this is bbc news. i'm ben brown. the headlines... theresa may defends her decision to seek labour's help in delivering brexit. she warns it could slip through ourfingers brexit. she warns it could slip through our fingers unless a compromise deal is reached. three of the uk's children commissioners write to the un torture committee you are watching bbc news. the asking it to investigate the use of latest headlines... theresa may has physical restraint and seclusion in been defending her decision to seek schools. labour's help in delivering brexit. charlie rowley poisoned in the suspected russian chemical attack meets russia's ambassador in london. commemorations take place in rwanda marking a quarter of a century since three of the uk's children's commissioner is have written to the the genocide in which a tenth of un torture committee asking it to investigate the use of seclusion and physical restraint in schools. charlie rowley, poisoned in salisbury, has been meeting the ambassador in london to question him

about who was responsible. rwanda must have begun 100 days of mourning to mark a quarter of a century since a quarter of the population was killed in the massacre. prince william has just finished a three week stint secretly working with ukintelligence agencies. and a new boat race record. the olympic champion james cracknell will boat race record. the olympic championjames cracknell will become the oldest person ever to row in the annual 0xford cambridge clash this afternoon. let's get more on that and all the other sports stories at the bbc sport centre this morning with 0lly foster. good morning. we are starting with tiger roll, a bit of horse racing. tiger roll has become the first horse since red rum to win the most famous steeplechase in the world back to back. there hadn't been a stronger favourite in the race for 100 years. 0ur sports correspondent

andy swiss was at aintree. he's the little horse who's become a sporting giant. the day tiger roll raced into aintree folklore. earlier his fans had flocked hoping for back—to—back wins and tiger roll set off the hottest of favourites. they're off! the race was soon tinged with sadness though. at the first fence, up for review suffered a fatal injury. the national‘s first fatality since 2012. as they reached the closing stages, outsider magic of light led the way, but tiger roll was making his move. commentator: and tiger roll goes to the front in the national! and from there, there was no stopping him. an almost perfect performance from tiger roll and history was his. the first since red rum! yes, the first double winner since red rum back in 1974, and delight forjockey davey russell. in this most unpredictable of events, a remarkable feat. it's unbelievable. i can't explain it.

i can't put it into words. it's something that i never dreamt of winning twice, i'll be honest with you. i dreamt of winning it once but twice is just spectacular. red rum went on to win it three times, of course, but 45 years on, a double will do very nicely. so this famous race has a brand—new legend. an unforgettable day for tiger roll and a place in sporting history. andy swiss, bbc news, aintree. the quadruple is still on for manchester city, through to the fa cup final. it wasn't the emphatic win that many were expecting over brighton. just the one goal in the first of the wembley semifinals this weekend. kevin de bruyne brilliantly finding gabrieljesus inside 5 minutes. brighton had their chances but it's city who are into next month's final. they have already won the league cup this season,

are vying with liverpool for the league title and face tottenham next week in the champions league quarterfinals. it's almost impossible to achieve everything. the important is the two chapters we had in the beginning of the season, we get it. the next one, we are in the fa cup, the final. our friends, fortunately, i'm pretty sure there are going to come more people than today and after two competitions, game by game. next up for city in that final will be watford or wolves, who play their second semifinal this afternoon. that is on bbc radio 5 live. it is a reduced premier league fixture because of the cup. wins for crystal palace and leicester yesterday and an important victory for burnley. ashley westwood was on target as they came from a goal down to win 3—1 at bournemouth and that lifted them eight points clear of the relegation zone. norwich city has won for the eighth time ina norwich city has won for the eighth time in a row. teemu pukki scored twice as they thrashed managerless qpr 4—0 at carrow road, to go 7 points clear at the top of the championship. 11 more points from theirfinal six matches would take them back

to the premier league. two incidents of alleged racist abuse are being investigated in the championship. a brentford supporter was arrested after claims that he abused derby player duane holmes in the dugout during their 3—3 draw. and wigan say they're angered by an abusive message sent to defender nathan byrne on twitter after their draw with bristol city. they've reported it to police. celtic will have to wait at least another week to be crowned champions of scotland again. they were held to a goalless draw by livingston. meanwhile the edinburgh derby was marred by flares which delayed kick off and also caused delays during the match. hibs came from behind to beat hearts 2—1. the rugby union premiership‘s most decorated side, leicester tigers, are in real danger of relegation 110w after being thrashed 52—20 by exeter chiefs. they also had their captain

tom youngs sent off as the chiefs ran in seven tries with seven different scorers. leicester have the worst defence in the premiership. they are five points above bottom side newcastle who they play next friday. england's meghan maclaren just missed out on winning the jordan mixed 0pen. this tournament is the first to see women compete alongside men for the same trophy and prize money. maclaren started the final round in the lead and produced this remarkable putt on the third. but dropped shots later on allowed dutchman daan huizing to win by two strokes. it hurts to not win but i know whenever i get home and think about it and stuff, i am proud of what i've done this week and i hope i've represented the let and women's golf in general as well as possible. it deserves a bit of a spotlight. if this just kicks things up a little bit then i'm proud of what happened.

a historic day for the women's game. america's jennifer kupcho won the augusta national women's amateur tournament. it's the first time women have been been allowed to play competitively at the home of the masters, which starts on thursday. that is the first men's golf major of the year. it is the 165th boat race this afternoon. and rowing for cambridge will be 46—year—old james cracknell. the two—time olympic champion will become the oldest person to compete in the race. it's 13 years since he retired from elite rowing definitely a lot harder. i don't bounce back in the same way, i have to be more careful about that. you can't burn the candle at both ends. it is quite fun to abuse 20—year—olds! their culture references are totally wrong and they educate me on all manner of things from chemical equations to tinder. this year has been a very defining yearfor me mentally and i will prove a lot to myself

and hopefully ask a few questions. you can see full coverage of the boat race from 1.20pm on bbc one. that is an‘s race. and then the men's race with james cracknell is about 3:15pm. that is all the sport on bbc news but now this is ben with the papers. good morning and welcome to our sunday morning review of the day's newspapers. with me in the studio we have the business commentatorjosie cox and the political editor of the sun 0n cox and the political editor of the sun on sunday, dave wooding. esteemed company. let's have a quick glance at the front pages. the brexit deadlock leads many of the

papers. the observer reports that some conservative mps are threatening to oust the prime minister if the uk has to fight in next month's european elections. the telegraph says that 100 current and would be conservative councillors have written to theresa may saying they are struggling to get volu nteers they are struggling to get volunteers to fight the forthcoming local elections, claiming trust in the party has gone. the sunday times reports on leaked emails, revealing what they say is the labour party failing to act on allegations of anti—semitism. a picture of tiger roll, the first horse to win back—to—back grand nationals sense red rum in the 1970s, that leads the independent. the sunday mirror has an exclusive on the 90 minute meeting between the novichok survivor charlie rowley and london's ambassador to london. and the duchess of sussex‘s pregnancy makes the front page of the mail on sunday with the paper saying the first time other has appointed her own medical

tea m other has appointed her own medical team led by a female doctor for the delivery of her child. and the sunday express reports that prince william has been working secretly with the uk security and intelligence agency services. that isa intelligence agency services. that is a look at the front pages. josie, kick as off, with brexit of course. the telegraph, backlash because theresa may has been talking to labour. tory activists going on strike, they say, as she talks to jeremy corbyn. once again is the right thing to say here because it comes off the back of the statement that she made last night, an emotive appeal, you could call it an 11th hour appeal, but i feel like we have been calling it that for the last 11 months. 11th hour and 59th minute? and a half, maybe! she is warning that we are going to let brexit slip through ourfingers that we are going to let brexit slip through our fingers etc. but it did not really provide that much new

information and i think that has been mirrored in membership in her tory colleagues at the moment. it is just another indication of the crisis of confidence in british politics. it doesn't hugely move the story on from where we were a few days ago, but it does we emphasise the fact that this is breaking down. interesting that she is defending her talks with labour but labour are saying they are not going anywhere because she is not budging and there is no compromise and no room for manoeuvre. what is your sense of whether these talks will lead to anything? it is bizarre and an unholy alliance in many ways. the reason they spend a lot of time criticising jeremy corbyn and now she is getting into bed with him. this is what most of this anger is among the grassroots. this is a man that we have criticised for so long and now you are asking us to accept that you are doing a deal with him, the sort of deal that they don't want. the anger has spread from the westminster parliament to the

grassroots. three days, they have been talking. there are suspicions oi'i been talking. there are suspicions on both sides. i have been talking to both number 10 and the labour party, and the word i am getting from both of those sources is that numberio are not from both of those sources is that number 10 are not sure, they are wa ry number 10 are not sure, they are wary whetherjeremy number 10 are not sure, they are wary whether jeremy corbyn number 10 are not sure, they are wary whetherjeremy corbyn wants to doa wary whetherjeremy corbyn wants to do a deal and in three days' time he might say thank you for the publicity, seeing me walking in and out of numberio publicity, seeing me walking in and out of number 10 and looking prime ministerial, but sorry, i can't do a deal. he seems to be handing out a hand of friendship to do a deal for the greater national good. 0n the other hand, the labour party think that theresa may is dragging her heels, kicking the can down the road, playing for time, heels, kicking the can down the road, playing fortime, so heels, kicking the can down the road, playing for time, so she can get nearer to the exit date. who knows what is going on? suspicions on both sides. the observer had a similar front on both sides. the observer had a similarfront page, tory backlash, furious tories, quote, will oust theresa may if we fight the eu elections. there seems to be a red line for a lot of grassroots tories,

the idea that we could be fighting european elections three years after voting to leave. exactly. ithink the question is around relevant and what impact that will actually have. the fear that the observer outlines, a lot of conservatives could be driven to boycott the elections altogether, which could feed into right—wing support etc, so it could be shooting ourselves in the foot a little bit. you are right, and i keep having to look at this from a european perspective, european headlines, and if you are an outsider looking in to britain at the moment, it is cartoonish, satirical what is going on. the fact that britain could be part of these european elections, essentially three years, as you say, after we have said, no thanks, we are out. three years, as you say, after we have said, no thanks, we are outm there is no deal betweenjeremy corbyn and theresa may and it goes back to parliament, can you see parliament coming up with a consensus around one idea? they haven't managed to so far. one

possibility is trying at a fourth attempt to get the deal to but in her statement to the prime minister more or less admits there is no chance of getting that through. that is why there is anger and fear about fighting the european elections on all sides. the education minister has said that it would have seismic effects on the political system. a suicide note for the conservative party to fight those elections, unleashing all sorts of extremist candidates fighting the elections. the sun on sunday, your paper, dave, has one very good story by one david wooding. i have never heard of him! the political editor. borisjohnson is threatening to thwart theresa may. that is the worry for the labour party, if they were to do a deal, she would be out of office and somebody like borisjohnson, deal, she would be out of office and somebody like boris johnson, may deal, she would be out of office and somebody like borisjohnson, may be

another brexiteer, would come in and unpicked the whole deal. that is what labour have been pressing for and numberio have said what labour have been pressing for and number 10 have said that they are willing to look at that if a deal is reached, and it would basically knock down the deal in law, said that a replacement prime minister, borisjohnson being one favourite, who is a hardline brexiteer, would not be able to rip it up and start again. i have got to add the caveat that he or she could go to the country and seek a fresh mandate but i don't think any conservative party leader is going to want to rush to an election before 2022 with a state of the party at the moment. what is your best guess, josie? nobody had any idea what is going to happen. is there going to be a long extension, do you think? they have talked about possibly a year extension. do you think? they have talked about possibly a year extensionlj do you think? they have talked about possibly a year extension. i get the sense that goodwill is running out but at the same time and we were

talking about this before, i can't really see an alternative. it still remains a nobody‘s interest for there to be an ideal brexit where eve ryo ne there to be an ideal brexit where everyone crashes out and there is com plete everyone crashes out and there is complete mayhem. —— no—deal brexit. ido complete mayhem. —— no—deal brexit. i do think an extension would be the most likely option, however an extension of up to five years could be just as disastrous because it would introduce the same levels of uncertainty, the same limbo that progress absolutely nothing. there isa progress absolutely nothing. there is a sense that the eu are sick of theresa may coming to them and asking for another couple of weeks. they might say you can have an extension but it has got to be a year. but i don't know what that would achieve because i can't see where we might be in a year compared to where we are now. as i said the other week, there have been so many extensions that they are probably in breach of local planning regulations by now! boom! if they do extend for

a year, it means implementation period will be kicked back and it could be eight years after the referendum and we are still in the european union, which a lot of people who voted to leave will find most unacceptable. not great reading for theresa may and not great reading in the sunday times either forjeremy corbyn. neighbour‘s hate files, they say, expose corbyn's and taste i —— anti—semitic army. files, they say, expose corbyn's and taste i -- anti-semitic army. yes, that long—running investigation into alleged anti—semitism in the labour party. they have found 863 complaints and 454 are resolved, which is more than half. i think 250 of them have not even been started and only 29 has been referred to the body which makes a decision on expelling people. only a small

numberof expelling people. only a small number of those expelled. people who are trying to tackle this issue within the labour party, tom watson in particular, the deputy leader, say it is deeply depressing and shocking that that is the state. there are examples here of the anti—semitic remarks made by some trade union leaders had labour activists, and no action has been taken and they have been let off with a ticking off. i must stress that inside the labour party they say these are selected emails and they misrepresent the overall contents, but nevertheless there are some shocking examples. and the numbers are very high. as you say, it is not just numbers are very high. as you say, it is notjust a small complaint that people are being oversensitive about. the examples given are quite remarkable. in some cases it has taken over a year for anything to be done and in some cases nothing has been done. i think this speaks to the crisis in confidence in british politics, unfortunately. let's move away from politics. the sunday

mirror has an interesting story following the novichok salisbury poisoning. that seems like a very long time ago now. charlie rowley, one of the victims of it, an extraordinary meeting where he got this 90 minute meeting with russia's ambassador to london, and he basically asked, as the sunday mirror puts it, did your country kill my girlfriend, dawn sturgess? it isa kill my girlfriend, dawn sturgess? it is a remarkable story and it is ha rd to it is a remarkable story and it is hard to believe that was only a year ago with everything else that has happened. he does say in the piece that the meeting left many questions u na nswered that the meeting left many questions unanswered for him. i think that reflects the fact that we haven't really moved forward. the russian ambassador, as are to be expected, maintains that the russians were not involved in this. he said that if it was a russian novichok attack, it would have killed everyone and nobody would have been alive. that seems to be hisjustification, his

logic. great defence by the russian ambassador. if it was us, we would have killed more people! good on the sunday mirror for pulling this off. it isa sunday mirror for pulling this off. it is a good sunday newspaper idea and they have obviously pushed for this. they had a camera in the meeting and they got a picture of it. the ambassador says that it is anybody but us. it might be the united states, the czech republic, britain's own scientists. the mail on sunday reporting that meghan is snubbing the queen's doctors. my gosh! a thoroughly modern member of the royal family, she doesn't want the royal family, she doesn't want the men in grey suits. we are going back to politics! different men in grey suits. the queen's gynaecologists are always in attendance at a royal birth and she wants her own midwives and doctors there and she is going to have a female doctor. if i am not wrong, it will be the first female doctor to deliver a royal baby. the mail on

sunday have said this is an astonishing snub to the queen's highly regarded doctors. a lot of people might say it is her choice. absolutely. i think meghan is a very modern addition to the royal family. she hasn't made it a secret that she isa she hasn't made it a secret that she is a feminist and she is more than willing to talk about that very openly and she is not willing to be cowed by the tradition of the royal family. aside from anything else, she is a mother, a mother—to—be, and royal or not, i think every mother should have the right to decide how they want to give birth. the issue that the paper raises here is the cost that it might involve because it does state that by having the queen's physicians leading the birth, that is free, a service that they offer free to the royal family, but by having her own team of female doctors and surgeons, that would cost u p doctors and surgeons, that would cost up to tens of thousands of pounds. that is a good point. i like that she said she will not be

dulling herself up when she comes out for the pictures. she will look like a mother. i hope she doesn't. while we are on the royal family, it isa while we are on the royal family, it is a licence to will in your paper, dave. this is pretty extraordinary. he has been doing a three week work experience stint as a spy! it is quite amazing. m15, gchq, mi6, he has done all that, on his grandma's secret service, i guess! william going and seeing the work that they do at close hand. we have done him up do at close hand. we have done him up asjames do at close hand. we have done him up as james bond do at close hand. we have done him up asjames bond with do at close hand. we have done him up as james bond with a do at close hand. we have done him up asjames bond with a licence to will as the headline. which i will forgive you for! but to be honest we could all do with a good real—life james bond. i suppose the serious point is that if he is going to be king, he needs to know how these things work. and it is morale

boosting, isn't it? he would do this with the troops so why not with the secret service, counterterrorism groups? ithink secret service, counterterrorism groups? i think it is ever so slightly over egged! over egged in the tabloids? surely not! i think it would be fun to hang around and m16 for a couple of days. apparently they do get generalist in sometimes. i have heard of people being invited in sometimes. shall we ring them up? you need a full day apparently but we should do it! let's end with the grand national on the front page of the sunday times. they have got a lovely picture of tiger roll. tiger has been on a roll, as all the papers have been saying, the first back—to—back winner of the grand national since red rum way back in the 1970s. are you a fan of the grand national? i can't say that i am but it is nice to have a bit of good news on the front pages of the

paper, a bit ofjubilation and eve ryo ne paper, a bit ofjubilation and everyone agreeing on something. somebody tells me that you had a little flutter, dave? i had five horses, two in the office suite steak and two i stuck a couple of quid on its way. —— sweepstake. and they allowed me to have a scream at they allowed me to have a scream at the television for free but i didn't win much. a couple of things on this. i noticed that davy russell, the jockey, pointed up to the heavens and said something, in a movie, and eight seconds, a rodeo cowboy becomes a bull—fighting champion. he was doing it as a hello toa champion. he was doing it as a hello to a friend he lost as a schoolboy, which is a touching moment. and we have a cartoon that goes with that picture actually. it is a picture of tiger roll talking to theresa may. and theresa may are saying to tiger

roll, you are the expert, tiger roll. how do we get it over the line? as in how do we get brexit over the line. i think she fell at the first hurdle, brexit brooke. but she is still in the saddle. the first hurdle, brexit brooke. but she is still in the saddlelj the first hurdle, brexit brooke. but she is still in the saddle. i hope she is still in the saddle. i hope she had a giggle because she certainly deserves one. we started with brexit and we have ended with it. thank you so much, josie and dave. great to have you with us as ever reviewing the papers. you can review the front pages of newspapers online on the bbc news website, seven a week. and if you missed the programme, you can see it on bbc iplayer. thanks again tojosie cox and dave wooding and goodbye from us. hello. we are up against it with the

cloud across the uk today. there has been plenty about through the morning and i am hoping that it will brighten for many this afternoon but the east coast, which started with closed and skies and dense patches of fog, will always struggle. we may see visibility improving but we will keep a steady breeze that will keep things pretty chilly and cloudy. there the west, the promise of brighter skies and some brightness across some parts of eastern england. what that might do is allow temperatures to shoot up enough to attend some showers that will fit in from the east into some pretty punchy thundery downpours in the afternoon. that could be potentially very tricky for the boat races. lightning is the only thing that can keep the boats off the water. it looks like there will be some showers around the london area in the afternoon. we get up to 70 degrees in the sunshine but more cloud for scotland capping the figures at 11 or 12 at best. —— 17 degrees in the sunshine. more cloud

for the midlands and wales, but then the showers pack up again before the end of the night. clear skies across scotla nd end of the night. clear skies across scotland by the end of the night. a chillier start to monday but much brighter after a very cloudy weekend. still some cloud in the east, feeding into the central lowlands, but as the day goes on, most areas brightening up nicely. punchy showers across the midlands and north wales, maybe if you are in the south—east and a risk of some in the south—east and a risk of some in the south—west in the afternoon. —— may be a fume showers in the south—east. in the east we keep that easterly breeze. showers are tied in with a weather front which is not very coherent at the moment but it could mean business by tuesday, bringing heavy rain into the south of the uk. i've got it is the school holidays, so if you have outdoor plans for tuesdays, keep an eye on the weather forecast because it might alter over the next 24 hours.

on tuesday, cooler across the uk with high temperatures of 12 or 13. for much of the week ahead, temperatures will struggle to get up to the mid—teens at best and there will be cloud around but by the end of the week it will feel springlike once again.