this is bbc news. i'm lukwesa burak. the headlines at 8. theresa may comes out fighting, telling eu leaders they must treat the uk with "respect" — and stresses, she won't overturn the result of the referendum. yesterday, donald tusk set our proposals would undermine the single market. he didn't explain how in any detail, or make any counterproposal. so we are at an impasse. the european council president, donald tusk, has tonight called theresa may's stance surprisingly tough and uncompromising, but he remains convinced a compromise is still possible. a landmark ruling against two leading drug companies could save nhs england, "hundreds of millions" a year, after the firms fail to block the use of a cancer treatment for an eye condition. more than 130 people have died after a ferry carrying hundreds capsized on lake victoria in tanzania — many are still missing.

also this hour — the confusion over which plastic you can recycle. bbc research shows families don't know which bin to put their plastic waste into. music and the global peace initiative which attempts to use the power of singing to unite people around the world. good evening and welcome to bbc news. the prime minister has come out of her cornerfighting after eu leaders appeared to comprehensively reject her brexit plan yesterday. in a defiant speech,

she told them it's time to start treating the uk with some respect — and that it's "not acceptable" at this "late stage of negotiations", for eu leaders to reject her plan with no alternative. the two main stumbling blocks remain trade and the irish border. the president of the european council, donald tusk, said in a statement that the eu's concerns about the plan were well known to the uk government. he said "the results of our analysis have been known to the british side in every detail for many weeks." and that "after intensive consultations with member states, we decided that for the good of the negotiations, and out of respect for the efforts of pm may, we will treat the chequers plan as a step in the right direction." but mr tusk said that "the uk stance presented just before and during the salzburg meeting was surprisingly tough and in fact uncompromising." and that "while understanding the logic of the negotiations"

he remains " convinced that a compromise, good for all, is still possible." with more on today's developments, here's our deputy political editor, john pienaar. theresa may is in a hurry, some say getting nowhere fast, landing a brexit deal. so, how to come back from her diplomatic battering? the chorus of eu leaders telling her her brexit plan wouldn't fly. her answer in downing street? defiance. it's their turn to compromise. britain had rejected the eu's basic demands. uncontrolled immigration from the eu would continue. and we couldn't do trade deals we want with other countries. that would make a mockery of the referendum we had two years ago. she was prime minister of great britain and northern ireland. on no customs border with ireland or on the mainland, there would be no backing down. it is something i will never agree to.

indeed, in my judgment, it is something no british prime minister would ever agree to. if the eu believe i will, they are making a fundamental mistake. mrs may was prepared to walk away from negotiations, though eu citizens settled here would have rights guaranteed. but after the headlines reporting the prime minister's rejection and humiliation, she came back with her own final demand. throughout this process, i have treated the eu with nothing but respect. the uk expects the same will. the uk expects the same. a good relationship at the end of this process depends on it. european leaders lined up against her, this week. now she was keen to show she'd face them down. but there are potential dangers behind her, at home. brexiteer tories demanding no compromise. they are campaigning to adopt the so—called chequers plan,

which leaves the uk tied to some eu rules and standards. it was making it apparent that no deal remains better than a bad deal and that she is not going to give in to the bullying by the european union. and that's very important. however, it's a mistake to persevere with chequers, that's not really brexit. the eu doesn't like it because it leads us to tied in to their rules but without respecting their institutions. from my point of view and from the point of your brexiteers, it isn't properly leaving the european union. in parliament, they say your enemies are behind you but here, mrs may's labour opponents are also preparing to defeat any deal she comes up with. their wish list, an early election, maybe another referendum. to them, every bad day for mrs may is an opportunity to make it worse if they can. the prime minister's negotiating strategy is collapsing around her. and now the country is staring down the barrel of no deal. the prime minister's chequers proposal was never going to be accepted, either in the eu or by her own party.

so, she is in denial. and simply repeating the mantra that nothing has changed isn't going to convince anyone. the prime minister's back in her berkshire constituency. it won't count as an escape, she couldn't get away from her troubles over brexit if she tried. john pienaar, bbc news. our political correspondent, leila nathoo, is at westminster. for ending the day on a conciliatory tone or is still the message who is going to blink first?” tone or is still the message who is going to blink first? i think it looks like both sides are still very much dug into their own position. theresa may to get on the front foot with that statement today after an embarrassing headlines for her talking about humiliation of having been undermined, ambushed by brussels, dismissal of our proposals, and here we have donald tusk responding saying we did actually do our own analysis of your

proposals and gave it to you and we got this is a good first start and i believe there can still be compromised, but he says that he was surprised by her tone that was surprised by her tone that was surprised that it tough and uncompromising. i think that this defiance from theresa may will i go down too well in brussels, her tone seems to have ruffled some feathers earlier on in the week and she is sticking to her guns and more importantly sticking to her position that it importantly sticking to her position thatitis importantly sticking to her position that it is basically the checker still, her proposals, as she sees it, or no deal because theresa may very much stress is no deal was still better than a bad deal. i think that as long as she remains wedded to the chequers proposal, unchanged, and brussels this business as it am it does seem to have very much to side still at loggerheads. everybody now looking towards the october summit. how much manoeuvre oi’ towards the october summit. how much manoeuvre or work theresa may have

to do before the summit itself?m looks like october is going to be the make or break moment and these next few weeks of the negotiations will be crucial. this is all rather late in the day into the process. theresa may only managed to agree to the chequers proposal among her own cabinet in the summer. that was very late as far as the eu side. there will have to be a lots of unpacking of the details, theresa may says the uk will, with its own proposals on the northern ireland backstopped and insurance policies, if all else fails, what will happen to the northern irish border she is rejected the eu's offer on that, she is talking about new proposals on that. but i think it is very much going to go down to the wire. the talk of a special brexit summit in november, if all the things that are done and preparations are laid for a

deal and itjust done and preparations are laid for a deal and it just need done and preparations are laid for a deal and itjust need a bit more time, donald tusk yesterday said they could be an emergency summit is to be dealt in its entirety. but i think it looks like theresa may's very much expecting the you to move closer to her where they are concerned they did all they can and it is up to the keita, with what they see as workable proposals. thank you. —— up to theresa may to, what. and we'll find out how this story — and many others — are covered in tomorrow's front pages at 10:40 this evening in the papers. our guests joining me tonight are, jessica elgot, political correspondent from the guardian, and the political commentator, jo—anne nadler. a number of tanzanian government officials have been arrested after more than 130 people died when a ferry capsized on lake victoria. the vessel was sailing between two islands when the accident happened. ferries on the lake are often overloaded. anne soy reports. they stand and watch, helpless.

just a few hundred meters away, the upturned hull of the mv nyerere. rescuers who arrived by boat recovered bodies from around the capsized vessel. back on shore, relatives waited anxiously for news. translation: i was told that i lost my son and my younger family. it is a huge loss to us. translation: my nephew is on the island. i was told his father was on the ferry. the ferry was on its usual route, taking people and goods from two of lake victoria's islands, ukora and bugolora. it's unclear how many people were on board the mv nyerere. witnesses say it could be as many as 400, four times its official capacity. translation: when the captain was trying to slow down and about to dock, the passengers were already running to the other side, ready to get off.

so, now, the weight was too much on one side of the ferry. so, it capsized and sank. although accidents aren't uncommon on africa's biggest lake, this latest sinking was particularly deadly. but ferries are central to the lives of people here. many were back on the water, even as rescue teams continued their search. anne soy, bbc news. our swahili correspondent, aboubakar famau was on the shores of lake victoria at bugorora, where the ferry set off from yesterday. hundreds of family members are stuck as there is no transport to take them to ukara to find out about the fate of their relatives. he gave us this update. we lost the sound of that. we will

bring you that update will we have the gremlins are down. —— when we have the gremlins iron out. two major drugs companies have failed in an attempt to prevent nhs doctors prescribing a cheaper treatment called avastin for a serious eye condition — in a ruling that could save the nhs "hundreds of millions" a year. avastin is just as effective as the two more expensive treatments for wet, age—related macular degeneration, but it isn't licensed to be marketed in the uk. dominic hughes reports. come and have a seat on the chair here stanley... for more than three years, stan nelson has been treated at sunderland's specialist eye hospital for what's known as wet age—related macular degeneration. it's a condition that can lead to rapid sight loss. just checking that it's the right eye that we're doing... a drug is injected into stan's eye. a little bit of pressure... helping to save his vision and preserve the independence of this 87—year—old. at the moment, patients like stan are offered one of two possible treatments to help with this debilitating eye condition, wet amd, that affects around 26,000 people in the uk.

but at the heart of today's legal case is the right for doctors to offer a third option, avastin, a cancer drug that is just as effective, but is much cheaper. after receiving his treatment, stan told me he'd be happy to have the cheaper avastin. i don't have any objection to it at all, really, as long as it works, as long as it does the same job or better, that's fair enough. these are the two drugs currently licensed for treating the eye condition in the uk. lucentis costs £561 per injection. eylea costs even more at £816. avastin, currently only licensed to treat cancer, is far cheaper at £28. switching to avastin could save the nhs up to £500 million a year. when pharmaceutical companies are prepared to put their shareholders' profits above absolutely anything else, then that does put us in a position of conflict that we didn't really want, but we've had to take on that

challenge on behalf of our patience. 0k, look straight ahead...and blink. doctors are now likely to be looking at other treatments that could take the place of more expensive drugs. the two pharmaceutical companies involved in today's case say this judgment marks a bad day for the nhs, undermining the regulations set up to protect patients, and they're considering an appeal. dominic hughes, bbc news, sunderland. well earlier i spoke to cathy yelf who is the chief executive of the macular society, a charity fighting to end sight loss caused by macular disease. i started by asking cathy what she made of the landmark ruling. it has the potential to do a great deal of good for patients with one proviso. that the money, if there is any to be saved from switching the drugs, if that money is ploughed back into amd services. the reason for that really is that age—related macular degeneration is now an enormous public health

problem, it's the biggest cause of sight lost and eye clinics are absolutely overwhelmed with patients. many of whom will lose their sight because they are not treated quickly enough. if there are savings to be saved for the nhs, then the biggest positive impact could possibly happen for patients will be that many is invested back into the clinic. were you aware of avastin before? were you aware of what was going on? what were members saying to you about it? it's something that's been going on for at least a decade. it's been around as a cancer drug for all of the time. in fact, lucentis, one of the two licenced drugs is a development of the avastin molecule. we did ask our members a few years ago what they thought of this debate. slightly over 50% thought that they would rather still have the licenced approved lucentis. did they say why? yes. drug regulation is there for the purpose to protect patients

from unlicensed medicines that have not been properly tested. but it has been tested and it is i think now universally recognised that it is safe and effective, a lot of patients said they would be guided by the doctor. they didn't really mind which drug to have. they would have whichever one the doctor recommended. and there were some who would genuinely choose avastin in order to help the nhs save money. so, it was a very mixed picture amongst patients. the time is now 60 minutes pass. the headlines on bbc news... theresa may demands the eu breaks the impasse in brexit talks — and vows to defend the referendum result. the health service could save hundreds of millions of pounds every year, after two drug firms failed in their legal efforts, to block the use a cancer treatment for an eye condition. more than 130 people have died after a ferry carrying hundreds capsized on lake victoria in tanzania — many are still missing. sport now, and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre.

hi, stephen. good evening, everybody. we have a good idea of who'll be opening the batting for england, after the test squad to tour sri lanka in november was named. england are entering a post alastair cook era, of course, so there will be a very different look to the top of the order. two of the three new players called up are openers. let's start with the man in form, rory burns — he's scored over a thousand runs for surrey this season, helping them to the county championship title. averaging almost 70 it's perhaps a surpirse that this is the first time he's been included in an england test squad. it's a 16—strong touring party, which also includesjoe denly. he's 32 and played limited overs cricket for england eight years ago — he's helped kent gain promotion to the top division this season. he could open the batting with burns although keaton jennings, cook's partner over the summer, has been retained. there's also a first test call up

for seamer olly stone and a recall forjack leach, one of three specialist spinners on that list. rory burns, the leading run scorer in captain, comes in the media to make his debut and joe denley from katt to return to international cricket. he played a few one days quite a long time ago. it's been a big gap for him and he comes back in but a very different cricket it now from what it was then. golf history has been made at the portugal masters. englishman oliver fisher shot the first sub—60 round on the european tour. fisher has won just one tournament in his career — and the 59 was all the more remarkable, as he only managed a level par round yesterday. it feels great to make history here. it feels great to make history here. it isa it feels great to make history here. it is a great tournament. a great

day for the european tour to shoot 59. going outside to make the cut and level fire and shooting that, just a great day all around. there'll be an 80—thousand sell—out crowd at wembley tomorrow night for anthony joshua's heavyweight title defence against alexander povetkin. at today's weigh—in, joshua was almost two stone heavier than his russian opponent. he's been taking a new, more natural approach to training recently, waking up naturally before hitting the gym, rather than setting an alarm clock, and he feels better for it. joshua should win tomorrow but his camp have warned him that povetkin is a threat, with 3a wins and just one loss to his name. he is strong. no doubt about it. he isa he is strong. no doubt about it. he is a good fighter. i could go on my back but you keep them on being in to the uk style boxing, but he has to the uk style boxing, but he has to do also the mexican—style

defending, in with a man and get stuck in a bid. don't be scared to get a cut high are bloody nose. you have to go through that to be somebody like him. i willing to do what it takes. great britain's olympic freestyle skier katie summerhayes has ruptured a cruciate ligament in her knee for the third time. she first had acl reconstruction in 2012, and again a year later — this time she was injured on a big airjump in new zealand. she said she was "heartbroken and gutted" but promised she'd be back skiing again. that's all the sport for now. i'll have more for you in sportsday at half past ten. thank you, stephen. the metropolitan police has admitted for the first time, that an undercover officer had a sexual relationship with an environmental activist, with the knowledge of his bosses. legal documents seen by the bbc, show that mark kennedy s line

manager and several other officers, knew about his relationship with kate wilson, and allowed it to continue. up to now the police have maintained such relationships wouldn't have been sanctioned by senior officers. here's our home affairs correspondent, june kelly. he posed as mark stone, an environmental activist and a single man. in reality, he was mark kennedy, an undercover police officer, married with children. one of a number of officers who had relationships with women campaigners they were spying on. 15 years ago, mark kennedy began a two—year relationship with kate wilson. as a result, she is currently involved in legal action against the metropolitan police. in her case, the police have now admitted for the first time that mark kennedy's cover officers and his line manager knew about this relationship and allowed it to continue. so, we have been told...

kate wilson is currently abroad. via skype, she spoke about how this new information from the police contradicts what they told her when they paid her compensation. they gave me an apology in our civil claim where they say these relationships should never have happened, they would never have been authorised, and they were a case of failures of supervision and management, and that is just not the case. management were absolutely complicit in what was going on. mark kennedy, here with the newspaper during his years undercover. kate wilson thought he was her political soulmate. kate was involved in socialjustice and environmental campaigning. she does not expect that the state could actually order or allow or acquiesce in an undercover officer having a sexual relationship in order to facilitate his gathering of intelligence. it's a very, very shocking revelation in a so—called democratic society. in a statement, scotland yard said

that as a result of the ongoing legal action it would be inappropriate to comment at this stage. adding again that those relationships were wrong and should not have happened. kate wilson was just one of the women who was duped into a relationship with mark kennedy. the question now being asked is whether police bosses knew about all his undercover relationships, and those of the other police spies. june kelly, bbc news. do you get confused by which types of plastic you can recycle and which you can't? if you do, it's understandable as the bbc has found that there are no less than 39 different sets of rules for plastics recycling across the uk. now the government is considering changing the guidelines to make it easierfor us, and crucially, boost domestic recycling rates.

here's our science editor, david shukman. to recycle or not to recycle. lucy milligan tries to get it right under the gaze of her mother carol. plastic comes in many different forms, and the labels about recycling aren't always clear — if there are any. this one hasn't got anything on it. this one which, to me, is exactly the same, something that i use week in, week out, it says on the back here that it's not recyclable. so am i supposed to guess, or do ijust put it in the green bin as rubbish, or do i put it in the blue bin and then risk it being not right and it being contaminated? one problem is that the arrangements for plastic recycling vary massively across the country. there are different coloured bins for collecting it and different rules for the types of plastic that'll be accepted.

in this sorting centre in reading, they take almost all forms of plastic, except bags and black food trays, but head elsewhere and it's another story. a few councils don't recycle any plastic at all. some of them accept as many as 15 different types of plastic. around the country, we've worked out there are as many as 39 different plastic recycling schemes. so there's a lot of confusion, and perhaps it's not surprising that our opinion poll has found that as many as 47% of people admit to having a disagreement in the household about whether a particular plastic item can be recycled. to clear up the confusion, a local resident, sue raymond, comes to the centre. the material runs through the conveyor belt here, probably about ten tonnes an hour... the manager, adrian clark, is her guide.

that will be made into food trays again. sue finds out that if she gets things slightly wrong, the system can handle it. they seem quite tolerant with the amount of plastic that can go into the recycling bin, and they can do things with it, so i think i'm doing the right thing by putting it in — if i'm in any doubt, put it in. but other councils aren't so relaxed. some of them only want the most valuable plastic — the bottles, which can fetch several hundred pounds a tonne. that is why, in greater manchester, officials are out telling householders only to recycle bottles, not to bother with other types of plastic. amid all the confusion, the government wants to boost plastic recycling — maybe with better labels or having the same rules across the country. we'll find out later this year. david shukman, bbc news. more than 60,000 bees have been found in the roof of a hospital building in cambridge. staff at fulbourn hospital called

in experts who said "honey oozed" from the between gaps in the brick and plasterwork when a roof panel was removed. the tree bee society took 12 hours to remove the bees, which they say had probably been there for years. singing's supposed to bring many benefits — making you feel calmer, happier and more positive. but a worldwide project to get people to sing together has even higher ambitions — to promote global peace. the one day one choir initiative began a few years ago with just a handful of choirs taking part, but has grown to involve singers from across the globe. today is world peace day and we sent our correspondent rich preston to find out more about the project. one of the initiatives to mark the international diof peace is this. one day, one choir.

a collection a million singers in more than 70 countries round the world, singing for peace. one day one choir was set up byjane hanson in 2014. new additions to their line up this year include azerbaijan, bermuda and bangladesh. we have literally all kinds of peoplejoining in, which is wonderful. the whole premise was that anyone could join in, however old, however able so we have 40 cathedrals, hundreds of schools, mosque, temples, old people's homes, offices and main stone prison were involved and the prison choir were singing for peace, everybody and anybody. with even voices not usually known for their single talents getting involved. among those performing is mohammed, who came to the uk three years ago as a refugee from sudan. peace is so important in our life. everyone wants, everyone needs to live in peace.

there is nothing like singing to promote peace and wellbeing. i can say no more about that. we need peace right now! the theme of this year's international day of peace celebrates the 70th anniversary of of the universal declaration of human rights. opening the event the un secretary—general said it is when people are free from oppression and poverty. and encouraged people to speak up for gender equality, inclusive societies. now it's time for a look at the weather with chris fawkes. hello again. in the wake of storm bronagh, it's been quite a showery kind of day today. the storm itself working its way toward scandinavia, but casting an eye on this ribbon of cloud out to the atlantic, looking

at this next pulse bringing some outbreaks of rain. before we get there, showers continue to push in overnight with more general rain at times in the far north. it will be quite a chilly night, temperatures down into single digits, perhaps double figures for london. for saturday morning, it will be a cool start to the day. some sunny spells, showers will continue to feed in on these brisk winds, quite windy conditions for northern scotland, later in the day cloud thickens and we will start to see some rain arriving across parts of wales and england before spreading into central southern england, maybe in the southeast towards the end of the day. and it could be more rain on the way on sunday in the south as well.