good afternoon. theresa may has said she gets "irritated" by the ongoing speculation over her position as prime minister. mrs may told the bbc the debate should be about the country's future rather than her own, with only six months to go before brexit. her comments come days after conservative mps opposed to her brexit plan met to discuss how and when they could force her to stand down. nick eardley has more. at chequers, where her brexit proposal was born, a site we don't often see, the prime minister at ease, defending her plan for life outside the eu. this week, sun discussed replacing her over that policy, but theresa may says it's not her future that is important, it's the country's —— some discussed. this is where i get a little bit irritated, 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. that's what i'm focused on

and that's what i think we should all be focused on. ensuring that we get a good dealfrom the european union, which is good for the people of the uk, wherever they live in the uk. some brexit backers would say the play —— plan would be a disaster. they are flexing their muscles to change it. michael gove says he backs the prime minister, saying he is, most. but he says is compromises needed before a ref. future by minister could always choose to alter the relationship between the eu and european union. the chequers approaches the right one for now because we need to respect the vote and take advantage of the opportunities are being outside the european union. but with so outside the european union. but with so many different views still on the table, who makes a final call? london's mayor thinks it should be voters on a referendum in the final dear. the question should be a choice between the deal done by this government or staying in the european union. -- final deal. the deal done by discovered we can now actually see the consequences would be. labour's leadership remains to

be. labour's leadership remains to be convinced on another referendum. the prime minister insists it won't happen. she says she'll fight for her plan. you know what some people say, they rather liked it when you joked about being "that bloody difficult woman", they liked that. and they sometimes say, where she gone? we want her back. she's still there. but there's difference between those who think you can only between those who think you can only be bloody difficult in public and those of us who think, actually, you bide your time and your bloody difficult when the time is right and when it really matters. and it's that result that will be tested in the coming months. nick eardley, bbc news. scottish tory leader ruth davidson has said she never wants to be prime minister because she values her "mental health too much". in an interview with the sunday times magazine, she revealed her struggles with self—harm, suicidal thoughts and depression as a teenager. steven godden is in edinburgh for us now. steven, tell us more about what she's being saying. this is a highly personal interview

with the sunday times. as leader of the scottish conservatives, with davidson has revived the party's fortunes. she's been spoken about in some quarters as a future prime minister but today she says that won't happen because, in her words, she values her mental health too much. she goes on to detail her battle as a teenager with self harm and with depression. she says the suicide of a boy in her village sent her into a tailspin. she was cutting herself, she was drinking too much and she was getting angry. the following year, at 18, she was diagnosed with clinical depression, the medication for which she says left her with dark, terrible dreams. to combat those mental health problems, ruth davidson focused on exercise and a healthier lifestyle but most importantly, she says she threw away the pills. later this year, ruth davidson will give birth to her first year, ruth davidson will give birth to herfirst child year, ruth davidson will give birth to her first child and she also confirmed in that interview that in the future she won't go to westminster as an mp or as a peer,

because she finds the idea of leaving herjob in edinburgh while she's in london as offensive. thanks very much indeed. sir vince cable, has rejected claims he is running out of time as leader of the liberal democrats and, speaking to the bbc‘s andrew marr, refused to set a firm resignation date. that's uncertain. i've a series of tasks to do. i'm going to do them. i'm not setting a time horizon. i think it would be foolish to do so with so much uncertainty flying around. sir vince cable. at least 49 people are now known to have been killed in the philippines by typhoon mangkhut, many of them caught in landslides set off by heavy rain. the typhoon has now moved across from the philippines, to southern china and hong kong, with winds of up to 100mph. from hong kong, robin brant sent this report. this was a monster typhoon that hit three places in three days. hong kong was in the middle. more than 100 people

here have been injured, but no deaths have been reported. the biggest casualties were shattered windows and fallen trees. dozens of routes were blocked. dozens of roads were blocked. there's some flooding in lower—lying areas, as well. this is obviously not what sunday evening in one of the main streets in hong kong is supposed to look like. there is rubbish everywhere. we've got about half a metre of flooding there, as well. the worst of the winds have passed, but there's a big clean—up operation that needs to happen. people still being urged to stay indoors. it wasn't a direct hit and the worst has passed, but the rain is falling and there's a landslide warning in place. it's still dangerous to be out. translation: i'm here to feel the strength of the typhoon. it's quite strong. in the philippines, it was more serious. the death toll there is rising — the damage more widespread in smaller communities in a country less able

to protect its people. in a flooded home, rescuers found a mother and child, stranded. both were saved. the child passed first to safety. here, too, though, there is now the threat of mudslides. mangkhut has now made landfall in mainland china, hitting guangdong province, the final stop on its devastating westerlyjourney. thousands had already been evacuated there. they'll know the full extent of the damage once monday comes. robin brant, bbc news. hong kong. staying with extreme weather... the east coast of the united states is facing an "epic amount of rainfall," particularly in north and south carolina where at least 12 people have died, as a result of storm florence. many people in the area have been moved to safety and those that have attempted to return home are being urged not to, as further flooding is on the way. our north america correspondent chris buckler reports. this storm has left streets submerged across north carolina.

towns along the coast and now inland have become badly flooded, leaving rescue teams as the only route to safety for some families. from the air, you get a better sense of the scale of the problems here, and during the brief breaks in the weather, this has been the most effective way of getting people out of cut—off areas like new bern. driving conditions are increasingly difficult. motorists have been advised to avoid this state completely if they can. and new evacuation warnings have come into force for more of these carolinan towns. the worst is yet to come. mandatory evacuations for areas within one mile of the cape fear river in fayetteville, and one mile of the little river have been implemented. the number of people who have died as a result of this extreme weather is continuing to rise. florence is no longer a hurricane, but this sprawling storm is moving slowly across the carolinas, dumping months of rainfall injust days.

the effects of hurricane florence are still being felt — and the authorities say as long as the rain falls, there is the danger of further catastrophic flash flooding. and after this week in north carolina, both man and beast are well aware of the impact of that. chris buckler, bbc news, wilmington. a new world record has been set in the marathon by kenya's eliud kipchoge — with a time of two hours, one minute 39 seconds in berlin. the 33—year—old took more than a minute off the previous best which was set by compatriot dennis kimetto in the berlin marathon, four years ago. congratulations to him. you can see more on all of today's stories on the bbc news channel. the next news on bbc one is just after 6:30pm, bye for now. hello.

you're watching the bbc news channel. let's return now to one of today's main stories. at least 49 people are now known to have been killed in the philippines by typhoon mangkhut — many of them caught in landslides as a result of heavy rain. earlier, i spoke to our correspondent howard johnson. i'm in tuguegarao, a city of cagayan province. today we made a 50—mile journey to the coastline, to a small town called aparri. we visited it a few days ago, and preparations had been put in place to receive this storm. people have been tying down their roofs, there was talk of an evacuation centre. we met one man who said defiantly that he had watched the waves, and prayed to god before he made any decision to go to the evacuation centre.

when we returned today, we saw this man and his home and it had been completely flattened. the roof have been ripped off, there was detritus all over his living room floor. he showed us a tv and a fan that had been broken by the heavy winds and rain. he told me that he was devastated, and that his life had been ripped to shreds, and he began crying as we interviewed him. this was similar across the town. aparri is on the coastline and a direct hit in the path of typhoon mangkhut. in this area, around 750 homes have been affected. lots of people's lives are up in the air at the moment. we saw people repairing their homes, hammering wood together with nails, trying to do what they can just to get their homes ready for the night which is approaching here at the moment in the philippines. you mentioned people being evacuated, although some chose not to go. we are showing pictures of the evacuation centres.

how well—planned has the support effort been and the kind of warnings that have gone out? this government has prided itself on being very proactive with emergencies. there has been a lot of information relayed out to the people via the media about being careful before this storm came about. it's up to local authorities, the officers would be walking around telling people. where we went today in aparri we heard there had been officers walking around telling people to get to evacuation centres, but some people chose not to go there. we also heard the evacuation centres took a battering in aparri, but no casualties in this seaside town, and this is an area that took the brunt of the storm. across the country, the government is saying there are at least 30 people dead, and the death toll is expected to rise as we get more information from the remote mountainous

and coastal regions that are yet to report back their figures. because, as we saw with aparri, it was cut off from the world for a few days as far as telecommunications, because on the way in telecommunications cables and electricity poles all over the streets, forests ripped to shreds... i mean, this really has devastated parts of this country. you mentioned the government, clearly they are looking at the immediate support effort, but also into the longer term, a lot of talk about crop damage and the impact on agriculture and of course the knock—on on the economy and people's well—being. yes. in the philippines, there's been an issue with inflation. earlier this year, they had a tax reform that hasn't gone down brilliantly with the people of the country. we've seen rice prices, an important staple in the philippine family home go up consecutively every month for eight months. that's caused people to be quite

upset with this tax reform. they think it's a direct impact as a result of that, and all these crops that have been affected by this typhoon coming through and dumping water when it was time to harvest — we saw a lot of flooded paddy fields — when it was time to pull the stuff up, not put it under water. the feeling is that rice prices and the price of food is about to go up again, and that won't go down well with the public. the london mayor, sadiq khan, has come out in support of a second referendum on whether the uk should leave the eu. the labour politician said that the country is now faced with either a "bad deal" or "no deal" and that people should be allowed to have another say on the issue. the mayor's comments are at odds with the labour party's official policy, which is to respect the outcome of the referendum but "leave all options on the table" if a deal is not agreed by parliament. sport and for a full

round up, from the bbc sport centre, here's holly. hello. cycling has a new superstar — and once again he's british as simon yates storms to glory in the vuelta a espana. he'll become the third briton to win a grand tour this year — provided of course he stays on the saddle in the final processional stage in madrid this afternoon. cycling weeklyjournalist michael hutchinson says british cycling is having a moment. patience has been the key to this. he was very sort of passive, not passive, but quite relaxed in the first week or ten days of the race and has really turned it on in the second half. this is now the grand slam of the three grand tours this year — the giro d'italia, the tour de france and now the vuelta a espana — by three different british riders. it is quite extraordinary by any standards, never mind for britain, which until relatively recently was almost invisible as a force in road cycling. now, of course, with simon, who has

won with the mitchelton—scott team, rather than team sky, and all the other grand tour british winners have come from team sky, so that's also an interesting and a distinctively positive development. it was billed as of the fight of the year — the rematch between canelo alvarez and gennady golovkin one year on from their controversial draw in las vegas. already there's talk of a third encounter between the pair. last night, canelo became the new unified middleweight champion — winning by majority decision. 0ur reporter ade adedoyin was there and says it was a close call once again. we know rematches don't always live up to expectations but saul alvarez and gennady golovkin delivered another highly entertaining contest, one that ebbed and flowed, sometimes within the same round. i spoke to many of the journalists ringside and they all had it close, some for golovkin and some for alvarez and some even called it a draw. alvarez got the decision and he described it as one of the greatest moments of his life. he said it is a proud moment for mexico, this bout, of course,

happening on the weekend of mexico's independence day celebrations. as for gennady golovkin, he came to the post—fight news conference wearing sunglasses, after having stitches for a cut eye. he said he leaves the arena the defeated man, but in his heart, he still feels he's the champion, he feels that he did enough to win, and he says he's open to a third fight. there certainly seems to be an appetite for a trilogy and why not? both men will earn over $50 million for tonight's fight. may 5th next year is another bank holiday weekend for mexico, so a real possibility they could do it again then and another fight that would be great for vegas and the local economy. 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 15—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. meanwhile, his brotherjonny was the highest brit in 8th place. one more win this afternoon will see great britain wrap up their davis cup world group playoff against uzbekistan. cameron norrie is facing world number 516 sanjar fayziev, after a decision was made to rest dennis istomin for this match. after a shaky start in the opening service game, norrie has won the first set 6—2. with the davis cup undergoing a revamp next year, there is no relegation at stake, but the gb team need a victory in the tie to ensure they are seeded in february's qualifying tournament. 0lympic marathon champion eliud kipchoge has set a new world record after shaving more than a minute of the previous time in berlin. the kenyan — who is widely seen as the greatest marathon runner of the modern era — ran a time of two hours, one minute and 39 seconds, beating dennis kimetto's world best set at the 2014 race.

it's also the biggestjump in a marathon record since 1967. and lewis hamilton is on pole position for today's singapore grand prix, which is getting underway. you can follow the action on the bbc sport website and on bbc radio 5live. that's all the sport for now. now on bbc news, it's time for the travel show. thank you. no, i'm afraid no travel show. just me here in london! australians have been warned to cut fresh strawberries before biting into them after several people found sewing needles hidden inside the fruit. contaminated punnets have been reported in supermarkets in the states of new south wales, queensland and victoria. georgina smyth has more. it is the stuff of nightmares — sewing needles inside fresh strawberries found at random across three australian states. i bit into it, there was a break.

my knee jerk reaction was to swallow it, and what was left over was half of the sewing needle. yeah, it's a shock. you go to get some strawberries from woolworths, the last thing you're expecting is to end up in hospital. some as young as nine have been affected. it went in my mouth and i pulled the needle out. the contaminated strawberries have been traced back to this queensland farm. the industry believes it could be the work of a disgruntled employee, but police won't confirm that. our investigation is still open. we aren't going to get into speculation, we're keeping a very open mind. brands have been pulled from the shelves across the major supermarkets, and while no one has been seriously harmed by the contamination, the industry is already hurting from the recall. strawberry growers are pleading with consumers not to abandon the industry. anyone buying the fruit has been urged to slice it before eating. georgina smyth, bbc news. plastics have been called a scourge

on the environment but now a group of scientists think they may actually be able to use them to do some good. it's estimated there's around 400 million tonnes of the material buried in landfill around the uk which could now be mined to make green fuel. but some environmentalists think it's better left where it is. david whiteley reports. every week, 1,100 tonnes of household waste are buried in this landfill site. it's just one of 20,000 landfill sites in the uk and between them, they contain 400 million tonnes of plastic. chris cornell has been working on this landfill site for the last three years. is it quite shocking to see how much plastic is here, and this is, you know, a relatively small landfill site, isn't it? yeah, yeah, yeah, definitely. i mean, it has been noticeably more plastic in the last few years, so what do you do with it?

where does it go, you know? how can you recycle this sort of stuff? dr stuart wagland from cranfield university in bedfordshire is leading a government—backed project to recover landfill plastic and turn it into a new fuel. 850 landfill sites in england have been identified as suitable for mining, but there could be up to 4,000 more. so, with this sample here, this has had the metal and glass taken away, and everything else has been used in a pyrolytic plant. oh, you can see it there. so, this oil is very similar in consistency to crude oil but we believe we can upgrade this to produce chemicals and liquid fuels and it could potentially power your car in the future. how environmentally friendly is the process of turning this into oil and gas, because the process, i believe, creates carbon dioxide? it does, but it doesn't produce carbon dioxide in the same way if we were to burn this material. julian kirby, the plastics pollution campaigner for friends of the earth,

still thinks secure landfill is better than this new idea. so, they say this is cleaner fuel. what they mean that it's a slightly less terrible type of fossil fuel. it is still a fossil fuel. that's not clean in climate terms. but burning plastic, whether it's in a fancy technology like pyrolysis or whether it's in an incinerator is incredibly polluting, and that's why we need to be massively reducing how much plastic we use altogether and not locking ourselves into a whole new economy of plastic. investors are needed to make this happen. it is predicted we could be using fuel from landfill plastic within ten years. david whiteley, bbc news. if you live in the east of england, you can see more bbc 0ne's inside out east on monday night at 7:30pm. benedict cumberbatch and james corden are just two of the british nominees up for an emmy award, which take place in la tomorrow night. it's the first year that the categories are dominated by the streaming service netflix.

0ur los angeles correspondent james cook reports. enemies to the east. enemies to the west. game of thrones has vanquished them all, winning more emmy awards than any other drama series in tv history. whatever stands in our way... we will defeat it. this year, it leads the field with 22 nominations. did you ever stop to wonder about your actions? westworld, where cowboys meet science fiction, has 21 nominations, including a second supporting actress nod for thandie newton. you're going to take me to my daughter. who knows where westworld's going to go for season three? we certainly have no idea. do you not? no, not at all! i'm having dinner with lisa joy, who's one of our show runners, next week and i'm going to get her very drunk and i'm going to get some

dish out of her, yeah! the handmaid's tale, with its bleak vision of a totalitarian united states, is also a frontrunner again. it won best drama last year. is the handmaid's tale a piece for our times? of course. my goodness, of course. i feel like it's the only piece for our times right now. the other shows are sources of entertainment and inspiration, but i really feel like it holds a mirror up to society and asks hard questions, particularly about women and the roles of women and equality, and so i think it's necessary. somebody help! she will keep hurting people until i catch her! spy thriller killing eve debuted on bbc one last night, but it's already thrilled american audiences, winning a nomination in best drama for sandra oh, a milestone for an asian actress. help me!

it can only be great. i mean, it could only be great! to discuss it in any kind of way, i'll leave that to other people because it should be discussed. but not for me. i'm just happy. in hollywood, the crown remains hugely popular, and it's in the running again. but what's the fascination with the royals? i think we're sort of secretly happy that their life is more miserable than ours, because they live in what we imagine is this gilded cage with everything that you could think of that you'd want to be, princes and kings and queens, they have this incredible lifestyle supposedly, but then you understand that in the middle, they've all the same problems we do. and that's what makes good drama, whether you're in la or the yorkshire dales. so, when i'm in england, iwatch, like, emmerdale and shows like that. you do not! you're an emmerdale fan? me and my mum love all of those. why? they're just — they're very addictive. they know how to write a show, you know.

they leave those cliffhangers real good. this annual bafta tea party is a curtain raiserfor the emmys, and very soon, we'll find out who'll be sipping the champagne. james cook, bbc news, los angeles. couch to 5k is a running programme followed by hundreds of beginner runners around the world. endorsed by the nhs, it was devised byjosh clark in 1996. couch to 5k builds from a few seconds of running, to longer distances, over a series of weeks. josh has been speaking to the bbc‘s witness programme. here's his story. you know, i'd never had real success with fitness. i always thought it was for someone else. when i would go to a gym or try running, i was sort of met with defeat. i was like, "oh, i guess that's not for me, i'm not that kind of person."

in my early 20s, i had a bad break—up and at that moment i had a lot of excess energy and ijust started running. it was something i had never enjoyed and i didn't enjoy it then. i remember putting on my shoes and going out the door and instantly thinking, "why am i doing this?" after running for a few weeks, the discomfort of it and the pain and the slowness all sort of faded away and i began to realise this was sort of something that could actually feel really good and rewarding. meditative, even. part of what i created in that period was a schedule called couch to 5k, which was intended to help people who had never gone running before to start running. one of the things i really wanted to do was basically figure out, how do you avoid the painful, dreary, horrible ramp up

that i went through? this idea that you have to somehow go through a wall of discomfort in order to start running. i had a theory that maybe you could do it in a gentler way, in a way that you could see some of those rewards of running much sooner. and so i wrote couch to 5k with that in mind, of how do you gradually start jogging from zero and become a runner in nine weeks? but i had what turned out to be a really lucky or accurate instinct about how this stuff works, with interval training, where basically you run for 60 seconds and then walk for 90 seconds. it turns out that's actually, there's a lot of science behind that, to show how that works for introducing new kind of stress and ability into the body. at the same time, i was creating a website, so i was telling everybody, i was telling my friends, my family, strangers

on the internet, about how to run, the things i'd learned about running and the benefits of it. i would say, it wasn't until really the mid—2000s that suddenly the thing began to blow up. i created some community forums for this website and that started to grow people. so, it wasn't necessarily the schedule that grew, it was the community that grew around the programme. that grew kind of outside me, and i think it continues to. at this point there are many, many, many communities of couch to 5k around the world. i don't have hard numbers for how many people have used couch to 5k, but i estimate that it's got to be in the millions or tens of millions, from nearly every country in the world. you know, anybody can run. we do it all the time as kids. we used to run untiljust the point of exhaustion,

laughing the whole time. you can recapture that spirit, that ability within almost all of us. i'm still trying to get my wife and our daughter to be runners, but i'm working on it, i'm working on it! fascinating. time for a look at the weather with louise.