hello. this is bbc news with me, martine croxall. we'll be taking a look at tomorrow morning's papers in a moment — first the headlines. a ‘worst case scenario‘ warning that channel ports could face six months of disruption if britain leaves the eu without a deal. it comes as 30 government ministers tour the country, trying to sell theresa may's brexit plan. a canadian court is told that a top executive at chinese telecoms firm huawei is wanted in the us on fraud charges relating to sanctions on iran. police in new zealand say missing british backpacker grace millane was last seen with a male companion at a hotel. and british yachtswoman susie goodall is rescued after being stranded in the southern pacific for two days — her boat had capsized during the golden globe race. hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be

bringing us tomorrow. with us are henry zeffman, political correspondent for the times, and jason beattie, who's head of politics at the daily mirror. many of tomorrow's front pages are already in. it is marvellous when it works. the telegraph leads with brexit — when don't they these days — saying cabinet ministers are warning the prime minister she'll have to quit, if her brexit deal is defeated in the commons next week and she fails to secure better terms from the eu. the times also tackles brexit, and says work & pensions secretary amber rudd has become the first cabinet minister to publicly break rank and propose an alternative "plan b" to mrs may's deal. the financial times warns of a carillion—style collapse for interserve, one of the biggest

outsourcing companies working for government in schools and hospitals. the daily mail has pictures of the baby born after the first womb transplant from a dead donor. and statins are the front page story in the express — the paper says those patients on higher doses saw the greatest drop in "bad" cholesterol. let's begin with brexit as is our wonder these days. —— as is our wont. mps hatch cross—party alliance to dump theresa may if she does not get the vote next through next week. i think it will be pretty fast. i think the mood has really changed in parliament in the last week, we were talking about this, and the conservative party are now saying, let's put it this way, tired of

theresa may. there is a shift in atmosphere about her, this vote will come along on tuesday i think, no one thinks she can win it, the only conversation you are hearing is how badly is she going to lose by. if she scrapes by, loses it by 20— 30 votes you might be ok, anything above that we are talking 40— 50, i think she is in real trouble, i don't think they want her to hang around. ithink don't think they want her to hang around. i think now there is a strong appetite for a new leader, it is more likely to my thinking that the cabinet will move against her and geta the cabinet will move against her and get a new leader in place, but thatis and get a new leader in place, but that is going to be very bloody. not the 48 votes that have got to go to the 48 votes that have got to go to the 1922 committee? that isjust yet another way that she could end up not being prime minister, or being a lame—duck prime minister by this time next week. as jason says, it's kind of the case that pretty much every wing of the tory party now

says "we don't think theresa may is right for the job and you probably has to go after this vote next tuesday". in that sense she is weirdly a unifying figure of the tory party. 0nce weirdly a unifying figure of the tory party. once she goes, and it could be quite soon after the vote oi'i could be quite soon after the vote on tuesday, you have this extra ordinary situation where the real fight that the tory party has been delaying since the referendum result if not before over what kind of brexit they are going to pursue, what kind of party they want to be, will burst open. the times names borisjohnson, dominic rather, amber rudd, michael gove asjust some of the campaign —— candidates to run if there is an election. how does that affect brexit negotiations if the notionally governing party don't have a leader and they are trained to find one? —— manik raab. have a leader and they are trained to find one? -- manik raab. -- dominic rather. he is quite a nice man, david davis,

but he is pretty ineffectual. the clock is ticking on brexit anyway. they have to do it quickly. the problem for the tory party is, i thought they bland buds —— bloodsports, you are not going to just have remainders versus brexit is, you are going to have wrecked it is, you are going to have wrecked it is versus brexiteer is. you are going to have borisjohnson versus dominic raab, over who is going to be the brexit flagpole before the leadership. then you have other battles on the other side of the party, it is going to be horrific. you talk about mexican standing in a circle, is close to that. the moment this is all taking place in the parliamentary theatre, but if that tory leadership contest its going in earnest, it is eventually a question for the couple of 100 thousand or fewer tory members in the country.

they haven't actually chosen at tory leader since david cameron 13 years ago when the country was a different place. all we know is they are pretty ha rd place. all we know is they are pretty hard brexiteers. they will most likely choose whoever is the most likely choose whoever is the most brexit candidate that is put forward , most brexit candidate that is put forward, suppose that is dominic raab, he says he will pursue quite a ha rd raab, he says he will pursue quite a hard form of brexit, amber ride in this times story says the government should pursue a softer brexit, she may not even feel the conservative party is her home any more. may not even feel the conservative party is her home any morelj may not even feel the conservative party is her home any more. i have spoken to a number of remain tory mps, who have said if we get a hard brexiteer this is no longer my party. so where do they go? this is where we get this new realignment. you get disenchanted labour mps who

are waiting until brexit to make their move... i don't know how that new party works, it is difficult to establish a new party, they have never been very successful. but there are a lot of politically homeless people out there. how strong were the argument then be for a general election if theresa may we re a general election if theresa may were to go? the problem is that is like we have been saying. suppose there was a general election in the next weeks and, all one gets called the conservative party would have 650 different brexit positions, and thatis 650 different brexit positions, and that is before we even get to be labour party, which is being linked together by the fact that they all thinks theresa may's deal is a dud, but once you have a different consecutive prime minister, they have two answer conclusively whether they want another referendum or not, and that labour unity starts to fracture to. an election is the least likely outcome, it is one

thing the conservatives do not want to risk, it could open the door to jeremy corbyn coming in, but it is going to be a brexit general election and then you have to take a side, where you are going to go. the biggest problem with a general election is the most likely outcome is we come back with another hung parliament which is not result brexit. would it be a de facto referendum on brexit as much as a general election? it raises an interesting question. theresa may in 2017 tried to run the whole of 2017 on brexit come and failed, and it became an austerity, theresa may competence general election. you can never entirely tell which way they are going to go, called and would like to park brexit in a general election, but... he is now saying all options have to be on the table if she loses on tuesday. yes, which is why i think sending her back to brussels or possibly a second referendum is going to be more

likely. there are lots of scenarios, they all rest on various factors, one of them has to happen. let's look at the daily telegraph because it has another brexit story. warnings of no deal ports chaos are misleading, we are told they could be backlogs for six months until things get sorted out, coming in through dover and folkestone. but here we have tim morris, the chief executive of uk major ports group saying "whatever the challenges, we will meet them. today matt hancock, the health secretary wrote to drugs companies, pharmaceuticals companies and various organisations involved in the nhs, telling them that the government has revised upwards its projections of how chaotic ports would be if the uk crashed out of the eu without a deal, and they said expect logjams and chaos for up to six months. this telegraph story does not respond directly to that,

it responds to the chancellor philip hammond making similar claims recently. the problem with this story is it only addresses the dover side. you expect someone who runs british to say "they worry, it ports will be ok". but that is not how it necessarily works. all it takes is for france or the eu to impose checks at calais and suddenly you have traffic jams checks at calais and suddenly you have trafficjams at both sides very quickly. let's move away from brexit, you happy to do that? yes. i like brexit, ifind it interesting i have to confess. i hope you do! it is going to be a really exciting week. it really is, gosh. a couple of foreign stories now. speaking of politics, but of the french flavour. this is page 42, there we are, of the times. riot police arrest children as paris prepares for

battle, this is the fourth week and that we are seeing these demonstrations, notjust in paris but in other parts of the country as well. a group of people who do not wa nt to well. a group of people who do not want to put forward a leader, that is not the point of it, of these protests. it is... an extraordinary kind of fall of macron, this guy who came in and promised to be the godlike new leader of france, almost like a kind of story of the french monarchy is how he approached the french presidency, has become on done by his kind of poorjudgement —— undone, his arrogance and not just one bad or controversial policy decision, but two. it starts off with protests about hiking up fuel taxes which he said i actually have some sympathy, it is an environmental measure. now it has spilt into this kind of student

thing, of trying to change the baccalaureate exam, teachers are saying it will make the exam more elitist, and you have this incredible picture of these riot police force in students on their knees, and the optics of this are terrible. tomorrow and over the weekend, don't go to paris, you have 89,000 riot police on the streets, you have the chanson with a boarded up, major theatres and the eiffel tower —— the champs—elysee close up. do you think it was a mistake for president macron to give in to the protesters ? president macron to give in to the protesters? they are coming back for more 110w. protesters? they are coming back for more now. absolutely, and giving in was not the imaging project when he came in as president, saying france had never got over losing its kings. there is just the sixth ordinary contrast between children, schoolchildren protesting, on their

knees with their hands behind their heads, and not long after he became president, when famously macron was walking past this crowd, and they we re walking past this crowd, and they were saying, manu, manu! and he was saying, no, you call me mr president. he is not respected in paris, and his leadership cannot recover from this. the french have a long history of this, going from the bastille to the 1968 riots, what we do is we turn up with placards, they have barricades. it is a very different style of insurrection. have barricades. it is a very different style of insurrectionm really is. meanwhile in germany, the centre—right christian democrats of angela merkel, they have a new leader but she is not stepping down yet, but they do have, karenbauer,

which is a name we will have two get right. this is angela merkel's protege. very much the end of an era in germany, she is not going out but we are expecting her to go soon. her protege has won the leadership election, this places her in pole position to succeed merkel. she is a bit more socially conservative but crucially she backs the big controversy of merkel's late chancellorship which is v decision to let in lots of refugees, which has been controversial. she is going to have to put her mark on the party if the party is to do well in future elections as we have seen their power eroded. they have a problem, and it is that there is a kind of realignment of german politics taking place, as in every other western democracy, and you have the

alternative to germany, the far right party on one side, at the unsung 70 —— but the unsung party it is the green side of politics, it has destroyed their version of the sdp, the economic liberal party, and angela merkel's party is being squeezed, they have a new leader, and they have this difficult decision of how do you fend off the afd without pandering to their ideas? if you do that, do you not risk alienating the other side as well? is not going to be an easy place to inhabit. let's look at the mail, something lots of us were affected by yesterday. 87p, that's how customers hit by mobile issues will be awarded

in compensation. you will barely notice that. you weren't affected, you had to keep answering your phone. i'm going to take this very contrary view on this. what 02 are giving is they are giving compensation for two days loss of service, which amounts to... it struck me, we forget how extraordinarily cheap mobile phones are and now we literally pay for a service that gives us phone calls, the internet, apps... that is really, really good value.|j the internet, apps... that is really, really good value. i don't think it's a bad deal!|j really, really good value. i don't think it's a bad deal! i was affected and it surprised me how dependent i was on my phone. affected and it surprised me how dependent i was on my phonelj affected and it surprised me how dependent i was on my phone. i was out and about yesterday and i couldn't do anything. in some sense it was nice, i had an excuse not to call mps for a day and ask about brexit. but it was frustrating. as we move towards driverless cars,

which rely on the internet of things. a kettle that is hooked up to your phone and a fridge that can download new technology and all of that. it means the internet aims to come cheap and —— a, needs to come cheap, and b, needs to be reliable so we can do our jobs. and b, needs to be reliable so we can do ourjobs. we can get excited about technical hitches on this programme! we can, well done! i enjoyed not having the network yesterday, but my boss managed to get through interestingly! 0h, yesterday, but my boss managed to get through interestingly! oh, good! she says quickly! the daily mirror, beeb's repeat scandal. do we want something new for christmas or not? it gets repeated most christmases, it missed, isn't in the faces of the fine daily mirror —— it isn't in the

faces of the fine daily mirror. i will be happy watching the vicar of deadly, not least because the brilliant actress who played alice died this year, icy nothing wrong with it. mainly because when i find new christmas programmes on other channels they are a bit rubbish. what do you think? —— vicar of dibley. the agatha christie and alike have been very stylish. there's this issue, in the age of the iplayer and everybody watches everything on catch up, you have repeats whenever you want them. and channels that only give you repeats. dave. the jokes come round again and ain! dave. the jokes come round again and again! what's the point of the bbc? it is to provide new and original content, what else is it therefore? as much as i watched this point, programme again and again, there is a point to this! —— as much as i watch this programme again and

again, there is a point to this. morecambe and wise, things like that. yes, but they need more fresh content. we do our bit every night, 365 days a year, we don't at christmas do the papers because there aren't any, but we would if there aren't any, but we would if there were. that's it for the papers for tonight. don't forget, you can see the front pages online on the bbc news website at bbc.co.uk/papers. and if you miss the programme you can watch it on bbc iplayer. a big thankyou to my guests this evening, henry zeffman from the times, and jason beattie from the daily mirror. and from all of us, goodnight. do go and buy a newspaper. doesn't matter which one. keep us going. night night! good evening. i'm azi farni, here's your latest sports news. cricketers ben stokes and alex hales are free to play for england again following a charge of bringing the game into disrepute.

an independent commission imposed suspensions on the pair which they've already served. stokes was found not guilty of affray in court earlier this year after a fight outside a bristol nightclub in september 2017. here's our sports editor, dan roan. in the last couple of hours, both players have issued statements, and both have issued public apologies for the first time for what happened. ben stokes saying it had been a heavy burden, this long controversy. 0f been a heavy burden, this long controversy. of course, he had to go through that criminal trial of a couple of weeks back in august as well. but both players expressing their regret and their determination to learn from their mistakes, and their determination to put it all behind them and to get on playing for england of course. it means both men are available for selection immediately, with the squads for england's tour of the west indies in the new year due to be announced on monday. former england captain michael vaughan thinks stokes has

served his punishment and it's time to move on. i think he regrets the incident hugely. you know, ithink i think he regrets the incident hugely. you know, i think he knows that he's got to change a little bit. i think he knows he has tojust change the way he is a little bit. since he's come back into the team in that test test match in nottingham after the case, you know, i've seen a cricketer that obviously we know is exceptional. i've seen a personnel... i've just we know is exceptional. i've seen a personnel... i'vejust heard we know is exceptional. i've seen a personnel... i've just heard from trevor bayliss after the tour to the rancour that the way he's behaved has been exemplary. i've spec that to carry on now he knows any other issue around his behaviour of the field, i'll say he'll get quite a long—term away from the game. he knows he's got to change himself a little bit, but i think it's the right decision. jose mourinho is staying at manchester united. his agent says speculation that he'll leave old trafford are totally untrue. rumours that the club have been in contact with tottenham to line up mauricio pochettino are also unfounded. united play fulham tomorrow, they haven't won in the premier league since november

and their performances have been criticsed for being too negative. mourinho says there'll be no excuses for a bad performance this time. i sat here a few weeks ago speaking about the december month... no defeats, that's the reality. good fights, good spirit, butjust one victory against young boys and three draws and we need points. fulham, as isaid, draws and we need points. fulham, as i said, they need points. there was a controversial ending to the one game in the championship this evening. it ended 2—2 between west midlands rivals aston villa and west brom. a brilliant goal from anwar el ghazi in the second half put villa ahead for the second time in the game, and looked to be the winner until a stoppage time equaliser which clearly came off the hand ofjay rodriguez

saw the game end level. villa move up to sixth whilst west brom remain third. a rematch between deontay wilder and tyson fury will be for the heavyweight title after the world boxing council announced it'll sanction the fight. britain's fury and american wilder shared a controversial and thrilling draw in los angeles last weekend. wilder's mandatory challenger is dominic brezeale, but the wbc‘s decision means he can fight fury next without being stripped of his belt. defending champion ronnie 0'sullivan remains on course for a record seventh uk championship title after he beat martin 0'donnell 6—1 to reach the semi—finals. 0'sullivan will now take on tom ford in the last four after ford defeated joe perry 6—2. i was just i wasjust a i was just a bit on edge, i wasjust a bit on edge, you know? you know, just trying to feel my way into it and it's never good because you got to try and impose yourself as much as you can. it's a really

good match, had to play some safety and be patient. sometimes i'm not taking my match form immediately on the table but i'm finding my feet. i know my game's there, it's just nice to get it right from the off cover you know? that's all your sport for now. a late—night check of the weather. a turbulent friday and heavy gales. wind gusts topping 75 mph in parts of western scotland. what do we have in store for the weekend? if you're hoping things will quieten, it will bea hoping things will quieten, it will be a slow process. still windy through this weekend, a showery day to come on saturday. 0n through this weekend, a showery day to come on saturday. on sunday, turning a bit drier but equally a bit chilly. this beautiful swirl of cloud is that the glow that passed to the north of the british isles and brought those very strong winds. quite a few shower clouds circulating around the low, quite blustery through the night and further showers pushing from west to

east. as we start saturday morning, it may well be that south—east scotla nd it may well be that south—east scotland and eastern england don't have too many showers with the day dawning dry and sunny here but showers from the word go out west. through the day, the showers will drift east, some will be heavy and there could be the odd flash of lightning and the odd rumble of thunder. the winds across the north easing a little, staying blustery in the south with temperatures ranging from 9—13. into saturday night, tomorrow night, we will continue to see quite a few showers racing eastwards and across the south of the country, a particularly windy night. for some coastal spots in the south and west they could see gusts of 50, 60 or possibly 70 mph in the most exposed spots causing potentially some issues. notice these white lines on the chart, these white lines on the chart, these isobars squashing together, showing how windy it will be on the start of sunday. this weather front bringing a few showers. behind that, the winds switch to north and north

westerlies and that will bring slightly chilly air. sunday morning, a few showers across central and sun sunny areas. some western and northern coasts seeing the potential for one or two showers but things turning cooler from the for one or two showers but things turning coolerfrom the north, turning coolerfrom the north, turning chillier in fact as the day wears on. during sunday night, those temperatures will continue to drop, especially for northern and eastern areas. notice this blue shading here on our temperature chart. in some other towns and cities, newcastle, glasgow, very close to freezing. 0ut in the countryside, maybe a bit colder than that. not as cold in the south—west, a bit of cloud and a bit milder. next week, we start on a quiet night. things will be quieter because high pressure builds its way in. the start of the week, mainly settled, but as weather fronts coming from the atlantic, more u nsettled coming from the atlantic, more unsettled as next week progresses.

in the meantime, the weekend pretty windy, quite a few showers on saturday. not as many on sunday. that's all from the. i wish you a good night. have good weekend that that's all from me. —— that's all from me. this is bbc news i'm ben bland. our top stories: us prosecutors say donald trump's former personal lawyer lied about a business project in russia to protect his client. a top executive from the chinese telecoms giant, huawei, appears in court in canada facing fraud charges for allegedly breaching sanctions against iran. french students clash with police as the country prepares for more anti government protests this weekend. and a british sailor rescued from the southern pacific ocean, after being cast adrift during a storm.