good morning, welcome to breakfast with sally nugent and ben thompson. our headlines today: cutting off cold callers — from today companies who pester people without their permission risk fines of up to £500,000. "call off the dogs" — former labour front—bencher chuka umunna urgesjeremy corbyn to stop party infighting and start fighting brexit. and we'll hear about an ambitious new project to get rid of plastic waste in the pacific ocean. alastair cook serves up something to remember him by: england's record run scorer made 71, in his last test match — but india are on top. it's fast, furious and not for the faint hearted — i'm on the run in an extreme form of tag. the weather is looking a little hit and miss today, we have pretty much everything, some clout, rain, sunshine — the forecast coming up. it's saturday 8 september. our top story: new powers come into force today designed to stop nuisance calls from personal injury and claim management firms. you'll now need to opt in to allow

companies to contact you. businesses that don't comply could face a fine of half a million. manuela saragosa has more. for many of us cold calls are a daily torments. the financial conduct authorities says some 2.7 billion nuisance calls texts and emails were made over the past year. that works out to be about 50 calls, texts and emails sent to every single adult in the country. many are made by companies offering to settle personal injury claims, or to claim back ppi, payment protection insurance. but from now on these companies will have to check first that the recipient has explicitly agreed to receive those calls and messages. please do not face fines of up to £500,000, and people are encouraged to report them to the information commissioner's office. some company will see the change in law and desist from activity.

when they don't, i'm afraid people are going to have to complain. the ico does need the information from people about these calls, and she will then tackle, use her powers and slowly but surely, we will get on top of it and they will completely cease. campaigners say the new rules don't go far enough. they will not for example stop calls from fraudsters, and note that firms based overseas are not covered. the issue of consent, they argue, is a red herring and they would prefer to see the authorities rule that unsolicited direct marketing calls are not a legitimate way of doing business. we'll be hearing more about how this will affect you and the industry in around ten minutes time. the former shadow business secretary, chuka umunna, will make a speech today urging jeremy corbyn to ‘call off the dogs' and stop labour mps being targeted for criticising

the party leadership. it follows a week in which two labour mp's lost votes of no confidence among their local party members. 0ur political correspondent pete saull can tell us more. what are we expect thing chuka umunna to say aboutjeremy corbyn later today? we should not be surprised that chuka umunna will be critical of jeremy corbyn, it is not the first time he has been little of the labour leader, but it is the language he is using which is quite striking, effectively referring to jeremy corbyn supporters as "dogs", and saying that only mr corbyn can call them in and stop this apparent purge of moderate labour mps. this ina week purge of moderate labour mps. this in a week where two labour mps including the chair of the labour friends of israel, joan ryan, have had votes of no confidence in their local labour parties. yesterday the former labour by minister tony blair

saying he felt that the moderates had lost the party to the left. of course this battle for the heart and soul of the party goes back many yea rs, soul of the party goes back many years, but it has really been stepped up in recent months because of this row over anti—semitism. another important part of chuka umunna's speech saying he does not feel mr corbyn has been nearly strong enough on brexit, saying the pa rty‘s current strong enough on brexit, saying the party's current position of not officially backing a second referendum but not ruling out out this not go far enough. labour in response saying that chuka umunna's was “— response saying that chuka umunna's was —— comments are incoherent and inaccurate and doing his constituents a disservice. we will hear more on this a little later. the first member of president trump's election team to plead guilty to offences during the 2016 campaign has been sentenced to two weeks injail. george papadopoulos, who was a foreign policy adviser, admitted lying to fbi agents investigating whether the trump campaign colluded with russia — something the president has repeatedly denied. former us president barack 0bama has

said his country is living through ‘dangerous times', as he launched an attack on donald trump. in a speech to students in illinois, the ex—president called for a restoration of ‘honesty‘ and ‘decency‘. he used the claims that white house officials were secretly attempting to stifle the president, to urge people to vote in the upcoming mid—term elections. they are not doing us a service by actively promoting 90% of the crazy stuff that is coming out of this white house, and then saying, "don't worry, we're preventing the other 10%." that is not how things are supposed to work. this is not normal. these are extraordinary times. and they are dangerous times. he said, "what did you think of president 0bama's speech?" and i said, i'm sorry, i watched it but i fell asleep. (laughs).

i found he is very good, very good for sleeping. it's emerged that a russian exile who was murdered in britain last march believed that two men from moscow had tried to poison him five years earlier. nikolai glushkov, a former deputy director of the russian airline aeroflot, was found apparently strangled at his home in south—west london, a week after ex—spy sergei skripal and his daughter yulia were poisoned in salisbury. the american rapper mac miller has been found dead at his home in los angeles after an apparent drug overdose. the 26—year—old, whose real name is malcolm mccormick, previously dated pop singer, ariana grande. he had just released a new album and was due to go on tour next month. 0nline, celebrities and fans took to twitter to pay tribute. american rapper snoop dogg posted a memorable scene the duo were in together during scary movie 5.

he said: singer—songwriterjason derulo said he was praying for families left behind. he added: pop artist dua lipa tweeted: and rapper missy elliott added: a massive operation to scoop plastic waste from the middle of the pacific ocean is being launched today. a 600—metre long floating device will be towed out from california, as jenny kumah reports. sights like this have shocked people all over the world. the damage to wildlife has inspired a bold project with an ambitious goal —

to rid the ocean of plastic. and this is the structure that will help to do it. it has been built in san francisco and is launching from there today. it will travel to an area in the eastern pacific known as the great garbage patch, where currents trap plastic. if we don't do it now, all this plastic will start breaking down into smaller and smaller pieces, and the smaller the pieces are, the more harmful and harder to extract from the marine environment. we feel there is a sense of urgency. so how will it work? a giant tube, 600 metres long will float on the surface in the shape of a horseshoe. over time the plastic should gather in a small area and then can be taken out. underwater, a barrier will hang three metres down and trap plastic below the surface. it is meant to allow fish to swim underneath it. but some are worried that the system can harm wildlife.

there is concern for the passive floaters rather than fish, mammals — the plankton, jellyfish, they simply cannot get out of the way of this, they will be crammed into this and not be able to escape. they want to eventually deploy 60 devices. the people behind the project estimate a full roll—out will clean up half of the great pacific garbage patch within five years. a couple from lancashire are getting married today, nothing unusual in that — apart from the fact they were reunited after being apart for nearly 60 years. i can't help but smile at this story. ron and ruth first stepped out as teenagers in the 19505 but went their separate ways when he pursued a singing career which took him abroad. but ruth realised the chap singing karaoke in the lounge of their retirement complex was actually her long—lost love ron! turns out, they'd each moved

to the same sheltered housing accommodation in st annes. what are the odds of that. that is fate. totally meant to be. he must have had a good singing voice if he had a career that took him avoid —— abroad, and she recognised his voice before she saw him. congratulations to you both. now, chances are this week you've received an unwanted phone call offering you things like ppi compensation or a personal injury claim. 2.7 billion of these calls were made in the uk last year. but from today, the law changes. you'll now need to opt—in if you want to receive marketing calls, and there'll be big fines for companies that flout the rules. joining us now is david mitchison from the direct marketing association, which represents telephone marketing companies. good morning to you. what do you make of these changes? we think this

is good news. the direct marketing association is the country's leading trade association to marketing companies, we represent the legitimate side of the marketing industry. nuisance telephone calls are a blight on people and people who want to make legitimate marketing calls. this isjust one of the things the government have done re ce ntly the things the government have done recently that is helping stamp out those unwonted nuisance calls.|j should apologise to you, my script said david, your name isjohn. sorry to that. how will it change things for the companies that you represent? for the companies we represent, they take it very clear notice of the laws that are in place at the moment, there are several things that people can do to cut down on unwanted calls anyway. telephone marketing is what we call an opt out marketing channel at the moment, if you don't want to use receive unsolicited marketing calls you register your number with the telephone preference service. then it isa telephone preference service. then it is a legal requirement for any

company making outbound calls to screen company making outbound calls to screen against that list. if you don't want to receive those cores you can register on the list... does that really work? i have registered with that service, i still get those calls because they get around the loopholes in that whereby if you are based abroad is not covered, and there are certain calls they can still make. i still get them even though i am registered. the problem we have is that there are companies out there who are willing to break the law. if you are read as to good the law. if you are read as to good the service, it is against the law this body to make an unsolicited marketing call to you. if the companies acting on behalf the uk organisation, which they almost always are, particularly in the case of accident claims and ppi, even if those calls are being made from overseas they are obliged to take notice of the uk law. what makes this any different, if the current system this any different, if the current syste m d oes this any different, if the current system does not quite work, these calls still get through and firms are prepared to break the rules, why will these new rules thickset?“

there are companies out there who are just outright willing to break the law, they can still make telephone calls to whoever they want. what i like about this is that it is part of a raft of measures that have been brought in recently to start closing down these loopholes, there is now no reason for anybody to get an unsolicited call about accident claims. if they realise that, if you realise that you are getting the call about that and you have not given a company permission either by getting in touch with them all going to their website and saying that you want a call, if you have not done that then you know that call is illegal. and you know that call is illegal. and you know that call is illegal. and you know not to engage with that organisation and you can make a complaint the ico. all the complaints that go to the ico are investigated and they do issue fines. it sounds to me like you are saying that these new rules don't actually go far enough. one of the other things that dcns been looking at recently is making directors of

these companies personally liable for fines. —— and s. this is another great step. in stamping this out entirely. what we have seen in the pastis entirely. what we have seen in the past is that the information commissioner's office will issue a fine tour company and in that company will just disappear, fine tour company and in that company willjust disappear, they will whine themselves up —— issue a fine to a company. but via making directors personally liable they can go directors personally liable they can 9° up directors personally liable they can go up to individuals. how does this work in pratt this, i get a call and it isa work in pratt this, i get a call and it is a recorded message. i don't know who that firm is because they had not identified themselves when they renew, and you usually hang up. the problem is that the nuisance is done, they have interrupted what i was doing, the damage is done and i don't know who they company is. i cannot report them if i wanted to. that is an excellent example of what is most likely an illegal call. a recorded message like that is not a

live telephone call you have to have permission from the individual to make a recorded message to their telephone number. iassume make a recorded message to their telephone number. i assume you haven't given permission to that company to make that call, so that is automatically an illegal call. that is likely an organisation that isjust automatically that is likely an organisation that is just automatically dialling all of the numbers in the uk or any numbers it can get hold of, and it isa numbers numbers it can get hold of, and it is a numbers game, eventually someone is a numbers game, eventually someone will hit the right button. so what you are saying is that we have to get used to this, it will still happen even with the new rules. it will certainly be significantly reduced, it will allow the ico to issue more fines, i believe dump in pennies will no longer think of this as a good way of making money because the individuals themselves will eventually be personally liable. but there is no one single thing that will cut out all nuisance calls entirely up there is nothing apart from some very sophisticated technology in networks that will stop illegal calls from being made to your telephone. thank you very

much forjoining us. let's find out what's happening with the weather. here's tomasz. it isa it is a little wet and gloomy for some of us and a whole lot of rain heading towards wales right now. for some of us, it is going to be pretty overcast. not particularly present this morning, the satellite image here shows all of the cloud basically heading for us. most of the uk will be shrouded at the time we get to sort of two or three hours orso, i we get to sort of two or three hours or so, i think, for sure. this is the weather front bringing the browsing to wales and north—western england, it has been raining around manchester and liverpool, but not eve ryo ne manchester and liverpool, but not everyone will get the rain and in fa ct of everyone will get the rain and in fact of us will have a decent a beautiful they expect and around central and northern scotland, some fine weather here, also sunshine for our friends fine weather here, also sunshine for ourfriends in the fine weather here, also sunshine for our friends in the week and belfast not doing too badly at all. so for

about four o'clock, fresh, temperatures only around the mid teens, fine for inverness, aberdeen, glasgow is 17 with some sunshine, nothing to be sniffed at! the same for belfast. yorkshire and wales, and you can see rain will move through, it is broken up so that we are not talking about constant rain, it will come and go. the south coast isn't too bad, sunshine for places like plymouth and portsmouth, be it a little on the hazy side. tonight after the rain clears, it may come back again through the early hours, particularly around wales and the la ke particularly around wales and the lake district, maybe south—western parts of scotland, not really mild tonight across england and wales, evenin tonight across england and wales, even in belfast, it will be 13, the south coast of england, 16. really mild night to come. tomorrow morning sta rts mild night to come. tomorrow morning starts off mild across many areas. tomorrow, a mixed bag across scotla nd tomorrow, a mixed bag across scotland and northern ireland. more

ofa scotland and northern ireland. more of a breeze, sunshine and showers, a changeable day when the weather doesn't want to make its mind up. england and wales tomorrow, apart from a shower maybe, it is looking too bad so if you want sunshine, sunday will be the brightest day out of the two. monday into tuesday, we are being sliced in half by this weather front stretching through the atlantic. south of it, warm air wafts in. in the north, the cool strea m wafts in. in the north, the cool stream of air is of the atlantic. the southern areas are expected to warm up back to sort ofjuly— august averages, 2a in london, so a little dose of summer on the way. in the north, the cool water weather will remain. back to you. we will take that, tomasz! you will because you are in the south but what about those poor folk in belfast to want some sunshine. you have to expect it a little bit, right? in manchester

we get half and half. somewhere in between? something like that, yes. cani between? something like that, yes. can i say the north was warmer than the south quite a bit this summer. at times. it did pretty well, i think. the sun was shining. we don't ask for much! you're watching breakfast from bbc news. what's it like to be a rookie prison officer at a time of high levels of violence, drug—taking and self—harm ? two years ago, a scheme to get some of britain's brightest university graduates working in jails was unveiled. there were concerns the programme would flop and that the new recruits wouldn't go the distance. last year, our home affairs correspondent, danny shaw, met one of the graduates as she started work at coldingley prison in surrey, and now he's returned to find out how she's getting on. will give you a quick rubdown, mr brown. she is one of the newest prison officers at coldingley has

the confidence of someone far more experienced. sophie is one of the standout recruits on a programme designed to attract the brightest graduates into prisons. we first met her 12 months ago when she started work. finish my degree... the new officers were visited by the then justice secretary david lidington and one yearon, justice secretary david lidington and one year on, how has it been? challenging but rewarding. the best thing is all the interactions i have with the guys. we make progress all the time. the small things is like getting someone who has been refusing to go to work actually finally engaging and go into work is the best thing ever. have there been moments when you have doubted whether this was the job for you? when incidences happen and i have been faced with an act of self harm or someone being under the influence, and that is when i am like a right to this job? sophie is one of eight graduate prison officers here at coldingley, among 50 who started the scheme last year,

and now it has been expanded and sophie is helping to train the next set of recruits. if they are not in there, and you open the flat. these new recruits graduated in subjects including anthropology and social policy and now they are earning up to £30,000 a year and doing a masters in their spare time. see that you are listening. and this is how they learn about techniques they need to do the job. we have an unconscious officer, officer rolf. it isa unconscious officer, officer rolf. it is a training exercise at the university of suffolk. a group going through the window, missing keys. university of suffolk. a group going through the window, missing keysm this scenario, prison has escaped after assaulting a member of staff. a prisoner taken out of education one. a set of offices keys. the skills you get, if you can be escalate prisoners, convince the one who has offended their whole life to turn their life around, essentially the skills they will learn with us will set them up for leadership and whatever they do want to do. at the

time we had real problems with recruitment, attracting people to the service, a lot of negative press. rising levels of prison violence and concerns over pay have made it hard to governors to find and retain staff will stop 2000 frontline officers left the service last year. hundreds of them were new recruits. we get some of these bright young people into the system, it was like a shot in the arm. but sophie isn't at coldingley for long. next you she will leave for good, using her experience in another part of the criminal justice using her experience in another part of the criminaljustice system. for many couples, getting a divorce can be a bitter and acrimonious process filled with finding fault. the law itself calls for one party to blame the other. however, that could be about to change — the government is planning to overhaul the divorce system in england and wales, to allow couples to separate quickly and without apportioning blame. jo edwards is a family lawyer and has been campaigning for this change.

shejoins us now. good morning. what is the current law in england and wales as it stands? the current law is one has to prove the irretrievable breakdown of the marriage, that is the law, and it does so by referencing one of five fax. either one has to establish that there has been unreasonable behaviour or adultery on the part of the other party, and if you cannot establish that, you have to wait for two years of separation and you both have to ee, separation and you both have to agree, or five years of separations is where you do not both agree that you want a divorce. i find it incredible that both parties can agree that you are going to get divorced and yet unless somebody is at fault or someone is prepared to accept fault you have to wait two yea rs, accept fault you have to wait two years, and it can be detrimental to any future relationship but also the relationship you are currently in. it can create a huge amount of difficulty which is why we have around, the last figures we have,

107,000 divorces in england and wales and around two thirds were based on one of the fault —based grounds primarily that is because people cannot wait for two years. particularly where they want to move on, move on to the sake of the children, they cannot access financial remedies during the period of separation, the people have legitimate reasons for wanting to move on but they cannot. so what generally tends to happen, i believe from experience, is that people will admit fault. when actually it is one of those situations where it isn't really a ny of those situations where it isn't really any one's specific fault. 0ne party will say ok, i will say, you know, it was me. and it happens a lot. but how damaging is that maybe further down the line for children who will always think that one of their parents was at fault for the divorce? it is exceptionally damaging, in my experience. much of the work i do as a mediator, much of the work i do as a mediator, much of the government's focus in recent years has been rightly to keep separating couples away from the courts to keep things amicable like very often the process will break

down at an early stage, as soon as they discover they have to apportion blame which often comes as a shock, it is and what they want, and the minute you start discussing the detail and whose fault it is that the marriage has broken down, why we re the marriage has broken down, why were they at fault, but is where the wheels can come off things, so it cannot be right in a civilised society that that is the charade that people are put through. so let's talk about these proposals to change it. what would change, and, i mean, it isn't the first time these proposals have been made so are you confident the change will happen this time? i think everybody in the know and involved in the area has their fingers crossed that the law will change this time so resolution, the national lawyers association, has been campaigning to change for almost 30 years and you are right to say there have been previous attempts, so the family law act 1996 would have brought in changes but those proposals were ultimately shelved. with a private members bill three years ago in the house of

lords which held by the wayside. if what the government consultation is anticipating, if that is followed, what it will move to is a notification system, so something much more simple, nothing to do with blame, where one or both parties will be able to say we consider the marriage has broken down, and after a period of time, maybe six, nine, 12 months, if they still feel that way, they will be entitled to their divorce. it have to make the point that does this make marriage more disposable? critics will say marriage is easier to get out of to quickly because people may change their mind if given more time or more help in mediation. their mind if given more time or more help in mediationlj their mind if given more time or more help in mediation. i want to be clear this isn't about disposability of marriage, this isn't about ease of marriage, this isn't about ease of divorce. under these proposals potentially divorce could take longer than actually it takes in an undefended process at the moment, so thatis undefended process at the moment, so that is the first point. marriage is a very special institution and favourable marriage is actually

should be saved and money should be invested in that. but equally what i see in my practice, what resolution members see, are people who think long and hard about their decision to divorce and do not get up on a whim ona to divorce and do not get up on a whim on a monday morning and say i will go see a family lawyer today. very often they would have been to counselling and thinking long and ha rd counselling and thinking long and hard about the impact on their children and it comes as a shock to them to understand the state effectively is saying if you cannot jump effectively is saying if you cannot jump over these hurdles, as we saw of the case with winds famously a few months ago, you will have to wait to your decree of divorce so thatis wait to your decree of divorce so that is inhumane and it puts is out of step with countries all around the world. —— owens. not with the invention of no—fault divorce, this is the other thing i have heard, leading to a huge increase in number of divorces. it has not been the experience of other countries which have moved to a non— fault based systems the government needs to look at this long and hard and i hope that if there is a consultation period, it is a relatively short one and that we move very quickly to

long overdue reform given that we have had this law now the 50 years and it isn't in keeping with modern society in 2018. thank you for explaining all of that really clearly. big changes and we will keep an eye on it. thank you. just like broadchurch or baker street, the shetland islands have captured visitors' imaginations, thanks to a popular crime thriller based there. they're experiencing a tourist boom because of shetland, a tv drama based on novels by author ann cleeves. as the final book in the series is released, our reporter jothohnston has been to see the set for himself. shetland. the crime drama has enjoyed worldwide success with its likeable characters, strong storylines, not to mention the bleak windswept scenery. this place looks like a much better place to come to. when you read the news, everything always seems so terrible and i think people are takinga wee

bit of comfort in murders. but now writer ann cleeves is bidding farewell to the popular detective. she hasjust released her final novel, wild fire. well, i can't tell you whether the ending is tragic and jimmy dies or whether it's happy and he goes off into the sunset with the love of his life because you'll need to read the book to do that. but i can tell you that the tv series will continue. since the series first aired in 2013, thousands of tourists, many from cruise ships, have been heading to shetland on the trail of the murders. we have visitors from america, australia, and i suppose specifically scandinavia, who get the detective noir. this must be the actual house! i think so. we came to see this lovely

sceneries, which we have been seeing in the tv series and reading about in the books. we enjoy the stories and the mystery of trying to solve the puzzles before the detective does. set. and action! filming is already under way for series five. it is quite a tough storyline and it gets quite gothic towards the end. so, yeah, buckle up. woman screams: jimmy! fans will have to wait until early next year for yet more shetland noir. stay with us, the headlines are coming up. hello, this is breakfast

with ben thompson and sally nugent. here's a summary of today's main stories from bbc news. new powers come into force today which the government hopes will stop nuisance cold calls from personal injury and claim management firms. 2.7 billion of these calls were made in the uk over the past year, but you'll now need to opt in to enable companies to contact you. businesses that don't comply could face a fine of £500,000. john richardson from the body that represents the telephone marketing

copies told us some calls still get through. it will allow the ico to issue more fines and companies will no longer think of it as a good way of making money because the individuals themselves will be liable, but there is no one single thing that will cut out all nuisance calls entirely, apart from some very sophisticated technology, there is nothing that will stop illegal calls from being made to your telephone. the former shadow business secretary, chuka umunna, will make a speech today urging jeremy corbyn to ‘call off the dogs' and stop labour mps being targeted for criticising the party leadership. mr umunna will say there is a danger of the centre—left tradition being driven out after two labour mps lost votes of no confidence among their local party members. a labour source called the comments "incoherent and inaccurate". the first member of president trump's election team to plead guilty to offences during the 2016 campaign has been sentenced to two weeks injail. george papadopoulos, who was a foreign policy adviser, admitted lying to fbi agents investigating whether the trump campaign colluded with russia — something the president has repeatedly denied.

it's emerged that a russian exile who was murdered in britain last march believed that two men from moscow had tried to poison him five years earlier. nikolai glushkov, a former deputy director of the russian airline aeroflot, was found apparently strangled at his home in south—west london, a week after ex—spy sergei skripal and his daughter yulia were poisoned in salisbury. final campaign rallies will be held in sweden today after opinion polls suggest that the sweden democrats, who have roots in the neo—nazi movement will take around 20% of the vote. however the centre—left governing party is expected to win an outright majority. the american rapper mac miller has

been found dead at his home in los angeles after an apparent drug overdose. the 26—year—old, whose real name is malcolm mccormick, previously dated pop singer, ariana grande. fans and fellow musicians have been paying tribute to him on social media. he had just released a new album and was due to go on tour next month. mike's here with the sport. a huge relief for alastair cook. it was back to be cooky of old. until 2018 his average was just 18. it was all about alistair cook, yesterday, and he was satisfied with 71, even if india are in control going into day two, at the oval. cook was given a guard of honour, by the indian team and passed 50 for the first time this series//but he missed out on a century, when he was bowled by, jasprit bumrah sparking a batting collapse. england are on 198/7. world number one rafael nadal says

he "will keep fighting" after he was forced to retire from his us open semifinal, againstjuan martin del potro, because of a knee injury. he's now 32, and won the french open earlier this summer but couldn't continue playing after the end of the second set. it's unclear how long he will be out for. to keep playing at the same time, having too much pain... that wasn't a tennis match at the end, it was just one player playing, one standing on the other side of the court. i hate to retire, but staying one more set out there playing like this... would be too much for me. in contrast, novak djokovic looks rejuvenated as he moved closer to equalling pete sampras's tally of 1a

grand slams after outclassing kei nishikori to reach the us open final. so he now faces del potro. in football, scotland suffered their heaviest defeat at home for 45 years against belgium in a friendly ahead of their nations league opener against albania on monday. romelu lukaku opened the scoring in the first half, and then three goals after the break did the damage. chelsea's eden hazard with one of them, mitchy batsui, pounced on a mistake, to make it 4—0. england begin their nations league competition, this evening with a sell—out fixture against spain at wembley. it's their first match since gareth southgate's side surpassed expectations by reaching the world cup semifinal in russia. but the manager says they must now put that behind them and begin building for the future. for us now it is about the next step in the next challenge, sport does not stand still for anybody. you have to move forward, have to

continually evolve and increase competition. and i know the players are of the same mentality, they are ofan age are of the same mentality, they are of an age where what's next is the most important thing. captain harry kane will receive his golden boot award prior to the match, for scoring the most goals at the world cup. and he'll wear specially commissioned golden boots for the game. but, he was quick to play down any comparisions, with the world's best players such as cristiani ronaldo and lionel messi. to do that in a world cup and to finish top goalscorer was something i was very proud of. but i don't think i can be up there with them yet. but that is my aim, my aim is to improve. and yeah, the summer was great but now it is onto more things. northern ireland are also in action today, they are up against bosnia—herzegovina at windsor park. it's the first ever meeting, between the two sides and they are in one of the b groups along with austria. and manager michael o'neill feels the new format of qualifying for the euros is a postive step. the fact that we are in

the competition now, which obviously has the reward of a promotion relegation situation, but there is also the route to euro 2020, we are happy with the format and we look forward to the games and the games will prepare us for what lies ahead when the draw is made for euro 2020. now the double olympic cycling champion, kristina vogel, says she's been left paralysed after sustaining a serious spinal injury when she crashed during training injune. vogel, who is also a part—time police officer, won team sprint gold at the london olympics, and the individual title, in rio four years later. she's only 27, and the german cycling federation says she remains in hospital in berlin and has all their support. the final kick of the game settled a thrilling rugby union game, in belfast in the pro 1a, as ulster beat edinburgh

by a single point. edinburgh had seen a 17 point lead vanish, but went ahead again thanks to simon hickey‘s last minute penalty. ulster then raced up the other end and won their own penalty in overtime. john cooney kicked it to steal the victory. meanwhile glasgow beat last season's runners up munster 25—10. scotland fullback stuart hogg scored 13 points in the match. and in the premiership, northampton beat harlequins, with england captain dylan hartley scoring a try in his first match, since taking time out, to recover from concussion. in rugby league, warrington wolves have sealed their place the super league play—offs. they held on to beat huddersfield giants 26—24. castleford tigers stay ahead of them in third place, after easing to a comfortable 28—8 victory over hull fc. england'sjustin rose lies second after two rounds of the bmw championship, in philadelphia.

rose finished the day 11 under, two off the lead, of the american zander schauffele. northern ireland's rory mcilroy is on nine—under, one shot ahead of 14—time major winner tiger woods. back to alastair cook, and his teammates have been recording tribute videos, in honour of his last test. most of them compliment him as a batsman, and as a man — but bowlerjimmy anderson took a different approach. congratulations mate. it has been a right laugh. well done pal. that'll do. don't like the bloke anyway. "farming this, farming that," that is all he bangs about, who cares mate. should've retired two years ago. 0h! very funny. he is a keen —— very

keen farmer, helps out with the lambing, talks about a bit. now, chances are we've all played tag as a game in the school playground. we called it tag. we called it tick! but did you ever wish you could take it up as an actual sport? that's what athletes from all over the world will be doing in london this weekend. ijoined them for some training. with the adrenaline pumping, your heart racing, your hopes of survival on the edge... it's the hunter versus the hunted. ..in this high—speed game of chase. on the run from the hand of doom that is out to take you down. it's the old playground game of tag that has been brought into the 21st century. in chase tag you have 20 seconds to catch your opponent. if you do that, it is your turn to be chased and a chance to score a point.

very primal, i think of it in terms of hunting. you have got to get them. that's it, it is fight or flight, so you either catch the person or getaway. at the top level at the york hall boxing venue this sunday, the athletes from around the world will be mainly parkour orfree—running specialists, capable of running and jumping with extreme agility and explosive speed. i really loved childhood games, kicking against the wall and that stuff, so when i heard about the opportunity to become slightly professional at a childhood game, i was straight there. and yet it all started at home with a father and son playing the game that all families do. we were really playing tag in the garden, he did not like some of the other sports, so we just used to play loads of tag. and then got more and more

complicated as we went along. it is lateral movement. it is the first game that everyone plays when they are young. so to make it a sport is a good idea. you always enter the competition as the chaser, the hunter, i have 20 seconds to try and tag damian, so this court is a quarter of the size of the world championship one. there's the buzzer, we are under way. that was my chance! he survived! sweaty palms. but could i, when i became the hunted ? 0h he has got me!

i thought he was going to do it. there we are. but it is a team sport, you have five members on each team and they are coming from as far afield as germany and japan to try and beat the british on the big court this weekend. that's exhausting. it is great exercise at don't try it at home. maybe on the lounge is ok, i've just be careful. when i was a kid you would always be on base. was that still tag when it was a different name? i think you can improvise, you can just different name? i think you can improvise, you canjust make it up. that is the slide, the brilliant technique. let's find out what's happening with the weather. here's tomasz. good morning, a beautiful picture

behind you. it is. a little bit grey and do you know, that some of us this morning it will be pretty grey and wait as well. a lot of brain is about to pass across wales, it is moving into north—western england as well, across yorkshire too. so the central swathes of the uk, all of this cloud is heading your way and we will need owl brollies for sure for quite a few hours, i think, today. this is the weather front, for quite a few hours, i think, today. this is the weatherfront, it is missing scotland and missing the far south of the country so we do have some fine weather in the forecasters well —— our brollies. but not this warning across wales, liverpool, manchester, the peak district, cumbria, and the rain moves through yorkshire as well. the midlands is little more patchy and not much at all on the south coast. wobbly sunshine in the isle of wight. fine across the northern isles and northern mainland scotland

and aberdeenshire —— probably sunshine. aberdeen is looking sunny, edinburgh, glasgow, belfast, 17. yorkshire is cloudy, you can see the rain moving through, and wales too, and from the tip of corn will pass the isle of wight, all the way to the isle of wight, all the way to the garden of england, sunshine. at least, you know, it will be dry and hazy but hopefully a bit of sun too. tonight, one thing you may notice, actually, if you wake up tomorrow morning — and hopefully you will! -15 morning — and hopefully you will! —15 or 16 morning — and hopefully you will! —15 or16 in morning — and hopefully you will! —15 or 16 in some spots so damp, cloudy and mild on sunday morning. to the north of that however, in the morning we are expecting cloud and framed so this is what it looks like at six o'clock, the cloud and rain moves through scotland and then in the afternoon on sunday, and this is a weather front here, it should be out of the way mostly and behind it are sunshine and showers here on

sunday whereas across england and wales on sunday it is looking bright. 22 in london! 20 in hull was a bit of sun. next week, let's see what is happening. —— with a bit. the weather front is slicing the country and the in half. warm air coming out of spain, portugal, france, clipping the south of the country and then a current of cooler air in the north edinburgh and belfast will the fresher conditions with possibly some rain from time to time whereas in the south in london, we could be hitting the mid 20s again which will make it feel like it is august again. back to you. chris read, thank you indeed. a bit ofa chris read, thank you indeed. a bit of a split coming on. —— —— tomasz, thank you. let's hope we all wake up tomorrow! we'll bring you the headlines at 8:00. but first, newswatch.

hello and welcome to newswatch with me, samira ahmed. bbc two's daily politics is replaced by the shorter politics live. what is behind the change? and was monday's all—women panel just a stunt? parliamentarians came back to work this week after their summer recess to be greeted by a new daily programme on bbc two presented by jo cockburn. it's monday, it's 12:15 and we're live in westminster. intro music plays. politics live takes over the slot previously by the hour—long daily politics. it only lasts for 45 minutes,

except on wednesdays, when a 1.75—hour programme includes live coverage of prime minister's questions. in the meantime, although its regional editions remain, the uk—wide sunday politics has been scrapped — a decision which bemused viewer greg. and christine parsons agreed: there were positive responses to the new politics live on social media but also some criticism, with freddie scovell also levelling that charge of dumbing down. and a twitter user named sam

commented: john wigmore took exception to the use on screen of audience reaction to what the guests were saying, asking: but dave smith declared himself very impressed, writing: the biggest controversy over politics live, one which even hit the pages of the sun newspaper, was prompted by the line—up on monday's first programme. joining me today, former home

secretary amber rudd, shadow foreign secretary emily thornberry, the telegraph's camilla tominey, the guardian's anushka asthana and the bbc‘s laura kuenssberg. some thought that all—female panel smacked of political correctness. adam kelly thought it was a heavyweight panel and show worth watching, but went on: others, though, were scathing about complaints that this was a stunt, with bernadette rapp tweeting: well, to discuss all that, i'm joined by rob burley,

the bbc‘s editor of live political programmes. thank you for coming on newswatch. the all—women line—up on the first show — you got a bit of attention for it. was it a stunt? no, it wasn't a stunt. so we knew we had a show launching, and in the summer, i started to think, who would we like our first show. the first person who came to my mind was amber rudd, who had not done much media since she left home office. i started to think who would be a good labour counterpart that would go well with her and i thought emily thornberry, probably one of the rising stars ofjeremy corbyn's labour party. so we went and the point was reached where i looked at the panel we had and i thought, that's a great panel. and i was talking to a colleague, we discussed the fact that it was an all—women panel. when you cast a panel, you look and say are you comfortable with that panel? and we were.

it was the best panel we could hope for. it wasn't a stunt, it was a genuine process by whereby we ended up with, and we included laura kuenssberg and anushka astha na and camilla tominey, it was a strong panel and happen to be of women. some viewers did ask would you have done that with an all—male panel? wouldn't you say, we need to have some balance? there is a context here. for many years, we were used to seeing all—male panels. for many years, we have had a problem with under—representation of women who representjust over half of the population, so it's no secret there is a concerted effort within the bbc to choose the best guests, but also to try and achieve at least 50—50 parity between the genders. i didn't arrive at this panel in order to achieve all women on the programme, but if i had been faced with an all—male panel, i would put it in that context. i'm not suggesting i wouldn't have done but i'd also say this would come to the end of the first week of politics live,

we are at 50—50. of the people we have invited, the guests aren't, you know, jo cockburn and others who are here at bbc westminster, we are 18 men and 18 women. so we are at 50—50. we do know that budget cuts are the reason for these changes. you've lost a show in sunday politics. daily politics used to be longer than politics live. because of what we're going through politically, a lot of viewers think this is a bad decision by the bbc. first of all, it is important to realise that because of where we are in funding, cuts have had to be made. none of us like to cut things back. but i would say, of course, sunday politics ended and i worked on it, so personally, and obviously for the many people who watched it, that was bad news. but the regional element of that programme, the national elements of that programme, they are maintained and they all come back on the back of the marr show

on a sunday so i think we've enhanced those. i don't accept that politics live is about cuts. it's shorter on monday, tuesday, thursday and friday but i think a 45—minute duration is a good duration for a political programme and i think people at the end of it are feeling they want more. of course, i accept that there have been some changes and it's meant some savings, and that is never positive or nice but the settlement we have is positive and reaffirms notjust our commitment to politics but doing it in a different way. a number of viewers say politics live is a dumbed—down chat show. well, i don't know that they can have been watching it closely. if that's their view, are entitled. this is a programme that has looked at issues around brexit, around local government finance, all the big issues in politics are looked at in depth and seriously. the difference is that we have a more conversational, open programme. the overwhelming reaction that i have received to the programme has been incredibly positive because we're in a situation

where we can — what's being regarded as a toxic political culture, where we can now have conversations that are real with politicians and others, and i think that's really positive. and that's what we achieve on this programme. there is no dumbing down. i don't think there is no credibility to the idea that it's dumbed down. it's just different. people who tell me they didn't watch political programmes see this and think "this is accessible, this is aimed at me and i'm very proud of it." is it about trying to attract younger audiences? it's important we attract younger audiences but we aren't engaging in an exercise in dad dancing here, trying to be funky and young, and patronising them. what we are doing is making a more open and accessible show which i think will appeal to people of whatever age and young people trust the bbc. we need to try and cater to that. i've noticed some interesting stuff

from sixth form colleges, politics classes who watched the programme, and they talk about how much the young people involved talk about how much they enjoy a programme that doesn't seem to be about arguing in a disrespectful or confrontational manner. they didn't mention or notice an all—women panel on that first show — theyjust noticed a new way of doing politics. i think that's pretty encouraging. rob burley, thank you. thank you. do let us know your thoughts on politics live, or on any aspect of bbc news. details on how to contact us at the end of the programme. a couple of your other comments before we go, and another change to the bbc‘s political programmes has caught the attention of some. the andrew marr show has been a fixture at 9am on sunday morning for years but when it returned last weekend for the start of its new series, it did start at a new slot an hour later at 10 o'clock, with a repeat of match of the day taking its place at 9:00.

the bbc says research shows the available audience for marr is higher at 10:00 but some of the regular audience were unhappy, with owen edis emailing: finally, we're not all about complaints at newswatch. sometimes the plaudits come in, as they did for two reports this week on the news at ten from the bbc‘s chief international correspondent lyse doucet. she spoke to one yazidi woman who'd returned home after being enslaved for years by so—called islamic state. translation: so i was scared to come back. i was scared my family would kill me and i was so surprised at the welcome i got. who can begin to imagine what women like her have been

through at the hands of so—called islamic state? daily beatings, brutalisation, and there are said to be 3,000 more yazidi women and children still missing, still captured by islamic state. william hussey was one of those applauding that report. thank you for all your comments this week. if you want to share your opinions on bbc news and current affairs or even appear on the programme, you can call us or emailing newswatch. you can find us on twitter at @newswatchbbc and do have a look at our website: that's all from us. we will hear more about your thoughts of bbc news coverage

again next week. goodbye. good morning — welcome to breakfast with sally nugent and ben thompson.