for a place in the danish team. it feels like it's not fair, because i'm a swimmer like everyone else around the world, and i also have worked for that goalfor a long time. it feels like that's the only thing that's holding me back to reach my biggest dream, that is the olympics, and under the faroese flag. the faroe islands is unique in many ways, not least its dramatic landscape, but also its remote location in the north atlantic, and the people here are fiercely independent. but as far as the ioc is concerned, it's still a region in the kingdom of denmark, and although it might be self—governing governing, that is not enough for a place in the olympics. in response, the ioc gave us a statement, referring to their rules and regulations which says all countries must be recognised by the international community. the prime minister told me it doesn't make sense. i can't understand it. i don't think it's logic. as i told you, we are a self governing country, and we do hold membership in a lot of international organisations, so it's a broken dream for a lot of our young people if they cannot compete at the olympic games.

the faroes are investing heavily in sport, but without olympic medals to aim for, the fear is future generations won't reach the heights of their full potential. alex capstick, bbc news, the fa roe islands. and the weather. this glorious scene is fife just a couple of hours ago and you can see a bit of cloud there at the edge but a widespread expanse of blue sky and sunshine. not such a great day for going on the pier in cromer. the reason for the conthe last? clear on the satellite picture, this clear slot is sliding m, picture, this clear slot is sliding in, allowing the sunshine through, further south, there is a good deal

more cloud round and there will be rainfor more cloud round and there will be rain for the north east of england, east anglia and the midlands, perhaps a little for the south—west, generally tapering off as the front stretches through. in the far south—east brighter, later non—the afternoon, but the best of the sunshine will definitely go to the north—west. the north—west staying largely clear, becoming windy overnight tonight, temperatures in sheltered spots dipping down to two oi’ sheltered spots dipping down to two or three, murkier, a lot of cloud round for the hills for coast and patches of mist and fog developing in central and eastern england. they will clear quickly and although sunshine. else want more cloud. rain for a front for northern ireland, brighter here later and wet weather getting into western scotland. along with strong winds. a risk of gales. still warmth to be found in the south—east, up to the 2 degrees possible. a cold front follows on

behind and it kind of grind to a halt so for wednesday we are left with cloud lingering across england and wales and perhaps more rain for some southern county, a little unsure of the exact detail on where we will see that but that certainly is the typical trend for wednesday. further north drier and brighter. notice the temperatures to the south coming down as that cold weather front has pubbed its way in. we start the see high pressure pushing infrom, so start the see high pressure pushing in from, so that listen kill off any weather fronts, perhaps leaving a bit of cloud to the south or south—east. thursday we will get away with a dry story almost across the board. maybe a patchy frost but come the afternoon temperatures in the sunshine will recover to typical values, we are talking about the mid to low teens so a broad mixture of autumn fayre but nothing like the extreme wither we have seen

throughout the weekend. —— weather. prince harry and his wife announce they are expecting their first child. that is all from the good afternoon. it's 1.30pm and here's your latest sports news. hello there, you're watching bbc news. i'm olly foster at the bbc sport centre, the england manager gareth southgate says his players are lacking a psychological freshness because they've had so little rest after the world cup. they are in seville for tonight's nations league match against spain after last week's draw against croatia. southgate‘s team made it through to the final weekend in russia because they were involved in the third place play—off and the premier league started less than four weeks later. i don't really understand why were lea k started i don't really understand why were leak started so early. but they did

and it was a difficult situation for the clubs because some other could not have fielded a team. if you look at tottenham, they have so many players in the semifinals of the world cup they had to put their players straight into matches on the back of very little preseason. looking at major tournaments over the past 20 years that england have been involved in, this summer is by far the shortest between a summer final and the start of the premier league — 26 days. that's over a week shorter than the last two major championships and with some breaks being up to five or six weeks. southgate joked that perhaps the shedulers hadn't banked on his team doing so well, although he did concede that that the fixture calendar is complex. there was some trouble in seville last night, england supporters clashing with spanish police and some vandalism. the fa have released a statement condemning the unacceptable behaviour and urging those following the team to respect the hosts and act in a responsible manner. "we will sanction any

england supporters‘ travel club memberfound to be responsible for disorder." aaron ramsey will miss tomorrow's nations league game against the republic of ireland in dublin. he's been allowed to withdraw from the squad because his wife is expecting twins. manager ryan giggs has called up swa nsea's daniel james from the under—21 squad. giggs is already without gareth bale, who missed thursday's defeat by spain and has returned to his club real madrid for treatment on a groin problem. england spinner liam dawson may miss the rest of the one—day series in sri lanka. he's been in the first two starting elevens but sat out training today with a side strain. england may have to call up a replacement. dawson bowled six overs in saturday's win in the second odi. the squad is in kandy for their next match on wednesday with chris woakes relishing the opportunity to open the bowling again.

i don't always see it as the leader of the attack because obviously some guys have good days and bad days. but i certainly like the idea of rolling the tough overs in this format. you get good rewards from it. it can be tough but the rewards are there if you executed well. afghanistan's hazra—tullah zazai has joined a very elite club — only the third batsman to hit six sixes in an over, in a twenty20 match. it happened in the country's premier league. he managed to knock every ball over the boundary making 37 runs off the over because there was a wide as well. zazai raced to his 50 off 12 balls, equalling the record for the fastest t20 half—century. he joins the likes of sir garfield sobers, herschelle gibbs and yuvraj singh to achieve the feat in all forms of the game. but they still lost the match. the former sri lanka captain

sanath jayasuriya has been charged with two counts of breaching the icc anti corruption code. the former all—rounder is accused of failing to co—operate with an investigation, and obstructing the investigation by "concealing, tampering with or destroying evidence". he has 14 days to respond. that's all the sport for now. you can find more on all those stories on the bbc sport website. confirmation in the last few minutes that it has begun hydraulic fracturing in lancashire. confirming what it was evident. —— imminent.

that has happened in the last human hits. protests already under way but the company has confirmed that fracturing has begun. when last—minute negotiations for a brexit deal between the uk and the eu came to an abrupt end yesterday, the sticking point was the border between northern ireland and the irish republic. with neither side wanting a hard border, but controls needed on the movement of goods into and out of the european union, the 300—mile dividing line is the key to the future of brexit. our ireland correspondent chris page has been finding out how two companies might be affected. northern ireland is on the brexit frontline. it's caught between the uk's only land border and the irish sea. the question is, if checks on goods don't take place at one of these locations, will be have to happen at the other? it's an issue that affects all sorts of items on supermarket shelves. take these baby snacks, for example.

before they're sent to shops, they've already had a long journey to this warehouse. we bring in about 18 different products from about six different factories, mainly in mainland europe, western europe. in the european union? in the european union, yeah. and from here, what's the distribution network from this warehouse? yeah, from this warehouse we service the whole of northern ireland and the whole of the republic of ireland. the firm, which trades across ireland, britain and beyond, says new checkpoints would hit business. delays at borders for ourselves could mean that we don't deliver on time to our customers, so there could be time delays. that would result in our product maybe not being in the supermarket, and ultimately if someone is in the supermarket wanting to buy a baby snack and our product isn't on the shelf, they will move to a competitor product. james and shauna are a husband—and—wife team here based in county tyrone just a few miles from the land border. they cross it often.

three or four times every month we'll be down doing store vists, checking on stock in the stores and down meeting customers. there's no visible presence on the border, which was totally different to what i remember years ago. there was a very, very, very visual border here. no—one involved in the brexit talks wants a visual border to return, but there isn't agreement on how to avoid it. the fallback position proposed by the eu is that northern ireland would basically continue to follow european trading rules, but that would raise the prospect of checks between here and the rest of the uk. businesses are concerned by that possibility too. dale farm is a dairy firm with more than 1,000 workers. it sends most of its products across the irish sea. the whole process from the farm to the kitchen table needs to be speedy. one can't go to the cows and say we're going to take a break here for a few weeks and not take milk, so there's a constant flow of milk coming at us, so it's essential we have

frictionless trade from our operations into our markets. if there were what people have describe as light—touch checks, perhaps away from ports somewhere in the supply chain, is that something you could work with if you had to? we'd want to understand the detail behind that. however, there is the concept of motorised economic operators, almost akin to a trustatrader, which means there's basically checks on our supply chain but it's not at port, and that's a concept we would be willing to facilitate. companies in this part of the uk don't want any barriers to trading with england, scotland and wales or with the irish republic. cracking that conundrum will be vitalfor a brexit deal. chris page, bbc news, belfast. and we're expecting an update on the brexit negotiations from the prime minister later this afternoon. we'll bring it to you live when that happens. british troops are currently taking part in the biggest training exercise since the end of the conflicts in iraq and afghanistan.

5,500 members of the uk armed forces across land, sea and air are involved in saif sareea 3 in oman, with 65,000 omani troops. it's a key tactical alliance between the two nations. lee madan has been living alongside soldiers in the main battle group in the desert seeing them in action. the tactics of war in the extreme heat of the desert. canning soldiers formed the backbone of this battle group simulating how to creep up on and eliminate the enemy. on the ground these armoured vehicles are edging closer to their target. eventually they strike. what you saw there was a group attack, a company of vehicles. the royal tank regiment hitting a position and afterwards we came in and clear the rest of the enemy using our dismounts. aged 26

the tenant nyla manny pearson as a platoon commander with the one mercian regiment. we're sending up information to the artillery and there will be a lot of artillery dressed —— dropped on it. there will be a lot of artillery dressed -- dropped on it. these armoured vehicles are grouping together to resupply before moving onto the next objective. lieutenant colonel neil kelly isn't a man's ear and is overseeing 18 challenger two tanks, more than 100 armoured vehicles and 8119 tanks, more than 100 armoured vehicles and 819 soldiers in the core battle group. there are 11 different units in my battle group and the team has been fantastic. from the medics to the mechanics, all working together effectively making a united cohesive fighting force. for the young members of that fighting force like william payne who serves in the royal tank regiment it's a chance to speedy and something unique both on and off the

battlefield. i quite like the heat. it's better than the cold. the sunsets as well. it's good to be the new place and a new environment. i'm only 19. it's been different from my mates there have gone to college and for me coming straight into the army. in totalthere for me coming straight into the army. in total there will be five and a half thousand members of the british armed forces year across land, sea and air. operating alongside 65,000 from the omagh near military. a key tactical alliance of the time in the world is facing an uncertain future. it's important to keep —— give our young uncertain future. it's important to keep —— give ouryoung men and uncertain future. it's important to keep —— give our young men and women sat an idea of the scale of what they are involved in. to take them away from traditional training areas and to test ourselves in the most manning environment. it has it all in terms of heat. 40 degrees heat in

the day. the full spectrum of creepy crawlies. snakes and spiders. after coping with the insects and the heat the soldiers will take part in a live demonstration in two weeks' time drawing to a close the biggest display of british military might since iraq and afghanistan. some breaking news on the disappearance of the saudi arabian journalists. there is a joint investigation launched by the saudi arabian king was ordered an investigation. president donald trump has now treated about this and this is his tweets. he has in the past threatened saudi

arabia with severe punishment. breaking news there that the secretary of state of the us is heading to saudi arabia and will be meeting the king to discuss that journalists's disappearance and suspected murder. in a moment we'll have all the business news, but first the headlines on bbc news: kensington palace has announced that the duchess of sussex is expecting a baby in the spring of next year. the foreign secretary, jeremy hunt, insists a deal can still be struck over brexit, though he admits there are "outstanding issues". british shale gas company cuadrilla confirms it has begun hydraulic fracking for natural gas at its site in lancashire in the business news:

the uk will face low economic growth for the next three years, according to the latest research from the ey item club. it says a no—deal brexit could dent growth even further. if the forecaster‘s prediction turns out to be accurate, 2018 would be the worst year of growth for the uk economy since the financial crisis. accessories chain claire's is reported to be considering closing some of its uk stores. the press association said the high street chain was talking to restructuring firms about "a number of options". the chain has more than 370 stores in the uk, according to its most recent accounts. a spokeswoman for claire's said closing underperforming stores was "part of normal business practice". sears, once the biggest retailer in the world, has filed for bankruptcy. the firm has been closing stores and selling properties as it struggled with debts of more than £45 billion. the company has suffered, along with many other traditional retailers, from rising online competition

from firms such as amazon. in its heydey the firm had more than 3,000 stores and 250,000 staff. more now on those warning on uk economy growth, economic growth in the uk will slow over the next three years, and the prospect of a no—deal brexit could dent growth even further. the ey item club predicted gdp growth of 1.3% this year and 1.5% in 2019, down from 1.4% and 1.6% respectively in its previous outlook three months ago. joining us now is mark gregory, chief economist at the ey item club. talk me through your predictions. slowing growth for the uk, 1.3% this year and slowing growth for the uk, 1.3% this yearand1.5% slowing growth for the uk, 1.3% this year and 1.5% next year. the growth

we've had from traders tapering off. business investment is falling as well. these figures you have released are based on some sort of deal with the eu, correct? released are based on some sort of dealwith the eu, correct? yes. in many ways it's the optimistic end of the forecast. we will have an orderly withdrawal and they will be some agreement on what the future trade deal will look like. what businesses need to do to prepare for this? this is the time for businesses to be taking a hard look at their business plans, factoring ina low at their business plans, factoring in a low growth scenario on thinking about whether they might be other growth opportunities through technological innovation and also the need to look at how they can weather a bloody period. how realistic is that when we don't know whether we are going to get a deal 01’ whether we are going to get a deal or what the deal will look like? it

must be difficult for businesses to prepare for something we know very little about. we have seen this battle this year between quite a bit of investment going to new technology and businesses cutting back on investment in an existing operations. the most realistic figures achaea and maintenance basis until we have more clarity. figures achaea and maintenance basis untilwe have more clarity. he predicted we would see rate rises from the bank of england and that prediction has now trained. from the bank of england and that prediction has now trainedm from the bank of england and that prediction has now trained. it has. the slow growth story has taken that away a bit. we still think there will be one rate rise but it won't be until there is more clarity on leaving the u. certainly not until march next year. but we think rate rises will be pretty slow because the underlying strength of the economy does not justify the underlying strength of the economy does notjustify it. jp morgan chief executive jamie dimon will not attend

an investment conference in riyadh amid growing tensions between the us and saudi arabia. he is the latest high—profile figure to pull out of the event dubbed "davos in the desert" following the disappearance of saudi journalist jamal khashoggi. the saudis deny killing mr khashoggi. as we've been hearing, sears, the us retailer that that once dominated america's shopping malls, has filed for bankruptcy. sears holdings, which also owns kmart, filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on monday. the company has suffered, along with many other traditional retailers, from rising online competition from firms such as amazon and has been closing stores and selling properties as it grapples with debts of more than £45 billion. the firm employs nearly 90,000 people in the us, although that is down from 246,000 five years ago, and in its heyday it had more than 3,000 stores. it became america's largest retailer before being overtaken

by walmart in the 1980s. superdry shares have fallen more than 20% after the retailer warned of a £10 million hit to profits because the recent heatwave hurt sales of winter clothes. the company also said it faced £8 million in additional foreign exchange costs. superdry shares down 20% after the firm warned that profits for its current financial year will be £10m less than it originally expected. warm weather in september and the first half of october has "significa ntly affected" demand for its autumn and winter products, it said. it also expects low to mid—single digit sales growth this year. as we've been hearing, hundreds of royal mail staff have complained that they have been short—changed as a result of a dramatic fall in the company's share price. royal mail said it had no choice but to tell the city as soon as it

realised profits would be lower. that's all the business news. the african penguin population is rapidly declining. they registered a 70 per cent fall between 2001 and 2013 and the numbers are still going down. conservationsists say their habitat is being hit by rising tides caused by climate change. now campaigners are looking at new ways to protect the birds. eliza philippidis reports on efforts to save the endangered species. boulders beach, home to one of the 28 african penguin habitats. these birds can only be found in south africa and namibia. but their survival is under threat and one of the reasons is there is not enough fish in the sea. the african penguin have to swim far distances to find food but in the past that wasn't the case.

we suspect it could be from commercial trawling. in just three years the number of breeding pairs has dropped by a fifth. here are boulders beach the rangers are encouraging the penguins to use artificial nest boxes, hoping to increase their chances of breeding successfully. this colony is the only place in the world where people can swim freely with these endangered wild birds. as a result they get millions of visitors every. it's really amazing to see them here and get as close as i have. i really think it's important we do everything we can to preserve these wonderful animals. stabilising the population and increasing penguin numbers is a priority here.

the aim? that children can see the african penguin in the wild. now it's time for a look at the weather. some glorious sunshine to the north of the british isles today. this picture a couple of hours ago from kendal in cumbria. a beautiful looking day. a very different day further south. here are in walsall. it was not looking too bright at all. this is how the picture cuts up across the uk. clear skies to the north but a weather front bringing rain into cumbria further south. the

front will bring further rain for the next few hours but i the end of the next few hours but i the end of the afternoon into the early evening it should we can little as it pushes its way north. clear skies to the south but possibly only briefly because we could see some mist and fog the central and southern england tomorrow. further north, misty and murky across the hills and again it will be scotland and northern ireland with the best of early brightness. northern ireland will pull ina brightness. northern ireland will pull in a weather front through the morning and wet weather on its way for western scotland as well. some strong winds across the western isles and a cooler feel behind this band of rain. temperatures around 22 in the south—east of england. overnight tuesday into wednesday the cold weather front pushes its way south across the uk but on wednesday it grinds to a halt in the south so some areas will get lingering cloud

and persistent rain. to the south—east still quite warm and some sunshine possible. sunshine to the north and west as well. for the end of the week, high—pressure trying to build across us and that will weaken away any friends that stay nearby. relatively clear skies overnight into thursday but it will be quite chilly. to the south, little but of cloud still left but for the majority it's going to be a decent day with a fair amount of sunshine. quite a pleasant story as the week goes on in terms of being quite calm and there will be more sunshine around. hello, you're watching afternoon live, i'm ben brown. today at 2:00:

the prime minister updates mps this afternoon after the brexit talks stall again — over the issue of the irish border. there are one or two very difficult outstanding issues, but i think we can get there, whether we do this week or not who knows? the duchess of sussex is expecting a baby and is due to give birth next spring. sit down protests in lancashire as fracking for shale gas begins again for the first time in seven years. coming up on afternoon live all the sport with olly foster. we are gearing up for another busy night in the nation's league but that has been trouble in spain involving