ice and snow. in terms of eyes, just about the ice and snow. in terms of ayes, just about the worst kind, freezing rain affecting parts of the uk, particularly the midlands, northern england and scotland and the result of that will be widespread ice and very dangerous conditions. we are bringing in an area of low pressure from the atlantic into what as we know it is plenty of cold air across the uk. that's a recipe for rain, sleet, snow and ice. freezing rain, may have heard about it, snow. cauldron ofjust near the clouds for that to fall out of them, then into a warm area of the air above us, that melts into rain but once it meets a layer of cold air close to the surface, which is what we will have on saturday, we end up with that rain, freezing in contact with the frozen services. that is freezing rain. you get a glazed highs, a sheet ice, very dangerous conditions and it can happen so very quickly. this is what we're expecting during saturday. northern ireland, wales, south—west england, very wet and very windy. that wet

weather very slowly feeding north and east into that cold air, parts of the midlands, especially northern england and scotland, that freezing rain, widespread ice threat but also freezing snow in places especially over high ground and north of the central belt in scotland, that's the other met office amber warning for snow. as the winds pick up across the uk, that snow continues into sunday morning. now, on sunday, we are slowly going to clear this weather system away from scotland with its rain, sleet, snow and ice threat and elsewhere it's a bit quieter. a bit of sunshine to be had, especially in the first part of the day but then we bring in outbreaks of rain and showers to the west and south during the day. it's become a little less cold, but temperatures are still very much in single figures. it will be a chilly start to monday, not far away from freezing. notice here the indication of some milder air starting to come in. low pressure for the rest of us

throughout next week. after that chilly start on monday, many of us will be dry and bright, south—westerly breeze and starting to freshen, mild air starting to push into the west once again and you can see outbreaks of rain not too far away. for much of the uk, fairly chilly on monday but dry. eventually as we go into tuesday, a milder start to the day, the winds pick up and this weather front comes in. a flow of that mild air pushing right across the uk but very wet across much of the western side of the uk where it clears away from northern ireland, the rain slowly easing further east. some will be heavy, coupled with snowmelt in scotla nd heavy, coupled with snowmelt in scotland could bring flooding risks, but the temperatures back into double figures. through the remainder of the week, a ridge of high pressure moving in, low pressure to the west of us by the end of the week brings in another weather system. next week's weather is weather system followed by something a little bit quieter followed by weather system with wind and rain. with the weather systems

coming in, mild. once it moves away, drier and brighter and it cools again. overall next week, unsettled but looking fairly mild, it may turn colder just but looking fairly mild, it may turn colderjust in time for christmas. that's another weather for the week ahead. hello. this is bbc news with martine croxall. we'll be taking a look at tomorrow morning's papers in a moment with our reviewersjoe twyman and kate proctor — first the headlines. caught me out. we don't normally say your name is at that point. theresa may has insisted she's confident she can steer her brexit deal through parliament — despite leaving the eu summit in brussels without the assurances she needs. i reiterated that it is in the interests of the eu as well as the uk to get this over the line. a disorderly brexit would be good for no—one. president trump has named his budget director, mick mulvaney, as acting white house chief of staff. he will replacejohn kelly, who steps down at the end of the year.

president trump's former lawyer, michael cohen, has said the president knew it was wrong to order the illegal payments of hush money to two women who alleged affairs with him. mr trump denies asking cohen to make the payments. and the british yachtswoman who was rescued after her boat capsized during a solo round—the—world race has said she would do it again "in a heartbeat". susie goodall arrived back on dry land earlier today. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me arejoe twyman, the director of the polling organisation, deltapoll, and political correspondent from the london evening standard, kate proctor. no pressure. many of tomorrow's front pages are already in, with brexit dominating most of them.

i think ithinki i think i have said that every night this week. the ft reports that theresa may has threatened to crash her own brexit deal unless eu leaders agree to discuss the changes necessary for mps to support it. meanwhile, the times says may's deal is "dead" — with most of her cabinet concluding it will not be passed by parliament. the telegraph describes the prime minister as having a "public meltdown" after she allegedly accused jean—claude juncker of calling her "nebulous". the same altercation makes the front page of the express, which leads with the headline "why the hell do we bother? bust up in brussels shows eu's disdain for britain's brexit wishes" and the guardian also carries pictures of the apparent argument between theresa may and jean—claude juncker, saying the prime minister returns home "empty—handed" with no hope of further renegotiation. in other news, nhs cuts are putting patients‘ lives at risk, says the i weekend — they say plans to close maternity services will endanger hundreds of patients. and the mirror leads on a woman who allegedly lied about having terminal brain cancer, netting £250,000 in the process. let's start with the times. theresa

may's brexit deal is dead. this is a majority of the cabinet saying that there is nothing to be done with it. that's right. depending on which newspaper you look at the deal is dead. the cabinet thinks that. brussels thinks that. jean—claude juncker things that. the only person who seems resistant, as far as we know, is theresa may, who fights on and fights to win in brussels —— thinks. when some people have problems with brussels at christmas. this is certainly the case for her. the papers are dominated, not the times, but the others are dominated by this picture of theresa may own jean—claude juncker arguing, we think, about what he said to her, perhaps about the deal, perhaps about her personally. it is all a really difficult mess. as each day goes past the clock is ticking and

time is running out. the times makes the point, kate, even if they don't make this deal there is no consensus in the cabinet with what europe place it is. it is a really interesting story leading the times. this is the aftermath of the trip to brussels. we are back in the uk, back at downing street, the cabinet are trying to work out what to do next. there is a splintering of the cabinet. you have some people, including amber rudd, who, you know, are looking for a softer brexit option. interestingly, hear, feel philip hammond, the chancellor is looking reluctantly to a second referendum if all other options are exhausted —— philip hammond. this would be completely resisted by michael goes, he worked on the vote to leave campaign. you can see there isa to leave campaign. you can see there is a real division in the cabinet. the idea that even the chancellor is

looking at a second referendum is very interesting. we have seen time and time again theresa may flatly pulling back down as a solution to this complete deadlock that it feels we are in at a moment. she also said we are in at a moment. she also said we would not have a general election and that the boat last tuesday would go ahead. these things have not come to pass —— vote. go ahead. these things have not come to pass -- vote. politicians don't a lwa ys to pass -- vote. politicians don't always tell the truth. i don't think thatis always tell the truth. i don't think that is necessarily a headline. the cabinet is divided, but so is the public on this. when you ask the public on this. when you ask the public if they should be a second referendum bid to buy pretty much down the line. if you vote remain it is likely that you want a second referendum. if you vote to leave it is likely that you don't. when you ask people of all the options which they prefer most, remaining in the eu and a hard brexit —— hard brexit, they are the most popular options, but they only get around one in five people supporting them. there are a host of options reducing as time goes on and none of them get a

majority in the commons, the cabinet, or the british public. what we have you here, as a pollster, if you were trying to formulate, not saying there will be a second referendum at all, but... but if there were. how many questions do you think there would need to be to get a conclusive answer as to whether if you want a deal what shape does the deal need to be? from a professional point of view i would ask them between 20 and 30 questions. i don't think that is necessarily possible in a referendum. the constitution unit at university college london estimates it takes 22 weeks to get a referendum togetherjust it takes 22 weeks to get a referendum together just for a single option, a single binary option. the suggestion... why would it take longer if you wanted more than a it take longer if you wanted more thana binary it take longer if you wanted more than a binary option? the suggestion from some is you could do it french presidential style, of giving people a series of options in the first round and then a week later giving them just the top two options. it

could get very messy very quickly. i think from a democratic point of view if you were going to do this the least worst way of doing it is choosing just a binary option, but which 22 twos? g issues theresa may's deal and no deal, no deal and remain, which teaches? —— but which two do you choose? do you choose theresa may... the financial times, there is that photograph that we have been talking about of jean—claude juncker saying i did have been talking about of jean—claudejuncker saying i did not describe you as nebulous. which she took issue with. the warning of a snap took issue with. the warning of a s na p vote took issue with. the warning of a snap vote to kill the plan. this is at odds with what we have been continuing to report since theresa may left brussels which is that she still thought she could get the deal through if she got the right assurances. this ft report says that theresa may would hold a snap vote in parliament on her brexit deal next week. that is what she is

considering. we know it will be voted down. so i think, in a way, she is trying to prove to the eu that if you are not going to offer me anything it will be voted down and we are lurching ever closer to i'io and we are lurching ever closer to no deal, which would be the worst scenario. she is trying to force the eu... she has very limited room to manoeuvre , eu... she has very limited room to manoeuvre, but she is trying to force the eu, it is a bit of shock therapy, almost, look what can happen, this deal is not going to get through. it is in your interests for it to go ahead. it seems absolutely mad that she would do this and i think it would be much more sensible to hold the vote in january and give people time to try to see if there is anything that can be done at all. the eu today said that you can't have any legal changes, you can have clarification, at best. that really isn't good enough, i think, at best. that really isn't good enough, ithink, for mp5 at best. that really isn't good enough, i think, for mp5 back at home. she is left with a fuel, a

smaller amount of options. this crashing brexit seems like a dramatic thing to do —— fewer. crashing brexit seems like a dramatic thing to do -- fewer. we could have done that earlier in the week. it would not have changed anything. nothing has changed, as theresa may is so fond of saying. i do think that the optics of this comedy pictures of the two of them clashing, probably play well with some conservative voters and supporters. it would not surprise me if we saw more of this over the next few weeks. perhaps once the recess has kicked in next week. more and more wielding of the handbag, as has been lazily characterised in the papers. the longer you leave that brinkmanship, it is part of the theatre we are used to seeing, where it looks like we will never make any progress at all, and then there seems to be a sort of snowballing and you get somewhere. geoffrey boycott would call a scoreboard

pressure in cricket. you see what you need to get to bite you know time is running out. geoffrey boycott, theresa may's favourite sportsman, i wonder what. .. boycott, theresa may's favourite sportsman, iwonderwhat... shall we look at brexit visas on the sun? £6 to go to europe. that is not a holiday of. eu plans brexit a charge. so we are not going to have to have a visa exactly, but a permit —— offer. to have a visa exactly, but a permit -- offer. it is like the system in america where you pay a certain number of dollars to get a two year waiver to travel. this is cheaper than that. it is a discussion about the real—world impact. we have gone from the theoretical of what brexit will look like and what it will mean for you and people like you, do the actual... for all of us and many of the people we don't know. it talks about the implications in the real world. the question a lot of people have been asking is will this change

people's minds. my sense is it really won't. i heard a lot of talk before the referendum itself about roaming charges and how we would lose roaming charges and the impact that would have on people. that is not why people voted for an all leave. it was not about simple £6 charges. in a loss of cases it was not about the economy at all.|j really not about the economy at all.” really disagree. i have spoken to people about this already today. they think it is an unnecessary bit of that meant they will have to do to go abroad to europe. i think £6 does matter to people... don't get me wrong. i agree that it matters to people. i don't think people's eu referendum vote was based on it. i don't think someone will change their mind because of this.” don't think someone will change their mind because of this. i don't know. i think it is the kind of very irritating thing that makes people get pretty angry and feel pretty unhappy with the eu even more...“ they are angry with the eu and they wa nted they are angry with the eu and they wanted to leave they are going to be even more angry and more likely to

wa nt to even more angry and more likely to want to leave. do you think? yeah. i don't know. if they voted remain this is further confirmation they would vote remain if a second referendum came around. this is three years. but it is notjust paying for the permit. it is the process of migrating, the process of crossing e—border is going to change. we don't just crossing e—border is going to change. we don'tjust go through the usual channels. —— crossing the border. we won't be part of the eu national channel. it is a clear way of spelling out the division that once britain has left these things will be introduced. it was from the theoretical to the actual. it does. real—world effects. the telegraph, low skilled eu migrants will only have visas for one year. it needed

to include some control of freedom of movement, particularly around low—skilled workers. of movement, particularly around low-skilled workers. highly skilled workers are going to need to earn £30,000 or more before they come to britain and low—skilled workers will only be allowed to come for one year, temporarily, if they have a job to come to and only allowed to stay in thatjob for one year at which point they will have to leave and have a cooling off period for another year. at which point they will be allowed to come back. it's not really be open and global britain we are trying to promote. lost at the same time trying to control migration. the idea and fear that this will deter skilled workers is probably very realistic and something back in london at least is not a particularly welcome move.

moving a migration system based on where you come from to the skills you are bringing. the skills -based system which theresa may has been talking about in her plans. and to nobody ‘s surprise, this has caused significant disagreement. the cabinet is split down the middle. along with the rest of the country on my most —— most brexit subjects. the hammond and greg clark are among the ministers who raised concerns. if brexit is to be sold to leave voters, it has to be including something like this. otherwise she will find herself in a situation where people will think she went too farorfar where people will think she went too far orfar enough where people will think she went too farorfarenough and where people will think she went too far or far enough and she stuck in the middle. but we have farmers say in, we need seasonal workers. they are not going to meet a £30,000 threshold. this is part of the

consideration that mps they been tried think about brexit and how they want to go with it. if you are ina rule they want to go with it. if you are in a rule constituency in the labour market relies on seasonal workers, it is this tinkering around with the right to be in the uk which really frustrates them and gives them a moral quandary as to whom they should back. in defence of the deal, it does say lower skilled workers will be able to come here if only for a year will be able to come here if only fora yearand if will be able to come here if only for a year and if you are a leave supporter, you will say, they are our rules and we are setting them, we are not restricted by the rules of brussels so maybe that will be sold to them on that basis. it stops people settling for the long—term. the nhs is where we will go next on the i. patient lives put at risk by nhs cuts. the kissing on a situation in dorset. the i paper has decided

to look at the nhs story and we've heard it many times but it's about the downgrading of accident and emergency and a closure of maternity services and how that will endanger hundreds of patients. it says hundreds of patients. it says hundreds of patients including newborn babies are at risk of dying. it's such a stark and serious warning to the point where the health secretary matt hancock has been asked to step in and a further cuts to an independent panel. it is kind of scenario that the i paper has picked out, we are talking about the ia&e in poole specifically but the ia&e in poole specifically but the restructure will be a similar scenario across different parts of the country and people's —— people feel so attached to the local health services. this will resonate. you downgrading downgrade to the point where they are not safe. that's what

this report is implying. it's a very emotive issue for people. what i think is important to me is the fact that we were talking about brexit as ever and is, as the government is. but there are major stories going on every day that are not to do with brexit. the government is using up all its bandwidth dealing with this. and yet these questions remain. this is just and yet these questions remain. this isjust in the and yet these questions remain. this is just in the short—term. in the longer term, issues around an ageing population and how you care for the ageing population isjust one of population and how you care for the ageing population is just one of the major, major big questions that we, along with all developed democracies face and if we are spending all our time arguing about brexit, we're never going to get close to a solution and these stories will come out again again and again. something else that comes out, the royal family's christmas photos. this time, the duke and duchess of cambridge with their children, lily,

charlotte and george, do you want to seeit? charlotte and george, do you want to see it? —— louis. a close—up of the happy family. it's a american idea. i get cards of grinning american friends in our beautiful children on christmas cards every year.” friends in our beautiful children on christmas cards every year. i also receive cards from americans dressed in check shirts. not all of them have very small 50 old men in them like this one. he is a happy little chap. you don't see many pictures of louis. this is one of his first big photo opportunities. and he has his sweater on. he looks very autumnal. this was taken last week. you can see from the leaves on the trees but there is an american kind of veide to this picture. it's quite cheesy. it's been reported as the first time

prince george has been pictured not wearing shorts. and you don't know what william is wearing. that's it for the papers for 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 — 7 days a week at bbc.co.uk/papers. and if you miss the programme any evening, you can watch it later on bbc iplayer. a big thank you to my guests this evening, joe twyman, and kate proctor. do buy a paper tomorrow. goodnight. good evening. i'm ben croucher with your latest sports news. anti—discrimination group fare says that some fans are using the political atmosphere as a coverfor their own prejudice. it comes as chelsea condemn anti—semitic chanting in last night's europa league match, saying the minority of fans "shamed the club" but pavel klymenko believes the media and political uncertainty are contributing to such incidents

when it comes to english football, it is still far from inclusive and welcoming as it is celebrated sometimes so these elements are still there and we see the increase in the number of groups that are using football as a tool that our propaganda of hate and i think it is definitely connected to the political developments and the type of language the media also users. in the scottish premiership this evening, for 70 minutes it was livingston nil, hearts nil. at the full—time whistle, it was livingston 5, hearts nil. an extraordinary last 20 minutes at the almondvale stadium, hearts were 1—0 down before they arnaud djoum sent off for a second yellow just moments later. dolly menga doubled livi's lead with an impressive effort, shimmying his way through a sea of hearts defenders. ryan hardie scored twice in three minutes before shaun byrne completed a crazy match. livingston climb to fifth. hearts miss the chance to join celtic at the top of the table. west bromwich albion are up to third

in the championship after coming from behind to win 2—1 at promotion rivals sheffield united. the blades had led 1—0 in the first half but an equaliser from gareth barry and then this strike from the former england full—back kieran gibbs turned it around for west brom who move above sheffield united in the table now, and are within three points of the automatic promotion places. mo salah has won the bbc african footballer of the year award again. he's scored 41 goals so far in 2018 for club and country and was voted favourite by you ahead of four others on the shortlist. salah beat medhi benatia, kalidou koulibaly, sadio mane, and thomas partey to the prize. i think it's a great feeling, a great feeling, you know,

i would like to win it also next year, so i am looking forward from now. but, you know, it's a great feeling to win another award, two years in a row, so happy to win it. so each moment i feel like i am scoring goals, helping the team to get the points, to be top in the league, you know, that is always a great feeling. exeter chiefs will live to fight another day in the european champions cup after coming out on top in their must win match at gloucester. it was the first victory for the premiership runners up in europe this season. the chief scored four tries to gloucester‘s three. elsewhere, scarlets remain winless and pointless losing at ulster. it's been a golden day for great britain at the track cycling world cup in london with five gold medals and in the able—bodied competition, laura kenny, katie archibald, nia evans and eleanor dickenson smashed the world champions america in the team pursuit — remarkably and unusually catching them with more than a kilometre remaining. the race ended in confusion, the catch normally signals the end, but nobody actually told the riders straightaway. we wa nted

we wanted to go out to do a good time andi we wanted to go out to do a good time and i feel like we were onto a good time, we set ourselves up and we only had six laps left so it was a bit frustrating that there wasn't a bit frustrating that there wasn't a flag because we were lucky not to crash, to be found, so a little bit frustrating but obviously glad that we won. there were four paracycling golds, kadeena cox and neil fachie took top honours. jody cundy won individual and team sprint titles too. that is all your sport for now. good evening, the weather is going to bring us some pretty disruptive conditions as we head through the course of the weekend. we have our fourth name storm of the season, saw —— storm dierdre. it was named by the irish service. the met office issued warnings for ice and snow. that is due to the fact that we have read a freezing rain forecast. that is liquid rain that falls from the sky and on impact, into cold

services —— services, it freezes insta ntly. services —— services, it freezes instantly. this is where we see the amber warning across much of northern england and southern scotla nd northern england and southern scotland and an amber warning for heavy snow across central and northern scotland. certainly some destructive wintry weather down to storm dierdre which is moving its way in from the west sweated bumps into cold there were got in place, the rain will increasingly turn to freezing rain and snow as well across parts of wales, the emblems, northern england and scotland overnight. we could see that the white stuff. mostly further west, falling as rain because we have slightly milder air. temperatures in belfast, around six degrees but many of us, temperatures below freezing to start your saturday morning. the day, you can see the white colours on the map, where we are likely to see the snow. northern england and it is central scotland. towards the south and west, most will be falling as rain but we also going to be seeing some strong, gusty winds

around as well. mild in plymouth, temperatures 13 degrees but this two degrees saturday afternoon in norwich. we could see around 2—5 centimetres in northern england, and to cause some disruption as well is all that widespread ice around as well. 10— 20 centimetres, perhaps even more than that over the hills of scotland. wintry weather with a mix of heavy snow and also some ice on any untreated surfaces is likely to leave it with a bit of disruption. if you got plans to be doing christmas shopping during the week, saturday into sunday, it brings that disruption down to storm dierdre. bbc local radio will update you. sunday, slightly improved. some snow and ice risk across scotland and northern england. sunshine to the east and not as cold so temperatures around 6— ten on sunday that further showers rolling in from the west later in the day. things turn milder as we look towards the

new working week. still unsettled, do keep your eye on the latest weather warnings. this is bbc news, i'm martin stanford. our top stories: britain's prime minister vows to press on with her brexit plans, despite the rest of the eu saying they can't renegotiate the deal. donald trump's former lawyer says the president was well aware it was wrong to pay hush money to two women during the 2016 election. i gave loyalty to someone who truthfully does not deserve loyalty. he was trying to hide what you are doing, correct? correct. and he knew it was wrong? of course. a ceasefire comes into effect in yemen's vicious civil war — but sporadic clashes are still taking place around a vital port city. one of britain's biggest football clubs condemns its own fans — heard singing anti—semitic songs at a match in hungary.