good morning. welcome to breakfast, with charlie stayt and mega munchetty. our headlines today: the start of three days to mark 100 years since the end of the first world war, theresa may willjoin the leaders of belgium and france to lay wreaths in memory of the fallen. a fast—moving wild fire forces thousands leave their homes in northern california. there are reports some people have died. good morning. we get the latest economic health check this morning, expected to show the economy grew in the last three months of the year, but what difference does it make for business? i'm at this tile factory in doncaster today to find out. arsenal are through to the knock out stages of the europa league, but they're likely to be facing them without danny welbeck, who was injured last night. it looked serious. a mild enough start to friday but while most are dry at the moment, heavy rain and gale is pushing in

from the west and later. details on that and your full weekend forecast right here on breakfast. it's friday november the 9th. our top story: the prime minister will lay wreaths in belgium and france today to honour the fallen soldiers of the first world war. the ceremonies, in the belgian city of mons and thiepval cemetery in france will start three days of remembrance events to mark the centenary of the armistice deal which ended the four—year conflict. on saturday, theresa may willjoin the queen, senior royals and military leaders to watch a festival of remembrance at the royal albert hall, featuring performances by celebrity singers and armed forces bands. and sunday will see the traditional laying of poppy wreaths at the cenotaph in london, followed by a service at westminster abbey. we'll be live in mons later this morning, where that ceremony is due to begin, at 9am. and just before 7am, we'll catch up with our reporter robert hall, who has spent the week travelling

along part of the western front. there are unconfirmed reports of a number of fatalities as two major wildfires burn out of control in california. thousands of peoiple have been forced to leave their homes and buildings, including a hospital, are burning across butte county in the north. lebo diseko reports. "a very dangerous, very serious situation" is how the sheriff of butte county described the fire ripping through northern california. this is a very dynamic fire. it started about 6:30am local time, and the first reports from the first firefighters at the scene had it at around 10—15 acres. but even at that point, when it was small and just starting out, it definitely had the potential to become something major. almost the entire town of paradise has been evacuated, including schools, hospitals and homes —

that's around 27,000 people being told to leave. some described driving through a wall of flames just to get to safety. "the whole town is burning," one told reporters. residents of several other communities have also been told to get out, with people queueing for hours on the road. authorities are battling to bring the fire under control but that's being hampered by winds up to 50km/h which are driving it. warm weather and dry conditions are adding to the difficulties. meanwhile, further south, another fire burns, this time near a community that's already been traumatised. this blaze is tearing through ventura county and areas surrounding the town of thousand oaks, where a mass shooting took place on wednesday night. this has been one of worst years on record for wildfires in california, and by the looks of things, it's not getting any better. lebo diseko, bbc news. a vigil has taken place in california to remember the 12 people who were killed

in yesterday's shooting at a bar just outside los angeles. police named the suspect as 28—year—old ian david long, who was a former marine with suspected mental health issues. he killed himself during the attack. it comes less than two weeks after another gunman opened fire on a synagogue in pittsburgh, killing 11. hospital outpatient appointments are stuck in the 18th century according to leading doctors, who are calling for the health service to use new technology such as video calling. the royal college of physicians says many hospital appointments are unnecessary and a waste of money. 0ur health correspondent, nick triggle, reports. 0utpatient clinics are the busiest departments in hospitals. lacie 127 million people across the uk each year. that's five times as more as come to a&e. but the services don't a lwa ys come to a&e. but the services don't always run service smoothly. in

england, one in five appointments are cancelled or mr. 0ver england, one in five appointments are cancelled or mr. over half of appointments finished late. some of the problems are unavoidable because of sickness or emergencies requiring staff to be deployed elsewhere, but many are unnecessary. doctors gave evidence about how test results and notes were frequently missing or scans had not been done. there were also examples of patients trying to alert hospitals to the fact they could not attend, but finding it impossible to get through. we're using what is really an 18th—century solution to delivering care outside of hospitals or a 21st—century problems, and we're demanding patients at ten hospitals in person to receive what could be communicated to them in other ways. that engenders huge amounts of cost to the person and society in general in the way we are delivering our care. some doctors believe as many as a fifth of appointments are unnecessary. they save more in use of re m ote unnecessary. they save more in use of remote monitoring and telephone and video consultations could save

the nhs and patients time and money. the report says senior nurses and other health staff could also be deployed to see patients closer to home. nhs england said it was looking to act on the findings. nick triggle, bbc news. the head of the parole board say there's been a re—think in the way inmates are released from prison early. it follows the controversy after the parole was granted to the serial sex offender, john worboys. in herfirst interview, the board's newly appointed chair caroline corby told the bbc her organisation has lost the confidence of the public. our home affairs correspondent, danny shaw, reports. thejohn worboys case has had a profound impact on the parole board. the man known as the black cab rapist was set to be freed from prison earlier this year after a parole panel decided it was safe to let him out. but the high court blocked his release and the case is being looked at again. the head of the board, nick hardwick, stepped down under government pressure. his successor told me it was a very difficult period. we saw the departure of our previous chair in difficult circumstances, the board was subject

to unprecedented amount of publicity, the like of which we had not experienced before, and i think there was a loss of confidence amongst ourselves a little bit, perhaps a loss of confidence in the wider public, and that was something that i am very keen to repair. since then, the parole board has made changes. it's sent summaries of its decisions to 500 victims of crime and appointed an in—house lawyer, while the prisoner release rate has dropped to 46%, a sign it has become more cautious about letting offenders out. but none of the 240 parole board members making decisions about the release of prisoners is black. 13 are from other ethnic minority groups. the new chair says that is a significant concern which must be addressed when new members are recruited next year. danny shaw, bbc news. the prime minister has been accused of breaking her promise that there will be no customs border

between northern ireland and the rest of the uk. the times has seen a leaked letter sent from theresa may to dup leader arlene foster and says the wording suggests that the eu plans to put a customs border in the irish sea in the event of a no deal brexit. the prime minister has said she would not let a divide come into force. as many as 1a shots a day are closing on uk high streets as retailers face their toughest trading climate in five years. —— shops. fashion and electrical stores suffered the most as customers shop or online. nearly 2700 shops closed in the first half of the year. a phd thesis and a wheelchair are among a selection of items belonging to the late professor stephen hawking, that have sold for nearly £1.11 million at auction. the paper, submitted by the theoretical physicist in 1965, fetched nearly £600,000, while the wheelchair sold forjust under £300,000.

the online sale, by the auction house christie's, was in aid of the stephen hawking foundation and the motor neurone disease association. 0ne one last story for you at 6:09am. if you're a parent of small children, you've probably had enough of hearing about baby sharks, but this time we're not talking about the song. i wasn't familiar with the song. a p pa re ntly i wasn't familiar with the song. apparently there is a song. the song a p pa re ntly apparently there is a song. the song apparently drives lots of parents a little pit to distraction. baby sharks of a different kind. -- a little bit. a rare shark nursery has been discovered by scientists just off the west coast of ireland. this unusually large school of blackmouth catshark and thousands of their egg cases were filmed on the seafloor by a remote controlled camera. they can grow to lengths of 80cm, 31 inches, and typically eat crustaceans and small fish. can wejust look

can we just look at this for so much longer? it is hard to get a sense of proportion. you can see the little eggs on the floor. that is quite a find! there we go! hello, mike! good morning. do you know the shah song? you do this in the video and it goes“ you do this in the video and it goes... i can't remember the tune —— do you know the shark song. you no more than the. the lyrics aren't hard to learn but it is for young children so it works! —— you know more than me. england are home and dry. two days to get sri lanka out. are they in the nets? no, not in the nets... 0h, very good! england are not hanging around. they've already got two of those wickets. they have already taken two of those. sri lanka are chasing a world—record a62 to win, and that seems pretty unlikely at the moment. no side has ever scored more than 99 in a final run chase in galle,

and that would be an achievement in itself. they are 72—2. 0nly only a matter of time before england wrap up victory. arsenal striker danny welback suffered what looked to be a serious injury last night as his side made it through to the knock out stages of the europa league thanks to a goalless draw with sporting lisbon. we wish him well. no news yet as to how serious his injury is. england's women stretched their unbeaten run to eight matches, beating austria 3—0 in their friendly in vienna. two of the goals came from debutants. and tony bellew tells the bbc that he will retire after saturday's fight against 0leksander usyk. that's all the sport for now. more in the papers in a moment. charlie cracked a joke. about the baby sharks? no. it didn't have to be shared. go on! he hasjust done me a

little note. when you were talking about danny welbeck and his prospective broken leg. you're not joking about that? it's not a joke. he said! joking about that? it's not a joke. he said ijust wish him well backed. there you go, that might cheer him i there you go, that might cheer him up! -- there you go, that might cheer him —— he there you go, that might cheer him up! —— he said ijust wish him well back. i just up! —— he said ijust wish him well back. ijust wrote it up! —— he said ijust wish him well back. i just wrote it down up! —— he said ijust wish him well back. ijust wrote it down on my piece of paper! it made me giggle, i think it is quite clever, don't you think, matt? not impressed. a sinister laugh, matt! the good news is you're here. i'm not in any rain. a very dramatic picture. it could get wet in the west. a mild start compared with yesterday but the day will be going downhill. by but the day will be going downhill. by the evening rush—hour, heavy rain and severe gales and disruption into the evening rush—hour. bbc radio 4

keep you updated. this area of low pressure has been out to the west, creeping towards us and as it does, the winds will strengthen but before it arrives, there's weather front has been producing rain overnight, a few showers in the south but around western coast of england, wales and central scotland, particularly wet. an horrendous 24 hours in parts of pembrokeshire, lots of flooding. the rain will ease off for a time, showers pushing eastwards but a mixture of sunny spells and the odd shower in central and eastern areas into the afternoon. further west, the rain arrives in the afternoon in northern ireland, south—west wales and the south—west of england. temperatures holding up well for the time of year. for the evening rush—hour, this is not going to be pleasant. south—west england, wales, extensive heavy rain and winds of maybe 70 mph around hills and coasts, extending to england, dumfries and galloway, ayrshire and northern ireland in the evening rush—hour. eastern areas should

finish the day dry, but into tonight, the rain will spread to all parts. through the first part of the night, strong winds with rain lasting longest into the morning in the far north—east of scotland and south—east of england, clearer skies in the west later but a blustery and cooler start to saturday morning. into the weekend, if you got any plans, a case of dodge the showers, especially in southern and western areas where there could be especially lively but sunshine around at times. early rain on saturday morning in the far north and south—east of scotland could clear quickly, dry in the east, showers most frequent in southern and western coasts, hail and thunder possible and enough of a breeze to push some further east at times but some will stay dry. fresh in the breeze but temperatures not too bad for the time of year, 10—14. taking us for the time of year, 10—14. taking us into remembrance sunday, an area of low pressure is still close and whenever you see that, shower clouds p0p whenever you see that, shower clouds p013 ”p whenever you see that, shower clouds pop up and we will see them again on

sunday. southern and western areas most prone to them, especially on the english channel coast, heavy rain and thunderand the english channel coast, heavy rain and thunder and potentially damaging winds. some eastern areas will stay dry and bright through the day, and temperatures down a bit on saturday. next week, things quietening down, especially in the south. there you go. we're preparing for the paper review and listening at the same time. we're preparing for the paper review and listening at the same timelj believe you're going to join us. you going to start walking now?|j believe you're going to join us. you going to start walking now? i will find my paper first. you do that and then we will see you. let's take a look at today's front pages. the guardian says the decline of the high street is gathering pace. it says retailers have called for decisive action from the government. there is also a photo of cnn journalistjim acosta, whose white house press pass was suspended yesterday. the times says it has seen a leaked letter sent by theresa may to dup leader arlene foster which says the eu plans to put a customs border in the irish sea in the event of no—deal brexit. the photo shows eddie redmayne on the red carpet in paris. an alleged bust—up on strictly come

dancing is the lead in the sun. the paper claims that dannyjohn—jules left his dance partner in tears. a quote from a bbc source says the two have since patched up their differences. and finally, the front page of the daily mail says thousands of over—65s are unable to get flu jabs because of a vaccine shortage. there is also a shot of prince charles with his grandson louis, taken from a bbc documentary that aired last night. so we are all on the sofa. and we have all got the blue suit memo. yours is great, isn't it? mine is not, but other than that you are bang on. you come in here talking about what we are wearing, i feel vaguely criticised. he was welcome a moment ago. a lovely story in the telegraph about the fa cup, the first round starts tonight. we will be there with the match of the day tea m be there with the match of the day team on bbc two. so how do they

relate to each other, in terms of where they... so they came up a hard day after the long story of their original team being taken to milton keynes. but tomorrow the met police are playing in the fa cup, but they are playing in the fa cup, but they are being called the fraud squad, because there are no police officers playing. in fact, the last one was in 2012. they were slipping down the leagues, and they had to play nonpolice officers. in what sense are they the net police? the chairman was a serving officer, a long time ago now. who is in the team? it is a community club, and one of the bits of banter they have to put up with is that they play...

that is the venue where the ground is. it is a good ground, though. it is. it is a good ground, though. it is going to be a long morning, isn't it? they have had to take on nonpolice officers. so the name just exist, but the team isjust a team. they get talented players from around the community, but it is a community club and we wish them well. kind of good news bad news climate change story, where was the last place you have a good bottle of wine from, the loire? how about essex ? wine from, the loire? how about essex? no, it was english, it was english sparkling, but it wasn't from essex. climate change not

necessarily a great thing but the british wine industry is thriving, and in essex they have identified an area of about 87,000 acres in essex suitable for great production which would produce a great similar to that in the champagne region. would produce a great similar to that in the champagne regionlj thought because most of it comes from kent, doesn't it? the french champagne producers are getting in the act, tassinger have land in the west. it is one of the driest parts of the uk, so they don't get the drastic changes, wet and dry, as other parts of the country do, so it is perfect. it is part of a changing process you could see in decades to come, the uk producing bordeaux. process you could see in decades to come, the uk producing bordeauxm is one of the driest parts of the country. you tend to find eastern areas tending to be drier because of

the atlantic weather systems coming from the west and by the time they reach the east of the uk, they have got... when i was last there, guess what they used to keep deer away from the grapes. tiger dung. it is fascinating, tiger dung is used to help our grape harvest. fascinating, tiger dung is used to help our grape harvestlj fascinating, tiger dung is used to help our grape harvest. i would have been guessing for some time, wouldn't have got there. i had second thoughts about whether we should actually talk about this, but half of men under 25 shave their armpits. that doesn't surprise me. that was a sort of moment, wasn't it, no one knew what to say then. who is going to speak first? you remember in the 19805 there was a p0p remember in the 19805 there was a pop star called nena, who did 99 red balloon5. pop star called nena, who did 99 red balloons. but this is meant. half of

men under the nearby 5have balloons. but this is meant. half of men under the nearby shave their armpits. mike, would you like to comment? this is going to sound bizarre, but i didn't get any armpit hairand the bizarre, but i didn't get any armpit hair and the low wa5 bizarre, but i didn't get any armpit hair and the low was 28, so they should cheri5h it. hair and the low was 28, so they should cherish it. do we have to carry on with any more? i think we are all done. matt is going to be with us in the studio all morning talking about the weather and giving us talking about the weather and giving u5 interesting fact about essex being one of the driest part5 u5 interesting fact about essex being one of the driest parts in the uk. and we will have all the main stories for you a little later on in the programme. we will be live this morning in france as theresa may makes her way over for some of those commemorations for armi5tice makes her way over for some of those commemorations for armistice day. today marks 80 years since nazis carried out a night of attacks on germanjews, their businesses and synagogues, in what many view as the beginning of the holocaust. the anniversary of kristallnacht, or the night of broken glass, comes amid concern about rising anti—semiti5m across the west. 0ur berlin correspondent jenny hill reports. prayers for the dead,

and the persistent voice of this country's past. these children the descendants of those who survived the systematic persecution of europe'sjews. 80 years on, kri5tallnacht still a byword for terror. nazis attacked jewish people, their homes, their shops, their synagogues. it was just the beginning. 6 million people would die in the holocaust which followed. today, in society, there are challenges again. once again, the ugly head of anti—semiti5m has shown its head. people have to know there is accountability. children growing up in germany have to know what happened in the past, what could happen if we don't stand up for democracy, if we don't stand up for respect and tolerance for people

of all 5ocietie5. and so, every year, the same ritual. each pavement plaque commemorates the man, woman or child dragged from their home nearby and sent to a death camp. for these berliners, a vital reminder, because support for germany's far—right is rising, and so is anti—semiti5m and xenophobia. translation: we always had anti—semiti5m in germany. it's probably here to stay. but i'm frightened that it has reached such an extent. translation: it's important that we don't forget what happened in the past, and that we make sure it never happens again. in the past, too many people were silent. today, we need to say what we think. the long roll—call of the dead. those who built this memorial to europe's slaughtered jews intended it as a warning against some of what is happening now in german society. unimaginable then that an openly raci5t party would take seats in parliament.

thi5 anniversary comes as this country is redefining its very identity. there is a small but growing minority which says it is time germany left its past behind. but there is an inevitability that, whatever this country's future, it will continue to be shaped by the legacy of this, one of the darkest periods in world history. it is dramatic, isn't it? and we will have coverage throughout the morning with robert hall, who has made a journey acro55 morning with robert hall, who has made a journey across the western front. time now to get the news, travel and weather where you are. good morning from bbc london news. today marks two years since the croydon tram crash, in which seven people lost their lives. an accident report listed 15 recommendations to improve safety on the tram network, including systems to detect when the driver might

be falling asleep. transport for london is yet to fully implement them all, but says it is making progress. we've 5tarted we've started work on every single one of the recommendations and completed many of them. some of the ones that still remain to be completed a more complex. they involve changing the control systems and the safety systems on—board our trams, and we want to make sure they are absolutely right before we put into operation. a reward of up to £10,000 is being offered to help catch burglar5 who attacked a 98—year—old man, leaving him fighting for his life. his family have released this distressing image of peter gouldstone, who was found badly injured at his home in bounds green in north london on tuesday. he is still in a critical condition in hospital. detectives are appealing for witnesses, or anyone who has been offered a panasonic tv, one of the items that was stolen. step aside, british transport police, because there is a new recruit patrolling waterloo station. it may be of the winged variety,

but it has a very important role to play. aria has been employed by network rail to stop pigeons swooping on commuters as they eat. the five—year—old will take to the skies to patrol twice a week for two hours. let's take a look at the travel situation now. there is a good service on the tubes this morning. on train5, south western railway services through putney are subject to disruption due to a fault with the signalling 5y5tem. on the roads, in vauxhall, a lane closed on a203 south lambeth road at the junction with a3205 parry street, due to gas mains work. in barnet, brunswick park road is closed in both directions by new southgate cemetery and the war memorial for watermain repairs. in south tottenham, the bus lane is closed northbound on the a10 high road outside south tottenham station. now the weather, with elizabeth rizzini. hello, good morning. it'll turn very wet and very windy overnight

tonight, but until then it is a fairly reasonable day of weather. quite a cool start to the morning. temperatures in mid— single figures. it'll stay mostly dry until we get to this evening. one or two very stray showers around, though. quite keen southerly wind and the at the. it isa keen southerly wind and the at the. it is a nice bright start to the morning. some early sunshine, then it will cloud over. perhaps one or two showers here and there dry mostly dry and i think there will be some sunshine by the tomic to the end of the day as well. staying quite breezy throughout, top temperatures in the best of the sunshine 13 or 14 celsius. and then i think we'll get away with a mostly dry early evening hour before heavy rain spreads in from the west. there'll be quite a lot of rain overnight tonight. some strong gust of wind through the early hours, some gusts reaching 40 or 50 mph, then that weather front clears its way eastwards into tomorrow morning. so it's a dry and a mild, still quite windy start to the weekend. staying breezy throughout the weekend, some sunny spells and some showers, and it should still feel fairly mild. i'm back with the latest from the bbc london newsroom

in half an hour. plenty more on our website at the usual address. now, though, it is back to naga and charlie. bye for now. hello, this is breakfast, with charlie stayt and naga munchetty. we'll bring you all the latest news and sport in a moment, but also on breakfast this morning: the scourge of fly—tipping. we'll ask what's being done to tackle the problem? this is a story of power, politics and the fight for survival. david attenborough's new series looks at nature's most interesting dynasties. the first of those about chimpanzees. extraordinary pictures. we'll see more of those a little later on. and we're catching up with olympic gymnast max whitlock. he's back from competition and he'll be talking to us on the sofa a

little bit later on. good morning, here's a summary of today's main stories from bbc news: the prime minister will lay wreaths in belgium and france today to honour the fallen soldiers of the first world war. ceremonies are taking place in the belgian city of mons followed by thiepval cemetery in france. they will start three days of remembrance events, including a concert at the royal albert hall and wreath—laying at the cenotaph, to mark the centenary of the armistice deal which ended the four—year conflict. we'll be live in mons later this morning, where that ceremony is due to begin at 9am. and just before 7am, we'll catch up with our reporter, robert hall, who has spent the week travelling along part of the western front. a vigil has taken place in california to remember the 12 people who were killed in yesterday's shooting at a bar just outside los angeles. police named the suspect as 28—year—old ian david long, who was a former marine with suspected mental health issues. he killed himself during the attack. it comes less than two weeks after another gunman opened fire on a synagogue in pittsburgh, killing 11. there are unconfirmed reports

of fatalities as two major wildfires continue to burn across the us state of california. authorities in butte county, north of sacramento, say thousands have been forced to flee their homes and a number of buildings including a hospital have caught fire. further south, strong winds are hampering efforts to control another blaze in ventura county, near where the mass shooting happened yesterday. outpatient appointments are stuck in the 18th century, that's according to leading doctors, who are calling for the health service to use new technology such as video calling. the royal college of physicians says many hospital appointments are unnecessary and a waste of money and health leaders should embrace technology such as video calling and online tools to save money. we're using what is really an 18th—century solution to delivering care outside

of hospitals for 21st—century problems, and we're demanding patients attend hospital in person to receive what could be communicated to them in other ways, and that engenders huge amounts of cost to the person and society in general in the way that we're delivering our care. the new head of the parole board says there's been a re—think in the way inmates are released from prison early. it follows the controversy earlier in the year around the proposed release of the serial sex offender, john worboys. in herfirst interview, caroline corby told the bbc that her organisation had lost the confidence of the public. a £10,000 reward is being offered for the people who attacked a 98—year—old man in his north london home. he was badly injured on tuesday. he said he is lost for words adnan's inhumanity to man. vista —— at man's inhumanity to man.

mrgoldman, vista —— at man's inhumanity to man. mr goldman, godstone is still in hospital —— mr godstone. the democratic unionist party has accused the prime minister of breaking a promise that she would never sign up to a brexit deal that treated northern ireland differently from the rest of the uk. the times newspaper claims it has seen a leaked letter sent from theresa may to dup leader arlene foster, which suggests that the eu plans a customs border in the irish sea in the event of a no—deal brexit. the prime minister has said she would not let a divide come into force. as many as 14 shops a day are closing on uk high streets as retailers face their toughest trading climate in five years. a report by the accountancy firm ch found fashion and electrical stores had suffered most as customers shop more online. nearly 2,700 shops closed in the first half of the year. time to talk to mike and see what's happening in sport. england's cricket is just about celebrating, two days to go as they look for a

first away test win since 2016 in sri lanka. it sri lanka win now, it would be like a nonleague team going to manchester city in the second half and scoring ten goals to turn the match around, 462 needed on a deteriorating pitch. no team scores that in a final innings when they need to win the match. they will keep fighting for it? they will, they will keep going and get some batting practice in! england's main danger is complacency now. they have two days to take ten wickets and they have already got three of them. that first test away win for two years is getting closer, but sri lanka have dug in in the last half hour and have a crumb of comfort. they are 98—3 at lunch. arsenal striker danny welbeck suffered what looked to be a serious injury in their europa league game last night. hejumped for a header and landed badly on his right ankle. he was taken to hospital and manager

unai emery described the injury as very big. arsenal drew 0—0 with sporting lisbon at the emirates to make it through to the knock—out stages. chelsea also qualified, thanks to former arsenal man olivier giroud, who gave them a 1—0 victory over bate borisov. that maintained their 100% record in this season's competition. celtic‘s 2—1victory at home to rb leipzig means they can still go through. odsonne edouard scored the winner just a minute after the germans had equalised. but steven gerrard lost his first european game as rangers manager. they led sparktak moscow three times before eventually losing 4—3. england manager gareth southgate is adamant that the decision to include wayne rooney in his latest squad in now way devalues the achievment of representing your country. england's leading goal—scorer has come out of international retirement to play against the united states at wembley this month in a match named

after his children's foundation, and the fa have been accused of limiting opportunities for younger players. we're a strange country in that we bemoan the fact we haven't achieved as much as we we'd like, and then we have a player who should be held in the highest regard and we spending a lot of time justifying giving that tribute. from my point of view, i'm looking forward to seeing him, working with him for the next few days, giving him the send that i think he deserves. it has caused a bit of a debate, southgate says it wasn't his decision but say you're a young player, chance for a debut of the bench in the second half, may be your only chance to play for england and you don't come on because of the centreman and the tribute paid to wayne rooney brought back into celebrate his 120th cap. how much room is therefore centreman in

football? what is the feeling with people getting in touch about this? —— how much room is there for sentiment in football? lukas podolski came on, and the whole match was based around him, if you do this, make him the centre of the match. rather than ten minutes and denying a young player. what happens if he plays the most extraordinary game? let's bring him back for his 1215t game? let's bring him back for his 121st n! is that a possibility -- let's bring him back forward his 1215t let's bring him back forward his 121st cap. but he plays in america so that could be a logistical problem —— is that a possibility? —— let's bring him back for his 121st cap. young let's bring him back for his 121st rs let's bring him back for his 121st cap. young players want their opportunity, though! hopefully that won't be a problem! england women's manager phil neville named an inexperience line—up for their friendly in austria, and it paid off. the won 3—0 with two of the goals

coming from debutants, chioma ubogagu and georgia stanway. that takes their unbeaten run to eight matches. they play sweden in another friendly in rotherham on sunday. the autumn internationals continue tomorrow with all the home nations in action, and chris ashton has been given his first england start for four years for the game against new zealand. all of the home nations are in action. that's one of three changes made by eddiejones as they welcome the all blacks to twickenham. it's the first time they'll have met infour it's the first time they'll have met in four years. scotland have made nine changes for their match at against fiji at murrayfield, with stuart hogg returning to the starting line just eight weeks after having ankle surgery. he was expeced be out for longer and miss the entire autumn test series. josh adams has been picked in the wales team to play australia this weekend ahead of british and irish lions wing liam williams. ireland bossjoe schmidt has brought back the big guns for the visit of argentina, with sean o'brien recalled for his first international game since last november. only two players are retained from the side that beat italy

in chicago last weekend. tony bellew has told the bbc that he will retire after saturday's fight against 0leksander usyk. bellew faces the undefeated ukrainian for all four world cruiserweight titles at the manchester arena. he's a big underdog with the bookies but he says regardless of the result he will hang up his gloves after the bout. a tall ask for bellew tomorrow, a very talented ukrainian. max whitlock, gymnast superstar, he will be here in an hour may be doing some tricks on the breakfast sofa! let's bring you you a very unfolding story this morning. wildfires in parts of northern california and they're getting worse as we speak. officials say there are unconfirmed reports of fatalities. we'rejoined on the phone now byjonathan cox from the california state fire department.

he's in the south of the state. thanks for talking to us. what can you tell us so far about what you've witnessed? we have two major fires burning in the state right now, i'm on the firejust burning in the state right now, i'm on the fire just outside chico in butte county. there is a window then happening at the moment, santa ana wind event, severe winds of 50 mph. the biggest fire is up here burning 20,000 acres in about 12 hours. we anticipate hundreds if not thousands of homes and businesses and structures to be damaged or destroyed. the scale of the devastation is immense, isn't it, jonathan. is it a rarity in that region, was it expected? it's been a hot summer so far i know. we are still in what we would consider prime burning period in california

with no measurable rain this winter, or this fall yet, so we still have areas looking like a light. unseasonably hot temperatures this last week —— looking likejuly. those factors have resulted in two firefighters being injured and numerous civilians. our thoughts are of course with your collea g u es our thoughts are of course with your colleagues who have been injured, and of course those civilians that have been injured. you mention thousands of homes damaged, as yet, and we're hoping this would be the case, no report of fatalities? we don't have anything confirmed yet. what we are doing right now is evacuation is and moving people to safety but it's not impossible there might be confirmed fatalities —— evacuations. it depends on how fast it has been burning. 1500 acres per hour, it has been raging through the ca nyo ns hour, it has been raging through the canyons up here and coming to a city

of 27,000 people, it really caused a mass exodus under very extreme circumstances. what is the plan now, what is the strategy for tackling the fire and keeping it under control, if that's at all possible? what we're doing now is what we call tactical patrol and engaging where we can, saving structures and lives. we are still under a red flag warning, we have offshore winds, the most critical time that fires can burn. going forward, we have a lot of aircraft to fight fires flying co nsta ntly a nd of aircraft to fight fires flying constantly and luckily the red flag is meant to end tomorrow about midday. hopefully the end is in sight for us but we have thousands of firefighters around california trying to get some containment and extinguishment going on these two fires. jonathan, thanks for talking to us and bringing us up to date. we wish you and your colleagues all the best

and wish to safety while you're tackling these fires. thank you. —— wish you. with brexit negotiations on a knife—edge and fears about both british manufacturing and retail, today's economic growth figures could not come at a more crucial moment. we've sent ben to a roof tile factory in doncaster for the morning. ican i can see them coming off the production line, but ben, how do you link roof tiles to the strength or concerns about the strength of the economy? good morning to you. it is so noisy here. i know you asked me a question, i'll try and answer it, i didn't quite hear it. welcome to doncaster, we are at this tile manufacturing plant. they make two of these every single second. it's a huge operation. we're talking about that because construction's been one of the bright spots for the economy over the last few months. let's go through the details we know so far.

in the second quarter of the year, the economy grew by 0.4%. it wasn't great but not too bad. what we get today are the figures for the third quarter, july to september. remember, the economy is made up of all salts of different things, construction, manufacturing and services —— allsorts. the services sector is important, about three quarters of our economy. but the services sector and manufacturing have struggled of late, and construction has managed to hold up so far, but why, and what does it mean for businesses? come with me and i'll show you around and we'll speak to a couple of people who can tell me more. jonathan is with us, an economist. kevin as well. good morning, we're looking at these tiles flying around this plant, your fortunes looking at these tiles flying around this plant, yourfortunes are looking at these tiles flying around this plant, your fortunes are very much linked with construction. when construction is doing well, you manufacture more roof tiles. very

much so, and our roof tiles go into two different parts of the marketplace, what we call new and repairs, maintenance and improvement. two stink sectors. both performing in very different ways but linked to the construction market ash distinct sectors. how do you assess last year? growth in the second quarter was ok, not great, how has it been for you? —— distinct sectors. the first quarter started ina sectors. the first quarter started in a difficult way for a number of reasons, there was the bad weather but technical reasons in the marketplace as a whole. there was recovery coming through in the second quarter and into q3, q3 is looking like the recovery has completely come through. when we look at what's happening for businesses, give us an overall picture, where are we? services is the important bit of our economy but that's been struggling of late? it had some recovery in the last

quarter, but the full indicators are pointing to another slowdown. it is looking pretty weak and that is very important given that it is by far the biggest part of the economy. other parts, like construction and manufacturing, also look back there could be weakening going forward. talk us through the bright spots if there are any, and the bits we should be concerned about. well, the economy is still growing. we are coming out of the downturn of the financial crisis, and there is some evidence of a pick—up in people's wages, so living standards may be starting to rise again. the big dark cloud on the horizon is obviously wrecks it, that is uncertainty which is pushing down on investment in particular, companies are not able to plan for the future and it is pushing down on our trade position. —— brexit. pushing down on our trade position. -- brexit. you produce most of what you use in the uk, but you also

exporter, so you must have an eye on what is happening with these negotiations? we have a brand in the uk which is 400 years old and every roof tile is handmade, those products at —— are on buildings such as the tower of london, and it is a product that a lot of wealthy individuals are very interested in having. nice to see you both, we will continue this conversation a little later. for now, thank you very much. we will show you around this place. we will show you around there is absolutely vast plant over there is absolutely vast plant over the course of the morning and show you how they make these roof tiles, two made every single second. i hope i answered your question, naga, i cannot hear a thing! you did, very informative. time for the weather now, and we have matt here in the studio with us this morning.

and i wish i had better news, as well. turning stormy across the west. we start the day on a fairly mild across the country with a little bit of sunshine across some eastern areas. in the west especially we have heavy rain and gales if not severe gales along the way. for the evening rush hour it could cause some problems if you are on the move, bbc local radio will keep you up—to—date later on. out there at the moment we already have some rain ahead of this approaching low pressure system which will bring the stormy weather later. this one out to the west wringing huge amounts of rain across south—west wales, especially pembrokeshire during the last 24 hours. it extends all the way from cornwall through the parts of central scotland, central scotland seeing the wettest conditions at the moment. much of england, wales and northern ireland dry for your morning commute. not as cold as it was yesterday, some sunshine, showers spreading northwards and eastwards through the day. many eastern areas staying dry

throughout but in the west, turning increasingly wet injured northern ireland, more persistent rain in the south—west wales and across cornwall and the isles of scilly. temperatures across this afternoon 11 to 14 degrees. a notch up on where they should be for the time of year. tempered by the wind, by the time we hit the evening rush hour hitting 70 mph. heavy rain across much of wales, the isle of man, south—west scotland and northern ireland. away from that, mostly dry but wherever you are the breeze will be picking up. wind gusts on the map, it won't be a particularly pleasa nt map, it won't be a particularly pleasant evening rush—hour or start to the night, the rains spreading quickly through the night and turning dry and clearerfor a time in the west. a few heady and thundery showers to take us into the start of saturday morning. because we've got that rain to begin with, fairly strong winds as well, for most temperatures will stay up. a little bit cool across parts of northern ireland and western scotland, the outside chance of a touch of frost. into the weekend, if you have any plans it is a case of

dodging the showers, especially towards the south and west. early rain in south—east scotland and south—east england will clear away quite quickly. sunny spells for most on saturday but in the south and west, frequent showers, some of those heavy with hail and thunder. gusty winds with them as well, enough of a breeze to take one or two further east, not too bad for some in northern ireland. as we go into armistice day, an area of low pressure is still close by, pushing in towards us. it is still set to bring plenty of showers, a similar day to what was seen on saturday. could be some fairly lengthy showers along the south coast, heavy hail and thunder in the west. a few spots across central and eastern england may stay dry throughout, and temperatures on armistice day will be around ten to 13 or 14 degrees, fairly similarto be around ten to 13 or 14 degrees, fairly similar to what we will see on saturday. as we approach the centenary of the end of the first world war this sunday, our correspondent robert hall has been travelling along part of the western front. this morning he is in newport, in belgium,

where the trench lines ended. robert, tell us about the significance of that site. good morning, naga, good morning, charlie. this is a really important spot for the belgians. this is the wartime king albert, and i will tell you why he is here in a minute. what is interesting about it, apart from the fact it is really dramatic and at the top of the hill, is that it is built from bricks taken from across the belgian battlefield and it is sited here because this is where the king authorised a really good of quick thinking right at the start of the war in 1914. people might have heard of something called the race to the sea, where the allies and the germans were trying to get to the coast first so they could capture the vital ports. what happened here was that the german troops got to within a few miles of newport and the lock keepers, the people who control the waterways

here, came here. it is called the goose's foot, and it is a series of sluices which control water going to the very flat farmland, and the decision was taken to flood the farmland. so they opened the sluices, it took them a couple of days to do it, and the water rushed in and created in effect a giant moat. and that held the germans, they never came any further forward. the british fought here as well. they assisted the germans up the coast at antwerp and then they were sited here. so it is a significant spot, and many would say it helped to save the rest of europe from the german advance. so we are, what, we set about 150 miles from our start point. i thought it would be a good moment as we get to the end of the journey to say it is the centenary, page has turned, what are we going to do now? the first world war hero, as it were, has reached a milestone.

will it affect the way we remember? here are some of the things we found out. the machines have been working around the clock. the royal british legion ‘s factories make over 4 million poppies every year, part of a remembrance tradition which has a lwa ys a remembrance tradition which has always focused on the armistice. remembrance gives us an opportunity for stillness, in a very, very busy world. and i think that that needs to come together —— that need to come together and the national unity that we can collectively have from that we can collectively have from thatis that we can collectively have from that is very powerful. that sense of national grief was first expressed at the newly constructed cena tough two years after the armistice. ex— servicemen, widows, friends, unified by losses in every town, city and village. —— cenotaph. flowers and

tea rs village. —— cenotaph. flowers and tears for millions who had died. the last of the survivors have now left us, so as world war i recedes further into distant history, how should we keep remembrance alive?m what you've got there then is your engineer's score. historian andy believes practical experience can help us understand why we should remember. he has reconstructed the section of the trenches here in kent to illustrate life at the front. his young visitors were united in their enthusiasm for the project, but divided on how remembrance should look in the future. you need to express it more. you can'tjust, like, let it lay in the history books at the library. you need to bring it to the school and many have assemblies on it. i don't feel we should change it at all. we are still remembering them, and we are still remembering them, and we are still remembering them, and we are still remembering what they did. he makes some tradition is important,

but you could change it up a bit, because i think the youth will get bored of it. one way of sustaining interest is through stories. michael isa interest is through stories. michael is a master of his art. the story are what stick, the stories i what stay, so i think it is up to story makers like me, dramatist, filmmakers, however we tell our stories, there won't be in 50 years' time, tears for these people. because no one will know them. we will know it is desperately sad, but if you have known those people in your mind '5 eye through a story and your mind '5 eye through a story and you have felt it deeply, that these people did do what they did, and it was important to you that they did, thenit was important to you that they did, then it mean something. at this cemetery in northern france, the sun was setting as cadets paid tribute to the scottish regiment which served here. change may lie ahead,

but the baton remembrance is still being passed on. well, as we have come up, i have had a lot of e—mails from people, and texts, saying remembering individual relatives. every time these commemorations and centenary is come around, it does stir people, and there were lots of people in belgium and down in france following personal trails. i thought i would just end this particular live cross to you by talking about something we saw yesterday. i had a text from somebody saying you really should go to reservoir cemetery, ypres, where two brothers died in separate parts of the battlefield, on the somme and up of the battlefield, on the somme and up in ypres. theirfather was of the battlefield, on the somme and up in ypres. their father was a wealthy shipping magnate in the uk and asked for them to be brought together and buried side by side in ypres. so that again was just one

tiny story among so many. more from mea tiny story among so many. more from me a little later in the programme, but now it is time for the news, travel and weather where you are this morning. good morning from bbc london news, i'm victoria hollins. today marks two years since the croydon tram crash, in which seven people lost their lives. an accident report listed 15 recommendations to improve safety on the tram network, including systems to detect when the driver might be falling asleep. transport for london is yet to fully implement them all, but says it is making progress. we've started work on every single one of the recommendations, and completed many of them. some of the ones that still remain to be completed are more complex. they involve changing the control systems and the safety systems on—board our trams, and we want to make sure they're absolutely right before we put them into operation. one london council pocketed more than £3 million in fines last year after motorists drove into bus lanes. ealing issued nearly 24,000 penalties, netting them one of the top amounts in the country,

and the most in the capital. the research was carried out by an insurance company with the aim of getting clearer signage introduced for motorists. step aside, british transport police, because there is a new recruit patrolling waterloo station. it may be of the winged variety, but it has a very important role to play. aria has been employed by network rail to stop pigeons swooping on commuters as they eat. she will take to the skies to patrol twice a week. let's take a look at the travel situation now. there is a good service on the tubes this morning. on trains, south western railway services through putney are subject to disruption due to a fault with the signalling system. on the roads, in vauxhall, one lane closed on a203 south lambeth road, at the junction with a3205 parry street, due to gas mains work. in barnet, brunswick park road is closed in both directions by new southgate cemetery and the war memorial for watermain repairs. in south tottenham, the bus lane

is closed northbound on the a10 high road outside south tottenham station. now the weather, with elizabeth rizzini. hello, good morning. it'll turn very wet and very windy overnight tonight, but until then, it's a fairly reasonable day of weather. quite a cool start to the morning, temperatures in mid—single figures. it'll stay mostly dry until we get to this evening. one or two very stray showers around, though. quite a keen southerly wind, and some brightness at times. it's a nice, bright start to the morning. some early sunshine, then it will cloud over. perhaps one or two showers here and there, but i think mostly dry, and i think there will be some sunshine by the end of the day as well. staying quite breezy throughout, top temperatures in the best of the sunshine 13 or 14 celsius. and then i think we'll get away with a mostly dry early evening rush hour, before heavy rain spreads in from the west. there'll be quite a lot of rain overnight tonight. some strong gusts of wind

through the early hours, some gusts reaching 40—50 mph, then that weather front clears its way eastwards into tomorrow morning. so it's a dry and a mild, still quite windy start to the weekend. staying breezy throughout the weekend, some sunny spells and some showers, and it should still feel fairly mild. i'm back with the latest from the bbc london newsroom in half an hour. plenty more on our website at the usual address. bye for now. good morning, welcome to breakfast, with charlie stayt and naga munchetty. our headlines today: the start of three days to mark 100 years since the end of the first world war. theresa may willjoin the leaders of belgium and france to lay wreaths in memory of the fallen. a vigil is held in the california town where 12 people were killed in a mass shooting in a busy bar. employ a fly—tipper and you could be fined. new measures to takle unwanted rubbish will be introduced by the end of the year. good morning. we get the latest

economic health check this morning. it's expected to show the economy grew a little bit in the last quarter, but what difference does it make for businesses and employment? i'm at this tile factory in doncaster this morning to find out. england are having a ball in galle. victory in the first test against sri lanka should come today now after a third wicket for the england bowlers. a dry and mild morning commute for many but the evening commute could be completely different with severe gales expected, heavy rain in the west. details on that and your full forecast coming up right here on brea kfast. it's friday november the 9th. our top story: the prime minister will lay wreaths in belgium and france today to honour the fallen soldiers of the first world war. the ceremonies, in the belgian city of mons and thiepval cemetery in france will start three days of remembrance events to mark the centenary

of the armistice deal which ended the four—year conflict. on saturday, theresa may willjoin the queen, senior royals and military leaders to watch a festival of remembrance at the royal albert hall, featuring performances by singers and armed forces bands. and sunday will see the traditional laying of poppy wreaths at the cenotaph in london, followed by a service at westminster abbey. europe reporter gavin lee is in mons, where the ceremony involving mrs may takes place at 9am. that is a little later on this morning. tell us more about what will be happening. it is. it is here in mons in southern belgium were the first and final shots of the first world war rang out, because here the british forces first entered into battle with the germans, where they suffered casualties, they were forced to retreat in those first days in 1914

and back here, 100 years ago today, in fact, british and canadian forces coming to liberate mons under occupation of the germans. when theresa may arrives she will arrive at the grave of the first soldier killed in the war, john part, 17—year—old private in the middlesex regiment. poignantly opposite his grave is the grave of private george ellison, the last british soldier killed, killed 19 minutes before armistice, shot dead by a sniper while searching the roads around mons. let me bring in an history in with the commonwealth war graves commission, max dutton. what happened here 100 years ago today? —— historian. it is hard to comprehend when it is so peaceful that 100 years ago the fighting was still going on, we would have been able to hear the guns on the western front still firing so close to the end of the

war. you say that, but if we turn the camera this way for the birds going past at the moment, the canadian troops would have come this way, the british troops, coming through the graveyard, they would have seen the grave ofjohn part. it's incredible this was... this cemetery was here halfway through the war. it's a wonderful thought the war. it's a wonderful thought the soldiers coming across this landscape fighting might have visited this cemetery and paid their respects to the men that fell at the beginning of the war, might have laid a tribute at these graves, as theresa may will do later today. thanks for talking to us. theresa may will come here in a few hours, she will go to france, to albert, thiepval, a huge memorial where many of the soldiers died around the river somme and meeting a emmanuel macron as well. gavin, thank you. we will show you those images around 9am when theresa may arrives and

catching up with our reporter, robert hall, who spent the week travelling along parts of the western front. that's coming up later. a vigil has taken place in california to remember the 12 people who were killed in yesterday's shooting at a bar. police say the gunman was a former marine who had suspected mental health issues. our los angeles correspondent peter bowes reports. another vigil for victims of a mass shooting in america. a town engulfed in grief, a community struggling to come to terms with a senseless tragedy that's all too familiar. the people of thousand oaks are doing what they can, but this is the latest shooting where no—one has any answers. we're here today because we are born and raised here in thousand oaks and we want to give back to our community. we had friends here last night and one of them passed away and we found out briefly, ten minutes ago, and it's shocking, it's sad and these shootings need to stop. we need — we need to find a solution for this. it's — the violence needs to end now, and so we're here and we want to give back

and this is the only way we — i feel i can help out. 12 people were killed when a gunman with suspected mental health issues went on a rampage in the busy bar. ian long was a former marine who was known to the local authorities. the police say he used a legally owned semi—automatic handgun which had an extended magazine that's illegal in the state of california. his motive isn't known. it was a country music night at the borderline bar and grill, a venue popular with students. their stories are beginning to be told now — stories of bravery and of young lives tragically cut short. there have been many tributes to the 29—year veteran of the local sheriff's office, ron helus, who was planning to retire next year. his swift action in confronting the gunman is believed to have helped save many lives. he died in hospital. president trump has paid tribute to the great bravery shown by the police, but this

is another american town, another community, planning funerals and wondering if the shootings will ever end. peter bowes, bbc news, los angeles. there are unconfirmed reports of fatalities as two major wildfires continue to burn across the us state of california. thousands have been forced to leave their homes north of sacramento as buildings including a hospital caught fire. further south, strong winds are hampering efforts to control another blaze. the california state fire department told us there could be some relief in sight. we're still working under a red flag warning here, it's the most critical time that fires can burn. going forward , time that fires can burn. going forward, we have a lot of aircraft fighting fires, flying constantly. the lead the red flag is supposed to end tomorrow about midday. some relief is hopefully inside for us, but we do have thousands of firefighters around the state of

california trying to contain these two fires and trying to get containment and extinguishing going. outpatient appointments are stuck in the 18th century according to leading doctors, who are calling for the health service to use new technology such as video calling. the royal college of physicians says many hospital appointments are unnecessary and a waste of money and health leaders should embrace technology such as video calling and online tools to save money. we're using what is really an 18th—century solution to delivering care outside of hospitals for 21st—century problems, and we're demanding patients attend hospital in person to receive what could be communicated to them in other ways, and that engenders huge amounts of cost to the person and society in general in the way that we're delivering our care. the democratic unionist party has accused the prime minister of breaking a promise that she would never sign up to a brexit deal that treated northern ireland differently from the rest of the uk. the times newspaper claims it has seen a leaked letter sent from theresa may to dup leader arlene foster.

here's our political correspondent, iain watson. this is going to make a lot of people very, very uncomfortable because there's all this speculation about how much of this deal is going to be seen. that's right. what this shows actually is just how limited theresa may's room for manoeuvre is in the brexit talks, and how every syllable almost of what she might agree with brussels is being poured over. in this leaked letter to the times, what theresa may is saying to the dup leader, arlene foster, is that an eu proposal, effectively to treat northern ireland differently, keep it inside the eu customs rules after brexit, if there isn't another trade deal as a backup, a backstop if you like, that this would, in theresa may's words, never come into force. under normal circumstances you might think that sounds very reassuring if

you were the dup, but they're internet and is that she didn't use language such as i would never sign up language such as i would never sign up to this in the first place —— their intuition is. they say it would be a broken promise. damning street is saying there's no suggestion in this letter that would sign up to this at all —— downing street. it shows how sensitive this is and how politics comes down to trust in the end, and the dup want legally enforceable text, every t andi legally enforceable text, every t and i sorted before they sign up to and i sorted before they sign up to a deal, and they aren't prepared to ta ke a deal, and they aren't prepared to take what the prime minister is saying simply based on trust. iain, thanks for going through that with us. as many as 14 shops a day are closing on uk high streets as retailers face their toughest trading climate in five years. a report by the accountancy firm ch found fashion and electrical stores had suffered

most as customers shop more online. nearly 2,700 shops closed in the first half of the year. if you're a parent of small children, you've probably had enough of hearing about baby sharks, but this time we're not talking about the song. we didn't have about it. might knew about it, of course! don't worry, we're not getting that here were going! —— we're not getting that earworm going. a rare shark nursery has been discovered by scientists just off the west coast of ireland. this unusually large school of blackmouth catsharks and thousands of their egg cases were filmed on the seafloor by a remote controlled camera. you can see them there. a remote controlled camera doing this. they can grow to lengths of 80 centimetres or 31 inches and typically eat crustaceans and small fish. amazing images. on the theme of amazing wildlife images, we're going to be talking to some of the people

involved in the latest david attenborough film, which looks specifically at dynasty is and we will talk about chimpanzees, they've been following a community, as always, the most amazing footage! ash dynasty is. and remarkable footage as well! —— and remarkable stories as well! fly—tipping, it's the scourge of our streets, costs millions to clean up and is on the rise, increasing by nearly 45% in england, scotland and wales in the last five years. if you're caught doing it, you'll be fined, but it's now hoped new penalties for people who pay rogue companies to get rid of their waste will also tackle the problem. samantha fenwick reports from birmingham. it looks like a dump. it feels like a ghetto. it's really frightening to be walking down here. imagine what it's like to have to walk through this every morning on your way to school or to work. makes us peel

u nsafe. i believe that where there is rubbish, there's less respect for the area and there's more antisocial behaviour and crime. we've got a sign there that's broken, that shows the respect they got for the area. fly tipping is a problem right across birmingham. this is a particularly bad area. there's household waste, fridges, mattresses and there's rotting food. there are flies everywhere, and the smell is quite horrendous. the situation has become so bad in parts of birmingham that over the past few years, local people have started going out several times a week cleaning up the streets where they live. it's on every single road you're driving on, the inner city is a tip. the minute it gets clean, a couple of hours later, by the time the evening comes, the rubbish appears again. it's getting diabolical. who is tipping this kind of stuff? local residents. that it is only a mile

down the road, why people would put it here, i have no idea. it's not isolated to birmingham. all areas of the uk are seeing an increase in fly tipping. analysis of government data suggests it has increased by 44% in the past five yea rs, increased by 44% in the past five years, and in 2017 it cost taxpayers £79 million to clear it up. residents here in birmingham said the problem is made worse because there aren't enough bin collections. the council say that's nonsense. this is down to laziness. i find it frustrating that people think it's 0k to frustrating that people think it's ok to do this, you know, because it isn't. no matter who we are or what issues or frustrations we face, it issues or frustrations we face, it is not acceptable to go and take your rubbish and throw it on somebody else's backdoor. birmingham council has a specialist tea m birmingham council has a specialist team investigating these types of crimes. we've found some evidence that shows a residential address, so

we'll be going along this afternoon to knock on the door to find out why the resident's address is in this rubbish. later this year, local councils in england will get powers to fine households up to £400 if they pay someone to take their rubbish and dump it in places like this. is samantha fennec, bbc news. —— fenwick. sam corp is from the environmental services association which represents the uk's waste management industry. hejoins us now from our westminster studio. thank you for your time this morning. seeing some of those images from birmingham, those are replicated across the uk. there is so much mess in some places. are you surprised at the level of fly tipping we have reached now? u nfortu nately i tipping we have reached now? unfortunately i am not at all surprised. fly tipping as you have seen is reaching epidemic proportions in the uk, costing local

authorities £70 million. the need to clea n authorities £70 million. the need to clean up waste generally is costing billions of pounds each year and it is getting worse, not better, u nfortu nately. is getting worse, not better, unfortunately. so talk us through these new measures which are coming into force, where households caught paying someone to dump their rubbish incorrectly, whether or not they knew that was happening, could be fined. how is that going to work in practice? well, actually householders already have a legal duty of care to make sure that their waste is collect them dealt with responsibly. normally this is through the local authority collection, your weekly or two weekly or whatever collection. what the government are now proposing is, rather than prosecution, which was the previous only available option for someone failing in their duty of care, they are introducing this fixed penalty notice which is a more proportionate response, perhaps, to the crime of failing in that particular legal requirement. so i

am just trying to work out how this works in practice. for example local authority goes to the site of some fly tipping. they find someone's address in amongst the rubbish. will they follow that back to the householder and ask why is this rubbish in this place? if they say i just asked someone to get rid of it for me, they will then be fined because they are effectively responsible? the householder has a legal requirement to first of all, when you need to get waste collected privately, i.e. not through your local authority collection, you need to check that the person collecting the waste is a registered carrier. that is very easy to do, you check the government website or environment agency website. you need to also make some simple checks, the registration number of the vehicle, keep the receipt of the transaction and people of this information so if the enforcement officer from the local authority does come knocking on your door, you can show them you have taken all reasonable steps to follow your duty of care, and to make sure you have done all you can

to prevent your waste being fly tipped. if you have done all you can, you will not receive a penalty notice. so you represent the industry of those companies that get rid of waste. how confident can people be with the system? you say it when you phone up or when you check on the website, ask them for accreditation. is there a danger that those people also might be involved in fly tipping? u nfortu nately involved in fly tipping? unfortunately that is currently the case. i think it is the bare minimum you can do is check that they are a registered carrier, and that will certainly help to give you the assurance that the person collecting your waste has at least gone to the trouble to register with the environment agency as a registered carrier. what we are trying to do as an industry is actually say we think the system should be even more robust, and that the registration you require should be a little bit more difficult to collect and it should enable the local authorities and the environment agency to make more checks up to make sure that these people... can i pick you up on

one thing you said, people listen to you a moment ago and you said check on the website and see if they have the effective accreditation, but i think in your last answer you said you can't even be sure that those companies that have the correct documentation will actually dispose of it properly. so the householder is left with nowhere to go. well, the householder can do what is legally required now, which is to check that they are a registered carrier. that at least gives you a reasonable level of comfort that that person has gone to some trouble to enter into it the system legitimately. what we are saying is that as an industry we are trying to push for even tighter checks, that is the next that we are asking government to look at going forward. at the moment the householder should do those very simple checks and they wouldn't receive a penalty notice if they actually check. thank you for your time today. talking about fly tipping, which is, as we saw from

some of those pictures earlier, it isa some of those pictures earlier, it is a real scourge, isn't it? yes, it is a real scourge, isn't it? yes, it isa is a real scourge, isn't it? yes, it is a thing that annoys a lot of people, and rightly so, because it makes your community look rubbish, literally. time for the weather now, and we have matt here in the studio with us this morning. you have this dramatic picture, i hope it changes. this was from one of our weather watchers, it might be a bit stormier than that by the end of today, i'm afraid to say. it could be a day which goes down dramatically for many of us, after a fine start. gales are not severe gales could cause travel disruption to the evening rush hour. abc local radio your best port of call if you are on the move late. this area of low pressure has brought all this mild weather this week. it is still out to the west of us but it is creeping ever closer, and these weather fronts are bringing very heavy rainfall later. even now, though, we have this weather front from yesterday lingering across parts of the western central scotland. a horrible 24 hours for parts of west wales and scotland,

more rain coming later. most will start the day dry. the best of the brightness in the sunshine further east. not a bad spell in northern ireland before things turn increasingly wet and windy into the afternoon as gales continue to build in the west. most of the time here will be dry. temperatures of around 11 to 14 celsius. so for these east as we go into the evening rush hour, the odd shower can't be ruled out. most will be dry but in the west, the journey home will not be great across south—west england. gusts of 50,60, across south—west england. gusts of 50, 60, maybe 70 mph. the same for the channel islands. heavy rain through much of wales through the rush—hour, the isle of man, ayrshire, still there across northern ireland and argyll & bute as well. there will be some disruption in the ferries, properly some of the airports and a lot of surface water around. and that rain and strong winds will transfer their way eastwards during the first part of the night. it means things will turn a bit quieter in the west. clear skies, heavy showers but temperatures will drop back quite a bit in western scotland and northern ireland, one or two close to a

frost, but elsewhere, cloud and rain for much of the night and strong winds as well. into the weekend we go. it will be one of those weekends where some of you will be dodging the showers, some of them heavy and thundery, especially in the south and west. eastern areas always dry except first things, north—eastern parts of scotland and south—east england could have rain overnight and blustery day by and large. southern and western parts of the uk will see showers come and go all day long. heavy with hail and thunder, winds could be a problem for one or two, further east most will avoid the showers for much of the day and stay dry. and then through the night pennetta armistice day that area of low pressure still driving things and still feeding the shower clouds, so we could see a line of more persistent rain creeping across southern counties of england, especially across kent and sussex. heavy showers pushing further north. but i think on sunday the greater chance across wales in central and eastern england of staying largely dry, with some sunny spells, and temperatures on sunday, much like

saturday, around the levels they should be, if not a touch higher, at around ten to 13 degrees. that is how it is looking. at least the temperatures is not too bad. british citizens living in france have been warned they need to prepare for an uncertain brexit by registering themselves as residents of the french state. a no—deal scenario could mean brits abroad suddenly find themselves without the right to permanent residency. our paris correspondent lucy williamson reports. for decades, all you needed to enjoy the good life across the channel was a way of getting there and the place to stay. despite propping up the rural property market, and influencing the local cuisine, brits in france as eu nationals had no need to officially register their presence here. so most of them, like emma, joe presence here. so most of them, like emma,joe and presence here. so most of them, like emma, joe and her three sons, never bothered. now, they are being advised to get the eu resident's ca rd advised to get the eu resident's

card they are entitled to to make it easier to stay on as third country nationals after brexit. years after moving here, emma has discovered her residency rights as a self—employed eu citizens are dependent on her level of income, and she doesn't meet the minimum threshold. there's an element of panic, it's very stressful, it's causing anxiety. those are things that i kind of go round and round in a circle, and i can't find a way out. the uk government needs to be coming to the french government and saying, how can we help you? we are still uk citizens. not everyone has had problems, but there are in a frustrations with a process that some british residents are holding regular brexit coffee mornings to share their stories. different regions demanding different sets of documents, and some applicants being offered interview dates in two yea rs' offered interview dates in two years' time. you are only allowed to apply for an appointment online, and there have only been a few dozen, i think available every month, or

every three months. and the system crashes every time they announce there's appointments available, so we've got another five months before we've got another five months before we are illegal immigrants. the french government has tried to speed up french government has tried to speed up the registration of its british residents, but mp5 here say that brexit just isn't a residents, but mp5 here say that brexitjust isn't a topic of conversation in the corridors of power, and the europe minister has said that recent here will lose any right to permanent residence based on their old eu status if the uk crashes out with no deal —— britons here. translation: the online system would cut waiting times. we do have to hurry up, but i had to insist, politely but firmly and clearly, you decided to leave, and you are creating work for the french administration that it wasn't meant to be doing, and i am very determined we stay committed to reducing our public finances. what in france seems like a sideshow has

come to dominate politics in the uk. but, with the debate still focused on the big, fundamental questions of written's future relationship to the eu, many britons over in france are feeling forgotten by governments on both sides of the channel. interesting how people are having to prepare, isn't it? we will be talking more about wrecks it a little later. guess what we have got coming up. someone who is flexible, who is successful, and who is in the studio. it is not matt, it is max whitlock. he is coming up on the sofa later on with a taster. time now to get the news, travel and weather where you are. good morning from bbc london news, i'm victoria hollins. today marks two years since the croydon tram crash, in which seven people lost their lives.

an accident report listed 15 recommendations to improve safety on the tram network, including systems to detect when the driver might be falling asleep. transport for london is yet to fully implement them all, but says it is making progress. we've started work on every single one of the recommendations, and completed many of them. some of the ones that still remain to be completed are more complex. they involve changing the control systems and the safety systems on—board our trams, and we want to make sure they're absolutely right before we put them into operation. a reward of up to £10,000 is being offered to help catch burglars who attacked a 98—year—old man, leaving him fighting for his life. his family have released this distressing image of peter gouldstone, who was found badly injured at his home in bounds green in north london on tuesday. he is still in a critical condition in hospital. detectives are appealing for witnesses or anyone who has been offered a panasonic tv, one of the items that was stolen. step aside, british transport police, because there

is a new recruit patrolling waterloo station. it may be of the winged variety, but it has a very important role to play. aria has been employed by network rail to stop pigeons swooping on commuters as they eat. she will take to the skies to patrol twice a week. let's take a look at the travel situation now. there is a good service on the tubes this morning. on trains, south western railway services through putney are subject to disruption due to a fault with the signalling system. on the roads, the usual build—up on a102 blackwall lane northbound towards the blackwall tunnel. in vauxhall, a lane closed on a203 south lambeth road, at the junction with a3205 parry street, due to gas mains work. in barnet, brunswick park road is closed in both directions by new southgate cemetery and the war memorial for watermain repairs. now the weather, with elizabeth rizzini. hello, good morning. it'll turn very wet and very windy overnight tonight, but until then, it's a fairly reasonable day of weather.

quite a cool start to the morning, temperatures in mid—single figures. it'll stay mostly dry until we get to this evening. one or two very stray showers around, though. quite a keen southerly wind, and some brightness at times. it's a nice, bright start to the morning. some early sunshine, then it will cloud over. perhaps one or two showers here and there, but i think mostly dry, and then there should be some sunshine by the end of the day as well. staying quite breezy throughout, top temperatures in the best of the sunshine 13 or 14 celsius. and then i think we'll get away with a mostly dry early evening rush hour, before heavy rain spreads in from the west. there'll be quite a lot of rain overnight tonight. some strong gusts of wind through the early hours, some gusts reaching 40—50 mph, then that weather front clears its way eastwards. into tomorrow morning, so it's a dry and a mild, still quite a windy start to the weekend. staying breezy throughout the weekend, some sunny spells and some showers, and it should still feel fairly mild. i'm back with the latest from the bbc london newsroom in half an hour.

plenty more on our website at the usual address. bye for now. hello, this is breakfast, with charlie stayt and naga munchetty. here's a summary of this morning's main stories from bbc news. the prime minister will lay wreaths in belgium and france today to honour the fallen soldiers of the first world war. ceremonies are taking place in the belgian city of mons followed by thiepval cemetery in france. they will start three days of remembrance events, including a concert at the royal albert hall and wreath—laying at the cenotaph, to mark the centenary of the armistice deal which ended the four—year conflict. a vigil has taken place in california to remember the 12 people who were killed in yesterday's shooting at a bar just outside los angeles. police named the suspect shooter as 28—year—old ian david long, who was a former marine with suspected mental health issues. he killed himself during the attack. it comes less than two weeks after another gunman opened fire on a synagogue in pittsburgh, killing 11. there are unconfirmed reports

of fatalities as two major wildfires continue to burn across the us state of california. thousands have been forced to leave their homes north of sacramento as buildings including a hospital caught fire. further south, strong winds are hampering efforts to control another blaze. but the california state fire department told us there could be some relief in sight. we're still working under a red flag warning here, it's the most critical time that fires can burn. going forward, we have a lot of aircraft fighting fires, flying constantly. the lead the red flag is supposed to end tomorrow about midday. some relief is hopefully inside for us, but we do have thousands of firefighters around the state of california trying to contain these two fires and trying to get containment and extinguishing going. outpatient appointments are stuck in the 18th century according to leading doctors,

who are calling for the health service to use new technology such as video calling. the royal college of physicians says many hospital appointments are unnecessary and a waste of money and health leaders should embrace technology such as video calling and online tools to save money. the new head of the parole board says there's been a re—think in the way inmates are released from prison early. it follows the controversy earlier in the year around the proposed release of the serial sex offender, john worboys. in herfirst interview, caroline corby told the bbc that her organisation had lost the confidence of the public. she said fewer prisoners were being released and panels were commanding more information before making decisions. a £10,000 reward is being offered to help catch the people who attacked a 98—year—old man in his home in north london. peter gouldstone was found badly injured on tuesday. his son says he's lost for words at man's inhumanity to man. mr gouldstone remains critically ill in hospital. the democratic unionist party has

accused the prime minister of breaking a promise that she would never sign up to a brexit deal that treated northern ireland differently from the rest of the uk. the times newspaper claims it has seen a leaked letter sent from theresa may to dup leader arlene foster, which suggests that the eu plans a customs border in the irish sea in the event of a no deal brexit. the prime minister has said she would not let a divide come into force. as many as 14 shops a day are closing on uk high streets as retailers face their toughest trading climate in five years. a report by the accountancy firm ch found fashion and electrical stores had suffered most as customers shop more online. nearly 2,700 shops closed in the first half of the year. those are the papers stories today. 7:33am is the time and mike has the

sport. just seen max whitlock, fantastic gymnast, back from the world championships. when i see him i think of pain, hand in a bucket on the pommel horse, the pain that causes! he looks so fresh! at this time of year, been to the europeans, commonwealths and the worlds, his body would be broken but he's fresh asa body would be broken but he's fresh as a daisy! can you explain the bucket? when you start training you need a bucket. we are going to see pictures soon. no painfor no pain for england in the cricket, so easy against the team ranked sixth in the world. they are on course to win the first day .mac test against sri lanka. —— the first test against sri lanka. —— the first test against sri lanka. england's main danger is complacency now, they have two days to take 10 wickets in the opening test against sri lanka, and they got three of them before lunch. after failing to break

through in the first hour, england took two quick wickets. spinners jack leach and moeen ali doing the damage, ali with a brilliant reaction to take the catch too. and on the stroke of the interval, de silva edged ben stokes straight to joe root. fair play to sri lanka. 107-3. a crumb of comfort for the home side in galle. arsenal striker danny welbeck suffered what looked to be a serious injury in their europa league game last night. hejumped for a header and landed badly on his right ankle, he was taken to hospital and manager unai emery described the injury as very big. arsenal drew 0—0 with sporting lisbon at the emirates to make it through to the knock—out stages. you can see the shock on the players' faces. at what cost for danny welbeck? news on that to come. chelsea also qualified, thanks to former arsenal man olivier giroud, who gave them a 1—0 victory over bate borisov. that maintained their 100% record in this season's competition. celtic‘s 2—1victory at home to rb leipzig means they can still go through. odsonne edouard scored the winner just a minute after the germans had equalised. but steven gerrard lost his first european game

as rangers manager. they led sparktak moscow three times before eventually losing 4—3. certainly strength in depth when it comes to the england women's team it seems. manager phil neville named an inexperience line—up for their friendly in austria, and it paid off. they won 3—0 with two of the goals coming from debutants, chioma ubogagu and georgia stanway. that takes their unbeaten run to eight matches. they play sweden in another friendly in rotherham on sunday. a big weekend ahead in rugby union. the autumn internationals continue tomorrow with all the home nations in action, and chris ashton has been given his first england start for four years for the game against new zealand. that's one of three changes made by eddiejones as they welcome the all blacks to twickenham. the first time the sides have met in four years. scotland have made nine changes for their match at against fiji at murrayfield,

with stuart hogg returning to the starting line just eight weeks after having ankle surgery. he was expeced be out for longer and miss the entire autumn test series. josh adams has been picked in the wales team to play australia this weekend ahead of british and irish lions wing liam williams. and ireland bossjoe schmidt has brought back the big guns for the visit of argentina, with sean o'brien recalled for his first international game since last november. only two players are retained from the side that beat italy in chicago last weekend. as promised, the man himself is here, 18 medals, two olympic and two world championship titles under his belt, still only 25, max whitlock is the most excess all british male gymnast of all time and last week he narrowly missed out on a third world title in doha but still got a silver medal —— most successful. great to see you. we were saying how

fresh you are despite the season you had, normally you would be battered, how come you are so fresh? i've been clever with what i've been doing, very careful, thinking about the bigger picture. what i've done this year with putting in the difficulty at the beginning and towards the middle of the year, making upgrades, i was honest with that at the beginning. you have to come up with new routines for each championship building to tokyo? i wanted to push myself to the next level to make sure i'm doing that. i want to mirror the four—year cycle i did towards rio now towards tokyo. the first two years is crucial to make those upgrades and gain that experienced. have you introduced a couple of new moves, how long does that take? it takes a while, it's not just about learning the that take? it takes a while, it's notjust about learning the skill but putting it into a routine for a competition. it is such a long process and very tough. that's what's crazy about our sport. you

have to go through that phase in gymnastics of gaining experience on something that's brand—new. it does up something that's brand—new. it does up the risk so much but i was well aware of that, and that's part of the plan. those moves were risky but i'm very happy. this is a stupid question, do you indent the moves or we re question, do you indent the moves or were they moves that weren't in your repertoire? they are moves i haven't done yet —— invent. my dream is to invent my own skill, to have the whitlock in the code of skill. do you know what that might look like? i've got a couple. are you allowed to say? i'm not allowed to say too much, it's about keeping it secret so no one else does it, but if i do wonder it should be the hardest skill ever done on the pommel horse. i want to push it. if i can leave a legacy and in future have kids

trying the whitlock, that would make me proud. would we see the whitlock in 2020? it would be very tough. like i said, with the new skills are put in in these two years, it takes a long time to perfect them and if i do my own i want it to be perfect and not have the risk. i want to consolidate on what i've got now, trying to build up my consistency and making sure i'm ready for tokyo. how old are you? 25. in gymnastics terms, are you a veteran? experience counts for a lot. there's a lot of young competitors, are you in the championships going, there's some young faces, aren't they getting younger? there's young faces, i'm not a veteran just yet! i am the youngest one in the team, which for me isa youngest one in the team, which for me is a proud feeling and i can bring a lot to that side of stuff —— oldest. i still feel fresh,

bring a lot to that side of stuff —— oldest. istill feel fresh, which bring a lot to that side of stuff —— oldest. i still feel fresh, which is an amazing feeling, because i'm being clever and i've always done that. i've focused on floor and pommel horse to prolong my career and making sure i can hit the level i want to hit. i feel and making sure i can hit the level i want to hit. ifeel good, my and making sure i can hit the level i want to hit. i feel good, my body feels good, but it's about maintaining that and moving forward with the confidence i've gained from this world championships and trying to go again. your inspiring so many others to take up the sport, you talk about the whitlock but the basics are difficult for an off of us! you put me in the bucket a couple of times in the past. i've never tried it. can we see it now?! house of pain to begin with. how long would you need to do this for before you were able to get on the horse? how long would mike need to do it for? can we rephrase that? you are every man, i'm teasing! a long man, but people have come into gymnastics like yourself, and people that have never done anything like

that, and they can do more than what they think. it takes a long time to perfect stuff, and that's what our sport is about, we are judged on perfect stuff, and that's what our sport is about, we arejudged on how it looks and how we do things. i've been doing gymnastics since i was seven been doing gymnastics since i was seve n yea rs been doing gymnastics since i was seven years old now, so a long time, but you'd be shocked if you go into ajim watt but you'd be shocked if you go into a jim watt you but you'd be shocked if you go into ajim watt you can but you'd be shocked if you go into a jim watt you can learn quickly. you've spoken about being fresh, it's brilliant, i don't mean this negatively, baby is on the way, how fresh are you going to be when the baby comes? —— into a gym what you can learn quickly. congratulations as well! it's been such a busy year. thanks. the priority is looking after leah and the baby and i can't wait to meet the baby. when is the baby coming? february the 15th. you look at people like roger federer, they say having the family has inspired him even more. i've heard lots of stories like that, which is

amazing to hear. everyone is busy, pa rents amazing to hear. everyone is busy, parents work, and they make it work in their own way. it's about learning and finding my way to make it work and i can't wait. we wish you all the best, lovely to see you and congratulations. thank you very much. and a rest coming up! we look forward to the whitlock. so am i! we will see you later! theresa may will lay a wreath at the graves of the first and last uk soldiers killed in world war one as she travels to france and belgium to mark the armistice centenary. let's speak now to the culture secretary jeremy wright. thank you very much book talking to us thank you very much book talking to us this morning. good morning. good morning to you —— thank you very much for talking to us this morning. theresa may is going to be laying wreaths today, how important is it to mark not only world war i this year but all those who have served

for us? it's hugely important and this year it will be particularly special, particularly poignant but every year at the cenotaph and war memorial is around the country, people remember and they'll do that again this year —— war memorials. as you say this will be a remembrance at the cenotaph for those who have died in complex of all kinds since world war i. complex of all kinds since world war i, but we'll be adding extra elements this year because it's the centenary elements this year because it's the ce nte nary of elements this year because it's the centenary of the armistice. after the normal commemorations and the cenotaph and the normal march past of vetera ns, cenotaph and the normal march past of veterans, 10,000 members of the public will walk past to show their respect and remembrance and there will be a nationwide, and i hope broader than our nation, ringing of bells to give thanks to the end of the conflict. there will be more this year than normal and people will think particularly about the first world war in addition to the normal remembrance.” first world war in addition to the normal remembrance. i understand your grandfather, william, was a

captain in the world garrison artillery during the first world war. died before you were born. —— royal garrison artillery. it's hard to get across how it was like, how do we make sure that remains rosy it's difficult but not impossible. one striking and impressive thing about the way this has worked over the last four years is a large number of young people have been involved —— do we make sure it remains? it's difficult but not impossible. 7.5 million people under 25 have engaged in these commemorations. young people have got to grips with what happened in the conflict. another striking thing is a demonstration of how the people who fought and were involved in other ways we re fought and were involved in other ways were so much like us, ordinary people, they came from the same sorts of backgrounds people come from now. having a sense, if not through a family connection, but in some of the individual stories, how

similar they were to ask brings home the degree of service and sacrifice they gave —— to ask. the degree of service and sacrifice they gave -- to ask. theresa may, she will stand and reflect on the relationship between the allies, the allied forces, but looming ahead is brexit. a fraught and difficult relationship between eu leaders, european leaders, do you think those relationships will stand the test of brexit? ido, i do, because we have so much in common with our european counterparts, and this is an opportunity to remember that when the stakes are really high, then europe does come together. wrecks it isa europe does come together. wrecks it is a process we will get through but we will maintain good relationships with the rest of europe, and that is in everybody‘s interest. and i think this weekend above all weekends we will remember the things that really matter, that when we need to defend freedom, we do it together. and again, one of the things i think has been striking about these commemorations is that we have

recognised not just the commemorations is that we have recognised notjust the contribution of people from the united kingdom, but people from across the commonwealth and across the world in what was a world war. so there is a real opportunity, this year, i think, to demonstrate that unity of purpose. and of course, the german president will be laying a wreath at the cenotaph this year, and it is the cenotaph this year, and it is the first time that has happened, and it is a good indication of how we can come together in the wake of this conflict. i want to talk to you about the use of the word trust, and our political correspondent was saying earlier when he was examining what is going on between theresa may and the leader of the de ukip, arlene foster, and the story, which you will have seen, are no deal plan will include a higher border in the irish sea, and a leaked letter which the vup says raises alarm bells, with concerns this will undermine the prime minister in the house of commons. i understand the dup's

keenness to ensure there is no higher border in the irish sea, and the prime minister could not have been clearer that they will not accept a border down the irish sea. that has not changed. what i think we can see in the papers this morning is a report of a letter whether prime minister reports that the eu wants. but we have been very clear that we will not accept a border down the irish sea, and that is the reassurance that i can offer to the dup, and indeed to anyone else that is concerned about this issue. can you tell us your understanding as to why there has been a cabinet meeting delay over viewing the full brexit deal? well, look on these things take time to get right, and it is important that we do get them right. i have no doubt that, when there is a proposal to put to cabinet, cabinet will have the chance to consider it. that is as it should be. but we need to give

the prime minister and dominic raab the prime minister and dominic raab the space to negotiate, the space to doa the space to negotiate, the space to do a good deal on behalf of the united kingdom. iabsolutely do a good deal on behalf of the united kingdom. i absolutely believe that they can do that, but we need to give them the space to negotiate and make sure they get the details right, and that is what we are doing. thank you for talking to us. time for the weather now, and we have matt here in the studio with us this morning. iam indeed, i am indeed, i elbowed ben out of the way, in this kneecaps, of course. and a lovely shot to welcome in your friday morning across parts of east yorks and much of eastern uk. in the west, if you have a bit of sunshine this morning you will not have it this afternoon. severe weather developing, heavy rain and gales for some. some travel disruption later, bbc local radio the best port of call for your evening rush hour. low pressure bringing the milder this week. nothing untoward for the time of year but it will bring that changed to something much stormier later. even before it arrives, though, got the weather front from yesterday and many western areas, including across

western scotland. this is is where the west weather is whether this morning. a few showers across southern england drifting away northwards and while across scotland, england and wales there will be the odd shower here and there, some will stay predominately dry through this morning and even into the early afternoon. but after a brighter morning across northern ireland, with some sunshine, is going to turn wet here through the afternoon. rain returned to south—west wales, where we have had flooding over the last few hours, and into devon and cornwall. not far off what we have seen over the past few days. the evening rush hour, take a look at where some of the worst travel conditions will be. gust of wind in excess of 50 or 60 mph. heavy rain across much of south—west england, wales, sliding into the isle of man, galloway, ayrshire, and still there across northern ireland, that rain into argyll and bute by the time he hit 6pm seven p.m.. and that heavy rain will spread to all other areas. it will spread to all other areas. it will be dry to the evening rush hour but through the first part of the night, wet and windy forjust

but through the first part of the night, wet and windy for just about all. turning dry withjust night, wet and windy for just about all. turning dry with just one or two showers in the west later. winds falling a touch lighter in northern ireland, clear skies in western scotland, we could see just a touch of frost here and there but for most to party into windy, and a bit of a mixed weekend —— cloudy and to windy. western and southern parts faring worst for the showers. heavy rain will still be there for north—east scotland, the far south—east of england. early rises on saturday but that will clear out the heavy hail, thunder, gusty winds, but because of the south—west wind, some across northern and eastern parts including northern ireland shouldn't be too badly. one or two isolated showers, many will be dry. and the same sort of story as we go into armistice day as well. no pressure still close by. winds still coming in from the south—west, so temperatures holding up, but it is across southern and western areas most prone to showers. the breeze strong enough to take the odd one eastwards, many will be dry, especially across parts of wales and much of england into the afternoon. more persistent rain may be towards

the south coast and temperatures of around ten to 13 degrees. that is how it is looking. back to you both. you know what kind of whether it is? indoor weather. you want a nice tidy roof and cosy home. that is why we sent ben out, as you said. sharp elbows, matt. and ben is at a tile factory. it is always fascinating, looking inside a factory at how things work, and also it is interesting talking about places like that in relation to the wider economy. again, no idea what you said to me, but good morning. we are here at the tile factory in doncaster. we will get the latest health check of our economy a little later and there are a few interesting things we will look for. the economy has been growing in an average way, so we

expect a strongerfigure growing in an average way, so we expect a stronger figure this time. let me run you through what we know already. the economy grew by 0.4% in the second quarter of the year. not too bad, not too great either. we will be keeping an eye on what we get for the third quarter. that includes construction, manufacturing and the services sector, the services sector via far the biggest, three quarters of the whole economy. what we have seen as construction has held up pretty well but manufacturing and services have been struggling of late. we will give you an idea of how they have said over the last three months when we get that update at 9:30am this morning. this place is is interesting, it makes tiles from the roots of houses. it is pretty dependent on the construction sector, as a manufacturing firm. these concrete tiles, you find a lot of houses and routes around the country. they make

two of these every single second that this factory. i will put that down before i break it. what do we expect from these figures? with me are kevin and kate, and kevin, you are kevin and kate, and kevin, you are the commercial director here. kate, you at the retail analyst. i will talk you through the fortunes of this place, you do well when the construction sector does well, even though you are a manufacturing firm. absolutely, our products go into very much construction markets, so we sell our roof tiles into the newbuild market which is performing very well, and the rmi marketplace, the repairs, maintenance and improvement side as well. that is faring less well. we are dependent on the fortunes of construction. and you sell these things around the country and export some of them as well. i suppose the domestic market is so important for you. how has that fared over the course of the year? well, over the course of the year, in the first quarter of the year, in the first quarter of the year the market was very tough, it

was affected by the bad weather in the first quarter. there were other reasons why the market was difficult. we saw some recovery coming through in the second quarter and undoubtedly that recovery has continued into the third quarter. and that sort of construction and manufacturing, retail, services sector, are really important part of our economy, three quarters of the economy. a bit of a mixed picture that, isn't it? we had a good summer when we were buying things because of the good weather and the latter pa rt of the good weather and the latter part of the year has not been quite as good, has it? no, the data figures we have had coming out today indicate we are changing our consumer behaviour, which is something reviews have predicted, and everything it suggested has come true, as we suggested it would. people are spending less money in chain retail, so in particular chain pubs, chain restaurants, they are not doing very well, they have had a decline of 2.4% in terms of stores. generally speaking the whole of the retail sector on the high street, up 1796. retail sector on the high street, up 17%. but i think what is interesting

is that even leisure is down, and thatis is that even leisure is down, and that is a worry, because people are spending more on experiences and less on products. but i think the slight kind of upside to that is that independent leisure, which includes hotels, is stable, so people love independent retail. and the figures at 9:30am looking back at the last three months. quite a lot of retailers looking at the next few months, particularly christmas, a really important time for them, isn't it? yes, people only think about christmas from about one finite, all the ads come out then. they don't actually start spending until december —— about bonfire night. what has happened is they have learned that promotions come out around about the middle of december, and they are hanging on for longer and longer before they actually shop. for now, thank you to you both. we will talk to you a little later. as we said, those

figures due at 9:30am today, and these things as i said rolling out across the country. two every second are made here, it is a pretty slick process. more from me a little later. time now to get the news, travel and weather where you are. good morning from bbc london news, i'm victoria hollins. today marks two years since the croydon tram crash, in which seven people lost their lives. an accident report listed 15 recommendations to improve safety on the tram network, including systems to detect when the driver might be falling asleep. transport for london is yet to fully implement them all, but says it is making progress. we've started work on every single one of the recommendations, and completed many of them. some of the ones that still remain to be completed are more complex. they involve changing the control systems and the safety systems on—board our trams, and we want to make sure they're absolutely right before we put them into operation. police searching for

the missing mother—of—five sarah wellgreen say they have now received more than 2,000 hours of cctv footage covering over 80 locations. the 46—year—old was last seen in new ash green on 9 october. her disappearance is being treated as suspicious, and as potential murder. one london council pocketed more than £3 million in fines last year after motorists drove into bus lanes. ealing issued nearly 24,000 penalties, netting them one of the top amounts in the country, and the most in the capital. the research was carried out by an insurance company with the aim of getting clearer signage introduced for motorists. let's take a look at the travel situation now. there is a good service on the tubes this morning, but there are minor delays on tfl rail. on trains, south western railway services through putney are subject to disruption due to a fault with the signalling system. on the roads, the a13 crawling into town from the goresbrook interchange at dagenham, not helped by a

broken—down bus earlier at the beckton flyover. in vauxhall, one lane closed on a203 south lambeth road, at the junction with a3205 parry street, due to gas mains work. in barnet, brunswick park road is closed in both directions by new southgate cemetery and the war memorial for watermain repairs. now the weather, with elizabeth rizzini. hello, good morning. it'll turn very wet and very windy overnight tonight, but until then, it's a fairly reasonable day of weather. quite a cool start to the morning, temperatures in mid—single figures. it'll stay mostly dry until we get to this evening. one or two very stray showers around, though. quite a keen southerly wind, and some brightness at times. it's a nice, bright start to the morning. some early sunshine, then it will cloud over. perhaps one or two showers here and there, but i think mostly dry, and then there should be some sunshine by the end of the day as well. staying quite breezy throughout, top temperatures in the best of the sunshine 13 or 14 celsius. and then i think we'll get away with a mostly dry early evening rush hour, before heavy rain

spreads in from the west. there'll be quite a lot of rain overnight tonight. some strong gusts of wind through the early hours, some gusts reaching 40—50 mph, then that weather front clears its way eastwards. into tomorrow morning, so it's a dry and a mild, still quite a windy start to the weekend. staying breezy throughout the weekend, some sunny spells and some showers, and it should still feel fairly mild. i'm back with the latest from the bbc london newsroom in half an hour. plenty more on our website at the usual address. bye for now. good morning. welcome to breakfast with charlie stayt and naga munchetty. our headlines today. the start of three days to mark 100 years since the end of the first world war. we're live in belgium where theresa may will lay wreaths in memory of the fallen. a vigil is held in the california town where 12 people were killed in a mass shooting in a busy bar. good morning, we get an economic

health check later today. we will find out how the economy fared in the last quarter but what does it mean for business and forjobs? i am at this tile factory in doncaster this morning to find out. england having a ball in galle. victory in the first test against sri lanka could come today, after a thirrd wicket for the england bowlers. an alpha male known as david. the secrets behind the filming of sir david attenborough's major new natural history series. and after a fine start to the day for some of you, some severe gales, heavy rain and rough seas set to develop from the west later. details on that and the full weekend forecast coming up on breakfast. it's friday, november the 9th. our top story. the prime minister will lay wreaths in belgium and france today to honour the fallen soldiers of the first world war. the ceremonies, in the belgian city

of mons and thiepval cemetery in france, will start three days of remembrance events to mark the centenary of the armistice deal which ended the four—year conflict. our europe reporter gavin lee is in mons. just over an hour before theresa may arrives, take us through what will be happening. mons is particularly significant, it has the dubious honour of being the place where the war was first thought and ended in the first world war. it is where british troops in august 1914 first entered the conflict with germans, they suffered heavy defeats and the retreat from mons, germany occupied this whole area for four years and then 100 years ago today was when british and canadian forces started to come back to mons and liberated the area before the armistice this weekend. behind me, for security, we

can't go too far because theresa may has just arrived but here in the cemetery, there are two particular graves, amongst the many, just because it is the first and last british soldier to die, are buried here, 17—year—old john park, who was a reconnaissance cyclist shot at the outbreak of war and opposite, just a few yards away from him, deprive its george ellison, the last soldier to be shot on a reconnaissance just outside mons. —— private george ellison. theresa may is here right now and about to take part in the commemoration and then she moves on to albert and the val and the memorials around the river, said of the —— the site of much bloody fighting during the first world war. remembrance events across the weekend for the 19 million people, 10 million civilians and 9 million troops, that lost their lives 100 yea rs troops, that lost their lives 100 years ago, this weekend. gavin, thank you. we will be back with you

later. a vigil has taken place in california to remember the 12 people who were killed in yesterday's shooting at a bar. police say the gunman was a former marine who had suspected mental health issues. our los angeles correspondent peter bowes reports. another vigil for victims of a mass shooting in america. a town engulfed in grief, a community struggling to come to terms with a senseless tragedy that's all too familiar. the people of thousand oaks are doing what they can, but this is the latest shooting where no—one has any answers. we're here today because we are born and raised here in thousand oaks and we want to give back to our community. we had friends here last night and one of them passed away and we found out briefly, ten minutes ago, and it's shocking, it's sad and these shootings need to stop. we need... we need to find a solution for this. it's... the violence needs to end now, and so we're here and we want to give back and this is the only way we, i feel i can help out. 12 people were killed when a gunman with suspected mental health issues

went on a rampage in the busy bar. david long was a former marine who was known to the local authorities. the police say he used a legally owned semi—automatic handgun which had an extended magazine that's illegal in the state of california. his motive isn't known. it was a country music night at the borderline bar and grill, a venue popular with students. their stories are beginning to be told now, stories of bravery and of young lives tragically cut short. there have been many tributes to the 29—year veteran of the local sheriff's office, ron helus, who was planning to retire next year. his swift action in confronting the gunman is believed to have helped save many lives. he died in hospital. president trump has paid tribute to the great bravery shown by the police, but this is another american town, another community, planning funerals and wondering if the shootings will ever end. peter bowes, bbc news, los angeles.

there are unconfirmed reports of fatalities as two major wildfires continue to burn across the us state of california. thousands have been forced to leave their homes north of sacramento as buildings including a hospital caught fire. further south, strong winds are hampering efforts to control another blaze. but the california state fire department told us there could be some relief in sight. we're still working under a red flag warning here. we have offshore winds and drive fuels. it's the most critical time that fires can burn. going forward, we have a lot of aircraft fighting fires, flying constantly. luckily the red flags are supposed to end tomorrow about midday. some relief is hopefully in sight for us, but we do have thousands of firefighters around the state of california trying to contain these two fires and trying to get containment and extinguishing going. one person has died and two people are in hospital after a stabbing

incident in the australian city of melbourne. mobile phone videos posted online show a car in flames and a man, with what looks like a knife, trying to attack police officers, he is in a critical condition in hospital. he was shot by officers. there's been no word about the motive of the attacker but police say there's "no known link to terrorism". the new head of the parole board says there's been a re—think in the way inmates are released from prison early. it follows the controversy earlier in the year around the proposed release of the serial sex offenderjohn worboys. in herfirst interview, caroline corby told the bbc that her organisation had lost the confidence of the public. she said fewer prisoners were being released and panels were demanding more information before making decisions. outpatient appointments are stuck "in the 18th century", according to leading doctors, who are calling for the health service to use new technology such as video calling. the royal college of physicians says many hospital appointments are unnecessary and a waste of money and health leaders should embrace

technology such as video calling and online tools to save money. we're using what is really an 18th—century solution to delivering care outside of hospitals for 21st—century problems, and we're demanding patients attend hospital in person to receive what could be communicated to them in other ways, and that engenders huge amounts of cost to the person and society in general in the way that we're delivering our care. the democratic unionist party has accused the prime minister of breaking a promise that she would never sign up to a brexit deal that treated northern ireland differently from the rest of the uk. the times newspaper claims it has seen a leaked letter sent from theresa may to dup leader arlene foster. we can speak now to our political correspondent, iain watson. good to see you. we were talking earlier to the culture secretary about this and i mean, you were listening in, there's an issue of

trust now that needs to be almost repaired. that's right, that is what it comes down to, as is so often the case in politics, trust is the keyword. what the culture secretary jeremy wright, a former law officer, was saying was that the prime minister would never do a deal that involved a de facto border down the irish sea. but it all depends on your interpretation. in this leaked letter from theresa may to the dup leader, she says that the eu's proposal keep northern ireland inside eu rules and customs, for example, if all else fails and there is not a trade deal, that proposal would never come into force. what the dup wanted her to say was that she would never sign up to it in the first place. they think she might be prepared to put this in any withdrawal agreement with the european union, perhaps as an option further down the line that might never happen but she might put it in as an option, as the kind of price of getting a withdrawal agreement by

the end of the month so parliament can the end of the month so parliament ca n vote the end of the month so parliament can vote on the eu deal before the end of the year. downing street as well as jeremy wright are saying there is nothing in the letter to suggest this. but when relations between the government and the ten mp5 who are basically propping the government up because it's got no overall majority, if there is such distrust between them, then a lot of repair work might be necessary, not necessarily to get a deal with brussels but to get the deal through the house of commons subsequently. this just shows how every utterance, every sylla ble this just shows how every utterance, every syllable that the prime minister utters on this very, very sensitive issue, is being poured over, not just by sensitive issue, is being poured over, notjust by her opponents but also by her potential allies as well stop what i know, can you imagine having to be that careful for the next few months over every single word? to watch every nuance? quite incredible. thank you forjoining us. as many as 14 shops a day are closing on uk high streets as retailers face their toughest trading climate in five years. a report by the accountancy firm pwc found fashion and electrical stores

had suffered most as customers shop more online. nearly 2,700 shops closed in the first half of the year. time now is coming up to 8:11am. matt will have the weather for us and mike will keep us up to date with the sport. as we've been hearing, the prime minister will lay wreaths in belgium and france today to honour the fallen soldiers of the first world war. the ceremonies, in the belgian city of mons and the thiepval cemetery in france, will start three days of remembrance events to mark the centenary of the armistice deal which ended the four—year conflict. on saturday, theresa may willjoin the queen, senior royals and military leaders to watch a festival of remembrance at the royal albert hall, featuring performances by celebrity singers and armed forces bands. and sunday will see the traditional laying of poppy wreaths at the cenotaph in london, followed by a service at westminster abbey. our correspondent robert hall has

been travelling along part of the western front and this morning he's in nieuwpoort, in belgium, where the trench lines ended. good morning. i can see slightly blue skies and it is a remarkable story of what happened in that place. yes, that's right, charlie, good morning to you both. we are right at the end of what i suppose has been about 150 miles we have travelled from the start of the week at ami and to this significant spot for the belt of people. king albert behind me, the wartime king is here, overlooking a spot that is of tremendous significance. on the way to show you that, can ijust point out the yellowish clay from which the monument has been made, the bricks, has been dug out of every belgian battlefield, every battlefield where belgian troops fought —— troops ought to the extent that, and you can see one example, there is still shrapnel embedded in

there is still shrapnel embedded in the clay and that is all over the monument. but this is what i wanted to show you, called the goose's foot, and it is a series of sluices and locks that connect the sea behind us to the inland waterways and canals of belgium. at the beginning of the war in 1914, the germans were right at the edge of nieuwpoort and still coming forward. they were days away of the riek machar from getting across they were days away of the riek macharfrom getting across belgium and into france which could have changed the whole course of the war in the first few months. there was some very quick thinking here. it was decided to open the sluices and allow floodwater to come off the land and prevent the sea water from going in and flooding this very flat area of europe. the sluices were opened by a team of army engineers. the lock keepers had all gone. they found a retired chap who came along and told them how to operate the locks and they opened the sluices and flooded farmland. the germans we re

and flooded farmland. the germans were brought to a halt. they didn't advance any further. from then on, the two lines were static. come back to me in the next hour because we will look at the future of remembrance as this crucial first world war centenary passes. robert, thank you very much. we're joined now by the historian and broadcaster tessa dunlop, who has been looking into the role played by women during the first world war. it is interesting, listening to robert, and it's fascinating hearing the stories of those places but there are areas of the first world war that get more attention than others and that is something you have been drawn to. i feel that very strongly. first, every nation historically is it guilty of navel—gazing so we will shine our lab most closely on the home front and western front and we've become better at including the imperial, non—white narrative from world war i recently but we still wholly neglect the eastern front, where actually, in terms of fatalities and numbers who died, it is horrific. i did a

straw poll around friends and people on the train yesterday and nobody could tell me more than one of our allies of the eastern front, where countries like serbia, lost nearly a quarter of their population, romania, nearly an eighth of the population, as well of course, russia, which kind of sucked up the horrorfor russia, which kind of sucked up the horror for three years and then revolted. the reason i came across this was through discovering an english born princess who became queen of romania, queen marie, and in1918, queen of romania, queen marie, and in 1918, the new york times wrote she is the vivid and unforgettable personality of the war. you had best explain something about it. this is moving footage of her. so who was she? queen victoria's granddaughter, she? queen victoria's granddaughter, she was born in kent and there is a statue about to be erected to her. she was married off at age 17 to this very plain romanian king, or prints at the time, and then in the end in 1916, romania finally decided after we browbeat and bullied them, we know they are not going to cope and sure enough they collapsed, they join us in1916,

and sure enough they collapsed, they join us in 1916, and in three months, germany is in bucharest and queen marie adopts, she becomes the symbol of their nation and one of the ways you does this she never gets out of her nurse's whites. on the eastern front, in orthodox countries, they go abroad, collars, costs, down to the ground, like madonna with the red cross, the universal symbol of hope, which remains today, blazing on her forehead. one of the reasons this was a significant and powerful was that edith cavell, the british nurse, had been murdered, it was such an own goal and a tragedy, she was murdered by the germans in 1915, a nurse who helped both sides, and she was trying to get injured allied troops into neutral holland and the germans caught her and they murdered her. we made a massive pr thing of this. we were desperate at the time to get america to come in on our side at the time. it's interesting to hear how we did that because in this day in age, you can understand

the, so to speak, you can understand how it works and social media and tv footage all around. how did we manage to take the story? edith cavell was actually a middle—aged woman who was not portrayed that way and when we decided to appeal to the americans to help us out. no, you are quite right, interestingly, she was 49 and a career woman, a classic hardy spinster, she went out to help. she was remodelled as this helpless victim, you know, this woman who had been killed, not entirely helpless because she was a nurse, obviously, but she had been martyred. we did that because it was the era of the emerging mass media, arguably more people read newspapers then that they do now and they certainly read more about foreign relations if the papers that anything to go by. you have newsreel and photography. it was very effective and the result was, and anyway, it was true even before edith cavell‘s death that the a cce pta ble edith cavell‘s death that the acceptable imagery of a woman during

the war was to be a nurse. it was feminine, it was a role that was seen as acceptable for women in a very controversial time for them with the suffragettes and the vote being given in 1918. for a man, with the suffragettes and the vote being given in 1918. fora man, it was a soldier ‘s uniform and for the woman, it was the nurse. we needed a bit of glamour and celebrity. another slightly wider thought if i may, robert was talking earlier about 100 years, and maybe this is a time when the way the first world war is marked might change. but then you hear those individual stories again, and you think they are timeless. people are always going to wa nt to timeless. people are always going to want to hear their stories, do you think it will change the way, after 100 years, will we do the same ain? 100 years, will we do the same again? you have to remember that history is always politicised. that is why, you know, they are always tinkering with the history syllabus in schools. actually, it would do us all a massive favour, i think, in schools. actually, it would do us all a massive favour, ithink, if in schools. actually, it would do us all a massive favour, i think, if we could get a bit of space from our

own two 20th—century wartime narratives and look at the broader picture, and particularly the first world war, i think we struggle a bit sometimes with our relations with the eastern europe and it might help if we understood these countries fought alongside us. they were our kindred spirits. actually when countries like romania joined us and greece in 1917, we hailed this as a massive triumph, if romania joined us, we must be going to win! it did not turn out to be the case at all, though, because all the way through it was gridlock and we desperately needed to show people we would win. if you get a new country on your side and then you get a queen who is english, "have i not english blood in my english, "have i not english blood in ' english, "have i not english blood in my veins?" queen marie said, it is great and distracts people from the horror on the ground. very interesting. i'm talking more about it if anyone is interested. it is 8:19am. time for the weather now, and we have matt here in the studio with us this morning. a red treat. i'm missing london, though, here's a

picture, not really! a lovely start down in the capital from picture, not really! a lovely start down in the capitalfrom one picture, not really! a lovely start down in the capital from one of our weather watchers. really summing up what it is for many of you, a bit of cloud and a bit of sunshine, mostly dry but things will change drastically across western areas through the day. severe gales were developed, heavy rain and rough seas, could cause some problems for the evening rush hour. keep up with your bbc local radio station if you are on the move. this area of low pressure has been to the west, bringing the warm airfrom pressure has been to the west, bringing the warm air from the south this week but it starts to push closer, strengthening the wind and even before that, outbreaks of rain this morning in southern and western areas. most persistent around parts of central scotland. showers working their way northwards and eastwards through the day fairly erratically. most of you will spend the bulk of the morning and early afternoon dry with some zadran, especially in central and eastern parts but the breeze will pick up and into the afternoon it turns wetter in northern ireland. we have had flooding over the past ready for hours in south—west wales and more rain to come later today. devon and cornwall, isles of scilly and channel islands turning weather.

10-14 is channel islands turning weather. 10—14 is the high. on the mild side for this time of year and while we will see fairly stormy weather later, nothing untoward to the time of year. very rough seas and gusts of year. very rough seas and gusts of 50 or 60 mph and maybe even a bit more through the evening rush—hour. rain extending across western wales and into north—western england by six or 7bi love man, south—west scotla nd six or 7bi love man, south—west scotland and still there in eastern parts of northern ireland where there could be some especially lively downpours to see the evening out. eastern areas start the evening rush—hour driver in the first part of the night, it will turn wet and windy. claire squires into the west later with a few showers. things turning cooler, western scotland and northern ireland especially, 12 spots sheltered enough for a touch of frost but most will be frost free, too much breeze and cloud and for some, a lot of rain. into the weekend, if you have any plans for the outdoors, eastern areas always best for more than sunshine, southern and western areas for the showers. to begin with, north—west scotla nd showers. to begin with, north—west scotland and south—east england on saturday will see the remnants of

the overnight rain quickly clearing away. then southern and western coasts and heals most prone to frequent, heavy and thundery downpours. gusty winds as well. the further east and north you are, you may get away with a largely dry day with one or two showers possible into the afternoon. as we head into armistice day, low pressure still with us. when it is with us, the aries rising and help the shower clouds to build. this time, it looks like the showers could turn into more persistent rain across southern counties of england, sussex and kent. further showers north in particular. some will stay dry throughout remember a sunday. parts of central and eastern wales, a good pa rt of central and eastern wales, a good part of central and eastern england, not a bad day at all, 10—13. into next week, wet in north and west areas, and further south, dryer. everyone will understand how you got western and northern mixed up.

8:22am. fly—tipping — it's the scourge of our streets, costs millions to clean up and is on the rise, increasing by nearly 45% in england, scotland and wales in the last five years. if you're caught doing it, you'll be fined, but it's now hoped new penalties for people who pay rogue companies to get rid of their waste will also tackle the problem. samantha fenwick reports from birmingham. it looks like a dump. it feels like a ghetto. it's really frightening to be walking down here. imagine what it's like to have to walk through this every morning on your way to school or to work. it makes us feel unsafe. i believe that where there is rubbish, there's less respect for the area and there's more antisocial behaviour and crime. we've got a sign there that's broken, that shows the respect they've got for the area. fly—tipping is a problem right across birmingham.

this is a particularly bad area. there's household waste, fridges, mattresses and there's rotting food. there are flies everywhere, and the smell is quite horrendous. the situation has become so bad in parts of birmingham that over the past few years, local people have started going out several times a week, cleaning up the streets where they live. it's on every single road you're driving on, inner cities are a tip. the minute you report it, it gets clean, a couple of hours later, by the time the evening comes, the rubbish appears again. it's getting diabolical. who is tipping all of this stuff? definitely local residents. the tip is only a mile down the road, so why people would dump it here, i have no idea. the problem isn't isolated to birmingham. all areas of the uk are seeing an increase in fly—tipping. analysis of government data suggests it has increased by 44% in the past five years, and in 2017 it cost taxpayers £69 million to clear it up.

residents here in birmingham say the problem is made worse because there aren't enough bin collections. but the council say that's nonsense. this is down to laziness. i find it frustrating that people think it's ok to do this, you know, because it isn't. no matter who we are or what issues or frustrations we face, it is not acceptable to go and take your rubbish and throw it on somebody else's back door. birmingham council has a specialist team investigating these types of crimes. we've found some evidence that shows a residential address, so we'll be going along this afternoon to knock on the door to find out why the resident's address is in this rubbish. later this year, local councils in england will get powers to fine households up to £400 if they pay someone to take their rubbish

and dump it in places like this. samantha fenwick, bbc news. those images are really shocking, and interesting seeing how they begin through committing evidence where it has come from and following it back from the source. schrag wrote to the source. lots of you have engaged. elizabeth may emails to say she thinks a good solution would be to ensure all rubbish waste vehicles are fitted with a gps system that shows where the vehicle is travelling to prove they are dumping in legitimate places and not illegally. you won't get caught out and if you pay for some dummy can prove they are going to legitimate site. clint brown is a licenced waste carrier and says local councils need to lower their charges to help stop fly—tipping. those people, the licensed ones, have to pay a fee to get rid of the waste. polly sellars has emailed to say local councils need to provide more waste facilities. she says long queues put people off and makes them more likely to fly—tip on the way home.

matthew wotherspoon emails to say the problem is that local tips now demand payment to dump rubbish. he says this is why people leave their rubbish wherever they can and drive away. thank you for your thoughts this morning. a 20 6am. time now to get the news, travel and weather where you are. the weather is going to turn pretty nasty this afternoon across western areas of the uk. quite a big area of low pressure moving in and these weather fronts coming in will it bring heavy rain and the white lines will start to get closer and closer together and the wind will be strengthening. through the morning a few showers across central areas but they should clear away and then it is the rain that comes later this afternoon spreading into northern

ireland and eventually west wales. some sunshine ahead of it but strong winds, gusty winds around the irish sea coast of 50 or 60 mph. the rain will move east so a very pleasant evening and as the rain clears away some clear spells coming through to night and temperatures around seven or 11 degrees. the winds will ease as well and going into the weekend it will be unsettled and then quite a few showers around southern areas and western coasts of wales and england. some sunshine between the showers and maximum temperatures of 11 or 15 celsius. for sunday, remembrance sunday, fairly similar. a few showers around and the low pressure is quite a big area with the wind spiralling around which will feed in the showers across the

uk, soldiering sunday a mixture of sunny spells and showers mainly around southern coast and western coast of england and wales and it should stay mostly drive through the day with sunshine and a maximum temperature of around ten to 13 degrees. stays unsettled over the next few days so look out the heavy rain and strong winds this afternoon and through tonight. this is business live from bbc news with victoria fritz and vishala sri—pathma. it's been a fairytale year for disney — but will it mean a nightmare for netflix? live from london, that's our top story on friday the 9th of november. emboldened by those record profits — of almost $13 billion for the year,

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