good morning, welcome to breakfast with steph mcgovern and mega munchetty. our headlines today: preparing for the pontiff. the pope arrives in ireland today for his first visit in almost a0 years. women in england will be soon allowed to take abortion pills in their own homes, following on from scotland and wales. the first holidaymakers to be flown back early from the egyptian hotel where a british couple died in unexplained circumstances arrive home. good morning. in sport: manchester united bossjose mourinho has denied any rift with executive vice—chairman ed woodward. in a tetchy press conference, mourinho insisted he had no problems with woodword amid reports of a falling out between the two. no surprise that on a bank holiday weekend we've got some rain on the way. it's tomorrow that's going to be the wet day of the two. pelloux. —— pelloux. —— pelloux.

it's saturday the 25th of august. our top story: pope francis will arrive in dublin today, the first papal visit to ireland in almost a0 years. his two—day tour comes at a time of turmoil for the catholic church, as it faces criticism of its handling of child abuse by priests, dating back decades. hundreds of thousands of people are expected to listen to him speak. emma vardy is in dublin for us this morning. good to see you. of people looking forward to this visit, not necessarily because they are fans, some also wanting to see a change from the catholic church —— lots of people. that's right. of course, this is a huge event for ireland, huge anticipation about what the pope's visit will bring, lots of excitement from many catholics. of course, the pope still has the ability to draw huge crowds almost like nobody else on the planet. of

course, ireland used to be a very strong catholic country but it's on the gun huge and social change in the gun huge and social change in the last a0 years since the last papal visit —— the last a0 years since the last pa pal visit —— it's the last a0 years since the last papal visit —— it's undergone. recent votes have legalised gay marriage and abortion, a mark of how social attitudes have changed. but religion is central to many people's lives here and the arrival of pope francis later this morning at 10:30am at dublin airport, he will be greeted at a welcome ceremony there, then that will begin a packed two—day visit for the pope. he will arrive at dublin castle at midday and then later this afternoon he will travel in the popemobile on the streets of dublin, that will be the first chance of the public for —— for the public to see him. but the big event will be the mass in phoenix park tomorrow evening, 500,000 people expected to see that event. 0ne

500,000 people expected to see that event. one of the reasons his authority has diminished in recent yea rs has authority has diminished in recent years has been the scandal of sexual abuse of children by catholic priests. that's something the pope is expected to address in his visit. is also set by the vatican that he will meet with survivors of clerical sexual abuse at some point over the weekend —— it's also said. despite the scandals that will overshadow this visit to some extent, there's no doubt great excitement from a lot of catholics and a mob of hope about what kind of uplifting presence the pope can bring to ireland —— a lot of hope. all the tickets have gone in their tens of thousands, a marker of the way the pope can draw those huge crowds and it will be a hugely important moment for ireland. emma, thanks very much for explaining all that. we will see you later. let's have a look at the other stories this morning. the first holidaymakers to be flown back early from the egyptian hotel where a british couple died have arrived home. john and susan cooperfrom burnley were staying at the aqua magic hotel in hurghada.

thomas cook said the circumstances of the deaths remained unclear. their daughter who was also staying in the hotel says she believes the couple's deaths are suspicious. matt cole reports. they should still be enjoying sandy beachis they should still be enjoying sandy beach is an luxury pools, but holidaymakers have chosen the safety ofa holidaymakers have chosen the safety of a wet bank holiday weekend in britain over the uncertainty surrounding their luxury hotel in hurghada. when you find out at 10pm, 10:30pm at night that two people have died two days ago and nobody knows why, they obviously came down ill quite suddenly, having had the chance to get a doctor first, i'm wandering what is happening to my kids when they're sleeping. it's just awful. some people were quite eye rake and upset because they didn't have answers, instant answers, and you can't give instant answers, and you can't give instant answers because it's speculation. thomas cook did what they could, and everything they did was spot on if you ask me.

the decision to evacuate all thomas cook customers from the aqua magic hotel followed the deaths ofjohn and susan cooper. they were on holiday with their daughter, who found them unwell in their room on tuesday. both later died. the family believes something about their deaths at this five star resort doesn't add up. preliminary findings by the egyptian authorities suggest the couple died of natural causes, but the, thomas cook... —— but thomas cook... in hurghada it's understood the public prosecution office is investigating and officials have told the bbc it's likely to report within the next week or ten days. matt cole, bbc news. president trump has cancelled next week's planned trip to north korea by his secretary of state, mike pompeo. mr trump said not enough progress had been made in dismantling pyongyang's nuclear programme. david willis has the details. mr president, what about the meeting

with north korea, sir? capping a tumultuous week at home, donald trump is now facing a major setback involving a key area of foreign policy. following what he described as a historically successful summit with the north korean leader, kim jong—un, successful summit with the north korean leader, kimjong—un, in singapore earlier this year, plans we re singapore earlier this year, plans were announced for the secretary of state to revisit north korea this weekend only for those plans to be scrapped 2a hours later. finally it's dawned on donald trump that perhaps the nuclear problem with north korea is not over. and so i think what he has done in his mind is say we've done our part but somehow china's not doing its part, why is china not doing its part? because they're in a trade war with us, so we'll get the trade war over

and then we'll get going with this. in singapore, mrtrump and then we'll get going with this. in singapore, mr trump said the nuclear threat from north korea was now over but the agreement reached between the two men was vague and mr kim has shown little willingness since to dismantle his nuclear arsenal. previous administrations have fallen victim to foot dragging on behalf of the north koreans. fall the bonding that took place in singapore, the part to denuclearisation on the korean peninsula may be longer and bumpier than president trump predicted —— for all the. david willis, than president trump predicted —— forall the. david willis, bbc than president trump predicted —— for all the. david willis, bbc news, washington. the family of a british—iranian woman imprisoned in iran on spying charges are fighting for her three—day temporary release to be extended. nazanin zhagari—ratcliffe was reunited with her four year old daughter this week but is due to return to prison tomorrow. she was jailed in 2016 on spying charges which she denies. we will be speaking to her husband, richard ratcliffe, after 8am this morning. women in england will be allowed to take an early abortion

pill at home under a department of health plan due to take effect by the end of the year. last month, the government was criticised as being out of step as the practice is already allowed in scotland and wales. chi chi izunda reports. under the current law in england, women who want to end their pregnancy before ten weeks have to ta ke two pregnancy before ten weeks have to take two pills up to a8 hours apart and ata take two pills up to a8 hours apart and at a clinic. the critics said two separate visits to a medical facility can be challenging to organise and are often traumatic, as some winning can experience bleeding and cranking on their way home. it was so traumatic and so unexpected. the pain and an order was so unexpected. the pain and an order was so extreme that i had to get off the tube. i lay down on the bench and basically just the tube. i lay down on the bench and basicallyjust decided that i wasn't going to move any further. it's that distressed that the government wants to avoid women

suffering. the department of health says by the end of this year it will allow women to take the second pill in this familiar surroundings of their own home. around 180,000 women have an abortion each year in england and for in five of those are early medical terminations. this move has been widely welcomed with the british pregnancy advisory service calling this decision and outbreak of common sense. we're absolutely delighted that this has come into place. this is a way in which girls and women can access the second part of the second pill is in their early medical abortion ina safe, is in their early medical abortion in a safe, effective and compassionate way. it also means england falls in line with wales, who allowed women to ta ke with wales, who allowed women to take the second pill at home from june, and scotland, which made the change last year. while in northern ireland, abortion is still illegal u nless ireland, abortion is still illegal unless there's serious risk to a woman's health or life. chi chi izunda, bbc news. the hurricane heading towards hawaii has been down—graded to a category1 storm but is still expected to bring disruption.

hurricane lane's sustained winds are now around 85mph. 0ur north america correspondent james cook is there for us now. james, what is it like there at the minute? still pretty windy, not as windy as it was. interestingly in the last half an hour there's been a storm surge, the pacific ocean beside me has been churned up a brownish colour and it's been on and off pretty heavy rain. there's been some news changing in the last hour or two and that is that this is now no longer a harry kane, it's been downgraded to a tropical storm. that's good news for hawaii but there may well yet be a sting in the tail -- there may well yet be a sting in the tail —— hurricane. the heavy rain which has already caused destruction, landslides and rescues on the big island, is expected to

cause problems here on maui and also 0ahu, the most populous of the islands. you got caught in the middle of it when you were doing a radio broadcast, i think we can play a clip of that now. the latest forecasts is that the eye will skirt the big island in 12 hours time before rushing past two 0ahu. —— to 0ahu. i'm all right, i'm all right, i'm all fine. well, that was unexpected. are you 0k? yeah, i'm all right. i'm all right, don't move it, it will be easierjust to all right, don't move it, it will be easier just to climb all right, don't move it, it will be easierjust to climb out. 0h, all right, don't move it, it will be easierjust to climb out. oh, i smashed my laptop! as we heard, james connor your la ptop as we heard, james connor your laptop got smashed but everyone was all right? yes, it was age three that landed

smack on my head. i've still got a rather sore neck and sore shoulder as well —— it was a tree. it was quite terrifying, my back was to the tree, i didn't know it was coming down, i barely heard the noise and thenit down, i barely heard the noise and then it was on top of me, smack on my head. i managed to scramble out thanks to my colleagues, chuck and dave, who were quickly on the scene here to help me. it wasn't pleasant but it was a lesson. that was before the hurricane got here and it seemed calm but one gust could have caused a really serious problem. james, we're very glad you all right. please stay safe. the dangers of thejob! right. please stay safe. the dangers of the job! you don't expect that in the middle of a broadcast, a tree landing on him. and many residents are ok as well, many evacuated from their homes. the labour leader, jeremy corbyn, has defended comments he made about zionists when he was a backbencher five years ago. he says he is now more careful about when he uses the term now.

mr corbyn has faced criticism, after it emerged he told a palestinian conference that british zionists did not understand english irony. the first of a new series of rail strikes on northern has begun as part of the dispute about the role of guards on trains. members of the rmt union are set to walk out for six consecutive saturdays. northern has said it will operate around 30% of its usual services, with buses replacing some trains. guests at a colorado hotel would have been in for a surprise if they went down to the lobby in the early hours as a special visitor was getting his bearings. here he is. that is a bear. this bear had a snoop around the stanley hotel, which overlooks the rocky mountain national park. hotel staff had to relax the rules onjumping on

hotel staff had to relax the rules on jumping on the furniture. you wouldn't want to challenge that bear, would you 7 know, especially if he had a sore head! —— know, especially if he had a sore head! as we've just been hearing, torrential rains, severe flooding and high winds have caused havoc in parts of hawaii after hurricane lane came close to hitting some of the islands. the storm is set to bring hurricane conditions to maui. chris norberg has been providing storm updates on the website, maui information guide, joins us now. how is it there at the moment for you? well, it doesn't fill right complaining about a tropical storm but it isn't really fair because a lot of people have been devastated by this and fortunately i'm on the north side of maui which is not enduring all of the fires and devastating problems that they having on the west side but we are experiencing quite a bit of flooding over here and the flash flooding,

there are warnings pretty much through the whole island is now. but on the west side, where james is, i think he is over there, the race and pretty massive fires, 2300 acres have burnt, a0% have been contained, and fires out and wuhu as well, the big island is struggling with quite a bit of flooding as well. the even though we are at a tropical storm conor there is still a lot of things happening, landslides, damaging winds, storm surges, massive surf, and this torrential rain that is causing flash flooding. we can see some pictures here of the preparation that was done ahead of this. how residents there, would you say? apra four how are. some people put a lot of effort, like myself, into protecting their family and boarding up windows and getting things out of the yard and making sure that things are safe and

knowing where the evacuation areas are were but people were spending time at the beach and, you know, it is one of those crying wolf situations where we have had a lot of hurricanes pass away in the last few years, of hurricanes pass away in the last few yea rs, of of hurricanes pass away in the last few years, of them which have not hit us and it scares me when i see something like this happen with this very well could have smashed right into us it was governed straight toward us, and we had a category five hurricane yesterday with sustained winds of 135 miles an hour, so we are thankful and i hope people appreciate the severity and potential of these storms. chris, thank you for talking to us today about this and do stay safe. thank you. thank you for watching breakfast. the headlines: pope francis will meet child abuse victims later today during the republic of ireland's first papal visit for almost a0 years. the daughter of a british couple found dead in a hotel in egypt says she believes their deaths are suspicious.

authorities there say they suffered heart and respiratory failure. i put iputajumper on i put a jumper on yesterday. i put a jumper on yesterdaylj i put a jumper on yesterday. i was stored in pouring rain in a field and it was cold, i felt. do you know who i blame? tomasz. . we have some rain? i put myjumper on this morning. and then took it off again? 0r morning. and then took it off again? or the must be around the corner. meteorology to speaking it is only a few days september one, the first day of autumn. let's see what is happening, the result is here, you can see all of the cloud and it is all happening in the north atlantic, the weather systems are coming our way and the jetstream's the weather systems are coming our way and thejetstream's dipping southward and it means colder areas

coming in from the north. so there is certainly a distinct chill in the air today. there will be tomorrow as well. the winds from the north, and you can see those arrows if you squint, that is where the air is coming from so that is why it feels chilly but today will be better than yesterday, some of us yesterday was standing in the pouring rain, as steph was saying. some scattered showers and sunny spells around but cool showers and sunny spells around but cool, 18 or 19 in the south, or maybe hit 1a in aberdeen but it is pretty much it. changes on the way. saturday isn't so bad but the change happens tonight and the cloud and rain increase, the winds strengthen across western areas and this is what it looks like by five am on sunday. seventh and eighth there, a chilly end to the night. in the rain comes in, this low pressure will be trundling across the uk. more and more of those now in the weeks to

come. and this is going to basically upset the weather on sunday. it is looking great. all of the rain is piling in on top of it within the band of rain, some really strong winds around the coast, a0 mile an hour gusts, a strong wind, and it sweeps hour gusts, a strong wind, and it swee ps a cross hour gusts, a strong wind, and it sweeps across the country so i think all of us on sunday will get at least a dose of rain, perhaps a hint of something a little bit brighter towards the end of the day on sunday. through sunday night, that is out of the way, we will talk about a holiday monday, it isn't a bank holiday everywhere but it is for england and wales, and by the time we get to monday, the rain cleared so there will be some sunshade so topsy—turvy, up and down the hill, that kind of thing. sunshade so topsy—turvy, up and down the hill, that kind of thinglj sunshade so topsy—turvy, up and down the hill, that kind of thing. i like those hand movements, tom! thank you very much! we'll bring you the headlines at 6:30am. time now for the film review with jane hill and mark kermode. hello and a very warm welcome

to the film review on bbc news, and the good news is mark kermode is back from his summer holidays. nice to see you. nice to see you, it feels like it's been ages. it does, it really does actually. what have you chosen this week? so the children act, which is a new film starring emma thompson, we have this week. also, very different, alpha, the new movie by albert hughes. and black kkklansman, the spike lee film. and the children act... yes. i'm very interested to hear what you say because i've read the novel... 0k. and i like it. so, so? and, you know, adapted from the novel by ian mcewan... yes. ..in the screenplay. so emma thompson is a high court judge, whose work is engulfing her life. she is involved in matters of life and death, very, very complicated cases — one of which is about a boy who's 17 years old, who's refusing a blood transfusion on religious grounds.

but he is still technically a child, there is an argument about whether or not he's being forced into this position by his parents. she has also to deal with cases of conjoined twins and, you know, these are weighty philosophical issues. when she comes home, she brings the work home with her, and her husband, played by stanley tucci, is starting to feel shut out of their marriage. here's a clip. i'll make reservations for dinner, as i've had an awful day myself. and, um, we'll go drink some wine and... and i can get some opera tickets for saturday night. no, i'm due tojudge all weekend. you can't switch it? mm—mm, two judgements for monday. what? 0h, nothing, it's just like last weekend and the 50 weekends before that. that's how it is. yes. um, look, i don't know how to say this, um,

but here it is. ithink... i think i want to have an affair. yeah. now, i... stanley tucci is terrific. yeah, he is. i'm a big fan of his. he is. the way he says yes is really, really well done. i have to say that the performances are great. i mean, emma thompson i'm am a huge fan of anyway, and she's really great in this role. it's hard to think of many other people who could carry this role. what then happens is that as part of this case of having to rule about the 17—year—old boy who doesn't want to have the blood transfusion, she makes the strange decision to go to the hospital to see him, which is unusual. and that encounter with him sparks something with him, if you're aware of things like enduring love, you'll be aware of those ideas of a very short

encounter coming to mean something much more. what the film is really about is about the way in which her marriage is sort of falling apart, and somewhere else in her life, something else — and all these things are colliding. what i like about the film is that, you know, it's notjudgemental about the characters. i think it is a very good portrayal of people being shut out of their marriage by work. i also think that it deals, you know, in a very sort of sensible way with some very complex issues. however, i think the performances are better than the film itself. i think there are moments, there's one moment — a lot of emma thompson's performance is very restrained, you know, she telegraphs a lot with very little, but there are also moments in which she has kind of like an emotional breakdown, which reminded me oddly enough of that brilliant scene in love actually, in which she goes off in the bedroom and cries. 0h, superb, yes. however, there are other things about the film which also reminded me of love actually, and not in a good way. there are certain moments in which the drama, i think, is melodramatic, cheesy, doesn't work, and it isn't particularly sort

of well structures. so i think what it is is really well played and i'd certainly recommend seeing it for those performances alone. i think there are some problems with the writing and the direction can feel a little bit staid. and i wonder how filmic it is because as i was reading the novel, i thought "oh, you could see this, dare i say, as a television drama." you know, ifelt that, in a good way, as i was reading it, i felt... that is a really interesting point because there are definitely moments watching the film in which televisual is the sense that you get from it. i know actually, nowadays of course, television is as cinematic as cinema itself. that's true, yes... but there are moments in it which you think, "this isn't coming to life as a film, but that's — that balanced by the fact the performances are so good." yeah. i mean even from just watching that clip, i could tell you were enjoying it, and you can see how well those relationships... and i have not seen the pre—screening because i was told that would end in divorce because we both have to go and see it... 0k. so this is what happens, so we're still going. it's definitely worth seeing, i just have reservations

about the writing and directing, but no reservations at all about the performances. all right, 0k, well, it's on the list for the bank holiday weekend. alpha, your second choice. so this is an odd one. it's the new film by albert hughes, one half of the hughes brothers, who back in the ‘90s made dead presidents, which is one of the great overlooked movies of the ‘90s, a real masterpiece. set 20,000 years ago, a young man, played by kodi smit—mcphee, goes on a hunting trip. he hasn't yet learnt to kill, and is lost and left for dead. he's attacked by a pack of wolves. he wounds one of the wolves and then befriends it, and then it becomes a story of a boy and his dog on a quest to get back home. there are some remarkable things about it, certainly in terms of the visuals. there's very, very little dialogue, what dialogue there is is subtitled, but it's really a bit of visual storytelling, and visually, it is very arresting. there are moments in it in which it kind of — it wanders a little bit off the beaten track and it becomes slightly almost hallucinatory, which i rather like and i do think that albert hughes is a very talented director.

however, it has to be said, this has been sitting around for, i think, it's about a year. it was originally meant to be released about a year ago. there was some controversy as well about animal rights on the set and so, it has had of sort of strange route to the screen. i think there are things in it that are, that are very impressive. and as i said, as its heart, it is the story of a boy and his dog on a quest, and that happens to be a story that i'm a sucker for. well, i am too, as you know. yeah. so i may well enjoy that one. and goodness, well, it's the new spike lee. the new spike lee, tell us all. well, he's back in full force. this is based on the stranger—than—fiction story of ron sta llwo rth. john david washington is stallworth, who in the 19705 becomes — he joins the formerly all—white colorado springs police force and he decides to infiltrate the ku klux klan, and he — initially he gets an advert from the press with the phone number, and he rings up and says i'm a white supremacist and i want tojoin the klan, and they believe him, and he starts working his way right up the chain, right up

to david duke, grand wizard. but when it comes to actual face—to—face meeting, of course, they have to get somebody else play ron, so what they do is they pull in his partner, flip, played by adam driver, who isjewish, and they say "ok, well, i'll do the voice on the phone, you do it in person". but they have very different, initially very different attitudes to the case. here's a clip. well, i'm not risking my life to prevent some rednecks from lighting a couple of sticks on fire. this is the job. what's your problem? that's my problem. for you, it's a crusade. for me, it's a job. it's not personal, nor should it be. why haven't you bought into this? why should i? because you're jewish, brother. the so—called chosen people. you've been passing for a wasp. white anglo—saxon protestant, cherry pie, hot dog, white boy. that's what some light—skinned black folks do — they pass for white. i thought this was really good. firstly, it's a film of balancing acts. the central balancing act is between humour and horror,

and it's no surprise to discover that it's produced byjordan peel, he made get out, which of course was a horror film that was submitted to one of the awards as a comedy, and then jordan peel said, actually, "it's a documentary". and of course there is documentary in this, it takes an historical story and brings it right up to date with, you know, shocking footage of charlottesville, and it's very, very contemporary, i mean, the issue of neo—nazis and extreme right—wingers is still very, very contemporary. but this could be a deeply serious film throughout. that is what you would expect, given the subject. and what he manages to do, because they say at the beginning it's based on some for real, for real stuff, meaning you could hardly believe that some of this happened. and it does play fast and loose with the truth. it takes the story and fictionalises it. but what it does is, in much the same way as get out, it balances those two elements, and the balancing act, ito have to say, is brilliantly done. i mean, i think this is spike lee's best film since four little girls, because it's very hard to get that balance right. there were moments on the screen that i saw in which people were belly laughing, and there were moments

in which people were hiding their faces in the corner because you are dealing with some really, really, you know, profoundly disturbing stuff. and it's an angry film, it's a film which, although it's set in the past, in the 19705, feels urgently contemporary. i love the look of it, i love the fact that it actually looks like a film made in the 19705. spike lee has cited things like serpico and french connection and dog day afternoon as kind of visual cues for it, and the performances are really great. adam driver, john david washington in the centre of it, john david washington is brilliant, i mean carrying this drama. and again, he's also the centre of balancing the humour and the horror. i thought it was really remarkable and i think you'll like it. ok, i certainly did like what you've chosen as best 0ut. yeah, i'm sorry... oh, my goodness! i'm back, you see? you're back to mamma mia, you can't give it up. but i 5obbed, i 5obbed. i do, and i love my life... oh, i know. that's gone. what makes it so brilliant is if it didn't have that emotional sucker punch, it wouldn't be half

the film that it is. it's not just that you smile and all the rest of it, it's that when you weep, you weep buckets. i thought it was — i thought it was really good. it does what a film's meant to do — is it reaches in and it grabs you by the heart5tring5. it was, dare i say, so much better than i expected. yeah. and that's a plaudit in itself. i know. no, absolutely, and believe me, i went in thinking this can't, this isn't gonna work, i mean there's no way that the godfather 2 structure can work with mamma mia, and you come out 5aying, i just want to go see it again and again and again. you do. a very quick thought about dvd? yeah, so in the fade, which is a hamburg set revenge thriller. diane kruger won a best actress award at cannes a year ago now, and i think it's really worth it for her performance. it's about her husband gets murdered, neo—nazis are implicated, the law fails her and she takes the law into their own hands. her performance is brilliant. the film, actually rather like children act, has some flaws. but she carries it 5houlder high, and it is worth seeing

for her performance. well, lovely to have you back, thank you very much. thank you. thank you for being with us, bye—bye. hello, this is breakfast, with steph mcgovern and naga munchetty. here's a summary of today's main stories from bbc news. for the first time in almost a0 years, the pope is paying a visit to ireland. pope francis arrives in dublin later this morning. since the last papal visit, same sex marriage and abortion has been legalised in the country. hundreds of thousands are expected to come and see him. he's expected to come and see him. he's expected to meet victim5 to come and see him. he's expected to meet victims of catholic child sexual abuse as well. the first holidaymakers to be flown back early from the egyptian hotel where a british couple died have arrived home.

john and susan cooper from burnley were staying at the aqua magic hotel in hurghada. thomas cook said the circumstances of the unexplained deaths remained unclear. the couple's daughter who was also staying in the hotel say5 she believes the couple's deaths are 5u5piciou5. president trump has called off the us secretary of state's visit to north korea because he feels insufficient progress has been made in dismantling pyongyang's nuclear programme. mike pompeo was due to visit next week. in a tweet, mr trump also blamed china for the cancelled visit, saying the country was not doing enough to pressure north korea due to ongoing trade tensions with america. the family of a british—iranian woman imprisoned in iran on 5pying charges are fighting for her three—day temporary release to be extended. nazanin zhagari—ratcliffe was reunited with her four—year—old daughter this week but is due to return to prison tomorrow. she was jailed in 2016 on 5pying charges which she denies. we will be speaking to her husband, richard ratcliffe, after 8am this morning. women in england will be allowed

to take an early abortion pill at home under a government plan due to take effect by the end of the year. currently, women ending a pregnancy in its first 10 weeks have to take two pills at a clinic 2a to a8 hours apart. the move will bring england into line with scotland and wales, but the society for the protection of unborn children said the move further trivialises abortion. the hurricane heading towards hawaii has been down—graded to a category1 storm, but is still expected to bring disruption. hurricane lane has already caused flash flooding and landslides around the islands, and is now sustaining winds at around eighty five miles per hour. the national weather service says it is expecting the storm to weaken, but the authorities have plans in place in case there are still problems. just now you heard great news that

the storm is weakening, as is protected. but it still feels very important to have the military be postu red to important to have the military be postured to respond to any threats. the labour leader, jeremy corbyn, has defended comments he made about british zionists when he was a backbencher. a conservative mp has reported mr corbyn to the parliamentary standards watchdog, after it emerged he told a palestinian conference five years ago that british zionists did not understand english irony. mr corbyn said he was referring to people who support the creation of a jewish state, corresponding to the historic land of israel and not to alljews. the first of a new series of rail strikes on northern has begun as part of the dispute about the role of guards on trains. members of the rmt union are set to walk out for six consecutive saturdays. northern has said it will operate around 30% of its usual services, with buses replacing some trains. here's the requisite animal story of a saturday morning. we like this one. guests at a colorado hotel

would have been in for a surprise if they went down to the lobby in the early hours as a special visitor was getting his bearings. this bear had a snoop around the stanley hotel, which overlooks the rocky mountain national park. hotel staff said on facebook they'd make an exception to the rule aboutjumping on the furniture. it was quite serious at the time but they have since said they made the exception. i'm glad to say you're notjumping on the sofa yet, sarah. your first time. i'm probably as apprehensive as the staff there dealing with that. you've just been compared to a grizzly bear! no! 0h, sarah! but i'm the one that stares! this man, jose

mourinho, i like jose mourinho, the one that stares! this man, jose mourinho, i likejose mourinho, i like his character, but he's known for being a bit tetchy shall we say. just a little it is the nice way of putting it. he's always the one making the headlines and coming out with the sharp comments, he always has an opinion. lots of attention and focus on him at the moment at manchester united. there have been plenty of rumours about what's going on behind the scenes at manchester united, but managerjose mourinho says he's not had a row with his boss ed woodward. he didn't say a great deal else, mourinho's press conference lasted all of eight minutes. this was his response to a question about the talk of a fall—out behind the scenes at united. don't ask me because i don't read. i don't know... i don't know 10% of what is written. i don't know 10% of what. .. 0f

what is written. i don't know 10% of what. .. of what what is written. i don't know 10% of what... of what is coming on the tv screens. so i'm not the right guide to a nswer to screens. so i'm not the right guide to answer to it. -- right guide. the tottenham hotspur goalkeeper hugo lloris says he apologises wholeheartedly after being charged with drink driving in the early hours of yesterday morning. lloris, who captained france to victory at the world cup last month, said in a statement, "it is not the example i wish to set." he was stopped by police in central london after a night out with some of his french team mates. england's women have finished third at the under—20 world cup after beating hosts france in a penalty shootout. england's goalkeeper sandy mciver made two saves, before georgia allen stepped up to secure a a—2 victory for the lionesses. steph will be looking forward to this one... middlesbrough are top of the championship this morning after a stoppage—time goal gave them victory over west brom at the riverside stadium. boro dominated throughout, but it took until the first minute of added time for daniel ayala to poke in the winner, giving boro boss tony pulis a win over his former side. fernando alonso says he wants

an apology from red bull did you watch that one? no, i was working, but i was keeping across it on my phone. you're a big middlesbrough fan obviously. on my phone. you're a big middlesbrough fan obviouslylj middlesbrough fan obviously.” really wa nted middlesbrough fan obviously.” really wanted to be there but it is going really well. to formula 1... fernando alonso says he wants an apology from red bull after they denied his claim that they'd offered him a drive for next season. alonso will retire at the end of the year, after he failed to secure a deal away from the mclaren team, but red bull boss christian horner insists they haven't offered him a contract since 2007. 0n the track formula 1 is back from its summer break. ferrari's kimi raikkonen clocked the fastest time in friday practice ahead of the belgian grand prix. lewis hamilton was second quickest. warrington wolves will be back at wembley for the fifth time in ten years later as they face french side catalans dragons in the challenge cup final. wolves will be favourites, but dragons have impressed many in their run to their second cup final. they're coached by former england boss steve mcnamara and he told us what he changed when he arrived in the south of france.

the french culture is, you know, they drink wine and they'd read at every meal. it's not conducive to an elite performance if you're doing that every meal. it's small little changes implemented to our group, some bigger changes also to make sure that we come in line with... we're playing in an english competition against the elite players in england and we have to match those standards. a big day in rugby league and we have a special guest in the next hour, jamie peacock, legend of the game with leeds and bradford, and of course great britain, and he will be with us in the next hour. great britain's women have reached their first ever final at the wheelchair basketball world championships in hamburg. they put on a dominant performance to beat the hosts germnay 60—37. great britain added six medals to their tally on day five of the european para athletics championships in berlin.

david devine won great britain's first track medal of the day with victory in the t13 5,000m. that's on top of the silver he won in the 1,500m earlier in the week. there was also double medal success for poly maton. she won bronze in the ta7 longjump and 100m. imean, my i mean, my coachjust said, i mean really good 5k shape so just control it at the front from ak and get ready to go with two laps to go and put a kick in. that's is exacted what i did, one of the spanish guys went past me a few times but only for a went past me a few times but only fora lap or went past me a few times but only for a lap or half a lap each time. i made up for that and that's exactly how i wanted to go. sussex sharks are through to the t20 blast finals day after beating durham jets last night. this was the big wicket for the sharks, will beer trapping england all—rounder ben stokes lbw when he had looked set for a big score. the sharksjoin lancashire lightning in the semi—finals line up. now, we're used to the strict dress code of all—whites at wimbledon, but now the french open is set to introduce one of their own, and that means serena williams will be banned from wearing her black catsuit at roland garros. the 23—time grand slam champion said the outfit made her feel like a superhero when she wore it at this year's tournament. williams claims the suit

helped her cope with the issue of blood clots, which she said almost cost her her life giving birth. the french tennis federation says, "it will no longer be accepted, you have to respect the game and the place." do you think that was prompted by her wearing that catsuit? there is speculation that it may be and it was outside the lines of what they think is acceptable and the look of tennis. we're not quite sure. there's a lot of room. i go on about golf all the time, there's stuff about the dress code alienating young people from playing. i'm not sure what tennis is doing! and she's got a good medical reason for it as well. exactly. we will see how it develops! now, it's archery... that's a sneak peek... but not as we know it. in field archery, you move around

a cross country course, shooting at different targets. it's a bit like a round of golf. it sounds a bit dangerous. a little bit, i don't think i would fancy moving around on a golf course when there's an archery targets being targeted. you know who we wouldn't trust to do something like this... are you with me? mike bushell has been having a go at this, why is that? the british team are gearing up for the world championships in italy, and our very own mike bushell went to an event to release his inner robin hood. a step into the unknown. a cross hill and valley in a form of archery that takes this precision sport back to how it was centuries ago.” wa nted to how it was centuries ago.” wanted to be robin herd and probably haven't grown out of it since. it's

the sport that takes us back to our roots, to a time where we had to hunt for ourfood, roots, to a time where we had to hunt for our food, and here roots, to a time where we had to hunt for ourfood, and here in the wilderness at watership down in hampshire, 80 or so of the country's top field archers are navigating the course. cross—country archery is you like. if you think about it, we if we didn't know how to throw a brick all those years ago we wouldn't be able to shoot arrows. it's adventurous, i like exploring. yeah, it's nice to be outdoors. it's a bit like a round of golf. rather than justaiming at like a round of golf. rather than just aiming at the same target, you cross all sorts of rough the rain while trying to keep your composure. 0ften that's walking up and down the hills you just shot on, which will affect your heart rate. but to be able to shoot as consistent as possible, you need that it can

be between five metres and 60 metres away, this looks relatively near, about 15 or 20? about 15. shooting on different slopes between trees, light and dark, so that affects your distancejudgement. keep light and dark, so that affects your distance judgement. keep pulling, keep pulling, keep a link. even using a traditional longbow, it requires a surprising amount of strength to pull the string back —— keep pulling. if you want to have a go for safety reasons it not must be done as an the hunger games and brave, even a bit of the avengers because it's all encouraging young people to see the sport in an exciting light. this is definitely the most extreme of the targets, right up this steep hillside. members of the british tea m hillside. members of the british team there are aiming at that tiny little target 60 metres there near the bottom of this bowl.

the modern bows used by the british tea m the modern bows used by the british team heading to the world championships in italy this autumn are so powerful, so high—tech there's no way i could draw back the string far enough. i can't even draw it back to my nose, you got to... yes, i pull it back 30 inches bore mind. it's not just yes, i pull it back 30 inches bore mind. it's notjust being strong enough to hold it, it's being strong enough to hold it, it's being strong enough to hold it, it's being strong enough to do it, 70, 80, 90 times in a competition. it's so different and challenging. it's so different and challenging. it's ok not to be perfect, whereas with target archery it's a bit more like you have to hit the goal every time. mike bushell for bbc news, near watership down. that is great and i didn't expect it to be quite strenuous with those hills. the google is no one was hurt during the filming! —— thank goodness. let's talk to tomasz now with the weather. good morning everyone. the weather will be

changeable this weekend. today is not looking too bad, some bright weather on the way but tomorrow, the rain is going to sweep across the country and i think all of us will get a list of dose. at least a dose. it is looking pretty murky or messy, thatis it is looking pretty murky or messy, that is the word i'm looking for, across the atlantic. and lot of weather systems out there and a dip in the jetstream weather systems out there and a dip in thejetstream and that is why it is cool out there. when i got into work at about three o'clock or four o'clock, it was chilly, i'm telling you, temperatures down to single figures widely across the uk but at the time most of us were probably out and about today, it will warm up a little bit but there will be a chill in the air all day long and will feel better than yesterday with more sunshine around for sure so overall, not a bad day, a bright day. temperatures up to eight team in london, 16 in belfast, fresher in

aberdeen but enjoy saturday if you wa nt to aberdeen but enjoy saturday if you want to do anything, and you want to have good weather, today is the day to do it because tomorrow is a different story, this is heading our way, rain sweeping into northern ireland tonight and by the end of the night, five am, it is floating with the western isles, dribs and drabs of rain in western parts of england and wales but basically what is going to happen is this low pressure wool barrel across the uk during the course of sunday, right on top of us during sunday afternoon, so it means everybody and it is quite a big area of rain, epic weather front, when i it is quite a big area of rain, epic weatherfront, when i say it is quite a big area of rain, epic weather front, when i say it will split, it will be because the winds will be strong, costing in excess of a0 miles an hour around some of the coast so really blustery around the promenade of western britain, windy in london as well, the rain is heavy in the afternoon for a time across south and some eastern areas also sunday night, it clears so watch the

clock there, too am on monday, five am, six am, seven am and then it isn't looking too bad for the bank holiday monday. the sun is back out and the temperatures get up to around 21 in london, the high teens across northern areas. topsy—turvy weekend, not about today but tomorrow, forget it! monday is there looking good. thank you, tomasz! i have been feeling the cold a bit now, though,. do you need a cuddle? we'll bring you the headlines at 7:00. time now for the latest technology news in click. florida, america's sunshine state, and home to the us's

first sustainable town. this is babcock ranch. powered, befittingly, almost entirely by that big burning ball in the sky. it's 33 degrees. the humidity is, i believe, about 1,000,000%. and i've come to a solar field, so you don't have to. 3a3,000 solar panels span some aao acres, providing 75 megawatts of electricity. and that's enough to power 15,000 homes. one of the big problems with solar energy has always been when the clouds come over or especially when it gets dark, the whole thing effectively goes dead. and we haven't really had a way of storing solar energy until very recently.

but over there, ten buildings full of batteries. so it's a start. a pretty good one, too. babcock has the largest combined solar and storage facility in the us. the batteries can store a0 megawatt hours of electricity, which is enough to keep around 2,000 average us homes alight forfour hours. of course, lithium batteries are just one way of storing energy to use later, and we've seen other methods before. there's electric mountain in wales, which holds water at a top reservoir until power is needed, it then releases it back down to a lake below. switzerland's air cave fills itself with compressed air and then blows it out to turn turbines. well, now, over in california, kate russell is on track to see a new solution. since the oil crisis of the 19705, california has invested heavily into wind and solar power,

with the latest state legislation calling for 50% renewable energy by 2030, and all new homes must have solar within two years. the state is way ahead of its target, so much so that they've had to start paying neighbouring states to take some of the energy from them. as we've heard before, the problem is storage. the grid was built to handle fossil fuel—generated power and storage solutions like hydroelectric dams are in short supply. batteries too are very bad for the environment, turning unused renewable energy into not such a green solution. california—based company aries have come up with one alternative. aries was really an attempt to think of a way to use the inexhaustible, always reliable power of gravity. right? we know gravity is going to be there for us. we don't have to worry

about shortages or any of that. so how do we use gravity to store and then discharge power when we need it? one of the most efficient ways to move mass known to man, which people have spent billions of dollars to perfect, are railroads. right? 150 years of experience, incredibly efficient, steel wheels on steel rails are one of the most efficient ways to move mass. dubbed ‘the gravity train', energy is stored using electricity to push its weight uphill. when you want to take the energy out, you let gravity pull the train back down, using the friction of braking to slow the train in order to make power. it's the same way hybrid electric cars like the prius work. you see those wind turbines there behind me, they're completely still, even though there is clearly plenty of wind right now. it's not because they're broken, it's because there's no more room to store the energy they would create. and that's a problem the gravity train will solve.

when you're into excess energy production, use it to power the train up a hill, and when you want the energy back, you just send the train back down again. this demo train carries almost five tonnes uphill, storing energy as it goes. a full—scale installation will return 80% of the stored energy, which is not quite as efficient as a huge dam, but has a lot less impact. the amount of energy we store is the weight of the train times the height of the hill. simple mathematics. so the more weight and the higher the hill, the more energy we can store. we need long, gently sloping plains. but we had clients who approached us and said, "well, i only have steep, rocky, craggy mountains," so we've developed a new variation on the aries technology at almost vertical. in october, the company breaks ground on the first full—scale aries in the state of nevada. it'll be used to fine tune

the inconsistent energy flows that are a natural part of using solar and wind power. minute by minute, it will trim the imbalance between load and generation on the grid, so our trains may need to go uphill for a minute, they may need to go downhill forfive minutes, they're constantly acting like a large flywheel, that allows the grid to stay at exactly 60 hertz. it's early days yet and the concept has still to be proved in nevada, but it could help solve one of the renewable industry's biggest conundrums right now, balancing the ebb and flow of nature—made energy in a more sustainable way. after we run 30 or a0 years providing energy storage and helping people, we can remove all of our facilities very quickly, 96% of them can be either repurposed or recycled, so only a% of our facilities could ever go into a landfill. and we're trying to reduce that.

and we can then plant some native vegetation and six months later, you never know our facility was there. that was kate on a roll in california. back at babcock, i'm going for a solar—powered spin in an autonomous shuttle with its chief financial officer. so i guess the motivation for having these autonomous vehicles is that you're encouraging families here not to have as many cars. correct. yeah, i think our thought is that over time, most families in the us have a two—car family. and so our hope is that we can get from a two—car to a one—carfamily, where you have your car for the family, perhaps, but if you have it a car for a commuterfor work, you won't need it anymore, you can take an autonomous shuttle or an autonomous vehicle to work. and so over time, which will take a long time, perhaps there are no cars. but i think, realistically, within the next 10—15 years, you could see a time when you go

from two—car to one car. you think the us government at the moment doesn't understand? i think they get it. i think they're getting it. the government's a little slow to move, typically. but i think in major cities, in major metros, where traffic and pollution are an issue, technology can come in and save a lot of that. i think governments are willing to step up and make sure this comes to fruition. and we're seeing that slowly. what we're hearing and reading about is that a lot of major urban cores are going to become — there'll be restricted access, if you're driving your car and you're trying to get there, you can't get in, up to a certain mile, three miles outside of the city core, you can't get into the city core without being in an autonomous vehicle, for instance. but outside of autonomous vehicles, i mean, building a city or a town that is sustainable, i mean, you're not going to be able to do this in colder, more crowded parts of the world. no, i think that's right. i think this is fairly unique. we've a unique situation here where we have the benefit of scale. there's not a lot people that own 18,000 acres of land. that's a big chunk of dirt. along with autonomous shuttles,

babcock has its own water and waste facility, and as well as reclaiming water, there's a restriction on the amount that you're allowed to use. the tin roofs reflect heat, making homes 10% better at keeping cool, and the ranch's on—site gym is environmentally friendly too, it's powered by the treadmills. 0ne incentive to get off the couch, i suppose. it is a commendable vision to build a town with all these sustainable values but i can't help thinking you can only really do this when you are building a community from scratch. i mean, could you imagine trying to retrofit an existing town with all of these technologies? you'd basically have to tear up the infrastructure and tear down all the buildings and start from scratch anyway. babcock has been built in the style of older towns to attract people who aren't necessarily fans of the new—build feel. hi, are you expecting me? people like the kinleys. mind if ijust step inside your air—conditioning and stay here forever?

yeah, yeah. they've got a robot vacuum cleaner... i just want to kick those things. ..a coffee—making fridge... no, it's set up so it won't spill all over the place. ..and, of course, an electric car. for richard, a self—confessed geek and actual real fan of click, babcock was his calling. just reading tech blogs all the time on the internet, and it sounded fascinating to me. i liked the idea that it was environmentally friendly and was looking forward as far as energy solutions. we — in atlanta, we lived just downwind from one of the biggest coal— polluting plants in the country, and i thought "that cannot be healthy". i think of it as guilt—free living. in the uk, when you have a small town with a central area that you can walk to, it encourages walking, so it's the lifestyle. and while the buildings may look like historic florida,

for me, it was also all the technology, all the — you know, having 1 gigabyte of fibre optic internet to the home... yeah, you like that, you definitely like that. and that's it for the shortcut of our sustainability special. the full—length version is available on iplayer for you to watch right now. check us out on facebook and on twitter at @bbcclick. thanks for watching, see you soon. good morning, welcome to breakfast,

with steph mcgovern and naga munchetty. 0ur headlines today: the pope arrives in ireland today for his first visit in almost a0 years, he'll make a series of public appearances and meet privately with abuse victims. falling into step with scotland and wales, women in england will soon be allowed to take abortion pills in their own homes. holidaymakers arrive home after being flown back early from an egyptian hotel after the unexplained deaths of a british couple. is just that these two people have died in