hello, this is bbc news. the headlines: president trump says the united states will pull out of a nuclear weapons treaty it signed with russia more than 30 years ago — because moscow has repeatedly violated the terms. the brexit secretary dominic raab says the uk could agree to extend the transition period — but only if the eu drops its demand for a northern ireland ‘backstop‘, guaranteeing no hard border in ireland in all circumstances. a woman has been killed in a suspected gas explosion that destroyed a flat in north—west london overnight — around a0 people were asked to leave their homes as a precaution. the duke and duchess of sussex continue their royal tour in australia — but kensington palace says the duchess won't be attending other engagements today. before the papers — sport and for a full round—up from the bbc sport centre, here's katherine downes. good morning.

lewis hamilton could wrap up his fifth world title at the us grand prix in texas later today. he only needs eight points more than sebastian vettel to win the title and he has the advantage of starting the us grand prix from pole as nick parrott reports. some sporting rivalries can be better but this one is cordial. bitter but this one is cordial. it would appear that the briton is to win a fifth world title in texas — in the lone star state he has no equal, hamilton has won the last four races in austin and looked unbeatable again in qualifying. he was so relaxed during the first session he had time for oscar winner matthew mcconauhgey, he, perhaps getting advice on acceptance speeches the award ceremonies to follow. when he got down to the real business, he said the new track record to claim pole. vettel was a very close second but because of a penalty picked up in practice, he will start from fifth. i didn't know how close

it was going to be once we got to qualifying but in the last run i knew it was edgy between us and it would require solid laps but in some races where i haven't actually a better time all is given on the second laps and today i was adamant i would do a better second lap so am really happy with that. i was pretty close, obviously, a bit of a shame i missed out on a little bit of time, hundreds you can debate that you have it somewhere in you but i was pretty happy with the laps i had. regardless of what happens today hamilton seems destined to batch manuel's five titles this year and next in his sights will be surpassing michael schumacher‘s seven to become the greatest of all. we've already had one motorsport world champion crowned this morning... marc marquez in the motogp — for the fifth time — the third in a row. his main rival, italian andrea dovisioso slid off his bike with just two laps to go. marquez is nowjoint third in the list of world championship winners. feel really, really, really good.

you know, i could already feel, imagine that maybe it would be this year but you know, the good thing all the difference is when you have the first chance and he did. another firey afternoon forjose mourinho at stamford bridge — but he says all is forgiven, after a bit of a scuffle right at the end of the match. ross barkley equalised for chelsea late in injury time and the match finished 2—all. afterwards, one of the chelsea coaches, marco ianni appeared to say something to mourinho — who was held back by several stewards. he was very impolite but sarri took care of the situation. he apologised immediately, and after the game, his assistant also apologised to me, which i accept these apologies, so for me, the story is over, but don't do what everybody does that says that is mourinho that does thing. manchester city are still top of the table this morning —

they beat burnley 5 nil. four of the goals came in the second half. they're ahead of liverpool on goal difference. next up for city, a champions league date with shaktar donetsk on tuesday. liverpool hadn't won in four games but beat huddersfield yesterday. salah scored the only goal of the game. huddersfield havent scored at home since last april. a first win of the season for cardiff city — 4—2 against fulham — the win moved them out of the relegation zone, fulham though, drop into it... spurs are up to fourth after winning 1—0 at west ham, newcastle united are bottom after they lost one nil to brighton. watford beat wolves, and there were no goals in the south coast derby between bournemouth and southampton. hearts recovered from their defeat by rangers to beat aberdeen 2—1. arnaud joum with the pick of the goals — hearts now lead the scottish premiership by three points. champions celtic are up to second

after they beat hibs. kilmarnock are third after winning at st mirren. livingston thrashed dundee and motherwell lost to stjohnstone. it hasn't been great couple of days for danny cipriani, overlooked by england for the autumn series, he's now set to sit out some matches for gloucester. he was sent off in their champions cup match against munster for this challenge. munster took full advantage. they won 36—22. it was a much tighter affair for wasps, who came from behind to draw with bath. thomas young's converted try eventually sealing the 35—all draw. edinburgh put in a blistering perfomance at murrayfield to see off three times champions toulon. this try by chris dean earned them the bonus point — which puts them top of their pool. elsewhere exeter lost at castres, while saracens beat lyon..

kyle edmund has the chance to win his first tour title. he's into today's final of the european open. britain's number one, who is the top seed in antwerp, beat richard gasquet in straight sets. he'll meet gael monfils in the final. edmund lost his only previous appearance in a final which was in morocco earlier this year. it's been an eventful week for ronnie o sullivan at the english open snooker — he's made the headlines for all kinds of reasons, including his rather damning assessment of the venue... but his run is over. he was beaten 6—1 by mark davis davis, who made a century and three fifty breaks. today's final will be a first for davis, who'll play stuart bingham after the former world champion beat stephen maguire 6—3. bianca walkden has won silverfor great britain at the taekwondo grand prix in manchester. shuyin zheng of china stretched to a 6—1 lead in the final, and despite a late fight back in the third round, the bout finished 6—4 and walkden had to settle for silver. a little bit of mixed emotions.

obviously i did a lot better in the semifinal, it was really hard, a tough opponent in the final but like i said, all i want to do is try and win gold and i wasjust a little bit off that today. i felt like i tried a good few things, it did not pull off for me but that's tae kwon do for you. on the 16th of may hopefully i can turn this silver now into gold in the world championships and retain my title. later today double olympic taekwando champion jadejones is in action and you can watch live on the red button or the bbc sport website, but let's hear brooks koepka will be the world's number one golfer when the rankings are officially announced tomorrow. koepka finished four shots clear of the field to win the cj cup in south korea this morning. he'll replace fellow american and ryder cup teammate dustin johnson. that's all the sport for now. now on bbc news, here's the papers. hello and welcome to our sunday

morning paper review. with me are ben chu, economics editor for the independent and sian griffiths, education editor at the sunday times. let's take a look at the front pages. the mail on sunday claims that theresa may will this week face a last—ditch fight to save her leadership as back bench mp‘s question her brexit strategy. the sunday telegraph leads with a piece the brexit secretary dominic raab has writen for the paper. in it he says the eu must drop its demand for a northern ireland backstop arrangement. the sunday times reveales that civil servants have started secret contingency planning for a second referendum in response to fears that

theresa may will struggle to get a brexit deal through parliament. the sunday express meanwhile reports that prince charles has been urged to cut ties with the saudi royal family after the killing of journalist jamal khashoggi. let us start with the observer. an image on some of the front pages unsurprisingly today, the people's vote as they call it, march yesterday. the organisers claim more than 700,000 marched through london demanding a second referendum. we don't know what it would be on but critics say it would be a rerun of that first referendum. what did you make of the pictures? remarkable. you talked about the organisers, the independent was one of the co—organisers of the march working with the people's vote campaign. a

very proud day for the newspaper to get such an extraordinary amount of people out onto the streets. there is some debate about how many there we re is some debate about how many there were but no one is denying it was extremely large, certainly the largest since the iraq war, anti iraq war demonstrations. will it change the terms of the debates? you can argue but i think that amount of people on the streets of london making it very clear they are unhappy with the way the brexit processes going and wanting as they say, a final say, i think it's impossible that it won't. people have pointed out that iraq demonstration all those years ago was completely ignored by leadership of both the parties. do you think this will make any difference? you know what the brexiteers say, the remainers did not like the result of the referendum and they want a rerun. i think ben is right, i think it will make a difference and it's wrong to dismiss this as a

metropolitan process. there were buses and coaches coming from all over to that protest. even if we ended up in be running the referendum, the point is people are better informed now than they were when the first referendum took place, and i think they might well even be, if this did happen, it might be a different result. it was very close last time, there is a lot of concern, anxiety and fear especially among the young generation about what is going on and what the outcome will be for britain. i think it's impossible to ignore this kind of mass protest. i think it's interesting as well that the sunday times has a story saying civil servants are actually war—gaming fora civil servants are actually war—gaming for a second referendum. we never know at what stage, that could be one civil servant looking into it in a cursory way. i spoke to john curtice the pollster who said there's not a huge amount of evidence that people have changed their minds. there is a possibility if it got to another referendum that

the result would be similar or at least close again. whether would that leave us? it's important to look at the principle here. calling ita look at the principle here. calling it a second referendum implies we are redoing the old referendum and that's not quite accurate, but the independent has been campaigning for is the final say on the deal coming forward. it's unclear what will that would of course. it's unclear what theresa may will come back with that in principle we know lots more than we did two years ago, things have not gone as presented by dirt leave campaign. —— by the leave campaign. is it not illegitimate call for people to say hang on, now we know what brexit means, let's vote on it. i take your point that there has not been a huge surge either way but that does not affect the principle that does not affect the principle that the campaigners are calling for. people who want another referendum simply do not want brexit, because if that was the case, then surely the question would

be, this deal or we leave without a deal. the problem is we don't exactly know what this deal is. we are 100 days away from leaving. there is still confusion, uncertainty, arguments, talk about theresa may facing a vote of no confidence this week. it seems like turmoil, the idea that we don't give people another sage actually look at what is going to be on the table so people can make up their minds properly this time as opposed to on the basis of emotion are and some would say actually untruths last time around. let's bring in the independent with another picture of that much. it's very difficult to see how it can happen in terms of the government being against it at the government being against it at the moment. i have spoken to mps who feel they could amend some legislation but it's not entirely clear how this would happen. it's

extremely logistically difficult. i am the first to admit that, i think it took them six months to set up the previous referendum and then there's the whole question of what would the question be, what options would the question be, what options would be on the ballot paper, would it be to accept the deal or no deal or would there be a remain option. that would be in could be difficult. the point of yesterday was not about the technicalities of it, it was about the popular force of will and desire for some kind of final say. except it's difficult but that does not detract from the message that we re not detract from the message that were sent yesterday. let's move on to the sunday telegraph which has a piece there, dominic raab who is the brexit secretary, a brexiteer himself who seems to be more involved than david davis was when he was in that role. dominic raab saying drop the backstop or the uk will leave on time, he seems to be saying that we won't extend the

transition period even though that's what theresa may seems to have suggested on thursday, he now says we won't do that unless you drop youridea we won't do that unless you drop your idea for this fallback position to stop there being a hard border if the future relationship is not in place. it's all getting incredibly complicated. incredibly. we were discussing this earlier, exactly what this means and how it works, it seems to both of us quite contradictory. the ordinary person reading this story and even the headline, drop the backstop or uk will leave on time, i got to the end and thought i'd just about understand it and i read a lot about brexit but the ordinary person picking this up today, what will they make of this? the broader point they make of this? the broader point the government would say is most of the government would say is most of the withdrawal deal has been worked out. we are talking about the withdrawal deal, not the future relationship, but this is the problem the uk government has been in because the two are not being

done together. the government ‘s argument broadly seems to be if we can get our future relationship sorted, we won't need this backstop sorted, we won't need this backstop so they are very frustrated they are caught up with this because of the dup. what do you make of this? they are stuck on an island, is the problem. this is a very odd story because the eu as i understand it had offered the extension of the transition to help the uk side swallowed the backstop, ie make it less likely it will be needed, more likely you can do a trade deal which will not be needed. rather seems to be interpreting it as trading off one for the other. —— dominic raab seems to be interpreting it. he says, drop the whole idea of a backstop as if it is somehow doing the eu a favour to remain in the transition while the eu sees it the other way, doing the uk side a favour. dominic raab and theresa may have very different views about what

is the government policy on this and what is desirable and in the national interest. the eu watching that knowing there is that division playing for everyone to see. let's go to the mail. this is about theresa may herself, facing show trial by tory mps. these letters sentin trial by tory mps. these letters sent in secret, no one apart from one person knows how many are sitting there in that safe. brexiteers think they are quite close to getting the 48 the need to trigger a leadership contest. more plotting? it does seem every sunday we see the sunday papers and there's another story that theresa may is about to have to step down and people are plotting to become the leader of the tory party. this one does seem that this week they may actually be a very real threat to her. she is being asked to attend a meeting of the 1922 committee of tory backbenchers on wednesday, a

couple papers including the sunday times and mail on sunday say 48 mps have sent a letter demanding a leadership contest. 46 have sent a letter, only 48 needed so very close. the backbenchers are threatening that if she does not come on wednesday and face the backbenchers, she could face a vote of no confidence within days. the leadership challenges are lining up, david davis thought to be a frontrunner. what i find really disturbing is how horrible the language is here. one senior blotter shockingly tells her bring your own noose. prime minister enters killing zone, on the sunday times. extraordinary. inside the mail on sunday she is called a cockroach which ijust find really offensive. clearly under threat but the idea of a leadership challenge now, no one quite knows that that's what they want. let's move on to the times which is a story about army deaths.

a very good campaign and investigation about how many people who have been in the army are committing suicide. we have known about this story for a while but it is something rightly having a spotlight shone on it. they make the point that we just don't cut them in this country, the ministry of defence unlike in america does not keep account of people who have been in the services and then killed themselves. that seems extraordinary. what a gap. if you are not properly monitoring it, you can't properly provide the services that vetera ns can't properly provide the services that veterans need, direct them where they are most appropriate and it seems a very obvious thing to be doing so well done to the sunday times for shining a light on it. doing so well done to the sunday times for shining a light on itm isa very times for shining a light on itm is a very powerful campaign, save our soldiers. we have the story of five former soldiers who have died

suddenly, within six days. we think more than 40 have died since the start of the year. they come back from war zones like iraq and afghanistan, often they develop ptsd, they face long nhs waiting lists for treatment, some stories are just heartbreaking. i think the campaign, i hope coroners will start to record when veterans in inquests, when there are suicides, whether or not they are veterans because then we can get a sense of the scale of the problem. iwant we can get a sense of the scale of the problem. i want to highlight one really heartbreaking story in the paper today which is the case of matthew, a 31—year—old who killed himself days before his daughter 's fifth birthday. he served two tours of iraq, three tours in afghanistan and he joined the army at the age of 18. these are heroes that when they come back to this country they do not get the help they need. let's

move on to the sunday telegraph. the saudi sanctions and how countries have been reacting. just the most horrific story and intriguing in all sorts of ways, donald trump's reaction, the eu reaction crucial. we have the most bizarre statement from the saudis laid on friday night i think, saying yes, they guided a p pa re ntly i think, saying yes, they guided apparently die in our embassy having previously said he left the embassy. —— the guy apparently died. you cannot just change your line —— the guy apparently died. you cannotjust change your line like that with no explanation of how you got it wrong before, it beggars belief. inevitably they called for some kind of sanctions on saudi arabia are rising from campaigners and mps as the telegraph says today, what will those sanctions be? not specified in the piece but presumably if the russian sanctions are any indication it will be stopping a wealthy and influential saudis who have assets and investments in the uk either

increasing them or freezing them stopping them coming to them. that's what i presume we will get more into over the coming days, perhaps even curtailing arms sales, something very much on the agenda for a long while. it is an interesting parallel with how we react to russia and then how we will react to this. it's interesting of course that the story is not talking about arms deals at all, it's talking about sanctions against the saudi officials involved in the killing. quite a small number of people and it mentions the possibility of asset freezes and these bands but not talking about wider sanctions against saudis. —— asset freezes and these are bands. if this was a state sanctioned event it seems bizarre that they cannot do that. there is a tour going on in

australia, megan and harry. now while role for megan's baby. i presume this is a similar approach to princess anne when they did not have the hrh title, not sure if that will be the case. they are saying that duke and duchess of sussex will not seek any official royal role for their first child and hope he or she will grow up to what harry has described as a relatively normal life. the word normal looms a very large for harry and meghan when it comes to their child's feature. they are hoping that they can follow the approach that princess and took with zaha and approach that princess and took with za ha and peter approach that princess and took with zaha and peter phillips. she turned down world titles for her children and they have built an independent career and they have built an independent career slightly away from that pillar of publicity that follows people like harry and meghan around. do you think it's a forlorn hope for them that their child will have any kind of normal life? the word

relative is crucial. it's quite sad, megan had obviously a successful acting career, there was no possibility of that continuing once she married into the world family which is quite sad. she had to give up which is quite sad. she had to give up her career. you can see why she and her husband might be thinking, we don't want this for our child, we don't want her possibilities to be curtailed by the fact that the family she was born into. i think it's quite a reasonable decision. whether it will happen or not... another matter. that's it for the papers this morning. there'll be another edition at 10.30 tonight. don't forget you can see the front pages of the papers online on the bbc news website. it's all there for you — seven days a week at bbc dot co uk forward slash papers — and if you miss the programme any evening you can watch it later on bbc iplayer thank you ben and sian. goodbye. we will bring you some breaking news

out of the maritime and coastguard agency who are saying thatjust after eight o'clock today, the coastguard received reports that the red falk and ferry had collided with at least two yachts while trying to berth at the entrance of cal ‘s harbour. that is cal ‘s harbour, the famous on the isle of wight there. heavy fog according to the coastguard. they say around the same time they received a 909 cool from a member of the public reporting that he had heard cries for help within cal ‘s harbour. —— within cowes harbour. they are currently carrying out an extensive search of the area with the lifeboat and others helping rescue teams. a coastguard search

and rescue helicopter was searching the area but due to the low visibility, it has had to turn back. the search is ongoing and they do not have any further information at this time. they say the ferry which has 56 people on board remains grounded at the entrance at cowes on the people on board are safe and well. that is coming this morning from the isle of wight maritime and coastguard agency saying just from the isle of wight maritime and coastguard agency saying just after 8am a ferry, the red falkland ferry collided with at least two yachts just outside of cowes harbour on the isle of wight with an extensive search and rescue going on in the area at the moment and we will bring you more on all of that in the next hour and this morning on the news channel. now it's time for a look at the weather. yesterday we saw a top temperature of 24 in the north—east of scotland with plenty of sunshine, but a different story this morning with

wet weather in scotland and northern ireland. that is migrating south and east to the day, most rain getting squeezed out so it becomes just a band of cloud as it reaches parts of the midlands and into wales. ahead, we should hold onto the sunshine after a misty, foggy start. light winds but further north sky brightened. it will be quite blustery with a fewer shower is pushing to the north—west of scotland. top temperature is around 15 or 16 as opposed to the 20 we saw yesterday across north—east scotland but we could see 18 or 19 across the far south—east with plenty of sunshine. that weather front with cloud and spots of rain eventually clears away from the parts during the overnight period and most places will be dry and clear but quite breezy, further blustery showers across the northern half of scotland as temperatures dipped into low single figures in places. the pictures as we head on to next week, this big area of high pressure.

things are fine and settled but we will have the weather front affecting northern parts of the country, also very tightly packed isobars, it will be bit gusts of 40 to 50 miles an hour across northern scotla nd to 50 miles an hour across northern scotland and into the northern isles. elsewhere, nota scotland and into the northern isles. elsewhere, not a bad start, plenty of dry, fine weather with lots of sunshine but notice the temperatures and that north—west breeze. it will feel cooler than what we've been used to in the last few days. a similar picture onto tuesday, high pressure dominating the scene but still quite windy and wet across the west of scotland, that will be stronger across much of the country, could see rain infringing in the far north of england but began dry with plenty of sunshine, particularly across the south and east. that strong north—west breeze, starting to feel particularly warm, with high continuing to hold onto the week, many places dry, particularly

central and southern areas but as winds at the northerly by the end of the week it will turn much colder for us all. this is bbc news, i'm vicki young. the headlines... an isle of wight ferry has run aground in heavy fog colliding with at least two yachts as it tried to berth in east cowes. a search and rescue operation is underway. president trump says the united states will pull out of a nuclear weapons treaty it signed with russia more than 30 years ago because moscow has repeatedly violated the terms. russia has not unfortunately honoured the agreement so we're going to terminate the agreement. we're going to pull out. the brexit secretary dominic raab says the uk could agree to extend the transition period, but only if the eu drops its demand for a northern ireland backstop. a woman has been killed in a suspected gas explosion that destroyed a flat in north—west london overnight. the duke and duchess of sussex continue their royal