hello, you're watching afternoon live — i'm simon mccoy. the young people who don't today at 2. necessarily want to go away further afield, and stay in good old cleethorpes and develop their skills. the horrifying last moments as the government says it recognises pilots fought to save their plane. the challenges facing seaside towns and that by 2020, it will have invested £200 million in the great british coast. the report into the ethiopian plane crash said they did everything right but couldn't gain control. the crew performed all the procedures repeatedly, provided by the manufacturer, but was not able to control the aircraft. there have been many blue peter pets more talks between labour and the over the years, with some becoming government to try to find a brexit almost as well—known as the compromise. as the german chancellor presenters. today, the first new dog arrives in dublin for talks with the on the show for ten years has been irish prime minister about the doing his first round of media brexit deadlock and the possibility appearances. henry the two—year—old beagle basset—hound was discovered at a rescue centre and this morning ofa he found himself on radio five live brexit deadlock and the possibility of a no—deal brexit departure. the as well as the breakfast sofa, dangers ——. accompanied by blue peter presenter, the dangers of a bad diet: scientists say it's a bigger risk lindsey russell. good luck to henry! lets get a look at the weather. he has chris fawkes, and some snow about.

yes, across parts of the midlands and parts of wales we've seen some snow. this was the scene around ludlow in shropshire this morning. we did have snow around wales as well. low pressure firmly in charge but it's this area of cloud looking back across wales and the west midlands that brought the wintry weather earlier today. you can see the snow there but increasingly over the snow there but increasingly over the last hour or two as the temperatures have just risen above freezing by an odd degree or two, we've seen in most cases the snow transition back to rain. but that said around powys, temperatures right now are still at zero celsius, still very cold out and about underneath that area of rain with a bit of hill snow. further north we have showers for scotland. some of those will be heavy and thundering in nature. this evening we'll see the area of rain across wales has been a cross into northern ireland, so been a cross into northern ireland, so the weather becoming wet here this evening. then another pulse of rain moving up across south—west england and wales. given all the cloud and patchy outbreaks of rain

in the west it's not desperately cold, 5—7dc, with clearer skies further east, that's where the coolest air will be. looking at the weather picture tomorrow our area of low pressure has moved further westwards and we are starting to get winds from the continent and that will boost temperatures. it will begin to turn less cold. that said, we still have cloud and rain around affecting northern ireland, wales and south—west england at times. the brightest weather the further north and east, probably decent sunshine in scotland. temperatures up to 11! degrees in edinburgh and london, so feeling quite a bit better than today and we've lost the chilly winds as well. on into the weekend we've got quite a mixed picture of whether, often quite cloudy, there will be some bright spells particularly across western parts of the country, but also some rain around at times. temperatures a bit milder. here's a saturday's weather picture. across eastern areas quite a lot of cloud perhaps thick enough to bring a bit of drizzle. elsewhere the sky is bright with some sunshine, perhaps the best way to

northern ireland and parts of north—west england. temperatures 11! degrees but cool around the eastern coasts with the cloud and the onshore winds. one sunday there's the chance of seeing some fairly heavy showers moving across parts of the country, may be a few thunderstorms mixed in as well but there will be some bright or sunny spells coming and going and as far as temperatures go, height of 16 degrees in london, a bit above average for the time of year. temperatures close to normal across scotla nd temperatures close to normal across scotland and northern ireland. still a bit of rain to come today. the worst of the conditions this afternoon across wales and parts of north—west england. that's the weather. that's the weather. on bbc one we nowjoin the bbc‘s news teams where you are. have a very good afternoon. good afternoon. i'm will perry with your latest sports news.

the latest sports news. fallout from a feisty old firm last the fallout from a feisty old firm last weekend continues. celtic captain scott brown's been charged with improper conduct — he was involved in a couple of incidents, including alfredo morelos‘ red card. rangers boss steven gerrard has been given a one—match touchline ban, apparently for comments he made to referee bobby madden. both clubs have been served notices of complaint after a mass confrontation at the end of the game. it has taken them a long time and a lot of money to get there but last night tottenham finally moved into their new home. and with a new stadium comes a big old opening ceremony. fireworks, lights...and even opera singers at one point. on the field spurs made the most of the occasion beating crystal palace 2—0, son heung—min the man to score the first ever competitive goal at the stadium. manchester city boss pep guardiola heaped praise on 18—year—old phil foden as he starred in their 2—0 win over cardiff. it was a good night for young english talent. he's been widely touted as a future

star for club and country, but this was the first time that foden had started a premier league game. guardiola says he'll be a big player for the next decade. he did absolutely everything. he was in the right position and the right tempo and always gets two or three chances per game. he had the chance to score one or two more so he has a sense of his role and he was incredible. so he is ready, so we know it and he is ready to play any game in whatever position, in any competitions. another young, english talent starred for chelsea. 18—year—old callum hudson—odoi also made his first start in the premier league, and set—up the first goal in chelsea's 3—0 win over brighton. the second goal was a cracker, and it was scored by another academy graduate — ruben loftus—cheek —

who's only 23 himself. gareth southgate was at buckingham palace today to collect his obe. plenty for him to get excited about. he was given the honour for services to football after guiding england to the world cup semifinals last summer. he is there with prince charles. the mexican has scored 15 goals since joining on a season—long loan injune last year. that is rauljimenez. he's helped wolves to seventh in the table and played a key role in them reaching sunday's fa cup semifinal against watford. he'lljoin permanently from benfica onjuly first, and wolves will pay £30 million. aintree festival starts today, and the a0 runners for saturday's grand national have been announced. amongst them is the favourite tiger roll, who's looking for back to back wins, and if he does he'll be in elite company, as our reporter frank keogh explains.

this is an amazing horse which has won four times at the festival and it was the smallest horse in last yea r‘s race it was the smallest horse in last year's race with the oldestjockey, the horses called tiger roll. they say he has the heart of our lion. it has been 41 years since red rum won the grand national the second year running and it won it three times total, and there is a genuine chance of doing it again. it won at the cheltenham festival and was cheered all the way from returning to the home straight come up returning to the home straight come up the street because he won by 22 lengths. could conor mcgregor be making a ufc comeback despite announcing retirement nine days ago? mcgregor hinted he may not be finished just yet after an exchange of insults with rival khabib nurma—gomedov. the ufc have condemned what it calls "islamophobic comments". mcgregor wrote on twitter, i want to move forward, with my fans of all faiths and all backgrounds. now, see you in the octagon. that's all for now. more from the bbc sport

centre in the next hour. thank you very much indeed. it sounds like something from a science—fiction film, but medical researchers have found a way to grow tiny human organs on a microchip, to measure how disease attacks the human body. the scientists at cambridge university say it could help fight against diseases such as cancer, and reduce the need for animal testing. richard westcott reports. this is how you grow tiny three—dimensional human organs in a laboratory. first you freeze—dry a specially developed sponge for 18 hours. it acts like a skeleton. cells from a human organ are put onto the sponge, which then sits inside this electronic chip. then they are fed with nutrients. what you end up with, if you can get your head around this, is a human organ growing inside a sponge, on an electronic chip.

so this is a human gut, and they put it on the chip so that they can see exactly what is going on inside. so the reason i really like this image is because it shows me evidence that the mucus that is being produced by the epithelial cells is on the lumen lining. this green here is the edge of the cell and we can see here the blue nucleus of the cell. this is really key here — this red colour shows us the mucus. this new technique means they can watch in real time how cancer changes or kills our cells, and then observe how new drugs might fight the cancer off. i think the real potential for this is personalised medicine. imagine i go into the hospital and i have a disease, i can take cells from my body, grow them in the lab in this beautiful three—dimensional environment that is mimicking my body, then we can test drugs on my body without affecting me at all, and develop the best possible

therapy for me. they have made a gut — next they want to grow a brain so they can connect the two organs up. now, we know that there are certain diseases like alzheimer's disease, parkinson's disease, which are affected by bacteria in our gut, but how are they doing that, we do not know. and if we had this simple way to study that, it would really advance understanding in that field tremendously. in theory, they could grow a whole body of organs, so the new technique could be used to find treatments for a range of human problems, from cancer to crohn‘s disease to allergies, obesity, asthma or depression. and the more testing you do like this, the less you have to do on animals. richard westcott, bbc news, cambridge. the england manager gareth southgate has received an obe from prince

charles at buckingham palace for services to football. the a8—year—old, who last year guided england to their first world cup semifinal since 1990, is among about 100 people to be handed honours today by prince charles. he collected the honourjust one week after england captain and world cup top goal—scorer harry kane, 25, was awarded an mbe. turkey's government has ordered a recount of votes after local elections that showed it losing the two biggest cities, ankara and istanbul. the opposition chp party candidate, ekrem imamoglu, has claimed victory in istanbul after preliminary results put him around 25,000 votes ahead. but the governing ak parti has challenged it, saying ballots were wrongly counted. our turkey correspondent mark lowen spoke to ekrem imamoglu in istanbul. istanbul's parallel realities — ekrem imamoglu from the opposition chp, who says he's won the election to be the new mayor.

but across the city, victory posters by the governing ak parti, thanking istanbul for their local election victory. president erdogan won't let go of turkey's economic powerhouse that he once ran. the election results show the opposition won istanbul by 25,000 votes, but the government has challenged that, ordering recounts. to the man who says he is the new mayor, i put the ak parti claim that the election is the biggest stain in turkey's democratic history. translation: of course, i don't agree with that. just recently the government was praising the fact that they had the most secure voting system and there was no problem with turkey's elections. i million people were on duty in the polling stations that day, so the only explanation i have is that they are making excuses for their failure. but, i mean, you yourself admit that there are invalid votes

and irregularities at the ballot box, so they have the right to challenge this, don't they? we have official procedures in turkey. there are people who run polling stations. if they have any concerns there, the person on duty writes that in a report. going through those reports or doing individual recounts is fine, but saying let's count all of the invalid votes in istanbul is a bottomless pit. if i had lost, it would not be in my character to hide it. i am so sure of myself because i know i have won. is this the beginning of the end for president erdogan? everything comes to an end — parties, governments, life itself. mr erdogan has finished his 17th year in power. there are problems and things we don't like, but it's a political success. of course there will be an end to it one day.

will you be the next president of turkey? god knows. and so, turkey's biggest city and the election‘s biggest prize isn't yet sure who will be steering it. there's no clearer sign ofjust how polarised this country is. mark lowen, bbc news, istanbul. we will have all the business news injusta we will have all the business news injust a moment but we will have all the business news in just a moment but first... we arejust going in just a moment but first... we are just going to talk about algeria. the outgoing president of algeria, abdelaziz bouteflika, has asked for "forgiveness" in an open letter to the country's citizens. the president, who has been in powerfor 20 years, has stepped down following weeks of anti—government protests. our correspondent, sally nabil, in the capital, algiers, told us what the mood is like there at the moment it's a very cheerful mood. the people here are very happy that president bouteflika has finally

left, but still they feel that they have not achieved all of their goals yet because to them it is not about the man any more. it is about the system and it is about the ruling elite, which includes powerful businessmen, powerful politicians... they hold this ruling elite accountable for what they say is corruption and oppression and high unemployment rates, and they say that it's notjust bouteflika that needs to go, it's also his ruling elite, the regime that dominated this country for 20 years. i have been talking to some people here since i arrived and i asked them, why were you so unhappy under bouteflika's rule? they said, because we could not speak. because we had a very high unemployment rate. and the thing is that in algiers at the moment, according to the constitution, the interim government appointed by president bouteflika before

he resigned should stay in power for three months until fresh elections are held, and also the speaker of the upper house of the parliament should be the caretaker president, but the people in the street totally refuse government members. the speaker of the upper house, they say they need a new face with new faces. this is why they are very much determined to go out in huge numbers tomorrow, because they say, yes, we have succeeded partly in unseating the country's longest serving president, but we also need his regime to go. in a moment, we'll have all the business news, but first the headlines on bbc news... our report into the boeing jet crash in ethiopia last month says pilots did everything right but could not regain control.

talks between the government and the labour party to continue today after they agreed to try to find a way forward for brexit. scientists say a bad diet is a bigger risk to your health than smoking and site eating unhealthily is responsible for one in five premature deaths worldwide. i'm maryam moshiri. in the business news... the crisis for boeing deepens. ethiopia calls for a review of flight controls, as investigators find that pilots were not to blame for crash near addis ababa. hundreds of boeing 737—maxs have been grounded and thousands of orders now on ice. ghosn is rearrested — this time over allegations that he paid an omani businessman $31 million from company funds. mr ghosn denies all charges and vows not to be broken. thousands of firms look set to miss tonight's legal deadline for publishing their gender pay gap. the deadline for companies in the public sector was march 31st. britain's equality and human rights commission says it will take enforcement action against all businesses

that miss the deadline. seaside towns have been neglected for too long and are in desperate need for reinvention, according to a parliament report. the committee for regeneration of seaside towns and communities has recommened improvements to transport, housing and broadband. it hopes that in time more towns can reinvent themselves in the same way blackpool and brighton have done. we will talk now to the chairman of the regenerating seaside towns committee. thank you forjoining us, lord bassam. what more needs to be done to regenerate seaside towns that need funding? the government needs a strategy needs to work with local authorities

and economic partnerships and channel mahogany and targeted better thanit channel mahogany and targeted better than it does and we need to invest in infrastructure transport and housing. —— channel money and target it better. we need to invest in high speed broadband and ensure education working coastal communities... there is evidence they are falling behind. young people that are not getting the benefit of higher education. there is a falloff of 27% in the last seven or eight years and that is worrying as a trend. the report says many seaside towns rely on tourism is a key economic activity but some areas must diversify local economies, diversify how? you can't have one seat to fit eve ryo ne you can't have one seat to fit everyone but you need to have a diverse economy. successful seaside committees in towns like bournemouth and brighton have exactly that. brighton is particularly well served because it has good transport links and it is close to the capital and close to gatwick. it also has a

diverse economy, 35, 40,000 students coming every year. there is heavy investment in the digital tech industries. it has an arts and culture at lead sector and it has a big health presence. those things mean there is a broader economic base to the city and it is generating more newjobs. i think in 2015 there were something like 2100 or 200 new company set up. that is a phenomenal new business formation rate which many towns and cities across the country and world would welcome. we want to try and learn from the brighton and bournemouth experiences and share the prosperity across the country. you talk about sharing prosperity and learning from brighton and bournemouth about improving transport and housing so where will the money come from? whose responsibility? responsibility only local level or central government level? both. if central government provide some funding, it must be channelled correctly. local authorities can

borrow more and invest because capital projects particularly require more money. then you will attract the enterprises in. you must use central and local government to provide a platform and then you will definitely get the private sector and entrepreneurs, those with imagination to come in and invest money. that is when it works best. thank you, lord bassam of brighton. thank you, lord bassam of brighton. thank you, lord bassam of brighton. thank you very much. now the other stories... saga may be excited by the launch of its three—year fixed insurance deals, but the market has taken a dim view of its trading update. shares in saga have crashed by nearly 40% after the over—50s travel and insurance specialist wrote down the value of its business by almost a third of a billion — and cut its dividend. amazon studios has said it was "justified" in terminating its film deal with woody allen. the movie/tv distributor has alleged the us film director's comments about the #metoo movement "sabotaged" its attempts to promote his movies. allen is suing the company, claiming it abandoned a four—film

deal amid resurfaced allegations he molested his adopted daughter. and a0 world, the online electronics retailer, has stockpiled around £15 million of its most popular products in the latest move by a uk company to brace for a potentially chaotic brexit. now we look at the markets. a lot of money is coming off the table today. investors moving money out of the stock markets across europe and asia. combination of factors at play. slowing global growth. uncertainty around the outcome of trade talks between china and the us. it's all playing out in real numbers on the real economy — just take a look at the german factory numbers. the weakest since the european debt crisis in 2012. that is all the business news. back in one hour. this sunday it's the boat race — the annual four—mile race between rowing crews from oxford and cambridge universities. and this year two—time olympic championjames cracknell is set to become the oldest person to take

part, at 46 years old. to find out what it takes to compete in the gruelling contest, former nfl starjason bell and former gb hockey player sam quek put themselves to the test. have you rowed before? i have in the gym for fun. i did it on water once. that's better than me. it's intense, and i'm not sure i'm ready, but we'll wing it. let's go. hello. how are you? nice to meet you. how are you doing? we will put you through tests to find out what potential you have tojoin the boat race in some years in the future. i like this and i am into this. there is the word test. we are coming to the aerobic capacity test, the single best indicator of somebody's potential as a rower.

we can't speak after, but good luck. this is frightening. ready? three, two, one, go. nice and gentle... watching the heart rate climbing nicely. well done. sam, you're up to 150. hitting the minute... very nice. we are getting a nice high heart rate. up you go. very strong and that's us. well done. superb. well done, folks. leg burn. the capacity test results... sam, your score came in at 2.8 litres per minute. jason, you are 3.4 per minute. the boat race rowers would have around four litres and more.

for the men, six litres and more. they have almost double the aerobic capacity you have. i'm half a man. you have been good sports, but no test is complete without a proper race. are you ready? attention... go! settle in, guys. a nice race. 700... you might have this. don't overcook it. well done. fantastic, fantastic. well done, excellent! well done, jason. last few strokes. well done. brilliant, super. wow! move around and i hope nobody throws up. if you do, i will get you a bucket.

jason, you got 1,000 metres in 3 minutes 43. sam, 3 minutes 57. you did what boat race crews do, to go off hard. for sam, your heart rate rises up to the first couple of minutes, 170bpm, and jason, the same thing, fast start in heart rate rises quickly to peak out at 166bpm. so all we need is another two years' worth of practice and we will have you on a boat race team. i can't stand up so you know how weak i am. and that was one sixth of the vote boat race? and that was one sixth of the boat race? yes. well done. good luck to both teams in the vote race, especially oxford. now let's look at the weather. we are looking at cold weather this afternoon. earlier we saw the weather cold enough snow across parts of the west midlands and also wales. this was the scene earlier today on the hills around ludlow in

shropshire, snow covering the road. the snow brought in by this part of the weather system, that you can see on the satellite picture. carolling cloud but also rain affecting scotla nd cloud but also rain affecting scotland and plenty showers in between the areas of general rain. temperatures coming up over the last hour or two, by temperatures coming up over the last hourortwo, by1 temperatures coming up over the last hour or two, by1 degrees or 2 degrees, with the transition from snow to rain in most cases. cold rain falling for most of us now. a miserable afternoon. central and southern england, west midlands, wales, run cheshire and greater manchester and merseyside, rain clearing scotland but plenty heavy showers to take us through the rest of the afternoon. there will be sunshine between those downpours. overnight the general area of rain works across the irish sea to northern ireland and getting another area of rain affecting south—west england and wales, so with all the cloud and rain around western areas, not especially cold with temperatures five up to eight celsius in west, but clearing skies and the odd patch of frost in the countryside to get concerned with.

into friday, pressure further westwards and we get wins coming in from the continent. that will help boost the temperatures. it will start to feel a bit less cold during friday. that said, there will still be running around across western areas with a white star to northern ireland before rain eases and more rain at times for wales and south—west england. the further northwards and eastwards you go, the drier and brighter of the weather gets, some decent and sunny weather for scotland with 14 celsius in edinburgh on 14 celsius in london. probably higher cloud making sunshine hazy at times. the weekend, quite a bit of cloud still left over and some bright spells but also some rain in the forecast. generally we will see temperatures rising a little bit above average for quite a few of us of saturday starts off like this with some sunshine around an eastern coastal areas could turn out quite grey and cloudy with cloud thick enough address or perhaps later in the day. temperatures not too impressive with in newcastle for example but 14 is not bad and decent

sunshine on the cutting in northern ireland. second half of the weekend, a lot of clout in the forecast but maybe showers, some of which could be heavy and thundery with heading into the afternoon. for those showers, we will see temperatures rising with highs of 16 celsius in london, above average for the time of year, whereas for the north and scotla nd of year, whereas for the north and scotland and northern ireland, temperatures about right for the stage of april. a bit of a mixed bag for the next few days but in the short term through this afternoon, staying miserable across wales and west in england. that's your weather. —— western england.