involved can be both present and not involved in something. maybe there is an explanation but it is so strange that a politician who is expected, i think emma for his complete transparency in so many ways cannot get the people what would be a straightforward answer. the other thing is that a return to this issue, this problem would jeremy corbyn of this question of why is an islington mp in tunisia in the first place. what does it have to do with the price of eggs? why does a british politician involving himself in numerous liberation struggles, numerous commemorations, numerous platforms with numerous extraordinary figures? why am? why is he doing all of this? he has always said it is part of his pursuit for peace. no one wanted him to do that. that is not hisjob. he was not even shadow foreign secretary. he has the right, does he not? he has the right in many mps do it but what is it about him that consta ntly it but what is it about him that constantly draws into these highly

controversial causes? these remarks by this athlete adds fuel to the fire. this athlete is someone who survived the attack on munich, he is also someone who survived the holocaust. and for a lot ofjewish voters, that is house visited this issue is and they are looking for clarity. they have also asked themselves why is he involved in all of these strange issues? nothing is ma any. that is what amazes me. press operation and the professionalism of the people around him whosejob it is professionalism of the people around him whose job it is to professionalism of the people around him whosejob it is to maintain it to be patient and to get that party elected and to make it look electable has just allow this to drag on. this current scandalfor weeks now and these kind of allegations have been around for three years. it may well be that jeremy corbyn never admittedly thought it would ever matter who he met at fringe of its because he was a lwa ys met at fringe of its because he was always going to be a french politician, but now he is not, he is leading a party, leading the opposition and there is more

scrutiny of them than there has been in the past and apparently a lot of things to scrutinise. he does not seem able to first a set scrutiny and second to deal with an answer and second to deal with an answer and box off and move on. if you are and box off and move on. if you are a professional politician, you want to get things done and get into power, you have to box and move the news on. he cannot do it.|j power, you have to box and move the news on. he cannot do it. i should add his defenders will insist he has been clear and also they would sate donelson runs felt met with saddam hussein, tony blair met with muammar qaddafi, that tends to be their answer. that is a fair and reasonable point. but i come back and say they are revisiting the governments at the time. jeremy corbyn was mp for is a ten north and pa rt of corbyn was mp for is a ten north and part of me cannot get my head around what he is doing at a tunisian summit. let's look at the off for a couple of stories. teen space crackdown on easy uni offers. you can be offered a place at university ona can be offered a place at university on a conditional basis that you not even have to get any aid levels but the assumption would be that you

actually turned up but apparently not. an unconditional offer in the past tended to be way people they we re very past tended to be way people they were very highly talented or else we re were very highly talented or else were great athletes that he university definitely wanted to get. they wanted to make sure that in case your grades slip, he did not lose out. instead, because there are so many university places in because universities are now competing to attract students for girls what grades they end up getting, universities are offering more and more unconditional offers where it is something like the a fifth and a quarter of offers or unconditional. that is very word in part because of fear that will lead to saying it i do not have to work hard and my a levels and can get any old grades and get in. by the way, although the iis frontpage quotes a school in the north who had an a—level pass rate fall from 74% to 40% to suggest that is happening, i must say also that

the numberof is happening, i must say also that the number of people getting the top grades actually went up slightly this year. my suspicion is even the people are offered unconditional offer, they will still want to get a good grade. it takes the pressure off you, actually, and hopefully you can really pull out all the stops and do your absolute best. it all implies having the opposite effect of what you would hope it would have. this is what happens when you monetize the delivery of education. if you imagine primary schools and never getting paid £9,000 per pupil who came to the primary school and did not have enough people in primary school, they would say we will take it from wherever, not the local area but from as far afield as possible and get them all in and ta ke possible and get them all in and take £9,000 off of all of them, thank you mum and dad, and the quality of education would unnecessarily improve. we should be doing, the fact there is this huge cost to many in entire families get sucked into this costa means a huge amount of pressure on them. that cost deters people from going to

university so they have a lot of places they are not always filling out one of the market is operating as it should do, then university should be improving their offer and the education they give and attracting more of the right kind of customers but it does mean that some courses that are less popular this year or next year or whatever, according to fashion and women maybe stu d e nts according to fashion and women maybe students prefer to go to, they are going to fall out of favour and do unconditional offers. this is what happens when you introduce a capitalist market in the subpoena is most of the shooting of someone's brain. you cannot do it.|j most of the shooting of someone's brain. you cannot do it. i can you are poised to add more but i say no. 0k. and move you on. not allowed to go on here but sajid javid certain to step up to it later, he could unite the party. allegedly, yes. at this time of year, and beer might like to know during parliamentary recess it is traditional that there isa recess it is traditional that there is a leadership battle and pretty much every party or someone starts talking about someone who might be

delayed because they have nothing else to do. they are a holiday or firing off a quick, before late get back or whatever. and there is no other news going on about parliament. someone starts being talked about as up to till later. the person doing the talking is usually the person who is being talked up with her best mate. so he is said to be certain to stand, which means sajid javid is trying to have people think this about him. it is all i had a party conference season and all about getting headlines and trying to elbow and move and it is just shifting pictures on its attendant, it is a waste of time. would he be popular with a lot of conservatives? he has a sorry home secretary. amber rudd left on a sour note. there's a feeling he isn't in on a great deal of confidence, making some conservative and liberal policies and seven the ways he thinks more should be spent on policing which many agree with right now. so he is

positioning himself right now but she is right. sajid javid could live the tories to a landslide says sajid javid one suspect. and there are lots of people saying it, too. the thing that is of significance is that cabinet unity has really broken down. and cabinet discipline has broken down. this is government run i rabada group of people who are all vying for eventually taking over which is about bucket say about brexit, which is a baggie with they can say about their departments and how much they want to spend in those sorts of things. but having to do, there's really only one big fish in there's really only one big fish in the study waters and that is boris johnson. according to boris. shocking rise in child diabetes and doctors warning as cases rocket by 40%. doctors warning as cases rocket by 4096. they are up 4096. in a decade ago, according to the express, no child in britain had diabetes, which i find remarkable. type two diabetes, normally see in adults. i find remarkable. type two

diabetes, normally see in adultsm is up 40% in four years but up 700, so in case anyone fears... added 65 million people, that is not... but i find it surprising that no child had type two diabetes. i am more surprised by that. there is a very important piece in the guardian was i'd advise you go and read about why it is we have a diabetes problem. his argument is notjust exercise or would the quantity of what we eat, is to do with precisely what we eat and the kind of sugary foods. we're all still eating large amounts of calories, as you are aware, back 30 or 40 years ago but now we are beating —— getting very rich loggers and things like that. that is hardly what is driving this. yes. that's it? nothing more to say. people eating the wrong food, and kids are

obese and maybe a red card and have children to get away if they cannot handle their kids. if you are endangering your child... handle their kids. if you are endangering your child. . m handle their kids. if you are endangering your child... if you are hitting your child regularly, they'll be taken away from you. if you are going to kill your child with cancer or diabetes by ruby leaving them chicken nuggets, then you should be given classes to start with, stem words of advise and then threats and eventually if it does not work, put them somewhere safe. gosh. that will be very controversial. very. i amjust big boned. nothing wrong with that proportion. slicked back. fresh from the gym. daily mail, uk separate levy on coffee cups after huge public demand on tax audit big away containers. what i wonder though is evenif containers. what i wonder though is even if they charge levy, how sure are weak that they are going to be disposed of properly and recycled in

an environmentally friendly way? good point. exactly. still play an extra five p2 get your copy from the brissett and your goes to a landfill and brings up into many particles in the city even in jest in the water. not must again, except government has a load of income to use for other things. they are nibbling at the edges. if they flat out bad plastid than was necessary, but flat—out banned plastic and maybe nappies and wet wives and plastic wrapped food and plenty in supermarkets, where is the harm? little plastic back foot mushrooms and? no one needs them. just have paperback. even because i'm not blasted necessarily audit they are making things it cannot be recycled. right, and the telegraph which is done investigative reporting which is the shame that most list of the stuff wind up in eastern europe and in china and the go straight to the

sea. your adult things are being re cycled sea. your adult things are being recycled carefully and that is not true. it is being burned abroad, which is depressing. if the logo back to the 1950s and starting to live the way my grandee, no longer have plastic bags, you have those lovely big chunky hash anti—bags and people are going to have baskets and things like that and not using paper comes with a use gigantic things like that. pasadena having to the la st like that. pasadena having to the last 30 or 40 years digging the future was convenience and disposability, actually a terms of the future is the past. nice to be commissioned commission of if you sit down there was a cup of tea and a slimani drunk and passed it back to them. that's it for the papers this hour. you'll both be back at 11.30pm. next, it's the weather with louise. hello there. the weekend fast approaching,

but it's not a straightforward story to tell, i'm afraid. it is going to be quite a humid field to our weekend right across the country, but there will be some rain around, but not for everyone. i'll try and put some detail on it. we've got cloud and weather fronts spilling in from the atlantic as we speak, and to the south of these fronts, the wind direction swinging around to the southwest. that is driving in this warm humid air, and on top of that, this is all here tied into subtropical storm ernesto, which is just adding more tropical moisture into the story and that can bring some heavier rain on sunday and is responsible for the humidity that we are starting to feel now. so saturday morning will start off cloudy as you can see with outbreaks of light, patchy rain through northern ireland, southern scotland and northwest england. it is going to be pretty mild start to the day. overnight lows staying at around 14 or 15 degrees. windy with it, that will continue to drive in the cloud. gales on exposed northwest coast and there will be outbreaks of rain

that will continue through central scotland, northern ireland and northwest england. where we get the breaks in the cloud, with that warmth and humidity, temperatures are expected to respond, the highest values around 24 degrees. that is the mid—705 in terms of fahrenheit. as we move out of saturday into sunday night, this is where ernesto starts to come into play. now that is going to inject some moisture and potential for heavier rainfall through northern ireland and perhaps central and southern scotland and northern england. still a level of uncertainty just where that rain is going to be sitting but some of it will be heavy for a time. maybe the extreme north of scotland will stay dry and bright and central and southeastern areas clouding over during the day. it should stay dry during daylight hours, and if you get to see some more sunshine into the afternoon, again, those temperatures are set to respond, still likely to be into the mid—20s. for some of us, it may well be quite a promising weekend despite the cloud. now the threat of rain eases away

at the start of a new working week. it stays largely cloudy. there will be bits and pieces of showery rain. still a southerly or southwesterly airflow, so generally speaking, it's still going to stay pretty warm down south, with temperatures of around 25 or 26 degrees. take care. this is bbc news, i'm martine croxall.

the headlines at 11:00: devastating monsoon floods in the southern indian state of kerala have killed 170 people. 200,000 more have been left homeless. helicopters are being used to airlift children to safety, with roads and even the local airport submerged. officials say it's the worst flooding for decades, and more rain is predicted to fall. translation: after 36 years, it's the first time that such flooding is happening here. it's a disaster for the whole population. in other news, mps call for ministers to promote vaping as a safe alternative to cigarettes. the science and technology committee says e—cigarettes help tens of thousands of smokers quit every year. the prisons minister, rory stewart, promises to resign if he fails to reduce the level of drug use and violence in jails within a year.