ithis : this low ithis low pressure, courtesy of this low pressure, that's going to return wet weather, particular for that's going to return wet weather, particularfor england that's going to return wet weather, particular for england and wales. saturday's forecast. it will be a decent day, bright or sunny spells. low pressure that north of scotland will maintain the showers into northern and western areas, some could be slow—moving. it will feel a bit fresher with temperatures down a few degrees. seven in the north, 11 or $0 few degrees. seven in the north, 11 orso in few degrees. seven in the north, 11 or so in london. we are looking at a wet day on sunday in england and wales, there is uncertainty how far north the rain band will push. showers in scotland but by and large the north in the best of the sunshine. a bit cool in aberdeen, seven degrees. temperatures mild in the south. i mentioned uncertainty about the north house — south, we might see the rain band push into southern counties to take us into monday, which of course is christmas eve. so perhaps rain for the south—west of the country. cloudy

skies further north and west. there will be some dry weather and sunshine around as well. the best of this across eastern areas of scotland, central and eastern england and eastern wales. the trend is temperatures coming down with highs of ten in london. turning mild in the south—west as the cloud and rain returns. for the big day itself, certain this high—pressure area will build quickly for christmas day. that means for many of us you will be looking forward to a dry day. there will be some patchy frost and fog in the east, spells of sunshine, but it will be cloudy in the west. indeed there is a weather front in the atlantic. the recent trend is to have the front moved in more quickly. it is not out of the question that we could see some rain returning to the north—west of the country through christmas afternoon. at the moment the forecast is for a lot of dry weather with perhaps drizzle around western coasts and hills. beyond that, christmas and new year, thejet hills. beyond that, christmas and new year, the jet stream pushes areas of low pressure towards

iceland. there could be some rain for northern portions of the uk. the area of high pressure for christmas day will slip further eastwards into the continent. so, with moist air around the high—pressure, we will see a lot of cloud, patches of drizzle around western areas, and dry weather especially further south and east you go. that is the latest weather. goodbye for now. hello, this is bbc news. we will be taking a look at tomorrow mornings papers in a moment. first the headlines: police say they are considering trying to shoot down a drone that has shut gatwick airport for more than 2a hours. almost 600 homeless people died in england and wales last year, a rise of a quarter over the last five years. the us defence secretary, generaljim mattis, is to stand down from his role at the end of february. the announcment comes a day after president trump announced 2,000 american troops

were to pull out of syria. the bank of england has kept interest rates unchanged but says uncertainty about brexit has intensified, putting pressure on the economy. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are the former fleet street editor eve pollard, and rachel cunliffe, comment and feature editor at city am. the metro says the police are hunting the saboteurs

who are playing cat—and—mouse with authorities by flying devices above the airport, grounding more than 800 planes. the daily express reports there is outrage that at least two remote—controlled aircraft have been able to operate unhindered near the runway for at least 2a hours. the times reports passengers are facing days of chaos at gatwick. the daily mail questions why up to 350,000 passengers had their christmas holiday plans ruined by a lone drone operator. according to the daily telegraph, environmental protesters are suspected of orchestrating the drone attack that has shut the airport down. the sun says the suspected eco—activist has piloted the craft at least ten times over the airfield. the guardian reports that there are now demands for new aviation regulations to tackle the threat of drones. the financial times also has the gatwick story on its front page, but their main story is beijing being accused of a worldwide campaign of cyber attacks against the us, britain and their allies aimed at stealing trade secrets from governments and technology companies. so gatwick story not surprisingly

dominating the papers, and the daily mail asking the question that many are asking. how could it happen, how could this speck in the sky, and you can see it circled in red, ruined christmas for 350,000 people whose flights were grounded today, over 100,000 tomorrow possibly, and other papers saying potentially until christmas eve. and the question has been how has something so small and so been how has something so small and so commonplace that you can now buy in shops, that is used in lots of industries, that has been around for many years, bring infrastructure like gatwick airport to a halt? why have we been unable to do anything about it and what are we going to do in the future? and at the moment we haven't had any answers, have we? the daily mail says the security measures they have ignored, we know about drones, other countries have eagles that fly into them, other

countries have met that cover them, we have sent in the army today, fairly late, by the way, and they haven't been able to do anything. why did nobody... this is a really serious problem. we expect to be looked after, we expect safety first, we expect us to think of the worst case scenario. supposing that threat in the sky belongs to a terrorist organisation. suppose it belongs to a foreign power. suppose it doesn't belong to an eco— activist. either way, it it doesn't belong to an eco— activist. eitherway, it is definitely a man because women are too busy with christmas. it isjust outrageous that we pay all of these people. parliament is in recess, so nothing is going to happen fast, so people wanting to go for new year might not be able to go away. people. going to this country. people. going to this country. people. flying from this country. some of them have accidentally ended up some of them have accidentally ended up in other countries because obviously all the pictures we have seen have been people in gatwick airport, having to sleep on the floor and small children, and not having any food. but there are also

the people who are stuck on planes that were meant to land in gatwick. landing in paris, orwherever. that were meant to land in gatwick. landing in paris, or wherever. or birmingham or across the country, planes running out of fuel, five—hour delays, and i think inconvenient and incredibly frustrating as it must have been to be at gatwick, more terrifying to be on the plane running out of fuel, circling an airport and unable to land. and of all weekends that we should have been sure that people we re should have been sure that people were safe, these are the few days that really matter to people, where they are meeting up with their loved ones, well planned, well timed for christmas. and this country once again looks like a prat. of course, so again looks like a prat. of course, so many people trying to get away for the christmas break. the sun says it is down to the drone wolf, saying it is probably a lone wolf eco— activist who is thought to be behind this. this is the theory from, i think, behind this. this is the theory from, ithink, a behind this. this is the theory from, i think, a couple of anonymous

white horse sources. —— whitehall sources. there doesn't seem to be any hard evidence yet, but obviously thatis any hard evidence yet, but obviously that is one theory. it could be the russians, it could be putin, that is another theory. i mean, an eco- activist is still a nightmare but of course is not going to try and do actual harm. supposing that was in the hands of a jihadi or someone else who wanted to cause real trouble. what i think is interesting about the sun, apart from a great headline, no—one does puns like them, looking at the way that various papers have illustrated it. it isa various papers have illustrated it. it is a really emotive story, but it is difficult, do you get a picture ofan is difficult, do you get a picture of an airport, airports are not that interesting. the daily mail has the speck which has been circled, others have passengers looking angry or upset or the army. the sun has gone for a close—up of the drone, it says a drone like this one, and really going for the visual there. 0bviously going for the visual there. obviously it is not that drone, but

it isa obviously it is not that drone, but it is a great front page. although we are told this drone is probably only the size of a seagull. it is only the size of a seagull. it is only a tiny thing. what if it went into an aircraft, it would be very dangerous. the idea that no—one has protect us from it is so horrendous, and it is like leaves on the rails. it is like all of these things. we don't sort things out, we don't worry about how people are going to feel on slow trains, dangerous aeroplanes, and not being able to get away to see their loved ones. aeroplanes, and not being able to get away to see their loved onesm does seem that other countries have bigger exclusion zones around airports where you are not allowed to fly our drone, but also equipment which can block them, which can down them, which can prevent them from flying. you mentioned the dutch who have trained eagles to go in there and take them out. and it is hardly and take them out. and it is hardly a small country, and there is a man oi'i a small country, and there is a man on the radio saying he has a machine

that can actually sort of stop the electric sort of information going to the drone, and it will go down. i mean, we pay, and i will find out at the end of this, for groups to meet, for aviation groups to meet, for military groups to meet. what on earth have they been doing? why haven't they been training eagles?! exactly, that would be quite fun. the times has more detail and more information, including more than 115,000 passengers stranded, as many as 350,000 could have their plans disrupted. we know that night flights over heathrow, the regulations banning night flights have been lifted so some of these planes could take off from heathrow instead. the other part which interests me, lord harris of haringey, who led an independent review into london's prepare a must for a terror attack, says the government has shown complacency towards the threat posed by drones

—— preparedness. he suggest interfering with the signals, so we have known about it, it has been raised before, they were warned about this in the context of a terror attack, but this is still... ina way terror attack, but this is still... in a way it is terror attack, but this is still... inaway it isa terror attack, but this is still... in a way it is a terror attack, and yet it hasn't been acted on, and i think that is where the government will have some very serious questions to answer, including of course chris grayling who has been absent for most of the day. yes, you do suspect there will be some big pressure on the government now to put in place urgently some new arrangements. urgently, and what are they doing at heathrow, what are they doing at heathrow, what are they doing at the scottish airports tonight? people who are about to set off tomorrow, what on earth are they expected to do? and of course, parliament is in recess because they go off early. who in the government

will step up and do something in the next 24 hours? and is chris grayling finally going to be fired? and of course, the times has this picture on its front page of the armed police who have been brought in, but so far it seems extraordinary they have not been able to take out this drone. i think that was quite surprising, because this is a security threat, whether you think it isa security threat, whether you think it is a terrorist or not, it is a security incident. i think in terms of shooting it, if it is the size of a seagull, it is quite small, quite high up in the air, firing bullets into the air even though gatwick is not a highly populated area, has some civilian risk. you could move eve ryo ne some civilian risk. you could move everyone out of the area. some civilian risk. you could move everyone out of the areal some civilian risk. you could move everyone out of the area. i love the giant net idea. plenty of suggestions here, and clearly a really difficult couple of days coming upfor really difficult couple of days coming up for those who are trying to travel for christmas. let's look at some of the other stories. the

telegraph has the story on its front page, a small paragraph on the us to stop airstrikes on jihadists in syria. and it seems on this occasion as so often, the united states under donald trump has acted unilaterally. the united states has made a sort of shock decision to pull out of syria, a p pa re ntly shock decision to pull out of syria, apparently it is because donald trump has won the war in the middle east, and all of the victories, as he was tweeting. we had the news earlier they would pull troops out of syria. the telegraph are saying they will stop airstrikes as well. we have the breaking news this evening that is a direct result of that, trump's defence secretary, generaljim mattis, will resign in february, which has sent shock waves through the international community. jim mattis has been believed to be one of the few sane cabinet secretaries keeping donald trump in check. he is widely respected and in

his resignation statement he says his resignation statement he says his worldview, which favours traditional alliances and standing up traditional alliances and standing up to malign actors, stands at odds with the president's. it is really criticising trump's quite impulsive, unusual approach to foreign policy, and really reiterating what we have known for a long time, which is that trump doesn't take the expert advice when it comes to foreign policy or military policy. he stacked his cabinet with generals, most of the generals have gone, he has had 20 high—profile resignations in his first two years. he doesn't take advice, good people leave, and as a result, who fills those positions? what it seems to be against everything trump says, because he says we are going to get rid of the bad guys, that is his phrase. but i think in syria unspeakable things are being done by the jihadis on the ground and although none of us like bomb attacks, you have to sort this out. otherwise another group will

emerge out of this. the announcement does seem to have echoes of wish in iraq back in 2003, rather prematurely announcing mission accomplished. exactly, and of course it is terribly, terribly expensive to do this, and you wonder why trump, who is now i think caught in this vortex of wall street being in real trouble, which was so much of the time he has been in power, the economy in america has kept things going. so people thought despite the president, we will keep going, and we thought, you know, he ascribes a lot of the success to himself, and now the tables have turned. and maybe he thinks he will save this money. but actually, if the jihadis rise up in syria again it will cost more money in the end. in the budget is really important, because the other breaking news we have had from the us this evening has been that trump did not get congressional funding in the budget for his border wall, and he is threatening a

shutdown of the federal government, because even though he holds the house and the senate, the republicans said they would not allocate this money for the wall, which the mexicans were meant to pay for in the first place, but put that to one side. so on one of his key campaign promises, trump the dealmaker, with both houses of congress, with all the levers of government, has not been able to actually achieve anything. i think money will definitely be an issue to him, and you can see the way the markets are him, and you can see the way the markets a re really him, and you can see the way the markets are really reacting to that. and of course, president trump has lost another key senior figure there around him in the white house. jim mattis somebody who was widely respect did across europe and other parts of the globe —— respected. respect did across europe and other parts of the globe -- respected. and as opposed to other people around president trump, he is a man of distinction, and all the rest of it, and he is leaving in february. and it is starting to become a bit of revolving door. i don't think that makes people feel comfortable, because they want to believe that there are people in the white house

who can actually argue with him and persuade him that, in, you can't just do things you laterally. and of course, the british and french don't agree with this, but they are worried about whether they can carry on bombing without the american allies. absolutely. let's look at the mirror, it has a story looking at the 1988 downing of the plane over lockerbie and suggesting they have a world exclusive 30 years on. yeah, they're claiming that a terrorist has admitted that an iran backed group planted the bomb, i think there been quite a lot of theories about this incident, which i have to say was a little bit my time. it was always thought that libya had planted this bomb and here they have a guy who claimed that, and who told his sister's relatives that actually they got a palestinian to carry out

they got a palestinian to carry out the lockerbie bombing on behalf of iran. this would cause a great stir in america because most of the people who died on that plane were flying from america and, of course, in scotland, where many people on the ground died. and recently there have been two or three documentaries about lockerbie which was i think one of those first shocking terrorist thing that happened that sort of paved the way for many others, sadly. sol sort of paved the way for many others, sadly. so i think that this will cause great ructions in america, and of course trump has declared war on iran so it will be interesting to see how that goes down. that was one of the things he and mattis disagreed with, pulling out of the iran nuclear deal. some of it they agreed with. some of it, yes. we only have a couple of lines in the mirrorso yes. we only have a couple of lines in the mirror so it would be interesting to see the story tomorrow. we only had one person ever who was fingered for this atrocity. yes, absolutely, and he was jailed, atrocity. yes, absolutely, and he wasjailed, wasn't atrocity. yes, absolutely, and he was jailed, wasn't he? md, there was

controversy. he always denied... he always denied that he was responsible, absolutely. let's, before we go, have a quick look at the picture on the front page of the express. "commuter queen now arriving on platform two" and there is the monarch striding down the platform, like so many others. extraordinary how she manages to appearso extraordinary how she manages to appear so much the sort of modest figure. one of the people there, of course, she is so revered. she is, and as time goes on she is even more so because she is one of the people who has never put a foot wrong and i am fascinated that now that she has all of these grandchildren, she has large pockets, you learn when you have grandchildren, the obsolete, the odd treats, maybe it is for the corgies, but anyway she looks happy to be going on holiday. christmas

has finally come. we don't have the details. presumably she is off to sandringham for the family christmas. it is a traditional part of the season. it is, and this photo is quite traditional. i think we get something like this most years. she travels not on a royal train. i am sure she travels first class on her own. we always thought she took the royal train. i don't own. we always thought she took the royaltrain. i don't think own. we always thought she took the royal train. i don't think she does, she takes a train up to norfolk. but i don't think that, you know, if you get lucky you will sit opposite her majesty. what i love is she is a monarch, she is not wearing a crown, she has an ordinary cloak and scarf and she is iconic with the queen and it is the most british thing ever that someone can be dressed like that someone can be dressed like that and be instantly recognisable. and quietly walking along the station. and with such serenity as well. indeed, and that is where we have to live it. thank you both very much indeed. —— leave it.

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 is all there for you seven days a week at bbc.co.uk/papers, and if you miss the programme any evening, you can watch it later on bbc iplayer. thank you, eve and rachel. from all of us, goodnight. good evening. here's your latest sports news: arsenal say they have identified an image of the person who threw a bottle at dele alli in tottenham's league cup quarter—final win at the emirates last night. the gunners say they're embarrased by the incident and are now working with the metroplitan police to apprehend the culprit. they go on to say they, "are not responsible for the actions of one individual, but send our apologies to dele alli and everyone at tottenham hotspur for this incident." the spurs boss, mauricio pochettino, had this to say about dele's reaction to it earlier this afternoon. he is so clever and he is now more

mature, and it is a normal process, like ours, we are growing and learning, but i think it is a situation that, when i think that, i hate this type of situation, this action. i know that arsenal is going to ta ke action. i know that arsenal is going to take the responsibility and fixed the problem. but, of course, dele, we need to praise dele because his behaviour was fantastic. meanwhile, arsenal and spurs have been fined £45,000 and £50,000 respectively after both clubs admitted an fa charge of failing to control their players. they clashed during arsenal's 4—2 premier league victory over spurs earlier this month. afterjose mourinho's sacking earlier this week, ole gunnar solskjaer has taken training at manchester united today in his first day at work as their interim manager. the former club hero has been appointed until the end of the season and met executive vice—chairman ed woodward shortly after his arrival.

he also held a team meeting with the players before beginning training. formula 3 driver sophia floersch says she didn't realise just how bad her 170 mile an hour crash was at the macau grand prix until she saw it back. the 18—year—old suffered a fractured spine when her carflew through the air before smashing into a fence last month. the german has told us she is still hoping to become the first female formula one world champion. i remember everything from the crash. it felt just i remember everything from the crash. it feltjust completely different for me, because, yeah, i didn't... it is different for me, because, yeah, i didn't. .. it is just different for me, because, yeah, i didn't... it isjust happening so fast. it doesn't look nice at all. it is really horrible. i have two broken bones in my spinal column. one part of the bone went into the thing where the nerves go. probably

it isa thing where the nerves go. probably it is a miracle. but that is probably the reason why i am happy and why i... yeah, and normal. for me, it isjust to be happy and to continue and see positive. the multiple olympic champion missy franklin has retired from swimming at the age ofjust 23. the american says she doesn't want to be in pain every day after struggling with a shoulder injury that she had surgery for in january last year. england's bronte law set a new record for the lalla aicha tour school with a 26—under total for five rounds in marrakesh. bronte, who isjust 23, set another new ladies european tour record with nine consecutive birdies in round three, and secured a one—shot victory. sweden's linnea strom was second after a final round of 66. i'll have more for you in the next hour. hello there. we had plenty of

showers across the western part of the country. eastern england and eastern scotland didn't fare badly with the dry weather and sunshine. and it on a nice note. it is dry across the north—east corner of the country. we are looking at the next weather system into the south and west of the country, that spread into england and were, northern ireland, south scotland at the end of the night. it will import mild airfor of the night. it will import mild air for southern areas, seven to 10 degrees. further north, chilly places. a complicated weather set up through friday. the weather chart shows a cluster of weather fronts. this one will straddle central parts of the country through the day. although conditions will improve for central, southern england and wales into the afternoon with sunshine we will hold on the cloud and showers for northern england, north wales, southern scotland and northern ireland. it will be a dividing line between something much milderfor the south, 1! to 14 in the

south—east, cool and fresher north with temperatures nearer to normal for the time of year, and sunny spells around particularly eastern scotland. wind is like in the north, but for england we see strong wind from the west, 40 to 50 mph for cornwall, devon, and showers moving through friday night. high pressure will build in through saturday to bring some fine weather. this weather system will bring wet weather system will bring wet weather on sunday. it is a tale of two halves. saturday the driver of the two days. blustery showers for western scotland, northern ireland. most western scotland, northern ireland. m ost pla ces western scotland, northern ireland. most places dry on a lengthy spells of sunshine. nor normal temperatures in the north. mild in the south. this weather system will bring some wet and breezy weather to the southern half of the country once again and slowly the clear, dry and bright conditions in the north will feed southwards during sunday. it will be very mild in the south, 12 or 13 degrees, normal values further north. into the christmas period,

into christmas eve, we could see the weather front return northwards into southern england and a high pressure area will build in, and that will settle things down for christmas day. we will see weather fronts trying to reach into the north—west corner of the country. on christmas day, with clear skies and high pressure, it could be a chilly start with foster —— frost and fog but for most it will be fairly dry with various amounts of cloud, so not a white christmas. welcome to news day on the bbc. i'm mariko oi in singapore. the headlines: us defence secretaryjim mattis says he'll quit hisjob — hinting that his views aren't in line with donald trump's. there's mounting criticism of the president's decision to withdraw us troops from syria. critics say it could embolden so—called islamic state. i'm kasia madera in london. also in the programme: london gatwick airport's shut down for a second day,

as ongoing flights by illegal drones leave a hundred thousand passengers in limbo. we have on—site the police supported by the security services andy miller terry looking at every opportunity we