of sn’f euer south—east of england avoiding the rain but it's going to be windy wherever you are, and we keep the strong winds and heavy rainfall into saturday as the tail end of that system brings more heavy rain on saturday. there could be some flooding impact, particularly across the high grounds of wales and western england as well. either side of that band of cloud and rain, there should be some drier and brighter weather, and some warm air on saturday in the south—east where temperatures could reach 23 degrees or $0. temperatures could reach 23 degrees or so. it will be much cooler in the northwest behind that system. as that front clears away as we move through to the second half of the weekend, sunday should bring an improved day across the board. we are likely to hold onto some rain first thing across south—east england, which should slowly ease, but for the rest of the country the winds will be lighter on sunday and drier, too. more in the way of sunshine but temperatures around 12 to 17, fairly typical of this time of year. then things are going to

get more interesting, all down to hurricane michael, which has made la ndfall across hurricane michael, which has made landfall across the panhandle of florida, bringing a devastating storm surge, heavy rainfall and those devastatingly strong winds, too. as we follow the path of this hurricane, it won't be a hurricane any more over the next few days as it weakens. it will push through the north—east, out into the atlantic, and it's likely to be wrapped up in another area of low pressure before approaching the uk through monday and on into tuesday. that could bring some wet and windy weather for a time. later next week it looks like a low pressure will sit to the north—west of the uk. higher pressure likely to be across continental europe. the outlook for next week is that smell of wet and windy weather down to the remnants of ex— hurricane michael, then blustery winds and showers in the north—west followed by milder and largely dry conditions likely to hold on in the south—east. goodbye for now.

hello, this is bbc news. we will be taking a look at tomorrow mornings papers in a moment. first the headlines: the most powerful storm in decades to hit the south—east of the united states has made landfall in florida. the democratic unionist party's ten westminster mps plan to vote down the budget later this month if theresa may crosses the party's red lines on brexit. the uk's highest court has ruled that a belfast bakery did not break the law when it refused to ice a cake with the slogan "support gay marriage", a message they profoundly disagreed with. the european headquarters of bloomberg in the city of london wins the the royal institute of british architects best new building award. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be

bringing us tomorrow. with me are michael heaver, who is the co—owner of the brexit supporting website westmonster, and polly mackenzie, who is director of the left—leaning think—tank demos. many of tomorrow's front pages are already in. the daily telegraph leads on brexit, with claims the prime minister is close to agreeing a plan that would keep the uk in a customs union with the eu until a permanent trade deal can be agreed. same story for the i, which says the dup will vote against the upcoming budget if theresa may follows through with her current plans for northern ireland. the guardian leads on reports of migrants being held in uk detention centres who are suicidal, seriously ill or victims of torture. "less than buttons", says the daily mirror, which says the american owner of cadbury paid no corporation tax last year, despite profits of £185 million. the daily express splashes on the testimony of the police marksman who shot dead

khalid masood, who carried out the westminster bridge attack. the daily mail reports on news that employers could soon be made to publish their race pay gap. the metro leads on a story involving armed police storming a bank over fears of a robbery, only to discover embarrassed staff had been playing a game of hide—and—seek. and the sun leads on the strictly come dancing pair who have been answering questions about their drunken kiss. so a real mix of stories there, but as ever, theresa may's brexit plans making some headlines. very big once again in many of them. the threat to topple theresa may with budget protests, this is the

dup. the government's suppose that partners, keeping them in power, clearly very u nha ppy partners, keeping them in power, clearly very unhappy indeed about the prime minister's brexit plan —— supposed partners. they are very suspicious of anything that threatens northern ireland's status within the united kingdom, and various options are on the table, including tonight now staying in the customs union, which break the red lines of the dup about the uk's relationship with northern ireland. they don't want any regulatory or customs borders between northern ireland and the uk and they are putting pressure on the prime minister. they have abstained in a vote, and they are threatening to vote, and they are threatening to vote down the budget, which is coming up in october, just before this meaningful vote on brexit, which means the prime minister's grip on power is listening, and it could be in realjeopardy. --

loosening. it shows you where you are, numberten have played loosening. it shows you where you are, number ten have played this down and said it would not be a matter of ringing down the government. that shows you how serious this now is. theresa may, people have heard her many times saying the uk is going to leave the customs union, the single market and all the rest of it. we are now looking at a situation with northern ireland could be treated differently, could stay in the single market for goods while the re st of single market for goods while the rest of the uk leaves. the whole of the uk staying in the customs union, and borisjohnson the uk staying in the customs union, and boris johnson has the uk staying in the customs union, and borisjohnson has been very critical, basically saying that this means the position that after 2020 the uk can leave the customs union if the uk gives permission, they will have no incentive to do so and it makes a mockery of liam fox as out it makes a mockery of liam fox as our trade secretary not knowing if he will ever be able to do trade deals, they will be able to come into effect. the dup and tory

brexiteers will not support this, and this will cause uproar among leave voters in this country. just on the issue of the dup, theresa may has frequently said that she is not going to agree to anything that would divide up the united kingdom. the problem with theresa may over the last couple of years, on brexit in particular, is that she has said about 300 different things, most of which are mutually incompatible. the problem is the word is not very reliable. she said for example that we would leave the customs union. now, iam perfectly we would leave the customs union. now, i am perfectly happy if we stay. i think it is the right thing for our economy, for our manufacturing industry and ourfood industry in particular. but she promised we wouldn't and now she has said she would. i can understand why the dup don't trust her. they want to absolutely hold her to ransom in

that kind of parliamentary voting. and michael, the telegraph has more on this story talking about theresa may's deal to keep the uk in the customs union. the idea is she wants to get around the concerns the dup have, saying she will keep the whole of the uk in a customs union temporarily. theresa may has said emphatically, many times, publicly, the uk will now leave the customs union. the position she is now proposing for the government, to be very, very clear here, would mean that the european union would effectively have to sign off on if that can happen, to which they will have absolutely no incentive to do so. have absolutely no incentive to do so. so she cannot guarantee, actually, that the uk under this would ever leave the customs union. and i think, when you are talking about trust in politics, we saw what happened with nick clegg and the lib dems and tuition fees, you cannot repeatedly promised the public something and then say, well, it may happen in the future, perhaps, if

rustles allow us to, and jacob rees—mogg and steve baker are pushing back against this, as are the dup. this would be an absolute disaster for the tory party. but the problem with this is theresa may doesn't really have a majority for chequers, she doesn't have a majority for staying in the customs union, but jacob rees—mogg majority for staying in the customs union, butjacob rees—mogg doesn't have a majority for hard exit either. parliament did vote this decisively for article 50, but there isn't a majority for any individual form of brexit. we are basically deadlocked, which might mean we would have to have the people's vote, because the only people who can decide, when the mps have proven themselves incapable of doing it, is themselves incapable of doing it, is the voters. she seems to be counting on the fact that if she can get any kind of deal, she would get enough across various parties... well, she hopes so, and if you go back to the

labour party conference, jeremy corbyn has said we will vote for it if we stay in the customs union and the single market and protectjobs and consumer services. over on newsnight recently a labour spokesperson was talking about exactly that. if you want us to vote for it, you have to talk to us about oui’ for it, you have to talk to us about our deal and negotiate with us. the problem is, as michael says, that will tear the conservative party to pieces. but i think the prime minister should put the country before the party, and be willing to deal with anyone who can vote for the best, safest deal for britain. you have people like borisjohnson, who are seen as the faces for brexit, who campaigned for it and believes in it, saying that this plan would turn the uk into a permanent eu colony. he has absolutely no idea about colonialism, he has no idea how offensive that is. if you have boris johnson and jacob rees—mogg and steve baker, people at the forefront of the tory support for brexit, basically saying this is turning us

into a colony, and theresa may backed by labour mps, this is an absolute car crash. i just backed by labour mps, this is an absolute car crash. ijust think it isa absolute car crash. ijust think it is a disaster. theresa may needs to switch to canada free—trade deal for the whole of the uk. she needs to ta ke the whole of the uk. she needs to take on the remoaners, that is leadership. if she sticks to her guns, talking about people out of government, do you think there are people around the cabinet table, liam fox, will they swallow this? yes, i think liam fox is particularly interesting, because he was one of those right at the forefront of the league campaign and he is international trade secretary, he is international trade secretary, he has been talking about these trade deals, and he will be in a position of purgatory, saying maybe ican doa position of purgatory, saying maybe i can do a trade deal with the european union decide in freak, four, five years —— three, four, or five years. there are two problems with michael's proposed strategy. one is that she could call her

general election and there is no guarantee she would win it, even on the canada deal, and it is quite ha rd to have the canada deal, and it is quite hard to have a general election about exit, because it becomes about other things. it becomes about austerity. we saw that in 2017. it isa austerity. we saw that in 2017. it is a real possibility the labour party could win that and then she is com pletely party could win that and then she is completely in trouble and out of a job. the other problem is that doing a canada style deal takes apart our manufacturing sector and our complicated food—processing sector, and it hurts our financial services sector. you could just list the parts of our economy it affects. this is project fear rubbish. people have laid out how a canada deal would work. and they are closing the m26 to build a lorry park. leadership now would be going for a

canada deal, calling a general election, taking on the remoaners and winning big. this is the assumption, you are not going to win, you are going to lose. no one can decide exactly what is going to happen in politics and i think theresa may, if she wanted to show leadership, would go for a canada deal, call a general election, leadership, would go for a canada deal, calla general election, and not try and get her plan voted through on labour votes.|j not try and get her plan voted through on labour votes. i think we will agree to differ between the tee of you on that. there are lots of other stories that we should talk about —— two of view. the times front page says that employers must reveal their ethnic pay gap of staff. we have heard a lot about the gender pay gap, now it seems they will look at the ethnic background of employees. you remember in april these new rules came into place saying that big companies had to publish the gap between men and women on their staff. she is now launching a consultation to say that dig employers, over 250, should collect the data on the ethnic identity of their staff, and then

compare, to see whether there are those same kind of systemic bias is and unfairness is and disk rumination within their systems. it is much more complicated, because it is much more complicated, because it is not just a is much more complicated, because it is notjust a binary, male— female, obviously gender is slightly more complicated than that, but nowhere near as complicated as, i can't even say the word, ethnicity, where there are endless different kinds of ethnic minority people. you fill out an ethnic minority form and it is seven pages long. and presumably companies are going to have to compile a huge amount of data on all of this. quite unbelievable that again it is the conservative government putting this extra burden on business. you will have a column with white and ethnic minorities? what i think they need to be looking at is class, is background. i think thatis at is class, is background. i think that is far more important, actually, than the colour of someone's skin, it is the blister, i don't think it will tell you a lot, i think it needs to be rethought. and economic background is a far

bigger determinant i would focus on. the labour party has proposed collecting data on socio—economic background, and it was pilloried by the right, mostly, but not michael, obviously... i wouldn't make companies do it. how else do you collect the data and do the research? the bbc collect and publish is how many people were the first generation at university. a little bit of data on parental background. we do know that white boys from poorer households are doing the worst in our society, pretty much. i'm going to move on to look at a few of the other stories here. back on the telegraph, michael, saying that facebook should pay a mental health levy. we've heard a lot on mental health day, a lot of concern that social media could be a contributory factor, this

suggestion that facebook should help pay for treatment. this is a suggestion by simon stephens, the head of the nhs. we've seen it with crime as well. the way that social media companies, all the blame gets pinned on them — you sort it out — it isn't facebook grabbing young kids and making them go through this stuff ten hours a day. there's a degree of personal and parental responsibility on this, and facebook and twitter need to make sure that things that are illegal, they need to cut the tail that, but how you raise children and various spirits of what is normal and what isn't, i think the responsibility lies a lot more there than has been laid out.|j think this idea that you have to put these little levies on things based on pretty thin evidence about the particular harm ‘s is not right in my view. i'm from a research

organisation, so i would say this, but we need research into whether harm is. we know that actually engaging with people, with friends and family is something that is positive for well—being. how do you regulate those harms or encourage companies to take action against themselves instead ofjust assuming tax is the way to deal with this problem? on that subject, the daily mirror has got — less than battens is the headline, a story about how cadbury ‘s us owners made £185 million profit in the uk and didn't pay any tax. quite an interesting one, this. profits lept from £22 million to £185 million, due to £46 million to £185 million, due to £46 million dividends from two subsidiaries, but it's one of those stories people will look at and think it's fundamentally unfair. yes, we've seen coverage on facebook

as well, and this is one of the things that's allowed jeremy corbyn to make a pitch to people with his socialist agenda, to say, look, this is profoundly unfair, and people defending capitalism can't simply say, that's the way it is. at the end of the day, no law has been broken. they need to make an active defence of capitalism that insures things are fair, that companies can make money, but also that a fair amount of tax has been paid. make money, but also that a fair amount of tax has been paidlj totally agree with this blimey! we need to defend capitalism because it isa need to defend capitalism because it is a source of growth opportunity and freedom for us all, but cadbury ts, and freedom for us all, but cadbury ‘s, like other companies need to accept that, as part of a well regulated society with customers with money in their pocket, with employees trained in our education system, they need to make a contribution, and in fact by doing this kind of complicated, international transfer, this thing called transfer pricing — i don't know if they've done that but it

often happens — we move money to find the lowest taxed jurisdictional — which undermines the capacity of states, which we have to do to protect capitalism from the sort of commonest revolution that's been proposed. if the government want to stop this happening, they can do something about it. they have to co—operate on a multinational basis with organisations like the european union but unfortunately we decided to pull out. brilliant! the front page of the guardian. we've been hearing about the dangers of global warning, even more serious than we thought. a big cut in meat—eating is the answer, apparently, michael. they are proposing a complete wipeout. beef consumption is down by nearly 90%. .. that's a very small piece of the end of your stake. ba rely piece of the end of your stake. barely worth eating. mine will stay big and juicy. also recommending five times more beans and pulses.

the thing that stood out for me in this actually, i think someone from oxford university lead this — it's actually the population growth. they are talking about 10 billion people expected to be on the planet within a few decades. that is something that's going to be a real issue in years to come because the fact of the matter is i've heard environmentalists say the resources we have cut actually meet the sort of fore ca st we have cut actually meet the sort of forecast population growth, and that's something the government is in the west end across the world will have to deal with, and i don't see how that's going to be avoided. do you think it's realistic to expect people to eat a lot less meat? the evidence is actually really clear here in contrast to some of the other things. we need to ta ke some of the other things. we need to take action. i'm much more interested in these ideas around things like lab—grown meat because otherwise i wouldn't be able to have bacon sandwiches and that would be too much to bear. technology can help solve some of these problems,

both by improving the intensity of farming without increasing its carbon intensity and providing alternatives that are better than the kind of conventional tofu—sih kind of things. i know you've been interested in this, polly. something on shaunn the sheepish, the strictly star who was caught kissing a co ntesta nt. star who was caught kissing a contestant. it's my mum's favourite programme, and unfortunately shaunn, the snog comedian, he will be called for the rest of his life, has apologised for kissing his dancing partner, and the thing people have to read is the breakup letter written by his girlfriend, because it was fantastic, and she is keeping the cat. he is still going to be on tomorrow night. i'm sure a lot of

people will be gripped by that. thanks very much for that. that's it for the papers tonight. don't forget you can see the front pages of the papers online on the bbc news website. it is all there for you seven days a week at bbc.co.uk/papers. and if you miss the programme any evening, you can watch it later on bbc iplayer. a big thank you to my guests this evening, michael heaver and polly mackenzie, and goodbye. hello. hello and welcome to the programme, where we start with the news that four—time olympic gold medallist simone biles has told the bbc she feels empowered after speaking out about the team doctor who abused her and other young gymnasts. the coach was sentenced to 170 years

in prison for sexually abusing girls and young women. injanuary biles said she was one of his victims, and she's been speaking to the bbc.” think a lot of people struggle with coming out and telling their stories, but i figured, if i can tell my story, it might encourage other people to tell there's. a lot of people do look up to me, so if they can be strong enough, hopefully ican too, they can be strong enough, hopefully i can too, and that's the message i wa nted i can too, and that's the message i wanted to give. i was kind of relief when it came out. there was a lot of pressure off my shoulders because to keep something in like that for so long, when we usually share everything with friends, family and fans, was a lot. england had reached 92— two before a lengthy shower rendered the outfield unplayable. the next match in the five game series gets under way on saturday at the same ground, weather permitting. i think it is, i think the umpires

have done a good job, getting the grounds ready in plenty of time. and have a raining, it looked like the end of the world was coming. in it when you're playing 20 over, reduced game, which is high impact. a lot of turning. players, safety, is paramount. australia are struggling to save the first test against pakistan. they did recover a little, was man khawaja finishing unbeaten on 50, and they are 136—3, needing an improbable 326 for victory. perhaps they are struggling without three key players, steve smith, cameron ba ncroft key players, steve smith, cameron bancroft and dave warner. we asked

shane bourne how we felt about their actions and what impact their absence has had on the side. i was embarrassed. i have not sure how it looks to the stage in a match on the ball. it was terrible and it was very embarrassing and disappointing. australia need to gain the respect back of the cricket community and gain the respect back of the australian public especially in that the only way they can do that is how they conduct themselves in a hope that it is hard tough, but fair. claims that rape allegations against cristiano ronaldo have been fabricated a coursing through his lawyer. he denied the assault at a las vegas hotel in 2009. she said she was attacked by the portuguese footballer. a statement from ronaldo's lawyer reiterates that he

vehemently denies all accusations. dane smith has been appointed the new manager of aston villa and former england captain john new manager of aston villa and former england captainjohn terry will be his assistant. terry officially retired on sunday. he spent last season playing at villa through —— following last season playing for them. hejoins through —— following last season playing for them. he joins steve bruce on the team. that's it. have a good evening. wednesday brought some warm if breezy weather to the shores of the uk. you've no doubt seen the pictures but florida was much more dramatic, hurricane michael making its way into the florida panhandle. now it's moving across land, though, that system will power down quickly. some heavy rain to come for the carolinas and parts of the junior before we see this as an area of low pressure pulling out into the atlantic. that closer to home, and

our story is a little more mixed for today than yesterday. there will be some rain around at times, but it's only for the west, later. quite breezy, but still warm. these are the temperatures first thing, more like the afternoon highs we get at this time of year. a few showers in the east, clearing off into the north sea. then some more persistent rainfor north sea. then some more persistent rain for the south—west of england and wales for a time, running into northern ireland, too. drier and brighter with some sunshine behind this weather front. pretty wet by the afternoon for the north—west of england and western scotland. south—west england, east anglia, 22 and decent spells of sunshine. it will take until the evening to see any rain arriving, and that will back away is to. some heavy rain pushing north across scotland. to the south—west, that's what we need to worry about for the end of the week. this is callum, named by the

irish met service. it will bring strong winds friday with severe gales for exposed coastal hills, winds up to 70 mph. eastern areas, dry with some sunshine, but strong winds across the board. these black arrows mark out the gusts of wind that we are likely to expect. still pretty warm in the east. 20 degrees. starting to feel cooler behind this weather system as we pushed into the weekend. the whole thing kind of swinging away eastwards into saturday, but another pulse of rain from the south. quite wet for many on saturday before that rain hopefully tracks away eastwards for sunday, which means the second half of the weekend is the drier and brighter one. there is quite a bit of uncertainty in the detail at the moment so it will be worth keeping up moment so it will be worth keeping up to date. this is newsday on the bbc.

i'm sharanjit leyl in singapore. the headlines: hurricane michael, the most powerful storm in a century to hit the southwest coast of america, slams the florida shore. as new evidence emerges surrounding the fate of the missing saudi journalist jamal khashoggi, president trump says he's asked top saudi officials for answers we cannot let this happen — to reporters, to anybody, we cannot let this happen. and we are going to get to the bottom of it. i'm ben bland in london. also in the programme: rebuilding palu. two weeks after indonesia's devastating