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mark. places will hit the 30 degrees mark. further north, just 16 celsius. some places around 5— 10 degrees cooler. this is our things are going to be looking in wimbledon to the championships which continue on monday. quite a bit of cloud. there will still be some sunshine breaking through that. 15 temperatures to a pretty hot 29 celsius and it will stay dry. that dry theme continues into tuesday and wednesday, we have high pressure dominating. particularly out towards the west. temperatures will be cooler through this week. sunny spells, and as we look towards the end of this week, more sun. this is tuesday and into wednesday. the cooler conditions filtering gradually further south of the country and temperatures in the low to mid—20s. those temperatures
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are set to pick up towards next weekend and if you are hoping for some rain to the garden, not much of that in the forecast for the next ten days that you can find a full 1a day forecast by heading to the website. they are sorry to find a house by surprise. this is bbc news. we will be taking a look at tomorrow morning's papers in a moment. first the headlines: a murder inquiry is launched after a woman exposed to the nerve agent novichok in wiltshire has died. four of the boys trapped in a flooded cave system in thailand have been rescued and taken to hospital. the mission to save the remaining eight and their coach continues tomorrow. as borisjohnson criticises theresa may's brexit proposal, support from michael gove, who says the plans are realistic but the uk should prepare for all outcomes japan's prime minister says efforts to save people trapped after days of heavy rain is now a race against time. more than 80 people have died across central and western regions. hello and welcome to our look ahead
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to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are tony grew, parliamentary journalist, and caroline frost, entertainment journalist and broadcaster. many of tomorrow's front pages are already in. the daily mail leads on murdered by novichok. the paper reports on the death of dawn sturgess, who was poisoned by the nerve agent. the times leads on the operation to rescue the boys trapped in a cave in thailand. the metro has a photograph of dawn stu rg ess o n the metro has a photograph of dawn sturgess on its front page. divers managed to bring four
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of the boys out of the cave today, but the rest must wait until the mission resumes tomorrow. the guardian has a photograph of family members waiting outside the cave, but its lead story is about brexit. it says the prime minister will face down angry eurosceptic mps over the agreement made by the cabinet at chequers on friday. the daily telegraph also leads on brexit, and a warning from the leading eurosceptic conservative mp, jacob rees—mogg. writing in the paper, mr rees—mogg says he will vote against the deal. the sun leads on the world cup and comments from sir geoff hurst who believes victory is inside this time as well. —— in sight. so we began
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with the death of dawn sturgess, the woman who was poisoned by the novichok nerve agent, which she came into co nta ct novichok nerve agent, which she came into contact with. the authorities believe it was last weekend and amesbury, in wiltshire. the daily mail has this has its headline. murdered by novichok, a woman, 44, poisoned by russian nerve agent is dead. and because the skripals tha nkfully dead. and because the skripals thankfully survived and are having treatment, you kind of hoped and assumed that dawn sturgess and her partner would also be ok. yes, but what you have to understand is that salisbury has now become the world leading centre in treating people who have been poisoned with this nerve agent because it has never really been deployed before. i don't know enough medically to be able to explain that. there are two things i would say about this, the first is the personal and then there is the international and diplomatic. the personal is that she leaves behind
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three children and i think it is really important that she is not just... she is now someone who will become part of a russian propaganda warand a campaign become part of a russian propaganda war and a campaign of disinformation, and i think it is really important just to stress the personal part about that. the second pa rt personal part about that. the second part is that russia has been hosting the world cup and harvesting huge amounts of positive publicity, in political terms, the government will 110w political terms, the government will now need to respond to this. this is the death of a british citizen. and chemical weapons attack in the united kingdom, so it is march when the skripals were poisoned, and they did survive, as you pointed out. i think it is important to stress the gravity of that. it has only happened once before, the litvinenko case. and a very different radioactive substance. dawn's
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partner, charlie rowley still ill. and it was very obvious when the skripals collapsed. they were lucky, ina skripals collapsed. they were lucky, in a way. it was daylight, in a crowded restaurant, and they collapsed in full view of a restau ra nt, collapsed in full view of a restaurant, and they were treated with relative urgency and identified. the circumstances of dawn sturgess's demise were much more tragic, she seemed to not fall so more tragic, she seemed to not fall so quickly, spent the night at her partner's house and sell more ill. perhaps there was a delay in treatment, and as you said, it was the world centre for treatment of this. so many radars are on high alert for any circumstances approximating the skripals, but this will not be a happy ending they wanted. the shadow will come down over salisbury even though our home secretary has been quick to say it isa secretary has been quick to say it is a safe area once again. this is a
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tiny, tiny risk, but it is the headline that has grabbed the day. in the political fallout last time was diplomatic expulsions, not only by us but by allies. that's right, most interestingly the united states, i would expect, because of its intelligence community rather than as president, the ones trying to ensure the united states stood by its ally. millions and millions of pounds were spent of taxpayers' money on the so—called clean—up of salisbury. it is now clear that salisbury. it is now clear that salisbury wasn't cleaned in perhaps the way that we might have expected considering the significant amount of money involved in that process. at the difficulty is that it doesn't leave fumes, if it is contained in something, it is very difficult to trace. and to be fair to the authorities it is obviously very clear that they weren't expecting there to be objects lying around in a park which were still contaminated with traces of novichok. that is in
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itself worrying and if i was living in salisbury i would be concerned. there is, in the words of public health england, a low risk to the public. looking at the times, trapped boys wait for cave rescue to resume. you can only imagine the journey that they had to go through to get out of that cave system. the details in the times, as you say, one of the concerns is that the young boys, not all of them know how to swim, so they have not only had to swim, so they have not only had to deal with theirfears, to swim, so they have not only had to deal with their fears, the fact they haven't been fed properly into over two weeks, they have had to teach them to where oxygen masks, and some of the boys call for the most pa rt and some of the boys call for the most part they have wanted to keep them attached and swindon through, but some of the passengers are so narrow that the boys have to go through on their own. so you are talking about young boys who have been trapped in a cave for a fortnight who don't know how to swim, underfed, possibly starting to
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feel quite ill, and in other ways are now having to go through this. so there will be some very long hours ahead. they said they will resume in the early hours of the morning once they have replenished their oxygen stocks, and the world will be watching. and some very brave, skilled divers. 90 divers including the british experts involved in this huge effort. the picture which really struck me was when thai authorities made the decision after a burst of heavy rain threatened to overwhelm the caves, known as some of the most dangerous in the world. i think the reason it has become such a worldwide storage is because it speaks to something really deeply about the human instinct. someone is trapped below ground and our instinct is to try and help them and get them out. i think that is why it is one of the reasons it has gripped the world. think that is why it is one of the reasons it has gripped the worldlj will move on to brexit, but i have some breaking news. david davis has resigned from government. this is the press association saying this, we we re the press association saying this, we were just about to start talking about theresa may saying it is time
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to get serious about her plan. david davis was teetering a while ago.|j am glad he has actually resigned, he has threatened to resign a few times. iam has threatened to resign a few times. i am glad he has come to this decision. why didn't he resigned on friday? he has effectively gone into chequers, signed up as a member of cabinet to collective responsibility that this is the negotiating plan the government will use going forward , the government will use going forward, and we get to sunday night and he has changed his mind. i am surprised he effectively signed up to it, allowed the impression to go out that the cabinet was united around it, and hours before the prime minister is due to make a statement in the house of commons and crucially met her mps to sell the plan, he has resigned. my first thought is that i don't think it will have the impact he thinks it will have the impact he thinks it will have. i think he thinks it will bring down the government and start a chain reaction in which michael
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gove and boris johnson a chain reaction in which michael gove and borisjohnson will walk out, that there will be outrage from the parliamentary party. there is often a problem with cabinet ministers that they are indispensable. i suspect the other ministers at the department for exiting the european union will follow mr davies out in the reason for that is that the ministers appointed to that department are true believers in the hard brexit. could it be that he just didn't feel that he could sell this deal to the eu 27? that is also a possibility. it could be that he has been... i was going to say deeply involved in negotiations, but i think he has met michel barnier a number of times this year, but i am pretty surprised, to be honest. the idea that you would sign up to something and then two days later say maybe we might not get what we want. the negotiations on this version of what britain wants have yet to start. it
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seems an odd position if that is his position. but it shows how perilous the situation is, given it has taken two use... to get —— two years to get the collective deal. and now you have this resignation, and once again, the divisions within the conservative party are plain for all to see. exactly, and as we were saying, it is the equivalent of having a massive row in the tunnel before going on the. it is effectivelyjordan before going on the. it is effectively jordan pickford, before going on the. it is effectivelyjordan pickford, or you would argue somebody not as effective as jordan would argue somebody not as effective asjordan pickford, walking off the pitch. it is interesting because it is everything we we re interesting because it is everything we were talking about earlier. theresa may has to address the house of commons, she will be one person absent from her pack of elective responsibility, and we will have to see how that plays out, who he will align himself with, will he become an ally of the opposition, or a far
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stronger theresa may ally? the vast majority of mps are not allies of either extreme of this conversation. the vast majority want the prime minister to deliver the best brexit she can that does not disrupt business and get back to domestic issues. she is running a minority government here. david davis will be replaced in the morning and someone else will be the brexit secretary. will that make a difference? not really, will it make a difference to negotiations? i am really, will it make a difference to negotiations? lam not really, will it make a difference to negotiations? i am not sure. really, will it make a difference to negotiations? lam not sure. maybe we need someone else in the room with michel barnier. he has had two years of david davis's shtick. maybe this will help the country to form a new negotiating process moving forward. let's look at the daily express, because before david davis resigned in the last few minutes, in case you have just switched on and are wondering what we are talking about, david davis has resigned as brexit secretary. theresa may tells
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the eu it is time to get serious, and the pm's ultimatum over brexit. michel barnier has been saying come on, we want answers and there are too many questions. she obviously feels she has those answers. in all of those papers we are not seeing david davis's name. in all of the talks it is theresa may, you are hearing rumbles from borisjohnson and michael gove, and people on the outside like jacob rees—mogg with his european research group bashing away at the wall, but there hasn't been any mention of david davis in all the papers we have discussed tonight. whatever course this paddle steamer is on down the river, i think it will remain unchanged. the deadline is approaching. how many months away? nine? nine. maybe it is the beginning of a chain reaction, perhaps boris johnson will announce midnight on monday morning that he is the next one to go but what is most significant is that michael gove is often seen as one of the
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ha rd gove is often seen as one of the hard brexiteers, but a practical brexiteer. 0ne hard brexiteers, but a practical brexiteer. one other thing, hard brexiteers, but a practical brexiteer. 0ne otherthing, if hard brexiteers, but a practical brexiteer. one other thing, if i may. as we are talking about the daily express, they are the ultras of brexit, that and diana are the only things they talk about. and the weather. and cancer. this is a very positive.

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