rises and other grievances who are converging on paris this weekend. to the middle east next, and the saudi arabia—based arab news is giving us a big message. crown prince mohammed bin salman is back. he's not in disgrace despite the killing ofjamal khashoggi and is now off on a regional tour. and finally, a story to mark black friday — the start of the christmas shopping season. spare a thought for the people who are fulfilling your online orders. staff at several amazon depots are planning demonstrations and strikes today in protest at their working conditions in the vast grey warehouses where they package up your presents. a present we have here. with me is david buik, who's a market commentator with the financial betting firm core spreads.

what a lovely greeting. let's begin with the sun, and a picture of theresa may with a pricetag around her neck. black friday. they take £339 billion from us and we get diddly squat. that comment comes from ex— foreign secretary doris johnson, calling it the deal of the century. what you make of this? steve fawkes at his very best. it is clear what the sun feels about this. remainer, lever, whatever you are, this is a shocking deal. at the government has no power, no majority, and is in a corner. and what theresa may has tried to do, which tony travis explained erudite flea, is to get something we can hang out how time to start negotiating something. —— eruditely. but while you have this imponderables, the single market,

the customs union and the irish border, with no end date during the period of transfer, nobody will be happy with this. we hope that, and i think this is where the problem is, we hope that if you get the basis of a negotiation on the table, regardless of whether you approve of it or not, you hope that you will tighten it up in the next few years. we need to have an end date on this. you hope that this is going to be the way forward. such is the feeling on every side of the house, of disenchantment with the whole thing, i think the deal with brussels will get through, but when she gets back to the house of commons i think she has a real problem. and what i don't wa nt to has a real problem. and what i don't want to see is the choice of victoria, which i think is distinctly possible, between hard brexit, we are out of here, free trade, dangerous, because we have had to make use of uncertainty, and we will get at least another two yea rs of we will get at least another two years of uncertainty. —— two years of uncertainty. another referendum would be just as dangerous. why do

you say that? don't you think you are poking a stick in the eye of democracy? that is what i think. and liberty says, we didn't know what we we re liberty says, we didn't know what we were voting for. then find out. that is what you should have done. it is all very well to say that you were conned. the whole campaign was a disgrace. i don't care if you were a remainer or leaver. everybody involved in it should be ashamed of ourselves. it was disgraceful. the fa ct ourselves. it was disgraceful. the fact remains we did have a vote, and that has to be respected, in my humble opinion. i just that has to be respected, in my humble opinion. ijust hope, but i am not confident, that what is on the table now, that people can actually pull around and say, it is an awful deal, but we've got time to actually improve it. otherwise, if i am lucky enough to be speaking to you again in one year, we will say to each other, what was that all about? because we have a deal here which is worse than staying in the eu, but that is what is on the table at the moment, in my opinion. sorry. let's talk about... well, we're not

going to talk about the irish question, but a question posed by the irish times about the practicalities of brexit. the uk is seeking irish help on some of the tech solutions but they seem thin on the ground. again, i think this is a red herring. i understand, i mean, if the taoiseach was and kenny, this would be a done deal. —— enda. it is just good sense and pragmatism. people say, you came to the eu, you wa nted people say, you came to the eu, you wanted out, this is how you have to play it. i say, nonsense. wanted out, this is how you have to play it. isay, nonsense. the republic of ireland is so important to the uk, and vice—versa. if you are looking to make trouble, make trouble. it shouldn't be necessary. ifa trouble. it shouldn't be necessary. if a border goes up we leave it to the eu to put it up, because we shouldn't do it. i've inked that technology is the right way forward during the course of the next two or three years. —— i think. but i would like to see, i mean, island really needs the uk big—time, and it is no

point saying, we are part of the european union and we get money from the european union. —— ireland. you asked for this, so we're not going to be constructive at all. we have had this stand—off, but let's hope is productive going forward. let's hope it is more productive than what is happening in france at the moment with fuel protests, covered by le figaro. violence has been flaring as emmanuel macron refuses to back down over this. he has made a stance ever since he became president, and probably if paul stewart fillon had not had problems he might not have had the ability to get in as easily as he did. —— monsieur fillon. he thinks he can take on the french style of life. people have been trained to do that since marie antoinette and have failed. i don't see why he thinks he can do that in double quick time. when the french get irritated, they get irritated. and the problem with this is, you are getting this fuel prices going up, people are trying to tinker with the hours they work. i was in france three weeks ago and i was shocked how disliked emmanuel macron is.

absolutely shocked. why was that shocking? because you are trying to push to change the way that we have our life too quickly. without actually going through the due process. and i think there is that sense, because he is so autonomous at the moment, that he conveys this atmosphere of arrogance, maybe. and i think the french do not like that. 0k. i think the french do not like that. ok. speaking of leaders, and the way in which they are portrayed, a fascinating story in the arab news. a fascinating way in which to cover this story. crown prince mohammad bin salman has left saudi arabia for the uae. he is on regional tool, and as you can see from the picture, he is back and apparently there is nothing to see. i mean, you and i would say, cynically, this is pr. we have had a bad scene, we need to get our public relations, so we are going up to these various parts. on a serious note, he could do himself a serious note, he could do himself a huge favour by speaking to the eu,

sheikh mohammed and others, about ages, disgraceful, very depressing, very sad, they could both do themselves a real favour. very sad, they could both do themselves a realfavour. —— hedges. sheikh mohammed has a huge grey sourcing empire. as well as the fact that the united arab emirates is a very important defence client of ours. what about this, this duty parade, which is effectively what it is. yes. -- beauty parade. doesn't he need to build his reputation outside the region?” he need to build his reputation outside the region? i agree. i would much rather see him back here, or in france, or in germany, or in china, or in the us, even if there is some verbal abuse thrown around. it would be very important for him, to stand tall and show a bit of contrition, which we have not seen from the saudi government at all. it is interesting, you mentioned the us, donald trump said they remained asset fast partner. washington

remained asset fast partner of saudi arabia. —— a steadfast. remained asset fast partner of saudi arabia. -- a steadfast. at the end of the day there is no more pragmatic person in the world. the only thing that matters to donald trump is business. he knows that if he were to pull the plug on saudi arabia the cost to lockheed martin, boeing, general dynamix, united technologies, whitney pratt, it would be huge —— would be huge. so even though this is a truly awful diplomatic situation, he is a pragmatist. i don't agree with him, but there we are. pragmatism obviously playing a key role in some of the thoughts of the amazon workers across europe who are going to be striking today will suck out protesting about what they describe as inhuman warehouse working today on black friday, when they will be filling lots of orders right across the world for people. quite shocking, some of the things that have come out here. freedom of information requests showing that in june, ambulances were called up 600

times to 14 amazon warehouses over the past three years. we talked a year ago with mike ashley about his warehouse in derbyshire. he had his wrists well and truly slapped. this is not good news. geoff bizos has seen his huge fortune come down by 20 -- 35% in the seen his huge fortune come down by 20 —— 35% in the last two months. he should be very conscious of the fact that human relationships and labour relations, he has upped the anti—to $15 an hour, it is not enough. we will leave at there. thank you for your time. stay with us on bbc news. much more to come. see you soon. hello there.

for many places, thursday started on a very cold note. some spots got almost down to —7 degrees. but for friday morning, not as cold, because there's a lot more cloud around. it will be often cloudy for the day ahead. showers for some, but not all. the satellite picture shows quite a lot of cloud. this cloud across the north—east is thick, low cloud, producing the odd spot of rain and drizzle. this brighter, more speckled cloud down to the south—west is capable of producing some showers. so throughout friday, we have the potential for some heavy, thundery showers across the south—west. some of these drifting into east wales, the west midlands, maybe north—west england. also some patchy rain across the north—east of scotland. elsewhere, a lot of dry weather, but equally, a lot of cloud. now, if you're across the midlands, east anglia and the south—east, i'm hopeful that this cloud will break up a little to reveal some spells of sunshine. the odd brighter glimpse elsewhere, but hefty showers never too far away from the south—west. for north—west england, particularly cumbria, also northern ireland and south—west scotland, the best chance of sunshine for the day. for eastern and northern scotland, a lot of cloud. misty, murky, drizzly and damp conditions for a lot of time. temperatures generally 6—10 degrees. going through friday night, we keep large areas of cloud floating around, stopping the temperatures from dropping too far. the showers rumble into the far south—west, these could be heavy and thundery and even cause

a few travel issues. those overnight lows between 3—7 degrees in most places. we start the weekend like this. high pressure to the north, low pressure to the south. that brings us an easterly wind, which, at this time of year, will never be particularly warm. one in the system perilously close to southern england likely to feed some rain in here. uncertainty about just how far north it will get. really only spots to the south of the m4 are likely to be effected. otherwise, mostly dry. the best of any brightness or sunshine to be found in the west. those temperatures, 7—10 degrees, not feeling too bad. but on sunday, we are likely to bring some slightly colder air back in from the north—east. those temperatures taking a bit of a tumble. still a lot of cloud, still the odd spot of rain and drizzle. not as much rain at this stage to the south. but those temperatures back into single digits for most of us. and then into the start of next week, a bit of a battleground for a time. high pressure trying to hold firm. this area of low pressure pushing in from the atlantic. it looks like most of us will have one more fine day on monday. it will still be pretty cloudy. then for tuesday, there's the potential for some wet and increasingly windy weather to push in from the west. good morning. welcome to breakfast with charlie stayt and naga munchetty.

our headlines today: fresh hope for a british student jailed for life in dubai for spying. the uk government says it's hopeful the situation can be resolved. theresa may says a brexit deal with europe is close, but spain is again threatening to oppose it over gibraltar. the not—so—smart energy meters. claims a planned roll—out is behind schedule, costs are escalating and a million of them have stopped working. and on black friday, a warning that those bargains might not be as good as they claim to be. england's big hitters eye another world cup. the women's 50 over champions, are now into the final of the 20 over world cup will face australia in antigua tomorrow.