at least five people have died as hurricane florence lashes down on the us east coast. a mother and child were killed when a tree fell on their house in wilmington. emergency workers are battling strong winds and floodwaters to try to rescue hundreds of people trapped in their homes. a super typhoon has hit the north—east of the philippines, making landfall in baggao, with winds of over 200 kilometres per hour. more than four million people are directly in the path of the storm and thousands have been evacuated. president trump's former campaign manager, paul manafort, has pleaded guilty to two charges, relating to his former role as a lobbyist in ukraine. as part of a plea deal, he will co—operate with the investigation into russian electoral interference. the white house say the new deal has nothing to do with mr trump. it is just after 2:30am. good morning. now on bbc news,

the week in parliament. hello there. welcome to our look back at the week in parliament. coming up, at prime minister's questions, jeremy corbyn says the welfare policy, universal credit is flawed. children forced to use food banks and the prime minister wants to put 2 million more people onto this. but theresa may defends the government record. what we're doing is seeing 3.3 million more people injobs as a result of this. an mp reveals that jacob rees mogg is not the only mp whose children have found themselves targeted by opponents. police rang me one day and said, where is your son? i think he is at school. can you check, because there was a social media post claiming to be the execution of my son. there's a call from more

to be done to protect england's historic battlefields. we should be creating national areas of natural historic importance that would recognise historical sites and their surroundings as areas that we wish, and need, to conserve for the future. but let's start with prime minister's questions, often a noisy affair and this was a particularly rowdy session. parliament has only been back from its summer break for a fortnight but mps and peers have now left westminster for three weeks for the annual autumn party conference season. this wasjeremy corbyn‘s last chance to scrutinise government policy for a while. he started with what sounded like a trick question. the national farmers‘ union, the federation of small businesses, the national audit office, the national housing federation, gingerbread and the royal society of arts. does the prime minister know what these organisations have in common? after a lot of noise

and a bit of a pause, theresa may answered. i can tell the right honourable gentleman what those organisations all have in common is that across a variety of areas of activity, they give excellent service, they promote the interests of those they represent and they are bodies with which this government interacts and to which this government listens. jeremy corbyn said they were in fact all organisations that had criticised the government's flagship benefit, universal credit. it combines six working age benefits into one which the government says will make the system more simple and flexible. it's being rolled out across the uk but labour says it's creating real hardship. the government knows this policy is flawed and failing. their own survey on universal credit

found many were in debt, a third in arrears with their rent, half fallen behind with their bills. does the prime minister dispute her own government's survey or dispute the experience of the claimants? we have gone from the situation under the labour party where1.4 million people, 1.4 million people spend most of the decade trapped on benefits. we are helping get people into work and that's why earlier this week, we saw unemployment yet again at a record low. mps westminster leader said a no—deal brexit would increase the cost of living by hundreds of pounds. the prime minister is unfit to govern. she is incapable of leadership. we know it, her backbenchers know it and the country knows it. ten years after the economic crash and the poorest are still bearing the brunt. mr speaker, it's as simple as this, the prime minister should end her austerity programme or admit that her party is unfit for government.

can i say to the right honourable gentleman, he mentions the question of brexit. of course we are working to get a good brexit deal for the whole of the united kingdom including scotland. can i suggest to the right honourable gentleman that he might listen to the views of the scottish nfu, who said this week, that the plan the government has put forward is something that certainly the agriculture and food and drink sectors can work with and that politicians from all sorts of parliaments and assemblies should actually get behind it. thousands ofjobs are to be put at risk by the british government on brexit policies and threadbare industrial strategy. is it not the case that she is prepared to do out p455 to manufacturing workers simply in order to appease the brexit extremists in her own party? an accusation theresa may

rejected but replying to one of her own backbenchers, she said she would rethink paying the £39 billion brexit divorce bill if the uk couldn't agree a deal with the european union. the specific offer was made to reach a deal with the european union and on the basis of the eu themselves have said that nothing is agreed until everything is agreed, without a deal, the position changes. theresa may. if you're wondering about the stalks of wheat on mps‘ lapels, you can find out all about that a little later in the programme. now, a home office minister has insisted that the government understands the pressures on police forces in england and wales, despite a report from the national spending watchdog suggesting the department doesn't know if the system is financially sustainable. the findings came on tuesday as he attended a meeting of the police superintendents association. the head of the national audit

office warned of signs that forces are already experiencing financial strain and struggling to deliver effective services to the public. labour took up the findings in the commons. does the minister now accept what the nao sets out that total funding to police forces, a combination of central government funding and council tax, has fallen by 19% in real terms since 2010? she asked me to confirm whether police budgets were reduced following 2010 and whether we have fewer police officers, that is the numbers don't lie, and they are there. that is hardly news. what she omitted to mention is the underlying driver of the decisions in 2010, resulting in the state of the public finances we inherited from the last government and the radical action that was needed. it is not desperate, that's stark economic facts of the coalition government faced in 2010 and the need to take radical action to get the public finances back into some sort of order and that is an uncomfortable truth

the labour party continues to remain in denial on. will the home secretary, ahead of the budget, argue for more cash for the police and argue that extra cash goes to the nhs for collaborative work with the police, especially for people with mental health issues? one of the clear messages coming out of the police system is a frustration about the amount of time the police officers spend, in their words, doing other people'sjobs. the large frustration is around the amount of time spent supporting people with mental health issues. a former national security adviser to theresa may has said the government can no longer keep its citizens safe from cyber attacks and terrorism. sir mark lyall grant was giving evidence to the lord's international relations committee which is investigating security

threats to the uk including russia. i certainly am struck by what is a relatively new development, which is that the government can no longer keep its citizens safe from either cyber or terrorism. i put that very starkly but if you take the first duty of government to keep its citizens safe, what has happened in recent years is the government relies increasingly on companies and individuals in order to help them keep the people safe. the government can do a lot but particularly in terrorism and particular in cyber, they rely very heavily on individuals and companies, whether that is vigilance on the underground, with these slogans about see it, say it, sort it, or whether it is through the prevent programme of trying to encourage doctors and teachers to identify people who might be at risk of radicalisation,

or whether it is trying to get the big communication service providers or tech continues to clean up their act and help governments stop terrorists using their websites. they need other people. increasingly we see the overlap between state and crime, particularly in russia, but notjust russia. criminal groups are working for the government during the day and then at night they may have the same computer and work fora gang. there is rather an unhealthy funding mechanism that are valid for some russian agencies that effectively allows them to moonlight. of course, on your final point, i think you see the russian government and this has been publicised by the us and uk in the last year, targeting for example the energy sector because if you want to tweak the tail of your adversary, apart from attacking government, attacking a national airline or a national energy supplier is a very good way of doing it.

it's what you would have done on the ground 50 years ago so why wouldn't you do it in cyberspace? now for a look at other news stories in brief. the chancellor has announced that the bank of england governor mark carney is to stay in his job untiljanuary 2020 in order to give continuity during what philip hammond says could be a turbulent time. mark carney has in the past been criticized by pro—brexit mps by taking, in their view, too pessimistic an approach to the uk's exit from the eu. the governor had been due to step down injune. the security minister ben wallace has told mps about his incredible frustration at being unable to prosecute some suspected terrorists. he said he needed to strengthen the law to tackle the threat from the so—called foreign fighters who travelled to locations such as is strongholds. his solution is to make it illegal for uk nationals to enter or remain in so—called designated areas overseas. areas that would be determined

by the home secretary. those who break the law could face up to ten years injail. we already have quite a lot of offences with extraterritorial jurisdiction and clause five of this bill is adding to them so many of us are concerned about the necessity and proportionality of this amendment so what can he do to convince us that it is necessary and proportionate given the plethora of extraterritorial offences that already exists? well, i think the first thing i would say is that we have 400 people in this country who have returned from activity in terrorist hotspots, many of whom we believe through intelligence have been active, but we have been unable to prosecute. that is a serious number of people and a number of them continue to pose a threat. i fear if we don't do this, then we will not be able to be in a position to prosecute those people coming back.

there has been condemnation across westminster after a video appeared on facebook of protesters shouting at the children of conservative, jacob rees mogg. a video on the page of the class war group shows a man telling one of the mps children, "your daddy is a horrible person." in the commons, another conservative told mps what had happened to him. i have had threats to my former wife, to our children. the thing that i now am prepared to say, that i wasn't a few years ago, was that my son, who was then about 12, the police rang me one day and said, where is your son? i think he's at school. can you check because there was a social media post claiming to be the execution of my son. obviously we did not bring that to the attention of people at the time, but things have got worse and worse and i doubt if there is a single member in this house who hasn't had something like that. controversy is never far

away from boris johnson. shortly after he resigned from the government injuly, he took up a newjob, writing articles for the daily telegraph. is that a crime? no, but it seems he should have notified a panel set up to vet what former ministers do after leaving theirjobs. the advisory committee on business appointments said it was unacceptable that borisjohnson had signed a contract with the daily telegraph before contacting them. it was left to a government frontbencher to defend borisjohnson, sort of. i am not an apologist for the former foreign secretary, that requires a portfolio of skills which i... which i don't have, but i would just say this in his defence. the rules are designed to prevent a minister using the knowledge he acquires, the relationships he develops in the department, to stop him roaming the pitch for a lucrative job subsequently in a related organisation.

in the case of the former foreign secretary, after two years, he reverted back to a career injournalism, a career that perhaps his qualities are better suited. the government's ivory bill is aimed at halting the extinction of these majestic animals. the population of african elephants is at risk due to a surge in poaching for the ivory trade. could the ivory bill, banning the trade, have unintended consequences? there are exemptions in the legislation, some older musical instruments for example, but for one conservative peer, those exemptions didn't go far enough. anything certified as being made before 1918 should, i believe, be exempt. what about those of you who have grandmother's ivory—handled fish knives? or ivory hairbrushes?

a lib dem revealed himself as the proud owner of a set of ivory handled fish knives, but he backed the bill. i'm very relaxed about it, my lords. i don't believe one should be able to trade, deal or sell in that kind of commodity, my lords. it's the sort of thing you pass on to your descendants, you don't deal in. now, the government was urged to show some backbone when mps debated the dispute with france over scallop fishing. there were violent confrontations at the end of august as fishermen off the coast of northern france rammed boats, threw stones and let off smoke bombs to try to force british boats out of the area. the scallop fishing grounds lie just beyond french national waters, but within its economic territorial area. french rules banned their own boats from fishing for scallops there between may and october, to allow the shellfish to breed. but the rules don't apply to other countries. fishing stopped while talks took place to try to resolve the dispute, but those talks broke down over a compensation deal. it is open to the french government

to lift the domestic restrictions they have in place earlier than they normally would, in order to address concerns that their industry have expressed about the lack of a level playing field. the uk industry is legally allowed to fish in the baie de seine, they have shown commendable restraint during negotiations, and i welcome their cooperation and understanding. the industry is looking to government for some backbone, and for the minister to fight for them, their livelihoods and their communities. why can't the royal navy accompany our ships back into those fishing grounds? the minister said the waters were within the french exclusive economic zone, so it was absolutely the responsibility of the french to police fishing there. fishing is the most hazardous peace time occupation. in the years since i left school myself, mr speaker, no fewer than five men who were at school with me in islay high school

have lost their lives while making their living at sea. and that is why the sort of behaviour that we witnessed on the 27th of august is simply unforgivable. in terms of looking at negotiations with the eu about fishing rights post—brexit, will the minister assure us that any bad feeling that's been created over this situation will not spillover into those negotiations? the minister said that the uk would be leaving the common fisheries policy when the uk left the eu. now, the director—general of the bbc, tony hall, appeared in front of the culture, media and sport committee and told them the future of free tv licences for the over 75s is to be reviewed. the scheme, scheduled to cost the corporation £725 million a year, is due to end in its current form in 2020. lord hall told mps he had yet to make a decision on what would happen then. the current concession

on the over 75s‘ license fees, as we know it today, will not be delivered into the 2020s, it will be replaced by something which is different. to be absolutely truthful with you, it could be the same, you know, the board could say we'll just continue with it as it is, it could be reformed, there is a whole load of options, and we're just not in a position at the moment to say, in all honesty, what the right option would be. and anyway, we've got to have a proper public consultation about all of that, and what we do. and i think that's something the board is very mindful of, and they will make a decision about at some point in the autumn or winter. now, lord hall was then also asked about the future of this very programme, the week in parliament, and our weeknight edition, the day in parliament. do you think it's important that bbc parliament should continue to have an edited daily programme looking back on what happened that day in parliament, and an edited weekly programme doing the same?

these formats are produced obviously for radio, but do you feel they should continue on television, and be available on bbc parliament? i do. i also think we should be looking at other ways in which we can attract people to what parliament is doing. it's been put to me that there is a plan that bbc parliament will stop producing edited programmes and willjust effectively broadcast live footage from the lords and the commons. but from what you said in your previous answer, it sounds like that is not the case. could you just confirm that? i want the edited programmes to continue. let me just say, we are constantly reviewing what we do, and looking... and i have been saying we've got to make £800 million of savings by the end of the charter period. and we are well on the way. we keep on looking at, should we be doing this, should we be doing that, could this be better, could we do it were effectively, but don't read into that necessarily something that we intend to do. lord hall.

now, parliament has only been back a fortnight, but mps and peers have now left westminster for three weeks. why? well, because it's time for the annual autumn party conferences. a chance for bigwigs and members to get together to either discuss weighty political issues, or let their hair down, depending on your point of view. earlier in the week, i spoke to conservative mp and chair of the commons procedure committee, charles walker. he told me he was confident that even with this three—week break, all the government's brexit legislation would get through. but did he think the conference recess was a sensible thing for parliament to do? no, because i don't think we should have party conferences every year. i think party conferences are a thing of the past, i think we should have conferences perhaps once every four or five years, a bit like they have in the united states of america. so, no, i don't think it's sensible, i think we should really get rid of conferences and we should sit, if we're going to come in september, we should sit properly in september. but a lot of people do like the conference season, it is a chance for everybody to get together and to make their big

speeches, and to be on the telly. it is a chance for those people who want to be there to get together and make their big speeches on the telly, but i'm not sure the nation really pays much attention any more to party conferences. they do pay attention to the party conferences immediately before the general election, and we do now have fixed term parliaments that run for five years, so there should be a party conference in november or october before a general election scheduled for the spring. but i think party conferences are probably a thing of the past. now, on thursday, mps debated a proposal from the procedure committee to allow proxy voting — letting mps vote if they are not in the chamber. at the moment, there is a system of pairing, where mps from the government and an opposition party agree not to vote, cancelling each other out. but the whole system took a knock when a government mp voted in a division in which he'd been paired with the then heavily pregnant lib dem jo swinson. she's since had her baby, and was in the chamber with her son gabriel during the debate. i asked charles walker what was being proposed. women who have given birth, for six months should be able

to have a proxy vote in the house of commons, for no longer than six months. maybe a few weeks extra, in exceptional circumstances. we think that's the right thing to do, to allow more women to come into parliament, to feel parliament is a place for them, and when they are in parliament, they can have children. i think the danger is, a number of women feel being a member of parliament is not compatible with having children, either before they get into parliament or a once they are in parliament. charles walker. now, what's been happening in the wider world of politics? here's gary connor with our countdown. at five, a statue to suffragette emily wilding davison has been unveiled in her hometown of morpeth. it shows her tipping away food, to mark her hunger strikes injail. at four, a tory backbencher‘s invitation for the chancellor. will my right honourable friend actuallyjoin me on a pub crawl in shrewsbury? laughter. i'm buying! well, mr speaker, provided i can get it in writing that he is buying, i'm very tempted to consider that

offer, and i'll negotiate with him. at three, sex in the city star cynthia nixon says her bid to be democratic nominee for new york governor may have failed this week, but she hopes she has inspired many women to enter politics. at two, cornwall county council has voted to officially add an apostrophe to lands end. it's planning to rename some electoral wards and wanted to clarify the spelling. so, that's "land's". and at one, some mps marked back british farming day at pmqs, but the prime minister herself decided not to join them in the wheat fields. gary connor. finally, there is renewed fighting over bosworth field, one of england's most famous battlefields. now, as you'll remember from your school history, the battle saw henry tudor defeat richard iii in 1485,

ending the plantagenet era and ushering in the tudors. but now, an application has been put in to build a driverless vehicle test track on part of the site. conservative mp, author and historian chris skidmore argued it should be preserved. the battle of bosworth is one of our nation's most historic and important battles. it is where the last english king to be killed fighting a battle, richard iii, fell. it is where the tudor dynasty, under henry vii, was born. and it is a battle that truly changed the course of english history. if we knew what was there hidden beneath the fields, then we would preserve. yet not to know currently allows the battlefields to be thrown into the mix, into the planning process. to argue, therefore, thatjust1% of a battlefield might be affected by development is entirely to miss the point. this could be the 1% of a battlefield which witnessed the most important stages of combat. the ministerfor arts,

heritage and tourism said battlefields were precious and unique, but these were local decisions and it would be inappropriate for him to comment. but in every case, i trust and expect that the benefits of development will be very carefully balanced against the harm by the local planning authority. michael ellis. and that's it from me for now. we'll be back with you when parliament returns from the conference break in october. but for now, from me, alicia mccarthy, goodbye. hello again.

before we look at the weather in the uk let us have a round—up of what is happening with the storms elsewhere in the world. for northern parts of the philippines battered by typhoon mangkhut, that is heading out into the south china sea, not far away from hong kong on sunday, not as powerful by this stage. back over the pacific, into north america, where we find florence. that will weaken over land this weekend it will continue to bring flooding rains to the carolinas. this area of cloud contains remnants of an ex—hurricane that could be heading our way next week. this weekend, bit of a mixed bag. wetter windier weather in the north—west that will start to push its way will start to push its way into england and wales next sunday. the best of the weather will be in the south—east. we have this link of drizzly rain across northern england. perhaps even into north wales. the wetter weather a rise as the winds pick up in the afternoon across northern ireland and into western scotland. elsewhere dry weather. the difference in temperatures in the sunshine. through the evening and overnight

you can see how this rain develops more widely in northern ireland, in scotland, pretty heavy rain. quite windy out there as well. some of that will edge of the irish sea. the south—east dry and clear. and across the board it should be quite a warm night on saturday night. the rain should move away from scotland and northern ireland. being replaced by sunshine and showers in the north—west. the rain gets stuck across northern england, wales, not far from the south—west. the east midlands, east anglia, the south—east likely to be warm but towards the north—west of the uk a different story, quite a bit cooler with the show is coming in was the south—east, the temperatures continuing to creep up and up. into the early part of next week, this area of low pressure contains remnants of ex—hurricane helene. it will drive its way quickly northwards up the western side of the uk. uncertainty about the detail. the winds will collect really picking up as it sweeps its way

northwards and is threatening to bring heavy rain briefly as well. this system has come from a long way south and contains tropical air. that will be felt across the east and south—east of the uk for monday and tuesday. it will be not as warm in the north and west of the uk. stronger winds. rain for a while. towards the south—east, this is where temperatures will continue to climb into the mid—20s. feedback hello and welcome to bbc news. five people have been killed as hurricane florence continues to batter the us east coast. it has now been downgraded to a tropical storm, but forecasters still fear it may cause catastrophic flooding in parts of south and north carolina. our correspondent laura trevelyan is in wilmington. hurricane florence has been

downgraded to at optical storm but she still poses a great threat. the high winds have subsided a bit and so high winds have subsided a bit and so has the storm surge, but now what we are seeing