to see what brexit will bring. they've bought property, invested, made lives here, and few want now to leave. damian grammaticas, bbc news, northern bulgaria. all week we're reporting on brexit: six months to go. if you are confused by any brexit terms, do take a look at ourjargon buster on the bbc news website. time for a look at the weather. here's darren bett. hello. some really windy weather on the way this week and it all starts tonight in the south—west. this area of cloud is storm helene. it started off as of cloud is storm helene. it started offasa of cloud is storm helene. it started off as a hurricane. the winds will strengthen and we will get tropical airand rain as strengthen and we will get tropical air and rain as well. today we have rain arriving in western parts of the uk, the calm before the storm. into the south—east, more and more sunshine has been arriving and the temperatures have been getting a lovely boost for this time of year. more broken cloud spilling further north into england and wales and

sunnier towards the south—east with rain setting in more widely across scotla nd rain setting in more widely across scotland and northern ireland. temperatures 18 or 19 and low temperatures for england and wales. up temperatures for england and wales. up to 26 in the south—east, really warm for this time of year. into this evening, complicated weather map. this area of low pressure is storm helene, and it will be arriving in the south—west first, then into wales. the winds pick up here this evening and overnight and this area of rain pushes in as well. still rain in northern ireland, northern and western parts of scotland, with eastern areas dry and clear but warm tonight. tropical air, so no lower than 60 degrees in some places. moving into tomorrow, the winds are feature of the weather across the winds are feature of the weather a cross m ost the winds are feature of the weather across most of england and wales. a0 mph and maybe 60 mph around western hills and coasts. a windy day and we will soon start to see the back of the rain in wales, moving quickly in the rain in wales, moving quickly in the morning across northern england,

scotla nd the morning across northern england, scotland and into the north sea. after that, sunshine comes through. sunny spells and showers from the west. not as windy for scotland and northern ireland and not as warm here. a warmed over central and used in parts of england. the midlands and south—east, temperatures up to 25, so very warm for this time of year. 18 or 19 likely for scotland and northern ireland. it could be that the strongest winds are yet to arrive and they will probably arrive on wednesday because of the steepening area of low pressure pushing in quickly from the atlantic ona pushing in quickly from the atlantic on a strong jet stream. the strongest winds will be in the north west of the uk, even 70 mph. wet weather with those winds coming into northern scotland and northern ireland. some sunshine around as well. not quite as warm by wednesday but 20 to 2a is pretty good for this time of year. 1a or 15 for scotland and northern ireland. the main theme for the rest of the week is the

windy weather on the way. thank you. a reminder of our main story this lunchtime: her way or no way. theresa may insists the only alternative to her plan for brexit is to leave the eu with no deal. that's all from the bbc news at 0ne. so it's goodbye from me and on bbc one we nowjoin the bbc‘s news teams where you are. good afternoon. it's 1.30pm and here's your latest sports news. simon yates says he's not a superstar, but he'll return home to britain knowing that he's made history. his win at the vuelta a espana means that three different cyclists from the same country have won the three grand tour titles in the same year for the first time. i don't think superstar is the correct word. cycling is still a small sport, especially in the uk. we have many successes

we have many successes 110w. compare it to football or any other sport, it is still a small sport. i don't think i will ever be a superstar. that's fine for me because that's not my character. i'm laid back. i like to relax on my own. that's ok. i will continue to work hard. i will go from there. england women's rugby union players will be given full—time professional contracts from next year. there will be 28 contracts available. the sport's govering body said it demontrated their commitment to growing the women's game and their ambition to be the world's number one team. contracts for the england women's squad were controversially scrapped after the 2017 world cup as the rfu focused on sevens rugby. two english players dominated major league soccer on sunday, as dc united and new york red bulls drew 3—3. wayne rooney scored dc‘s second, which put them in front midway through the second half, but he was outshone by bradley wright—phillips, whose hat—trick was even more impressive, as each time he scored he was equalised for the red bulls —

the last coming in the 90th minute. wright—philips has scored 19 goals this season, to rooney's five. zlatan ibrahimovic scored his 500th goal in la galaxy's match against toronto fc — and it was an absolute cracker, his six foot five frame twisting to sneak the ball past the keeper, hejoins lionel messi and cristiano ronaldo as the only active players to reach the half—century mark. and although his side lost, zlatan, being zlatan, he felt he gave both sets of fans something to enjoy. it is not the first time i get a standing ovation from the away team. it's nice because whenever i came here in mls i have not given them these goals. but i feel like the away supporters become like my home supporters, because i see them excited when they see me play. and even if i miss they pretend to whistle, but they don't really whistle. they do that because they want to show they are loyal to their

home team. but deep inside i know they are my fans. that is cool. there was an emotional end to the final golf major of the year, the evian championship in france, which was won by the american angela stanford. at the age of a0, this was her first major victory, at the 76th attempt. stanford was completely overwhelmed, saying she'd always been a fighter and in golf, you play with faith and just hope it works out. i have no idea whatjust happened. i'm... i'm grateful. i'm so happy for everybody at home, everybody that's always cheered for me. they never gave up on me. that's always cheered for me. they never gave up on me. a lovely end to

the championship. plenty more on the website. more sport in the next hour. thank you. as we've been reporting, an investigation by the victoria derbyshire programme has found that british women are using a blood test called nipt to find out the sex of their child just eight weeks into a pregnancy. and some of those women are using that information to then have a sex—selective abortion. the investigation has prompted calls from the labour front bench for a blanket ban on the sex of a foetus being revealed this early, given the pressures on women in some communities, including the british south asian community to give birth to boys. amber haque has this report. in the uk if you're pregnant you can usually find out the gender of your baby atan usually find out the gender of your baby at an nhs scan around 18 weeks. but for women in some communities, news of a girl can mean an end to their pregnancy. zara, not her real name, is south asian and lives in

london. when i went for the scanner andi london. when i went for the scanner and i asked if i could find out the gender of the baby, they said, you are having a girl. as soon as i found out i had a panic attack. i panicked. i had strayed away made that decision that i didn't want to have this baby. —— straightaway. za ra have this baby. —— straightaway. zara decided to have an abortion at 18 weeks because of a cultural —— because of the cultural pressure on her to have a boy. nipt allows women to find out the gender after eight weeks. the bbc has found evidence that thousands of british women are using a website to discuss using nipt testing purely to find out the gender, and some even say they are going to have a six selective abortion as a result of that information. one example we have on the website from a british pregnant woman. she says... we showed our findings to the labour

party, who are now saying a gender testing should be banned. for any clinic to be marketing in terms of gender determination i think is absolutely deplorable. communities in south asia have made huge strides in tackling this. that's primarily been through legislation, banning gender determination clinics. and i think that in the uk we need to do likewise. the department of health says nipt testing is not meant to be used for gender and that they will continue to monitor the evidence. not only do the government not understand this issue around six selection abortion, but also organisations, charities are not asking the question. this is six selection abortion. it is going

on in india and china and it is going on here. there are many girls missing as a result. a major new road safety campaign is being launched today, warning motorists not to drive too close to the car in front — something known as tailgating. highways england says it s the cause of one in eight deaths or serious injuries on our roads, as breakfast‘s john maguire has been finding out. this is the advert that highways england hopes will encourage tailgaters to change their behaviour. the campaign describes driving too close to the vehicle in front as aggressive, intimidating and potentially very dangerous. a factor in 100 incidents every year where people are killed or seriously injured. stay safe, stay back. you've got a lot of people who do it, which don't realise that they do it. which obviously is not very good for the driver who is being tailgated, but does it make it worse that the person who is tailgating doesn't realise how dangerous they are driving? i'm taking part in research that

aims to find out what effect aggressive tailgating can have on other road users. rigged up to a heart monitor and facial recognition software, i'm sent out to drive on motorways near birmingham. my data was then analysed and i was given the results. you had the perception that you were feeling absolutely fine, but the reality was, and your data suggested, that you were a bit more alert and a bit more aware, which is what we would expect you to be on the road. what the research showed was that although on the surface i felt calm, my body and my subconscious were telling a different story. i was under stress. highways england says tailgating can cause the driver in front to feel targeted and victimised, distracting them from concentrating properly and possibly causing them to make a mistake. so, in the words of a previous, and classic, road safety campaign... only a fool breaks the two second rule. john maguire, bbc news, birmingham.

ina in a moment of the business news. first, the headlines. the prime minister defence plan to take britain out of the eu, saying her current strategy represents the only alternative to a no—deal brexit. the head of the international monetary fund warns that many critical issues are unresolved, six months ahead of britain's scheduled exit from the european union. major rescue and clean—up operations are under way across the philippines, china and hong kong, following typhoon manghkut. at least 65 people are now known to have been killed in the philippines. they say beauty is in the eye of the beholder. 0ne south korean artist is taking that to heart. let's take a

look. that is an interesting take, isn't it? let's return to brexit. how do they feel about brexit more than two years on from the vote in burnley? christian fraser has been to find out. it's one of the oldest stadiums in england. in the smallest town ever to field a premier league game. this burnley squad looks to upset the established order, with players that seem to reflect the same stubborn character as the men and women who follow them around the country. this time it's a trip to wolverhampton wanderers. another chance to defy the odds. and as with football, so it is with brexit.

if we don't leave now, it will raise its head again. our children will have this in the years to come. we have spoken. that's the end of it. get on with it and make the best of it. we voted to leave and that's what we have to do. we can't keep changing our mind. i do have worries. but as i say, it is the fear of the unknown. but has that uncertainty led some to reconsider? those who voted for brexit, keep your hands up if you still think it is a good idea. you have not changed your mind at all? no. no german is telling me what to do any away! they think they have been forgotten about. immigration is the big thing in burnley. the reasons are complex. immigration, sovereignty and yes, this town has some of the poorest wards in the country. amid these tight terraced houses are the relics of the cotton industry, the mills that powered

the industrial revolution. but follow the canal from the old mill chimneys to the gleaming new business parks on the edge of town, and you find that for all the brexit uncertainty, burnley‘s economy is in fact booming. they have embraced aerospace, digital innovation, telecoms and, at 80%, there is record employment. burnley is one of the fastest—growing tech towns in britain. they tell me businesses here are as bullish about brexit as the fans. and yet the longer the uncertainty continues, the greater the risk that progress comes on states. i went to all the european games and six different people came to me to talk about brexit. four of them were saying, "we have to stay", two said, "get on with it". people are starting to reflect. would you vote brexit again?

i'd like to think with the promotion of more information, the population of burnley would be better informed. the eu will have to show their cards at some point. it will probably go down to the wire like our season in the premier league. some are impatient, some have turned. after a 1—0 defeat, burnley remain without a win in the premier league. it has been tough since the summer. sound familiar? time for the business news. britain's biggest companies have massively improved their policies of diversity amongst their board members. today some 98% of ftse100 companies, the biggest publicly listed companies, have a policy on board diversity. in the ftse 250, which lists

the country's middle sized listed companies the figure is 88%. however it seems they aren't telling anyone about it. 0nly15% of ftse100 companies actually report what they are doing. joining us now is tracy vegro, executive director of strategy and resources, at the financial reporting council. does it really matter if they've got the policies in place and are not telling anyone about them?” the policies in place and are not telling anyone about them? i think it does. what gets reported on tends to get done. we need to have confidence as the regulator and we are not just having confidence as the regulator and we are notjust having a tick box —— ta ke are notjust having a tick box —— take box mentality. what this study does is actually tell us that some good work is going on and there has been a massive improvement. we have to ask why more people are not telling us the detail of what they are doing. the core requirements are set to change from next year. we are

requiring more detailed reporting. we wa nt requiring more detailed reporting. we want people to tell us what they're doing on succession planning, executive talent. at the moment the report is saying it is 20% to 30% of the ft-se 100. moment the report is saying it is 20% to 30% of the ft—se100. clearly more needs to be done. what about the actual numbers of women, or the numbers of diverse board members, is that changing? certainly a lot of people seem to be meeting the targets set by the reviews. but they are not going be on that. it's almost a sense ofjob done perhaps. we don't want that to happen. we wa nt we don't want that to happen. we want this to get embedded into organisations. we are asking why people are not in their board evaluations talking more about diversity. whilst we are incredibly pleased that i'm gender diversity everybody seems to be doing better, other forms of diversity people are massively silent on. but can't be good. you do get to a tipping point.

when you get more diverse board it creates more diverse board in the future because they are like people like themselves? you hope diversity will get embedded. if it is not day—to—day in the organisation, if the h are department don't set off ona the h are department don't set off on a path of diversity, you can still see they were followed. the women on the board don't have the opportunity to get that embedded in the organisation. the other thing thatis the organisation. the other thing that is important is that a lot of the big investors have policies around how they are going to vote. their stewardship is crucial and the data that they get on diversity. de shareholders care? i think they do. the fact we have a public statement and policy, we are going to be interested to see what the major investors now do with the data from this report. it will be interesting to see if people ask more questions and not just about a to see if people ask more questions and notjust about a certain weight atan agm. and notjust about a certain weight

at an agm. ask these bigger companies what they are doing to make sure diversity is notjust a one off or something they say they have a policy on. in your experience, what do you think the most effective way of changing the culture is? is it legislation?” think legislation certainly plays a part. we have seen that with the gender pay gap. i'm told by the equality and human rights commission that compliance was very good. that would be an indicator, alongside culture change, and that will help. the other thing i would say is that in my experience timed programmes, real mentoring by senior women in the organisation, helps other people come through. instilling a belief that people from different backgrounds are a good thing in an organisation. groupthink is demonstrably not good. we're coming dr ten years of the financial crisis. look where groupthink has got us. you would think the premium

on diversity would speak for itself. thank you. thank you. deutsche bank is moving more of its banking business out of london, according to the financial times this morning. the report says that deutsche bank is under pressure from the european central bank to reorganise its business, which could involve making its uk operation into a ringfenced subsidiary and shifting more business and capital back to frankfurt. however the moves will not, initially, have an affect onjobs, the report said. swiss bank credit suisse is to be overseen by an independent monitor after failing to combat corruption in cases linked to global football body fifa, and venezuelan and brazilian state oil companies. dairy crest group has said it expects to see a rise in half—year profit and revenue, helped by increased sales of cheese, butter and spreads from its cathedral city and clover brands. the uk's largest dairy food company also said net debt at the end of september would be significantly lower than last year. cake and bread manufacturer finsbury food group has reported a 65.7% drop in annual pre—tax profits to £a.5 million. group revenue fell 3.a%

to £3016 million. the firm was hit by "significant one—off closure costs", after closing its loss—making grain d'0rfactory in london. excluding that cost, revenue was up 2.a% at £290.2 million while pre—tax profit rose a% to £17.2 million. that is what the markets are doing. a small fall by the ft—se. a slight gain by the pound against the euro. we've got itv down. speculation about it making a takeover bid. that is slightly out of the window. unilever, there is a lot of fuss about its changing its headquarters. investor concern. that is why the shares are down. that's your business news. thank you. the bbc‘s director general,

tony hall, says the corporation intends to move more of its production out of london. the idea is part of a plan which he'll set out tomorrow in a speech to the royal television society where he will address the challenges facing the bbc and public broadcasting in the face of modern media. the australian government has ordered an investigation after sewing needles were found hidden in punnets of strawberries. one man was hospitalised after eating a sabotaged strawberry. six states and territories have had reports of fruit that's been tampered with. the scare has been described by the country's health minister as a vicious crime. one of the world's rarest species of giraffe calf has taken its first steps at woburn safari park in bedfordshire. the rothschild s giraffe is less than a week old, but appears happy and healthy. it's thought there are only 1600 of the species left living in the wild, making them one of the rarest mammals in the world. the calf, thought to be a female, is six foot tall, but could grow to three times that height. she has not yet been given a name. it's time for a look at the weather

with darren betts. hello again. wild weather in the uk this week. quite windy at times. it sta rts this week. quite windy at times. it starts tonight. this was a hurricane. it is nowjust a storm. it is being swept towards the uk. the cloud has broken up. it will bring strong winds, tropical error and outbreaks of rain. rain arriving in the north—west of the uk. it is the cal mac before the storm across england and wales. sunshine breaking through. it gives the temperature is a welcome boost. sunny skies to was the south—east, east anglia and the south midlands. cloudier, grey skies across scotland and northern ireland. widely in the low 20s for england and wales. 25 to 26. we do

have storm helene on the doorstep. this marks the centre of this storm. around it, strong winds. they will arrive in the south west of england and wales later. the rain gets pushed in. more rain from northern ireland, northern and western scotland. eastern end parts of the uk will be dry and clear. really warm overnight. no lower than 60 degrees in the south. as we head into tomorrow, we keep the winds going. the stronger winds across much of england and wales. 60 mph. very quickly rebutted the back of the rain in wales pushing very quickly in the morning into northern ireland and scotland, to be followed by sunny spells and also some showers towards the west in the afternoon. ahead of those we still have the warm and muggy air across the midlands and eastern england in

particular. some warmth for a time for east of scotland. higher temperatures was the south east as well. 25 degrees is likely. 18 to 19 for scotland and northern ireland. maybe the windiest weather is still to come. the deepening area of low pressure stemming the atlantic on a strengthening jet stream. the worst of the weather will be in the north—west of the uk. windy for scotla nd north—west of the uk. windy for scotland and northern ireland. 0utbreaks scotland and northern ireland. outbreaks of rain on and off for most of the day. rain in england and wales. towards the south—east, sunshine. temperatures up to 2a degrees. much coolerfor sunshine. temperatures up to 2a degrees. much cooler for scotland and northern ireland were the winds will be stronger. a windy week on the way. hello, you're watching afternoon live — i'm simon mccoy. today at two. her way or no way. with six months to go, theresa may insists the only alternative to her plan for brexit is to leave the eu with no deal. we'll get a good deal, we will bring

that back from the eu negotiations, and put that to parliament. i think that the alternative to that will be not having a deal. the international monetary fund warns that a "no—deal" brexit on world trade organization terms would entail "substa ntial costs" for the uk economy. iam i am live in salford university where we are speaking to students and businesses about tear predictions for the next six months. a race against time. rescuers in the philippines are digging through mud to find