and... and. .. even and... even though and. .. even though she conjure up. and... even though she was ill, she was still performing. she last performed last november, long after she had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. at an elton john aids foundation gala. she was really the most fabulous woman and we will miss her. there have been rate tributes today. we will learn more about what drove her and her possible routes. her passing, is the passing of an age. she covers a period where rock 'n roll became if you like the number one sort of seeing being medium of the world, whatever your language, wherever you were. she was also part of the civil rights movement, her father was a friend of martin king. she saying early on and when she went to the south she cannot stay in the same

hotels as members of her band who we re white and we have seen her singing in many democratic presidential and operations. donald trump said that she worked at him and she saying at one of his properties. but i think this is sort of a moment in time we will look back and one looks back at the death ofjohn lennon and think... in what she achieved in her career, you remember all the times. and bell she also did, have that numberone and bell she also did, have that number one hit with george michael which girl he was called i knew you we re which girl he was called i knew you were waiting for me. and the boy she had. bbc was showing earlier on

where obama was crying. the little moment when he wipes a tear. be so full quality that we have spoken to people about the way she touched people about the way she touched people and spoke through the music and other artists who may have had great voices did not have the interpretive gift she had. music becomes poetry. just dancing... the vigour and vitality around that was extraordinary. is going to the financial times, tucked away at the bottom, an issue about celebrity endorsements that might be misleading some of us. it is about the internet and the messages we are getting from celebrities. this is what you might call fake advertising if one could when that phrase. looking in a situation where celebrities are promoting or being linked with products but they want to know if it celebrities are paid

for it but they are not disclosing that. they want to know, otherwise if someone sees a celebrity using a product, they think they are using it it must be right but they do not know they are being paid to say they are using it. in america there are asking people to disclose what they got from certain products because this is a huge market now. it is influence that we are trained to get to grips now, people who have their own amazing sort of realm of followers who are hanging on their every word. and the impact of the social media is kind of —— this kind of promotion is much more effective than traditional advertising. and it seems more natural because you are friends with people on facebook or instagram and you are looking at... you relate to them. in a completely different way from looking at an

advertisement on the television, in newspapers or on a billboard. advertisement on the television, in newspapers or on a billboardm advertisement on the television, in newspapers or on a billboard. it is a huge figure. seeing how much they can pin it down and get people to be more transparent. let's go onto the times because we cannot forget it is a big day for a lot of adults today, getting results in england and so on. the statistics around a—level and the trades coming up. on. the statistics around a—level and the trades coming upm on. the statistics around a—level and the trades coming up. it looks as if chinese has become very popular. pe is really popular as a—level and there was a brexit angle to this perhaps? because french, spanish and german have much less —— become much less popular this year and a number of people taking chinese has overtaken the number of people taking german. chinese is now

the third most popular language being taken by a—level students. you still have french and spanish at the top but german is now pushed right down and the ball in the number of stu d e nts down and the ball in the number of students taking all of these modern european languages if you like has some kind of implications i think for where we are heading as far as brexit is concerned. people are saying chinese is much more important, maybe the future is in the far east and there is an element here that the state schools aren't doing much in the way of chinese, it is many of the private schools. i think the number of the chinese families are sending students over to british schools so some of them may actually be chinese students taking chinese a—level. may actually be chinese students taking chinese a-level. the numbers are startling, and last year it was

713 and germany only 3015 and following on, some schools say to get good results you have to be a native speaker. one and five taking german are native german speakers. you need more migration from germany. can i say that it is good that they are doing pe, if you want to become the world's best sporting nation. former sports editor has to get that and, for those who don't know. i did not realise that pe was such a popular a—level. know. i did not realise that pe was such a popular a—levellj know. i did not realise that pe was such a popular a-level. i think there is probably a lot of biology and so on in a—level pe and it is quite a large ranging a—level. let's move on to the guardian and we are backin move on to the guardian and we are back in donald trump land. this is concerning the former director of

the cia who has fallen out with donald trump and things are getting a little more serious. his credentials have been effectively taken credentials have been effectively ta ken away and credentials have been effectively taken away and he is a former head of the cia because he had been very critical on how donald trump behaved with vladimir putin and he basically had his own intelligence agency and he said his behaviour was treasonable. and donald trump has responded that his erratic conduct and moved his military clearance and so on. and moved his military clearance and so on. to access security information... it is a dreadful thing to do an significant thing to do. it has a touch of mccarthyism. it happened in the 50s where the man who led the invention of the atom bomb had his classifications removed because he was considered a member of the communist party. this is

really worrying, if the president can act that way, forget whether it is right or wrong, i think this is one more evidence of him... this is a man who led the cia from 2013—2017 and it is hard to believe that donald trump can just come along and say we do not trust him any more. we are going to revoke his security clea ra nce are going to revoke his security clearance and it is wearing that it will put other people off criticising where date may have valued criticism or suggesting an inquiry because they are frightened of what will happen to them. that really is quite frightening. it is not how we would normally expect the free world to behaved it. it is not how you expect america to behave. certain norms of behaviour, it is not as if i do not like you and therefore i want to talk to you,... he does not operate in the normal boundaries you would see from

presidents. he cannot behave as if he isa presidents. he cannot behave as if he is a child on a playground. let's finish with the daily telegraph, the rise of the part—time family doctor, about gps in their working hours. this story is really quite frightening. we have a shortage of gps and we know that many patients struggle to get an appointment with theirgp and struggle to get an appointment with their gp and what we are hearing from this story is that newly trained gps, those who are going through the training only 5% of them plan to work full—time. not many of us talk about going abroad or they are talking about going privately and working privately or working as low co m es and working privately or working as low comes which pays more. but actually the ordinary british family needs their gp. we are ready have a

significant number of them are tiring. partly because they're incentivized by the pension system to do that. that we are finding that the new ones we are training cost a fortune to train agp. they are saying £500,000. yes and they are saying £500,000. yes and they are saying within the next ten years we will not be working full—time, we will not be working full—time, we will be doing something else. will not be working full—time, we will be doing something elsem seems to be a lifestyle issue among younger people who have a different vision of their working life. and also, many of the younger ones are coming in saying they do not want to work full—time but we have to recognise that our family doctor concept has gone. the first time i we nt concept has gone. the first time i went to a gp surgery, you had a family doctor who discuss things with you but now when you go to a doctor, whoever he or she is, they look at the computer and hardly look at you. it is much more if you like at you. it is much more if you like a functional approach to the whole thing that has happened. it has become being served in a supermarket

toa certain become being served in a supermarket to a certain extent. the intimacy that you had with a doctor, that is just not there any more. we are going to have to get a lot more technology into this and there is no doubt about it. the numbers of people needing gps with an ageing population is going to be rising. you need to talk to your gp and have a relationship with them. you will never replace the 121 personal contact. —— one on one personal contact. that's it for the papers tonight. 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, mihir bose and baroness altmann. goodbye. we are back at 11:30pm. join us again when we take another look through what you will see him tomorrow's dailies. —— in tomorrow

is dailies. hello again most of us have had a little bit of rain over the last couple of days but with the clea ra nce couple of days but with the clearance of the rain during today, things started to brighten up. we also introduced a significantly cooler, fresher feel, also introduced a significantly cooler, fresherfeel, this is the satellite picture from earlier on, the cloud brought the persistent rain and behind that, you can see the shower clouds racing and from the shower clouds racing and from the northwest. we also brought in from the northwest is cooler, fresher air. however out here in the atlantic, warm air is once again lurking and humid air, and for many the switch to pressure conditions is only a temporary one. through the rest of this evening and tonight we are looking at clear skies for many, are looking at clear skies for many, a few showers into the northwest and those temperatures really dipping away and some of the big towns and

cities, and in the countryside well down into single digits. decidedly cool start to tomorrow morning. and the south and east of england, it will stay that way, sunny skies through the day. however, thicker cloud will spread in from the west and parts of western scotland. a fairly breezy day and in fact quite a windy one across the west of scotla nd a windy one across the west of scotland and for most places we are looking at highs from 15—19d. as we get into the weekend, we are going to get into a feed of westerly winds in southern half of the country that will bring some warm moist air with a lot of cloud but to the north of the weather front we will stick with something significantly cooler. windy across the north of scotland as we start saturday but we should see some bright weather spells of sunshine. outbreaks of rain where we are into the warm and humid air,

there will be some sunshine. mid 20s for the top temperatures. on sunday we will see an area of rain moving across northern ireland and uncertainty how far north or south this will get. humid in the south but on the cool side across the north of scotland. do some things up for the weekend, there will be some rain at times and for many a humid feel. this is bbc news. i'm rachel schofield. the headlines at 11pm: aretha franklin, the "queen of soul," known for hits like respect and say a little prayer, dies at the age of 76. some of the biggest names in the world of music and politics have been paying tribute to the singer who won 18 grammy awards in a career spanning seven decades. in other news, a rise in the number of a—level students getting top grades —

the most for six years. and in sport, just aftert 11:45pm, we'll have a full round up of tonight's european football action as rangers reach the group stage of the europa league. and cricketer ben stokes gets back to training as the england coach says he should apologise publicly despite being found not guilty of affray.