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‘ next great shakes. into the start of next week —— temperatures. into the start of next week there will be eight deep area of low pressure in the western mediterranean giving a somewhat —— rough weather here. it will have in our direction on monday, monday a fair amount of dry weather, some cloud feeding into the eastern parts with the odd shower, a frontal system close to northern ireland, but most places dry and relatively chilly. as we move out of monday into tuesday that low that i showed you in the western mediterranean does start to spin its way in our direction. it brings us quite close to some much less cold air. but there is still some chilly air. but there is still some chilly air circulating around batlow and i think on balance most of us will stay in the relatively chilly air, as that area swings across eastern parts of the uk, we should see some rain, possibly some snow over high ground in the north. those temperatures not covering much, 7— 11 degrees. by the time we get to wednesday that rain in the east will
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have moved northwards, some showers developing elsewhere with some dry weather, spells of sunshine with the wind is starting to come in from the south. those temperatures will creep upwards, double digits across large parts of england and wales. we return to the jet stream to look at the forecast for the end of next week, thejet the forecast for the end of next week, the jet stream the forecast for the end of next week, thejet stream moves the forecast for the end of next week, the jet stream moves further northwards again, we are talking not about a heatwave but it does give us about a heatwave but it does give us a fighting chance of drawing in some slightly milder air stop this sort of weather set up is also quite an u nsettled of weather set up is also quite an unsettled one. we will see areas of low pressure drifting through, becoming quite slow—moving, feeding bands of rain across the country at times. as we go into next weekend it looks milder, wet and breezy at times, but there should be some dry and bright interludes. hello. this is bbc news with julian worricker. we'll be taking a look at tomorrow mornings papers in a moment. first, the headlines. a 56—year—old man has been charged in florida with five federal offences, in connection with the suspicious packages being sent to public figures.
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cesar sayoc was arrested after a fingerprint was found on one of the packages. businessman sir philip green says he'll lodge a formal complaint against the labour peer who named him in parliament as the man facing allegations of sexual and racist harrassment. the fiancee of the journalist jamal khashoggi speaks about her pain following his murder and demands justice. the drones used to fly more than £500,000 worth of drugs into prisons — seven men are jailed in what police are calling a landmark case. hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be
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bringing us tomorrow. with me are the author and broadcaster natalie haynes and rob merrick, deputy political editor at the independent. many of tomorrow's front pages are already in. let's start with the times, where the lead is the continuing fallout for lord hain after he used parliamentary privilege to name sir philip green as the businessman behind the injunctions. the telegraph says the conservative peer and apprentice star lady brady has been drawn into the story. she was brought into the arcadia retail empire after the bhs pension scandal. the guardian reveals it has discovered sir philip made seven—figure payouts to the claimants in settling their cases. the financial times reports on the continuing fall in the value of us stocks as the threat of trade wars and the end of financial stimulus programmes put pressure on wall street. the top story in the i is the chancellor's pledge to revitalise the country's high streets by cutting rates for businesses. the mirror celebrates what it says are successes in two of its campaigns, including the chancellor's plan for britain's ailing high streets.
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an increase in cancellations of children's operations is the independent‘s main story, which the paper says is due to government cuts. changes to pensions following a high court ruling. plenty to discuss over the next 15 oi’ plenty to discuss over the next 15 or 20 minutes. rob, plenty to discuss over the next 15 or20 minutes. rob, why plenty to discuss over the next 15 or 20 minutes. rob, why don't you kick us off? this is the times, top lawyers attack ward hain. this story has been dominating the news for the four hours or so. sir philip green, serious allegations about his behaviour, his name has been released as the person who obtains this gagging orders against the people who complained about his behaviour. the times is turning the
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focus onto lord peter hain, who is taking it from all sides, from the lawyers, for using parliamentary privilege to name philip green. we ta ke privilege to name philip green. we take the view that for most people, the story remains about philip green and his behaviour, his alleged behaviour, i should say. and what happens next, perhaps the issue about his knighthood, for example. perhaps the public is not so interested in the rights and wrongs of using parliamentary privilege. 0ne of using parliamentary privilege. one of the people who has attacked lord hain here is dominic greene, the former attorney—general, a highly respected figure in westminster. he called his behaviour arrogant. i can actually remember dominic grieve saying almost the same thing, very similar things, the last time there was a overusing parliamentary privilege to name somebody was when the football ryan giggs was identified as the person who took out a supremejunction to try to prevent the revelation about his affair. i can remember dominic grieve making similar noises at the
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time. that was years ago, about seven time. that was years ago, about seve n years time. that was years ago, about seven years ago. here we are again, in very similar circumstances, arguing about the ability of rich and famous people to use the law to constrain press freedom in this way. and all these years later, it is not surprising that he did what he did. that is part of the argument, clearly. there is also the argument about whether the lawyers no more than a parliamentarian who has the privilege to do what lord hain was able to do. whether you take it, natalie? it is interesting the times thinks that the important story. the majority of their readers will be thinking the priority is trying to make sure people who go to work every day are safe at work, and really, which rich man has annoyed which other rich man is, i would say, of limited interest to the majority of people who are probably going to look at this story and think, yes, iwould going to look at this story and think, yes, i would like to go to work without being in any way groped or belittled or demeaned or abused or belittled or demeaned or abused or assaulted. that is not an unreasonable thing to want from a day at the office. it just smacks of
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an enormous number of hugely privileged people who never have to face those kinds of risks talking to each other about things which the vast majority of us do not think is important. i wonder if there is a broader point here. we discussed this last time, each of the papers seems to be trying to find something different to say about this, and actually go quite a long way away from where the story starts. yes, almost as if they have lost interest in the idea of a almost as if they have lost interest in the idea ofa man almost as if they have lost interest in the idea of a man being accused of despicable behaviour in the workplace, for reasons of their own, lam sure. workplace, for reasons of their own, i am sure. the times six people, dominic grieve, two former lord chiefjustice is, a former dpp, another former attorney—general one of written's most prominent qcs. six doesn't seem that many to me, out of all the lawyers available to condemn lord hain. a lawyer of my acquaintance, mark stevens, was on the airwaves today suggesting the greater problem is that very wealthy man, and it largely as men, can purchase silence because they have the money to hire lawyers who will get the nondisclosure agreements.
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the money to hire lawyers who will get the nondisclosure agreementsm which case, where does this take the nondisclosure agreement concept? you we re nondisclosure agreement concept? you were talking about the prime minister's remarks. it would be nice if this finally prompted action, and certainly that was the impression the pm gave on thursday. she gave a very strong denouncement of the extent to which gagging orders are being used, and used in the wrong circumstances. she promised action. she suggested action would be imminent. we will wait to see whether that happens. 0f imminent. we will wait to see whether that happens. of course, it has also been pointed out that parliament is one of the key institutions that has imposed an extraordinary number of this gagging orders. we do not know the full details of those and obviously the prime minister is not directly responsible for the behaviour of house of commons officials. but it does bring it was to home. house of commons officials. but it does bring it was to homelj house of commons officials. but it does bring it was to home. i suggest you would like to get rid of this ndas. yes, of course. natalie, take us to the telegraph. this is where the story began, in a sense, about
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another example of a paper which is taking it in direction. yes. never one to miss the chance to show a picture of somebody from the bbc on the front cover. karren brady known to large numbers of readers of the telegraph and others for her role in the apprentice, she is in a difficult position because, as they describe her, she is an outspoken defender of women's rights, by which i think we can safely say, to quote rebecca west, she expresses opinions which differentiator from rebecca west, she expresses opinions which diffe re ntiator from a rebecca west, she expresses opinions which differentiator from a doormat. unfortunately from karren brady she finds herself in an unfortunate position because she is the chair of tevita, the holding company of philip green's arcadia retail empire. she was brought in after vhs, let's call it crisis, that is attacked full—term, obviously bhs we re attacked full—term, obviously bhs were sold for £1 and then turned out to have a pension black hole lurking within it. so it puts her in a
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difficult position. she perhaps finds herself being questioned as to how much she could have known about these disclosure agreements, although pigeon of the issue could have disclosed nothing, even if she had known, because of the nda. she has not said anything at this point, although she refused to comment on what she knew about the scandal, says the telegraph. yes, the telegraph suggests maybe she will end up giving evidence to a parliamentary committee if they look into this. who knows. their sources say that she definitely knew about some “— say that she definitely knew about some —— about similar payments. that may or may not be correct. lower down the story it is weaker than that, they are saying that our suggestions, or raise questions, about whether she might have seen sir philip behave inappropriately. there is certainly no firm evidence of that. it seems very strange, to turn the story so quickly on to karen brady rather than, as other papers have, kept it on the details
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of what is alleged about sir philip green. —— karren brady. and more details as well. they are also talking about the knighthood being in review. it is another thing, you wonder whether that is ever going to happen. parliament has voted, it was a really unusual step, they voted seven a really unusual step, they voted seve n yea rs a really unusual step, they voted seven years ago to strip him of his pension because of the bhs scandal. strip him of his knighthood, sorry. lo and behold, here still sir philip all these reports. there is an independent committee which looked at it, and presumably rejected stripping him of his knighthood on that occasion. downing street has said they constantly review evidence such as this. it doesn't seem to be closer than it was before. should say at this point that sir philip green has categorically denied any unlawful, sexist or racist hate you. important to get that out there. i wa nt to important to get that out there. i want to give you a chance mention the editorial letter before we move on. extraordinary stuff from the
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telegraph, traditionally quite a reactionary force in the media world. there editorial is so extraordinary that when i first read it, there are quotation marks around at it as it isa it, there are quotation marks around at it as it is a editorial, i thought they must be quoting some of the else, but it is in fact them. the me too movement has been like a breath of fresh air exposing the harassment that has gone onto to log in many places. bullying has been rightly recognised as both u na cce pta ble rightly recognised as both unacceptable on its own terms and the notorious to employee performance. obviously i could not agree more. people have the right to go to work cannot be bullied and his fantastic to see the telegraph making that statement. the daily mail. more, buta making that statement. the daily mail. more, but a different angle again. for one horrible moment i thought we would have to talk about charles and diana. i've got nothing. absolutely nothing for you. pictures of charles and diana, i thought i had gone back in time. pictures of them in 1980. for a had gone back in time. pictures of them in 1980. fora horrible had gone back in time. pictures of them in 1980. for a horrible moment i thought i might be re— sitting my 0 levels, as they were called in
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those days. anyway, we are not going to talk about that. a good diversion, nonetheless. in the new allegation that has come forward, roz 0rtmann, also a very well—known figure, a former government pensions minister, has come forward and said she herself was a victim of green's bullying. she accuses him of bombarding her with a tight and late—night text and says his behaviour was frightening beyond the bounds of decency. so she may well be talking about this at greater length in an official place soon. let's move on from all that. once again, stressing, he categorically denies any unlawful, sexist or racist behaviour. and we will no doubt follow that in greater depth tomorrow. let's go to the i. this is taking us to wear philip hammond might be spending some of his money. —— where. might be spending some of his money.
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-- where. we have surely come to the bit before the budget where we say, on monday, he might say, and obviously... a bit more than might. the government is dropping little crumbs and journalists are reporting them, with more of this to come on monday. it looks like on monday philip hammond will announce they will slash rates or shops, which is excellent news for those of us who are sick of seeing small shops boarded up on high streets. hopefully they will have more of a chance against online giants who play very little tax for their enormous turnover and unaccountably tiny profits. the pressure to do this has been growing of late, hasn't it. i can think of to make national newspapers who have been campaigning on this entire issue. there seems to be a lot of pressure
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on the chancellor, this is good news for the high street, on the face of it, it is going to help one third of small retailers by slashing their business rates. i'm pretty sure in the recent past they have been accused of pushing up the business rates, so it will be interesting to see how much they come down. it is a great opportunity for the chancellor to get his is a good news out with a clear run, whereas on monday it is going to be a much more difficult task of the chancellor when we will be having almighty row about whether he has fulfilled the prime minister's pledge to and austerity. the only point here is that if we shop differently now, then can this really make a great deal of difference? it's an interesting thought, people are very keen to move the pieces around, if only there were no parking people would go to the high street, or if only there was more pedestrianisation it would be a nicer environment, these fights, periodically when people
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propose pretty much the opposite to offer the same problem. perhaps the problem is that we like being at home and buying things like that, the same thing is true the restaurants. more of us now prefer to use home delivery services. we don't have more takeaway than we had before, we just go to restaurant is less. we like being in our homes. it can be hard to buy things on the high street. when i set out to go and buy something that will help the high street, it can be difficult. i we nt high street, it can be difficult. i went to buy this electronic device, i will go to the local high street, i know, that shop closed down three months ago. a second one that used to exist does not exist any more so you give up, go home and pressed a button, it gets worse. you end up having to buy online. lets go to the independent, it is very exciting.
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the independent, this is the children's operations at story, nhs cancellation of children's surgery at 58%, this is your paper so give usa at 58%, this is your paper so give us a sense of what you are saying here. these are depressing figures on the place of it, this is labour piling pressure on the government, we hope to learn more about this extra money the government will be announcing. is this labour figures? these are official figures put out by labour. more than 18,000 under 18 surgery by labour. more than 18,000 under 18 surgery cancelled or delayed, over the last seven years since nhs spending has flat lined, we are talking about really, really important stuff, and of course the mental anguish for children and theirfamilies is mental anguish for children and their families is presumably particularly stark when it involves children. and inevitably this will
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ta ke children. and inevitably this will take us back to the end of austerity and what it will actually mean. yes. in theory. we keep being told that the nhs is going to get more money, and at the same time... we keep being told that rises in public health will it goes up, we are getting older and we don't live healthy old age and then have 20 minutes of being ill, we have a lot of new and expensive old age. it is an interesting refocus —— a loss of illness and an expensive old age. it is also children, not just old people, they are also caught up in the austerity problems with the nhs is battling through.|j the austerity problems with the nhs is battling through. i will go back to the times, i am testing is evening. this is the photograph, it is...iam evening. this is the photograph, it is... i am right there for you. it's in credit we heart warming. ruth
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davidson, the leader of the scottish tories with her fiance and their son finn. she is the first party leader of britain to give birth while in office, we have had so very few women as party leaders and so very few women of childbearing age of up to have to have a start —— a heart of stone irrespective of your politics can see that picture and not feel very happy for them. their shears and her partner, many conservatives when they see that photo, they know ruth davidson's while the pill —— wide appeal, they would love her to march south and relieved her party from its very difficult plight, but ruth davidson has said that she will not be doing that any time soon. when you listen to her say that it is one of those situations where you try and see if there is any regal room, she has made it absolutely clear, hasn't she —— wriggle room. made it absolutely clear, hasn't she -- wriggle room. there are many
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tories who would also hope she would come nowhere near them, as there are who hope she would come and save the day. she would need a seat, and she would not seek to do that before the next scottish election. after that she may, although she has said categorically she does not want to be prime minister. she has spoken in very honest and is about her mental health problems on the part —— in the past, and... she probably has other things on her mind at the moment. from the daily mail, i am still moving around. this is an embarrassing stories tory mp. 0ne still moving around. this is an embarrassing stories tory mp. one of the many things to be decided in the negotiations over brexit is whether eu nationals will be allowed to vote in future. they can vote in local
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elections, and that is all. daniel hannan, conservative mep says he has seen a hannan, conservative mep says he has seen a draft of britain's puzzles for the —— proposals for the agreement, and they will protect full voting rights for the 3.2 million european citizens who will be allowed to vote. that is presumably only for local elections. i was wondering about that. he was saying in the past that maybe in the past they did not bother to vote in local elections, now he is saying this situation is so poor, they will be more likely to go at and give the tories a kick in the local elections. mr hannan is saying they are not going to vote tory, so we should stop them, which is is very embarrassing. i am going to race now, the daily express front pages where we will end, i know you are quite taken with the word
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"windfall". i and -- i adore the word windfall in terms of pensions, which actually means equality. women have been receiving small increases in their guaranteed minimum pension because of the shifts in pension e, because of the shifts in pension age, 65 for men, for longer than has been the women. the guaranteed minimum pension composite —— contributions had not changed and the age of which women retired had changed and thus women have ended up, not the first time in pensions, getting stick. now magnificently high court has ruled that they will have equality, which many people described as literally the least you could do. not a windfall. i am in chartered to see —— enchanted to see the daily express referred to it as a windfall, look at equality falling into our laps. the invitation is
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that this will go... it is a ruling against one company, but is supposed to potentially help 5 million women, £20 billion cost to the pensions industry, they are not going to get there "windfall" any time soon u nfortu nately, there "windfall" any time soon unfortunately, the competency of making the calculation means they should not start spending... the legislation came in before i was alive. it is all fine. that's it for the papers 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.co.uk/papers. and if you miss the programme any evening you can watch it later on bbc iplayer. thank you, natalie and rob. goodbye. good evening, here's your latest sports news. in formula 1, lewis hamilton
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is in mexico city hoping to wrap—up his fifth world title in sunday's mexican grand prix. he just needs to finish seventh or higher to win this year's championship for mercedes. but it was red bull's max verstappen and daniel ricciardo who set the pace in both practise sessions in mexico city. a combination of altitude and a tyre issues helping to level out the teams. verstappen was nearly a second and a half quicker than hamilton whose car has been essentially re—built since last weekend's problems in texas. so here's confirmation of the top seven in second practise. the red bull's so much quicker — which team principal christian horner put down to the altitude, hamilton's only title rival sebastien vettel was fourth in his ferrari, slightly quicker than first practise and hamilton dropped to seventh. qpr made it fours wins out of five in the championship with a 1—0 win over aston villa at loftus road. pawel wszolek scored the winner seven minutes before the break. the win takes steve mcclaren's team up to seventh —
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one point and one place off the play—off positions. tottenham will continue playing their home games at wembley until at least the end of this year. their new 62,000—seater stadium was supposed to open on the 15th september but it's been delayed due to safety issues. spurs chairman daniel levy said he "can't confirm an exact opening date and fixture" but that all home games up to and including their match against wolves on 29 december will be played at the national stadium. the manager of premier league leaders manchester city, pep guardiola, says he's expecting a very tough challenge to retain their title. city are firm favourites after a record—breaking season in which they're so far unbeaten in the league along with liverpool — but guardiola thinks as many as five teams could potentially lift the trophy in may. just to make points difference in for raw five, six teams. they are so
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strong. you see the lineup, the first 11, the players from tottenham hotspur, they have always been there for the last four or five or six yea rs. there are four games in rugby union's pro 1a tonight — no premiership matches because it's a cup weekend and also the beginning of the international break. and that a big effect on edinburgh, after thrashing toulon last week in the champions cup — tonight they've been beaten by zebre. edinburgh were missing several players away with scotland training, they blew a 13 point half time lead to lose 311—16 in palma. they've now lost four of their seven pro1li matches. elsewhere scarlets beat southern kings 111—34 ina high scoring game in south africa. ben stokes has spoken to the bbc for the first time since he was cleared of an affray charge in august.
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the all rounder is tour with england in sri lanka and says despite the internal disciplinary hearing he still faces, he is able to concentrate on his cricket. can you sum up what it was likely to miss the ashes in the test against india? not good at all, it is not -- is all about looking forward now. we have a huge sum coming up next year with the ashes in the world cup, we are fully focused on that. looking backis are fully focused on that. looking back is not the way like to look at things, i want to look at the future. can you appreciate people's interest in what happened and the fa ct interest in what happened and the fact that you are not playing boring than when people would love to see you play for england? that is a thing about going forward, what you do from here onwards is what people will hopefully remember and that is what i am trying to do. time for a look at the latest weather full cold arctic air in place across the uk.
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showers coming in to areas exposed to that northerly wind, northern scotla nd to that northerly wind, northern scotland it to start the day, slushy on some higher ground because there is some snow in the showers for the hills. icy for northern ireland, showers come tomorrow for west wales, south—west of england while north sea coastal parts of england as well. some pushing further inland across parts of that midlands, east anglia and south—east england. single figure tebbutt is the most of us, feeling colder in the northerly wind. this is the picture through saturday, dry and clear as it will through tomorrow, the showers continue across easternmost parts of the uk, tempered as will drop low enough for a touch of frost and places. onto sunday, plenty of sunshine across western parts of the uk, we have these showers across eastern areas, some pushing a little bit further inland on the breeze which will be stronger across parts of england and wales on sunday. hello, this is bbc news.
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i'm ben bland. our top stories: a man has been charged in the us state of florida after the mail—bombing campaign aimed at critics of president trump. police say cesar sayock is is a registered supporter of the republican party. the fiancee of the journalist jamal khasoggi says she doesn't believe the us is sincere about getting to the bottom of his murder. stranded by civil war: the children of yemen in desperate need of medical attention. the un says they should be flown abroad for treatment. a smash and grab — attempted theft of the magna carta. the 800—year—old charter of british rights was on display in salisbury cathedral. harry and meek and enjoy the traditions of tonga on the final day of their trip to the south pacific nation. —— meghan.
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