in the philippines, as typhoon mangkhut closes in on hong kong. meanwhile in the united states, tropical storm florence continues to devastate the east coast with "epic amounts of rainfall". the liberal democrat leader, sir vince cable, calls for the creation of a £100 billion sovereign wealth fund to spread britain's resources more evenly. before the papers, sport, and for a full round—up from the bbc sport centre, here's holly hamilton. good morning, rachel. simon yates will become britain's third different winner of cycling's grand tours this year, provided he stays on his bike to cross the finish line of the vuelta espana in the final processional stage in madrid today. yates extended his lead after yesterday's 20th stage and will be just the second briton to win in spain, asjoe lynskey reports. just a decade ago, this sight seemed impossible. but british riders

now rule the roads. in simon yates, this sport has entered unique territory. in one year, three men representing one country are set to win all the grand tours. yates nowjoins chris froome and geraint thomas as one of cycling's superstars. he all but sealed this vuelta title in his new home. the man from berri lives and trains in the hills of andorra. with his twin brother adam, he's learned to master these mountains. his job on stage 20 — to protect his overall lead. but yates‘s approach has been to attack. soon, his nearest challenger couldn't keep up. commentator: valverde looks a spent force. as valverde fell away, yates could start the uphill procession. these supporters saw him dominate may's giro d'italia, then fall away in the final week. in spain, the legs have stayed with him. the jersey has stayed red. and today, he rides into madrid as britain's latest endurance king. joe lynskey, bbc news.

boxing now, and mexico's saul "canelo" alvarez has beaten the unified middleweight champion gennady golovkin by majority decision in las vegas in their rematch. it was a frenetic final round that proved critical in preventing a repeat of the draw both men shared a year ago at the same venue. the majority decision was harsh on golovkin according to many watching who thought the kazakhstani boxer had done enough. football now, with the premier league returning after the international break with another win for liverpool. their 2—1 victory over tottenham at wembley yesterday means they've now made their best league start for 28 years. liverpool dominated the match and it was wijnaldum who put them ahead in the first half before roberto firmino scored one of the easier goals of his career. erik lamela got one back for spurs late on — but for liverpool it was their fifth win a row. chelsea also made it five wins out of five after an eden hazard

hat trick helped them come from behind to beat cardiff city 4—1. afterwards chelsea's manager mauricio sarri said hazard may be the best player in europe. man city had a comfortable 3—0 win over fulham. they've now won four out of their five league games and remain unbeaten. david silva scored his 50th premier league goal with leroy sane and raheem sterling also on the scoresheet. manchester united got their second win in a row coming through 2—1 against watford to end their perfect start to the season. chris smalling scored the second forjose mourinho‘s side after they'd gone ahead through romelu lukaku. great britain's alistair brownlee was disqualified from the grand final of the world triathlon series as mario mola won a third world title in a row. brownlee was initially given a is—second penalty in australia forfailing to go around a buoy in the swimming. but this was then upgraded to a disqualification.

he continued to compete and did not appeal against the decision after the race. he later tweeted to express his disappointment claiming he was disorientated after being held under the water. lewis hamilton will be hopeful of extending his lead in the formula one drivers‘ championship when he starts the singapore grand prix from pole later. hamilton produced one of the best laps of his career to clinch top spot on the grid. he'd struggled all weekend until the final session of qualifying. his title rival sebastian vettel was more than half a second off the pace and will line up third behind red bull's max verstappen. that lap felt like magic. i don't really know where it came from, but it all came together. naturally, i want to say a huge thank you to all the team, back at the factory, you know, everyone‘s working so hard, really, really, so hard to pull out the extra bits

and today ijust managed, just for that one lap, just to get it right. worcestershire rapids have won the t20 blast title for the first time. they beat sussex sharks in the final by five wickets. worcestershire‘s hero was ben cox who scored 46 not out and hit the winning boundary. the rapids had never even reached finals day before but beat lancashire in the semi before seeing off sussex in the penultimate over. great britain have taken a 2—1 lead in their davis cup tie against uzbekistan thanks to a win in the doubles byjamie murray and dom inglot. they took the match in four sets and means britain need victory in one of today's two singles rubbers to win the tie in glasgow. victory would also ensure britain are seeded in the revamped davis cup next year. saracens and exeter both kept up their perfect records in rugby union's premiership while bath won theirfirst league match of the season. bath ran in five tries against harlequins to pick up

a bonus point victory. quins did come back into it but bath hung on to win 37—32. that's all the sport for now. now on bbc news, here's the papers. hello, and welcome to our sunday morning paper review. with me are david wooding, political editor of the sun on sunday, and shyama perera, the journalist and author. let's take a look at the front pages. the observer leads on a call by london mayor sadiq khan for a second referendum on the uk's membership of the eu, saying voters should be given the chance to reject a brexit deal. the telegraph, on the other hand, carries an interview with former tory mp, author and remain voter jeffrey archer, who says he rejects

the idea of a second referendum. the main story for the paper is an alleged dispute within the russian intelligence services over the failed assassination of sergei skripal. the express leads on claims that militia groups in libya are trying to get the country's ruling authority to "hand over" the brother of the manchester arena bomber, salman abedi, to avoid the possibility of him being extradited to the uk. the mail carries claims of muslim extremists hijacking a bible class at a london prison. the sunday times has an exclusive interview with leader of the scottish conservatives, ruth davidson, as well as an important discovery made at edinburgh zoo — in short, hi—vis clothing puts pandas off sex. and the mirror leads with what it calls a "new boris sensation", claiming the former foreign secretary holidayed in italy with a former aide just weeks before his marriage split, and that he told her he can't

wait to see her again. so, a varied set of front pages. no realfrontrunners. let's see what our reviewers make of it all. david, you are our politico so i will start with you, the sunday times had a link to a bbc interview, the prime minister cocking to nick robinson saying she is still a bloody difficult woman. a nice teaserfor bloody difficult woman. a nice teaser for the panorama special tomorrow and nick robinson had the bloody difficult task of talking to her. it will make it a must watch tomorrow but theresa may says she is still a bloody difficult woman, nick asked in the back of a car what happened to the bloody difficult

woman, negotiating with the eu, things don't seem to be going so well and she said she uses it sparingly and you will see more of the bloody difficult woman in the weeks ahead. but in terms of a political battle cry, given this is one of the best lines to come out of this panorama interview, which i'm sure they spent a long time trying to draw something out of her, it's the equivalent of running through a field of wheat. does it scary you, does it make you feel you have confidence in our prime minister? it confuses many because when somebody is being bloody difficult you are talking about small things, not politics. it was ken clarke, the former chancellor, who said theresa may was a bloody difficult woman, when doing an interview at a tv

station and he had the microphone left don and was recorded saying this and that became a label which she wore as a badge of honour and the fact she still using that shows... it shows she is an imaginative and i think at a time when we need creative thinking, it's worrying that this is the best she can do in self—description. worrying that this is the best she can do in self-description. she did say she was a bit irritated as well with borisjohnson. say she was a bit irritated as well with boris johnson. you're a bit irritated because the cat has been set, not because you may lose your premiership. ijust find this so understated, if this is supposed to make us feel confident it isn't working with many. the irritated line was interesting because nick tried to tackle her own leadership

questions about handling brexit and when she would step down and he said are you going to go on and on with a general election in 2022? she'd just slapped him down and said i'd get a bit irritated when people go on about leadership, it's all about the uk, not me. but the pressure is mounting on her and the risk aligned that she has been called on to sack the chancellor, philip hammond, a lot of pressure and she's juggling a lot of pressure and she's juggling a lot of pressure and she's juggling a lot of balls. she is, but that suggests she is going at speed and i'm not sure we ever get any sense of speed so i cannot think of metaphor that works slower than balls forjuggling, maybe juggling eggs. you feel disappointed there is not much new coming out.|j

eggs. you feel disappointed there is not much new coming out. i will be tuning in tomorrow to watch this because i hope with party conferences coming up i might get a sta b conferences coming up i might get a stab at having a chat with myself. she is hard work when you interview her, she doesn't give a lot away and there's no the record briefings so what she tells you is what she wants to say. and the message remains that she is sticking to the brexit plan and timetable. and there is an element of admiration that she says what she wants to tell you and if she doesn't want to tell you something she keeps it to her chest. with six months to go we wait to say. shyama, take us across the paper because we have a lovely picture of ruth davidson, leader of the conservative tories, who has given an exclusive interview in

which she has been revealing about her own life. she has been starkly honest about her past as a young woman self harming, throwing herself against walls and slashing her arms with blades or broken glass, drinking too much. it's such a candid interview, and she's staying she never wants to be pm because it would affect mental health and i would affect mental health and i would say there are a lot of people in politics you don't have histories of self harming whose mental health has clearly been affected because the pressure is so great. my one worry about this is that it will put a lot of women of going into politics at a time when we are drawing them in, we have a front page entirely about women, it's a really good time for gender movement and gender equality and in a strange

way, unwittingly she might have to move back a bit. interesting that in terms of people who had an eye on ruth davidson and thought she could be something for the future, she has shut the door on the idea she might wa nt to shut the door on the idea she might want to step up into senior leadership. the answer normally from a politician when asked if they fa ncy a politician when asked if they fancy being leader is to say the leader is theresa may and i have no plans, but she has completely ruled it out. it will be a disappointment to herfans in it out. it will be a disappointment to her fans in scotland and south of the border. she consistently becomes —— come second behind borisjohnson when voters ask who you would be more likely to vote for as leader of the party, she is far and away the second runner. is it that we like oui’ second runner. is it that we like our politicians real? we need them,

we have a period where we have no leadership and ruth davidson has a clear agenda, and authentic personality, i'm not saying that mrs may does not but she has an authentic non—personality whereas ruth davidson, you can get, and her solidity embodies this. i love this this photo, she's not being pregnant and sexy, just standing there saying i'm pregnant and that authenticity is needed today. when you read it, talking about her self harm and suicidal thoughts and depression but in this interview it so graphic, she lifts her sleeve and shows the lattice of scars on her arms were she tried to harm herself so it's a

graphic interview and quite moving. it's powerful stuff and that lovely photo with a little wink from ruth davidson. let's turn our attention to foreign affairs, the sunday telegraph's main story is about the kremlin and the possibility the russian secret services are fighting amongst themselves over the poisonings. it's these two history buffs who came for our weekend in salisbury to look at this bar. within an art. and not to try and poison anybody. the sunday telegraph is saying the reason they were put in front of the cameras with this ridiculous explanation was that the kremlin are furious with them because they basically botched the spy because they basically botched the spy operation. they should have gone in there and cleanly killed and two victims and gone out but they are on

cctv, they left the perfume bottle with the poison in the wrong place so with the poison in the wrong place so to innocent people were poisoned and one died, and they are furious so and one died, and they are furious so they have basically hung them out to dry and the secret services are telling the sunday telegraph they expect more developments from russia asa expect more developments from russia as a result. what extraordinary when you look at the footage is their extraordinary confidence, that they could be that open and not spotted. you could reverse it and safe it wasn't they were incompetent, they we re wasn't they were incompetent, they were just confident of art in competence and watching the two non—spies talking on tv reminded me of meerkat mondays, you were expecting one of them to put on a velvet jacket and a long cigar, it was so velvet jacket and a long cigar, it was so nonsensical. but an interesting suggestion this is an

internalfight interesting suggestion this is an internal fight and they have been stitched up because some people were saying these were not the same guys, just some random people they had brought in, i heard a commentator talking about how they spoke, they didn't sound like muscovites, so we are taking this, we do love a spy story. there were still people who believe this is a conspiracy, i get e—mails every day from pundits who tell me the message on the bottle if you read it back to front and hold it in the mirror it spells out the brits did it or something, you get so brits did it or something, you get so many ridiculous explanations and then you have to weed out the ones that could have a degree of truth, but people love a good spy story and ta ke but people love a good spy story and take sides and tried to make the fa cts take sides and tried to make the

facts into a story. a little insights you get into our own secret services, people are interested. and tonight is bodyguard, which takes us further into this murky world, one interesting thing is that putin doesn't seem to give a stuff, which is worrying. are we a laughing stock work is the whole west a laughing stock? we can't avoid going back to brexit and politics, the other side of the sunday telegraph, the home secretary talks about what we could do if we end up with no deal. this isa do if we end up with no deal. this is a half column saying sajid javid told a cabinet meeting that government needs to introduce tax incentives to improve the infrastructure and help the economy withstand the effects of leaving the

eu, whichl withstand the effects of leaving the eu, which i suppose is self evident in the way, we will have to pour money into things when holes start to show, he's saying be prepared and do it in advance. i'm not sure there's enough time for to do more than discuss it at the moment. this is what the conservative government should do anyway, cut tax, why is the chancellor not talking about this? why is the talking it down with gloomy predictions of what brexit will mean? to reason they might be mildly irritated by this because i think this is possibly a leadership positioning. sajid javid, this is the sort of thing the chancellor should be saying, not the home secretary, so perhaps she is laying out the land about where he would be as leader. we're watching

the lib dems because it's their conference and the independent talks about how there may be a majority of us about how there may be a majority of us who would consider a new centrist party underlines vince cable is talking about. although i'm not sure why we're giving so much credence to the conference of a party with only eight members, at the end of the date that is not much to go on, on the other hand this is a moment for those peoples who are fed up, not necessarily for a new party but to start joining necessarily for a new party but to startjoining the lib dems and make that into what they want it to be, and existing party that is desperate in need of bodies and ideas and if you conflate those stories you could say the majority are ready to join the lib dems and create a centrist party. this is all going well as an interview until vince cable got to

the bit about if there is an election and the chaotic consequences of brexit, i would be leading it, and... he was asked if it could still hold true, the suggestion he made that he might be prime minister and he says you never know. you think you might be deluded? i think so. there is talk about a new centrist party, tony blairsaid about a new centrist party, tony blair said last week he didn't think it would happen, labour moderates need to seize back control but i don't think there will be one, labour has such good brand, people like what it stands for and know what it is, so labour moderates will wa nt to what it is, so labour moderates will want to seize back control of the party, secondly they have tried before to start another party, we had forbade heavyweights, shirley williams, david rogers, and they

couldn't get it off the ground and it had to merge with the lib dems, sid yediot you will get for heavyweights together, people with the gung ho to go for it, i think they just carry on the gung ho to go for it, i think theyjust carry on pottering about. but corbyn heavyweights like diane abbott and emily thornberry, they look weighed down and updated by events in the past 12 months so even those who were in the front line heavyweights are no longer heavyweights are no longer heavyweights and its interesting watching the loss of confidence. lot of people think that is all brexit related, once we are through brexit, as if that has a finite point, traditional parties will re—establish themselves along clearer lines, there has been overla p

clearer lines, there has been overlap in both parties because of brexit. the political divide is no longer left and right, it remain and leave. and the observer, sadiq khan has added his voice to calls for a second referendum and it seems to be growing, i don't know if that's too lazy and assumption. it's easy to call for it when you know it wouldn't work because it sounds like you have a solution and the solution isi you have a solution and the solution is i don't know, another referendum suggests we don't know what we want. we'll sadiq khan adding his voice to make a difference ? we'll sadiq khan adding his voice to make a difference? he's only the mayor of london, not the whole uk, so mayor of london, not the whole uk, so i'm not sure the value is. doesn't put pressure onjeremy corbyn? some people say we need a stronger line on brexit and if sadiq khan champions it, will that frighten them? the labour party is

as divided as the conservatives on brexit but sadiq khan is talking to his audience of london, so it's good for him but for the party as a general, no, because there was a poll this morning by britain thinks, , poll this morning by britain thinks,, the research organisation, to ask what the parties could do to attract more people, with conservatives it was spend more on the nhs, for labour it was get rid of the leader. that's it for the papers this morning. don't forget you can see the front pages of the papers on the bbc news website at bbc.co.uk/papers. if you want to watch the review again you will find it on the bbc iplayer. thank you, david wooding, political editor of the sun on sunday, and author and journalist shyama perera. great fun to go through all of that with you.

we started off sunday with a north—south divide but so far the best of the sunshine in the south—east corner. a beautiful sunrise as you can see by this weather watcher picture. a different story further north and west. already some rain and rather cloudy skies first thing this morning and some outbreaks of rain. rain was pretty heavy through the night across scotland and northern ireland, accompanied by 30—45mph gusts of wind. as the rain moves south and east it is starting to weaken. that will be the story as we go through the day. the rain moving out of the north of england into the midlands and lincolnshire and weakening. we should see some sunny spells developing late in the afternoon across north wales and northern england. a breezy affair for scotland and northern ireland with a scattering of showers in the north—west. still on the mild side, 14—19 degrees. in the south—east corner we could see highs of 24.

that front continues to sink steadily south, a band of cloud and a relatively mild night to come with that south—westerly flow. temperatures will keep sitting at 17. quite a mild and cloudy start on monday. a quiet start to monday on the whole, but it's not going to last because by the end of monday into tuesday we see this significant area of low pressure which is the remnants of hurricane helene pushing across the uk. we start off monday relatively quiet. sheltered relatively quiet. eastern areas with some sunshine. the wind strengthening and the cloud gathers with the rain arriving into northern ireland and western scotland. we could see gusts of wind 40mph and highs of 2a degrees. as we move out of monday into tuesday, that's when we are likely to see the strongest of the winds. gales or severe gales with a spell

of wet weather moving its way through northern ireland and into scotland. it rattles away at quite a pace, so by tuesday the worst of the rain will have eased. we still keep those windy conditions right across the country. at least they are coming from a south—westerly so that means we keep this tropical air particularly across central and southern areas the country. the windiest weather to the north. this is bbc news. i'm rachel schofield. the headlines at 10.00. theresa may defends her brexit plan — as the prime minister hits out at speculation over her future. this is where i get a little bit irritated — this is not, this debate is not about my future. this debate is about the future of the people of the uk and the future of the united kingdom. at least 25 people are killed in flooding and landslides in the philippines — as typhoon mangkhut approaches hong kong. the big problem, although not so much in evidence around here, is smashed windows, smashed glass.

we've seen lots of this stuff flying around, and that is really dangerous to try to deal with. in the united states — communities on the east coast face "epic amounts of rainfall" — as tropical storm florence continues its path of destruction. and at 11.30 — a journey into the controversial world of live animal exports, bbc scotland investigates