we are going to start with something apart from brexit which is notable these days. the police to be armed in crackdown on gangs. notjust on patrol but with visible weapons. visible weapons. the anti—crime task force suggested this to the government early this year the met police now would like to send officers armed with guns to deal directly with violent criminals, the story says. i can't see this going wrong, can you? presumably this isn't more police officers, this is the same overstretched force we already have been armed. fewer than 10% of officers are trained to use weapons so 10% of officers are trained to use weapons so presumably there will be a programme put in place. i can't help but feel this will lead to more bloodshed. shouldn't we be tackling the cause of all of this? we have had 120 homicides in london this year, shouldn't we be educating our

young people not to be on the street with knives in the first place rather than creating this confrontational atmosphere? rather than creating this confrontational atmosphere ?m rather than creating this confrontational atmosphere? it is a lwa ys confrontational atmosphere? it is always a balance for the police, the community relations aspect, how you balance that with keeping on top of crime and making sure people are safe including your own police officers. the significant thing about this is that in the uk we police by consent and this is a source police by consent and this is a source of pride that the play is to not carry guns and that makes it a different way of policing to other countries in europe and america for example —— the police do not carry guns for the community relations can surely only worsen. the difficulty with the issue is, it seems to have escalated so much over the last year and it wasn't really a concern for papers like the times necessarily while it was going on, and if you

live in london you know these incidents have been happening every week and this seems like a dramatic way of confronting the situation rather than addressing the real reasons behind it. the metro, the king at brexit. farce show —— looking at brexit. they can't even agree with the debate should be on the bbc or itv and what format it will be. the message coming out of numberten is that will be. the message coming out of number ten is that they are looking to have it and the date that has been mooted is the sunday before the so—called meaningful vote on theresa may's deal but all today people have been coming back and forth to journalists saying they want this or that format, and i think itv is the head—to—head version. the bbc, there

was talk of other characters getting involved. it is a very... it is a side issue to brexit, clearly, but people have seized on this as whetherjeremy people have seized on this as whether jeremy corbyn people have seized on this as whetherjeremy corbyn watches the strictly come dancing final beforehand strictly come dancing final before hand or strictly come dancing final beforehand or i'm a celebrity, so this is a welcome respite from the actual nitty—gritty of the deal. this has given us a laugh, whether this comes before i'm a celebrity, this comes before i'm a celebrity, this is a bit of a jerk, they can't even decide this. they are not going to agree on this if they are appealing to different kinds of voters and want a different experience, but we also have the amendment put forward by a group of remain mps from different parties. it has been proposed by hilary benn who is a labour backbencher but he chairs the brexit select committee. it has the support of several other

select committee chairs so this is cross—party with the likes of sarah wollaston, yvette cooper, dominic grieve 's >> studio: -- dominic grieve, and the whole point is that evenif grieve, and the whole point is that even if theresa may's deal does not get through as most people think it worked, it allows parliament to say we don't want no deal and we want parliament to be the ones to decide what happens next. that has been tabled tonight and is a concerted effort to give parliament more of a say over what happens. how opposed the deal will be some the front of the daily telegraph. 100 tory mps have denounced the deal, i do know who has been keeping check, but that seems easily achievable the way they we re seems easily achievable the way they were badgering the prime minister the other day. it seems plausible if you are taking into account everyone

who has spoken out against it and eve ryo ne who has spoken out against it and everyone who has written a letter. the century is more than achievable. even theresa may must know along with her most trusted lieutenancy that this will not go through —— n jojohnson has also been speaking that this could damage the tories for a generation and lead to a landslide defeat at the next generation in line with new labour in 1997 which is interesting. this amendment, and jeremy corbyn saying that a no deal would be sorted out by parliament, so it is not looking good for theresa may's deal. she has said it is this deal or no deal or no brexit. those scenarios seem incompatible. now they seem realistic. the eu have been clear that this is the deal, take it or leave it. the problem now is that

she just doesn't have the numbers. the arithmetic is not look good at this stage. will it really change a couple of weeks' time? the charm offensive is directed at the public. who did not get to vote. yes. she has been trying to court the fisher men in scotland and wales, and fishing is a massive problem and nobody who is concerned about that has had their fears allayed by what she has said so far. the head of the welsh nfu said it was very ambiguous. even those people that she thinks, maybe today i have achieved something more by getting these people on board, it is still not certain for her. you can't releasing what she can do. maybe she knows something she doesn't. maybe

there are shy voters in favour of what she has done. now the guardian. limits on non—eu doctors to be relaxed. this on the day when we hear that while eu immigration must have gone down, net migration is still over 300,000, but many more people are coming in from outside the eu and now we need the doctors. it shows into relief the chaos of the tories immigration policy, they have stuck to this idea of a target of 100,000 net migration but it is never even come close. it has been a key pledge for them throughout, and brexit was framed along those lines. you can stop freedom of movement

potentially but there are people coming in from outside and we also have gaps in our nhs. whether brexiteer throw will be happy if lots of people are coming from the re st of lots of people are coming from the rest of the uk, i don't know if that will satisfy the need to curb immigration that was one of the live issues throughout the referendum. this is the kind of immigration we could have always controlled because this was not part of the freedom of movement if it is outside the eu. these figures have shown that people coming from within the eu have gone down and this has gone up. it is interesting this has also come on the day that the nhs trusts in shrewsbury and telford have been called out for being inadequate for the third year in a row with shortages of midwives and in the emergency rooms, so we need to shortages of midwives and in the emergency rooms, so we need to take this incredibly seriously and actually this could help plug the 93p- actually this could help plug the gap. the financial times now.

michael collins play links donald trump to russia deal —— michael cohen plea. he said he was in discussions about the trump tower in moscow as late as june discussions about the trump tower in moscow as late asjune 2016, a few months later than donald trump and the white house has said, so deep into the presidential run for him. the president has called him at —— wea k the president has called him at —— weak and has said he just trying to get a shorter sentence, but this not looking good. michael carrick is not the big fish. he signed the cooperation agreement with robert mueller that suggests they are finding his cooperation quite useful —— michael cohen is not the big fish. donald trump going to extreme

measures to say that he is weak and it was all lies and fake news for the he prefers people like paul ma nafort the he prefers people like paul manafort who take on for the team. yes, he hinted at the fact that they had not spoken before because of loyalty to tru m p had not spoken before because of loyalty to trump and he was the fixer for loyalty to trump and he was the fixerfor him for loyalty to trump and he was the fixer for him for about ten years, so fixer for him for about ten years, so he will know a lot about what has been going on behind the scenes, michael carrick. he said he would ta ke michael carrick. he said he would take a bullet for donald trump. -- michael cohen. we have one more story. nhs to prescribed diet shakes in diabetes fight. this is interesting. we think about diabetes, the conversation around it

has been shifting recently, in terms of talking about the idea that you can reverse it and somebody i have spoken to who has done that is tom watson, the deputy labour leader who lost a staggering amount of weight and was diabetic now isn't. it is not, oh, you are overweight, that is it, there is reason to always try and be healthier. and a cheaper way of doing it for the nhs because you are not on drugs. it is a question of nhs efficiency is, because not only will they be offered the liquid diets, but this is also possibly free fit bits being handed out, and one—to—one coaching, does that outweigh the cost of treating people with diabetes and heart attacks? that is a story to ask. that's it for the papers tonight — don't forget you can see the front pages of the papers online on the bbc news website. it's all there for you — seven days a week on the website. and if you miss the programme any

evening you can watch it later on bbc iplayer. thank you to nicola bartlett and claire cohen — goodbye. they will be back at 1130. coming next, the weather forecast. nasty stormy day for some and the threat of gales has not diminished and infact threat of gales has not diminished and in fact in scotland and especially tomorrow morning, the low pressure is going to send the winds screaming pressure is going to send the winds screaming across pressure is going to send the winds screaming across the country once more, and western parts of scotland could see gusts in excess of 60 mph. frequent showers as well. this is what it looks like on 5am on friday. also clear weather but still pretty breezy in the rest of the country. a lot of isobars for tomorrow and that means the strong with mash report

will be blowing through out of the west, turning towards the south—west —— that means the strong winds will be blowing through out of the west. through the morning it will be blustery across the rest of the country, very windy in yorkshire with a few showers, but the further away you are from the low pressure the better the weather will be and in the south on friday not a bad afternoon. this is bbc news. i'm martine croxall. the headlines at 11pm: donald trump's former lawyer pleads guilty to lying to congress about contacts with russia, prompting an angry reaction from the president. he's a weak person, and what he's trying to do is get a reduced sentence. so he's lying about a project that everybody knew about. an nhs trust in shropshire is rated inadequate by inspectors. the chief executive resists calls to stand down. i live in this community. my family live in this community. if i didn't

think and believe that i was capable of leading this organisation, i would have already walked away. 12 days ahead of the brexit vote in parliament, theresa may and jeremy corbyn clash over whether the bbc or itv should host a televised debate. calls for more action to tackle climate change. we report on new technology to reduce greenhouse gases. and at 11:30pm, we'll be taking an in—depth look