

and contractually binding grievance procedure available for all mps and peers and their staff, irrespective of their party banner. this will reinforce to those who work here and to the public that we're serious in our treatment of wrongdoing and in our treatment of wrongdoing and in our support for those who suffer it. i know all party leaders will work together with the house to reach an agreement and get these changes in place as soon as possible. as members of parliament, our constituents will be rightly appalled at the thought that some representatives in parliament may have acted in an entirely inappropriate way towards others. these reports risk bringing all of our offices into disrepute. i know this is an issue of great concern to you, mr speaker, and i know that you will do everything you can to tackle this issue and i know members from all parties will want to work alongside you to investigate every claim, provide the right support in the future and make sure this never

happens again. mr speaker, it is a right, not a privilege, to work in a safe and respectful environment. these plans will ensure that parliament takes a zero tolerance approach. parliament must take action in days, not weeks. thank you. the speaker: harriet harman. cani the speaker: harriet harman. can i fully endorse the words you've said and thank you for the commitment that you have always shown on these issues and i thank the lead are of the house for her answer. she's right, there is obviously a problem. it's a good thing actually that it has been exposed a it has to be dealt with. no woman or man for that matter coming to work in this house should be subjected unwanted sexual advances from those in a position of power over them. no one should have to work in the toxic atmosphere of sleazy, sexist or homophobic banter. no mp, let alone a minister, should think it's something to make jokes

about. this is not hysteria, this is something which is long overdue for all the parties in this house to deal with. does she agree that all parties should agree on clear, strict rules about what is not acceptable, make sure everyone knows about it, and that there has to be independence in adjudicating splants? independence in adjudicating spla nts? does she independence in adjudicating splants? does she recognise that its almost impossible for someone at the bottom of the system to complain and make allegations about someone at the top? and that gives those at the top impunity which some, few, but some, will take advantage of. a young researcher would fear that if she made an allegation about an mp, she made an allegation about an mp, she would be plastered all over the newspapers and never get another job. a young journalist would know if she made an allegation about a cabinet minister she would be subjected to an assault on her integrity and that would be the only thing that anyone ever remembered

herfor thing that anyone ever remembered her for thereafter. so, thing that anyone ever remembered herfor thereafter. so, we must have complainant anonymity at heart of this. above all, does she recognise as we all must, that members of this house have an importantjob and great responsibility to speak up for our constituents, to hold the government to account, that is what we're here for. no one voted for me to come to this house to engage in highjinx. no to come to this house to engage in high jinx. no one to come to this house to engage in highjinx. no one elected any of to come to this house to engage in high jinx. no one elected any of us to engage in sleazy, oppressive behaviour. so it has to be stopped and now is the time to do it. thank you, mr speaker. and i absolutely share the right honourable lady's concerns about allegations and i also share her determination to stamp this out. we absolutely are determined to get a grip on this. she is right that all parties must agree on the rules and

that there must be an independent grievance procedure. i share the concern that particularly for young people coming to work, or to have work experience in this place, it is very difficult for them to put themselves forward with allegation for fear of what might happen to them and that has been the case throughout all areas of life where those in power seek to abuse those who are younger and less powerful than they are and it is appalling and unforgivable. also share her view that complainant should be given anonymity and there should be proper and thorough investigations of all complaints. and can! of all complaints. and can i also... that was andrea leadsom there responding to the question from harriet harman. first of all we had the speaker of the house of commons, who probably will have a role to play in all of this. he said that there must be zero tolerance in parliament, of sexual harassment and bullying. he did acknowledge the need for an

independent element to all of this and this is one of the crucial areas, you have the plaerts, but a lot of them saying there needs to be some kind of external committee or a team, a support team who can deal with this kind of thing to maybe try and take the politics out of it, but that's pretty difficult and speaker bercow said there is a need for change. now, that was echoed by andrea leadsom, she talked about people being able to ring this hot line. that's been in existence for a while, but she said there need to be more of a support team behind it and expanded and they need to talk about pastoral spo support and refer these issues on to the police or elsewhere to make sure it doesn't carry on happening and harriet harman summing up happening and harriet harman summing up why this place can be different from other places because of the issue of power. you have mps, employing people, they don't have to a nswer to employing people, they don't have to answer to anybody else. there are codes of conduct, but again, talk

there of those maybe being changed to talk about dealing with people with respect. thank you very much. vicki young there. downing street says the prime minister is deeply concerned by allegation of inappropriate behaviour by some mps and calls for a cross party response to the problem. spain's chief prosecutor called for charges of rebellion to be laid against catalan leaders following their declaration of independence. here's your business headlines on afternoon live. a key think—tank says the chancellor is between "a rock and a hard place" when it comes to next month's budget.

the institute for fiscal studies is warning that philip hammond may have to scrap plans to get rid of the deficit if he wants to increase spending on public services. robots, 3d printing and artificial intelligence could all give a much needed boost to manufacturing. that's the conclusion of an independent review, chaired by the boss of siemens uk. the findings will help shape the government's industrial strategy. a big jump in profits for europe's biggest bank. hsbc reports £3.5 billion in pre—tax profits forjuly to september and that's up almost 450% on the same period last year. the bank is based in london, but has beefed up its profits by focusing on asia. a call for the manufacturing sector to boost second knolling, particularly digital technology. there will be worries about this? that's right. we have had an

independent review by the body of the uk arm of siemens. he says we need to focus more on robots and ai and digital printing. he says if we don't, we are in danger of missing out of what he is calling the fourth industrial revolution. and that means human job losses, industrial revolution. and that means humanjob losses, doesn't it? you would think that. there are a lot of worries about ought owemation, but what this report is saying if we do invest big in digital, we can see manufacturing sector boosted by £450 billion, by the end of the next decade and similarly, create 175,000 newjobs. the man conducting the review has been explaining the conclusions of his report. the overall recommendation that is great britain, we need to have much stronger ambition and leadership in this fourth digital industrial

revolution. we really need to drive it hard and make sure that we have the right mexicanisms for british manufacturing companies to be able to adopt these technologies in a much simpler and easier way. and another key recommendation is to upskill our people. we need to really hit this head—on and we need to be having conversations with our people upskilling them and giving them a skill so it becomes something which is less of a topic we're scared of and one that we embrace and we transition into the new revolution. now, when did you last write a cheque? i haven't written a cheque in ages. i don't know where my chequebook is. there is pressure, if you write a cheque, force it through more quickly. it used to ta ke through more quickly. it used to take four or five days to clear a cheque? it can take up to six working days. once you put the cheque in to get hold of those funds

which can be a bit of a pain, but what is being rolled out today, is a new system of cheque clearing which means if you put the cheque in today, you should be able to have access to the funds by the end of the next working day. well, james ra dford the next working day. well, james radford is the boss of the cheque and clearing company and hejoins me now. thank you very much. how does the scheme work? it is very simple. we are taking the current scheme which takes up to six day to say a clear a cheque. a significant amount of that time is taking the paper cheque and transporting it around the country. with modern technology we can transport that digital image around the country is faster and therefore, as you say, if you were to put a cheque in and submit it today, by the close of the next weekday, you would be able to have cleared funds. you mentioned new technology. i have got to ask you this. who writes cheques these days, it is contactless and that sort of

thing? contactless has taken off, but over 477 million cheques were written last year. totalling over £500 billion. cheques are really important, not old to consumers, but small businesses who wrote over 200 million cheques last year, but charities. it is really important to charities. it is really important to charities who receive cheques and one of the statistics is, that almost all charities have received a cheque in donations in the past 90 days. so charities are really important users of cheques and beneficiaries of cheques. so when will we feel the benefits of this? people across the country have worked hard to get it to launch. it will be a slow launch. by the end of the suck of summer next year, everybody will be using a digital image system. 0k, image system. ok, thank you very much indeed. thank you orjoining us. a quick check on the markets!” thank you orjoining us. a quick check on the markets! i see what you did there. not much of a bounce on

the ftse there! laughter what we are seeing is, a stronger pound which is really hitting the ftse. hsbc, great profits and yet, they are really taking a bit of a beating in terms of their share price. that's because people are worried about increasing costs and the fact that, worried about increasing costs and the fat but at, worried about increasing costs and the fat but a, worried about increasing costs and the fat but a new guy is taking over. great, but a new guy is taking over. 0k. great, but a new guy is taking over. ok. brent crude down as well. what about spain? any reaction on what's going on there? strangely what happened is some of the big banks have moved out of catalonia and that's helped boost their market. we will talk about that shortly. let's get the weather. bottom hello. the week was always going to start on a chilly note. minus three in the heart of scotland. one or two places got as low as minus five celsius. which was by contrast to the other nights of october. here we are, right across the piece, across the british isles, way above what we would expect for

night—time minimum temperatures, in some cases two or three celsius higher. the week to come, sunny and cool to start, cloudier and milder midweek. things looking settled for the rest of the day across southern parts. further north, you are seeing something of a change and an influx of cloud and rain from the atlantic and that will have the effect of keeping the temperatures up. no more than minus five celsius. - at than minus five celsius. you are at least plus five if not a good deal more than that. by way of a contrast, if as you step out first thing on tuesday morning, double digits pretty much across the piece here. but it will be wet across the western hills. the sign of things to come here, notjust western hills. the sign of things to come here, not just for tuesday, western hills. the sign of things to come here, notjust for tuesday, but on into wednesday. fairly murky across northern ireland, the hill of northern england. come further south, there is a drier prospect here and because you are further away from the bulk of the cloud, the temperatures will have dipped into single figures. a touch of frost if you're prone. then we get up and running into the new day on tuesday

and there is a north/south split, i suspect a greater part of the rain will be found across the west and the hills of scotland and maybe the western slopes of scotland. not a bad day. i think you will get out and get on with things. 13 or 14 celsius as a high. the middle part of the week, the southern parts influenced by this ridge of high pressure. a feed of mild air is coming in across the greater part of the british isles. where we see a bit of a change is there is more wind and something fresher to say the least across the northern parts of scotland, but here, not a cold day by comparison to what you could get at this time of year. that comes a little bit later in the week. remember the headlines said things we re remember the headlines said things were going to turn cooler later on and you will see that we lose the influence of the southerlies, something coming in from the north and the north—west there as we move towards the latter part of the week. colder air beginning to show its hand across many northern and western parts. take care. bye—bye. hello, you're watching

afternoon live, i'm simon mccoy. the plans will ensure that parliament takes a zero tolerance approach. investigating links with russia the chairman of donald trump's election campaign is charged with conspiracy against the us and money laundering. plus we have all the sport with jess. we are all still talking about it. hamilton win ago fourth world title. can he be considered as one of the sport's all—time greats. can he be considered as one of the sport's all-time greats. phil avery

has the weather. clear skies at the moment. yes it's been a chilly start, a sunny start to the week but we are already seeing signs of a change across northern and western parts of wales, more details in half an hour. also coming up, the missing lynx; a warning to pet owners and farmers. after a wild cat disappears from a wildlife park in wales. hello everyone, this is afternoon live i'm, i'm simon mccoy. in the past half hour, the leader of the commons andrea leadsom has spoken. meanwhile the commons speaker, john bercow, described the allegations as disturbing. it is absolutely right that the

house must address the urgent issue of alleged mistreatment of staff by members of parliament. these allegations make clear that there is allegations make clear that there is a vital need to provide better support and protection for the thousands of staff members working in westminster and in constituency offices across the country. in tackling this problem, we also need to recognise that we have interns, work experience placements, house staff, clerks and civil servants, all of whom deserve to be afforded our care all of whom deserve to be afforded ourcare and our all of whom deserve to be afforded our care and our respect. mr speaker, i can confirm that the cabinet office is urgently investigating reports of specific allegations of misconduct in relation to the ministerial code. i'm well aware that the public rightly expects mps to display the highest standards and, as the prime

minister outlined in her letter yesterday, there can be no place for harassment, abuse or misconduct in politics. the speaker called for parties to work together to tackle the problem. in the first instance, i think the parties should live up to their responsibility, demonstrating appetite for change and a practical means of delivering that change without delay. make no mistake, there is a need for change. the house will also know that members must abide by a code of conduct which means that alleged breaches will be investigated by the parliamentary commissioner for standards. the commissioner suggested in her september 2016

consultation on the code, a new rule that "a member must treat all those who work in parliament with dignity, courtesy and respect". i hope that the standards committee can prise in equal numbers of members and lay members will take forward suggest red visions to the code —— comprising equal numbers. i hope it will come to the house for its decision. i hope i have the support of the house, in calling for tissues to be resolved swiftly and decisively. it should not require endless debate and discussion. for my part, as speaker, i am happy to do whatever i can. others must do likewise. our chief political correspondent, vicki young is at westminster. fine words from all sides, but at

some point, names have got to be named, haven't they? yes. i don't think they're talking about that today. what they are talking about here is how you deal with complaints, which have notjust surfaced this weekend, it's gone on for years. we have heard this kind of thing before. the question now is whether there is the will to do something different. now they've had this hotsline which was set up a few yea rs this hotsline which was set up a few years ago. they're talking now about expanding that but they're talking about having an external authority that people can go to that people, when they speak out feel that they will be listened to, they'll be taken seriously, that action will be taken. so that seems to be what they are talking about there. the question is who investigates these complaints because things can appear on the front—pages of papers, there'll some times be two sides to that story. the context can be quite important. so it's not enoughjust to have a headline and someone to be judged by that, it's about whether then an authority can look into it

if it's not a clear criminal act. so thatis if it's not a clear criminal act. so that is what they are wrestling with here and it has to be some authority that can then mete out a punishment if it's required. this is when you come to the strange thing about that place; you have mps who are sent here by their constituents at the general election of course, that is who they answer to, and apart from being maybe name and shamed in a paper, what discipline can you bring and what sanction cuff against them. so these are all the issues and the problems that there are that they have to deal with. it does sound as if there is the will there to sort this out. the question as to whether it descends into party politics, it was conservative mps and ministers on the front—pages this weekend, last week it was the actions of labour mps making the headlines and previously it's been mps from other parties. whether they can rise above the party politics, get together and agree the way forward, that's something we are going to have to wait and see. interesting harriet

harman brought young journalists into this, talking about them interviewing a senior cabinet minister and may be afraid by the very power, which is at the maement what people are criticising? yes. a lot of mps are talking about that here, the power. again, it's not unusual in the sense that you have big companies where you have bosses who are seen to be in control of a situation and they can abuse that power. it's the same thing here, plus you add into that that a lot of these things appear on the front—pages of national newspapers. so that mix, if you like, makes it a pretty unique scenario, but talking to some mps today, some are saying look, it doesn't make it worse here than in other places, it's just more ofa than in other places, it's just more of a spot light on it. people agree that things need to change. others would say, and even some mps we have been hearing from today, saying things have improved, that often this is a generational divide about

people who don't realise that some of the actions are not appropriate, that maybe that is beginning to change very slowly as this place changes, as the nature of the people here change. worth remembering it's not just the journalists that work here, there are thousands of members of staff in the house of commons as well, so it's talking about all of those things and trying to bring in a system people feel they can trust that will take action. thank you very much. the investigation into alleged links between donald trump's election campaign and russia has taken a dramatic turn with the news that his former campaign chairman paul manafort and rick gates, manafort‘s former business associate have been indicted by a federal grand jury. they face 12 counts including conspiracy to launder money and conspiracy against the united states. a short time ago president trump responded on twitter saying the allegations were all before manafort was part of his campaign and there was no collusion. jane o'brien is in washington. he would say that, wouldn't he — but

are things beginning to get closer to the white house door? well, i think he's right about there may not be any collusion because these charges relate specifically to business deals that paul manafort and rick gaits were involved in and not necessarily to the campaign. however, donald trump is wrong that it happened years before he joined the campaign because the fbi indictment says that the activities we re indictment says that the activities were allegedly being undertaken well into 2016 when of course paul ma nafort into 2016 when of course paul manafort was indeed the campaign chairman. but yes, you are right. it does indicate that the investigation into whether or not there was russian collusion by members of the trump campaign, it does show that it is accelerating and that the special counsel robert muller is in a position where he's able to bring charges out of matters arising from that investigation. but simon i

think more significantly is the fact we now know that a former foreign policy adviser, george papadopoulos has in fact pleaded guilty to lying to the fbi about his connections with people related to the russian government. his efforts to get them to meet members of the campaign because he was told that they had dirt on hillary clinton. i think at this point that is arguably more significant because it does relate directly to the russia probe. donald trump denying it on twitter, where else? do you get a sense that he must be beginning to feel the pressure? oh, ithink pressure? oh, i think he's been feeling the pressure for a long time, that is pretty much why he fired the fbi directorjames comey earlier this year and why we now have a special counsel overseeing this investigation that's starting to produce the charges and these convictions. so he's certainly been

feeling under pressure, he's made no pretence of his utter disteenage for the inquiry calling it a political witch—hunt and clearly feeling the heat. these charges, the timing of them, is interesting because the inquiry hasn't been going on for that long. mr muller only really took over in may so he's moving apace. i think again papadopoulos, the guilty plea there, significant because it's a clear message to other members of the administration and the campaign that there is something to investigate and that they perhaps should be cooperating as fully as they possibly can with this inquiry because he is prepared to prosecute. thank you very much. the oscar—winning actor kevin spacey has apologised after being accused of making sexual advances towards a teenage boy in the 1980s. the allegation has been made by the actor anthony rapp who said the incident happened when he was 14. kevin spacey said he didn't remember the encounter but if it had happened it would have been "deeply inappropriate". here's our entertainment correspondent lizo mzimba. anthony rapp was 14 and performing

in a broadway show when he says the oscar—winning actor made a sexual advance towards him after a party at spacey‘s new york apartment. he described what happened to buzzfeed news, saying, "kevin spacey picked me up like a groom picks up the bride over the threshold, and then he lays down on top of me. he was trying to seduce me." later on twitter he added, "i came forward with my story, standing on the shoulders of the many courageous women and men who have been speaking out to shine a light and hopefully make a difference, as they have done for me." spacey, one of film, theatre and tv‘s best—known faces, has apologised, saying, "i honestly do not remember the encounter. it would have been over 30 years ago. but if i did behave then as he describes, i owe him the sincerest apology for what would have been deeply inappropriate drunken behaviour, and i'm sorry for the feelings he describes having carried with him all these years." spacey went on to say

for the first time publicly that he has chosen to live as a gay man. it is a real shame that after many, many opportunities that kevin spacey did have to come out in a positive way, that he has ended up coming out in what has been a very negative way, responding to very serious allegations about the assault of a young person many years ago. others have gone further, criticising spacey‘s statement on his sexuality as something that could be seen as an attempt to underaged child. the leader of the commons andrea leadsom wants to see a new grievance

procedure and code of conduct. a grandjury procedure and code of conduct. a grand jury charges paul manafort with conspiracy against the us and other indictments including money laundering. spain's chief prosecutor calls for charges of rebellion and sedition to be laid against catalan leaders following their declaration of independence. and in sport, lewis hamilton says winning a fourth world title is beyond his wildest dreams. he finished ninth in the mexican grand beyond his wildest dreams. he finishe claimi in the mexican grand beyond his wildest dreams. he finishe claim another-iiexican grand beyond his wildest dreams. he finishe claim another championship prix to claim another championship and become britain's most successful at once driver. england's under 17ses return home after winning the world cup. three of their youth teams won major tournaments. english golfer paul casey will rejoin the european tour after three years on the us circuit in a bid to play in next yea r‘s the us circuit in a bid to play in next year's ryder cup competition. i'll be back with more in 15 minutes. the jury in the trial of an army sergeant accused

of sabotaging his wife's parachute has been shown a video of a police interview given by victoria cilliers in the months after the incident. mrs cilliers suffered multiple injuries when both her main and her reserve parachutes failed to open during a jump over salisbury plain. her husband emile cilliers denies the charges; duncan kennedy is following the case at winchester crown court. this was victoria cilliers wearing sunglasses as she headed to court to give evidence about what she thought of her husband following her parachute accident. emile cilliers, on the left, came in earlier and watched as she spoke of her shock at his possible involvement in her accident. her comments in police interviews made in court revealed her state of mind on the day of the accident in 2015, against a backdrop of worries about her family life. she said, "ijumped, but i was absolutely terrified. i did not want to be there. i'd completely lost my whole confidence."

mrs cilliers had been recalling events here at the netheravon airfield in wiltshire in 2015. she jumped from 4000 feet, but both her main and reserve chutes failed to open properly. she landed and suffered a number of serious injuries. as an investigation began, the court heard the police told mrs cilliers her husband was having an affair. so, at her request, she gave another police video interview, this time acknowledging her husband's possible role in her accident. she said, "my gut instinct was ‘no way‘, but afterfinding out all i knew was a lie, i don't know," adding, "initially i was in shock — he's my husband, i loved him automatically, i thought no way he would do that to me." later mrs cilliers said she wanted to clarify things regarding her husband, and asked to see the police again. she said, at the time of the initial police interview, "i had suspicions

regarding my husband, i was gunning for him," but added, "i don't think i lied, but some aspects i don't think he was involved with." mrs cilliers is now being questioned in court about the events at the airbase. her husband, emile cilliers, denies two counts of attempted murder and one of recklessly endangering life. duncan kennedy, bbc news, at winchester crown court. the spanish attorney general has announced that he's bringing charges, including rebellion and sedition, against members of the catalan regional authorities following last week's unilateral declaration of independence. the government in madrid is in the process of taking direct control of the administration in catalonia. let's go live to barcelona now and my colleague tim willcox. let's start at the beginning. carles puigdemont, the former catalan president, posted a picture of

instagram today at the official residence here. he wasn't actually there this morning but he said a normal working day. one has to wonder what an abnormal working day would be for him because today we knew and heard that the spanish attorney general had pressed charges against him and other members of the cata la n against him and other members of the catalan government for rebellion, is sedition and misuse of public funds. if found guilty, he could face up to 30 years in prison. then we heard he wasn't even there any more, he was in brussels, reportedly looking for asylu m in brussels, reportedly looking for asylum there following a statement by the belgian ie asylum minister that there would be ground potentially for him to get political asylu m potentially for him to get political asylum for him there for committing something which was a political crime. in the meantime, as marian rajoy promised on saturday and saturday, article 155 direct rule from madrid would be imposed,

actions have consequences he said, so the person in charge now of catalu nya so the person in charge now of catalunya as a region is the deputy spanish prime minister. we haven't seen her here, but everything now is being run by madrid. now, when you talk about the tensions, you look around here, it's as if nothing's happened. but we know that this region is now being run by madrid. we haven't seen any clashes, we haven't seen any disturbances. the local police are driving around. it all seems very calm. but the fact that mr puigdemont has gone to brussels has raised the stakes in terms of the political international politicisation of this crisis because he's obviously trying to open up some chinks potentially between the eu if for example belgium were to grant him political asylum. a rider to that is that there's been a rift in the past between belgium and spain. it dates back ten or 15 years, over a couple

who were alleged to be members of eta, the political wing, or the armed wing of a group in the fighting in the basque country. it's a tense situation, butjudging from the streets here, you wouldn't note else at the moment. madrid working on the basis that things stay as they are, if there was an arrest, things will change and change rather fast. one wonders whether that is behind the decision by carles puigdemont to go to brussels today. on the actual charges of rebellion and sedition, the process means a prosecutor has to come up and present the charges to a judge and thatis present the charges to a judge and that is the identity nationale so the charges or outline of charge also go to a judge who'll then decide if those charges can be pressed and sometimes they have preventative arrests, that would

seem to be unlikely now because mr puigdemont and the others are outside spain, or they could ask him to come and give evidence to the court. but at the moment, we don't know what is going to happen. the influential economic think—tank the institute for fiscal studies says the chancellor is caught between a rock and a hard place as he prepares his forthcoming budget. it says philip hammond will have to abandon his target for getting rid of the deficit if he's to meet demands from cabinet colleagues to increase spending. the treasury says it will continue to adopt a balanced approach. our economics editor kamal ahmed told us it has given the chancellor a triple headache. government debts are higher, taxes are higher and also we've of course had those public sector cuts as well. i asked had those public sector cuts as well. iasked pauljohnson, the had those public sector cuts as well. i asked pauljohnson, the head of the institute for fiscal studies whether now was the time given that pressure from cabinet colleagues, give than political pressure, to really raise borrowing to boost the economy.

i don't think the chancellor wants to have a big stimulus at the moment, not least because there's just so much uncertainty about where we are going to be in a year or two. if he's going to have a stimulus budget i think it's most likely to come in 2019 or 2020 when we see what the shape of brexit looks like, when we see what the shape of its impact on the economy is, to do something big now given how much uncertainty there is about where we'll be in a couple of years' time might tie his hands that bit too much. does he get rid of or lengthen the period at which he says he'll balance the books — that is where the pressure is going to be. philip hammond is a fiscal conservative but his cabinet colleagues want a bit more money to best the economy. we are going to be talking to our presenter in belfast about the effo rts presenter in belfast about the efforts to restore power sharing in stormont. rogerjohnson has been tweeting about what he is going to

be talking about which is merseyside gun crime which, as you can see there, several deaths and nearly 100 incidents this year alone. ten years since the death, you may remember, of rhys since the death, you may remember, of rhstones since the death, you may remember, of rhys jones in since the death, you may remember, of rhstones in 2007. we'll be talking to roger about that and also we'll talk to our belfast newsroom. all the ways to contact us are on the screen right now. at least six people have died in germany, poland and the czech republic after storms swept through northern europe. winds reached over 100mph in the czech republic, while off the coast of northern germany, emergency workers are struggling to move a stranded freight ship off a sandbank. hamburg's city centre is flooded, and hundreds of thousands of homes are without power, as damien mcguinness reports from berlin. the centre of hamburg has been

flooded, the river elbe reached way above its normal level and a freight ericarying thousands above its normal level and a freight erica rying thousands of above its normal level and a freight ericarying thousands of tonnes of fuel oil has run aground. the authorities are trying to rescue the crew and there are concerns that the oil might leak. across northern germany, trains are cancelled. mainly because of falling trees. in berlin, the fire service declared a state of emergency. in the czech republic, because of falling trees and branches, hundreds of thousands of households have lost electricity. translation: it could have been worse. the tree has fallen in this direction and didn't fall on the house and so it's caused less damage. poland was also hit hard. the driver of this car was killed by a falling tree. the worst of the storm now appears to be over, but with many train services disrupted, stranded travellers are still feeling the

impact. time for a look at the weather. i was reading we are in for a white christmas, a very cold winter and you are backing it up with that photo? was that a weak cover for your own berry forecast from your back garden? i have lots of red berries and i was a lwa ys i have lots of red berries and i was always told that that meant it was going to be a cold winter. is your pool frozen yet? ! this is a forecast not from the met office but commercial forecasters in the forecast not from the met office but commercialforecasters in the us who're suggesting it could be one of the coldest winters we have experienced for the past five years. a greater likelihood than normal of seeing something less than minus 10 and there's also the chance maybe of

some travel disruption given there'll be some snow accompanying there'll be some snow accompanying the pretty chilly temperatures. that's not a met office forecast, that's coming across from the us, being picked up by one or two elements in this press in this country. you have covered your back nicely, haven't you? ! i'm trying to give you the facts, it is the bbc after all, simon. let's give you the facts, it is the bbc afterall, simon. let's move give you the facts, it is the bbc after all, simon. let's move on swiftly to something a little more here and now! quite a bit of cloud pouring in across northern parts of british isles. last night minus five we were telling you, it won't be anywhere near that tonight, especially across the north. an early dip in the temperatures perhaps across the south until the cloud begins to fill in somewhat and the cloud thick enough for rain on the slopes. there as you see it, temperatures as i'm describing by no means as cold a night as last night. a widespread frost last night. tuesday, a rather better start to the day in scotland. the rain from the word go across the western slopes of scotland. it's

there for tuesday and wednesday, hence we are forecasting 100—120mm of rain. as we come further south, bright is about as far as i will pushit bright is about as far as i will push it on the sunshine stakes and there could be enough cloud for the odd spot of rain, even in the south. throughout the day, the bulk of the rain will be there in the northern half of scotland. the breeze coming in from the south and south—west, so a milder direction than many of you experienced through the weekend where we had the northerly. yes it was bright but my word it was cold. look at that though, 11—14 and i don't think the weather gets look at that though, 11—14 and i don nor nk the weather gets look at that though, 11—14 and i don nor indeed weather gets look at that though, 11—14 and i don nor indeed should ' gets look at that though, 11—14 and i don nor indeed should it ets look at that though, 11—14 and i don nor indeed should it for many of way nor indeed should it for many of you. on wednesday, still the feed of cloudy but mild air up and across a good part of the british isles. hoping for some brightness in the southern counties of england and wales which would give us the chance of seeing 12—15 degrees. the weather front still feeds in the western

side of scotland. to north, it's that wee bit fresher. talking of fresher, things will get fresher in the week into the weekend, as this pressure opens the doors to the air rushing down along the isobars from the north—west. never a warm direction and by that stage and on into the first part of the weekend we'll be forgetting about cloudy and mild and will be talking about something chillier and fresher. ooh! thank you. this is bbc news — our latest headlines. "zero tolerance" of sexual harassment in parliament — that's the message from all sides of the house as mps debate how to crack down on alleged westminster sex pests. no one should have to work in the toxic atmosphere of sleazy, or homophobic banter. no mp, let alone a minister, should think it is something to makes jokes about. donald trump's election campaign

chairman, paul manafort, has been charged with money laundering and conspiracy against the us after turning himself in to the fbi. the actor, kevin spacey, has apologised after being accused of making a sexual advance towards a child actor in the 1980s, saying that he does not remember the encounter. as spain begins to take control of catalonian institutions, the region's leaders face charges including rebellion and sedition. the amount of carbon dioxide in the earth's atmosphere reached a record 800,00 year high last year with human activity and weather phenomena to blame. and, coming up, the lynx on the loose. find out what lengths police are going to to find lillith the lynx who escaped from an animal park in wales. sport now on afternoon live, jessica creighton is with us this monday afternoon, and it's been a day to celebrate british sporting success? yes, a great couple of days for

british sport. england's u17 footballers, home from india, shiny new silverware after winning world cup. it was not only accolade, phil foden man city won player of tournament and rhian brewster of liverpool won top goal—scorer. there could be more success as england hosting next year's u17 euros, more trophies for their mantelpieces. lewis hamilton is celebrating again? it is the story we are all talking about. his fourth world title and fellow drivers have been congratulating him. even his title rival, sebastian vettel. interesting hearing from the younger drivers like max verstappen who is saying how much hamilton inspires them and outside formula one hamilton has few

superstars including neymar who was at the race. he put in his congratulations to hamilton as well. he was at the race, of course, and what a race it was. hamilton could not make it on to the podium at the mexican grand prix, but ninth was just about good enough to become the world champion. still got to races to spare as well. he collided with his title rival, vettel on the first lap and dropped to last after a puncture, but vettel couldn't achieve the top two finish he needed to keep the title chances alive. he will be 33 by the next championship sta rts will be 33 by the next championship starts and sirjackie stewart think his best years could be ahead of him. the best years are your mid—305. you have got maturity and strength, buff collected a lot of knowledge and you're still vibrant and you're still hungry. when you get older, you're richer, more relaxed, you're not quite as sharp and not as hungry

maybe. england's under 17s have returned from india. they beat spain 5—2. they follow the great success of the other england age group sides this year after the under 20s won their world cup and the under 19s became european champions. the under 17s saw fill folan win the player of the tournament and with eight goals including two hat—tricks in the quarters and then in the semi—finals, riane brewster claimed the golden boot. i hope he gaves me a chance to take my place in the first team. we are both young. we are 17. we have a lot of learning to do. hopefully we can get minutes. we just have to see. michael o'neill has named a squad of 27 for northern ireland's world cup play—off matches against switzerland next month. nottingham forest's jamie ward

is back after missing most of their qualifying campaign with a calf problem. aaron hughes is available after misisng the last two qualifiers and sunderland's paddy mcnair is also back in the fold after 11 months out with a cruciate injury. the first—leg against the swiss is on 9th november with the return leg in basel three days later. we have three days to prepare for a game that comes around once in their career. the players have to play the two games as if they're almost like the final games of their career. there is so much at stake. the prize is so great. malky mackay has called up eight uncapped players for his first squad as interim scotland manager they have a friendly against the netherlands in aberdeen next month. that's all the sport for now. oh, i think we can hearfrom that's all the sport for now. oh, i think we can hear from the scotland interim manager.

there is a strength of the squad thatis there is a strength of the squad that is there already, i decided for the friendly up in aberdeen against holland to bring in some fresh faces, some guys that have been doing well, both in scottish football and in english football. and give them a chance and an opportunity. we have got a longer build up to euro 2020 and there is going to be two or three friendlies in the lead up to that and it gives people the opportunity to grab their chance. that's all the sport for now, simon, i will have more in the next hour. 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. we can speak to donna traynor in belfast as the deadline to restore power sharing in stormont approaches. in a minute i'll be speaking to rogerjohnson in salford about a worrying rise in youth—related gun crime in merseyside. to donna first — are we any

closer to reaching a deal? i have no doubt your viewers will think this is deja vu, more talks in northern ireland on trying to establish a power sharing assembly at stormont in the building behind me here. this particular crisis started in january when the assembly collapsed and it was triggered by a row over a botched renewable heat incentive scheme. we've had an election, but there has been no agreement between the two main parties. the democratic unionist party and sinn fein to form an executive in effect. a cabinet. several issues still remain. one of the biggest being an irish language act. that's a demand from sinn fein, something that the dup has long been against. and for the past few weeks, each side has blamed each otherfor the stalemate. the irish government is also involved in the negotiations along with the british government. this afternoon, a spokesperson for

the prime minister said there were still significant gaps between the two parties. we've had deadline as you know, simon, deadline, deadline, deadline in northern ireland, but this is quite significant this week because to keep the departments of northern ireland, the government departments like the department of health, the department for education going, we need a budget and if we have no executive to form that, someone has to do that, if there is no deal with the parties, that's left to westminster. yes and then there is a problem because how do there is a problem because how do the parties divide over that? well, you know, you have the dup at the moment, they seem to be appearing to say that they would be if favour of jokes brokenshireks the secretary of state for northern ireland, to come up state for northern ireland, to come up with a budget. but that's something that nationalists are very much against. they want to have some sort of power sharing executive and direct rule effectively they would see that, if westminster was to create a budget, they are not against that at all.

it will be a late night here. more on your programme later. roger a worry rise in gun related deaths across merseyside? yes, that's right, liverpool, mercy, side, the broader merseyside area is not alone, of course, in having guns as an issue, but in merseyside, it has been a growing problem particularly as you suggested young earlier with teenagers, young people, who are getting caught up in this. and there has been a rise in the number of gun incidents in liverpool, in the last 12 months, there have been more on 90, 50% up on the 12 months before and five deaths in recent times in the last 12 months or so, all of them of people aged 18 and under. and tonight we hear from the people aged 18 and under. and tonight we hearfrom the parents people aged 18 and under. and tonight we hear from the parents of someone who was killed in broad daylight in may, 8.30pm, an a—level student planning to go to university, caught up in the crossfire, in an unfortunate incident through no making of his own. he was gunned down in the

street and his parents will talk of the black place that they have been in the months since and the efforts that they have gone to to try to flush out the person that fired the gun. and still, no one has been arrested in connection and so no one has been charged in connection with his death. when i read what you were going to be talking about, it says it is ten yea rs be talking about, it says it is ten years since the killing ofries jones. i remember that as though it was yesterday? i am sure. lots of people will remember it as well.ries was yesterday? i am sure. lots of peopl for ll remember it as well.ries was yesterday? i am sure. lots of peopl for those ember it as well. ries was yesterday? i am sure. lots of peopl for those who er it as well.ries was yesterday? i am sure. lots of peopl for those who don'ts well.ries was yesterday? i am sure. lots of peopl for those who don't remember jones for those who don't remember was a young boy, 11 years old, walking home from football practise past a pub in liverpool and was caught in the crossfire between two gangs and died in a pub car park, you may have seen the drama little boy blue which was based on that within the last 12 months and there was a real hope on merseyside that, what happened to rhys was a real hope on merseyside that, what happened to rhstones would be a watershed moment. that hasn't been

the case. tonight we will hear from a probation officer who goes into schools and works with children as young as ten to educate them about the dangers of gun crime and he will say on the programme that he fears there could be another case similar to that of rhys there could be another case similar to that of rhstones if merseyside police's considerable efforts, that they have already made, don't bear fruit and they can't get more than the 75 guns off the streets that they managed so far this year. ? roger, plenty more on north west tonight and donna trainor who is going to be working later than that tonight! thank you for that. you're watching afternoon live. if you'd like to catch up with more of those news nationwide stories, go to the bbc iplayer. the parents of autistic children are not being properly supported in dealing with violent behaviour, according to a charity. the national autistic society says that a special educational needs system should be put in place to provide the support needed to de—escalate violent behaviour.

noel philips reports. you may find some of it distressing. we are inside homes of two families facing abuse at the hands of their autistic children. they say they are struggling to cope due to a lack of support. i'm scared of him. definitely experienced split lips. bruising. all over. ian has had a scratched cornea from a punch. but it's scratches everywhere. he has knocked me down the stairs before andi knocked me down the stairs before and ijust knocked me down the stairs before and i just managed knocked me down the stairs before and ijust managed to hang on to the banister rail so i have not gone all the banister rail so i have not gone all iii! the way down the stairs. 12-year-old elliot has severe autism. his pa rents say elliot has severe autism. his parents say they - living in elliot has severe autism. his parents say they. living in a parents say they are living in a permanent state of worry and had to ta ke permanent state of worry and had to take extreme measures to protect him and their other children. this is elliot's room and you can see it is not like a room that most 12—year—olds would have, that we have made quite a few adjustments,

the most obvious are the bars that we have to have across the windows. you kind of get used to that you know your child's bedroom looks more like a cell of some kind and it is only when you stop and step back and really reflect on it and you go, what a symbol of just really reflect on it and you go, what a symbol ofjust how different our life is, you know. now, this family's story is not a one—off. we have been speaking to many parents across the country and they repeatedly tell us that there is simply not enough support available for their children. some of whom are also very violent. 19—year—old cameron, was diagnosed with autism at age three. i'm going to go and do your tv. i'm just talking to noel. move, please. cameron, stop. move, please. it scares me. i mean it can be quite dangerous for you being on your own with cameron. if you weren't here,

obviously i would just go and do it. go up. if the girls are here... go up. it's not nice for the girls to see. go up. it would probably escalate into more. cameron's mum has devoted her life to caring for him and his two sisters, his needs have come challenging and his anxiety and stress can lead to full—scale tantrums. anxiety and stress can lead to full-scale tantrums. it is really upsetting. this is horrible. because i love him so much. and yeah, i dwoont people to be scared of him because he's — you know, he is, his nature is gentle and, you know, he doesn't, he's not meaning to be the way he is at all. this is not cameron being unruly, this is his condition... oh no, absolutely. this is the autism? this is autism. i can't see you. if _ not can't see you. if children are not having their needs met they are being failed, having their needs met they are

being f that. and having their needs met they are being f that system. change that system. local councils in england and wales say they are struggling to provide services at a time when funding is so tight. but as for elliot and cameron, their parents are their real lifeline. they may face violence daily, but they don't want their children to be misunderstood, all they are asking for is more support. that was noel phillips reporting there. nhs england told us it has "set out a clear programme" for those with learning difficulties and autism to "enable more people to live in the community. and the local government association told us "councils are working hard to make sure children with autism and other special needs get access to the support they need. however, they have been put in an impossible situation due to increasing demand and historic underfunding." egon is here in a moment and he will be telling us what's hot and what's not in the business news.

first a look at the headlines on afternoon live and should be strengthened in "days not weeks". a grand jury charges president trump's former campaign manager, paul manafort, with conspiracy against the us and other indictments including money laundering. spain's chief prosecutor has called for charges of rebellion and sedition to be laid against catalan leaders following their declaration of independence. the business headlines on afternoon live: a key think tank says the chancellor is between "a rock and a hard place" when it comes to next month's budget. the institute for fiscal studies is warning that philip hammond may have to scrap plans to get rid of the deficit if he wants to increase spending on public services. robots, 3d printing and artificial intelligence could all give a much needed boost to manufacturing. that's the conclusion of an independent review, chaired by the boss of siemens uk.

the findings will help shape the government's industrial strategy. a big jump in profits for europe's biggest bank. hsbc reports £3.5 billion in pre—tax profits forjuly to september and that's up almost 450% on the same period last year. a call today for the manufacturing sector to boost the role of digital technology, robots and i doing what you and i do a lot better. a lot more efficiently. there has been an independent review of manufacturing by the boss of siemens in the uk. he says we really need to focus on spending more on robots as you say, ai and on 3d printing if we're really going to keep up with what he is calling the fourth industrial revolution. so a lot of work to do. yes, but not for humans. the wror worry is aboutjob losses. yes, but not for humans. the wror

worry is about job losses. we as human beings could be replaced by digital technology. his report says that if we do chake the changes, we will see about £450 billion added to the sector, the manufacturing sector, as a whole and create 175,000 jobs. that's over the course of the next decade. well, the machine who carried out the of the next decade. well, the machine explaining out the of the next decade. well, the machine e)of|ining out the of the next decade. well, the machine e) of his ig out the of the next decade. well, the machine e) of his report the of the next decade. well, the machine e) of his report have conclusions of his report have been. well, the first of all the overall recommendation is that is great britain we need to have much stronger ambition and leadership in this fourth digital industrial revolution. we really need to drive it hard and make sure that we have the right mechanisms for british manufacturing companies to be able to adopt these technologies in a much simpler and easier way. and another key recommendation is to up skill our people. we really need to

hit this head—on and we need to be having conversations with our people, up skilling them and giving them a skill so it becomes something which is, you know, less of a topic we're scared of and one that we embrace and transition into the new revolution. i'm joined by investment specialist gervais williams. do we think the uk is ready for the fourth industrial do we think the uk is ready for the fourth indu: overall absolutely. overall productivity across the uk, in fact across most of the developed market has not been improving for the last ten years and we need to get productivity up, because it drives wage growth and government tax take and that funds the hospitals and soaks spend. doesn't it require a real change in culture ? doesn't it require a real change in culture? i think there is an on going change in culture. we think back 20 or 30 years, we used to have typewriters and now we have got keyboards and computer. i think we need to embrace more manufacturing

in the uk economy for sure. this ties in with something the ifs, they highlighted worries about productivity, particularly when it comes to the freedom of movement that philip hammond has to deal with the economy? absolutely. u nfortu nately, the economy? absolutely. unfortunately, you know, growth of the uk economy has slowed a bit in the uk economy has slowed a bit in the last couple of years, in 2014, the last couple of years, in 2014, the uk economy was growing 3%. it is forecast for next year to grow at 1% or1.5% and forecast for next year to grow at 1% or 1.5% and that's having a big effect on tax take. one other big story and that's hsbc, 450% rise in profits. can one other big story and that's hsbc, 450 pace: in profits. can one other big story and that's hsbc, 450 pace up? irofits. can one other big story and that's hsbc, 450 pace up? yes, ,. can one other big story and that's hsbc, 450 pace up? yes, i can one other big story and that's hsbc, 450 pace up? yes, i think you have one other big story and that's hsbc, 450 p. look)? yes, i think you have one other big story and that's hsbc, 450 p. look at yes, i think you have one other big story and that's hsbc, 450 p. look at it as, i think you have one other big story and that's hsbc, 450 p. look at it in i think you have one other big story and that's hsbc, 450 p. look at it in context. ou have one other big story and that's hsbc, 450 p. look at it in context. last ive got to look at it in context. last year they had all sorts of expenses. the company is profitable. it made over $5.4 billion in profit. most of that in asia, about £4 billion is in the asian markets, less in the uk, about £0.5 billion in the uk, but if anything, costs were rising faster than people expected and that led to

the share price peaking out in the last couple of days. thank you very much indeed. thank you. shall we have a look at the markets? yes and they are there. not great, not a great day for the ftse, down slightly. that's because of the strength of the pound. that's really affecting the people on the ftse who export. hsbc, great profit. the share price down. i lose track of this. hsbc has good results and their share price go down. ibex is up. that means someone is making money? with hsbc what people noted is there is a rise in costs. there is there is a rise in costs. there isa is there is a rise in costs. there is a new guide taking —— guy taking over the helm. great results about he able to keep up the mode men um? that's no pressure! with the spanish markets, what we're seeing is a loft

big banks moved their headquarters out of catalonia. the people are just relieved that there has been no sign of disorder once madrid has taken over the sign of disorder once madrid has ta ken over the key sign of disorder once madrid has taken over the key institutions in catalonia. so, that's on the up. ok. egon, thank you very much. a lynx is on the loose after escaping from an animal park in wales. the animal is twice the size of a domestic cat, and it escaped from borth wild animal kingdom, near aberystwyth about five days ago. a little earlier, sergeant gareth cross from dyfed powys police explained what was being done to find the escapee. we are working with borth wild animal kingdom last night and obviously today, putting in plans in place to search of plan to try to capture it. from what the park has led us to believe, this animal has been

born and bred in captivity and we believe it could have been seen nearby to the park last night. so there are working theories at the moment that this is a place so our working theories at the moment that this is a place where it knows it can get food, so it's likely to stay in that area. at the moment, we're stressing that there is not a general danger to the public, obviously unless someone approaches or tries to trap the animal itself. we don't anticipate it to approach anyone anyway. it's a very solitary animal. it's not the first time a lynx has escaped in the uk. last summer dartmoor zoo lost one of theirs for three weeks. earlier, ben mee from the zoo gave his top tips for recapturing the big cats. they are territorial and they like to stay near to the area they can get to. they are unlikely to travel very far. what i don't know is the

age of this animal, but i gather that the parents of that animal still live at the zoo. one of the things we did was broadcast the sound of the parents using specialised broadcasting equipment at night from the zoo and could hear some answering calls in the distance when our cat was out on dartmoor. he never roamed beyond about two quarters of almile from the zoo and we we re quarters of almile from the zoo and we were able to track his movements and paw prints in daylight hours and occasionally through thermal imaging at night. one of the things they need to do is establish the boundary map. there is a river on one side and the sea on the other and lots of different rivers. they won't cross those things. so, they have got a

fairly narrow search area. the other thing that lynx like is other cat's urine. get hold of some cat urine and hay and straw and bedding from someone nearby who has got a cat. the lynx are attracted to this and will roll in and make sure there is plenty of food available. i hope you were taking notes. you saw the poster behind him and it was advertising a film and matt damon was playing him, ben mee. next the weather from phil. the week was always going to start

ona the week was always going to start on a chilly note. minus three celsius in the heart of scotlandment one or two spots got as low as minus five celsius. which was by way of contrast to the other nights of october. here which across the british isles, way above what we would expect for night—time british isles, way above what we would expectf in 1ight—time british isles, way above what we would expectf in some time british isles, way above what we would expectf in some cases around 5 temperatures, in some cases around two or three celsius higher than we would expect. the week to come, sunny and cool to start and then cloudier and milder midweek and turning cooler towards the end of the week. things looking settled for the week. things looking settled for the rest of the day across southern parts. further north, you are seeing a change and an influx of cloud and rain from the atlantic and that will have the effect of keeping the temperatures up. no more than minus five celsius, you are at least plus five celsius, you are at least plus five celsius, you are at least plus five celsius if not a good deal more than that will. by way of contrast, as you step out first thing on tuesday morning, look at there, double digits pretty much across the piece here, but it will be wet especially across the western hills. the signs of things to come, not

just for tuesday, but on into wednesday. murky fair across northern ireland, the hills of northern england, come that wee bit further south and there is a drier prospect here and because you're that little bit further away from the bulk of the cloud, temperatures will have dipped into single figures. tuesday, there is something ofa figures. tuesday, there is something of a north/south split. the greater pa rt of a north/south split. the greater part of the rain will be found across the west and the hills of scotland, maybe the western slopes of the pennines. further south, not a bad day, you get out and get on with things, 13 or 14 celsius. as we move towards the middle part of the week, the southern parts of the british isles still influenced by this the ridge of high pressure. so a feed of relatively mild air is coming in across the greater parts of the british isles. where we see a change is there is more wind and something fresher to say the least across the northern parts of scotland. but even here, not a cold day by comparison to what you could get at this time of year. that comes a little bit later in the week. remember the headline said things

we re remember the headline said things were going to turn cooler later on and you will see that we lose the influence of the southerlies, something coming in from the north and the north—west there. as we move towards the later part of the week. colder air beginning to show its hand across many northern and western parts. take care. bye—bye. today at 5pm: president trump's former campaign manager faces criminal charges in the investigation into alleged russian meddling, in last year's presidential contest. paul manafort is being accused of conspiracy against the united states, and conspiracy to launder money — the president says the investigation has the wrong focus. mr manafort, who arrived at the fbi with this lawyer earlier today, is facing 12 counts after being indicted by a federal grand jury. a former business associate of mr manafort has also been indicted, and a foreign policy advisor to the trump campaign has admitted lying to the fbi. we'll have the latest reaction from washington

where the president's team is due to make a statement. the other main stories on bbc news at 5: at westminster, mps hear allegations of a ‘culture of sexual harassment‘, involving mps and staff, as government and opposition call for an urgent response.