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there is still going to be a bit of warmth to be had on monday as temperatures again peek into the low 205 in some spots. this is a sign of things to come, though, as we look at the picture for tuesday. more atlantic fronts coming in so that means if you are underneath one of these, you are going to see some outbreak of rain. this far out, some uncertainty about where that is going to be sitting, but somewhere probably through england and wales. there will be a cloudy and a wet zone. that may well be affecting northern ireland, much of scotland. the further north you are, seeing some sunny spells and some very warm sunny spells towards east anglia and south—east england. and, so, three zones of weather next week. we have this weather front with us for much of the week. north of it, you may see some sunny spells, you are cool and fresh. along it, it is cloudy and damp and not particularly warm. to the south of it, though, there is some warmth to be had, particularly across parts of southern england, at times south wales, and into east anglia. look at the colours here. we are seeing those temperatures into the low and, at times, mid 20s. but you will be quite cool in northern scotland. you are in the blue here. but, then again, you may get to see some sunny spells because you are along the weather front, you are not in the cloudy
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and wet zones. so three zones of weather next week. and growing confidence that is how things are going to play out for much of the week. i have been talking about these developing tropical weather systems. here is onejust coming off the coast of west africa. here is another. here's hurricane florence in the atlantic. we have been talking about the uncertainty in the forecast caused by these. things are looking a bit clearer next week because the first of these looks like it is going to move right across the usa rather than come across the atlantic and weaken and head towards us. but, of course, we will keep an eye on that. that is your latest weather for the week ahead. hello. this is bbc news. we'll be taking a look at tomorrow morning's papers in a moment. first, the headlines. after more than a week of fierce fighting between rival factions in libya, a fragile ceasefire brokered by the un appears to be holding no—fault divorces are being considered by the government in what would be the biggest change to the law in this area for almost 50 years. ba says sorry after a mass hack of data from its customers —
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nearly 400,000 payment cards have been compromised. former president barack 0bama calls for the restoration of honesty and decency in the us government, in an outspoken attack on his successor. hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me arejohn rentoul, chief political commentator at the independent, and henry zeffman, political correspondent at the times. so here they are. the ft suggests high spending cuts may be on the horizon with the treasury set to demand an extra £4 billion from the budget to cover a shortfall
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in public sector pensions. the daily mail leads with borisjohnson‘s personal life, and how that could affect a potential bid for the tory leadership. meanwhile, the mirror claims that borisjohnson is "clearing the decks," ready to challenge theresa may. the times is reporting that fault—based divorce is set to be scrapped in the biggest shake—up of family laws in 50 years. the daily telegraph leads with a story which accuses iran of infiltrating labour and undermining a pro—israel mp, who, the paper says, faces being ousted from parliament. the end of cold calling? that's the lead in the express, which says new government law means customers cannot be contacted by businesses unless they opt in. the guardian has an exclusive which says detectives investigating the murder of a russian exile in london believe he had previously been the victim of a poisoning attempt by two men from moscow. and its back—page features alastair cook, who made 71 in his final test match for england on day one of the fifth test at the 0val.
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so we have a lot of different stories making the front pages to kick start the weekend. john, we will kick off with the daily mail. i don't know if it is very edifying for us to delve fully into the story about borisjohnson and infidelity, but the question they are asking by splashing this everywhere, and they are not the only paper doing it, is, at is his personal life don't impact on his leadership ambitions? that is a serious question. everybody is obviously much more interested in the personal life but we serious people are interested in the question of the future leadership of the conservative party and the country, and whether borisjohnson‘s
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divorce would affect the support he has from the tory grassroots, who would obviously have the final say in choosing a leader to succeed theresa may, whenever that happens. we have seen recently at boris johnson doing very well in a poll of conservative party members. he came top by quite a long way, ahead of sajid javid. and actually, i think conservative - members, they sajid javid. and actually, i think cons gig”,§ member! may y have slightly forgotten, this may them, of his private life. remind them, of his private life. but they have known about this all along and i don't think it will make any difference. the questionnaires we re any difference. the questionnaires were leaders, we have heard today that he and his wife are divorcing and there was a suggestion in one of the other papers that this was a sort of pre—emptive strikes, getting it all out there so it is done and dusted and is not a skeleton in the closet. this is what has happened, we are moving on and i am now clear to run. i doubt very much, without knowing for sure, but this has
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deliberately come out from the allies of borisjohnson. to deliberately come out from the allies of boris johnson. to the extent that if they are getting divorced, it was clearly going to come out at some point. but i don't think it is that sophisticated and operation. clearly he does want to run for tory leader. to be honest, i don't think this is one of the more insurmountable problems he faces in trying to do so. you feel there are easier problems? well, sorry, i think this is one of the smaller problems. if i were johnson i would much more excise by the fact that quite a lot of tory mps thought he was not a very good foreign secretary, and that was not necessarily to do with brexit or his private life. — — necessarily to do with brexit or his private life. —— excised by the fa ct. private life. —— excised by the fact. it was the fact that he spent two years as the chief diplomat of the united kingdom and most people thought he did a pretty cack—handed job. he didn't distinguish himself, we know that. he ended up saying the wrong thing about nazanin
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zaghari—ratcliffe and trying to fly to tehran to try to protect right. he didn't distinguish himself well. he didn't distinguish himself well. he was often offending people around the world. it reminded people that michael gove, one of his closest associates in the leave campaign, decided that the last minute that he couldn't support him as a potential prime minister. everything we have seen since then has indicated —— vindicated michael gove's judgement. it is always worth remembering that with the tory leadership stakes, the thing to remember is, never mind what the tory voters think, what did he tory mps think? they will whittle it down to two. it is very likely that one of them will be a brexiteer, but for boris johnson to be that brexiteer, whoever becomes leader will have to make peace
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between both camps. and he has done nothing to answer that question. henry, you can take us onwards, it is your paper, the times, focusing on divorce law. a revolution, a shakeup, we have been talking of it —— talking about it all day. whether we need to involve fault in divorce proceedings, and the fact that we are going to see no—fault divorces. this is the government moving to correct a slightly peculiar and macros. until the last year or so, i think very few people would have known this was the case. divorce can still only take place if fault is alleged and effectively agreed to between the two parties, specifically adultery, unreasonable behaviour or desertion. there was a very famous case earlier this year, a lady called tina owens he wanted to divorce her husband after 40 years, her husband didn't want to get divorced, and they have to wait a period of years under the law. it feels strange that we have a system of institutionalised perjury and i
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think it can only be a good thing for that to be rolled back. yeah, it is about time. i think we are coming into line with scotland, because this is england and wales we are talking about, we are a little bit behind. that's right. and a law to introduce no—fault divorce was actually passed in 1996, as we were saying earlier. it wasn't permitted at the time. presumably becausejohn major didn't want to offend elements of his party, and then tony blair probably didn't want people to be suggesting that labour wasn't the party of the family. —— john major. he was very sensitive on that subject. but things have moved on and we have now got gay marriage, you know, society has now moved on toa you know, society has now moved on to a position where, i think, people would widely accept no—fault divorce. it is interesting, there is a line in this story saying there are fears it could run into opposition within some quarters of the conservative party and the
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church. do you think that is likely? certainly there will be lobby groups who will be concerned by it. but i think their power is far diminished from where it was in 1996 and in fa ct from where it was in 1996 and in fact where it was more recently than that. yes, i mean, the conservative party would consider borisjohnson for lido, so, you know, attitudes have moved on. —— leader. for lido, so, you know, attitudes have moved on. -- leader. john, move us on have moved on. -- leader. john, move us on to the independent. a totally different story. some figures they have attained —— obtained from the nb -- gnb have attained —— obtained from the nb —— gnb union. teachers attacked by pupils? yes, a survey by the gnb which represents a lot of teaching assistance and support teachers, and the figures really are quite horrifying. i have never seen...
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well, it does appear to be getting worse. we do have figures for the injuries from attacks, which have increased over the past four or five yea rs. increased over the past four or five years. not hugely, but it is definitely moving in the wrong direction. you really shouldn't be having this kind of thing happening and at this scale. i think it is quite shocking. and something really needs to be done about it.|j quite shocking. and something really needs to be done about it. i confess i had no idea until seeing this front page that this was such a widespread problem. i mean, the figures are astonishing. 23,000 teaching assistance assaulted every week. —— assistants. one pregnant teaching assistant had a miscarriage after being kicked in the stomach. i suppose the government's job, after being kicked in the stomach. i suppose the government'sjob, as well as looking at whether this is getting worse, and if so how, is to
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think more deeply about why this might be such a problem. what is going on in these children's households in the way they are being brought up? clearly this is alarming and people need to think about it. the daily telegraph has gone out on a limb, but i think you have gone with this in your paper as well, i have to say the headlamp tickled me. iranian regime has an portrait of labour. dark, sinister stories. iranian regime has an portrait of labour. dark, sinisterstories. —— has infiltrated labour. try to explain this to us? the particular case is a long—standing labour mp namesjoan case is a long—standing labour mp names joan ryde, the case is a long—standing labour mp namesjoan ryde, the memberfor... she disagrees with jeremy corbyn about lots of things but about anti—semitism and the middle east more generally. members of the local party passed a vote of no confidence in her, narrowly, vote votes. the telegraph says one of the people who cast a vote against was a man called
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roshan sali, who works for the iranian state wrought castor, although it has not had a licence to operate in the uk for some years, it is where the telegraph that the claim of the iranian regime infiltrating labour. clearly they are not sitting around in tehran wondering how to get into the enfield zero constituency party. but labour mps will be worried about this drift towards people who do work for the iranian government, effectively, being members of the party, and more generally the trend of ha rd left party, and more generally the trend of hard left activists expressing furia and outrage with labour mps daring to criticise jeremy corbyn. —— theory. daring to criticise jeremy corbyn. -- theory. yes, really, what is this story about? i was a bit rude, earlier, about the daily telegraph choosing to lead its front page with this story. but behind it there is the very important story of labour mps who are not supporters ofjeremy corbyn being targeted via korbin sims or to activists. —— targeted is
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by corbyn supporting activists. this will come up at the labour party conference later this month, a rule change to make it easier for party members to deselect their mps. i think that is a double—edged sword forjeremy corbyn because he really does not want, over the next few months and years, stories in the paper like this about struggles in local labour party is —— parties between mps who are often very popular with their constituents and their local parties. we saw frank field saying that he is going to go it alone, and do you think this is indicative of something we will see growing? absolutely. this is not the only labourmp absolutely. this is not the only labour mp this week to have fallen foul of this. they were both vocal
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critics ofjeremy corbyn. these votes of confidence have no practical effect, but they will encourage the activists who dislike these mps that they have the numbers to go through with formal deselection. take us to the guardian. talk us through murdered putin critic survived earlier attack. this is an exclusive guardian story. we do love these sort of spy stories. gruesome and grisly as they might be. this is a russian exile who was murdered, now the guardian has the story that a previous attempt had been made on his life, whichjust previous attempt had been made on his life, which just adds to the picture from what theresa may said about the skripals this week. of russian agentsjust, about the skripals this week. of russian agents just, you about the skripals this week. of russian agentsjust, you know, sort
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of attempting to murder or murdering people on british soil, and there seem people on british soil, and there seem to be so many examples. this man was found dead in march. at his home. it is a sense that a pattern is emerging. it feels extraordinary. this one happened in pretty much london suburbia. the scripal case took place in salisbury. it feels quite cinematic. he died in ascot or sound dead in ascot. what is different is that this, disturbing as it may be, concerning is that maybe, it did not have overspill towards british public. what so gripped the country and the government about the skripal case, and rightly so, is an innocent woman who found a perfume bottle ended up
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asa who found a perfume bottle ended up as a product of geo—political intrigue. that is what makes the skripal cases are particularly alarming and pressing. this is much more low—tech. he was strangled. that is less, less sort of scary than a nerve agent. and, actually, the nerve agent issue has played into all the conspiracy theories as well, with people saying why would the russian regime for attention to itself in that way by using novichok which can so easily be linked to rush it? these stories are generating so much thought about can we definitely pin it on the russians? —— to russia. we definitely pin it on the russians? -- to russia. the russians can say there's nothing to do them. the questionnaires, who sanctioned it and how high up did it go in the
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russian state? —— question is. it has been established that the skripals, that was authorised by some part of the russian state, whether it was vladimir putin himself we don't know. some conspiracy theorist might propose that there were some other explanations, that seems to be fairly definitively refuted now. henry, do you think that the whole issue of russian interference over here plays to the public in a way other than intrigue and we are all a bit interested or politically do we worry about russia ? bit interested or politically do we worry about russia? i do think the public's appetite for foreign policy is perhaps a little more limited than westminster's. that is as it should be. it is at the job of politicians to think carefully and seriously about where britain stands in the world. i find it fascinating. not that long ago, barack obama
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became president and talked about resetting the west's relationship with russia. vladimir putin was part of the 68, it is now the g7, and the west's relationship with russia feels as an incredibly low at. i find it fascinating how quickly if we are not as a cold war, relationships have got a lot colder again very quickly. i think we will see more mini chapters with these kind of stories. we can't go without touching on the ft. they have this classic picture of elon musk, who has been making headlines recently. people may not have known who he is. he is now this tech entrepreneur billionaire, he has been pictured smoking marijuana. it has created something of a stir, henry. it has. i suppose the people who are really worried by this, and it is the ft you would expect this, it is the investors in tesla, the shares fell
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as much as 10% yesterday. just because as much as 1096 yesterday. just because he was on a pod cast smoking dope? not illegal in california where he was doing it. but it has made people rather twitchy. where he was doing it. but it has made people rather twitchym where he was doing it. but it has made people rather twitchy. it plays into a crazy investor theory, not so much theory, as personality, he has done some pretty cantankerous things of the past few weeks. he has confirmed my impression of him, which is, the thing about dope is it may not cause serious harm, although you can question that, but it does make you very boring. and i always thought that elon musk was a pretty boring sort of chap. but obviously in some ways a very visionary with these inventions. a boring visionary. is that a contradiction in terms? elon musk, boring visionary, discuss. that is all we have time for. don't forget, you can see the front pages of the papers online on the bbc news website.
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it's all there for you, seven days a week at bbc.co.uk/papers. and if you miss the programme any evening you can watch it later on bbc iplayer. thank you, john and henry. goodbye. a bitter sweet day for alistair cooke in his final match for england. it is the former captain's final game for his country and although he played some of his best cricket, reaching a half century it was india's polity that the best the first day. joe wilson reports. it was all about alistair cook. he walked out to a guard of honour. the gigg lane is either side of him
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applauding him and a warm handshake from virat kohli. that seems very appropriate and genuine and marked the respect for alastair cook across world cricket. then he settled down for a typical innings, painstaking, methodical, patient, there was a time after lunch where scoring almost stopped. he got 271 before he was dismissed, inside edge, —— got to 71. i never heard groans like it david inglis test match. india will feel it is reward for their good bowling. moeen ali in particular survived so many played and missed as he made 50 before he was dismissed. 0nce alastair cook was gone, england was all at sea. add duck forjoe root. it will be down to jos buttler and adil duck forjoe root. it will be down tojos buttler and adil richard to ta ke tojos buttler and adil richard to take them to a decent first—innings total. the views from the english
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supporters may well be missing you already. scotland were beaten 4—0 by belgium in a friendly tonight as a warm—up for their uefa nations league opener against albania on monday. after holding off belgium's all stars for almost half an hour, romelu lukaku opened the scoring before chelsea's edin hazard made it 2—0 after the break and then chelsea's on loan mitchy batsuayi capitalized on two defensive errors to make it 4—0. it's the fourth defeat from five games for scottish manager alex mcleish and scotland's heaviest home defeat for 45 years. england did not have the luxury of a friendly. they have encountered with spain tomorrow. it is their first game since the world cup injuly. gareth southgate says it is time to move on. the summer was brilliant. it is great we have a full house. it is great everyone will feel the appreciation we can step—out in
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front of our fans again. for us now the summer is finished. it is about the summer is finished. it is about the next step in the next challenges. sport doesn't stand still for anybody. you have got to move forward, got to continually evolve, increase that competition. and i know the players have the same mentality. they are all of an age where what is next is the most important thing. it's the second week of matches in the domestic rugby union season. and an exciting night in the pro 14. edinburgh had blown a 17—point lead against ulster at ravenhill but then kicked this penalty in the final minute to go ahead again. there was another twist though, as ulster won their own penalty in overtime and john cooney stole the victory — the second time in two weeks he's converted a crucial late penalty. meanwhile, glasgow warriors beat last year's runners up munster 25—3 at scotstoun. scotland full—back stuart hogg scored this try, as well as kicking two penalties and a conversion as warriors made it two wins out of two.
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just one game in the premiership where northampton beat harlequins 25—18 at franklin's gardens. england captain dylan hartley scored a try on his comeback from concussion to give northampton their first win under new boss chris boyd. that is all the sport for now. let us look at the weather. the weekend has arrived and it is a mixed affair. many of us will at some point or another see some outbreaks of rain. that is not the whole story. there will be dry weather and a little sunshine as well. the pressure pattern is quite accommodated one. high pressure to the south. this area of low pressure moving towards scandinavia. 0ut west we have a wriggling weather front which will bring a pipeline of moisture in across central part of the uk. through the early part of saturday thing is clouding over in the west and then during the day tomorrow this rain will start to spread in across wales, the
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midlands, heavy bursts over high ground. further south, more midlands, heavy bursts over high ground. furthersouth, more in midlands, heavy bursts over high ground. further south, more in the way of dry weather. some brightness. brightness goes to come across scotland. there will be strikes of that here and there. sunny breaks in between. damages in aberdeen around 16,17 between. damages in aberdeen around 16, 17 in glasgow. similarfor northern ireland tomorrow. across northern england we will have extra cloud in press, sporadic outbreaks of rain, similar in wales and parts of rain, similar in wales and parts of the midlands. down towards the south—west, not as much cloud, some brighter breaks and certainly for the channel islands are paramount sunshine. generally across england and wales it will be a breezy day. this first pulse of rain will lead to the east saturday night. then we bring more damp weather from the west through the early hours of sunday into parts of wales, northern england, northern ireland, and scotland. a mild night for many. a little chilly across all the scotla nd little chilly across all the scotland where we keep hold of some clear skies. mist out sunday with outbreaks of rain across some northern areas, including close to newcastle. that is, of course, of
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interest because it is the great north run on sunday. could be outbreaks of rain around first thing. what the sky. the clutch attempt to break up as we get into the afternoon. we will see some spells of sunshine and some temperatures around 16 or 17 degrees. what about everywhere else? as we have seen, we start off with rain in western and northern areas. across wales, northern england, northern ireland, thinks a dry and bright now. outbreaks of rain across north—west scotland, the odd heavy thundery bus. in the south—east, more sunshine and want as well. 22 degrees in london. that trend will continue in the south, certainly as we get into the new working week. temperatures perhaps getting close to the mid—20s in places. always more rain at times and breezy weather at times as well. that is all from the for now. i wish you good night. —— from me for now. this is bbc news. i'm ben bland. our top stories: a broadside from barack 0bama,
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