the 23—year—old, who was once a homeless teenager on the capital's streets, says he is overwhelmed to top the sound of 2019 list. a year ago, i was like — i was poor. i was — i had no money. so to have, like — to be nominated for, like, the bbc sound poll, and to win it, like, it's mad. it's crazy, it's crazy. he has had a remarkable 12 months. last summer he also modelled at a louis vuitton fashion show in paris in front of kanye west, kim kardashian and kyliejenner, all on top of his musical success. his sound of win means he follows in the footsteps of previous winners like sam smith... and adele. octavian is hopeful that his music's message can help inspire younger people who have also had problems in their lives. a lot of my music from then

until now has been about poverty, and making it out of poverty, because that's what i was going through. so my message then was, like, just to believe in yourself, and anything is actually possible. because i've lived it, lived that life. his win means his music will now reach a much wider audience, and perhaps lead to even greater success throughout 2019 and beyond. time for a look at the weekend weather. this has been the face of january 19 weather. more cloud across the uk for some. for unlucky few you might

enjoy a rare sighting of some sunshine coming through but the weekend that stay cloudy and great and for the rest of the afternoon we will see the best of the breaks gci’oss will see the best of the breaks across central and eastern areas. in the north, quite a lot of cloud and a few scattered showers but not a cold afternoon. right across the country looking at eight to 10 degrees. 0vernight we keep the cloud that will prevent the temperatures from falling too far. at the same time there is a weather front starting to show its hand in the far north was. that will bring rain into scotla nd north was. that will bring rain into scotland and northern ireland overnight. as it goes south it wea ke ns a ll overnight. as it goes south it weakens all the time so no substantial rain across england and wales. frost free start to saturday morning. spots of rain sinking steadily southwards and behind it the cloud breaks up with a little bit of brightness. more rain to come into the far north—west of scotland. that is that the saturday, mild afternoon, nine to 10 degrees.

0vernight into sunday, the high—pressure drifts to the south—west and another weather front moves into the north—west and the isobars squeezed together so the winds will pick up. gale force gusts not out of the question. the best of the weather across england and wales. breaks in the cloud but breezy. some persistent rain to the north—west of the great glen and gusts of wind is here maybe 50, 60 mph as well. that will make you feel fresh in the far north—west but generally speaking across the country, it is going to be a mild january afternoon, ten or 11 degrees but things are set to change. the cold air will arrive as we go to next week. not the extreme cold and severe weather we are seeing next week. not the extreme cold and severe weather we are seeing across europe, but a noticeable difference to the feel of the weather for the end of this month. this poor example is birmingham. i could have taken any city across the country to illustrate the point. 0n any city across the country to illustrate the point. on thursday,

noticeably colder and as we use the sunshine and keep more cloud, it is going to feel a little bit dismal. gardeners, it is worth bearing in mind we will be colder with overnight frost returning and yes, maybe there is the potential for some of those showers to turn a little bit wintry. that's all from the bbc news at one. so it's goodbye from me and on bbc one we nowjoin the bbc‘s news teams where you are. good afternoon. it's 1.30pm and here's your latest sports news. will andy murray make it to wimbledon as he hopes or will the australian open prove to be his last tounrnament as he fears it might be? 0ur sports correspondent natalie pirks is at wimbledon, where some of his greatest victories came in 2013 and 2016. natalie, we know about his

long—standing battles with fitness, the problems he has had with his hip, i presume this is something he has been thinking about for quite some time. well, there comes a time in every athlete's career, doesn't there, where the mind is still willing but the bodyjust isn't and he said in that very emotional press conference that it was in december that he spoke to his team and just said, isimply that he spoke to his team and just said, i simply can't do this any more. he needed to have an endgame plan for when he would stand down and he wants that to be here and you can understand why because, of course, he missed wimbledon last year because of that ongoing hip problem. he wants to say goodbye here. simply, he wants that fairy tale ending, but all the noise coming out of australia and the way he was so emotional in a press conference, looks as though this could even be the end next week. he is due to play a first—round match on monday, but it could well be the last time we see him play tennis at

all. absolutely. if that is the case, natalie, what will his lasting legacy be? great discussion, great debate about his place alongside the all—time greats of men and women, sports men and women in this country for ever, virtually. well, you can talk about fred perry, of course, but i have just been talking to sue barker who knows him better than most and she truly believes he is britain's greatest tennis player. of course, it was here in 2013 where he finally broke britain's 77 year wait for a male wimbledon champion and you can talk about that and 2016, when he won it again here and became number one in the world, ending any decade wait for a british number one. a fantastic year he had, successfully depending his 0lympics title, becoming the first player, male orfemale, to title, becoming the first player, male or female, to ever title, becoming the first player, male orfemale, to ever do title, becoming the first player, male or female, to ever do so and you can talk about all those things

and what he is given to the sport and what he is given to the sport and the youngsters he has helped bring through, but also he has been a very outspoken advocate for women, what we would call a male ally, someone what we would call a male ally, someone who has released a cup for women and is quick on social media to call at anything he deems to be sexist and he hired a female coach, the first mail to do so, saying at the first mail to do so, saying at the time, what is the problem? so he really has been fantastic from that point of view and if this is the end then he will, of course, still have a prominent role to play in sport. absolutely. for the moment, from wimbledon, where we hope to see andy murray this summer, many thanks. derby county have said the person police spoke to acting suspiciously outside their training ground yesterday was an employee of leeds united. frank lampard's side travel to meet the leaders tonight. the pride park outfit say they are "in discussion with leeds club officials in relation to the incident" while leeds have not responded to the reports. derbyshire police have confirmed there was no damage to the fence and no arrests were made.

england international sam underhill is set to miss the entire six nations tournament which start next month. the 22—year—old is expected to be out for three months after undergoing ankle surgery. he picked up the injury during bath's victory over leicester at the last month. england travel to dublin to face ireland in their first match on the 2nd of february. underhill was part of england's 2018 six nations side and featured in three of the autumn internationals. that's all the sport for now. you can find more on all those stories on the bbc sport website. plenty more reaction coming through to that press conference andy murray gave in melbourne this morning. i will be back in afternoon i've just after 2pm. mps at westminster are in their third day of debating the prime minister's eu withdrawal agreement, with a vote scheduled for next tuesday.

the conservative mp, dominic grieve, has called on the government to remove the date we leave the eu from legislation, if the prime minister fails to get backing for her deal next week. the first thing we could do is to take the 29th of march out of our domestic legislation because without doing that, there's no point in going to the eu and asking for an extension because we would still be crashing out and that would have to be, i think, a top priority. i believe the eu will extend article 50 for us, but i think it will only do it in a number of very limited circumstances. we have to be realistic about that as well, so we need to explore what those circumstances might be and have an opinion on how we can proceed from there. if we take this rationally, we will come up with the right solution at the end. if cabinet ministers feel that the government is doing something they can't accept, then it's probably their duty to resign. that's always been my approach to collective responsibility. if you can't take a collective decision to do something,

you shouldn't remain in government. it's a very important principle. so my feeling is that this will have its own dynamic, and whilst i want to keep the government is stable, it's not in our interests that this government collapses, i hope the prime minister will listen carefully to what members of parliament and members of her own government are saying to her. with just 77 days until brexit, british citizens who've made their homes in other eu countries are finding out more about what leaving the union will mean to them. in italy, home to 60,000 british citizens, britain's ambassador has travelled to florence to meet some of those affected. 0ur italy correspondent james reynolds went along. for one night, the unofficial pulpit at saint mark's english church was taken by britain's ambassador to italy. around 100 british residents came to ask her what brexit means for them.

i am very aware that this has been and remains an unsettling and an uncertain time for british citizens here in italy. but they won't have to leave. italy has announced that british citizens already living in this country will have their rights protected whatever happens after brexit. the foreign office asked us not to broadcast the q and a session of this town hall meeting. obviously, this was a hostile audience. there's not one person, i'm sure, in this room who actually agrees or would have voted for brexit, so i was quite taken aback by that, but obviously, the questions and answers were useful. she was talking as if we were in some kind of agreement with her, which i don't think anybody in the room was, and i think she was also unable to answer some of the most basic questions. louisa is concerned about getting her teenage son to university in the uk, something she never imagined she'd have to worry about.

i just feel that it's a colossal step in the wrong direction, that we now find ourselves in this situation where at best we can go for dual nationality and itjust seems to me to be a farce. alex wants to know if he and his children, who have austrian passports, will be able to live together in another eu country. it's difficult to know really in the future, will our rights, onward rights, be protected to stay together as a family? for many here, the reassurance of being allowed to stay in italy does not get rid of other concerns. i was just worried about our rights, because my wife is actually american but has italian citizenship. i don't yet, i'm a resident, and ijust wanted to see if we'd still be recognised as a married couple. brexit makes this more complicated? well, it could possibly be. a little bit worried about the situation as regards to pensions, and the ambassador said one thing, the vote

the in house of commons this afternoon is another, so... the future these british citizens once thought they were getting has not yet been put back together. a man who discovered after being diagnosed with the life—limiting illness cystic fibrosis that he couldn't be the father of his three sons because the condition causes lifelong infertility has told the bbc the news left him feeling suicidal. doctors revealed in 2016 that richard mason couldn't be dad to the children who are now twins of 19, and 23. richard, who's one of the founders of moneysupermarket.com, sued his wife of 20 years, kate, and they recently reached a settlement of £250,000, with her admitting she had an affair while the couple had been married. richard and his current partner emma

spoke to my colleague victoria derbyshire. when he said to me, you've got cystic fibrosis, i immediately thought, oh, my god, my sister died of that at 29. and her death was very hard for me because with cystic fibrosis, you slowly suffocate on your own phlegm and it took her two years to eventually... waiting for a heart and lung transplant and she died in the operating theatre. so immediately, i wasjust very saddened by that. but then when the discussion then turned to fertility and he said, look, yourself and emma, you are going to have difficulty having children because you are, as a man with cystic fibrosis, infertile, it was suddenly like being hit by a sledgehammer. ijust went... oh, my god, you know, suddenly realised

that your children aren't yours. so immediately you knew the significance of what he just said to you? yes. both of you? there were medical experts in the room and, you know, it's impossible without ivf for a man with cystic fibrosis to have a baby. so then i said, well, you must have the diagnosis wrong, because i've already got three boys. but i sort of was, like, clutching at straws there. so, after that, it became a complete blur because it was almost like, you know, i don't know if you've ever hit your head really, really hard and it's like a ringing and you just... you can't see anything that's going on around you, you can't think of anything that is going on around you, it's almost like you have this ringing in your ears and it's all the implications of everything that's as a result of that start flashing through your mind.

what kind of questions you then immediately asking yourself? he just wanted to go straight to phone kate, his ex—wife, and say, kate, spare me the dignity, just tell me the truth. was there anyone else? when i managed to compose myself about an hour later, i sent a text, and i said, look... and this text has been in the press, but it was actually repeated verbatim from what i said to her and it is still my phone now. i said i havejust been diagnosed with cystic fibrosis, i'm not expecting you to be sympathetic about that, because she's a very hard person, but the reason i'm telling you that is that the boys are not likely to have been fathered by me. now, obviously, something's gone on and if you are honest about it with me, i don't intend to sue you and you can decide how you want to tell the boys, if you want me to be there at the same time, that's fine. but if you lie to me, then i will take action

and i will decide how i am telling the boys and the immediate response i got back was, i am sympathetic, but whatever science says, those boys will always be yours. in a moment we'll have all the business news, but first the headlines on bbc news: andy murray announces he'll retire after wimbledon but in a tearful news conference he says his injured hip could force him out even sooner. work and pensions secretary, amber rudd, announces further changes to the roll—out of universal credit as four working single mothers win a high court challenge over the government scheme. the attorney general allows an application for a fresh inquest into the death of nine—year—old ella kissi—debrah who died after an asthma attack, believed to be linked to pollution, in 2013. i'm jamie roberston.

in the business news: airline flybe is being bought for £2.2 million by a consortium including virgin atlantic and stobart group. virgin's chief executive, vowed "to bring virgin atlantic service excellence to flybe's customers". the uk's economy slowed in the three months to november to a meagre 0.3%, less than the 0.4% in the three months to october according to the office for national statistics. manufacturing sector did particulalrly badly — as bad as it was just after the financial crisis. construction did better. 0utput actually rose. more on that shortly. prosecutors injapan have indicted former nissan chairman carlos ghosn with two fresh charges involving financial crimes. mr ghosn, who has been detained since november, was charged with aggravated breach of trust and understating his income.

the uk construction sector grew by 2.1% during september to november 2018 compared with the previous three months. the sector is doing well despite the obvious economic uncertainty and the risks of a slowing economy in the event of no deal scenario. and the federation of master builders has urged the government to not take the rise for granted, saying say its plans for its plans for migration controls could have a serious impact on its workforce. let's talk to sarah mcmonagle, federation of master builders. can you just say exactly why the sector is doing so well? well, these latest results do show strong growth in the construction sector from september to november and having canvassed our members, we are hearing that actually it is quite

common for a large house builders to end the year in quite a positive position because they put their foot on the gas to try to finish as many homes by the end of the calendar year to meet their house—building targets. however, we are hearing from members that actually since december and also this month, things are dropping off, so there is no room for complacency from the government's perspective. you are looking forward to orders for the next few months. what about the problem of the migration system which the government is proposing, particularly the threshold. can you explain how that we will have salary threshold is of 30000 and also it will be very difficult for so—called low skilled workers to come into construction in the uk no matter where they are from and they are hardly describing many tradespeople as being low skills, so level two carpenters, bricklayers, it will be no longer possible for us to bring many of these people into the uk.

why can't we get them here at home? we are almost at full employment in the uk and we are trying to attract more young people into the industry that we are competing with many other sectors such as the nhs, hospitality, tourism, many sectors out there which are experiencing skills shortages and i do not think there are enough people to go round. the other argument is to pay the more. we pay extremely high salaries in the construction industry. that is not an issue. the question is whether we can find enough human beings to come into the sector to carry out these problems misdirect projects. and some other stories in the news today, german car—maker bmw has reported a 1.1% rise in worldwide group sales for 2018. worldwide the group sold nearly 2.5 million cars in 2018. but sales for the december trading period for the group fell by 0.7% overall, due to a fall of more than 11% in sales of mini—branded cars. hitachi said "no formal decision" has been made over the future of a uk nuclear plant following a report it would halt construction.

the nikkei asian review reported the firm's board would be likely to decide to suspend all work on the welsh plant. shares in the japanese company jumped 8% after the report. fast—growing fashion retailer quiz has made its second profit warning in three months. it now expects to make £8.2 million, down from an estimate of £11.5 million made in october. quiz, which targets 16 to 35—year—olds, launched a new collection last year with love island finalist, gabby allen. let's have a look at the markets. arsenal enter the week. the pound is looking a bit stronger against the dollar. but the other markets, the german market wrap down and we will look at the american market in about an hour's time.

in the philippines, an unofficial rail car service is filling in the many gaps in manila's struggling transport network. and let's be clear exactly what "unofficial" means — it means homeless people pushing commuters along rails that are also used by the philippine national railway. at least nine people died last year in accidents involving trains, but officials say they are powerless to stop the trolley pushers. this from the bbc‘s correspondent howard johnson. this is manila's unofficial rail service. it's run by a small homeless community that live by the tracks. each trolley carries around eight passengers. this woman has been pushing trolleys for more than a decade. she earns around $10 a day. translation: at the start, it's push and run, push and run. if it is uphill and the trolley is full and you are the only one pushing, it is difficult.

0ur life here is, if you don't push, you don't eat. it costs around two cents to travel a kilometre on these tracks and commuters like it because it is cheaper and more efficient than other forms of transport. but using it does come with risks. that is because the line still active. around four trains pass along these tracks every hour. the bridge is the most dangerous part of the route. if a trolley is on the bridge as a train approaches, pushers must move to the other side as quickly as possible. the alternative is a 30 metre drop to the river below. translation: it feels disconcerting and scary when a train passes by. we don't know if we are shaking because of how loud the horns are or because of the rumble of the tracks. last month, a train driver kept blowing his horn, but he hit a trolley pusher. even his heart came out of his body. the pusher died. rail authorities say

because the problem rests with a lack of law enforcement in the area, there is very little they can do. 0ur drivers are reallyjust observing the speed restrictions. we are requesting the cooperation of the riders also, not to patronise the rail skaters because it is r4eally risky and most dangerous to the lives of everyone. lack of investment led to the decline of the country's rail service. the current president has promised to change that by spending on major rail infrastructure projects. but while a shortfall in service remains, trolley pushers will continue to plug the gaps. howard johnson, bbc news, manila. now it's time for a look at the weather. this is what it is doing at the

moment and this is what it will do for the weekend for many of us. yet again, lots of hard across the country. favourite spots for some brea ks country. favourite spots for some breaks at the moment, just east of the pennines and down into the south—east corner. you are the lucky few. lovely spells of sunshine coming through, but for most of us, cloudy and grey. 0ne plus notes, very mild out there and it will stay like that throughout the weekend. quite a lot of cloud, glimpses of sunshine across central and southern areas, but overnight tonight, we will see more in the way of rain pushing into the far north—west. these are the afternoon highs, eight to 10 degrees. through the night tonight, keeping the cloud which prevents temperatures falling very far at all. prevents temperatures falling very farat all. rain prevents temperatures falling very far at all. rain pushes into scotland, northern ireland, may well move into the north—west of england as well, weakening all the time, but as well, weakening all the time, but a frost free start to our saturday morning with overnight lows of five to8 morning with overnight lows of five to 8 degrees. there is a weather front sitting through england and wales, just a blanket of clouds, a

spot or two of rain first spring. behind it, brightand spot or two of rain first spring. behind it, bright and breezy before more rain pushes into the north—west of the great glen. some of that is quite heavy. nine to 11 degrees, so a mild saturday afternoon for many. asimilar a mild saturday afternoon for many. a similar theme moving into sunday but a slight change as the high—pressure drifts away and another weather front bridges across the top, the isobars bridged together. the wind will become more ofa together. the wind will become more of a feature, satellite into sunday, reaching gusts along the coast. england and wales, bright and breezy afternoon, largely dry, more persistent rain into the north west of scotla nd persistent rain into the north west of scotland and gusts of wind largely in excess of 40, 50, maybe even 60 mph which will take the edge off the field of things to the extreme north—west, seven or 8 degrees, but further south, ten or 11 yet again across the country. things will change as we move into next week because the high—pressure continues to push off into the atlantic, allowing the cold air is still backed down from the arctic.

not the extreme cold and severe weather that we have in europe at the moment, but nevertheless, we will notice the difference to the fuel of our weather. this is birmingham. we could take any city to illustrate this point, but from thursday onwards, notably colder and as we lose the sunshine, it really is going to feel quite dismal for the end of january. is going to feel quite dismal for the end ofjanuary. so, into next week, turning colder, overnight frosts which we have not seen for a time, and the chance for some of those showers turning increasingly wintry. hello, you're watching afternoon live. i'm simon mccoy. today at two: a tearful andy murray announces his retirement from tennis. the former world number one says his bodyjust can't cope. i'm not sure, um... i'm not sure i am able to play through the pain, you know, for another four or five months.

the government announces further changes to the roll—out of universal credit as four single working mothers win a high court challenge over the scheme. after claims this little girl was killed by illegal pollution from one of britain's busiest roads, her mother welcomes the chance of a fresh inquest into her death. it's the right decision, and now we can get to the bottom,