this is bbc news. the headlines at 3pm: the former brexit secretary david davis calls for a cabinet rebellion over theresa may's brexit plans — but the health secretary appeals for unity. everyone needs to get behind the prime minister and pull behind her because she's trying to deliver the best dealfor britain because she's trying to deliver the best deal for britain and that is how we move 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 still to come on bbc news — how the first rocket launch into space from british soil could happen as soon as 2020. hello if you'vejustjoined us. a very good afternoon to you. the brexit secretary dominic raab is holding unscheduled talks in brussels with his eu counterpart, michel barnier. the government said they would discuss "several big issues," ahead of a european council meeting later this week. it follows calls from mr raab‘s predecessor, david davis, for the cabinet to rebel against the prime minister's plans for a withdrawal deal. 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 is urging theresa may's most senior ministers to front up as well. 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 have never been good at speculating, but i do say to anyone in the cabinet who has concerns about it, you have to make them very clear to the prime minister. 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 will be temporarily 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 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 votes theresa may relies on, won't accept anything that treats northern ireland differently. while labour, which wants to stay in the customs union permanently, has implied theresa may's plans may struggle to convince them as well. frankly, if she comes back with something which is just a fudge that she's cooked up in brussels and it doesn't meet our tests, we are not going to vote for it. 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 the eu is going to be, and a fudge won't fix that. the clock is ticking for theresa may. even if her cabinet stays onside, she will have to convince the eu this week that enough progress has been made to get a final deal next month. let's talk to our political correspondent helen catt. this is a meeting that was jointly agreed that face—to—face talks where necessary ahead of that key summit

on wednesday because there are several big issues still to resolve including the northern ireland backstop. that is the phrase used to describe what happens on the island of ireland if we don't get a deal, so of ireland if we don't get a deal, so that is why he is over there. it all sounds terribly dramatic but it is quite normalfor all sounds terribly dramatic but it is quite normal for politicians to ta ke is quite normal for politicians to take over talks at this late stage. i can't take over talks at this late stage. ican‘t imagine take over talks at this late stage. i can't imagine it will do theresa may lot of time for the focus to be moved away from the internal arguments that we have seen this morning back over to brussels and looking ahead to what steel might be agreed. this matters because it is the heads of government and michel barnier is a important man but he is just a negotiator on behalf of the heads of the other 27 member countries, so a lot of focus on wednesday's summit and whether or not a deal is done and whether they will sign off on it, but the day before theresa may has two cabinet collea g u es before theresa may has two cabinet colleagues and this time the whole cabinet, unlike the few who she met at the end of last week and suggestions that some of her collea g u es suggestions that some of her colleagues are very unhappy. yes,

and we heard what david davis wrote this morning. it is possibly less about whether he is persuading members of the cabinet or is it maybe that what he says is of perhaps how some of them may be thinking. we don't know but that will come out over the next couple of days. the key thing about this eu summit later in the week is that the eu hopes to have the withdrawal agreement, which is the sort of divorce deal, if you like, but would give us the transition period and would give us those sorts of elements largely nailed down by wednesday so that then actually they can move on to the hard bit, which is the future trading relationship and the political declaration that goes with that because the two are actually technically separate, so thatis actually technically separate, so that is why it is so important and this is why we are reaching such a crucial phase this week in particular. thank you very much. 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 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. we have a better breaking news. this isa we have a better breaking news. this is a statement out the foreign 0ffice is a statement out the foreign office that is a statement from the foreign secretary jeremy office that is a statement from the foreign secretaryjeremy hunt and his french and german counterparts. they have issued this as a result of the concerns over the apparent killing or disappearance i should say of jamal khashoggi, killing or disappearance i should say ofjamal khashoggi, the saudi born journalist, and the allegations made against the saudi government over that. in the statement, they say, defending freedom of expression of the free press and the protection of the free press and the protection of journalists are key

of the free press and the protection ofjournalists are key priorities for the three countries. in this spirit, light must be shed on the disappearance of the saudi journalist jamal khashoggi whose family has lost contact with him since the 2nd of october. germany, the united kingdom and france surely great concern expressed by others about what has happened and are treating the incident with the utmost seriousness. there needs to bea utmost seriousness. there needs to be a credible investigation to establish the truth about what happened and if relevant to identify those bearing responsibility for the disappearance of jamal khashoggi those bearing responsibility for the disappearance ofjamal khashoggi and ensuring that they are held to account. we encourage joint saudi— turkish efforts in that regard and expect the saudi government to provide a complete and detailed response. we have conveyed this message directly to the saudi authorities. so i think obviously an indication first about a reminder of the fact that as members of the eu at the moment britain intends to adopt a common position as far as it possibly can on external matters, and regularly talks with the french and regularly talks with the french

and germans in this regard. the statement also makes reference to the fact that the eu foreign affairs spokeswoman has criticised and expressed concern about what happened to jamal khashoggi, as has the un secretary general to the bbc yesterday. i think the key part of the statement is that encouraging joint saudi— turkish efforts and expecting a complete and detailed explanation of what happened and what the saudi government knows about what happened. it will be interesting to see what the saudi response is to that. they have already given quite an aggressive response to criticism that has been made of them, including accusing countries like turkey and certainly some of the media reports as being lies. 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. 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. and technology is a big part of the solution. a computer database of everyone

in england exempt from paying 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. they are uncomfortable doing it 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

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. 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. 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 in to 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.

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. 0n 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 and social care secretary matt hancock called for unity after

the former secretary criticised the brexit plan. the disappearance of the journalist jamal khashoggi. a crackdown on people who wrongly claimed three description is. in sport, on the opening weekend of the european champion's cup, a superb performance from cardiff blues gives them a season—opening victory against lyon. novak talk that goes back to the top of the world tennis rankings, winning the shanghai masters, his 18th matchwinner in a row. manchester city women hit seven past west ham in the ws oh. i will have more sport for you in an hour. 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. and we should have some indication of what is happening in bavaria and hope to be talking tojenny hill later this afternoon. polls close at 5p later this afternoon. polls close at spin ourtime later this afternoon. polls close at spin our time and we hope to receive the first exit poll soon after that. pope francis has conferred sainthood on the murdered archbishop of san salvador, 0scar 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 0scar romero. he was killed during mass. his weekly sermons called for an end to the violence. 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 guerilla 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. it's emerged the owners of virgin trains — sir richard branson and stagecoach — collected more than £50 million in dividends from the west coast main line before abandoning their east coast contract. the government had to take back control of the east coast line and missed out on more than two billion pounds of franchise payments. virgin trains said the west coast line had exceeded its targets to the taxpayer. we're joined now by bruce williamson from rail future — which promotes better rail services.

thanks very much for coming into the studio to talk about this story. on the one hand there is a privately reasonable argument for saying these are two completely different contracts. 0ne are two completely different contracts. one has been delivered well and the other has not been delivered well and is effectively back under government control, but just because they have messed up in one place, why shouldn't they get the benefits where they have succeeded in the other? indeed. that is the argument put forward by those who favour privatisation, and the government, or successive governments, have taken a decision that we are having a privatised railway and therefore it is inevitable that you have a contact such as version that is making a profit, and i think in that context it seems right that you provide a good service and you make money out of it. —— like virgin. that is the incentive that privatisation is supposed to bring to the railway. but on the other hand it is very

obvious that passengers don't like the idea that when they are paying a huge amount for the rail fare is, the idea that when they are paying a huge amount for the railfare is, we have amongst the most expensive fa res have amongst the most expensive fares in europe, that someone is making a big profit out of them. fares in europe, that someone is making a big profit out of themm isa making a big profit out of themm is a difficult one in terms of how you square the circle. it has become even more, dated because the governments back players operating the franchises albeit on a short—term basis but network rail, the bit that actually is responsible, is effectively back in public control as well. so in a sense the railways are a real hybrid and have become arguably even more ofa and have become arguably even more of a hybrid than when they were first privatised nearly 30 years ago. yes, i think it is a horrible, tangled mess. ithink ago. yes, i think it is a horrible, tangled mess. i think alsojoe public doesn't fully appreciate the extent to which the government is taking control of many aspects of the running of the railway, the sort of micromanaging a nationalised system which has private contractors doing the work for them. so

advocates of rail nationalisation, and it is a very popular policy, polling shows that the public want the railways renationalised, but if they were to be renationalised tomorrow, we would have very much the same sort of thing, the same trains running to the same timetable is run by the same people, and so you wouldn't see much immediate quite how you do that has obviously been debated. it was interesting thatjohn mcdonnell was saying at the labour party conference that they were going to do it relatively quickly because labour's argument was that they were waiting until the franchises come up but scotrail isn't to opt for many years before that would possibly, into a uk government responsibility. but in terms of the practicalities of this in terms of the system that we have now, the government is conducting a real review. you get any sense of what sort of model they are inching towards, because it is pretty clear it is not going to be nationalisation if the conservatives remain in office? but they can't

continue with the status quo as it exists. yes, chris grayling has acknowledged that with the third failure of east coast franchise something has to change. we have been here before. mcnulty looked into the railways with a view to finding a way to reduce costs and really very little game of that. i think we are sort of tinkering at the edges. 0ne think we are sort of tinkering at the edges. one of the changes i think we could do, though, what seems to work better is where you have a model which is called a concession where rather than having the franchisee take the financial risk of ticket revenue and so on, they are just contracted to run the railway on a fixed price and then the risk of the real revenue is taken on by the government, and i think that is how the tfl is run and i think that is currently housed some other franchises are temporarily being run at the moment andi temporarily being run at the moment and i feel there may temporarily being run at the moment and ifeel there may be temporarily being run at the moment and i feel there may be scope for that to provide a better model for the future. there is not much room for manoeuvre for a privatised

network. just to clarify, tfl is transport for london. partly because of the sort of consequences of a brother, located tend to have a hybrid public privatisation in london that didn't quite work out. that was the then labour government plan. you get a sense that we are going to see significant change in the railways, any sense whoever is in government in the next few years, that the situation we are out at the moment isn't one that politicians accept a sustainable.|j moment isn't one that politicians accept a sustainable. i don't feel there is going to be major change under the conservatives. they are ideological wedded to privatisation so any changes to the concession model is a relatively minor tweet to the system. 0bviously, model is a relatively minor tweet to the system. obviously, if labour comes in, they are committed to renationalisation. but i am not a politician so i don't know who's going to win the next election. you are very wise to say that. i am a journalist and we spend too much time circulating. let's wait until the votes are counted. thanks so much for being with us on bbc news this afternoon. (a 19 year old man has died after being involved

in a collision involving a car, a police vehicle and an ambulance. the incident happened on the a14 near ruffham, in the early hours of this morning. the police vehicle and ambulance were not responding to an emergency at the time. 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 1950s, 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. 0n 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. princess eugenie and her new husband jack brooksbank have released a set of official photographs from their wedding day. the pictures, taken by photographer alex bramall, include a black and white image of the couple sharing a kiss during the carriage procession. another group photograph taken in the white drawing room at windsor shows both the bride and groom's families. eugenie's mother — sarah, duchess of york — is standing next to a seated duke of edinburgh, with the duke

of york to her other side. now it's time for a look at the weather with tomasz schafernaker. well, after the very heavy recent rain across western parts of the uk i'm sure we'll be picking up the bits and pieces for quite some time. the good news is that the weather is improving — the weather front is finally clearing away, and the weather is turning a lot better across many western parts of the uk, so this evening, clear skies from scotland, northern ireland, through the lake district, wales, but across parts of the midlands and south—east it is still looking damp. and, if anything, the rain could turn heavy for a time overnight, in london, parts of east anglia, maybe lincolnshire as well. these are the early morning temperatures on monday across the country. the living degrees in london, but very chilly in the north — only two or three degrees above freezing, so a real nip in the air for glasgow, edinburgh and belfast first thing. rain again across the south—east, so that rain refuses to clear away. it's really stubborn. looks like further rain for the capital and into east anglia

tomorrow, possibly the midlands too. for the north, the sun is shining. goodbye. hello this is bbc news with shaun ley. the headlines this hour: the former brexit secretary david davis has called for cabinet ministers to "exert their executive authority" and rebel against theresa may's proposed brexit deal — just days before a crucial eu summit. britain and the united states are considering boycotting a major