relationship with britain after brexit. the telegraph business online looks focusses on argentina where the government has asked for the early release of a $50 billion loan from the imf amid a growing economic crisis. president mauricio macri said the move was designed to restore confidence in the argentine economy. in the guardian business pages, iconic uk luxury car maker and favourite of 007 spy james bond, aston martin, have brushed off concerns over brexit, announcing plans to press ahead with a flotation on the london stock exchange that could value the luxury car manufacturer at around $6.5 billion. and in the independent sports pages, tennis officials at the us open have been accused of sexist double standards after french female player alize cornet was warned for "unsportsmanlike behaviour" for adjusting her top during at match at the tournament. and finally on the bbc news website, commuters are so regularly using travel time for work e—mails that theirjourneys should be counted as part of the working day according to researchers.

wider access to wi—fi and the spread of mobile phones means many people are working longer. we have asked for your opinions on this. you are not held back. we'll get to those in a moment. first here is cornelia to talk through the other stories. we started the front page of the times. make a deal with britain, emmanuel macron tells eu leaders. what is going to say? look, if you look at emmanuel macron, if you look at the french economy, if you look at the french economy, if you look at french agriculture, they really need the uk market. if you look at the security cooperation

between the uk and france, that is very important. apparently theresa may has had a good meeting with him during her break in his residence during her break in his residence during his break. and he is going to say let us make a deal. i think that is the consensus that is emerging. did you see yesterday that dominic raab came out and said yes we are probably missing the deadline of 0ctober, it will probably slip into november, but we are getting closer toa november, but we are getting closer to a deal? and then yesterday, michel barnier spoke in berlin and said we are actually quite close to a deal. and the pound went up on that. michel barnier said one thing that. michel barnier said one thing that we should be careful, he took a line from theresa may, he said "single market means single market". reminds me of brexit means brexit. it seems that the consensus —— consensus is it will overrun a bit. maybe they are sharing the same

speech writer at the moment or something like that behind the scenes. in terms of the emmanuel macron, what the times as saying, they said they had diplomatic sources who have told them this at the times, the french president will use a the times, the french president will usea summit the times, the french president will use a summit in austria next month to spell out what he calls a new structure for europe. he will be talking about... concentric circles. you have the eu in the middle. an outer circle and britain will be in there. he has talked about this since before he was elected. absolutely. he has this vision. he wa nts absolutely. he has this vision. he wants reform you. you want to make europe stronger and tighter and wanted. there he may have a problem. not everyone in europe sees it that way. talk to viktor 0rban. he is very much on thejean—claudejuncker line. closer integration. but the concentric circles, they make sense for the uk to be in that orbit

somewhere. and there seems to be a consensus emerging. so let us pray for the best. we have already talked about argentina, it is in the telegraph. i want to ask you one question before moving on. argentina has gone from one economic crisis to another. it is a boom and bust story... once a decade. in between the crises there is a huge surge in boom and they are bouncing back, is this cycle ever going to come to an end, do you think? this may actually be an opportunity to put the right measures in place to get this cycle to come to an end. but in the meantime it will be very painful. if you look at the imf programme, it will make them get rid of things like subsidies on water, subsidies on energy, on heating, so it will get very costly for the individual householder. the middle class has been suffering and is suffering. in

these things it is always the middle classes that suffer. coolest bonds, aston martin shrugs off the spectre of brexit. in a programme with ben swanson we had eddie palmer, the ceo of aston martin, that is on at 8:30am on the bbc. he talked about this flotation to us. we grilled him a bit about brexit, what is thinking was. since hejoined aston martin has... he has toured around. -- turned it around. loss—making to profit making. it is brexit is not really that important for me, only 2596 really that important for me, only 25% of my cars sold here. but two thirds of his parts come from there. he does, but he was explaining his exposure is not as great as usdate nissan, toyota, others. and he is actually quite concerned about the

car manufacturing industry in the uk in general, not so much aston martin. aston martin is going gangbusters. if you look at cars manufactured in the uk, they went down by 11% year on year. he is taking a leaf from the playbook of ferrari. they floated. since floating their stock is appreciated 14496. floating their stock is appreciated 144%. just one quick thing. when he says he is not exposed, two thirds of his parts come from the eu. he says he will increase the time of warehousing of these parts from 3—5 days. —— three to five days. some of his costs can go up between 20% and 30%. his costs can go up between 20% and 3096. a little bit of free consultancy for aston martin there

from the bbc. let us look at the photo. the aston martin x2 james bond. it is such a cool car. i love to look at. —— next two. i don't have one. i wish. in their 150 year history they have sold around 4000 aston martins to women. women don't really buy them, apparently. aston martins to women. women don't really buy them, apparentlyli aston martins to women. women don't really buy them, apparently. i don't drive. it is wasted on you, cornelia will stop do you play tennis? no, i don't play tennis. i play tennis. i can don't play tennis. i play tennis. i ca n afford don't play tennis. i play tennis. i can afford tennis. alize cornet, she had a problem with her top. it was on the wrong way round. she had brilliant underwear on underneath. no indecent exposure. and she gets huge... from the authorities. they called back the umpire. he tried to penalise and then in the end the authorities called him back. but there is that then, are women treated the same way as men in

sports? no. shaw centre, no. there was the big thing about pay —— short answer. this is really a storm in a teacup. if this is our only problem, got the world is in good shape. let us move on got the world is in good shape. let us move on then, you might think a storm in a teacup, this is about e—mails while commuting, that should count as work according to researchers. when i am on a train eve ryo ne researchers. when i am on a train everyone seems to be working around. you strike me, you run your own business, as a workaholic. you strike me, you run your own business, as a workaholicli you strike me, you run your own business, as a workaholic. i am very strong in the work— work balance. you work, work, work. to be counted as work for those who work for other people, unlike those who work for themselves? i don't think it should be counted as work. but i think we need to look at how we look at compensation overall it is not what you do on the train, but what you do at home. take a holiday. i write. i

work. we need to look at this. people are not able to remove themselves... we need to look at things like work—life balance and we need to look, i am for work — work balance, and we need to look at how to compensate people in the line that they were all the time. all right. some viewer thoughts on this. peter says you should not work on your way to work. certainly not. enter your inbox at work or stay behind until you do. another says i don't know about you, but we have we have a departmental was apt group, it is where information spills over —— what's up. things are discussed there. that is work as well. cordelia, thank you for coming in. thank you. we will see very. good morning.

there's a lot of fine weather to be had across the british isles today. most of us will start the day sunny and although a little bit of cloud will develop as the hours go by, we will remain fine. a few showers possible, though, in the west. one thing to note, though, when you are heading out the door is that it will be quite a cool start, thanks to the clear skies overnight. some of the scottish glens, the north—east of england, where you see the pale green there behind me, could be just three or four degrees at the day gets under way. but the sunshine will get to work quickly and that will help temperatures to recover. a bit of cloud bubbling up through the day, turning the sunshine hazy, giving the odd light shower in the west. but, eventually, temperatures peaking in the high teens to the north of the uk and in the low 20s further south. 0vernight thursday into friday, again, much of the cloud thinning, breaking, clearing away, allowing the temperatures to fall, again, we could be looking at rural lows of two or four degrees, these are the temperatures of course in towns and cities. into friday and straightaway at change in the way it looks behind me as we have got a more organised of cloud to the west, it will bring some rain in with it, most of it will run into the continent, into france, could pick up a few showers for the south—west.

0verall friday, hazy sunshine, a fine day, temperatures similar to today — high teens in the north, low 20s in the south. there's that weather front come friday night on into saturday. it drifts away to the north of the british isles, bringing some rain briefly into scotland and northern ireland, quite a weakening feature, though, by the start of the weekend. so this is the way saturday is shaping up: quite cloudy in the north and west, any rain, though, likely to be drizzly and patchy, mostly perhaps confined to the higher ground. southern and eastern areas getting the best of the sunshine and temperatures creeping up further in that sunshine. 23, maybe even 24 degrees possible. for sunday, a similar story: to the north and west, thicker cloud, perhaps on sunday a greater chance of rain on sunday for scotland and northern ireland, but southern and eastern areas, still with the best of the sunshine, and still getting the top temperatures. and, if anything, come monday, we mayjust have a last dance with summer, if you like. notice the map behind me, still temperatures in the high teens to the north, this hot spot here though across east anglia and the south—east may even takes us up to the promise of about 27 celsius somewhere across the south—east of england. that high, though, i think, likely to be short lived, temperatures tapering off again as we move further into the week ahead.

good morning. welcome to breakfast, with steph mcgovern and naga munchetty. 0ur headlines today: former first minister of scotland, alex salmond, resigns from the scottish national party amid allegations of sexual harrassment, which he denies. a ban on the sale of caffeine—heavy energy drinks to children in england. the government outlines its plan. the nine to five might be a thing of the past, and now researchers say we do so much work on the daily commute it should all count towards our official working hours. andy murray battled through the heat at the us open. but it's not enough. he's been knocked out in the second round by fernando verdasco. and a burst of royal song.