the daily telegraph among many outlets covering a big health story. its front page describes a new cancer blood test as a "holy grail" and explains it could show early warning signs for ten types of tumour years before someone falls ill. and finally, on to time magazine's special issue on drones. from the threats they pose to the lives they save and everything in between. and, yes, they're drones on the cover photograph — almost 1,000 of them. so let's begin. with me is lawrence gosling, editor—in—chief of what investment. good to see you, we've had a few charts over the italian conundrum, oi’ charts over the italian conundrum, or will run the country, and the crew to get his chance at last? he does the former government, having snatched away from early in the week and the irony is the stumbling block then was the economy minister, 81

yea rs then was the economy minister, 81 years young, he is not the economy minister in the new administration but is actually the foreign affairs ministers say his euroscepticism arguably could play an even greater pa rt arguably could play an even greater part in future italian politics. he will have a lot more people affected with his words are supposed to fulfilling promises but if the government comes into place, it will be looking to ease the situation for many italians, that is much to the disappointment, let's say, of brussels because of the review takes a back seat. i think the reason a broader argument as to whether austerity comes to italy as it has two greece and some of the other european nations and clearly, some of the vast majority of italians seem to like the single currency, they do necessarily like the bureaucracy of brussels and that we have seen all around europe and it's a common sort of threat in the uk. i've noticed there is the piece, as it goes on, politico focus on some

of the apolitical characters have to say and jean—claude juncker, the of the apolitical characters have to say and jean—claudejuncker, the eu president, never short of a word or two but he is really stuck his finger on what he sees as the problem, the italians should do more work and less corruption, basically. always a dangerous sort of national stereotype the kick in here. clearly, the italian economy is in, it is heavily indebted, that is the fundamental issue and it needs to be reformed either through brussels or themselves. getting onto the business insider, another intriguing case here. kim jong—un business insider, another intriguing case here. kimjong—un is getting a lot of visitors obviously, he is flavour of the month for many. this is sergei lavrov meeting him. let's start on the mysterious little box that he has been handed as a gift to lock secret things inside. you cannot help but feel both governments are being a bit mischievous with this. it looks like a regular sort of gift that is given

out in situations like this and leaving it out there that could be something special or secretive inside i think is... cheeky. what was the phrase? provocative optics used in the past. kind of illusions of some of the sort of dirty tricks that the russians have been up to in but russia, through the soviet era, for a long time with a sponsor of the previous north korean government run by his father and grandfather, disappeared from the scene largely publicly in the last five years and have come back as china has, world politics you can see is going on and north korea is at the harbour of it. it plays beautifully interchurch or‘s group that russell is a puzzle inside an enigma wrapped in a riddle and st vincent and north korea. right, brexit is one of those words we try to avoid, just because it is a lwa ys we try to avoid, just because it is always there. but this is an interesting piece by the sun.

revealing a plan that has been laid out by david davis is brexit secretary to try and resolve the unresolvable problem of the northern ireland— ireland border. unresolvable problem of the northern ireland- ireland border. absolutely. this situation is one when i think the whole brexit negotiations started, many people didn't realise it would be a big stumbling block in the sort of longer term negotiations to watch david davis has proposed in this sort of exclusive story in the sun if there is a twin regime, eu and uk legislation takes place in northern ireland and becomes effectively a special economic zone which seems to be a very good solution, actually, except the dup in northern ireland who are likely to be sort of very anti this and uk politics at the moment the dup do hold displays the current administration. but it is interesting because you can look at it standing back and think hang on,

that's a pretty good effort. absolutely. but it is utterly irrelevant, as you say, the unionists who know that northern ireland is part of the uk,. so there is no give there, it'll be interesting to see this has any legs at all. this story wouldn't have come out without it already having legs and perhaps behind the scenes the dup has been brought into the folder little bit and obviously northern will continue to be a focus, we have seen it with a discussion about the abortion laws as well. this is like 310 miles long and it's wide, it is notjust a one point or two points. big tracts of land there. and historically this pa rt land there. and historically this part of land has been difficult to police in any form whatsoever so it seems that a good solution and there is an interesting story about the chief brexiteer lord lawson, former chancellor, heading towards france and looking for a french residency

there. that is the point, you know, get us out of europe, i am going to have french residency. but look at the daily telegraph. this is the cancer blood test held as the holy grail. focusing on ten possible types of cancer, in particular bavarian and pancreatic. i mean, i don't know about you, i have a slight problem with the phrase holy grail comes up it is partly because it raises hopes but we do have a lot of stories about incredible research being carried out. nonetheless, there is a sense in the way it is written, it is it and seriously that this is a genuine opportunity. it's interesting, so, detecting dna and fast—growing cancer cells way before they mutate into something serious, they mutate into something serious, the accuracy of the study is between 50- 90% the accuracy of the study is between 50— 90% so that, even 50% is better thanit 50— 90% so that, even 50% is better than it is unless you say things like ovarian cancer i think it is

80- 90% is the like ovarian cancer i think it is 80— 90% is the detection rate and clearly, the earlier you can get it, the more likely chance there is of a successful kind of recovery and kind of outcome. it is also kind of interesting that the nhs generally is under huge pressure to it's great to see it making strides forward but again, you think issues like this just put more cost pressure on, you know, sort of down the lines as a country the uk has the balance of what we want from the nhs? there is that. interesting they use the phrase personalised medicine system. in due course, will presumably have an almost perfect read—out of our genetic history of our genetic future, we all know exactly what we need to do to stop that happening. we did that isn't as far away as we think. certainly here, they are suggesting these tests could become commonplace within the next four to five years is taking over to the 75th anniversary of the nhs. just a

reflection actually, time and scene is talking about how quickly things change, are actually quite sort of everyday now. we could focus on the cover here, showing how it all pulls together, this is 900 and what? 958 01’ together, this is 900 and what? 958 or something. lots of drones! they do sort of give a broad landscape of how drones are already here and are affecting our lives. people know they are used to military purposes but also an amazing picture from haiti where it was used, literally within it for minutes, the start disaster recovery. the raft tanzania and rwanda where they take root up for —— they take medical supplies into re m ote for —— they take medical supplies into remote areas. some of it is very good and some of it is a bit controversial. and some fun things,

they are used in hollywood and we can get some photos we never thought we would get before but they are making a valid point, the speed of technology is amazing, the ability of regulators to keep up with it understandably is not. because there isa understandably is not. because there is a wider debate about how we want to use this and it isn't the sort of black and white issue and that is why regulations and politicians in many countries are struggling to keep up with the pace of change. do you have one? nora. neither do i, thatis you have one? nora. neither do i, that is the will of us. —— no. think if joining that is the will of us. —— no. think ifjoining us. that is the briefing, thank you for being with us. from me and the rest of the team, goodbye. hello there. the thunderstorms from yesterday took a while to get going but once they did, they did bring a lot of rain and lightning. storms initiated around sussex before spreading across central and southern england, the south

midlands and on towards wales and the south—west. bursts of lightning, torrential downpours that brought flooding and reports of a few problems around bristol. some of the worst of it was in west sussex. it was just not cricket. lakes where the boundary should be. the met office amber warning in effect until six this morning. we could still have one 01’ two more issues. liveliest of the showers working across wales. heavy downpours over the next few hours. a lot of murky weather and low cloud, mist and fog patches, notjust around the coastline but across some of our hills. mild and muggy night, grey and gloomy, really, to start friday morning. friday looks something like this. low cloud, mist and fog taking a long time to burn away and thin out. and then as we head into the afternoon, we will see heavy showers breaking out. this time they will be further north. in the firing line, scotland, northern ireland, north—west england and parts of wales.

we could see around 30 millimetres of rain or so falling in the space of an hour. over a two or three hour period, if you are unlucky there will be a few communities who could see some flooding problems again where we could get 50 or 60 millimetres of rain, enough to cause the flooding problems we saw on thursday. muggy day temperature wise. highs into the low to mid 20s. 0nto the weekend's forecast, so the thunderstorms will be around. they will head north on the weather will tend to become a little more settled and drier in the south. here is the weather picture. saturday beginning on a gloomy note for many of us, particularly across the north—east. gloomier start to the day generally in scotland but during the afternoon we see thunderstorms breaking out. scotland and northern ireland, parts of northern england has seen the worst of those. localised flooding a possibility. further south, more in the way of sunshine, starting to feel a little bit warmer given that the sunshine will be stronger with less cloud around. that trend continues into sunday, the second half of the weekend is probably the better

half weatherwise. showers not far away from south—west england, still a couple showers across scotland but for most of us, sunday will be a dry day with sunshine slowly breaking through in the afternoon. warm as well in the south with highs reaching 25 celsius in london. hello, this is breakfast, withjon kay and sally nugent. 0n the brink of a trade war — fears for thousands of uk steeljobs donald trump claims he's putting america first as he imposes tariffs on imports, but europe threatens to retaliate. more than 30,000 people work in the british steel industry, i'll have more on the fallout for the uk. good morning, it's friday, june 1st. also this morning: 1,000 train cancellations and delays in just one day.

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