' parents way by their parents despite the obvious risks. sam has had a broken arm and it scares me to this day whenever they go out on track, i get nervous when i watch them. especially when it is close racing with other riders as well. but it is pa rt of with other riders as well. but it is part of the package, really. sam has several international races lined up over the next year and he has already arranged to take his schoolwork with him as he chases his dream of doing this for a living. finally, you may have seen the devastating floods that have affected parts of europe, 12 people have died in mallorca. the world number one, rafael nadal, has been helping to try and restore some normality on his home island. he joined other volunteers in the clean—up operation in saint llorenc, that was hardest hit and just a few miles from where he lives. he has also offered shelter at his tennis academy for those affected. just time to tell you that scotland

are unchanged for that match against israel in— this evening. it is a same 11 that beat albania. they have gone with the same 11. mcginn has recovered from his ankle knock. that's all from sportsday. we'll have more throughout the evening. the home secretary, sajid javid, has announced that doctors in england, wales and scotland will be able to prescribe cannabis products to patients from november the first. the new rules will apply to cannabis medicines which meet particular safety standards. campaigners who have been calling for changes to the law have heralded the move as ‘momentous'. it comes off the back of several high—profile cases, including that of young epilepsy sufferers alfie dingley and billy caldwell, whose conditions appeared to be helped by cannabis oil.

and i'm joined now by steve moore who campaigned on behalf of billy caldwell. he is also the director of voltefa ce, a think tank which explores alternatives to current policies relating to drugs. we knew this was coming but still having that data from the moment this can happen must feel like quite significant? it is a very significant? it is a very significant moment. if you had asked when i was in the home office on to the home office minister responsible for cannabis, he told winner was no way this could happen. four months later we have this announcement so it isa later we have this announcement so it is a very significant moment. much more needs to happen over the course of the next 12 months but it isa course of the next 12 months but it is a particularly significant moment. there will be, of course, practical obstacles, i suppose. moment. there will be, of course, practical obstacles, isuppose. not least that four months ago as you say this was not on the cards will toggle ba whole process of deciding which products can be prescribed and

educating gps or doctors. currently, doctors can't prescribed. until four months ago, a doctor could be sent to prison for 14 years for prescribing these medicines. they mainly come from canada where there isa mainly come from canada where there is a relatively mature market. there is a relatively mature market. there isa is a relatively mature market. there is a big process of educating doctors and a big programme of the public understanding. there is a lot of understanding building up. there isa of understanding building up. there is a long way to go before everything is in place for that to happen. you mentioned canada, there isa happen. you mentioned canada, there is a body of evidence from people and patients who have been using these kinds of medicines for quite some time which will presumably reassure some people who may be concerned about trying these new drugs. in canada and 31 us states

cannabis has been legalised in some form. us states do it in different ways to canada. there is emerging evidence from germany, australia, from the netherlands of different ways of doing it. the next step is how do we make these medicines available? it is not as straightforward as prescribing regular authorised medicines, there isa regular authorised medicines, there is a whole debate to be had about how base could be accessed and toast. how surprised are you about how quickly this has happened? i know it has taken a long time to get to this point but a few months ago when we were talking a lot about billy and alfie and their cases and how it took the headlines, it prompted this change... one thing is that society has moved beyond politics on this issue. politicians we re politics on this issue. politicians were sticking to a 50—year—old line that these products have no value medically. people could see and there were parents online of the

same age of the same condition who we re same age of the same condition who were talking about how their kids we re were talking about how their kids were being treated. it was obvious something was going to happen because of the way that over i million people had decided that cannabis was the best treatment for their condition. it was hard for politicians to resist, particularly in the case of sick children. thank you for coming in and talking to us this evening. some breaking news coming to us from the press association that the retailer coast has gone into illustration putting 300 jobs at risk. that is the clothing company going into administration putting 300 jobs at risk. members of her cabinet this negotiations, ahead of next

week's crucial eu summit. that meeting has broken up in the past half hour. we don't know what they were talking about but we can speculate, as we often do. a lot of people thinking there will be another proposal coming from the uk government on the table. doing anything about it yet? as you know, they don't tend to come out of these cabinet discussions and then chuck away of the cameras. we just shout questions and they ignore them. we don't know what has been discussed. there may be some leaking out from various corners of whitehall later this evening but at the moment there is very little leaking. these negotiations are at such a crucial and pivotal moment, very few people actually know what is going on. these key cabinet ministers were summoned to numb the ten to have a chat with the prime minister about the latest state of the negotiations which are going on intensively in brussels at the moment. we know that liam fox and

michael gove were in there. the chancellor is at an imf meeting in bali so he wasn't there. core cabinet ministers are being tightly in the loop. i think number ten... they don't want people to say that this was a cabinet being bounced into controversial decisions about the future of brexit. the key one that needs to be resolved if this question of the irish backstop and the prime minister is under huge pressure from brexiteers, of course, but also another dup who are making their concerns about this very clearly known to number ten. they are effectively threatening to destroy the prime minister's agenda if she makes any, misers that they don't like. these are ready tough days for theresa may to navigate. we will be back to you if there is any more coming out of that cabinet meeting later on this evening. now it's time for a look at the weather with nick miller.

storm callum is on the way for the uk with a spell of strong, potentially disruptive winds for many western parts of the uk by the end of the night and into tomorrow. clear skies ahead of storm callum's rain moving in and, as you can see here, that means this evening's showery rain should clear away from eastern parts around 7—i3d. you can see the rain coming in from callum but of course those strong winds too. i mention the wind, the rain will continue from friday into saturday and in south wales, the met office has an amber warning in force here, widely 40—80 millimetres, more on the south—facing hills. so it is northern and western parts of the uk tomorrow getting the strongest winds, outbreaks of rain mainly in the north and west. there are parts of eastern england that will stay dry throughout the day. a taste of these gusts that we are going to see, and exposure across western parts where it could get above 70 mph. it is still technically mild but, again, it is very windy for some and very wet. you're watching beyond 100 days. hurricane michael

was fast and brutal. in a hit—and—run strike, it left a path of devastation. buildings, trees, power lines were simply tossed aside and snapped in half by some monster winds. the storm has already moved on, and today the sun is back out, but that's little comfort to people who's homes have just been shattered. it was brutal, absolutely brutal. the damage that we see are looking around us, i really, really feel that it could have been a tornado. everything is gone but i'm just glad we made it out saved, because i thought i was getting trapped in there and not be able to get out. president trump says it would be unacceptable to cancel us defence sales to saudi arabia over the disappearance of a saudi journalist. also on the programme... soyuz, we have a problem.