payments, with chinese consumers accustomed to using their fingerprints or faces to part with their cash. and then the daily telegraph a picture of prince charles and his family. marking his 70th birthday. stephanie hare is back. let's get stuck in. i would like to get your ta ke stuck in. i would like to get your take on this draft agreement between uk, eu officials. the i says deal done, it is and all the front pages in the uk, many are saying it is not done, there is still a lot up in the air, there is a lot to be done today. yeah, i cannot wait to read the prints here. and there is a lot of it. and for the past you, we have had london, dublin and belfast locked into a real disagreement about how to prevent a hard border being reinstated with northern ireland and the republic ireland. how they have managed to get around

this ina how they have managed to get around this in a way that is acceptable to all parties remains unclear at this stage. none of us have seen what that fine detail is that if we are going to end up keeping the united kingdom in the customs union, that means that we are effectively still going to be having rules set by brussels, but have no ability to contribute to those because we pulled out, even some remainers and people who represent a party in northern ireland, the dup, it bizarre. theresa may has to get her cabinet on board today, then it obviously has to get to westminster. there is a lot to do that even just in cabinets, some are saying they could be resignations today. they could be resignations today. they could be resignations today, it almost surprised me, strategically it might make more sense to keep that one down the road and actually put to parliament because then you have more support. why put your career on the line now unless you really, truly believe this is unacceptable? -- cabinet. but a

principled politician may be a rare thing indeed. we shall keep an eye on itand thing indeed. we shall keep an eye on it and cover every twist and turn. that's now move on to wired and its coverage of the fires, it has a very strong headline, this is what the reckoning looks like, basically saying this is because of climate change. that is not proven fa cts climate change. that is not proven facts by any means, there are lots of discussions about this, but it is absolutely horrendous what is going on and there are still hundreds of people missing, the death toll is rising, and the fires are still blazing. yeah, this is one of the worst fires in terms of damage, in terms of not just worst fires in terms of damage, in terms of notjust cost of human life that acres destroyed. only 30% of the is contained. whole town. whole towns, and we are seeing the fact that the fire season, when i was growing up in the united states as a child, this was always a part of california's cycle but now it is the coming year round. it is happening all the time, it is the scale on

which it is happening and the level of devastation. what this article is arguing is that yes, despite the fa ct arguing is that yes, despite the fact that california as a state is done most strain the environmentally friendly, it isjust done most strain the environmentally friendly, it is just paying the price for the wider climate issues across our planet and it is very vulnerable. and the question is whether california will get federal help or not, which obviously they are arguing we need this desperately, with thousands and thousands of homes, businesses, buildings destroyed. absolutely, the celebrity homes in malibu, but this is also going up the country and a much smaller communities, people who have known resources at all need a bailout. let's have a look at the washington post, looking at the first lady melania trump. her office calling for the firing of the white house national security official. this is a senior member of staff in the white house. what is going on here? this is a very unusual story. so she wants to see the deputy national security adviser sacked.

and normally, the first lady does not get involved with anything like this and if they were two, it would be done behind the scenes. so we have to try to figure out what sort of signalling is happening here, why the first lady would do that so publicly. she would not have done it without the president's approval and that of his office. and why is she wanting this mira ricardel gone?m is odd because the national security adviserjohn bolton likes his deputy, but the secretary of defence james mattis didn't and there were clashes during the transition when donald trump was first installed in the office, so it could just be a classic personality clash. not everybody is going to work out in this particular consideration that we are seeing in the white house, but there may well be something more. this is highly unusual, i cannot stress how we this is to see a first lady doing their. does not seem like a style. it is interesting, this time yesterday i was talking to make guest about the

memoirs of michelle obama, the formerfirst lady, just memoirs of michelle obama, the former first lady, just being released yesterday at how much interest there is and what she has to say and what her viewpoint is on everything and whether she will run for president as well. yeah. and sort of the day after, we had this news and headlines for melania trump. could not have two more different women really. yeah, americans are sort of obsessed with the first lady in the sense that she plays this softening, more human face, and they often have more high public approval ratings than their husbands, trying to see their personal styles, it is only smoke that comes up, and we have to guess what is coming up behind the scenes. what we have seen this particular call for someone to be fired is very unusual stock won't let's now move on to unusual stock won't let's now move ontoa unusual stock won't let's now move on to a story that is something you are very much an expert in and have written a lot about, biometrics. -- let's now move on. this article, techcrunch, was talking about

biometrics is very much a part of singles day, there were incredible figures out of singles day, $1 billion in sales in a matter of seconds, it was incredible. chinese consumers are quick to adopt biometrics, is this a good thing? first of all, and it depends what biometrics are talking about. biometrics can be anything from indian ata biometrics can be anything from indian at a fingerprint is an fact, the police you already use them in detecting crime. it can be your voice, it can even be your online behavioural patterns. what we're seeing here in china is a real normalisation of using a body data, which is unique to you, to be able to conduct transactions, but the problem is as everybody gets really co mforta ble problem is as everybody gets really comfortable with that and just use as their body all the time, the government is of course using that same data to the population and including up to1 million uighur muslims who have been put into detention camps in the north—western

china. if you want an idea of where biometrics can go really bad and create a dystopian vision, china is a really good example about and that could happen in any country in the world. some might argue that when it comes to buying stuff, if you are using a biometrics, then that is much, much more secure than any other means and many of us have been victims of the natural forward because we are just sharing owl account details and card details quite liberally online. yeah, think it depends first of all on how the biometrics are stored. —— our. anyone who uses an iphone for example, might use their fingerprints, it is not the actual law fingerprint that you might do at a police station, it is what is called hash, so it is a mathematical representation, so that is safer. what is interesting is something you have been talking about and discussing is that in the uk, we use biometrics pretty much more than anywhere else and i was saying to you, in my children's school, which isa you, in my children's school, which is a normal local state school, they use their fund to buy their lunch?

that's right and what is really worrying about biometrics in the united kingdom as we do not have a strategy that is fit for purpose to regulate the use of this technology. and the data. and the data, that is why i say china looks at the worst—case scenario why i say china looks at the worst—case scenario for anyone who is concerned about privacy and civil liberties, those abuses could happen anywhere, even here. with that chilling thought, let's move something a bit more cheery, the birthday of prince charles, the throne. a lovely photo on the front page of the daily telegraph, it is elsewhere as well. the latest family shot, it is gorgeous. he has been talking about when he does take over from his mum and become king, how he will scale back on his political interventions, all sorts of insight into the man that is prince charles. although i really like the fact that he has always been so consistently a supporter and advocate for nature, as we have just discussed with climate change and the story in california, that is in fact a deeply

political topic not to care about the earth, to worry about how we're going to reduce our footprints, what can do to try to yield environment. it may be more political than he realises we may be very clever in taking that... —— to heal the environment. i remember years and yea rs environment. i remember years and years and years ago when he was becoming more public about his concern about the environment, many just took the mickey out of him, the public, the media, because he was seen as someone on the weird pile. whereas now, it is the international talking point. i think you was ahead of his time. in most countries around the world. he was. great to have you with us. thank you for your thoughts and your contributions. thank you too for your company here and the briefing. whatever you up to today, we hope you have a good one andi today, we hope you have a good one and i will see you soon. —— you are up and i will see you soon. —— you are up to. hello. after the heavy, blustery showers many of us saw to start the new week, tuesday delivered us something much drier, with a good deal of sunshine.

this was the scene on the north yorkshire coast during tuesday afternoon, a very similar picture in perth and kinross. but we already have changes afoot to the western side of the uk. outbreaks of rain will continue to work their way north and eastwards through wednesday morning, courtesy of this frontal system. notice the squeeze in the isobars. some windy conditions as well. quite a wet start to wednesday across northern ireland, north wales, north—west england, and the western side of scotland. not just wet, but windy as well. let's take a look at nine o'clock in the morning in closer detail. much of england and wales, away from the far north—west, will be mainly dry, some bright or sunny spells, but these black wind symbols give an indication of the wind gusts through wednesday morning. so quite widely touching a0 to 50 miles an hour for western coasts, and some heavy and persistent rain across northern ireland, and southern and western scotland. warnings in place here. through wednesday, that rain will be slowly pulling away north and eastwards, so slowly turning drier across northern ireland, north—west england, central and southern scotland.

eventually that rain clears away from the highlands and by the afternoon, most places becoming dry. some spells of sunshine and very mild, 15 or 16 celsius, particularly for the eastern side of scotland, given any sunshine and some help from the foehn effect. now, through wednesday evening, we'll see some lingering cloud across parts of scotland. further outbreaks of rain arriving into the far west of northern ireland, and perhaps later in the night, across the western isles of scotland. elsewhere, it's dry. a mixture of variable cloud and clear spells, but could see some mist and low cloud developing as the night wears on. a little bit cooler where we keep clearer skies, temperatures down to four or five celsius. holding up to double figures where we keep the cloud. but it's mild air which continues to flow across the uk as we go into thursday. it'll be a mainly dry day for most. there will still be this front fringing the far west of scotland and northern ireland. more cloud here and some outbreaks of rain. still quite a breezy day. mist and low cloud quite stubborn to clear in places so some may have a fairly gloomy day, but where it does thin and break, we'll see some good spells of sunshine and again,

temperatures in the midteens, 13 to 16 celsius. looking ahead towards the end of the week, we've got an area of high pressure keeping things fairly settled and keeping fronts in the atlantic at bay, so heading through friday and into the weekend, most will be dry. however, with lighter winds, we're likely to see some mist and fog and that may linger at times, and temperatures just starting to slide away through saturday. bye— bye. good morning. welcome to breakfast, with dan walker and naga munchetty. our headlines today: theresa may agrees a deal on brexit with the eu. the prime minister now has to persuade her cabinet to agree the plan when it meets later today. ministers have been briefed on the details in a series of one to one meetings, but there's opposition on all sides. ending a postcode lottery for people with type one diabetes.

thousands will be able to get monitors that can help save their lives. charles at 70. new photographs are released of the prince of wales and family to celebrate his birthday. good morning.