the week ahead is looking a little quieter. for most, it will be mainly dry, not so much rain, and a bit warmer, maybe some spells of sunshine around on most days, but not dry because, as we go into monday, which is a bank holiday except in scotland, there is still this brisk westerly wind which could feed in a couple showers through the day. many places will be largely dry and, even though there is a lot of cloud, some bright and sunny spells. that breeze will have lost some of the gustiness we saw on sunday, and the best of any sunshine will mean it getting up to between 16 and 20. for many, a fine evening on monday, some late sunshine as the cloud thins and breaks. clearer skies for much of the night, but that will encourage some patchy mist and fog. for tuesday, parts of northern ireland, northern and western scotland, always closest to this front, which will generate more cloud, strengthening the breeze again, and bringing some outbreaks of rain the further north and west you are. but, for most on tuesday,

mainly dry with light winds. some cloud coming and going, but good spells of sunshine, warm spells of sunshine, with temperatures widely between 19 and 23,18 and 19 on the eastern side of scotland, much warmer than the weekend. some complications for wednesday, mainly because of this development across the continent, which is likely to create a few heavy and maybe thundery showers which could work their way into southern and eastern england. further north and west, a scattering of showers but, for much of wednesday and thursday, dry with some sunshine. 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. pope francis has ended a two—day visit to ireland by celebrating a mass at dublin's phoenix park. around 300,000 people attended the mass, where he asked for forgiveness for suffering caused by the clergy. a mass shooting in the us state of florida has left several people dead and others wounded.

it happened at a video game tournament at an entertainment complex in jacksonville. the daughter of a british couple who died at a hotel in egypt has told the bbc that she believes that something in their room killed them. john and susan cooper died in hurghada on tuesday. the british—iranian charity worker nazanin zaghari—ratcliffe has returned to prison in iran following a three—day release in which she was reunited with her family. her husband says a request to extend her temporary release was turned down. tributes have been paid to the us senatorjohn mccain, who's died at the age of 81. former president george w bush described him as "a patriot of the highest order". hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow.

with me are rob merrick, deputy political editor at the independent, and author and journalist yasmin alibhai—brown. many of tomorrow's front pages are already in. you and i can look over our glasses together! laurie on twitter thinks like i look younger. pope francis begging forforgiveness during his historic visit to ireland is on the front of the ""i. the financial times reports uber is focusing its long—term strategy on electric bicycles and scooter for shorter journeys. the daily telegraph claims a breakthrough drug specifically targeting middle age spread could help millions of people lose weight. the daily express leads with an interview with the daughter of a couple who died while on holiday in egypt. she speaks about their final hours. a picture of notting hill carnival is on the front of the independent. it also reports on a 25% drop in the number of people being granted asylum in the uk.

the?times says a network of south american thieves are responsonsible for a string of burglaries. a variety of stories making the front pages. we'll begin with the guardian, which looks back on this two day visit by the pope. the pope begs for forgiveness after decades of abuse and cover—ups. there was applause every time he apologised. yes, two main focus is to the visit, one is the subject of his speech, what he had to say, begging for forgiveness, as the guardian says. apparently he listed specific forms of abuse, including sexual crimes and forced 01’ including sexual crimes and forced or coerced adoptions, and each request for forgiveness was welcomed with applause. the other angle is how few people turned up in

comparison with the last visit. a p pa re ntly comparison with the last visit. apparently they sent out half a million tickets and 200,000 people turned up, nowhere near the millions lost time. it was interesting that you saw the irish prime minister, leo varadkar, saying that this was healthy that ireland has moved away from near universal catholicism to becoming more secular, and i couldn't imagine a british prime minister saying the same thing. it's extraordinary how ireland has changed since pope john extraordinary how ireland has changed since popejohn paul ii visited. and there were 300,000 attending, but apparently there were few of the last time the pope visited ireland 2 million people turned up in various ways, and i think... ido turned up in various ways, and i think... i do think that these words, and it's notjust me, a retired vatican diplomat and archbishop didn't think the apology was enough, cause he alleges that this pope knew exactly what was

going on in many instances, and it's notjust going on in many instances, and it's not just what happened. going on in many instances, and it's notjust what happened. the vast institutional nature of it. but cover—up after cover—up. i get very angry about apologies these days, because they don't seem to mean much. surely there will be an expectation that the apology is where it begins but it's bringing people to justice, is where it begins but it's bringing people tojustice, is making significant changes in the church so it can't happen again, that's what people will want to see. it will presumably be much harder to convince people is doing that when he is now the subject of allocation himself. i gather it's come from a staunch critic of francis, and it isn't substantiated but, according to this american senior vatican diplomat, there was, a conspiracy of silence, not so different to the one in the mafia, and he claims the current pope was involved. in the independent, slump in asylum seekers given refuge in britain, 25% down.

why? theresa may's hostile environment wasn't just meant for british citizens, who happened not to look like they should be british or whatever. we have had other scandals, but it's the worst thing, in my view, that's happened, how refugees have been treated. this government agreed, i think it was the coalition actually, or even this government, to take unaccompanied children, 3000, because of what the house of lords wanted to happen. we never took them. and some people will rejoice maybe that we are getting few of them coming. i feel incredibly saddened, quite a shame we've become so hostile to asylum seekers, a country which for centuries was well known for giving refuge. some papers granting that the number of people granted asylum

has fallen by 26% in a year, but it also points out the huge and what m ista kes also points out the huge and what mistakes is currently made by the home office, and we've seen this in so home office, and we've seen this in so many different aspects of government decision—making, benefit decisions in particular, where enormous number of appeals, and 50% of those for some disability benefits were successful, meaning the original decision was wrong, but in this case more than a third of asylu m in this case more than a third of asylum cases are rejected and overturned on appeal. we send people back into dangerous situations and people have been hurt. and they don't have the money and the wherewithal to appeal. or the length of time some of these cases take let's look at the telegraph. may on a mission to africa. what is she doing? she is flying tomorrow, go into three different countries, south africa, nigeria and kenya, her first ever visit to sub saharan africa, let alone as a politician.

she's never been at all? she's never been south of tunisia in the african continent and it must be exciting for us. it's the first trade trip to that part of africa by a british prime ministerfor seven that part of africa by a british prime minister for seven years. the telegraph story into a brexit focus, and of course there is that talk in the government's briefing of this trip, building global alliances as we go for brexit. i don't think the trip really has much to do with brexit. isn't everything to do with brexit? we are in no position to sign trade deals for the it's more about the sort of promise that any feminist would make, and there was the security angle. i think it man u is the other angle, because he has made africa, stone... —— i think emmanuel macron is the other angle. but it does seem that it represents

eight, quotes, unique opportunity to foster partnerships with the commonwealth, and the commonwealth is now our good friend. commonwealth, and the commonwealth is now our good friendlj commonwealth, and the commonwealth is now our good friend. i don't think we are now in a position to sign trade deals. well, the weather has turned bad here. the daily telegraph, holy grail pill beats middle—aged spread. telegraph, holy grail pill beats middle-aged spread. while you looking at me? that's why are you looking at me? that's why are you looking at me? i can't bear it, this idea of taking a pill and you will be thin or go to heaven. no! it's taken me three and a half years to lose weight that i put on and i'm still... how did you do it? i went on the five — two diet, and i'm still on it. it's difficult, but it's a way of life. it's never easy.

these are lies! how does it work? do you know the science behind it? would it's astonishing to learn it's come from america? it would not! the american research tracked 12,000 overweight adults and found that fourin overweight adults and found that four in ten who took the drug lost a significant amount of weight over the course of the year, and anybody who's been to america probably thinks it isn't working! the health experts must tear their hair out when they read this stuff. they spent a month after month trying to instil in people the need for better dietand instil in people the need for better diet and exercise, and then even the daily telegraph... in my younger days, i went on the grapefruit diet, i went days, i went on the grapefruit diet, iwent on days, i went on the grapefruit diet, i went on the cabbage soup diet. have you ever been on that?” haven't. this is sensible advice, the bbc doctor, dr moseley, he did a

programme on horizon and convinced many of us, there is no holy grail, sadly. red eat less, move more. that's right. standing up outside, and the calories don't count now! joking. are we looking at the daily star? for a change. we couldn't resist this. brexit mess to dump uk right in it, and pictures of some portaloos. for those of us who spend most of their lives writing about brexit, tonight we finally cracked it, and brexit which the front of the daily star. it's the revelation that, if there is a no—deal brexit, most of eastern england will be turned into a giant lorry park because of the queues at dover, 13 miles of lorries or whatever is being planned on m20, and the lorry drivers need somewhere to go.

unsurprisingly, this was left out of the government's technical papers on brexit that were released last week. presumably, sadly there wasn't time. when borisjohnson was criticising the prime minister's chequers deal, he proudly called it a turd. we were shocked we were having to say that went on television! 0ne quick word on portaloos, please. what a mess we are in! of course, we are accused of project there. look at this. that project there. look at this. that project fear. but it's a fine time to be in the portaloo business. back to be in the portaloo business. back to the telegraph, something close to my heart. a battle royal looms over bosworth field. richard iii, whose

remains were only identified in a car park in leicester, is at the centre of a development dispute, because there is a car testing track and they want to build and on the site of final battle ground.” and they want to build and on the site of final battle ground. i went to bosworth field last year and i was amazed to discover it's in the wrong place! battle took two miles away, which is where they want to build the car business. they are all mad for richard, aren't they? i know he may not be as evil as in shakespearean myths, but at the end of the tour you end up thinking he is between martin luther king and nelson mandela! every year at the re—enactments, the locals cheer for richard. you might not have been the horrible hunchback, but he wasn't a nice man. none of the kings were! were any of them? at the end, they get you to vote for henry or richard, and as a welshman i was determined that my first name

daughters were henry, so they've all been indoctrinated. i'm not allowed to comment. that's it for the papers this hour. rob and yasmin will be back at 11:30 for another look at the papers. next on bbc news, it's 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. 343,000 solar panels span some 440 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 40 megawatt hours of electricity, which is enough to keep around 2,000 average us homes

alight for four 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 1970s, 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 the 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 for five 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 40 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 4% 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, where 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 of folks 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. yeah, you definitely like that. and that's it for the short cut 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. hello. the rain continuing to clear away east through this evening and overnight. the wind starting to ease. still a few showers following, particularly through the midlands and parts of northern england, northern ireland and scotland, but dry spells and clearer spells in

places, not as cool as recent nights, between nine and 14. away from scotland, tomorrow is a bank holiday, and there's a brisk west wind feeding a few showers across at times, but most of us will have a drier day. still large amounts of cloud, but also bright sunny spells. still a noticeable breeze and quite brisk, especially for coasts and hills, but not as strong as we saw on sunday. 0n hills, but not as strong as we saw on sunday. on monday, temperatures getting up to between 16 and 20 celsius. through tuesday and wednesday, it looks like there will bea wednesday, it looks like there will be a lot of dry weather with one or two scattered showers, and it will start to feel a little bit warmer. this is bbc news, i'm martine croxall. the headlines at 11:00pm: pope francis apologises, and promises firm action on abuses within the catholic church, to a crowd of around 300,000 people at an open—air mass in dublin. translation: we ask forgiveness for

the times that, as a church, we did not show the survivors of whatever kind of abuse compassion. a number of people have been killed in a mass shooting at a gaming tournament in florida. tributes from around the world for the us senatorjohn mccain, who has died at the age of 81. the british—iranian charity worker nazanin zaghari—ratcliffe returns to prison in iran after a request to extend her temporary release was turned down. the celebrated american playwright and screenwriter neil simon has died at the age of 91. he wrote comedy classics such as the odd couple,