what is the world's media talking about today? if we start in the uk comedy front page of the daily telegraph. —— uk, the front page. theresa may will ask her cabinet today to agree a backstop plan that would keep britain in a customs union with brussels until a permanent trade deal can be agreed. but the dup has reacted angrily, saying it will vote down the budget if the pm compromises over a hard border. now to the ft and "it's crunch time for angela merkel". it's the election in bavaria on sunday which will see 180 members of the 18th landtag of bavaria elected, but the christian social union party, the sister of angela merkel‘s party, could see historic losses which could, in turn, weaken ms merkel. staying with the ft, james murdoch, formerly chief executive of 21st century fox, is the frontrunner to succeed elon musk as the chairman of tesla.

mr musk previously agreed to step down over tweets he posted about taking the firm private. and now on to the front page of the times, which reports on plans by uk ministers to force employers in both the public and private sector to reveal their ethnicity pay gap. the proposals will oblige bosses to show how much employees from ethnic minorities are paid compared with their white counterparts. and finally on the bbc website, and several other of today's papers beef consumption in the west needs to fall by 90% to avoid dangerous climate change. analysis of the food sector's impact on the environment has found that a huge reduction in meat—eating is vital if we are to feed a growing population in the future. and, of course, the 60 diet is what we're asking you about morning. with me is nina trentmann from the wall streetjournal.

let us get stuck in. the daily telegraph. this so—called backstop plan is their front—page story, what is it? it deals with the question of how to deal with are lit, the republic of ireland and northern ireland after brexit. if the uk was to leave the single market and customs union straightaway there would be the problem of having to have some sort of hard and physical border between northern ireland and the republic of ireland. it would violate the good friday agreement, which so far has led to the situation in ireland improving over the past years. so the idea is to create some sort of backstop plan that will keep the uk in the european union's customs union until a new trade deal is agreed, and also until probably technology is ready to allow some sort of border control without actually having to have a physical border. it is kicking the

can down the road. it is a fudge, is that what people see this as? can down the road. it is a fudge, is that what people see this afim can down the road. it is a fudge, is that what people see this as? it is what the dup sees it as, and former foreign secretary boris johnson, what the dup sees it as, and former foreign secretary borisjohnson, who have both said that that is not what should happen, especially the dup has been saying they don't want the uk to be divided, so to say, and they don't what also be uk to stay in the customs union. i guess, in the end, it is an attempt to solve this situation and the impasse that mrs may mentioned at the salzburg summita mrs may mentioned at the salzburg summit a couple of weeks ago, a head ofa summit a couple of weeks ago, a head of a crucial summit next week. 17th of a crucial summit next week. 17th of october, where the eu is a critical summit, they want their ducks in a row. they want to reach some sort of agreement at that point stop you it is one summit next week and another in november. there is a lwa ys and another in november. there is always another one. this is not really approaching the end, where the uk needs to come to some sort of

agreement with the european union over how it wants to leave the european union in march, otherwise there will be not enough time to ratify the agreement. as ever, for anyone watching this and trying to make decisions about their company, business, investment, capital expenditure, they are none the wiser still, because this tells us that her idea, her plan, backstop plan that she is reportedly going to put to cabinet today is one that the dup is not happy with and that presents big problems for the government. is not happy with and that presents big problems for the governmentm course. given that mrs may lost her parliamentary majority last year, she is depending on the boats from the dup in order to get any other policy initiatives through —— votes. the dup has already threatened to vote down the budget. from one prime minister in hot water to another. angela merkel in germany. arguably the most powerful politician in europe. she has a very tough time ahead of this weekend. they are

calling it crunch time for angela merkel. you are from germany, what are your thoughts on this? well, the problem is for mrs merkel that she needs the csu in order to keep the coalition together that she also has with the social democrats in berlin. the csu, even though it is a sister party, it has been a thorn in her side for large parts of her chancellorship. the csu follows a much more right—wing attitude in relation to immigration. they are following a more hardline stance. mrs merkel has been forced to make compromises to take a more hardline stance. if this party is losing its majority it has had so far we might see the same situation we have on the federal level... it used to be that the csu was able to govern

without any coalition partner, it could be forced to bring on something with the greens or even find a third coalition partner if they are coming in as little as 33% of the turnouts. you and i were laughing at the photo, saying she looks like a lady at a local fare, doesn't she, with her basket of apples. she is a very shrewd operator. this weakens further, doesn't it? -- this weakens further. if there was a need for a coalition in bavaria if there was back and forth in bavaria that would not be good for her. after all these negotiations she has had with the csu and trying to get to keep a coalition together, also with the social democrats in berlin, is one of the coalition partners is imploding itself, so to say, because of having to set up a new government in bavaria, it is not something she would want. before we move on from the ft, james murdoch is there, the

ftis the ft, james murdoch is there, the ft is saying he is leading the race to ta ke ft is saying he is leading the race to take on elon musk‘s seat as chairman of tesla. since then elon musk has tweeted to say this story is incorrect. we will watch this space. there does need to be a new chairman for tesla because elon musk can no longer be in that role as well as chief executive. it would be interesting if it was james murdoch. he is looking for some thing to do right now. he is leaving his role as chief executive of 21st century fox... and chairman of sky. once he fell to walt disney has been finalised. he has been on the board of tesla since last year and is said to bea of tesla since last year and is said to be a friend of elon musk —— wants the sale. a friend, but not the chairman. we get the impression from elon musk you does not like that idea or that thought. there is some pressure on him to come up with

someone pressure on him to come up with someone who is considered to be external and independent enough, while being close enough to the family, well, to the company, also, to be able to accommodate him as chief executive. allow tesla to continue and elon musk to do his thing. the front page of the times. employers must reveal ethnic pay gap of staff. theresa may is drawing up plans for workplace social justice. really interesting. when we had our gender pay gap drama here at the bbc and it has been elsewhere, it has had huge applications for many companies in the uk, i thought about this very issue. it is notjust about gender, there are a lot of issues. ethnicity is one of those issues. ethnicity is one of those issues the governance is looking at now. i guess one of the problems for employers will be to come up with detail that is valid and viable. 0ther detail that is valid and viable. other than your gender you are not

required to disclose your ethnicity when you are starting a job. that has been seen as one of the challenges for this. just quickly, what do you eat? are you vegetarian oi’ what do you eat? are you vegetarian orare you? what do you eat? are you vegetarian or are you? i do eat meat is and i do drink milk. i have been tried to come up which one i would leave to save the climate. probably not eat meat. you enjoy your mil? yes, i do. —— milk. lots of you have been in touch telling me what you eat and why. have a look at two join in the debate. i will see later. goodbye. hello. wednesday brought some unseasonably warm if somewhat breezy weather to the shores of the uk. a big contrast with what we saw piling into florida, into the panhandle here. we saw hurricane—force winds,

torrential rain, and a big storm surge around the coast thanks to category 4 hurricane michael. that system, now moving over land, will start to weaken significantly, but it's still going to bring a lot of rainfall, particularly to the carolinas and parts of virginia, before eventually weakening into an area of low pressure that pulls offshore into the atlantic by friday. back closer to home, and for us today, quite a mixture, actually. some showers around in the east first thing, rain coming into the west, and decent sunshine between times. breezy, but not quite as warm as yesterday. but it will still be mild first thing, and our temperatures look like the figures we'd typically expect in the afternoons at this time of year. there are the showers across eastern england first thing. i think they'll quickly move off into the north sea. into the west, though, some wet weather for the start of the day for the south—west of england, for south wales. also for western scotland, some showers around initially, and then more persistent rain, really, as the afternoon wears on. central and eastern areas may escape, though, with a fine day, east anglia and the south—east

of england, for example, and there will be some sunshine behind the rain for wales and the south—west of england. still getting up to 22, 23 in the south—east, cooler to the west of this front. some showery outbreaks of rain for central and eastern england out of the tail end of that front thursday evening. some heavier rain pushing north across scotland, and then look out towards the south—west, because this really is the low to watch. now, this is callum. it's a named storm, it's a very deep area of low pressure, it's been named by met. and, as it rolls across the uk on friday, we can expect gale—force winds, with severe gales in exposure. gusts in excess of 70 mph, likely to be damaging winds. some pretty heavy rain piling into the west through friday, as well. again, eastern areas definitely spared the wet weather, i think, for much of the day. but that wind is going to be the biggest problem, in association with this system on friday. still quite mild, even warm in the east, temperatures 19, 20, but much cooler weather eventually coming in behind callum. we've still got the trail of the weather front behind that system, though, with us for saturday. so some quite wet weather towards the north and west, pulling away at the moment, it looks like, eastwards for sunday. that should be the drier and brighter day of the two this weekend.

still, though, a lot of uncertainty in the detail. it will be worth keeping regularly up—to—date with the forecast. good morning, welcome to breakfast, with naga munchetty and charlie stayt. 0ur headlines today: the most powerful storm ever to hit parts of florida has flooded towns and cut power to hundreds of thousands of homes. hurricane michael is the worst storm that the panhandle has ever seen. pressure on the prime minister, as she prepares to meet cabinet ministers. the dup says it will stop supporting the government if it's not happy with the brexit deal. good morning. ending the stigma of obesity — a quarter of people say they're less likely to employ candidates who are overweight. i'll look at what's being done to change attitudes and encourage more of us to adopt a healthier lifestyle.

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