not an were remembering not an internationally famous politician but a neighbour, and a pretty good one at that. clinton rogers reporting there. now it's time for the weather with sarah keith lucas. hello there. it has been a rather dry january so far across much hello there. it has been a rather dryjanuary so far across much of the uk and the cool cloudy thing continued on thursday with this picture taken by one of our weather watches in dorset. things are changing ina watches in dorset. things are changing in a hurry, we had high pressure in charge since the start of 2019 and high pressure with us through the day on friday. this weather front is waiting out in the atla ntic weather front is waiting out in the atlantic and will become more of a player as we head through the weekend. over the next few days as things become more unsettled, it will turn milder. you can see a return to those yellow colours moving in on the north—westerly breeze. friday, not as cold as it has been first thing in the morning. it should be frosty on friday, a have missed in this around during the morning. one of two showers

gci’oss the morning. one of two showers across the north west of scotland but are largely dry day. sunny spells breakthrough. temperatures touch less cold, 7— 10 degrees. friday sees rain arriving. the wind picking up. that band patchy rain moving into central parts of england and wales to start of the weekend. saturday, a mild start. breeze is courtesy of this weather front. willing to introduce some showery rain. they should clear away so it should be an improving picture on saturday. return to some sunny skies. more rain later in the day. it will be quite a blustery theme. mata than it has been. we are back into double figures at about 9— 11 degrees. sunday, the windy days you will notice the strength of the wind. a mix of sunny spells and

showers. most of them will be across northern and western parts. temperatures 11 or 12 degrees. looking further ahead through sunday into monday, we lose weather fronts off towards the east and this area off towards the east and this area of high pressure builds in from the south—west. a pretty quiet start to the new working week. a bit of wintry flavour. sunny spells, another dry day. more of a westerly influence. dry conditions elsewhere. then temperatures around 9—11 gregarious. and a jetstream, this is

the wind about six miles above our heads, it starts to become more mobile and westerly. that means we are more likely to see those weather systems driving in from the atlantic. the cold air mass takes charge. the influence of low pressure likely to move across the uk. a bit of a change in weathertight. and on into next weekend. a spell of slightly colder weather is on the way in the longer range outlook. a chance of wintry showers. that's it for now. goodbye. hello, this is bbc news. we will be taking a look at tomorrow morning's papers in a moment. first the headlines: the car makerjaguar land rover confirms it is cutting 11,500 jobs worldwide, most of them in the uk. falling sales in china, concerns about the future of diesel and the uncertainty over brexit are all being cited as factors.

at the very moment, the automotive industry, but also jaguar land rover, are facing unprecedented disruption on the geopolitical area, but also quite clearly in the regulatory area. japan's prime minister, shinzo abe, holds talks with theresa may about trade opportunities after brexit, and says his country supports her eu withdrawal agreement. translation: we truly hope that no deal brexit will be avoided, and in fa ct, deal brexit will be avoided, and in fact, that is the whole wish of the whole world. the uk's retail sector has suffered its worst christmas in ten years, with falls in sales for marks & spencer and debenhams. president trump visits a town on the us border with mexico, as he tries to win support for his plans to build a wall. hello and welcome to our look ahead

to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are henry zeffman, political correspondent at the times, and the daily mirror's political editor pippa crerar. most of tomorrow's front pages are in. the independent reports that theresa may called the leaders of britain's biggest unions in a bid to salvage her brexit deal. the times says theresa may had ever first ever talk with the unite leader, len mccluskey, as she attempted to build support across party lines for the plan. the financial times says that the japanese prime minister is giving his backing to the deal. but it leads on the news that jaguar land rover and ford are to cut thousands ofjobs across europe, as they struggle with falling sales and tougher emissions rules on diesel vehicles. the daily telegraph carries details of its investigation which found that hospitals allow patients that self—identified as women to share all—female wards.

the daily mail says the prime minister has called on the speedboat killer, jack shepherd, to give himself up, in what she described as a shocking case. the guardian leads on research by the world health organization which suggests that eating far higher levels of fibre as well as nuts and pulses, will cut people's chances of heart disease and early death. and the mirror reports that borisjohnson left his brexit woes behind him by spending new year with his girlfriend at a greek villa. let's start with the front page of the times, and theresa may's calls on union chiefs in a bid to save her brexit deal. henry. well, it's only around three months to go to brexit

day, 29 march, theresa may still hasn't got her deal through the house of commons and as a sign she is panicking she has had herfirst ever meeting with len mccluskey, red len as some tories call him, one of the biggest trade union backers. this shows that she knows she will lose the vote next tuesday, the big vote on her brexit deal, which she delayed from december, and as any sensible prime minister would be, she is thinking, well, what can i do afterwards 7 she is thinking, well, what can i do afterwards? how can i compromise in afterwards? how can i compromise in a way that might get some more votes perhaps from labour mps. it shows the scale of the opposition behind her on the tory benches that she is even thinking about trying to curry favour from the sorts of labour mps who might listen to len mccluskey and other trade union chiefs. who might listen to len mccluskey and other trade union chiefsm who might listen to len mccluskey and other trade union chiefs. is it and other trade union chiefs. is it a surprise that she is doing this, oi’ a surprise that she is doing this, or is it the timing that is a surprise? well, as henry rightly says, it is very late in the day.

and i think her chances of persuading enough labour mps, let alone mps persuading enough labour mps, let alone mp5 on her own side, the back the deal by tuesday are very slim. another couple of tories came out today who had previously expressed scepticism saying that they would support it, but she has another 200 to get through and she is going to i’ui'i to get through and she is going to run out of time. sol to get through and she is going to run out of time. so i think we are all anticipating and she appears to have acknowledged to her cabinet and cabinet ministers privately that they expect her to lose the deal, lose the vote, resoundingly. i think really the issue then becomes what happens next. and we have kind of all priced in defeat, really. the first time around, labour mps she has been speaking to have made it clear that while she could be persuaded —— they could be persuaded, it would have to be by more than this package of workers' rights and environmental guarantees she has been setting out yesterday, and we revealed in the mirror yesterday, talking to mp5, and today

in making these calls the union chiefs, they might end up backing the deal further down the line. they predominantly have leave voting seats, irrespective of how they might vote themselves, it is a problem many labour mps have. but they are unlikely to back her this time. they might do next time around. ithink time. they might do next time around. i think that they would not wa nt around. i think that they would not want to expand the political capital that would be involved in voting for a deal this time when she is going to be resoundingly defeated anyway. why would they bother? what would be the point? next time around, maybe a few might be persuaded. i think really theresa may's strategy seems to be running down the clock, and the closer you get to the brexit date,itis the closer you get to the brexit date, it is very clear that the starker the choice becomes between thrashing out a deal or another option, and if the only other option thatis option, and if the only other option that is tenable at that point is her deal, then people will be grudgingly back it. looking at the detail in the times article, it sounds as if her plea, if that is what is, won't

necessarily have fallen deaf ears. one of the most intriguing line is that downing street said the call with len mccluskey was constructive, and unite did not dispute that. they said len mccluskey is a deal maker and would have approached the call with an open mind. one of a great chains from theresa may's point of view is she could have done this two yea rs view is she could have done this two years ago when she became prime minister in 2016. there was a sense that she had been left with this appallingly sticky wicket, and perhaps the country could come together and find a way through this, and she gave this speech on the steps of downing street, the burning injustice speech, which a lot of labour mps found a lot to agree with on the surface of it. and right up until the election the following june, 17 june, it right up until the election the following june, 17june, it is hard to remember now and hard to understand now, but there was this sense that she was the mother of the nation, above politics and bringing

people together. if from that addition of strength she had reached across the political divide to trade unionists and said help me out here, it perhaps might have worked. if you area it perhaps might have worked. if you are a trade union leader now being called up by the prime minister, you see that for what it is. she is being magnanimous but she is being magnanimous because she is being forced to be by the awfulness she has got herself in. what is interesting is that cross—party work has been happening on the back ventures, it is not either of the party leaders who are doing this. you don't see theresa may and jeremy corbyn sitting down to sort out the biggest constitutional crisis we have faced for decades. there are amendments being drawn up a cross—party amendments being drawn up a cross— party mps, conversation amendments being drawn up a cross—party mps, conversation being had, people like nick soames standing up and saying we need to speak to the other side, making appeals to their own leadership. it really reflects the shift in the balance of power, because the pm does not have the majority, and the whole process has drained the lifeblood out of the government. this balance of power has shifted,

really, from the government to parliament. we have seen so much in the last few days, mps are, to coin a phrase, taking back control of what happens over brexit. a phrase, taking back control of what happens over brexitm a phrase, taking back control of what happens over brexit. it is moving a lot, the trouble is we don't know in which direction. can we look at the front page of the independent, carrying the same story but with a slightly different slant in terms of the lead up of the gmb, the other big union. this is tim roache, the general secretary of the gmb, and although he didn't dismiss theresa may outright, he was more pugnacious than len mccluskey and said his members would prefer a second referendum. and you can see in the different responses from len mccluskey and tim roache in microcosm the problem facing jeremy corbyn and the labor party, which is that a lot of their supporters, and certainly a majority of labour members, really want a second referendum and thinkjeremy colman should back one. they want to stop

brexit for the end of march, whereas certainly a lot of labour voters, some labour members, some labour mps, some trade unionists, though fewer, don't think there should be a second referendum. they think that would be a betrayal of the labour voters in what our more traditional labour areas, areas which were previously heavily industrialised, lots of whom voted to leave and gave jeremy corbyn the benefit of the doubt at the general election, and strategists around jeremy corbyn fear that those who back a second referendum would say no thanks, you didn't listen to us and we will vote for a different political party next time around. in the labour leadership are trying not to talk about a second referendum because it is so polarising. earlier today when jeremy corbyn was making a speech at an electronics factory, it was quite striking that he said that what they are really pushing for is a general election, and that the option of a second referendum is just election, and that the option of a second referendum isjust that, it is an option. it is not, as many

labour members seemed to feel, the default that they will automatically end up at if every other option is peeled away. it isjust one of those oi'i peeled away. it isjust one of those on the table. and it is this very difficult constructive ambiguity, is the phrase we have always used, that he is having to face two ways at once. and by focusing on a general election, which obviously would have to follow a no—confidence vote which they might not win but they could of course put down another confidence vote after that and another no—confidence vote after that, they are putting on the moment —— putting off the moment when they have to say what is our plan b? it is not only theresa may who is in a position where she doesn't know what she will do next. it is always worth remembering thatjeremy corbyn is a career eurosceptic. for the 30 odd yea rs career eurosceptic. for the 30 odd years that he was an obscure backbencher before he suddenly became leader of the labor party, he was consistently with the tory brexiteers pushing for an ideal

brexit. he is a brexiteerfor a very different reason, he thought the eu was a capitalist club. but when he says he doesn't want a second referendum, he thinks there is a labour form of brexit they can negotiate with the eu, all the tactical considerations that we talked about, but there are also —— is also a sincerity that, he believes there is a socialist written that can be forged outside the eu. he is also a democrat and more than anything he believes in the democratic right of party members to make decisions and stand by them. we saw that when they thrash out this really convoluted settlement, if you like, on brexit, to bring all the bits of the party together. and my instinct is that he would go with what party members wanted, ultimately, if it came to it. he might try and engineera particular version of a manifesto policy, for example, on brexit. ultimately he was put in place by the members and he will have to listen to them. let's go to the

front page of the daily telegraph, the trans— argument as men get access to women's nhs wards. the trans— argument as men get access to women's nhs wardsm feels the past few years perhaps, one of the big issues that come to the fore is the question of trans— rights. there are some women who believe that certain spaces, changing rooms, so one should only be for women who were born as women. the telegraph has asked all sorts of hospitals what their policy is on transgender women being in female wards. when parliament does find time to talk about stuff that isn't brexit, one of the things they will have to turn to is this question,

not necessarily as kate kaisha —— case but more generally. the uk is polarised on how to treat this issue in certain areas. at some point, to oui’ in certain areas. at some point, to our political leaders, there is going to have to be a bit more clarity and forging of a way forward. the telegraph points out that i suppose what gives this particular story and edge is the official guidance for the nhs is intended to eliminate mixed sex wards so there is in a sense of confusion. i suppose really comes down to whether a trans— woman is a woman. if you read about it and talk to people on both sides of the debate, very difficult to understand

probably if you don't do that. it's a sensitive area. the government under the gender recognition act says that transgender people must be lived as the opposite sex for two years and then will be assessed by a panel to qualify for a gender change certificate and there is talk about whether they should be changed and it will be revisited after brexit hopefully. to make it clearer for people, ultimately i think it's a balancing rights and it's absolutely the case that transgender women need to be protected from discrimination. potentially one of the groups that are the most discriminated against and come up against the most barriers and it's absolutely right that their rights to identify as women and have access to women only spaces are upheld that the same time, it doesn't mean you can ignore the rights of women who were born

women don't feel that it might infringe on their own security. i think really, we need to tread a very delicate path through it. balancing those two sets of rights. i think it's going to require a lot of sensitivity and understanding on both sides. the financial times has a story. ford, jaguar and land rover, have announced largejob losses today. jaguar land rover, britain's largest car manufacturer is getting rid of a500 white—collar job in on top of 1500 factoryjobs which it axed last year. it's clearly a complicated mix of factors

here. as you expect, some people are citing the b word, brexit. one thing thatis citing the b word, brexit. one thing that is exciting, jaguar and land rover both planning to switch to electric hybrid cars. one of the reasons is, demand is falling among consumers who are looking at new laws in different cities, clamping down on emissions in the centre of the city. realising consumers go to shift their behaviour. it's an awful phrase that is about developments in new technology, automation and clearly, politics is going to have to find a way to find meaningful jobs and meaningful work for individuals and communities. clearly big car manufacturing plants are not

the future of work. it's inevitable that this is seen through the prism of brexit. sorry to come back to it again. a lot of it is about how these manufacturers have produced primarily diesel cars and people are confused about the future of diesel. there is the china sales issue. the chief executives of both these companies have stressed that the uncertainty about brexit is certainly a factor. i remember a few months ago, september, there was a big car manufacturer's conference funded by the government. theresa may was waiting to address these car manufacturers and ralph speth, the chief executive ofj l i took to the stage, he stood up and delivered this blistering speech about brexit

and the impact it would have on his industry which is so reliant on being able to import and export quickly parts two and from your. the uncertainty that the government's current policy and the prospect of an ideal brought will be incredibly damaging in terms of money as well isjobs. a story damaging in terms of money as well is jobs. a story on the front page of the guardian which sings the praises of brown bread. this does categorically have nothing to do with brexit. i don't know where we import ourfibres with brexit. i don't know where we import our fibres from. a scientist at the university of otago new zealand working for the world health organization says, we need to eat more wholemeal bread because that gives us the fibre in our diets. henry is the right person to ask

about this. he was given a breadmaking course for christmas, is that right? it's a sourdough bakery. i don't think it has the right amount of fibre. thank you both indeed. that is if the papers. 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, henry and pippa. she believed in, this is the latest sports news. manchester united interim boss says the speculation

around the top manager is there for around the top manager is there for a reason. he won his first five games while on taj but watch tina was considered the favourite. he has done a very good job. that speculation is a reason rating different managers. my focus is on me and my team. juventus are leading the race to sign arsenal midfielder aaron ramsey when his contract expires at the end of the season. it's thought his preference is to join the italian champions but he's yet to make a final decision and will continue to consider offers from a number of europe's leading clubs including paris st—germain. west ham insist marko arnautovic is not for sale despite interest from an unnamed chinese club. the striker was the subject of a reported £35 million bid this week.

his agent and brother danijel says it is the austrian's "great desire that west ham accept the offerfrom china". but in a statement today the club said: "marko arnautovic has a contract and we fully expect him to honour it. he is not for sale." manchester city women are through to the last four of the continental cup after thrashing brighton 7—1 this evening. lauren hemp got two but the rest of the goals were shared between five other players. city scored four of them in the last ten minutes. theyjoin chelsea, holders arsenal and manchester united in the last four, with the draw taking place on saturday. england forward raheem sterling has told a young manchester city fan to "be proud of who you are" after he was racially abused. sterling wrote a letter to the supporter after the boy's grandmother revealed he had been having a "tough time" because of the abuse. the manchester city star wrote, "stand tall, don't let them take away your courage."

sterling has been the victim of abuse himself, the most recent alleged incident coming in a game at chelsea. 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. british number one kyle edmund, who reached the semifinals last year, has a tough match against former wimbledon finalist tomas berdych. cameron norrie takes on american taylor fritz. 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 semifinals in melbourne 3 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 now, let us introduce you to the next big thing in darts. 13—year—old leighton bennett — who is the youngest player ever to win the bdo world youth championship — ending on a 121 checkout which included a bullseye finish. he picks up a cheque of £5,000 and said he was over the moon, as you can see. that's all the sport for now. you can find more on all those stories on the bbc sport website. it's not going to be as cold tonight. good news for some, it's not going to be as cold tonight. good news forsome, not spreading the ice of the car but it's not going to be frost free this january. these are the temperatures as you get towards dawn. just not a

ha rd as you get towards dawn. just not a hard frost we have. could be a little bit of mist and fog, particularly over the hills but i'm hopeful of a day looks brighter than it has been today, perhaps the eastern and central england, eastern scotland. nine and 10 degrees. in the south, 3— four today so considerably higher but we do get some rain through the ceiling in overnight. heavy showers followed behind a law that cloud, the rain and the escalating wind does keep the temperatures above freezing for the temperatures above freezing for the coming night. what about the weekend? it looks the coming night. what about the weekend ? it looks pretty the coming night. what about the weekend? it looks pretty mild, actually, considering what would had this week. gales by sunday. quite a change of time. this is newsday on the bbc. i'm rico hizon in singapore. the headlines: president trump travels to the mexico border

to make his case for a wall — triggering a shutdown that's dividing america. he campaigned on it. he won on it. so what's the big deal? why is everyone surprised? he is the crisis. he's a crisis to our country. president trump's former lawyer, michael cohen, will testify to congress next month. i'm kasia madera in london. also in the programme: japan's prime minister tells theresa may that the whole world wants britain to avoid leaving the eu without a deal. and risking their lives to earn a living — we meet manila's homeless trolley pushers.