good morning welcome to breakfast with naga munchetty and charlie stayt. our headlines today: braced for further defections. three former conservative mps who have quit the party say a significant number of colleagues are also considering walking out. so let's look at some of the stories no breakthrough in brussels, but theresa may insists progress has been made on agreeing the media are discussing today. changes to the brexit deal. the british teenager who joined is in syria says she's shocked by the home secretary's decision to remove the front page of the daily her uk citizenship. telegraph, and the story that's dominating the uk's front pages — the defection of three mps from prime minister theresa may's tax online firms and save the high street. conservative party to join mps say "wide reforms" are needed a new independent group in to revive our town centres , parliament. the international edition of the financial times reports that they want an internet sales tax. ubs has been hit with a record $5 billion penalty after a french court after var controversy and a red card found it had helped — manchester city launch a fightback clients evade french taxs. with raheem sterling ubs says it strongly disagrees sealing their 3—2 win over schalke with the verdict and will appeal. staying with business, the times says the uk supermarket group sainsbury‘s planned $9 billion takeover of one of its competitors, asda, is on the brink of collapse after the regulator voiced extensive concerns.

the japan times leads on what it calls the ambitious plans for the second summit between donald trump and north korea's kimjong—un. it's happening next week. are trying to get ready for that. —— they are. and finally, the bbc news website turns to technology and the new foldable smartphone unveiled by samsung, which goes on sale in just over two months‘s time. of course, we have mentioned extensively already the high price and whether you are willing to pay that or not. with me is alpesh patel, the ceo of praefinium partners. he was talking about he might be prepared to pay that, we'll talk about it later. out to destroy the tory party, that is a very strong headline on the front page of the daily telegraph. let me ask your question, get voted in general election and then thought four years

later, that is what i voted for and i have got it, or had you thought as most people do, i've got, did not wait for that, had a end up with that? that is what is happening, you voted, i know for a party, usually in the british system you voting for an individual, and now they have left the party and all it stands for done a complete u—turn. is that democratic? you're going to be pretty annoyed as a voter, as part of that electorate. to what you're saying is that as a vote, you are annoyed on the decisions of anna soubry, heidi allen, and ralston. perhaps they did not have another choice. there was another choice, thatis choice. there was another choice, that is what the labour leader said

about leaving the labour party, have about leaving the labour party, have a by—election, it suddenly your conscience got the better of youth 18 months in and however many months to be ina 18 months in and however many months to be in a particular party, you wa ke to be in a particular party, you wake up one morning and i cannot bear this now. —— wollaston.” wake up one morning and i cannot bear this now. -- wollaston. i am sure people about it and can considered for a very long time. sure people about it and can considered for a very long timeli do not think it was considered for a very long time for one reason, we had an election 18 months ago, it could have done it back then and the other reason is vista is happen in ingres politics, it happens for example in india's the world's largest democracy, but it doesn't happen in england. is that mean it can't happen? clearly not, but i think the last time it happened was sometime around 1685. there are things that have happened in the last two months of not happened a long time, including the massive defeat that the government so for the withdrawal bill vote. what i think about david cameron's stark

warning, saying that this will risk splitting the party? what this means the tory party going forward? some of them are saying that... and i wa nt to of them are saying that... and i want to be fair, labour as well. there were seven from labour, three from the tories. could lead to a massive rift? all bets are off, look, forget the experts, we do not see these things coming. heidi allen, one of the three, she says we are creating something better, that is banks the centre. they feel something new, something you has to be borne. if you are a member of the dam, you are going what about, wait a minute, what about us? today, just to say, today brexit secretary stephen barclay, the attorney general are going to brussels we are told, to try and sort out the change told, to try and sort out the change to this irish backstop or sums legal document on the side of it or whatever it might look like, what are your hopes for us living europe

with a deal? hopes, hopes and dreams? they were left long ago. i was giving a talk about the markets, financial markets and brexit, and i said look, there is one thing people do not expect you to say, which is we do not know. it would be a gamble ifi we do not know. it would be a gamble if i was to tell you which we think it is going to go. of course we've got hope, that stability, that went out of the window yonks ago. it is going to be gamble, if i was to try and guess which way the markets would go off the back of what might 01’ would go off the back of what might or might not happen in europe, we do not know. it is farcical and. all right, that great little bit of insight. that is the best insight you are going to get from anybody because it is honest. and at times front—page, bad bankers in the headlines again. ubs facing a record penalty. 4.5 billion euros penalty to ubs by the french tax authorities, 0k, to ubs by the french tax authorities, ok, for tax evasion and money laundering, facilitating tax

evasion money—laundering for their wealthiest clients. do you know what 4.5 billion euros is, not your pay packet, it is a new one—year's profit for ubs, hardly a penalty, when you's profit, and you know how much their share price moved down? how much do you think the share price moved down? and you know, so just us. 4.4%. that is nothing, this is not a punishment, and you know how i know it is not a punishment? with the in a is going to come to... —— that is the third thing i was going to come to. bankers behind bars. sally... you know how many bankers are behind bars? one. you have notes or something? i do not need to be here, just talk yourself. ubs is appealing, they are saying that thisjudgement is ubs is appealing, they are saying that this judgement is a superficial judgement and we have to say they

are appealing the decision. that is absolutely fair to say that they are appealing. all right, let's talk about sainsbury‘s, its deal with asda near collapse, this off the back of the condition markets authority saying the combination of britain's second and third biggest supermarkets could lead to prices going up and less competition. supermarkets could lead to prices going up and less competitionm competition, a lot of people out there obviously shopping on the high street, shopping and sainsbury‘s. i will tell you what worries me about this, their share price dropped 18% of the back of this. —— less competition. compared to .5% with the other lot, 18%. you know what has happened over the last two yea rs ? has happened over the last two years? no, why don't you tell me? despite all the best efforts of the sainsbury‘s management to try and create value for their shareholders, the share price has gone nowhere. 0k, forgive me, this is not about the share price, this is about the fa ct the share price, this is about the fact that what you buy within

sainsbury‘s and asda will be more expensive because they have less competition, and i imagine a lot of people are thinking let's stop talking about shares. do you imagine they are a charity? they have the largest share owned by qatari investment, your pension fund has almost certainly got some shares in the sainsbury‘s, still affecting all the sainsbury‘s, still affecting all the shoppers and sainsbury‘s is not provide the shop is a charitable service, therefore the share prices are incredibly important in these companies... and they are not delivering the consumers. and a saying for a lot of consumers, to pay for their price will... and that is the point, if the share price is falling, they are going to increase the price of groceries, so consumers are going to suffer. let's talk about samsung, on bbc news online

technology, everywhere for that matter. you talked about at quite a bit already, you are quite keen on this foldable phone, but i had to say none of my viewers are. i have had many, many responses and they are all saying it is just far too much money, i would rather go on a nice holiday. remember what, how, how... nice holiday. remember what, how, how. . . what nice holiday. remember what, how, how... what do you mean you're not it? wait, wait, no, because remember how these telecom companies rip you off, they did it is massive payment plans so does not feel like you're paying and ? plans so does not feel like you're paying and? they give you three—year contracts, that is what they will do, they will turn not 12 months, not 24 months, three—year contract, and you will think that is not too bad that actually, you are being ripped off over long—term. you're paying even more because you're paying even more because you're paying the interest on all the rest of it. we going to say goodbye and we have run out of time. thank you so we have run out of time. thank you so much for being with us and thank

you to the for your company. —— thank you for. hello. as advertised for several days, temperatures are now on the up and there will be sunnier days to come, but we're not there yet. for thursday, expect a good deal of cloud around. it's reallyjust later in the day it starts to brighten up. regardless of cloud or sunshine, though, it will be milder. it's all about where the air is coming from. regardless of cloud or sunshine, though, it will be milder. it's all about where the air is coming from. that's a bit of caribbean air coming our way on through thursday. by the end of the week, the start of the weekend, looking to north—west africa, the canaries, for the source of our mild air, but temperatures will be several degrees above normal for the time of year. nowhere particularly cold as thursday begins, but this chart gives you an indication ofjust how much cloud there's going to be. damp and drizzly as well in places, to begin the day. could still see a bit of patchy rain in western scotland and north—west england into the first part of the afternoon, before it eases away. now, you canjust pick out more of the land appearing among the cloud into the afternoon.

these are gradually some sunny spells developing. now, we've established this is a feed of mild air coming from the south. it's fairly breezy. these are average speeds, there'll be a few stronger gusts the further west you are, you're closer to low pressure out in the atlantic. but again, it is a feed of mild air, temperatures are above normal, and with some decent sunshine in north—east scotland, 16, 17, maybe 18 degrees is possible, but widely temperatures in the mid—teens. clear spells around on thursday night, although this weather front just edges closer to northern ireland and western scotland, with a strengthening wind. so you could start to see a few spots of rain out of that, and this is fog developing across parts of east anglia, the midlands, southern, especially south—east england. as ever, it'll be patchy in nature, but some of it could well be quite dense as we start the day on friday. of course, there isn't much wind here because you're closer to this area of high pressure. still, though, this weatherfront close to northern ireland and western scotland. so here, more cloud around at times on friday, maybe a few showers, more breeze in the west as well compared with elsewhere. some of the fog towards the south—east may even linger into the first half of the afternoon in some spots, but for many on friday, for more places, it's blue sky and sunshine. and of course, when you've got

the sunshine, it willjust contribute to that very mild feel to the weather. some snow affecting parts of south—east europe, with low pressure close by. elsewhere, for many, it's dry, with high pressure notjust here but elsewhere in europe, and there's your feed of air coming from the canaries, from north—west africa into the uk over the weekend. and, whilst most will be fine and dry, could be some rain affecting parts of northern ireland and western scotland at times, and still some dense fog patches across parts of england to start the day.