good afternoon. a ferry has hit at least two yachts while trying to dock at cowes harbour on the isle of wight. the red funnel operated vessel, with 56 people on board, ran aground at the entrance to the harbour in heavy fog. the coastguard said that no one has been injured and the ferry has been refloated. andy moore reports. mid—morning, after the fog had lifted, the red falcon was towed from the spot where it went aground back into harbour. all 56 people on board were said to be safe and well. but further out in the middle of this image, you canjust about see the mast of a yacht that sank in the collision. the ferry hit several vessels and shouts for help were heard. it was incredibly thick fog. you could see maximum five metres in front of you. i heard shouting and a sort of clanging, like a metallic clanging sound and then nothing. later, the coastguard said the sound of shouting was somebody raising the alarm.

but at the time, there were fears several people might have been thrown into the water. a major search was launched involving three lifeboats. a coastguard helicopter had to turn back because of the poor visibility. as the ferry finally came into port, red funnel said it wanted to apologise for any disruption. last month, another of the company's vessels was involved in a similar incident in fog in cowes harbour. but on that occasion, there was only what was called "light contact" with the yacht. andy moore, bbc news. the brexit secretary dominic raab has said that any agreement to allow an extended brexit transition should be instead of, not as well as, a "backstop" to avoid the return to border checks in ireland. the 21—month transition is currently expected to end on 31st december 2020. mr raab says an extension would only be for around three months. our politics correspondent tom barton reports. a day after hundreds of thousands

of anti—brexit campaigners took to the streets to call for another referendum, today, the focus is back on theresa may. suggestions that a leadership challenge could be imminent, backbenchers warning that her administration cannot function. but as brexit negotiations intensified, a warning from the man in charge of speaking to the eu that the conservative party needs to pull together. we are at the end stage of the negotiation. i think there is understandable jitters on all sides of this debate. we need to hold our nerve. the end is in sight in terms of the good deal, the prize we want, a good deal with the eu. and i think colleagues should wait and see what that looks like. it won't be a question of a fait accompli. dominic raab suggested that a proposed extension to the transition period could last for around three months, but that the eu would need to drop demands for a backstop over the irish border. and he said a deal would need to be struck by the end of november,

if there's to be time for it to be agreed by parliament. but his european counterparts say the ball is in britain's court. this agreement is almost ready but we still have to fix the question of the irish border and we have to have definitive answer or at least no temporary measures which disappear and we do not know what to do after that. this is the question that we have. whatever deal theresa may agrees with the eu will need to be signed off by parliament. with many of her backbenchers opposed to the proposals that are currently on the table, she could be forced to ask labourfor support. the opposition suggesting, today, that would be unlikely to be forthcoming. we have always said any support we give would be conditional which is why we set

out a number of tests at the beginning of the exercise, and we will obviouslyjudge the deal against those conditions when it comes back. but we have equally never accepted and are not going to accept this argument it is either my deal or no deal because on that logic you would be putting to me that the labour party should back anything the prime minister brings back. as the deadline for a deal approaches, the rhetoric on all sides is getting tougher. tom barton, bbc news. a woman has died in a suspected gas explosion at a flat in north—west london. a baby was among three people who were rescued from the first floor of the building. part of the building collapsed after the blast. about a0 people were asked to leave their homes nearby as a precaution. at least 17 people have died after a passenger train derailed and flipped over in taiwan. more than 70 people have been injured in the accident in northeastern yilan county. images from the scene show the high—speed express train completely derailed and lying zig—zagged across the railway tracks. russia has warned of the dangers of president trump's decision

to pull out of a landmark nuclear weapons treaty, calling it unacceptable and dangerous. the treaty signed 30 years ago eliminated short to intermediate range nuclear missiles. mr trump has accused moscow of developing a weapons system that violates the agreement. here's our moscow correspondent sarah rainsford. it is more than three decades since this landmark moment, the soviet and us leaders signing a treaty that's been key to curbing the nuclear arms race, ever since. the intermediate—range nuclear forces treaty, or inf, led to the destruction of a whole class of weapons, capable of a nuclear strike in europe with barely any warning. but the us has long suspected today's russia, undeeradimir putin, of violating the treaty. now, donald trump says he's had enough. the us president declared that america will withdraw from the deal. we're not going to let them violate

a nuclear agreement and go out and do weapons and we're not allowed to. we're the ones that have stayed in the agreement and we've honoured the agreement, but russia has not, unfortunately, honoured the agreement. so, we're going to terminate the agreement, we're going to pull out. russia's foreign ministry has condemned that as unacceptable and dangerous. moscow denies it's violated the arms treaty, calling washington's conduct crude and clumsy. if this goes on, the deputy foreign minister warned russia will have no choice but to respond. the us national security adviser, john bolton, is due back in moscow this week. and russia's looking to that visit for an explanation of president trump's move. some, though, are already warning of a new arms race. those talks withjohn bolton are key to how this plays out but it is thought he is in favour of the us withdrawing from this treaty given that russia as the us says it is

developing a cruise missile. if donald trump thinks he can convince russia to fall back on line that seems unlikely given that vladimir putin's record and moscow's response so putin's record and moscow's response so far it is not violating the treaty. it is likely russia will see the further green light to forge ahead with its own weapons programme. if what washington is motivated by is a dream of forging a london at the world then moscow says that dream will not country. ——, true. the duchess of sussex is cutting back on the number of engagements she'll attend during the remainder of the royal tour of australasia. meghan, who is pregnant with the couple's first child, was present yesterday as prince harry launched the invictus games for wounded veteran athletes, but the duke will now conduct some royal engagements alone. earlier we spoke to our correspondent hywel griffith who's in sydney. the focus today was meant to be on the first full day of competition at the invictus games, however, inevitably,

like a lot of this royal tour, the attention switched back to the royal pregnancy with the announcement that the duchess was cutting back on her engagements. not much more was said. we understand, however, she is still in good health. certainly she was out and about again later on in the day. she didn't go to the cycling. she was out on sydney harbour to watch the sailing competition. she will be travelling with the duke to frazer island tomorrow however we are told she will not be taking part in engagements again. the invictus games have got off to a pretty good start. people here in sydney turning up to see it. there does seem to be support behind the games and once again people turning out to see the royal couple. we have seen so far hundreds, in some places thousands, of people come out to see them. certainly there is a fascination with the young royals here. not necessarily support for the future of the monarchy here in australia. polls repeatedly suggest that a majority of the australian people want this country to become a republic. so even though harry and meghan are very,

very popular here they do not necessarily want to see that family continue as the australian head of state. you can see more on all of today's stories on the bbc news channel. the next news on bbc one is at 5:30pm. bye for now. hello. you're watching the bbc news channel. more now on news that a car ferry has collided with at least two yachts while trying to dock in heavy fog at east cowes on the isle of wight. all 56 people aboard the ferry — and the occupants of the yachts are safe — and the vessel has now been refloated. earlier, i spoke to the bbc‘s debby moyse, who is on the isle of wight.

it was very thick fog from early this morning. i heard one eyewitness saying they couldn't see more than five metres in front of them. it was the 7:30am ferry from southampton coming into east cowes. it appeared to have veered off from east cowes towards the esplanade and landed up on a sandbank in low tide inside the sea wall and the sandbank where it was stranded. there were reports it hit a couple of yachts as it came in and reports of cries and shouts for help. after extensive search by the coastguard and the lifeboats, it seems they might have been people trying to alert authorities that something had happened. they have called off the search at the moment. the falcon was refloated by a tug boat and brought into port at east cowes.

they are still meeting with the coastguard and the police and the ferry authorities to see what they are going to do. i've heard they will probably take it out of port empty and try and bring in another boat to deal with all the people waiting here now to cross. that's not been confirmed if there will be any further crossings as far as i know. presumably people you've been speaking to who use this ferry and other forms of transport between these places, are they concerned this has happened? yes, i've heard there was an incident a few weeks ago where the same boat clipped another yacht. somebody who lives nearby said there had been another incident earlier this year as well. locals were speculating about the navigational system on this very but of course there's going to be a big investigation. it was extremely poor conditions for the ferry crossing last night,

but they have radar, but reports were it veered suddenly towards east cowes. we aren't clear yet what has happened. let's return now to news that the brexit secretary dominic raab has said that any agreement to allow an extended brexit transition should be instead of — not as well as — a "backstop" to avoid the return to border checks in ireland. well, joining me now is the former conservative mp lord lilley — who was uk trade secretary between 1990 and 1992. thank you for coming in to speak to us. thank you for coming in to speak to us. what dominic raab is saying about the possible extension to the transition period, what do you think about that? he says it's the any way

to solve this issue that they've become stuck on about having no hard border in ireland. he was saying id you drop the backstop, which would be the ideal situation, or we are prepared to prolong the implementation period for three months which they don't want and solves nothing. he's at least putting on the table that they've got to drop the backstop. if a non—issue, the irish border. british hmrc had said there are no circumstances on which we would require additional infrastructure of checks on the border. the only people proposing a hard border or postulating at the eu. they are actually in quite a weak position because they are saying if you don't agree our terms, which they think will do away with the need for a ha rd will do away with the need for a hard border, there won't be a deal. in which case, we direct a border. it's a self—defeating thing. if

there is a deal, it's only then they would direct a border, we wouldn't. why are we giving so much prominence toa why are we giving so much prominence to a non—issue? why are we giving so much prominence to a non-issue? the problem is the uk government signed up to this last year, didn't they? do something very confused, yes. you'd think that was a deliberate fudge? confused, yes. you'd think that was a deliberate fudge ?|j confused, yes. you'd think that was a deliberate fudge? i think there will almost certainly people in the eu government machine who saw it as a useful lever for them to leave their colleagues into not giving us a proper brexit. that's what the eu saw it as as well. so, we stay in a customs union? and single market, which isn't leaving the eu. some people say actually that could be leaving the eu... no one said that during the referendum. during the referendum, bedside said if we leave, we leave the single market and the customs union. the prime minister has 21 times said we are

going to leave the customs union and the single market. some would say the single market. some would say the deal we end up with has to reflect the fact that 48% of people didn't vote for brexit, the prime minister went to the country in a general election saying brexit means brexit and lost her majority, so a deal has to reflect that. at the general election, both major parties said they would implement the results of the referendum. and that meant leaving the single market and the customs union. the meat free parties which promised another referendum where the lib dems, the greens and the snp, all three lost their share of the vote. the electorate voted for parties committed to leaving. the fact the labour party has since renege on that doesn't tell us what people we re that doesn't tell us what people were voting for at the time. seeing the strength of feeling yesterday on the strength of feeling yesterday on the streets of london, with hundreds of thousands of people marching, people feel they know much more than they did... these are almost all people who now think we should have

another referendum because they lost the first one. there was scarcely anybody there who. .. the first one. there was scarcely anybody there who... how can you have a three or four option vote? it's not going to happen, because it requires legislation, a campaign, a period for the referendum commission to agree the question. that takes six months to one year and we are going to have left by march 2019. if it did happen, i suspect leave would win bya it did happen, i suspect leave would win by a bigger majority. if it didn't, there would be such a feeling of resentment that people would want a third referendum. it's a nonsense. some people would say that if those brexiteers are confident of the argument, that the deal we have is a good deal and leaving is a positive thing it could be for the leaving is a positive thing it could be forthe uk, leaving is a positive thing it could be for the uk, actually what's the problem with the referendum? it would give leaving and the deal they come back with, it would give it the support from people that maybe it

needs to heal the divisions. the dangerous thing about the referendum, and those extinct volcanoes pushing it, is that they give the european union and the feeling that if they give us a sufficiently bad deal we will fight to stay in. so it undermines the government's negotiating position in a dangerous way. i think that that is irresponsible. i'm not talking about the people on the street. they we re about the people on the street. they were making their opinion felt. but for leading people like tony blair, to deliberately undermine the negotiating position and encourage the eu to offer a more intransigent position undermines the british national interest. what do you make of theresa may's position? she seems to be under fire from all of theresa may's position? she seems to be underfire from all sides, partly because she's trying to get a compromise. some of the language today in the newspapers, quotes from unnamed conservatives, it's pretty

incredible, talking about her having to bring a minister meeting, talking about her ending the killing zone. to bring a minister meeting, talking about her ending the killing zonelj found that unpleasant and objectionable. it's bad enough when george osborne of the evening standard said he wouldn't be happy until her body parts was in his fridge. that was even worse. she is prime minister, we should respect her. if people want to get rid of her, there are mechanisms are doing so but i don't advise it. she should stay in her job? so but i don't advise it. she should stay in herjob? she should change her view but stay imposed. what if she doesn't change her view? what then for brexiteers twist atlj she doesn't change her view? what then for brexiteers twist at i fear that were we to continue on this path, and i detect signs that we are moving towards a more reasonable path, then we would end up with proposals which might end up with her being defeated in the house of commons which wouldn't be a good this situation, but we would cope.

thank you. more now on the news that 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. i spoke to our correspondent sarah rainsford who gave us this reaction from moscow. the deputy foreign minister has essentially knocked back those accusations saying russia hasn't been violating the treaty, and accusing the us of dangerous unilateral actions. sergei ryabkov, the deputy foreign minister here, said that he is condemned the move by president trump and has talked about potential response from moscow. he called it a potential military or technical response. he also said there is still room for dialogue with the us, he pointed to the fact that national security advisorjohn bolton is heading to moscow and holding talks on monday and tuesday with both the foreign minister and the president of russia. the hope was according to this official that moscow and washington can discuss the statement from donald trump and understand more clearly exactly what it means.

certainly, moscow isn't happy at this and is making its displeasure felt. there are concerns more broadly that this could lead to removing a key pillar from the global security framework, if you like, and that it risks a return to the kind of arms race we saw before this was signed some 30 years ago. that is a worry some have been talking about, very genuinely, that we could end up in a situation where there are no longer any of these treaties and it ends up being an arms race, notjust russia and the us but china as well. yes. i think china is part and parcel of the reason donald trump has taken this move. it's not a signatory but china has been referred to by donald trump as one of his reasons for withdrawing from the treaty. certainly, it is a key part of the anti—nuclear weapons architecture. removing that and potentially

another treaty which is up for renegotiation could be potentially extremely destabilising. moscow is warning about that impact, but of course donald trump saying russia has been violating the treaty for some years anyway. those warnings perhaps sound rather false. certainly, i think it's a key moment of concern on both sides of the atlantic, but also here within europe. of course, this particular treaty was about missiles stationed within europe that could be fired at very short notice, giving those targets of those missiles practically no warning at all. afghans who were unable to vote in saturday's parliamentary election, have been given another chance to cast their ballot. voting times were extended to a second day due to security threats and warnings of fraud. according to officials around three million afghans voted on saturday, but there were complaints that polling stations remained closed, often because staff failed to turn up.

0ur correspondent secunder kermani's is in kabul and has the latest. turnout, it seems according to afg ha n turnout, it seems according to afghan officials, around 3 million voters went to polling stations yesterday to cast their vote. that's out of a total of around 9 million registered voters. about 400 polling stations are open today with voting taking place there. because there we re taking place there. because there were organisational delays, some of the polling station simply weren't able to open yesterday. 0verall, the polling station simply weren't able to open yesterday. overall, i think these elections will be seen as something of a success by afghan officials. even up until a few weeks ago, some in afghanistan by casting doubt about whether these elections would go ahead at all. in fact, they've gone ahead, they've gone ahead relatively peacefully, and officials here will think this is a

positive sign ahead of next year's more politically significant presidential elections. hundreds of central american migrants have used rafts and boats to cross the river marking the border between guatemala and mexico, in an attempt to continue theirjourney to the united states. thousands of people were left stranded on the frontier bridge after mexican police stopped them entering the country on friday. aleem maqbool reports. it is a bridge that, for the white house, is now an immigration battlefield. straddling guatemala and mexico, it is currently home to thousands of migrants who have trekked from honduras wanting to get to the us. though they still have to get to mexico which is not letting them in, president trump has described the convoy as "an assault on the us" and "an onslaught of criminals". "we plead to donald trump," this woman told us, "may god soften his heart so we can enter the us, children are sleeping on the floor and we don't know how long it will be here, it's not fair." it has been a heartbreaking

time for some. we met this man who got split up from his 13—year—old son five days ago and has not seen him since. translation: i am upset and don't know what to do. should i continue and hope he arrives or should i turn back? i need him so much. they have all been risking the dangers, desperate for a better life in the states. small numbers of people have been allowed across the border but for the most part, the mexican gate has remained shut. with living conditions here on the bridge getting more difficult, we are seeing many trying other means of trying to get to mexico. after a week of threats from washington, central american governments have come to an agreement, to transport people back to their home country for free if they sign up. reluctantly, nearly 600 have already put their names forward. translation: we are sad because we

thought we would make it to the us. when you come from poverty, you try to be optimistic but it's been difficult. we are returning to suffering. for some americans, the sight of migrants giving up is a welcome one. for others, it's an embarrassment that their country, built on the idea of taking in those seeking prosperity, now delights in turn them away. but some migrants just won't take no for an answer. we saw some of the hundreds who have decided to cross into mexico by boat, determined and desperate enough to continue theirjourney to the usa by any means. aleem maqbool, bbc news, on the guatemala—mexico border. a primary school in devon is putting pupils on a cleaning rota — in a bid to save money and educate the children. vacuum cleaners have been installed in the classrooms

after the headteacher saw a tv programme about education injapan, where pupils routinely clean their school. sophie pierce reports. it's getting towards the end of the day at the grove school in totnes. there's quite a bit of mess. unusually, these six and seven—year—olds are expected not only to tidy but to clean as well. clapping. so, it's tidy up time everybody. off we goes. we've got a new build and we've been teaching the children to respect our environment and look after it, and keep it as nice as possible. it fitted in really well with that ethos of caring for our environment and respecting our space. the idea has been pioneered injapan, where it's part of educating children to become good citizens. you learn how to do the hoover, because when you're growing up, you're like how do you turn it on? it's that. it is powered by electricity, but without a cable.

it goes on for 40 minutes. do you think it's right you should have to clean up? yes, because it's our mess so we need to clean up our mess. the school has a vacuum cleaner in every classroom, and no child is. to use it if they don't want to. no one has expressed a concern they shouldn't be doing cleaning. it's accepted children should tidy up after themselves. the hoover is an extension of that. the school says it is also saving money by reducing cleaning costs. sophie pierce, bbc spotlight, totnes. time for a look at the weather. we can cross the newsroom to chris fawkes. we are going to see things turn cooler over the next 24 hours and the cooler air has arrived in

scotla nd the cooler air has arrived in scotland and northern ireland. this cold front is continuing to move southwards. yesterday, we had temperatures of 20 in northern scotland. this afternoon, 12. if future was in the north—west, the warmest, sunniest weather across the south of england —— a few showers in the northwest. 0vernight the weather front clearing, clear skies follow and it's going to be a cold night nationwide. temperatures in the towns and cities to— four, in the countryside some patches of frost just about anywhere. a cold start on monday but a glorious start for most areas with plenty of sunshine. some rain working across northern scotland, particularly for 0rkney and shetland. temperatures falling across england and wales. i is between 12—14. hello, this is bbc news with vicki young. the headlines:

the brexit secretary dominic raab says the uk could agree to extend the brexit transition period by about 3 months— but only if the eu drops its demand for a northern ireland ‘backstop', guaranteeing no hard border in all circumstances. the coastguard says that everyone has been accounted for after an isle of wight car ferry hit at least two yachts while trying to dock at cowes in heavy fog. 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. and prince harry gets a royal hug from one of the invictus games athletes as he goes solo in sydney after kensington palace announced meghan won't be attending engagements today.