backs roundly together and theresa may on the side just sort of looking on. it's all these men, i don't know why they did not find any of the woman involved, but it is really stark. there are some of. angela merkel is not there. but this is a vision of us against them. there are 27 countries and there's us. and this throws it into really sharp relief. theresa may looking lovely in her red jacket but facing the stony man of europe. it's really a crisis for theresa may. let's move on and show the guardian front page. and then obviously we can talk at greater length about what it all means. what's interesting about this, we were talking in the office about why you pick a particular image that define a particular story. it's a very similar image but

they have just changed it to an extent so that you see theresa may in the middle rather than on the and. for me, this one does, i have to say, this is more striking in its owi'i to say, this is more striking in its own way, i have to say that my advice if i may be so bold as to give the prime minister some advice, i think she should leave tomorrow morning's papers whitby downing street gats and not get into this. let me give you four, five, six words. theresa may ambushed, theresa may nervous and angry, humiliated, left visibly furious, i mean that's what we're dealing with here. this is the worst day she has had, the worst morning paper headline she has had since the election. since the election. not the day we were told it was going to be. for some reason

she seems to have believed that she was going to be much better received than she has been. now, somewhere her intelligence is letting her down. because actually, if you think back over the last few weeks, the eu leaders have always said the plan is not going to work but it's a starting point. and it could well be that she has gone in and saying look, this is it, this is our plan, we have got to make it work. rather than having listened to the voices that have been out there from the european leaders saying this is just the start. you are going to have to make more concessions and then she's under pressure from the extreme brexiteers who are saying, this is a step too far already, you can go any further. and she has really got herself into this position of not having any room for manoeuvre and maybe the eu has done her a bit of a favour rather than dragging this out

for another two months. and then they say well sorry, we told you it would not work, you have met, but anything else. though i'm afraid there's nothing on the table. that we can accept. the surprise in this seems to be that the 27 as opposed to us our little one, the 27 appear to us our little one, the 27 appear to be giving a very, very good show of seeming to be together in supporting mr barney ate in a way that some of us might be surprised about. but, there appears to bejust one silver lining for her to me anyway. they want a deal. i still think that and i'm, i anyway. they want a deal. i still think thatand i'm, i remain to be convinced otherwise, having said all that, she may have misjudged things, maybe they have misjudged things too. because, you know, where is she now? and when she goes to her party conference in two weeks' time. could

this be a negotiating tactic? are they playing hard ball this be a negotiating tactic? are they playing hardball now and anticipation of shifting at some point? this is what's worrying me because even after what we heard today, you have got the response that oh well, of course i knew that they would be engaged in negotiating tactics, these are not necessarily negotiating tactics. the fact is, that europe has its rules, europe is a system based around rules, and right from the start, britain has been trying to just completely ignore the rules by saying well we are going to come out of the single market, we are going to come out of the customs union, and we are not going to have a hard bordering northern ireland, quite frankly those three things are impossible together. and whichever way you try and cut it, at the moment, it's the northern ireland border that can't work. if the northern ireland border does work, then we have to have some

kind of customs union and single market. because, it's clearthat what checkers was proposing was not going to work in terms of european rules. and, ithink going to work in terms of european rules. and, i think the eu is getting quite frustrated with saying the same thing over and over again, and you've even got micron now coming out and calling the brexiteers liars. i mean he saying you cannot negotiate eu exit of terms favourable to the uk. which ta kes terms favourable to the uk. which takes us to the front of the telegraph. they have gone without. this is a different way of presenting it without that picture we have already highlighted. and they have gone to very clearly with mr micron and he is pretty obvious who his target is, brexit is the choice that british people pushed by those who predicted ev solutions, those who predicted ev solutions, those people are liars. well mr johnson is listening, perhaps mr

barrages is listening and others, but my own thoughts from all this and it's hinted at in this telegraph article as well, are we nearer tonight against the wishes of a lot of people to a second referendum? you have to wonder if that is the only way out of all this because is not apparent that anyone is very clear tonight what is the way out of it. parliament is heading for some kind of deadlock at the moment because it's clear that the vast majority of other mps would not vote for no deal, so they need some kind of deal. if checkers is not on the table, nothing else is. so, at the moment, we face this prospect that parliament will be expecting a meaningful vote but there will be nothing meaningful to vote on. and evenif nothing meaningful to vote on. and even if you have got the canada style free trade deal that the

brexiteers are aiming for, that's pretty much like no deal. we still lose a single market, we lose the integrated supply chain, we lose these elements that lots ofjobs depend on. so, what democracy surely requires is if the british people voted on something that is not going to happen and micron put it quite well, he said they were told it was going to be easy, they were told there would be lots of money to bring home, but there is not. surely, democratically, one should make sure that what we're doing is really what the people would vote for now. a lot of people would take exception to that. ignoring what we said two years ago which is get on with it. and the question comes back what if in the outcome of the referendum is 52—48 or a bit less than that. as the referendum stands at the moment, 1% and the dog in

just their voting one way or the first past the post system, the dog may not vote, certain places i have been uncovering local elections in the past i was never quite sure, but thatis the past i was never quite sure, but that is the system that we have amended ourselves with. i love asking that they command whose christian name is nigel who will remain nameless, what if you had lost by 52 — 48, would you have shut up lost by 52 — 48, would you have shut up and gone home? he's already said he would have another vote. but basically what this is saying is if parliament cannot be absolutely sure that this is the way that the majority of british people want us to go, it has a duty to check with the british people. if the deep side are happy and if they leave the side window then that's fine. but at least then we would know that that's

really what the people want. david ta ke really what the people want. david take us to another story, maybe another two stories. it forces more people to use carson me know about the report today about what went on earlier in the year, as a result of the general rail picture it seems according to this, more people are driving. it's not been a good week has its? 0r indeed a good summer for those of us who love trains. and who love travelling on trains. because of all the efforts of the past decade and successive governments over 20, 30 years we are told here in this report the chaos of british railway means motorists are nor —— fiow more on railway means motorists are nor —— now more on their cars than they we re now more on their cars than they were a year ago. that's where we have landed. so i'm sure the labour party conference next week yes we will hear a lot about brexit and second referendums, but we're also going hear about rail nationalization, absolute certainty, and this is a real kick in the teeth

for the railway industry again. and this is a real kick in the teeth for the railway industry againm is against everything we need in terms of the environment. what we actually need is for more people to go on trains, where you have them all being able to be transported in one place rather than every individual taking their cars but if you can't rely on the train and with the cost of rail travel as it is, a lot of people are saying i have to get to work, i have to get to work on time, i have to know i will be there, that they're taking their cars, hopefully next year we will get this back on track as it were. brief glance to the front of the ft which takes us to the united states where economically things are looking rather rosy. they are looking rather rosy. they are looking rather rosy. they're looking absolutely really exceptionally good at the moment. partly because you have got this confluence of circumstances where donald trump is

coming and he has slashed corporate taxes so a lot of companies are bringing production back, bring revenue back into the united states. you have got this massive quantitative easing which has been flooding the markets with money and that the moment, the forecasts are the rules next year in the us will be to .9% up from 2.2% this year. so all the circumstances plus the share buy—backs. all the circumstances plus the share buy-backs. does anyone really believe this is a magically happened since that exciting day when mr trump entered the white house? i don't think so. is an argument about that. which you will have to revisit at some other time. thank you both. that's it for the papers this hour. i'll be back with ros altmann and david davies at 11:30. it's been a busy couple of days here

and the weather centre, two storms in today's and the second one is still winding itself up to bring southern areas and even windier weather than yesterday. the rain across the west at least will start to ease, this is the storm developing quite quickly and we have still got the windiest weather to come in southern and eastern areas of england, and here also properly some of the wettest weather but it's been miserable across northern india, parts of ireland and wales and the southwest of england, the rain has hardly moved the last ten to 12 hours, now it will continue to progress slowly eastward so we will see that rain really tends to rain driving across east anglia and the southeast by the time we get into the early hours of friday and at the same time it starts the easily from northern ireland and parts of wales in the southwest but it could be that it hangs around in northeast england for much of night. and here clearly a risk of lot of space and standing water as there will be some

conditions if you combine the poor visibility and intense rain and those deal for visibility and intense rain and those dealfor his visibility and intense rain and those deal for his very gusty winds which would leave a lot of debris around by the time we wake up tomorrow morning. given stronger winds across the south and east we could see some trees down as well. as we go through friday we see that rain even the little hill snow easing away and the winds louise but it's a blustery day, lots of showers, some with hail and thunder before eventually they start the ease and you can see them congregating down through parts of england and wales and the midlands across east anglia, that's the wind direction that will push into those areas. some sunshine in between but notably, a lot cooler, particularly in the south on friday. that's because we have lost warm, humid air and we have got high pressure friday night so that means he will be quite chilly after these mild nights we have been experiencing but as you can see by the time we get the saturday morning, we have already got the next area of rain creeping into the south and west slowly we think spreading its way across

southern parts of england and wales, southern parts of england and wales, so the best of the dry and bright weather looks to be further north, i say looks to be because this is tied in with an area of low pressure giving us headache exactly where it sits and we're it will be. so the potential there more stormy weather as he moved into sunday. goodbye. this is bbc news. the headlines at 11: the head of the european council tells theresa may her brexit plan is not acceptable. the suggested framework for economic co—operation will not work. not least because it risks undermining the single market. but the prime minister inisits her plan is the only serious credible way to avoid a hard border in northern ireland. there is a lot of work to be done in. and we will be doing that, obviously, over the next few weeks and what will continue to drive me will be delivering for the british

people. a summer of delays and cancellations on the railways. an investigation finds that nobody was in charge and says the chaos undermined trust in the rail system. councils in england warn that the worst is yet to come