we are having trouble tonight. hello. this is bbc news with martine croxall. we'll be taking a look at tomorrow morning's papers in a moment. first, the headlines. devastating monsoon floods in the southern indian state of kerala have killed 170 people — 200,000 more have been left homeless. mps call for the rules around e—cigarettes to be relaxed. they say they help people to stop smoking. 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. the department store chain house of fraser has cancelled all its online orders and refunding customers. it's because of a dispute with the retailer's warehouse operator. it never hurts to remember, i find, that on television people can see

you. hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are tim stanley, leader writer of the telegraph and susie boniface, columnist for the the daily mirror. columnist and faced slap. relentless. you got to keep yourself awake. do we not have the papers? we don't have the papers. are we now? we are on their stop —— on air. i was always told, if you think you are on air, just keep talking until some tells you to stop. are we even doing that, sand request a night are we looking at the front pages? i'm so sorry, a we looking at the front pages? i'm so sorry, a terrible problem. what it is telling me on autocue is not what you're expecting me to read. there we go. we will start with the telegraph. sorry. you just have to trust they are in. that's not it either. here we go. no, we are

starting with the daily telegraph. here it is. so sorry. a couple of stories. jeremy corbyn is an anti—semite, says munich survivor. who is this? this is a gentleman called shul ledeny, a holocaust survivor who competed in the munich on the decks. he is alongside six members of written's 1972 olympics tea m members of written's 1972 olympics team who have also attacked jeremy corbyn's stance on this wreath laying ceremony at a seven —— cemetery in tunisia, where people who were linked to the planning of the munich massacre have been buried. which is very details and it is very easy to get detailed in who was way around what the exact story is. if you want to take a step back and say, look, it is entirely possible, looking at things from jeremy corbyn's point of view, he

found himself in a foreign cemetery with foreign people and things written in a foreign language, not quite knowing what was going on. perhaps. even though he wrote about it at the time and seemed to be aware of what was happening. it has blown up in his face, notjust recently, but about a year ago as well, in the general election. he has had time to come to terms with the fact that people don't like what happened here and it looks bad for him and therefore the correct thing to do, if one wants to be elected all like to buy a large number of people, which is what a politician is all about, to draw a line under it, apologise, and try to move the news agenda onto something you want to talk about, like bus ticket policy of something else. but he has failed. this is not going away. it is not. he is still at about 39% or 40% in the polls, the labour party don't seem to have been greatly affected by this. but it has stopped him from moving on, as susie was suggesting, discussing the issues that he wants to discuss. he keeps getting pulled back to this row

about anti—semitism. the wider context is the claim that the party has been infiltrated by anti—semites under the banner of has been infiltrated by anti—semites underthe bannerofanti— has been infiltrated by anti—semites under the banner of anti— zionism. the accusations even levelled against the leader himself, suggesting that an attempted investigation into this was a whitewash. so this is a huge, highly embarrassing and painful row for the labour party, because the labour party, rightly, is proud of its tradition of being antiracist. and for it to be accused of anti—semitism in this way is hugely damaging. which is why shaul ladany's words, i am sure, will hurt. staying with the telegraph. nigel farage says he is back and ready to kill theresa may's chequers plan. he is back in the sense that he is going to hit the road, going up he is going to hit the road, going up and down britain as part of leave means leave, campaigning against the chequers deal, which he is effectively a betrayal of the people voted for they voted to leave the

eu. this is significant because we are waiting for a grassroots backlash against the government's proposal. we are waiting to some kind of action when the tory party, waiting for boris johnson to step forward or somebody to push theresa may out, and this could be the kind of thing that gets that dynamic yelling. if there is a revival on the right, if there is a revival among eurosceptics and ukip, that could spook tory backbenchers into acting against theresa may and acting against theresa may and acting against theresa may and acting against the deal. that is the theory. what the government would say is that this sort of thing doesn't make the slightest bit of difference, ukip is at 45% in the polls, there is no election coming up, and what is more, the only choice chasing the country is that chequers deal or no deal. —— ukip is at 4% or 5% in the polls. nigel farage would probably say that no deal is the better option. until the lorries are queued up outside his house in kent because they cannot

get past the english channel. nigel r raj is just get past the english channel. nigel r raj isjust the politician get past the english channel. nigel r raj is just the politician who will not go past the u—bend and stayed out. why should he? his party existed to get us out of the european union. he feels that vow to route out of the eu could be in peril. we see on social media, a big push for the people's vote, to give us push for the people's vote, to give us all a vote on the deal. and if you don't like it, then potentially, we won't come out. nigel has himself said he is moving towards the deal —— the idea of a people's vote, he says different things all the time depending on what gets attention. although his party was instrument when getting that attend —— getting that referendum, it was not the principal league side of the argument. it didn't get the public funding to be the main party for leave. so his arguments were not the ones which necessarily swayed most people. it was the party, surrey, the campaign that was led by boris

johnson and michael gove that had the money and most of the time and has to take most of the responsibility for whatever the boat eventually wasn't the reasons it was one. he is now tempting at lbc and refusing to be the mep for south—east england, which is what he should be doing because that is what he is paid for. henry bolton is also having a comeback the ukip. he is trying to register the name of a new party called 0ne trying to register the name of a new party called one nation and has been told he can't, because that name is already taken by an islamic relief charity. i think that is wonderful news. the guardian is where we will go next. asylum speakers spend decades awaiting a home office decision. how can take decades? mind—boggling. in the worst case, the guardian reports that a decision on asylum seekers have 26 years and one month. from the initial application. despite what people at

home may think, that asylum seekers come here and live lives of luxury with flatscreen televisions in council houses, if you are an asylum seeker you are not allowed to work. that is 26 years and one month, not allowed to work. you are given an allowa nce allowed to work. you are given an allowance of £37 per week. that is 26 years of worse than a0 quid a week to live on. you live in shared accommodation that is rather invested. —— rat infested. it is quite common for people to wait more than 20 years. 17 people had to wait more than 15 years. all these estimates do not take into account the extra time that might be required if there is an appeal for a fresh claim of any sort. surely if somebody is making a claim for asylu m somebody is making a claim for asylum which is based on the ill treatment they received or would recede elsewhere, and therefore under international law they must be accepted here, then looking at the evidence of that, surely that cannot justifiably take more than 6— 12 months, i would justifiably take more than 6— 12 months, iwould have justifiably take more than 6— 12 months, i would have bought. and if

you cannot find the evidence or cannot find the evidence they should not be here in that time, then you have to say, well, we are not going to and we have to move on from that point. this has come to light because of data the guardian has obtained. there is no suggestion that there are moves afoot at the moment to try to stop this happening ever again. right. we will see what the government has to say about that. this is not an issue of how many asylum seekers you take every year. that is not the debate. the debate is whether you are for taking more or taking less, it makes sense they should be processed as quickly as possible. both for security reasons, because if they are somebody who doesn't deserve to be here and they are a potential danger, you want them processed quickly, but also for humanitarian reasons, because as susie said, it is very difficult being an asylum seeker in this country. it is certainly not a wealthy lifestyle. also, asylum seekers can to get lumped into the wider debate about free movement and mass migration, and people might think there are

more asylum seekers than they really are. in the last four years there was something like 26,000 applications. of that, about 50,000 we re applications. of that, about 50,000 were accepted, and of that 15,000, about 6000 were children. —— 15,000 about 6000 were children. ——15,000 we re about 6000 were children. ——15,000 were accepted. it is going to those in the direst need. it is not that big a number. it really ought to be processed more quickly and humanely. some of the issues behind this may well be that there is not adequate funding to the people doing the investigating. i'll bet you anything. let's look at the i. teenagers face crackdown on easy university offers, these are unconditional offers were you don't even have to sit a—levels, necessarily. and it seems some are choosing not to. it does feel strange. back in my day, and... during the war! unconditional meant either you are during the war! unconditional meant eitheryou are a during the war! unconditional meant either you are a genius or you were brilliant at athletics and your university desperately wanted you regardless of your grades. now they are being more widely handed out because there are more places to

fill and universities are desperate to fill them. so they are competing to fill them. so they are competing to attract students. that is bad because it could mean that students, if they are given an unconditional offer, might think they don't have to work so hard at the a—levels. i would dispute kids are definitely doing that, because the people getting the highest grades is actually going up. but also, how about we follow the logic of this through and say that if universities are competing to attract students, why don't they start lowering the fees they charge? why don't they start offering more part—time courses? why don't they start being more generous in the kinds of things, the grants and things, that they offer students? it is a pity it comes down to attracting as many people as possible at the full fee level. if we are going to follow the marketisation of universities through to its logical conclusion, thenit through to its logical conclusion, then it should mean less universities offering more to attract students to go to them. but surely we are going to see some courses that will have to close,

won't they? if they can't find people to fill them. the thing is, the headline is slightly wrong. teenagers facing crackdown on their easy life of just teenagers facing crackdown on their easy life ofjust doing exams! from the i was met front—page sub editor. that is a bitter about. it is universities that are facing the on making unconditional offices in order to bring in the thing that makes them money. —— unconditional offers. if you are investing tens of thousands of pounds in your own education, and getting yourself into debt for many many times that, then you should be able to... i mean, they are going to be working very ha rd they are going to be working very hard anyway. the department of education is saying, giving out unconditional places just to put bums on seats not only undermines the credibility of the university system but does students a disservice by distracting them from their studies and swaying their decisions. we are concerned about a rise in the number of unconditional offers and are closely monitoring the situation. we fully expect the

regulator to take appropriate action. if the government gave the university is the power to do all of this they can't really moan about it. -- this they can't really moan about it. —— universities. this they can't really moan about it. -- universities. just quickly, sajid javid certain to stand for conservative leader. when? the more interesting question is when theresa may is going to step down. and she does, there will probably be about, well, how many tory mps are they? 295 people ready to stand and unite the party? there is going to be a leadership election at some point and we are already fishing around to see who might be the best person to i’ufi. see who might be the best person to run. sajid javid is see who might be the best person to run. sajidjavid is an see who might be the best person to run. sajid javid is an attractive figure, partly because of his back story. he doesn't look like an old married tory mp. also because he has had a few good weeks. realistically, when she does eventually go, in about the year 2055, it is going to come down to boris versus someone else. boris has had an excellent

summer, partly thanks to burqagate, which i don't even think was his own invention. he told a joke in a column which became a huge media sensation. theresa may decided to pile on top of him on the basis of that, and all it has really done is rally support for him from the tory grassroots. nasty talk about sajid javid, but i think the big fish to wash is borisjohnson. javid, but i think the big fish to wash is boris johnson. it wasn't a joke, because nobody laughed. rowan atkinson did. he doesn't count. in this time of year, the head of the party conference, —— a head of the party conference, —— a head of the party conference, —— a head of the party conference, when they have nothing else to do, they are always talking about who will be the next leader. they are trying to elbow themselves to the front of the press pack. it is the conference and they get all the attention and they want to say, here is the new pretender for the throne, you know. it is ridiculous. it isjust for the throne, you know. it is ridiculous. it is just them for the throne, you know. it is ridiculous. it isjust them or their aid is talking to journalists and picking themselves up. —— aides. it

gets into the papers because there is nothing else to report. ignore red. but not any of the other papers. no. the mera knows what is going on. don't ignore what we are saying. in the express, a shocking rise in child diabetes, a a0% increase —— express. 4096 child diabetes, a a0% increase —— express. 40% increase child diabetes, a a0% increase —— express. 4096 increase in type 2 diabetes it is linked to obesity, the kind that comes on because of lifestyle choices. a a0% increase is not that much, really, to be worried about, because it is still only 700 children. a decade ago no children in britain had type 2 diabetes, which is kind of astonishing in itself, that there were no obese children with diabetes, i find that kind of hard to believe. if there is a problem, of course it must be dealt with. but the shocking all our kids are that thing, it is 700. when

you think about how often this story is reported, it is the type of foods we are eating. it is indeed. this type two different from tight one? yes. —— type one. type two different from tight one? yes. -- type one. we already know this is an orthodox edition. could it be there are lots of children with type one? yes, they can be born with type one? yes, they can be born with it, develop it, and it is not to do with their diet. it is an endocrinology problem. 0k, excuse my ignorance. 0k. endocrinology problem. 0k, excuse my ignorance. ok. you can'tjust stop talking! we have five minutes left. do you know what? i wish i had not come back from holiday. miners in the water, what is going on? —— mine is only water, what is going on?

right. the daily mail. the uk is set for a levy on coffee cups after a huge public demand for attacks on ta keaway huge public demand for attacks on takeaway containers —— tax. we still have to work out how we recycle them. yes, because no one has said that a 5p levy on your coffee cups is going to create a special bin, paying for it all to be recycled and dealt with in a safer way. you cannot recycle cardboard cup which is plastic coated, that is the problem. if you are paying 5p and it is still going to landfill, you haven't solved the problem. it is just nibbling at the edges, creating tax to try and stop people doing a thing which they are probably going to do anyway. what you need to do is have a proper attack on plastic. you need to outlaw plastic in nappies and wet wipes, 0utlaw the things that people use every day and throw away. i have no doubt it is well

intentioned, but i have noticed a lot of nudge taxes being mentioned just when the government is looking to find money to put into the nhs. so another nudge tax being put around is the possibility of taxing vaping. which could be very bad, because the science isn't really in. while indicating the rules around vaping could be relaxed. and the treasury is looking at putting a tax on vaping, and the eu is looking at that as well. i think there is some coincidence that the government is looking to make us all healthier and it has chosen a tool for doing it which is... it is the only way of raising taxes without getting bad headlines. it is like fags and alcohol. over to the sun. we want to

let susie be expensive. thomas markle exclusive. the royals are just like scientologist. what is megan's father saying now? i don't know if they are lizards under the skin and come from a different planet or undergo some kind of auditing, but i think probably if we went into page five, if we had it, it would be something along the lines of i am not supposed to talk about the royals, isn't it awful? interesting thing is that last week, markle, god bless him and keep him, gave an interview saying i have only given three interviews and this is my last one. i shall never speak again and! my last one. i shall never speak again and i want to speak to my daughter. this week, thomas markle exclusive in the sun. they turn up and say it would you like to tell us

something else? and he says all right. when they called him before the wedding and said there is no room for you to give a father of the bride speech, when they were still talking and he was still coming, it seemed cruel but now it seems like a really good idea from someone who knows him slightly better than us. she may have realised that if he was given the space to talk he would be talking rubbish over and over again. shut up. first of all, i distance myself from all those things said about the scientologists, who are great, i about the scientologists, who are great, lam about the scientologists, who are great, i am sure. have you become an eight level thetan? i will not go down that hourly. the person i feel sorry for is megan. they are innocent are very protective group of people because they have to be. it is the royal family. what do you expect? you are joining an institution. they are not allowed to

say things a lot of the time, about their personal opinions about stuff. but the newspapers will get bored of him, eventually. they have got bored with some other members of the markle family, who are completely mad, and thomas will go quiet. i think megan and harry a sensible to ignore him. very quickly, in the ft, emotional musk sparked investor flight. emotional musk sparked investor flight. he is apparently overworked, has had a difficult year and is quite emotional about it. well, the poon quite emotional about it. well, the poor, poor man. the poor billionaire. there is always his vast amount of money for him to take some small comfort from. he is clearly a genius, he isjust not to be trusted with publicity and should be trusted with publicity and should be kept away from his twitter feed. stocks have fallen 8% and investors are talking about putting in a second—in—command to take some of the pressure off, which i think is

code for saying that after the thai cave rescue when he suggested sending a metal cigar shaped canister through a very windy tunnel, and called one of the rescuers in a defamatory fashion a paedophile, which he was forced to apologise for later, he has obviously shown himself to be under slightly too much pressure, perhaps. 0ne slightly too much pressure, perhaps. one wonders if the president will be set here, where a billionaire says something damaging an emotional on twitter and his second—in—command comes up twitter and his second—in—command comes up from behind to take over. i wonder if some sort of precedent could be set. we got there, didn't we? 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. imight do i might do that when we get home, just to see what it was really like.

not as bad as you think. thank you, tim and susie. goodbye. ben stokes will make his return to the england cricket side tomorrow in the third test against india at trent bridge, just four days after being found not guilty of affray. the durham all—rounder missed the second test match because of that trial that concluded earlier in the week. sam curran is the man to miss out. andy swiss reports. from the courtroom to the cricket field, ben stokes back in the england team at the end of a dramatic week. it was only on tuesday that stokes was cleared of affray, and just four days later he will once again represent his country. the unlucky player to make way is sam curran. with five wickets and a half century he was man of the match in the first test. his captain says dropping him was one of the toughest decisions he has had to

make, but that stokes is ready to return. we had to make days' practice to gauge that on in terms of fitness and making sure that he was physically right to play. sat him down last night, just me and him, and asked him quite rudely and honestly, you know, are you in the right place to go out and play for england? and he assured me that he is, absolutely, ready to go and perform at his best. so from that perspective i have no worries or doubts that he won't be able to go and deliver just like he doubts that he won't be able to go and deliverjust like he has done so many times for england. as for india, well, lose here and they will lose the series, so the return of england's star all—rounder is surely all they need. what they say they are looking forward to facing stokes once again. he is a terrific cricketer. we like to play against top cricketers. as simple as that. if he is cleared by the courts, what is the reason for him not to play? i mean, if! is the reason for him not to play? i mean, if i was in england's position, i would want him to play. 0nce

position, i would want him to play. once again today, stokes looked relaxed, posing for photos with the fans. but he knows, come tomorrow, all eyes will be on his cricketing comeback. county side durham have signed cameron bancroft. bancroft is the australia opener who was banned for nine months after admitting ball—tampering during a test match. just to warn you, there is some flash photography coming up. he was part of the scandal that shook the sport, with australia captain steve smith and vice captain david warner also suspended. bancroft admitted to using sandpaper on the ball in a game against south africa in march, and his deal with somerset was cancelled. he willjoin durham next year. gloucester say they are surprised and extremely disappointed after their fly half danny cipriani was summoned to an rfu disciplinary panel next week. it follows the england international‘s conviction for assault earlier this week. cipriani has now been charged with conduct prejudicial to the interests of the game by the rfu after the incident outside a jersey nightclub. however, gloucester have released a statment criticising the decision and the timing of the announcement.

manchester city women's champions league campaign begins with a difficult—looking tie against spanish champions atletico madrid next month. the draw was made earlier today, three british clubs still involved. the english double winners chelsea face bosnia and herzegovina—based side sfk 2000 sarajevo, while glasgow city will meet somatio barcelona, from cyprus. the wbc world heavyweight champion deontay wilder says there is no question he will fight tyson fury later this year. again, some flash photography coming up. the american argued with fury‘s dad, john, at today's weigh—in ahead of his son's bout with francesco pianeta in belfast tomorrow. it all got a bit heated, but wilder says that the deal has been done, with the fight expected to take place in the united states towards the end of the year. pianeta will be fury‘s second opponent since the former heavyweight champion came back from a 2.5—year break. as soon as he gets this guy

out the way, it's done. that's how simple it is, you know what i mean? when two fighters want to fight each other, it will happen. you know, me and fury, we talked to each other, and we made the fightjust happen. i told him to get with his people, he told me to get with mine, so we got together, and it happened overnight. when two fighters want to fight, they're going to fight. that's all the sport for now. we look to the atlantic to see our weather coming in this weekend, a lot of the rain we had earlier on has moved away out into the north sea. we still have a link back of cloud and rain not far away from northern ireland, southern scotland and the north of england. south of that, very humid air and a warmer night than it was last night. to the north of that of rain we have some stronger winds developing in the far north of scotland. 0ver stronger winds developing in the far north of scotland. over the weekend,

most north of scotland. over the weekend, m ost pla ces north of scotland. over the weekend, most places will have a dry day on saturday. there is a bit more rain around on sunday and throughout many of us it will feel quite humid. the rain on sunday is stuck across central, southern scotland, northern ireland and the far north of england. south of that, staying dry with the best of the sunshine towards the south—east. temperatures getting into the mid—20s or so. to the north of our patchy light rain and drizzle, northern scotland may well be dry with some sunshine. stronger winds first thing in the morning easing away. there will be the more persistent rain across central, southern scotland, northern england and wales. it will peter out as it heads into the midlands on sunday and then it should be dry for most of us on one day. —— monday. hello. this is bbc news. i'm ben bland. our top stories: devastating floods kill more than 300 people in the indian state of kerala — the prime minister modi makes an emergency visit. funeral preparations for victims of the genoa bridge collapse. the search goes on for five people still missing. in just a few hours,

pakistan's former cricket captain, imran khan, will be sworn in as the country's new prime minister. and we talk to a woman held as sex slave by the islamic state group who came face to face with her former captor in germany.