up, some and thundery side, but with sunny spells in between. been quite pleasa nt sunny spells in between. been quite pleasant with temperatures about 11 or 12. through this evening and to night, continuing with the rain gci’oss night, continuing with the rain across the south—east. elsewhere, clear spells, patchy mist and fog developing into the early hours of the morning. 3a celsius in northern parts. —— 3a celsius. how does this out of the new working week look? some to today, more rain expected in the south—eastern part of the uk, rain gradually moving further north and west. at once again, showers cropping up across scotland and northern ireland, sunny spells in northern and western areas, and the temperatures again 10—12. . areas of low pressure, temperatures again 10—12. . areas of low pressure, one temperatures again 10—12. . areas of low pressure, one big momentum going this way, front being thrown up across the uk on tuesday, a wet day for many parts of england and wales on tuesday. the rain gradually easing away towards the south—west,

brighter skies eventually in the south—east but drier weather expected for scotland, especially in the north—westward expected for scotland, especially in the north—westwa rd sunshine. temperatures up to around 12 celsius, but it will feel chilly, easterly wind bringing in some moisture from the north sea. the rest of the week it will be cloudy, low pressure in charge, and settled with rain. there will be bright spells here and there and it will stay relatively mild. that is all from me. bye—bye. this is bbc news — our latest headlines. at least 70 people are feared dead in syria in what appears to be a chemical attack. unverified footage from rescue workers shows a number of bodies, many of them women and children. the home secretary is denying that falling police numbers are to blame for the recent surge in violent crime in london. amber rudd said evidence did not back up claims that cuts to resources were the cause of increased crime. the foreign secretary borisjohnson describes jeremy corbyn as ‘the kremlin‘s useful idiot‘ — the labour leader hits back saying mrjohnson has ‘made a fool of himself‘ over russia.

german authorities say a man who drove a van into people outside a restaurant in the city of muenster had no apparent links to terrorism. two people were killed and the driver shot himself dead at the scene. coming up in a few minutes our sunday morning edition of the papers — this mornings reviewers are sian griffiths and ben chu. before the papers — sport and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre, here's adam wilde. and. another day—old medal success for oui’ another day—old medal success for our home teams on the gold coast. northern ireland have claimed their first gold medal of these commonwealth games. mcclenaghan claimed pommel horse victory ahead

of max whitlock. really emotional scenes. you can of max whitlock. really emotional scenes. you can see how of max whitlock. really emotional scenes. you can see how much it means to him. i have no words. very cliche to say, i know. the sensation, the feeling i have at the minute is unbelievable. have you ever performed like that in your life? in training, desk, not in competition. it goes to show that all of the hours of dedication of that into training, it paid off, 100%. -- in that into training, it paid off, 100%. —— in training, yes. that into training, it paid off, 100%. -- in training, yes. there was gold and silver for courtney colak and nile wilson. courtney finished adam gemili is through to the 100 metres final after finishing second. the 2014 commonwealth silver

medallist left the track holding his groin, sojusta medallist left the track holding his groin, sojust a little medallist left the track holding his groin, so just a little concerned there. action is ongoing on the gold coast. it has been a very special day already. a round—up of the day ‘s action from day four... sunday mornings don't get much better, a packed house and gold medals on the line. scotland taking charge of proceedings, but with home pride and top prize at stake the australians were fighting. an enthralling encounter continued, both sides moving in front of each other, until darren burnett, scotland's skip, put distance between the two. he thinks he has it. he has!

tremendous stuff! with one more end to go, could australia fight back? it's all over! the fourth gold medal of these games for scotland. tom bosworth was looking to add to the treasure in the race walk. the first athletics event of this game. —— the first athletics event of these games. and it was a tussle between england and australia. bosworth was delighted with a silver medal. there was a lot of emotion in that last one. i wanted a medal badly. i didn't think i would be in it until the end. it's awesome. it's my first major championships medal. really good day. not such a good day for claire tallent. she was leading, but then disqualified with just two kilometres to go. her chance of a medal of any colour has gone. she is inconsolable. that meant davies of wales could sneak up to third and claim bronze.

mark dry of scotland won the same in the hammer throw. but england's nick miller went one better. that looks insanely big! the games' record, as he took gold. amazing. highlight for me is the commonwealth record. and i beat my coach's personal best. that was a big thing for me. everything went well. another gold medal in the long jump. 0livia bream winning the t38 for wales. it was almost a perfect sunday in the weightlifting. both teams went looking for more prizes. sarah davies was eyeing up gold. 0h! agonisingly close, silver will have to do, an honour she can share with her boyfriend, jack 0liver, a couple of medals in that household and a very strong relationship. manchester city's title celebrations

will have to wait. in a dramatic derby city threw away a 2—0 lead against their cross city rivals, manchester united, then went on to lose 3—2. 0ur correspondent was at the etihad. rarely has a manchester derby been played with so much at stake. united desperate to deny city. the champions elect couldn't have wished for a better start. captain vincent kompany leading from the front, jubilation from the hosts, one hand on the trophy. united were on the ropes. soon came another devastating blow. city went into dreamland, the party now in full swing. a standing ovation for the home side at the break. but they should have been further ahead. and how costly that would prove, because shortly after half—time united hit back, their world record signing, paul pogba, breathing new life into the contest. just two minutes later the frenchman, again, showed his worth, to draw

the visitors level in a game that was living up to the hype. still, though, there was time for more drama. defender chris smalling showing a striker‘s instinct to complete an extraordinary comeback for united and leave their arch rivals shellshocked. the performance in the second half, ok, you can have mistakes like that, when the opponents are good, but in that situation it is tough when you concede and are up against a good team. now we need six points to finish top four. now we need three less to finish second, which is our target after finishing top four and to win here, against the best team of the premier league, it's a fantastic result for us. these city fans arrived with high expectations and they leave dejected. they will need to refocus for tuesday's crucial european game against liverpool. as for the title celebrations they are on hold. david 0rnstein, bbc news, manchester. the merseyside derby ended goalless.

it meant spurs could go up to third place. they beat stoke city thanks to two goals from christian eriksen. the masters is all set for a dramatic final day. patrick reed remains the man to catch. he has a lead of three, but rory mcilroy is giving him a run for his money at augusta. this eagle at the eighth hole was one of his highlights of the third round. he is 11 under. patrick reed responded in some style, two eagles on the back nine keeps him at the top of the leaderboard going into today's final round. he has a three shot lead. i feel like all of the pressure is on him. he has to protect that. he has a few guys chasing him. pretty big—time players.

he has that to deal with and sleep on tonight. ifeel like i can go out there and play like i have nothing to lose. sebastian vettel will start the bahrain grand prix today on pole position after winning the opening race of the season in australia. the ferrari driver topped qualifying by three tenths of a second from his team—mate, kimi raikkonen. hamilton was fourth fastest, but will start from mites position due to a penalty for changing the gearbox on his mercedes. plenty more on the bbc sport website, including details on how james de gale sport website, including details on howjames de gale regained his ibf super middleweight title with a unanimous points decision in las vegas. but now on bbc news, the papers. hello and welcome to our look at the sunday papers. with me are sian griffiths,

education editor of the sunday times and ben chu, economics editor of the independent welcome to you both. let's take a look at the front pages first. the observer reports that a new political party with up to £50 million in funding is secretly in development. the mail on sunday claims the prime minister has been forced into a u—turn over police stop and search powers following several weeks of violence on the capital's streets. the telegraph also leads with crime levels — home secretary amber rudd has written an article for the paper claiming that cuts are not to blame for the rise in violence. the sunday times says sergei and yulia skripal could be offered new identities and given the opportunity to resettle in the united states. the sunday express has a story about the number of patients flying overseas for private medical treatment quadrupling in four years — apparently in response to long waits on the nhs.

a variety of stories making the front pages, let's see what our reviewers make of it all. we can start with the observer. £50 million backing for a party to break the mould of uk politics. it's never easy to do that, isn't it? know, and i don't think it'll make much difference. pictures it is interesting that people want to do it. it is spearheaded by donors and businessmen who say they are fed up with the tribal nature of british politics. —— it is interesting. it wa nts to ta ke politics. —— it is interesting. it wants to take central ground. it is going to field candidates in the next election in 2022. but the electoral system makes it very difficult for a new party, or any other party apart from the two main parties, to get a grip and make a

difference. absolutely. we saw this last in the 1980s with the sdp which didn't go anywhere. we have a liberal party, the lib dems, and they are not doing well. we also had other parties launched, the women's equality party launched. i don't know if they are looking at something similar to emmanuel macron‘s party in france. something similar to emmanuel macron's party in france. that really worked but it is a different system. that's right. andrew lansley makes an interesting point. history suggests this is doomed to failure because of the sdp, like you said, the first past the post system is difficult to crack. but he points out that history has been a bad guide to political developments in re ce nt guide to political developments in recent years, from brexit, trump, the rise of jeremy recent years, from brexit, trump, the rise ofjeremy corbyn, so maybe it would be complacent to say this simply will not work because we are in an area where we thought of

things that wouldn't work seem to be working very well. let's move on to crime. we've seen terrible incident of stabbings, and shootings in the capital. that has become a political debate now about how to stop it. the mail on sunday says stop and search u—turn on gang wars. mail on sunday says stop and search u-turn on gang wars. if you read the papers and a lot of the commentary you will find every explanation under the you will find every explanation underthe sun you will find every explanation under the sun for this disturbing spike in violent crime. particularly in london. some say to social media. some say it is cuts to policing. some say it is cuts to policing. some say it is cuts to policing. some say it is these particular weapons which are available. a whole range of views of people disappearing. theresa may reduced stop and search when she was home secretary. people are now saying that part of the problem and that we need to bring it back. all of these explanations, it is a combination of all of them, realistically, and there is no special bullet to stop

all of this. you can look at what they are doing today, they've announced a special crime task force, which doesn't seem to have come to any preset conclusion. they are attacking on all fronts. it seems sensible. to simply say it is one particular factor, and a target that will magically solve this, is an unrealistic prescription, i think. there is legislation coming down the track. they will have these offensive weapons laws. they will tackle part of the problem. it'll make it impossible for you to order knives and have them delivered to residential addresses. it'll be a crime to carry sulphuric acid on the street without being able to provide a reasonable explanation. they are trying to crack down. they are going back to stop and search which has been such a controversial policy. inside the paper, an interesting piece featuring trevor phillips, a huge campaign for racial equality in this country, saying it isn't white

boysin this country, saying it isn't white boys in surrey who are being stabbed, and saying there should be stopped and searched in places like totte n ha m. stopped and searched in places like tottenham. absolutely. -- stop and search. it is brave of him. but he's right. 15 killings in the capital this year. many are young black teenagers. it's incredibly sad. 0ne of the things i thought was interesting was the look at this thing called drill music. it is where young band leaders are, in some cases, creating music videos, posting them online, and they almost threaten people. there is a lot of glamorisation of violence in the videos. 0ne glamorisation of violence in the videos. one of the things i think the government is thinking of is, can we crack down on posting these videos, and allowing people to use these videos online? the front page of the telegraph, amber rudd saying police have enough bobbies to tackle

crime. police numbers is one of the keyissues crime. police numbers is one of the key issues in all of this. they have falle n key issues in all of this. they have fallen by about 20,000, full—time police officers, since 2000. labour have said this is a driving factor in the rise of violent crimes. the police say that themselves. amber rudd's response is that when violent crime was last rising in the early 2000, the number of police was also rising, so you cannot say that the core reason for the rise is that. we know that a lot of things, as i said before, drive viole nt know that a lot of things, as i said before, drive violent crime. there is no singular factor. but that isn't to say that the cuts in resources to police hasn't been a factor behind it. if you are talking about, that sparked the idea about whether stop and search is a good solution to this, but if you want to go down that route that is a resources issues. “—

go down that route that is a resources issues. —— let's park the idea. you need more bodies on the street. i think the government is fighting an attack from labour on numbers, which has them on the ropes to some extent. one other issue on this crime story. social media, highlighted on the observer front page, saying there should be a social media van for violent content. that seems to be a thing, almost boasting and bragging from gangs online about the violence they are carrying out. that is where this drill music comes in. it came over from chicago. they are bragging. they are creating music videos where they are wrapping. sometimes putting their fingers they are wrapping. sometimes putting theirfingers as if they are wrapping. sometimes putting their fingers as if they are holding guns. they are threatening to start people. cracking down on that is very important. another subject, the continuing aftermath of the salisbury nerve agent attack. the

sunday times have an interesting story, some of them have, actually, about the victims getting new identities. what will the future hold for them? not entirely surprising that they are being offered this. skripal was in the country as part of a spy swap. he was a double agent. we took him in. there is a duty of care. somebody was quoted as saying that we need to be responsible for him. it is telling that they say he might go to america because they will be better able to protect him there. that isn't a particularly encouraging judgment on the uk security situation if they think he has is to leave the uk, as well as his daughter. an interesting angle in the mail. it appears that they could

have been a delay in this nerve agent, a four hour delay on it being effective, to give the killers, the assassins, or assassin, we don't know if it is singular or plural, time to get away. as ben was saying, we haven't been very good at protecting people who have come here from russia. the fact this agent was smeared on the front door handle of sergei skripal‘s house. he then touched it. his daughter touched it after him. it shows that we cannot protect people completely here, even if they have apparently a double agent —— been a double agent for us. they haven't died because this is a boutique chemical agent, apparently. it had been designed to act very slowly. because normally it kills within seconds. it had been designed

to ta ke within seconds. it had been designed to take four hours to kill somebody. that was so the perpetrators could make their getaway and leave britain. so, a watered down version? yes, and if it is russia behind this, it is embarrassed that it didn't work and they have actually survived. horrific events in germany yesterday. that van ramming into diners. i think it is two dead. there was alarm because germany has had terror attacks before. we probably saw the breaking news alerts for this and thought the same thing, an islamist copycat using a vehicle as a weapon. in germany, as well, we had it in berlin last year, as well. the fact it wasn't that is as well. the fact it wasn't that is a relief to some extent. but, then again, the fact he did it in this way seems to be an integral person

with a history of mental illness, suggests he was copying some of the re ce nt suggests he was copying some of the recent attacks, as well. —— seems to bea recent attacks, as well. —— seems to be a mentally ill person. just to clarify, three dead, they are saying, and that is because they are including the driver who then killed himself, as we know. we can finish off with the sunday times. a piece with sarah montague from the bbc. in a rage over the pay 93p- from the bbc. in a rage over the pay gap. what has she been saying? she is saying she was incandescent with rage when she discovered she was being paid less than male colleagues on the today programme. she said it made herfeel like a on the today programme. she said it made her feel like a sap. on the today programme. she said it made herfeel like a sap. it is a powerful piece. theresa may has written in the same paper saying she is glad that people have to publish what they are paying. she hopes the

transparency will lead to change. it isn't just the transparency will lead to change. it isn'tjust the bbc. most of the companies that have reported so far are disclosing a gender pay gap, showing that men get paid more than women on average. she sums it up. she said women, like men, but cheaper. the question is, what do you do about it? if you're in a company, your company has disclosed a gender pay gap, can you go to human resources and ask to be paid the difference? it isn't that simple. how much change these figures will drive remains to be seen. but it is a welcoming opening —— welcome opening gambit. seen. but it is a welcoming opening -- welcome opening gambit. notjust the bbc, but many companies have been forced to publish their pay 93p- been forced to publish their pay gap. some of the banks and the city, huge gender pay gap is. yes. the

sunday times have published them, and they've also published what the companies have said for the reasoning behind it. it is interesting to see. when it is 30, 40%, very large, even by the standards of financial services. sarah montague's piece is brilliant because she explained so well the feeling of being undervalued. she says she isn't particularly bothered by money, in the sense that she is very well paid, but when you suddenly see this gap and you realise you are not as valued, it isn't the money it is the sense of esteem, the sense that you are doing a good job and he was seen as doing a good job and he was seen as doing a good job by your superiors, that's the burning sense of injustice. that comes across brilliantly well in her piece in the sunday times. do you think things will change as a result of all of these disclosures?” think things will change as a result of all of these disclosures? i hope so. it isn't just of all of these disclosures? i hope so. it isn'tjust about gender. it

is about class, ethnic background, there are lots of factors which reflect pay and why people get paid more than others. i wouldn't have dreamt five years ago of asking my male colleagues, what you get paid? but these discussions are going on across the country, which must be a good thing. thanks to both of you. that's it for the papers this morning don't forget you can see the front pages of the papers online on the bbc news website. it's all there for you — seven days a week at bbc.co.uk/papers. and if you miss the programme any evening you can watch it later on bbc iplayer thank you, sian griffiths, education editor of the sunday times and ben chu, economics editor of the independent. simon's here next with the weather and i'll be back at ten o'clock with the headlines. mixed fortunes today across the uk.

in northern and western parts, dry and bright with sunshine. it has been a dry start of the day across scotland. a different story towards the south—east. early morning rain, quite cloudy conditions in kent. the rain should largely clear away from here. there will be rain across central and southern areas into this afternoon. courtesy of this weather front. further north and west, a slack pressure system here. fairly quiet conditions with sunny spells. we will keep the sunny spells. showers cropping up later on for scotland, northern ireland, and north—western parts of england. some of those could be heavy and thundery. this rain from the south—east will be pushing up to east anglia and the midlands. 12 to 13 degrees with light winds and sunny spells. feeling more pleasant converter yesterday in north and

western areas. lots of cloud in the south—east. with light winds and clear spells, patchy mist and fog developing into the early hours monday morning. temperatures tonight, down to about two, 5 degrees, not as cold in the south—east at 9 degrees. but there will be outbreaks of grain for east anglia, the east midlands, and into central and southern parts of england. it will ease by afternoon. sunny spells again in the north and west. still some heavy showers in scotla nd west. still some heavy showers in scotland and northern ireland. temperatures in double figures again, around 12 degrees. low pressure in charge on tuesday keeping things fairly unsettled. these weather fronts thrown up from the south—east. it'll bring outbreaks of rain for many on tuesday, particularly england and wales. a very wet start to the day. gradually clearing away to the west. brighter skies in the east. the best of the sunshine will be in the far north—east of scotland. it will feel

chilly along the eastern coast, seven, 9 degrees, but down towards the south—east those temperatures up to about 15 degrees. for the rest of the week, with areas of low pressure close by, if be unsettled. there will be some bright spells and it will be some bright spells and it will feel quite mild way you have those brighter spells. that is all from me. goodbye. —— where you have those brighter spells. this is bbc news. i'm ben brown. the headlines at ten: at least 70 people are feared dead after a suspected chemical attack on a rebel—held area of syria. we have received many patients who have suffered from symptoms compatible with exposure to chlorine gas. america describes the reports as "horrifying". the foreign office says if it is confirmed there should be an urgent investigation. the home secretary amber rudd denies that falling police numbers are to blame for the recent surge in violent crime in london.

the foreign secretary borisjohnson describes jeremy corbyn as "the kremlin's useful idiot". the labour leader hits back saying mrjohnson has "made a fool of himself" over russia. the authorities in germany say there's no indication of an islamist links to an attack that left two dead and 20 injured.