the t‘u‘é‘. e “aiiié: “iii“: “u‘é: t‘ui‘e‘. emanu— : sir laurence, the entertainer is that he tested us all to see if we had what he considered special on the screen. alan played the sun and then suddenly we were working in lily white boys at the royal court. it was such an extraordinary time was jumaat i it was such an extraordinary time wasjumaat i owe all but a big favour, for many ways, but one of them was because i lost my nerve. favour, for many ways, but one of them was because i lost my nerveli had them was because i lost my nerve.” had to go up on a big plinth and every night the audience would laugh and clap and everything else and then i realised i was being funny andi then i realised i was being funny and i started to play it and albert somehow shook back out of me. he said these away you were, believe in it, don't try and be funny, you are funny. somehow he said that the scene for me. what about albert finney himself as an actor? how would you rate him as a talent?

unique. one of the best. if not, the best. and could never be bought. he would only do what he believed in and whatever he believed in, he made it real. he wasn't always keen on acting. there were times when he felt, oh, it's like going to work and now and again i felt like say to him, well, it's better than being a bricklayer but i didn't, held myself back because actually, he knew a bit more than i knew. if told some lovely stories about him. what do you think will be your lasting memory of albert finney? albert, the people he made friends with, michael was a very good friend, he had a company together. his friend who has just flown over from hollywood, george, myself, he kept his friends. we all cared about him, i don't know

how we are going to face this weekend and i wish i had gone down to see him before it was too late. but i didn't. he's probably organising all his concerts in heaven now. being albert. that's a nice idea. we are very grateful to you for spending some time remembering albert finney. thank you very much. and we'll be taking an in—depth look at the papers with head of politics at the daily mirrorjason beattie, and women's editor at the telegraph claire cohen — that's coming up after the headlines at 11:30. now it's time for the weather with helen willetts. we had snow to end last week. we had storm eric. this is a weather watcher picture. it shows turbulent,

flowing water. it has been at 11. the storm still with us to start saturday. showers particularly in the north but not exclusively and the north but not exclusively and the winds remain strong. they still have the potential to cause disruption. still have the potential to ta ke disruption. still have the potential to take off roof and branches. they are busting 60 —— gusting 60 mph flat of a bit of winteriness over the hills but it eases away. the winds take a bit of time. —— miles per hour fewer showers come the afternoon. temperatures on a par with friday. slightly lighter winds and sunshine. it doesn't last because it could bring a soggy night

saturday night and a soggy start to sunday across southern areas. this weapon —— weather front has potential of snow. the weather system stinks south. it gives the risk of snow over the hills. between some drier and brighter weather as well that the temperatures dip back on sunday because we have the calder arctic air. it is —— calder arctic air. the start of the new week sees things are settling down. the cold blast of arctic air. we are picking up blast of arctic air. we are picking up frost and not too much fog. it isn't to be ruled out across southern areas. the breeze comes down will accentuate the cheal. temperatures are lower again on monday because it is cold air we start the day with frost. —— the

chill. tuesday, a similar setup. more south—westerly. light winds and a bit of fog. a bit milder. we started the chilly weather and the frost. by wednesday, we are picking up frost. by wednesday, we are picking up the south—westerly as the high becomes established a bit further east. we will start to see temperatures lifting a little bit by day. strengthening sunshine. double figures for many of us. the reason for these changes is thejetstream, is plunging the cold air further south. as it moves towards the north, it allows the ridge of high—pressure pulling in warmer air. hence it started to be less cold.

not at night. the nights are still long enough for some frost. it does look drier next week with some sunshine although at times there will be wind and rain threatening the north and west. as ever, all the warnings are on the website. hello. this is bbc news with reeta chakra barti. we'll be taking a look at tomorrow morning's papers in a moment — with our reviewers jason beattie and claire cohen. first the headlines: the daily telegraph has published fresh details of allegations of sexual and racial harassment against the businessman sir philip green. he denies any wrongdoing. the prime minister theresa may has met her irish counterpart in dublin for brexit discussions over dinner — as she tries to win support for changes to the withdrawal agreement. the family of cardiff city footballer emiliano sala say they can now mourn him — after police confirmed it was his body recovered from the english channel. the world's richest man,

the founder of amazon jeff bezos, has accused the owners of an american celebrity magazine of extortion and blackmail. and tributes have been paid to the actor albert finney, who has died at the age of 82. his big film break came as "angry young man" arthur seaton in saturday night and sunday morning. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are jason beattie, head of politics at the daily mirror, and claire cohen, women's editor at the telegraph. many of tomorrow's front pages are already in. the daily telegraph has published more allegations about the businessman sir philip green's treatment of some of his employees. the daily mail reports the retail

tycoon is millions of pounds out of pocket after dropping a court injunction over previous allegations made by former members of staff. the i weekend claims sir philip green has warned former employees he will pursue them through the courts over sexual harassment claims. the times leads with the same story — branding the businessman a ‘bully‘. the guardian has a picture of the actor albert finney, who's died aged 82 following a short illness. the ft weekend says talks between britain and japan on a new trade deal in the event of the no—deal brexit have stalled. a cctv image is on the front page the daily express — it says police are focusing on the footage which could hold clues to finding missing student libby squire. and the daily mirror claims half of bus routes could be scrapped because of funding cuts. a variety of stories making the front pages. let's see what our reviewers make of it all. one big story, the one that your

paper has broken, claire, about sir philip green. there are more allegations, of course, that you have got out tonight. talk us through some of the issues that the paper is addressing. of course. this is an investigation that has been running for some months in the telegraph. we received information about apparent allegations against sir philip green last summer that we decided were in the public interest and to investigate. as most of us i'iow and to investigate. as most of us now know, he was granted a court of appeal injunction, which we reported in october. so we are delighted that that has now been dropped. what we are continuing to campaign for in the telegraph is a complete overhaul of ndas, because that is the thing at the heart of this. this imbalance of power. there are a lot of laws and legislation in the uk that

protect employees, protect workers, but here is evidence, and there is ple nty of but here is evidence, and there is plenty of evidence, they are being used to cover up allegations of discrimination and harassment and abuse and racism. these nondisclosure agreements first came to light with the me too campaign. we heard about them in connection with harvey weinstein, jason. yes. they are basically gagging orders being used by those who have the money, because they can afford the lawyers and the court action to take them out, to silence people. there are cases you can see why them out, to silence people. there are cases you can see why you need a nondisclosure agreement, for example, you don't want somebody running for trade secrets. that makes sense. but they are being used, let us talk about this more widely and part philip green, they used by certain people is to cover up used by certain people is to cover upa kind used by certain people is to cover up a kind of behaviour which i think isa up a kind of behaviour which i think is a clear public interest that they are used. for example, if somebody,

your boss, is a racist or sexist or bully or has assaulted staff, for example, and they then buy the silence of former employees, you don't know that when you go to work for them. now, is don't know that when you go to work forthem. now, is that fair? should you not have a right to know that as a potential employee? so that is one example of working, that these are being misused or abused by the rich and powerful. i suppose, so many looking at this from the outside, might house, claire, people aren't forced to sign nondisclosure agreements, are there, and if they scimone to go against them? story we have on our front page is an explanation for one of the alleged victims, saying that she was too frightened to tell a story. she explains the emotion behind it and

how you feel when there is this imbalance of power in your workplace and how you feel, probably, that you have very little option but to sign an nba have very little option but to sign an ndaa have very little option but to sign an nba a loss of time. this is your employer, your boss. we would be about mizzou. she talks about the women in hollywood had money and power and they were still too scared to tell their stories —— me too. she said think about how frightening it is when you have neither. this is a wider story about, unit, abuses of power in the workplace and the slow draining of confidence from those who are allegedly suffering harassment and its cremation —— you know. to the point where they feel they don't have any options. which is what this is about. i should say, sir philip denies any allegations of wrongdoing and his lawyers have put out a statement this evening saying "it is denied that any of sabella's

conduct towards employees amounted to any kind of crime or anything that would amount to gross misconduct or a serious risk to health and safety. ‘s —— sir philip's. that is a response to some of the allegations detailed in the telegraph. the front page of the daily mail has the same story prominently on front page. jason... jason. i am prominently on front page. jason... jason. iam reading prominently on front page. jason... jason. i am reading the word fillip. this is about the costs involved.” am also not a night. and i am wondering whether sir philip green should be as well, given the accusations. of course he denies it, but it is extraordinary. what a terrible face of british business and he is. he denies the allegations is that is your opinion. that is entirely my opinion. i am thinking

as much about bhs as anything else. the meret campaigns for him to be stripped of a knighthood. sorry, 3 million, this comes back to what khloe was talking about earlier, this imbalance of power. if you are an extra ordinarily wealthy person with a large cheque—book you can use the courts to your advantage and those without money do not have the same recourse. i think that is something we should all be slightly concerned about. justice should be open to wall and fair to all. i am sometimes wondering in this country if it is at all —— open to all. legal aid, barristers warned about this, it is notjust in this instance, and in civil actions, but in criminal actions. it is a concern. is suggesting that make the daily mail is suggesting that this could leave him with a £3 million legal bill. he is the third or

fourth richest man. it is a reflection of how much he has spent pursuing this through the courts and it is sending the message that in england's courts potential victims of me too are going to be silenced. that is a dangerous message to be sent out. 0k. let us move on to another extremely rich man. the richest man on the planet. another favourite of yours, jason. jeff bezos. yes. the problem here is, kind of... a terrible choice. jeff bezos, the owner of amazon, the world's richest man, is now caught up world's richest man, is now caught up in this extraordinary scandal which involves donald trump. and over what they called kind of blackmail of sexting pictures. i try

to use this as politely as possible. it is difficult to choose sides. they are both pretty unpleasant characters. one is kind of accused of industrial scale tax avoidance, entirely legal, but still massive tax avoidance. the other is a fairly unpleasant man who happens to sit in the white house and has allegations of dealing with a mob as supporting white supremacist and the history of affairs. take your pick on who you wa nt to ta ke affairs. take your pick on who you want to take sides on. i will sit in the middle. abstaining. i am taking with it. what is interesting about this is the back story. the national enquirer chief executive, the wonderfully named david packer is wonderfully named david packer is wonderfully close to donald trump. and donald trump's lawyer, michael cohen, gave testimony in court that during the presidential campaign the national enquirer, on the hay at ——

on behalf of donald trump was doing catch and kill, which is when you buy up the story of somebody who has got salacious or damaging or embarrassing material, in this case it was a former playboy model who had material that she slept with donald trump, allegedly, and they bought her up. and then to stop it being published. now, donald trump hates jeff bezos being published. now, donald trump hatesjeff bezos because he's the owner of the washington post and the washington post has done more than any newspaper to expose the alleged wrongdoings, behaviour, hundreds of lies —— lies, that is all on the record you don't and it is a allegedly, about the president. and he calls it the worst of all the fa ke he calls it the worst of all the fake news offenders, printing the truth than i do not want to hear it. there are now allegations, and none of this is proven yet, the dots have not been completely joined, of this is proven yet, the dots have not been completelyjoined, that donald trump may have colluded with the national enquirer to try to get

them to find this embarrassing information about jeff bezos. them to find this embarrassing information about jeff bezosm them to find this embarrassing information about jeff bezos. it is an extraordinary storing. it is amazing. it has all of the elements. the us president, the national enquirer, the washing the bose, blackmailing. .. it enquirer, the washing the bose, blackmailing... it has enquirer, the washing the bose, blackmailing. .. it has money, sex, power. -- the washington post. robert mueller must be either rubbing his hands together or putting his head in his hands and when will this all and? i have to do so when will this all and? i have to do so much investigation now. donald trump has lots of questions to answer. he has not even really been tweeting today. shocker. we need to know what he knew, when he knew it, if he knew anything. we will be talking to this for a fair few days to come. we move onto the front page of the financial times. a brexit story about trade talks and japan. claye. such a familiar story. japan has

said they don't want to cut and paste agreement. they what is bespoke deal. what a surprise. it is a taste of what's to come. we are only rolling over three about trade agreement. we will have to be cutting these individual bespoke deals. it has taken 18 months, we have nothing. it's hard to work out what we need to do. i will run through a few other stories just get them in. jason, daily mail on page eight. nigel farage ready to stand after a new party wins official recognition. s the telegraph are focusing on other issues today as well. —— the telegraph. focusing on other issues today as well. -- the telegraph. so, he is back! indeed a... with a new party which is set to make sure they deliver a kind of proper brexit.

what's it called? it's called the brexit party. it does what it says oi'i brexit party. it does what it says on the tin. now it's —— there is quite a lot of questions about this. first of all, the hyperbole behind it. they say they are going to get hundreds, potentially thousands of the conservatives of labour defectors. —— labour. new parties don't come cheap. you have to find them. where is the money? always the first question i would ask, particularly with donald trump... nigel farage, sorry. that donald trump playbook. damages did in, if this astana to keep nigel farage in the news? ——is this a stunt? is it always a serious effort? is it spell the demise of ukip, his further party? and where do they fit in on

this kind of interesting, quite narrow gap of between the far right of the tory party and the complete kind of very, very far right rising forces and particularly unpleasant forces and particularly unpleasant forces there? you at the end of the spectrum and you have it ukp in there. —— ukip. idon't know. spectrum and you have it ukp in there. -- ukip. i don't know. or just a last—minute threat to two reason they to warn her not to go too soft on brexit and to see... ——to reason they. lim yes. —— yes. —— theresa ——to reason they. lim yes. —— yes. — — theresa may. ——to reason they. lim yes. —— yes. —— theresa may. we campaign to try and stop it and, you know. it's starting to look inevitable that both the tories and labour are going to split. we are all very shocked but there is a history of it. we

have had a period of relative stability, haven't we, in the post—war parliament.” stability, haven't we, in the post-war parliament. i have to stop you both there. on that note. jason, claire, thank you so much. 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's 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, jason beattie and claire cohen. goodbye. good evening, i'm lizzie greenwood hughes

with your latest sports news. uk racing's lock down has been increased to 174 training yards after more cases of equine flu were confirmed today. currently racing is still cancelled until atleast wednesday prompting concern overjump racing's biggest event — the cheltenham festival which is just 32 days away. our sports news correspondent richard conway gave me an update earlier. three additional cases of equine flu has been confirmed. it brings a total of six at donald mccain's sta ble total of six at donald mccain's stable in cheshire. there is one suspected case at a separate yard. in total, it means 174 training out across the country are now in lock down and the reason for this is because the bha want to try and contain this equine flu as much as possible. there will be no racing until wednesday at the earliest. we will get an update on monday from the bha about that, about whether racing can go ahead. sheffield united just missed out on giong top of the championship after an extraordinary game

at aston villa tonight. united were winning 3 nil with less than ten minutes to go after a billy sharp hat trick but then incredibly they fell apart letting villa come back into the game and after two goals before injury time, andre green scored a dramatic equaliser in the 94th minute to make it 3—3. villa are up to 8th, sheffield united stay third. great britain's fed cup tennis team have qualified in style for tomorrow's final of their round robin tournament in bath. jo konta won her singles rubber against hungary in the last half an hour, following—up on katie boulter‘s win in the tie earlier. konta did it the hard way. winning in a final set tie break. emotional scenes in bath too! victory against serbia tomorrow would earn them a place in april's world group 2 play—off. it's week two of rugby union's 6 nations championship.

scotland get things underway against ireland at murrayfield tomorrow. the women were in action tonight though and after a big defeat to england last week, ireland bounced back with a bonus point victory in glasgow. they put four tries past a tough scottish defence — prop leah lyons powering over for their second. saracens are through to the final of the premiership rugby cup. the defending champions comfortably beat worcester 38—22. replacement sione vailanu scored their final try. sarries will play either northampton or newcastle in next month's final. wigan have made up their points deficit in week two of rugby league's super league. they'd been docked points for breaching the salary cap, but after tonight's 34—16 win over leeds they're now on zero points mid table on points difference. england have dropped wicketkeeper ben foa kes for the final test match against the west indies tomorrow,

withjonny bairstow to keep wicket. ben stokes has been named in the 12 man squad along with mark wood and keatonjennings, who was dropped for the second test. stokes had been a doubt after suffering a bruised heel earlier in the week. great success insulate. great things over there. it hasn't quite materialise for us here. whether that we down to selection or down to how poorly we have paid it in parts, you have to see it for what it is. asa you have to see it for what it is. as a player, as a selector. how can you best exploit these conditions that are right in front of us now? we need to make sure we give a good account of ourselves and the guys that get that opportunity, take that responsibility, and put in the big performances for the country. that's all for now. hello there. storm erik has brought

strong winds and destruction and damage. we saw some trees down across western parts of the country where wind speeds reached 60—70 mph. it's not done yet. the southern flank of storm erik will bring a flank of storm erik will bring a flank of storm erik will bring a flank of strong winds across northern ireland, northern ingrid and southern scotland. perhaps in excess of 70 mph in exposure. it is destructive and damaging winds along with rains and a snow. it is in scotla nd with rains and a snow. it is in scotland and the pennines. further south, also fairly windy with blustery and its quarterly showers. temperature wise, for most of us, we won't see those falling below six and eight degrees. we start tomorrow morning off on a windy note for all, especially northern areas. heavy rain gradually clearing off into the north sea through the afternoon as storm erik pulls away it will take the strong winds without becoming confined to the north—east of the country but elsewhere winds will gradually ease although it will be built very blustery across the hills will stop will see increasing amount

of sunshine with plenty of it across eastern areas. —— across the hills. we will see. something a bit call for england and wales and across scotland. the last of the mild days. it will turn colderfor scotland. the last of the mild days. it will turn colder for sunday onwards. but after the strong winds tomorrow, particularly early on saturday. some destruction and damage could be seen so keep tuned to your bbc local radio. as storm erik pulls away, this lower feature into southern britain into sunday night. —— saturday night and sunday. it will bring strong winds. the stronger will be across the near continent. as colder end is in, we will see snow for the welsh hills. perhaps over the high ground of the south—east as this rain clears the way. it brightens up elsewhere but the cold air will bring wintry showers into scotland and northern ireland. most bridges will be down in single figures for all. a band of showers, some wintry. they will clear away into monday as a ridge of high pressure builds in. it means it

will be a chilly start to next week with a bit of frost around but it least because of the ridge of high pressure we will see plenty of crisp sunshine and the winds will be light —— lighter. the cabbages could bounce up a bit, nine or 10 degrees in the south but colder further north. things are looking more settled as we head into next week thanks to high pressure building in efficiency sunny spells around but the knights will be chilly again with a touch of frost will stop things could turn a bit mould as the week wears on. —— nights. this is bbc news, i'm samantha simmonds.

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