i'm shaun ley. the headlines at 2pm: the former brexit secretary david davis calls for a cabinet rebellion over theresa may's brexit plans — the health secretary appeals for unity. everybody needs to get under prime minister because she is trying to deliver the best deal to britain and thatis deliver the best deal to britain and that is how we take this forward. britain and the us consider boycotting a major investment conference in saudi arabia — after the disappearance of the journalist, jamal khashoggi. saudi arabia vows to retaliate if it's put under sanctions. trains between exeter and netwon abbot are disrupted because of rail damage caused by storm callum, but the worst of the weather is passing. the nhs in england plans to crack down on patients who wrongly claim free prescriptions. the government says new checks in pharmacies will help save the health service £300 million a year. and princess eugenie and jack brooksbank release the first official photographs

of their wedding day. hello. good afternoon. the former brexit secretary david davis has encouraged cabinet ministers to rebel against the prime minsiter‘s proposed brexit deal. theresa may has suggested a temporary customs arrangement for the whole of the uk to remain in the customs union while the irish border issue is resolved. brexiteers fear this may be permanent, and will limit the ability to do trade deals around the world. but the health secretary matt hancock said there were "different ways" to ensure any commitments to a customs union are time—limited. our political correspondent helen catt reports. david davis has never been shy of walking into a fight over brexit. just days before a crucial eu summit, he's urging theresa may's

most senior ministers to front up too. he wants them to force the pm to scrap any plans to keep the same customs rules as europe to avoid border checks in ireland by asserting the cabinet's collective authority. could that mean threatening resignations? i am never a very good speculator, but i do say to anyone who's in cabinet who has concerns about this, you have to make them very clear to the prime minister, and we mustn't have a little cabal outside the cabinet running this. it has to be a cabinet decision. downing street says any such arrangement would be temporary and time—limited. but speaking to andrew marr earlier, the health secretary, matt hancock, seemed to hint that might not mean setting a date for it to end. something the eu has been resisting. everybody needs to get behind the prime minister and pull behind her because she is trying to deliver the best deal for britain and that's the best way to take this forward. this arrangement would only come into place if the eu and the government can't agree a deal on how to trade in future. the democratic unionist party, whose vote theresa may relies on, won't

accept anything that treats northern ireland differently. while labour, which wants to stay in a customs union permanently, has implied theresa may's plans may struggle to convince them too. frankly, if she comes back with something which is just a fudge that she's cooked up with brussels and it doesn't meet our tests, we're not going to for it. and, you know, the british people are not stupid. we're not stupid. we're not voting for something which is essentially a bridge to nowhere. we need to know what our future relationship with europe is going to be at a fudge won't fix that. the clock is ticking for theresa may. even if her cabinet stays onside, she'll have to convince the eu this week that he has progressed has been made to get a final deal next month. some breaking news on the brexit negotiations and that is that we are being told that the brexit secretary, dominic raab, is now

heading to brussels this afternoon. he will be there a little later this afternoon and he is going to be meeting michel barnier, the eu chief negotiator. according to a statement which has come from a spokes person at the department for exiting the eu, there are several issues to still be resolved including the fallback position which the eu has insisted on which would keep the northern ireland in the customs union and the uk government says thatis union and the uk government says that is not acceptable, to divide the northern ireland from the rest of the uk. everyone would have to be in some kind of customs arrangement not called the customs union. it was jointly agreed at face—to—face talks between dominic raab and michel barnier weren't necessary ahead of this week's october european council which is the meeting of all the eu national leaders, especially the people who would sign off on any deal. so it suggests the clock is ticking. as if we didn't know that.

that there is still the need for some kind of last—minute face to face negotiations to see if a deal can be done. certainly adds to the drama over the next few days. what the substances we will have to wait until we hearfrom the substances we will have to wait until we hear from dominic the substances we will have to wait until we hearfrom dominic raab, hopefully a little later. a 34—year—old british man has been shot dead by a hunter in the french alps. the restaurant owner was riding a mountain bike down a wooded track as a hunting party made its way through nearby woods, according to the local prosecutor. the victim, who has not yet been named, was shot on saturday, and had been living for several years in the town of les gets. the foreign and commonwealth office said they were in touch with local authorities, and providing assistance to the man's family. britain and the united states may be about to boycott a major investment conference in saudi arabia following the disappearance of journalist, jamal khashoggi. it comes after president trump threatened saudi arabia with severe punishment, if it turns out mr khashoggi is dead and the saudis were responsible.

eliza philippidis reports. president trump is under international and domestic pressure to help determine what happened to mr khashoggi and punish saudi arabia if investigations show its government had him killed. and though he's promised severe punishment, sanctions on arms don't seem to be on the cards. when we take away $110 billion of purchases from our country, that hurts our workers, that hurts our factories, that hurts all of our companies. you're talking about 500,000 jobs. the turkish authorities say they have evidence of the washington postjournalist being murdered by a saudi hit squad at the istanbul consulate, but so far, hard evidence has not been produced. pressure is now growing on the saudis to prove that mr khashoggi left the embassy alive after he went to get papers for his wedding. if they can't, the international

community say they will boycott a high—profile investment conference in riyadh later this month. diplomatic sources say both the us treasury secretary and the uk international trade secretary may now not attend. this would amount to a huge snub by two of saudi arabia's key allies. eliza philippidis, bbc news. the nhs is to launch a crackdown on prescription fraud in england that costs the taxpayer millions of pounds every year. some people falsely or wrongly claim free prescriptions and also some rogue pharmacists and dentists falsify claims. but new technology could mean fake claims are easily identified, as richard galpin reports. every year, nhs england loses more than £250 million as a result of prescription fraud. people either deliberately or by mistake claiming they're eligible for free prescriptions. but not for much longer if the government crackdown is successful.

the campaign's been launched today by the health secretary matt hancock. he's claiming the nhs will no longer be an easy target. those who steal from it, he says, will face the consequences. it's unbelievable that people should defraud a national institution like the nhs, but it does happen, and some of it is deliberate, so we are going to half prescription fraud over the next five years, saving £300 million. and technology is a big part of the solution. a computer database of everyone in england exempt from paying prescriptions will be created, so pharmacists can quickly check before the medication is handed over to patients. critics say most people claiming free prescriptions either do so by mistake or by misunderstanding and it will be difficult for pharmacists

to challenge patients. it is difficult and it is difficult to challenge them but if someone is defrauding the system, potentially they could get aggressive and you end up having to deal with a situation which takes time and also ta kes situation which takes time and also takes time away from the pharmacist being able to have conversations about the medicines with other patients. after pilots starting next year, the anti—fraud campaign is due to be rolled out across nhs england. richard galpin, bbc news. now let's go live to thorrun govind, board member at the royal pharmaceutical society. thank you very much for being with us on thank you very much for being with us on bbc news this afternoon i don't think anyone is going to complain about the crackdown on people claiming things they're not entitled to, but the problem is that

up entitled to, but the problem is that up to £600 million is being lost by the nhs in england and that will sound a pretty substantial figure as a proportion of how much is spent on medicines. is it that big a figure? i think what i would focus on first... obviously, there is to an extent that going on, but we spend so extent that going on, but we spend so much time as pharmacists checking on exemptions, how much time is being spent doing that? at the end of the day, i am trying to sort people who are paid, people who have not in order that week so i can be paid for providing the service. i think what we can look at is there is actually the sort of idea means actually that we should focus on do we need to be charging for prescriptions? some patients are really struggling and they need to be able to get their medication. i'm a health care professional and not a tax collector. and sometimes it feels like you're policing the system. i presume, though, that if you have this computerised com

interior that should produce some of those pressures on some of the time delays that have a knock on and on other patients you would want to be seen? the focus to me, really, is on do we need these prescription charges at all, like i said. in england, it's people who are on low income but obviously not under that threshold, so we do have patients coming to us who are asking which medication would be best for me to have because they can't afford all of the medications that they had been prescribed. this system of charging for prescriptions affect the most vulnerable in society and i think that's what needs to be looked at. allowing for the point you're making and in some ways this debate has been going on ever since prescription charges were introduced and the first stage at which we started to reduce the free nhs, as it were, was with prescription charges and then obviously charges for spectacles as well and then dental care and other things over time. putting that aside as a policy

decision you think needs to be addressed, what about the practicalities of this? when you make of the idea of having this as a computerised system ? make of the idea of having this as a computerised system? at the moment, obviously we spend far too much time trying to police prescription charges, so i would welcome anything that benefits patients, but as i say, at the moment the focus for me in my day to day practice is trying to be out there and speak to patients and actually i don't want to be involved with the tax collection with regards prescription charges. how does it come about where there are... this is the frustration because you could make a perfectly reasonable argument but the people who are deliberately defrauding, including some pharmacists and dentists and claiming for some things that aren't actually been prescribed, however big or small that problem is, if those people weren't doing it then there might be more money which would allow you to give more

prescriptions. how does it actually happen that someone can get away with claiming something when they aren't exempt? how is that coming about? the current system means that when a patient hands in a prescription they either say to the pharmacy team, i need to pay for this. it is relying on honesty. and then therefore if they are exempt they tend to tick a box on the back of the prescription and if we see evidence or we don't we know that on the back of the prescription. so if you see a rolls—royce parked outside... it's a flippant point, but that is the problem, isn't it? presumably, you don't have any other way of making some judgment about a person's appearance. way of making some judgment about a person's appearancelj way of making some judgment about a person's appearance. i am a health ca re person's appearance. i am a health care professional. i am not there to judge someone's appearance. with mental health, people can appear perfectly well, but they can actually be on a number of medications for mental health, is a depression, these illnesses aren't necessarily visible. so what i would say is my focus is on the patients

and not on collecting any sort of tax. are they not required to carry an exemption card? patient are required and should be showing their exemption card at the moment, but as they health care professional, should i be denying a patient medication because they cannot produce that card? some people watching might be saying, yes, you should. actually, bluntly, if people are enjoying an extension card and you can't guarantee that that person is exempt, you're effectively throwing some of the nhs budget a patient medication because they cannot produce that card? some people watching might be saying, yes, you should. actually, bluntly, if people are enjoying an extension ca rd if people are enjoying an extension card and you can guarantee that that person is exempt, you are effectively throwing some of the nhs budget away. i would say that my duty as a health care professional is to make sure that patients have access to medicines and that's the primary point. what about the duty to the taxpayer who effectively helps to fund your business? my code of conduct is a registered pharmacist is to put the patient first and while, yes, i do operate underan nhs first and while, yes, i do operate under an nhs contract, i obviously have to remember that. what about the future of this, then? it is going to be a pilot at the moment.

it could be rolled out nationwide. we had some other difficulties with it systems in the past. what is your experience of the kind of it you operate with at the moment in perception services? obviously, we have national summary care records which are a brilliant force of it, but in terms of pilots in the nhs, we have seen some fantastic pilots involving pharmacists which haven't been rolled out nationally. we have seen pilots that had been rolled out nationally. so i think it is what it is at the moment. it is a pilot and we will have to wait to see how it goes on, really. it will be very interesting to see the outcome. thorrun govind, thank you very much for joining thorrun govind, thank you very much forjoining us this afternoon. trains are being disrupted along the devon coast because part of the track has been washed away by storm callum. great western railway says a large hole has opened up beneath the line between exeter and newton abbot. the number of rivers at risk of flooding has halved as the worst of the storm passes. two people died yesterday — one in wales and one in brighton — while homes were flooded,

and many were left without power. at least we haven't seen signs of those shots of the rail line you may remember swinging in the wind outside ornish after the severe storms if you use back. —— a a few yea rs storms if you use back. —— a a few years back. storm callum has also caused problems for many farmers across wales. becky eardley filmed this footage of a horse—rescue in gilwern in montmouthshire. two men swam out into water six—feet deep to lead the animal to safety. no—one was injured in the rescue and the horse is said to be recovering well. after its unexpected dip. a clean—up operation is underway in portugal following one of the most powerful storms to hit the country since records began. the remnants of hurricane leslie swept through the country, bringing down hundreds of trees and power lines. from lisbon, alison roberts reports. across portugal, people are picking up the pieces after a night of hurricane—force winds left a path of destruction. 13 out of the country's 18

mainland districts had been on red alert, and people warned not to leave their homes. hurricane leslie, the first ever to hit portugal, arrived late on saturday. on making landfall it weakened to a tropical storm, but still packed plenty of punch. translation: the wind broke the windows and came in. i told my staff and clients to hide in the bathrooms on the kitchen, in areas protected by walls, to prevent more serious situation. in central portugal, 61 people were forced to leave their homes. there, and further north, more than 300,000 people were without electricity. at lisbon and porto airports dozens of flights were cancelled or diverted. translation: i came to get my son, who was arriving from poland, and should be arriving at midnight, but because of the bad weather the

flight was diverted to spain. across the border in spain, leslie also brought high winds, with gusts of up to 100km/h. alison roberts, bbc news, lisbon. the headlines on bbc news: the health secretary calls for unity — after the former brexit secretary david davis says cabinet ministers should rebel against theresa may's brexit plan. britain and the us consider boycotting a major investment conference in saudi arabia following the disappearance of saudi journalist, jamal khashoggi. nhs england plans to crack down on people who wrongly claim free prescriptions. bavaria in southern germany is holding a regional election. chancellor merkel‘s regional allies the csu are expected to lose their absolute majority, while the smaller parties including the greens and the far—right afd

are expected to make gains. the csu could be forced into a regional coalition in bavaria — a setback that could further complicate the chancellor's federal government. jenny hill has more. angela merkel will be keeping a close eye on bavaria. that's because her sister party, the bavarian version of her conservatives, is expected to take a humiliating hammering at the ballot box. for decades, the csu has reigned supreme in bavaria. today, if the polls are to believed, all that is set to change. the csu has shifted its policies, its tone, to the right, in response to the threat from the far right anti—migrant party afd. it doesn't seem to have worked, afd is still a significant challenge. they're expected to enter the regional parliament for the first time. that policy has also sent voters scurrying into the arms of the green party. they're the real predicted winners of this election. they are expected to come in second, and in all probability will end

up forming a coalition with the ruling csu. what does all this mean for angela merkel? her critics will say it is humiliating. she is of course associated with the party, although its leadership have, in recent months, attacked her. it's likely to mean, potentially, a new face at her coalition table here in berlin if the csu decide to give their current leader horst seehofer, her interior minister, the boot. but the real reason that berlin and other european capitals will be keeping such a close eye on bavaria is this. what's happening there illustrates perfectly the complexity of the challenge faced by europe's old established centre right and centre left parties. this isn'tjust about the rise of the far right, it's about voters turning their backs on the traditional parties and heading instead towards smaller and in some cases newer political movements. take bavaria, its political landscape has for so long been

an absolute certainty. now, it's fragmenting fast. pope francis has conferred sainthood on the murdered archbishop of san salvador, oscar romero, at a ceremony in the vatican attended by tens of thousands of pilgrims. the pope wore the rope belt that was stained with the archbishop's blood when he was shot dead at the altar in 1980. during his life romero regularly spoke out against military atrocities during el salvador‘s civil war. john mcmanus reports. 1980. as el salvador‘s bloody civil conflict rages, another victim's funeral. but this was not just another critic of the military government, it was archbishop oscar romero. he was killed during mass. he told soldiers and police that their loyalty to the state was less important than the christian injunction "thou shalt not kill." his opponents called him "a gorilla in a cassock."

his killers were never brought tojustice. today in rome, pope francis wore romero's bloodstained belt as he declared him a saint. some in the vatican oppose this canonisation. they thought romero's teachings veered too close to marxism, which the church has traditionally opposed. but pope francis, himself from south america, smoothed the path, with the pontiff confirming romero died a martyr for his faith, not his politics. in el salvador, where 75,000 died in the civil war, it has been a day to celebrate a man who paid the ultimate price for standing up dor justice. six other saints were also created today, including pope paul vi, who led the church for 15 years. he began a long process of reform, rejecting some of the more ostentatious trappings of papacy. for a long time, many catholics wondered why the church

refused to canonise archbishop romero. for them, today's celebration by the pope is a long overdue correction. the first rocket—launch into space from british soil could happen as soon as 2020. it's thought it could be sent into orbit from a spaceport in the north of scotland. the uk's space industry is booming, thanks to a huge surge in demand for tiny satellites made here. joe miller has more. when the space race began in the 19505, britain was very much a part of it, even managing to put a satellite into orbit. but space exploration was all but abandoned in the uk after politicians decided that taxpayers' money was better spent elsewhere. now, a boom in demand for satellite technology is bringing the sector back to life. you might not immediately associate british business with the space industry,

but the fact is the uk is a world leader when it comes to manufacturing these — microsatellites that are usually the size of a washing machine. now, around 40% of these are made here, and very soon, they'll give us the ability to look at detailed video footage of earth. despite such home—grown expertise, satellites have to be launched in other countries. but the countdown to britain's first spaceport is already under way. on scotland's remote north coast. from our perspective it's a really good location for access into the orbits we are most interested in. so specifically the polar orbit, which is where a lot of the telecoms and small satellites will be able to operate on. armed with government grants, lockheed martin is hoping to grab a slice of an industry which could soon be with trillions of pounds. residents of the a'mhoine peninsula hope the benefits will be felt closer to home.

we're hoping there will be apprenticeships for young people there. we don't have the expertise, we know that, in space, and satellite production satellite launching. but hopefully you can train young people and give them opportunities to see that as future employment. the first ever rocket launched from uk soil could happen as soon as 2020. but it will take more than one success to propel the british space industry back into orbit. joe miller, bbc news. and you can see more on that story on the sky at night on bbc4 at 10 o'clock this evening. the royal horticultural society has tracked down the family of a woman who won a gardening scholarship in 1898, but who had never been allowed to claim her prize, because of her gender. you may remember we reported on this story a few weeks ago. after weeks of detective work,

the mystery has been solved — as helen briggs reports. a well—tended garden in the yorkshire dales. it belongs to the granddaughter of a certain miss harrison, and she has fond memories of the woman, whose passion for plants was legendary in the family. i think my strongest memory as an 8—9 year old, being taken for walks in the country and being shown the names of all the flowers. we never missed a flower, we went past all the flowers, she knew all the names. now we know her name. olive mary edmondson, nee harrison, and missing details of her life. her family always knew about her success in the exam, having kept papers and letters. they are being shared today with the rhs, who denied her the scholarship all those years ago, but did award a medal. we knew she'd had a medal because she had come top, but that's all we knew. nothing about the scholarship? nothing about the scholarship, no. just look at the pioneering class. photos show olive attended

the swanley horticultural college, where she was the first women of her time to be trained and one of the first women to enter the gardening profession. she was a gardener all her life, which is really lovely to know, and to know that she actually gardened professionally. despite not getting the scholarship, she returned back to swanley and then went to work for the cadbury family as a gardener until she got married in 190a and then she had a family life. it is clear olive's green fingers passed down the generations. she spent her life looking after family and plants and this is the last garden she tended. it's also where her family come to remember her. olive had four children and eventually moved to settle. even in herfinal years, she was helping in the garden of this church. this is the memorial and you can see that she is the second person down. and she died after about

four years in settle. then she was 92. good life, well lived. and she can now take place in gardening history alongside otherfemale pioneers. helen briggs, bbc news. i have a feeling those pictures weren't filmed this morning. now it's time for a look at the weather. you're right. the weatherforecast hasn't been smelling of roses today. it's been smelling of something absolutely different. it is no laughing matter because the damage has been done. we have had flooding from the heavy rain and wind damage to. the good news is that the front is clearing away so we have got drier and sunnier weather on the

way. fine for scotland and for northern ireland and the lake district and also for wales as well, where we've had all of that flooding. further towards the east, pa rt flooding. further towards the east, part of the midlands, here in the capital in the south—east, it is still raining. the rain is stubborn to clear away. you can still see some splodges of blue in the south—east so it is not going away completely. whereas in the north it will be cold and clear tonight. tomorrow, scotland, northern ireland, the lake district, west wales and to the tip of cornwall we have sunshine. look at that again, the southeast it is looking soggy. 17 celsius may be in london. to the north, it is looking a lot brighter with temperatures of around 11—1lidc. whatever it is, enjoy your afternoon. who

hello, this is bbc who news with shaun ley. —— hello, this is bbc news with shaun ley. the headlines: the former brexit secretary david davis has called for cabinet more ministers to "exert their executive authority" and rebel over a crucial eu summit. britain and the us are considering boycotting a major international conference in saudi arabia, after the disappearance of saudi