for all these groups, royal endorsement can mean both a higher profile and more cash. at smart works today, meghan had to choose outfits forjob interviews. she, of course, will be a working mother in a few months‘ time. these patronages will be a chance to use her position to make a difference and to show us what kind of royal she wants to be. richard lister, bbc news. time for a look at the weather. here's darren bett. we were reporting on all that snow in the alps, causing a lot of avalanches and death, any of that snow on the way here? no snow on the way here, in actual fa ct no snow on the way here, in actual fact it's going to get milder over the next few days, and it was quite a cold start this morning mind you gci’oss a cold start this morning mind you across the southern half of the uk at that while there has not reached here just yet. we seen the best of the sunshine in the south—west, but we started with a frost. the colder air is getting pushed away into the near continent and we have high pressure to the south—west. this is

where we are drawing our our air from, it's a mild direction but it comes with a lot of cloud and we are seeing that today, quite low cloud in places, a bit misty over the hills. there's been some thinning of the cloud with the best breaks in the cloud with the best breaks in the south—west. we'll start to see the south—west. we'll start to see the cloud breaking up across northern scotland. a bit of rain here at the moment, moving southwards towards northern ireland as well. it's a bit drizzly underneath the thicker cloud across england and wales, especially in the east, but while the day across the northern half of the uk. the milder air will push southwards overnight. a bit of rain and drizzle here and there, the cloud breaking up here and there, the cloud breaking up eventually. enough breeze overnight to keep a frost at bay. lows of around 3—4. on friday, some areas of cloud, some areas of sunshine, the winds fairly light. the best of the sunshine probably down eastern scotland, north—east england, all the way down to lincolnshire and the fence. a bit more cloud out of the west, a few more cloud out of the west, a few more showers in the north—west of

the uk, but temperatures about 8—10, so the uk, but temperatures about 8—10, so that's an improvement on today across the southern half of the uk so across the southern half of the uk so the temperatures are beginning to rise, the milder air coming so the temperatures are beginning to rise, the milderair coming in. into the weekend we will find the winds will strengthen, we get stronger north—westerly winds, continuing to feed and while there but helping to break up the cloud more. some areas of rain as well. early on saturday we've got a bit of rain across southern parts of england. that means away then we've got some sunshine following on. the cloud thickens towards the north—west, comes into scotland, northern ireland, northern england, most of the rain in the north and west of scotla nd the rain in the north and west of scotland and those temperatures widely io—iid. the winds beginning to pick up a little bit and those winds will continue to strengthen into the second half of the weekend. again, around the area of high pressure, where the air is coming from, the atlantic, the next weather fronts coming in, as they move southwards the weather fronts we can southwards the weather fronts we can so most of the rain in the northern half of the uk, particularly the north and west of scotland. turning

more showery during the day. stronger winds on sunday, some sunny spells more widely on sunday, and remember we are still drawing in milder air, no snow at all. temperatures ii, milder air, no snow at all. temperatures 11, maybe 12 celsius. a reminder of our main story this lunchtime... britain's biggest car—maker, jaguar land rover, announces thousands of job losses, with most of them in the uk. that's all from the bbc news at one. so it's goodbye from me. on bbc one we nowjoin the bbc‘s news teams where you are. have good afternoon. it's 1.30pm and here's your latest sports news. you're watching bbc news. i'm olly foster at the bbc sport centre. 28 professional tennis players have been arrested in spain following an investigation into match—fixing. 83 people were arrested in all by the spanish civil guard. we can get more on this now with our correspondent david ornstein. a massive operation but the headline

is obviously the number of players who have been implicated. a big operation. it is very concerning for the sport. 28 professional players are involved in this case according to reports this morning. one of them is said to have taken part in last year's us open andi taken part in last year's us open and i think that will be a point of particular concern because although this seems to be focused mainly on the lower level, futures and challenger tournaments, where this report says at least 97 matches were fixed, the us open is the top level and that will really concerned people. if we look at this investigation as a whole, which was really kick—started in 2017 by the tennis integrity unit, it focuses and seems to have uncovered a criminalgroup of and seems to have uncovered a criminal group of armenian individuals who worked with one tennis player according to the report, a professional player, who was essentially the link person for

all of this corruption. there's talk of 11 houses being searched in spain, 167,000 euros in seized along with a shotgun, 50 electronic devices, credit cards, five luxury vehicles, documentation, 42 bank accou nts vehicles, documentation, 42 bank accounts and balances frozen, so this is not a small operation and you suspect it may only be the tip of the iceberg. there was... no names have been given of the players, one featuring at the us open but there is no suggestion any match fixing took place there. but we are looking at the lower reaches we re we are looking at the lower reaches were at the tennis integrity unit who triggered this investigation over a year ago. they said 234 matches last year were deemed to be suspicious with suspicious betting patterns. that is where they are calling their investigation, at that level. it is indeed. they have described it as it's an army of corruption at the lower—level tennis. they do not seem to have a

particular concern about the very top level where there is a lot more money, much less reason to be involved in corruption, but at the lower level where tennis players are struggling to make ends meet, rolling very little money and with high costs and also the proliferation of online betting even at courtside, the authorities are taking steps to clamp down on that but it is ongoing, and they may have defeated one gang but the concern, and tennis is well aware of this, is that there may be very more —— and many more. thank you for that update, 28 pro players arrested. the draw has been made for the australian open. andy murray has been runner up five times but has tumbled down the world rankings after hip surgery 12 months ago. he'll face the 22nd seed roberto bautista agut. murray played the world number one novak djokovic in a practice match today and looked a long way off his best. our tennis correspondnet russell fuller sent us this from melbourne. a tough start, he's playing a seeded

player and also a man who has already won a title in 2019. that takes some doing when you consider it is only the 10th of january, but he won the title in aloha last week. murray has had so few matches over the past 18 months, he has a hip which is better than it was a year ago before the surgery but will never quite be same again, and it's really hard for him when he comes up against a senior player like agut. he will speak to us to tomorrow. he has been sounding more downbeat this year, he was optimistic last year about perhaps getting back to the top of his game but his comments this year have been suggesting that he does not know how far this hip is going to carry him. kyle evans, semifinalist last year, a bit of a concern about a knee problem, she starts against tomas berdych who has been a wimbledon finalist in the past.

the other british player is cameron corrie who will play the united states player. a lovely sunset there. the british number one johanna konta will play the ajla tomljanovic. she lost to the australian in the brisbane international last week. konta reached the semi—finals in melbourne three years ago but is unseeded. there are two other british women in the draw. heather watson faces petra martic and katie boulter meets ekaterina makarova. that's all the sport for now. you can find more on all those stories on the bbc sport website. that's bbc.co.uk/sport i will be back after 2pm. see you there. see you later. many thanks indeed. let's return to brexit. earlier, the victoria derbyshire show spoke to a panel of people from all over the uk about what a no—deal brexit means to them, their lives, and their jobs, as well as three mps with different views.

here are the highlights of how they got on. the thought of no—deal brexit in northern ireland is absolutely disastrous. i've been speaking to young people across northern ireland who are looking at massive, massive amounts of uncertainty. northern ireland had 20 years of uncertainty, of violence and strife on the street. we don't want that again. i haven't grown up with that. and the fact that no—deal brexit could put a border back up and people are going to be facing the same violence and anger of the past is not something that i want. i'm an eu citizen, i'm german, i've lived here for the best part of ten years of my life. and first of all, i'd like to say that for two and a half years since the referendum, us eu citizens have been left in limbo by mrs may and the entire uk government. if no deal happens, that will continue. she's already... no, she hasn't, let me finish because i have been affected so i know what i'm talking about. we are having to apply, not register, for settled status, which is

entirely unnecessary. injune last year, the eu put forward the first proposal which said anyone that is in the eu as a brit today, and anyone who is in the uk as a european today, we will ring fence their rights so that any new immigrants coming beyond brexit will have a new immigration rules. britain rejected that, it put up a system of called settled status. the trials that ran in december were open to 250,000 people. and 12,500 out of 50,000 applications have been granted. 20% of applications of citizens that are here legally, people's wives, mothers, husbands, carers, all of those things, those people have been rejected. you tell me how that is fair. on the flip side of that, heathrow i can talk personally... i'm a human, i'm not heathrow. no deal would be uncertainty in financial services which is the biggest employer in my constituency. uncertainty in advance

manufacturing, the car industry, uncertainty for eu citizens, my constituents who are married to eu citizens. that is why i'm voting for this transition period. the ultimate uncertainty in the scenario where the deal were approved would be that we would be locked in, under the backstop, unable to shape our... only if we end up in a backstop. i think we will be highly likely. but that is a very significant contingent risk. i'm a parliamentarian, i need to make choices and it seems to me very, very clear that the balance of risk lies against signing up to a backstop which is unlimited in time and duration. the terminology is confusing. some of the polling even shows that when this phrase is bandied about, no deal is better than a bad deal, a lot of the general public even thinks that means the status quo. we won't have any deal, a bad deal is worse. however wto really is the worst of all worlds. because we have got to disentangle ourselves from 40 plus years of cooperation and legislative

entanglement with our nearest neighbours, colleagues, friends. it's a bit like taking a cake, sorry, taking an egg out of a cake that's already baked. it's really difficult to do this so it's not going to be easy. and wto is crashing out with no transition period. at least the two years that the government's deal offers would mean that there is continuity with the arrangements that we have. but you're going to vote against that. right, the reason i'm going to vote against it is because it's a bad deal. that's what's on the table. so how are you going to stop the no deal? why are we having this discussion at all? because our government has failed. that referendum was injune 2016, we have got 78 days to go. my question to you is... i will have no workers and you will see shortages of vegetables on supermarket shelves. we can scare them... what do you mean, we can scare them? any scheme that the government creates, once tested, can be rolled out. you're talking about march 30 onwards? there is no question in my mind

that the home office will be capable of devising a scheme which is capable of supplying... are you joking me? i'm sorry, you said that with a straight face. there's no question in my mind whatsoever that as a sovereign country, one of the most capable... of course eventually, but not like that. we are the fifth most powerful country on the planet in terms of... oh, gosh! this is classic project fear. the idea that we cannot create a visa for fruit workers... mr parker, of course the home office can create a visa scheme for fruit and vegetable pickers. of course, over time. well, not over a great length of time. the defence secretary gavin williamson has announced that the raf‘s new f—35 lightning jets are ready to be deployed on operations around the world. the new fighter planes will operate alongside the typhoon jets, which will be fitted with new ‘state—of—the—art‘ weapon systems. our defence correspondentjonathan

beale has been at raf marham looking at the past of present of britain's air capability. well, here at raf mareham is the past, the present and the future of the raf‘s combatjets. this is the tornado which has been in service for 40 years, now coming to the end of its life. this is the present, if you like, this is the typhoon. along with the tornado, used in operations over iraq and syria and now can fire these massive, big, storm shadow cruise missiles. over here is the future, this is the f—35jet, each costing around £100 million and today the defence secretary says this jet, the f—35, is now ready for combat for the first time in the uk. and then over in the far distance is tempest. that is just, essentially, a concept at the moment, the jet of the far future, and that could be, in theory, either manned or unmanned.

in a moment we'll have all the business news, but first the headlines on bbc news. 4,500 jobs are to be cut at britain's biggest car makerjaguar land rover, around an eighth of its uk workforce. labour leaderjeremy corbyn says he will bring a vote of no confidence in the government if theresa may loses the brexit vote. as the us government shutdown continues, president trump walks out of a meeting with democratic leaders. they told him they wouldn't fund his border wall with mexico. i'm egon cossou in the business news. some of the country's biggest retailers saw disappointing sales over christmas. they fell almost 6% for debenhams in the four months to january and more than 2% for marks and spencer. better news for tesco though.

sales went up for them and forjohn lewis. jaguar land rover is cutting up to 4,5000 jobs in the uk. that's from a workforce of 40,000. management, marketing and admin are expected to take the brunt. it's part of a £2.5 billion plan to cut costs. a similar story at ford which has announced a major shake—up in the uk and mainland europe. thousands ofjobs are going to be affected, although it's thought the impact here will be limited. many of us are counting the cost after christmas and the latest figures show consumer spending went up 1.8% in december compared to last year. but when you adjust for inflation, that's actually a fall in real terms. and of course that means a tough time for many retailers. let's talk to esme harwood, director at barclaycard. thank you forjoining us. why are we

so thank you forjoining us. why are we so bad at spending? well, if you look, it is the lowest level of spent growth in december than we have seen since 2016 and there is really a story of two halves here. so, if you look at high—street sales, that continues to struggle, whereas if we look at the experience economy and entertainment, that typically does better. so that we look at essential spending, what we are seeing is a contraction, 0.6% growth, and that is declined in several key areas, groceries, household and clothing. that is quite serious and if we are cutting back on its essentials. it has been relatively positive throughout 2018, but with a drop in december. several things are underpinning that. fuel prices is one of them, so as we have

seen fuel prices cuts, we have seen spending decline a little bit, but interestingly, in certain key areas, there are big declines in spending, so clothing, for example, has declined 10—3% and at exactly the third month in a role that we have seen that kind of decline. what can be done to bring back confidence?- they say, there are some bright spots, in december, we saw people we re spots, in december, we saw people were out there celebrating the festive period and that is a consistent trend we have seen across 2018. up spending, for example, rose to double digit growth and we saw strong performance in restaurants, hotels, travel, so consumers are spending, but they are choosing to spending, but they are choosing to spend more on entertainment and experiences that perhaps physical goods. what can retailers do to get more people buying stuff again?- ba rclayca rd, we have more people buying stuff again?- barclaycard, we have talked for a long time about the experience economy, so there are certain things retailers can do to make going into the shop is a positive experience,

so, for example, yorker mornings or free copies, really turning the trip to the shops moments, an opportunity to the shops moments, an opportunity to create a memory with families and friends, and those activities can really drive footfall. thank you for joining us. and some other business stories today: regulators are planning a shake—up that could mean lower housing costs of thousands of so—called "mortgage prisoners". these are people trapped on high interest mortgages with unregulated or inactive firms. the move could allow them to switch to cheaper deals. trade talks between china and the us have ended with some positive noises but little detail. china said the talks "laid the foundations" to resolve differences. washington said china would buy more american farm goods but didn't say exactly what. the french insurance firm axa, says it's moving some staff from the uk and france to ireland because of brexit. the company says some insurance functions will now be handled in dublin.

lacklustre trade on the ftse. markets looking for direction after the festive break. marks and spencer has been on the rise, despite disappointing sales over christmas. that's because investors seem to have faith in the company's plans to shake up the business. shares in tesco are on the rise after its good sales over christmas. that's all the business news. astronomers have revealed details of mysterious signals emanating from a distant galaxy, picked up by a telescope in canada. the precise nature and origin of the blasts of radio waves is unknown. among the 13 fast radio bursts, known as frbs, was a very unusual repeating signal, coming from the same source about 1.5 billion light years away. such an event has only been reported once before, by a different telescope.

let's look at this in more detail with dr megan argo, lecturer in astronomy at the university of central lancashire. shejoins me from preston. thank you for being with us. well, what do you make of this? what is your understanding of what this could mean? well, this is really exciting, because we have seen these things before. there are over 60 of these vast radio bursts known today bet this is only the second time we have seen one that is actually repeating and that has implications for our understanding of what is causing these. when we always singles, the predominant theory was that they were catastrophic explosions were collisions of massive, heavy object in the distant universe, but now we have seen to that repeating, that means that model is at least in some cases ruled out because, for example, a massive star and only explode once. once that has happened, it disappears, and it cannot explode again so we would not expect another

burst coming from its other fact we have seen to that are exhibiting this repeating behaviour is really, really interesting. what could be the other explanations of what it is? well, there are various models involving things like very highly magnetised, very dense stars or neutron stars and there is an idea that those could actually be repeatedly flaring. these things are very, very energetic in as short timescale, so the energies involved are equivalent to what the sun gives out in 80 years over milliseconds, so they are very energetic. the other theory that has been put forward is that it is some sort of alien intelligence, some sort of propulsion system or communication system, but the fact we are seeing these things all over the sky kind of suggests that that is not the case because we do not think... well, we do not know how many alien civilisations that could possibly be, and the factory they are all over the skype suggests this is down to nature rather than some sort of

life. that is attracting a lot of attention, not surprisingly, the idea that this could be some sort of extraterrestrial life sending out signals. is it possible? it's possible to stop i don't think most astronomers think it is very likely. there are other avenues that people are bristling with much more interest tha n are bristling with much more interest than the alien hypothesis, but there is certainly that possibility and we cannot rule it out at the moment. these things, you can guarantee, will be well studied in the long term to try to get more examples, more data, so that we can actually further our understandings of what these are. it's all about repeatability, the fact these things have happened more than once. because we had only ever seen one that repeated that actually the repeating was not due to the telescope, something on earth causing interference. the fact we have seen two of them makes the fact that they are coming from the sky much more likely. fascinating stuff. thank you very much indeed. a hundred years ago filming everyday

life on tyneside was a rare hobby for a tiny number of camera enthusiasts. now what remains of that footage has been compiled and made available to the public for the first time. our north of england correspondent fiona trott has been taking a look. a rare glimpse of life in and around newcastle, captured by the people who lived and worked there. i mean it. you're not married, this will get you married. 100 years of footage has been compiled by the north—east film archive, and, for the first, time put onto a dvd. it includes one of the first great north runs, and newcastle united's victory parade after the fa cup final in 1951, filmed by chris lawson's dad. my father was standing on the balcony at the county hotel, opposite central station, and that's where he took the film from. there is my step—grandfather, who was a director and chairman of the club, looking very proud.

it was such an occasion. i'm, you know, grateful that as a result of what he did and the fact that a lot of that has survived, we've been able to pass that on to the archive. and unfortunately it means in the long run that, unbeknown to me, i and my brother and sister have been preserved for posterity. this is a fantastic, really special film of a visit from laurel and hardy, as you can see there. and here they are giving out gifts to some of the under—privileged children on a special visit to the seaside. and what a special time to see these famous world celebrities. yeah. it has taken the team two years to put it together. we've got the archivists looking at those original films, and preserving those original frames of celluloid, then they have to be digitised. we've got to delve into the vaults and choose which ones

are going to make the compilation. sometimes the hardest job is what to leave out rather than what to put in, but then we have had really good choices. we've curated it and taken people on a journey through time and through their film heritage. living in the shadow of the ships. today sites like this can only be seen on archive footage. i think one of the reasons that people are really wanting to hold onto the memory of the shipyards is because they got a real sense of achievement from creating ships and sending them out into the world. newcastle now is known for its entertainment industry. it's got a big service industry. and that work is also really important, but it's a very different feeling for people when they actually make something and can see a physical result from their labour. many of these filmmakers were amateurs. little did they know their hobby would help make history. fiona trott, bbc news, newcastle. now it's time for a look

at the weather with darren bett. yes, thank you. well, it is slowly getting malls across the uk. no snow in the forecast for here, but the mild air is taking some time to be southern parts of england and wales where it has been really quite cold. we have these in brighter skies in the far south—west. we started with a frost, of course. that frosty, calder is being pushed to the near continent. i treasure sitting close by and this is where our air is coming from so it is coming from the atlantic, always a milder director, but comes with a lot of cloud. but some others, that cloud is quite low, misty and murky up in the hills. there is even some drizzle coming across parts of england and wales, too. some breaks in the south—west. we should season breaks coming into northern parts of scotla nd coming into northern parts of scotland where we have rain at the moment which will sing his way southwards across scotland, perhaps towards northern ireland as there

are the temperatures, struggling across southern areas of the uk with the mild air towards the north. cloud will continue to push southwards with breaks coming in from the north. lots of drizzly rain will tend to clear away, too, but there is enough of a breeze and enough cloud to keep a frost at bay with temperatures generally around three orfour with temperatures generally around three or four celsius as we head into friday morning. friday will see a mixture of cloud and some sunshine. the best of the sunshine probably in eastern scotland, north—east england, down to lincolnshire and into the fence. more hard as you have further south, not ruling out sunshine or one or two show was in the north west of scotla nd two show was in the north west of scotland as well. temperatures generally 8—10, better than today across the southern half of the uk with milder airfinally arriving here. over the weekend, the wins will strengthen. north—westerly winds, everything coming in from the atlantic, still mild but it should break up the cloud and are some sunshine at times. there will be rain around as well as we start the weekend, across those other parts of

england and wales which soon clears away and the sunshine comes out. head further north, the cloud thickens again across scotland, northern ireland, northern england and most of the rain in the north and most of the rain in the north and west of scotland. temperatures ten or maybe 11 degrees. the winds begin to pick up on saturday. strong winds arriving on sunday. everything coming around that area of high pressure, a couple of weather front of the scene. the next one to arrive into the north west on sunday. that loses way southwards, weakening all the while, so not much rain for the southern half of the uk but a fair few showers in scotland and northern ireland. some spells of sunshine on sunday, the best of those towards the south and east. temperatures widely 11 or 12,000. —— 12 celsius. hello, you're watching afternoon live —

i'm simon mccoy. today at 2. 4,500 jobs to go at jaguar land rover — most of them being lost here in the uk. falling sales and fears over brexit are blamed whatever the terms of the announcement will do everything we can to make sure they can find jobs that make use of their really valuable skills. the worst christmas for a decade on britain's high street — retail sales flatline in december. the labour leader tells theresa may she should call an election — to break the deadlock over brexit. if you are so confident in your deal, call the election and let the people decide. coming up on afternoon live all the sport — olly. 83 arrests have been made