this is bbc news. the headlines at 8. next month the prime minister will hold talks on her departure from downing street with the chairman on the conservative backbenchers — whether or not she wins that brexit vote. following that second reading, she and i will need to agree a timetable for the election of a new leader of the conservative party. that's the position agreed by the prime minister and the 1922 executive. and boris johnson — one of the front runners to succeed her — officially confirms for the first time that he'll be a contender for the leadership. also coming up on the programme, more harrowing testimony on day eight of the london bridge attack inquest. dramatic evidence from a nurse who was caught up in the attack. helen kennett tried to save the life of this man — and was stabbed herself.

president trump effectively bans the use of chinese company huawei in the united states over security concerns the government abandons its controversial part privatisation of the probation service. theresa may could have less than a month left in office after she formally promised to set a timetable for electing a new prime minister. if the next brexit vote, expected at the beginning ofjune, is defeated, sources have told the bbc she would then resign. if mps pass the vote, she will still go by the end ofjuly. it comes after the prime minister held talks with a group of senior tory backbenchers. their chair, sir graham brady,

said it was a frank discussion. as theresa may prepares to leave number ten, boris johnson has finally confirmed he'll run for herjob. here's our political editor laura kuenssberg. a police escort is no protection from reality. theresa may's tried and tried to keep notjust the trappings but a slippery grip on power. her party's agonies over europe and gridlock behind those gates mean her time is officially nearly up. don't push me. the formality of the announcement no disguise for what the prime minister had to agree. we have agreed to meet to decide the timetable for the election of a new leader of the conservative party as soon as the second reading has occurred, and that will take place regardless of what the vote is on the second reading, whether it passes or fails to pass.

not leaving for the last time yet, but in plain english, if theresa may can't persuade reluctant mps to back her brexit deal injune, the door will close on her time in office. it is out of the question she could stay if she loses, one cabinet minister told me. and in the unlikely event ministers could still win it, she would likely resign in july. who could be next? he won't say. can you confirm you will run for the leadership? it is a lovely sunny day and lovely to see you here. she won't say. are you ready to declare today? but in the latest you could not make it up moment, today happened to be the day when get who finally admitted toa business conference that he would definitely take part in a race. i'm going to go for it. i don't think that is any particular secret to

soon, this whole place will be a frenzy over who is next, who will be our next prime minister. we can't know that yet, but we can be sure, another tory leader's time in office has been cut short by the party's decades—old dispute. witham in essex should feel just like home for tories, but listen to the fury of committed tories driven to distraction because we are still in the eu. we are so fed up, and i think we are top of the fed up list at the moment, as we are ourselves. i thought she did a great job as home secretary. i warmed to her when she first became leader. not quite so warm now. there are conservative voters out

there refusing to vote conservative. yellow might we want out as soon as. it has absolutely stagnated the country on other big issues. this is a great sadness to all us conservatives but because we are all leader orientated, but when you have got a run leader, you have got a rom leader. that's it. with brexit farfrom resolved, a new resident here will still be confronted by some of the same problems. but even by the end ofjuly, a different politician will call this place home. let's get more on this, and i'm joined by our political correspondent nick eardley who's in westminster. thank you very much. it is an important development today because we are in a position for the first time that we know theresa may is about to set out her departure schedule. even if we don't have a date we know that in three weeks'

time she will have to set out with the 1922 committee when she tends to stand down. all of the expectation here is at the moment that she will struggle to get the legislation that mps will be voting on that through parliament. if she does not the expectation here is that she will have to go. it's possible she could get it through and hang on longer to when they will take the legislation through parliament. she has got to win over either labour or her own mps. they have not been backing of prime minister plan so far. a vocal critic of the brexit strategy and is this the end of theresa may? you mentioned whether or not she will get the bill through the y eb bill which would ratify and was voted down three times. normally made on

tuesday night and would we vote for the second reading of the bill? overwhelmingly colleagues said they would not. a number of people that voted for the deal a third time round have said very clearly there will not vote for the bill so the numbers against it are going up not down, so unless she gets a deal with this marxist which looks unlikely she will be heavily defeated in earlyjune she will be heavily defeated in early june and very she will be heavily defeated in earlyjune and very realistically she has nowhere else to go. the big question i suppose is what happens when theresa may goes? does this become an official process? a new leader says they can get another deal but parliament will change and a new leader will be any different? i think it might well be because the mps would knock it down to two candidates in the neck goes to our

130,000 or so members in the country. whoever becomes the new leader will have the support of the majority of tory party members in the country and it gives them a mandate. and i believe that the european elections on the 23rd of may are going to be a tsunami. i believe that we are in a new environment after those results and the results will be so compelling and may change some of their attitudes so i think it might after the euros be possible to leave in october on halloween if necessary with no deal. that's because you think pro breaks parties will do well in those european elections? could you ever see yourself backing them? i will vote conservative and i

have voted conservative for 36 years, i'm a blue till i die. i'm going to vote for my team. if you believe the bookies that will have a very good night we will have a very difficult night. why is that? because the prime minister said hundred and eight times that the dispatch box the house of commons will leave the european union. the people know that the establishment in this country, some mps and some members of the cabinet and senior civil servants have conspired to, andl civil servants have conspired to, and i used deliberately to prevent us and i used deliberately to prevent us from leaving the european union despite the fact that we all promised to honour the referendum and could only lie to people so often. and i believe they have now seen through that. the poll said 54% of the public thought that there deal that we did not really leave the eu and 14% dear data. i suspect

that as people are effectively going to say it's a ballot box up with this we will not put and we the members of parliament were for them. they don't work for us. they elected us. they don't work for us. they elected us. if we don't wake up and smell the coffee after that bit we would be pretty silly. boris johnson has put his hat in the ring. be pretty silly. boris johnson has put his hat in the ringlj be pretty silly. boris johnson has put his hat in the ring. i have not decided who to vote for. boris unfolded on these. at the moment i don't know who i'm going to vote for. my criteria is a simple one, i will vote for whoever i think is best placed to lead us out of the european union. forgive me ifi best placed to lead us out of the european union. forgive me if i am single—minded but that's my sole criteria or at least my overwhelming one andl criteria or at least my overwhelming one and i wait to hear all of the different candidates explain what their strategy is to get us out of their strategy is to get us out of the eu on the 31st of october i will vote for whichever one has the most

convincing offer. there will be a lot of these conversations in the next few weeks i suspect at the different runners and writers start throwing their head in and we have a few already but a lot more over the next few weeks. that we can be sure of it. thank you. and we'll find out how this story — and many others — are covered in tomorrow's front pages at 10:40 this evening in the papers — i don't know whether we have got a second review. yes we have. it's great what you see on the telly. our guests joining me tonight are the deputy political editor of the daily mirror, ben glaze and and deputy political editor of the daily express, sam lister. a light aircraft has crashed in dubai killing four people on board, including three britons. the news first broke a few minutes ago and full details are still emerging about exactly what happened. our correspondent simon jones is here.

we understand a small aircraft came down around four hours ago but initially the authorities in dubai described it as a minor incident and then a couple of hours ago they gave an update saying that two people had been killed, a pilot and his assistant but in the past few minutes they have announced all four people on board have died. they have put a tweet out which said that the plane came down due to a malfunction and there were three british people on board and also one person from south africa. what we understand that this was not a commercial flight, this that this was not a commercial flight, this was actually something operational to do with the airport. so something flying to test the navigational equipment at the dubai airport and part of that. we are told that flights were suspended around 45 minutes at the airport after the plane came down. they have 110w after the plane came down. they have now resumed but we are told a full investigation is now under way but just to reiterate three british people have lost their lives after

the plane came down to three miles south of the airport. a nurse who was stabbed in the neck by one of the london bridge attackers has told the inquest how she was trying to help a french waiter who had been fatally injured. helen kennett was off duty and having a drink with her mother and sister when the three men ran in and began stabbing people randomly. our home affairs correspondent daniel sandford sent this report from the old bailey. just after seven minutes past ten onjune the 3rd 2017, a van crashed into railings after fatally injuring two pedestrians on london bridge. just below, in the borough bistro, waiter alexandre pigeard reacted to the noise and rushed outside. a colleague saw alexandre pigeard heading for the stone steps, trying to see what was going on. then there was confusion and people running, and the next thing anyone saw, he was heading back down this wall, clutching a wound to his neck.

off duty nurse helen kennett was in the bistro with her sister and mother, celebrating her birthday. she stepped forward to help the wounded waiter. i went to him because i thought, i need to do something, then she realised that alexandre was being held by a man with a knife. i looked up to the attacker. angelica was also in the bistro. she saw a knifeman grasping the waiter who had been serving her minutes earlier.

alexandre pigeard died from multiple knife wounds just outside the bistro where he worked. other witnesses saw this young australian nurse, kirsty bowden, being stabbed on the ground just metres away. she also died. in less than two minutes, the attackers had stabbed five people to death around the borough bistro, and others, like helen kennett, were lucky to have survived. daniel sanford, bbc news, at the old bailey. the headlines on bbc news. theresa may agrees to set a timetable for her departure from office after the vote on her brexit deal in the first week ofjune the former foreign secretary boris johnson says ‘of course' he will run for the conservative leadership when she steps down four people have been killed after a light aircraft crashed in dubai. three of them were british. sport now...and for a full round up,

from the bbc sport centre, here's hugh woozencroft. good evening. we're nearing the end of the first day of the second golf major of the year... with defending champion brooks koepka making the early running at the us pga championship at bethpage black in new york. all eyes were on tiger woods after he stunned the world to win the masters last month but he had a nightmareish day with a two over par round of 72... playing alongside woods. koepka excelled on one of golf‘s most difficult courses. taking the clubhouse lead on seven under par with a superb round of 63. the american currently leads by three shots from new zealander danny lee. taking the clubhouse lead on seven under par. tommy fleetwood is the leading briton on three under. with rory mcilroy one of the late starters on long island. the end of season play—offs conrtinue tonight with portsmouth

and sunderland hoping to take a step close to promotion from league one. sunderland take a 1—0 lead from the first leg to fratton park. and so far that's how it remains on aggregate. no goals but no shortage of needle so far as two relatively recent premier league teams battle it out. england have named a 27 man squad for the nations league finals in portugal next month. 9 players are involved in the champions league finaljust 5 days before england face the netherlands. captain harry kane is in the party even though the tottenham star has been out for a month with a ligament injury, ruben loftus—cheek is out, because of his own ankle problem, that gareth southgate let slip will see him miss the europa final with chelsea although his club hasn't confirmed that. southgate knows that he may yet lose players with the european finals coming up we will find out more about a couple of players in that period, and then

i will have to make a couple of decisions. but we can change if we have injuries after that date and frankly there's every chance that will happen. we have got to just make the best possible decisions really with the information that we have and it's constantly moving. i went to bed last night and as they say there's huge disappointment for him and he's now a major european final. manchester city have been referred to uefa's adjudicatory chamber following an investigation into the club's finances and possible breaches of the financial fair play regulations. if found guilty they could be banned from next season's champions league. here's our sports correspondent david ornstein. we simply don't know on the timescale. under a similar investigation and that's been going on for months and the suggestion is they will be dealt with quickly. they said they are disappointed but

not surprised. their statement is very strongly worded especially towards the chairman of this investigation and they also had out at the media leaks but seem particularly confident of clearing their names. they say they provided irrefutable evidence and hope for a satisfactory outcome to this. world taekwondo champion bianca walkden is on course to retain her heavyweight title in manchester. the world number one is in to the final of the over 73 kilograms division. fighting in the blue, she beat mexican briseida acosta 19—9. walkden will now fight for the title in the final tomorrow. you can watch more from the taekwondo world championships on the bbc sport website. formula 1 is in talks to hold a race in morocco, the last grand prix to be staged there was in 1958, when stirling moss won in casablanca. africa last hosted a race in south africa in 1993.

that's all the sport for now. you can find more on all those stories on the bbc sport website. including the latest from the italian opus where he was thrown a chair and been disqualified from his second round match. we will be back with more later in the evening. president trump has declared a national emergency to protect us communication networks from what he calls ‘foreign adver—saries'. it's believed he's targetting the chinese telecoms giant hwah—way. several countries, led by the us, fear hwah—way poses a risk to their national security —because it's too close to the chinese government. here sir richard dearlove, the former head of m16, has said that involving huawei in britain's 5g network would be a ‘potential security risk‘ to the uk. peter bowes reports from washington. another fight with china, a foreign adversary whose telecom giant could pose a national security

threat to the us. in a statement from the white house, there is no mention of specific countries or companies, but it is clear the trump administration has huawei in its sights. the us will ban transactions posing an unacceptable risk, with the president pledging to do what it takes to keep america safe and prosperous. this executive order was a long time coming. it's well known that huawei acts in many ways as an agent of the chinese communist party, and so banning the type of activity that they do within our networks really makes a lot of sense. as the us and other countries develop 5g networks, this is a battle over new technology and security on top of the trade war which has escalated in recent days. chinese companies can be pressured by the chinese government and the communist party. the question is — can customers

of those companies around the world build their systems in a way that mitigate those risks or is it just too much of a risk? and that is really a technical question that will vary from one application to the next. the us commerce department has said american companies will be restricted from selling their technology to huawei, which is engaged in activities that are contrary to us national security or foreign policy interest. translation: we urge the united states to stop such erroneous practices and create conditions for normal trade cooperation between enterprises of the two countries, and avoid further impact on the economic and trade relations between china and the united states. in a statement, the chinese company said: with donald trump describing the impasse over trade talks as a little squabble, this latest clash over technology

with donald trump describing the impasse over trade talks as a little squabble, this latest clash over technology and security will further test deteriorating us chinese relations. peter bowes, bbc news. with me live from washington is anna ashton, from the us china business council — a group that represents us companies with business interests in china. i very much like the background that you have chosen to stand in front of it. leases and no doubt what we are talking about. what does it mean to be added to an entity list that is happening to china? when a company is added to that list that means the us hasjudged that is added to that list that means the us has judged that company to post some sort of threat to us interests and it means that us companies cannot sell or transfer technologies to the company without a licence granting them permission to do so.

what does the president's latest move regarding china mean for it white trade policy? in terms of the specifics about huawei and i appreciate you ask me about wider trade policy we can't speak from the business community to whatever intelligence us government has that might caused them to put them on list but we can say is that from our perspective there's no reason why both governments can come together and reaching agreements to resolve the challenges that the businesses face in china and to make the commercial relationship more beneficial to both sides this latest move makes it harder to accomplish that rather than easier. it feels nationalism and paranoia may be influencing the policy process. how do they get to that point where prepared to have those discussions? they have huawei deny their security

threat in china accusing the united states of overreacting and suggesting that donald trump is engaging in industrial espionage. tensions have definitely ratcheted up tensions have definitely ratcheted up and i'm not sure all the responses are entirely rational any more. it feels like this is a bit of a simplistic example for international trade and security issues but anytime anybody crosses the street is a risk they will get hit by a car so what's the right government response to that? we to have our government put up stop signs and paint crosswalks and have traffic police or just signs and paint crosswalks and have traffic police orjust ban people from crossing the street? this is kind of similar maybe not with huawei in particular but in general it feels like there's an approach in the us now to us china trade and investment that is all about erecting the biggest walls possible and preventing business in general rather than figuring out how to be precise about the risk and contain the risk and resolve the problems.

what is the reaction likely to be from businesses accepting that they won't necessarily know all the details that the government is privy to? these are grown—ups and trying to? these are grown—ups and trying to run businesses. and we thought that america believed in free trade. it would be helpfulfor the us government to be as transparent as it can be about the threat that they believe huawei poses and there's some information available but it would be helpful to businesses to better understand where the government is coming from and to be reassured that when these policies we re reassured that when these policies were put into place that they were put into place for a specific actionable reasons and not because of paranoia or some ideological desire to decouple from china which does not make any sense. how likely does not make any sense. how likely do you think it is that more countries around the world will follow suit? it's hard to say. i

don't think the administration has been working particularly closely with allies on these issues and we have common ground of course with oui’ have common ground of course with our trade partners. western companies face a lot of the same problems of the china market to do with ip protection and technology tra nsfer with ip protection and technology transfer issues, subsidies to competitors and those are things that we could be working together to resolve but i don't get there was sense that most countries want to ta ke sense that most countries want to take the approach of the united states government has been taking. thank you for your time. you never want to see them — and you usually can't — with adult specimens just over 5mm long. but what bed bugs lack in size, they make up for in durability. a new study has revealed that although the overall number of insects is in decline, bedbugs have been around for one hundred million years, and survived the extinction event that killed the dinosaurs. victoria gill reports.

tiny, bloodsucking and seemingly indestructible. these are the bugs that no one wants to share their bed with. but, while most of us would rather bedbugs were nowhere near us, a scientist here at the university of sheffield has been gathering and studying the insects for decades. with an international team of biologists, he has captured the secrets of their revolutionary history and success. so they are very sensitive to co2 and to warmth. in return, he often provides his bugs with a meal. if ijust grab one here, and if you canjust hold the tube and put the top back on. ok, yes. and i can take this one and put it on the back of my hand. and it should... she is quite hungry, there we go, and she's now... is she sucking your blood? yes, i can just feel her now. she's pushing her mouth parts in through the skin. the biggest surprise was that they have been around

for 115 million years, which was twice as long as we thought they had been around for. up until our study was published, people thought they evolved 50 million years ago with mammals and bats, and what our study shows is they were around at the time of dinosaurs. they outlived the dinosaurs, tougher than the dinosaurs. they did, yes, they're tough. there are 100 different species of bedbug. only two feed on humans and the secret to why they do that and how to control them could be hidden in this genetic information that the scientists have gathered. so, just stick it on there. meanwhile bedbugs will continue to do what they do best. bite. you can see my blood in it. ew! gross. victoria gill, bbc news. now it's time for a look at the weather with stav danaos. hello there. after what's been a dry, sunny, pretty warm week for many, things are turning a bit cooler, more unsettled, to end the week.

we've got this system moving in off the near continent to bring thicker cloud, outbreaks of rain during the course of tonight across mainly central and eastern england, slowly moving its way westwards by the end of the night. across northwest scotland, clear skies here. so, a chillier night to come. but further south, less cold because of the cloud and the breeze. so tomorrow, a different feeling day. it's going to be quite breezy across north sea coasts. there will be more cloud for england and wales, outbreaks of rain. looks like we'll start seeing some rain pushing into eastern scotland as well. and then the best of the sunshine will be across the northwest corner of the country, where we'll see the high teens celsius. but further south, with more cloud around, it will feel cooler than it has done of late. certainly cooler along north sea coasts. through friday night, it turns wetter across scotland and northern england as this next

feature begins to move in. so, a wet start for many northern areas for the weekend. but the weekend will be a mixture of sunshine and showers. best of the sunshine across the south. hello, this is bbc news. i martine croxall. the headlines: time is running out for the prime minister. theresa may has agreed to set a timetable for her departure from downing street after the next brexit vote in just weeks. meanwhile, the former foreign secretary borisjohnson says "of course" he will run for the conservative leadership. four people, including three britons, have been killed after a light aircraft crashed in dubai. the general civil aviation authority says an investigation is under way. dramatic evidence from a nurse at the inquests into the london bridge attacks. helen kennett tried to save the life of this man — and was stabbed herself. president trump effectively bans the use of chinese company huawei in the united states over security concerns. coming up shortly on the programme, struggling travel firm thomas cook issues a profit warning and says brexit is hitting holiday plans. we'll be speaking to an expert from the travel industry to find out more.

let's return to our top story, and theresa may could have less than a month left in office after she formally promised to set a timetable for electing a new prime minister. if the next brexit vote — expected at the beginning ofjune — is defeated, sources have told the bbc she would then resign. if mps pass the vote, she will still go by the end ofjuly. we'rejoined by mo hussein, who's a former special advisor to amber rudd during her time as home secretary. he also served as staffer in both david cameron and theresa may's downing street operations. thank you very much forjoining us this evening. what might theresa may feasibly be able to do to save her premiership? i think that ship may well have sale now. i think the vote coming back, injune, there are some things that could sway that. the

european elections coming up next week and the conservative party may not do well in that. i'm not sure the labour party will do well either. that could end up focusing winds in terms of how did they end up winds in terms of how did they end up voting when the withdrawal agreement comes back. there is also the spectre of meps taking their seatin the spectre of meps taking their seat in the european parliament in july, and whether people want that to happen or not. there are few moving parts on that but in terms of the pm's premiership, she herself has said she will go when the vote comes back. i am not sure that will now change. she has been very tenacious, though. you've worked with her. how will she be feeling, a rather naive word, regarding what's happening around her? the big thing about the pride and esther is her sense of duty and trying to finish off the task at hands, which is to

deliver brexit, and that's why you see... the biggest defeat implement your history, the government being held in contempt, all these things have happened but she soldiers on because she wants to try and get this issue resolved. i think the focus on the issue is what matters to her, and that will be hard for her if, which is likely, the vote doesn't go for her, to then send out a sensitive departure. many people prophesies this for a long time, and i think she excepts this is the end of the road. if her being prime minister is damaging the electoral chances of the conservatives, labour have a view on that. how might they be influential on whether she stays 01’ be influential on whether she stays or not? it's a very interesting point. these talks are still, on the face of it, ongoing. speaking to people involved, they are clearly going out well. labour is in a very

difficult position. on the one hand, are they seem to be acting in the national interest? could they have made more gains in the brexit supporting you areas of the country they did not do? equally, it's in their interest, is it in their interest to hold up the conservative government? on the other side, who comes next was next that will be the concern for them as well. if there is someone who is a harder brexiteer, will things go the way that labour wants in terms of the direction of travel on brexit? probably not, so it's a bit of a double edge sword. the prime ministers saying she will leave when the vote comes back is actually probably a disincentive for labour to supported, because they don't know who might come in next. boris johnson has said, of course i would wa nt to johnson has said, of course i would want to sit for the leadership. who's the favourite? boris wanting

leadership is new to absolute nobody. ultimately there will be the process , nobody. ultimately there will be the process, and i think the conservative party will avoid what happened a few years ago, where this kind of coronation. members left to be consulted in the proper way, and whoever gets into the final two, the members will decide. polls, you can ta ke members will decide. polls, you can take with a pinch of salt these days, but he does seem to be doing well. it is not who can win the members, it is who can win votes for the conservative party in future. mo hussein, former adviser to amber rudd, thank you for coming in. the bishop of lincoln, christopher lowson, has been suspended because of concerns — raised by the police — relating to the safeguarding of children. in april, a bbc panorama investigation found clergy and staff from the diocese were referred to police in 2015 over allegations church leaders "turned a blind eye" to claims of child abuse. mr lowson has called his

suspension "bewildering." caroline bilton is live at lincoln cathedral and sent this update. this allegation just not relate to bishop christopher lowson committing an act of abuse. it is about his handling of a safeguarding allegation. and it comesjust handling of a safeguarding allegation. and it comes just a week 01’ so allegation. and it comes just a week or so after i carried out in the investigation in which we uncovered the failings of bishops in the past here in the lincoln diocese when it came to their handling of abuse allegations, and in which it was stressed to us that these mistakes we re very stressed to us that these mistakes were very much in the past and that lessons were very much in the past and that lesso ns ha d were very much in the past and that lessons had been learned. wearily, this issue is yet to resolve. this suspension of bishop christopher lowson is about allegations relating to the present day, not in the past. it has been a difficult few months for the lincoln diocese. the suspension of the bishop today comes after two other senior members of

the church said they were leaving their posts. last month, it was announced the first ever woman dean of lincoln was stepping away from her role, as was the cannon chancellor. it was later confirmed this was in relation to a non—recent safeguarding issue which was being investigated by the police. the alleged offence did not occur in the lincolnshire area for so we have since learned that southwest police are investigating. the lincoln diocese came under the spotlight again two weeks later when a bbc investigation found it had failed to tell police of more than 20 cases of potential child abuse involving members of its clergy and staff. this was relating to allegations dating back a number of years. today the archbishop of canterburyjustin welby has confirmed he has suspended the bishop of lincoln, christopher lowson, from office. any statements, the archbishop canterbury said...

the bishop of lincoln said he was... inquiry is under way, and while it continues, the bishop of grimsby will take on the leadership of the diocese of lincoln. caroline bilton reporting from lincoln. the travel firm thomas cook has reported a loss of £1.5 billion for the first six months of the year and warned of more difficult trading conditions ahead.

the company issued a profit warning amid brexit uncertainty, which it said has meant customers are delaying holiday plans. let's get more on this now, and i'm joined by our news reporter nina nanji. tell us a little bit more about the child's interrelations at thomas cook. clearly not a good set of results. it's announced yet another profit warning in the company is laying the blame equates girly on brexit. let's look at those numbers again. as you said, £1.5 billion as again. as you said, £1.5 billion as a loss for the first six months of this year. part of that was down to one off costs. even when you strip that outcome is not really very good. the chief executive has been talking today. he explained a bit about why this has happened and he pointed to a couple of factors. one of those, as you say, brexit. he said political uncertainties causing consumers to me reconsider whether they want to book holidays and that's one factor in all of this. the second factor is about the weather. we all remember, of course,

the lovely heatwave we had less summer. the lovely heatwave we had less summer. that could cause britons to decide they want to have a stake asian. all of that man's it was a tough six months —— have a staycation. all of this was not taken very well by the markets, you can imagine. the share price went down some 20% today. it did rally up a little bit towards the end but it was not a good day of trading for thomas cook. and it takes it down very close to the share price level it was back in 2012, which was really when he was in some serious financial problems. what are they going to try and do and turn around their fortunes? the company talked a lot about cost efficiencies, and by this it means cutting some stores. it has a ready cut stores recently. there could be more store cuts to come but of course, that often means job cuts as well. it announced some job cuts as well. it announced some job cuts as well. it announced some job cuts back in march and now today

it set another 150 jobs will go and it's peterborough had office. that's one way it could save on costs —— 150 jobs will go in it's peterborough had office. there could be the sale of its online business. there has been talks about it today. the company did say today it received multiple bids for his airline business. that could be a wafer to raise cash and start to finally tip away at that that pilate has. the other potential silver lining in all of this today was that the company did announce it has secured £300 million worth of fresh funding from its lenders, and this could help with the next rocky period of trading in the winter. nina, thank you very much. nina nanji. well, to hear more on the wider industry trends, let's speak to sophie griffiths. she's the editor of travel trade gazette, and shejoins me from east london. welcome, thanks very much for joining us. brexit, is it really to

blame? it seems like a convenient thing to pin thomas cook's problems on. i do think it's more than convenient. the fact we have had two of the three uk biggest travel firms operating or setting brexit... they have also cited brexit as a reason. their reasoning is the late holiday booking trend they are seeing, and there are twofold reasons relating to brexit. with the currency. we have some brits unsettled on what, how far their pound will go. so they are looking at destinations away from the euro zone. there is a consensus some britons are waiting to book their holidays. creating further uncertainty for the market, the exit day. what should thomas cook customers do? if they have booked something, how should they

be? i don't think they should be worried. it is the uk's oldest travel firm. it's a brand with real heritage and real value, and i would not feel worried at all if i had a holiday with thomas cook. other companies, are then the summer kind of doldrums? the losses they have suffered, you cannot really underestimate them but they are doing incredibly well too. people are still going on holiday. that is what key. they mightjust be waiting slightly later to book and it's also a change perhaps in consumer behaviour this year. we are seeing a longer hope destinations doing particular well. turkey is up, tunisia is up but also the us. the pound is doing particular well because we've got the world cup there. and yet we are being told that more people are becoming environmentally aware. those who are not doing the long haul, what are

their habits becoming? we are being told that and it's asserting much more the public consciousness. but is at putting people's holidays off? iam not is at putting people's holidays off? i am not sure. we are seeing again, as people or think you different perhaps in resorts, less single use plastics, thinking about the attractions they are going to come maybe, but are they not going on holiday? i don't think so. sophie, things very much. sophie griffiths from the travel trade gazette. all landing cards for international passengers will be scrapped from monday. international passengers will also be able to enter the uk through e—gates, which are currently only accessible to people from the eu. the immigration service union — which represents thousands of border staff — says it's "deeply concerned" at the decision. the uk border force says the change is aimed at providing an "improved arrival experience". there has been a major increase in the availability in the uk of highly addictive drugs prescribed

for pain relief known as opioids. new research shows between 2013 and 2016, the rise in the amount of prescription and over the counter opioids in the uk increased at a higher rate than any leading economy. let's take a look at some of those figures published by the international think tank, the oecd. over three years, in the uk, the availability of legally accessed opioid painkillers was up by 68%. deaths caused by opioid abuse in england and wales is up 43% over a five—year period. data for scotland and northern ireland wasn't published. opioid painkiller addiction is known to be dangerous and, if it leads to overdose, can be fatal. joining me now to discuss this is professor jamie coleman, chair of the government's opioid expert working group. they're tasked with reviewing the use of opioids in the uk. thank you very much forjoining us.

how have we got to this point?|j think the use of opioids has increased. some of the increase that we saw in this most recent report is actually probably appropriate and actually probably appropriate and actually one of the things that's missing from the reports, what is appropriate and what is inappropriate increase in use. we come via the regulatory agency, have been aware of this and so even over the last four or five months, have started this working group to try and look and make sure that we encourage patients and health care professionals to ensure that opioids are being used appropriate in this country. obviously this increased in use here is of concern but how does the uk comparative moments with the united states? i think we are nowhere near the so—called opioid epidemic in the united states. the report shows half of the programmes

of what are in the united states. nevertheless, now is the time to ta ke nevertheless, now is the time to take action, and what we are try to do is ensure we have got the appropriate regulatory environments to make sure that we have appropriate access to opioids so this patients that might rightly need them, and this patients get the right drugs for the right time and a portly for the right duration so that they don't become dependent or addicted on opioids, which is where many of the problems in the united states have come from. which are the common drugs that lots of people might use, might have in their cabinets at home to reach for if they are not feeling well, that might need every think? we are particularly looking at codeine and coding related products. these are so—called week opioids but nevertheless have the same addictive potential to stronger opioids like morphine. coding is still available bya morphine. coding is still available by a pharmacist over the counter,

and has been, and there was revelatory action taken some years ago to try and minimise the risk of codeine overuse. we have announced, and the health minister recently endorsed, the public consultation to look at whether codeine should be available over the counter or whether actually, that becomes a prescription medicine. what is your advice to people who use these things may be somewhat habitually thinking there ok? things may be somewhat habitually thinking there 0k?|j things may be somewhat habitually thinking there ok? i thing the advice is, if it's been prescribed and it is under the advice of the health care professional, of course opioids are widely used for cancer pain and many other relief of pain. people are worried they are using meta— —— medicines in higher doses. they worry that if they stop them, they get symptoms, and they should seek

health care advice so we can look at d prescribing or changing the way that somebody‘s condition is managed. professorjamie coleman from the opioid expert working group. thank you for your time. the supervision of all offenders on probation in england and wales is being brought back under public control after a major government u—turn. the probation service was part privatised in 2013, by the then—justice secretary chris grayling. but following a series of failures, and a warning from the chief inspector of probation that the system was "irredeemably flawed", the move will be reversed from next year. here's our home editor, mark easton. like the supposedly reformed prisoner who ends up back injail, the government has performed a humiliating u—turn in its probation policy for england and wales. parts of the service privatised just six years ago are to be renationalised. when it comes to offender management, i recognise the system isn't working as we wanted it to work. payment by results has not worked.

in hertfordshire today, ex—offenders were hard at work as part of their probation programme, but service providers say they've seen the human cost of introducing payment by results into the complicated business of helping people turn their lives around. changing people's behaviour is a complex task and so payment results was never likely to work, and that was predictable. and you told them? i think it would be fair to say that the entire criminal justice system told them. the government spending watchdog says the failure has cost taxpayers almost £500 million. instead of cutting reoffending, there have been sharp increases in offenders breaching probation rules and being recalled to custody. everyone is different, and it's all well and good saying here is a programme, everyone do the same thing and everyone should come out at the end of it. it doesn't work like that.

everyone's individual, everyone comes with their individual problems and things like that. chris grayling was the minister who privatised probation management for low and medium risk offenders, refusing to test his plans would work first. i met him at the launch back in 2013. no more money, greater responsibility and businesses looking to make a profit out of it all. is this the right way to run probation? it's partnership. what i want to do is get the best of the public sector, private sector and voluntary sector. what we didn't know at the time that chris grayling had already been warned that his plans were almost certain to fail with higher risks for the public and poorer outcomes for victims. he went ahead anyway. a statement from the private companies running probation services today expressed disappointment at the decision to renationalise, warning of potential confusion and fragmentation. as for mr grayling, he wasn't available to answer my questions about probation today, but this latest embarrassment comes just a fortnight after the government confirmed his cancelled brexit ferry

contracts will cost the taxpayer tens of millions of pounds. mark easton, bbc news. big advances in how cancer is treated could be on the horizon. scientists say they hope that within the next decade, drugs will be available that will stop cancer cells becoming resistant to treatment. it would mean that tens of thousands of people would live much longer as cancer became a chronic rather than fatal disease. the institute of cancer research is about to launch a new centre to develop such drugs. our medical correspondent fergus walsh reports. it has been called the survival of the nastiest. it takes just a few rogue cancer cells to adapt and develop resistance to drugs for a tumour to survive and reappear perhaps years later with greater force. but scientists are beginning to learn how they may be able to stay one step ahead of the hundreds of cancers which affect us. cancers evolve because their mutated dna is unstable.

every time they divide, more genetic errors occur and the disease changes, so when drugs are sent to destroy them, this natural selection can mean some cancer cells are able to evolve and survive. scientists here at the institute of cancer research hope to exploit this process of darwinian evolution to herd mutating cancer cells into a state that makes them more vulnerable to particular drugs and perhaps a combination of different treatments. they predict that new treatments could be available in around ten years which help further extend the life expectancy of patients. we think we can predict what the cancer is going to do next and so we know how to treat you next, therefore we are turning it into something you can live with longer instead

of something you die from. cycling is something that helps me get through cancer is my escape... christine was diagnosed with breast cancer seven years ago and found out last year it had spread to her brain. she knows she cannot be cured but is doing well on a new treatment which targets her tumour‘s ability to spread. at some point, my cancer will develop resistance and re—occur and i will have to be on a new form of treatment. with new research coming out, hopefully it means by the time i need that next new treatment, there will be something even more innovative and new available to patients. one in two of us will get cancer, so advances matter to every family. new drugs will cost billions to develop but should ensure more patients survive cancer for longer. fergus walsh, bbc news. tonight sees the second semi—final of eurovision to confirm the final line—up for saturday's final in tel aviv, in israel.

lots of finals, weren't there, in that sentence? this year's song contest is notable for a number of reasons. one is iceland's entry — a band called hatari who style themselves as an anti—capitalist, techno group. speaking to the bbc‘s newsbeat, hatari said the competition was founded in the spirit of "peace and unity", and they're "conflicted" about performing in israel due to the israeli—palestinian conflict. steve holden reports. they are the most talked—about band at this year's eurovision. we are icelandic, award—winning, anti—capitalist, techno performers, bdsm band happening. hatari made it through the first semi to qualify for saturday's grand final. eurovision hasn't seen a band like hatari in years. they're getting loads of attention here in tel aviv, and notjust because of their outfits. with the gaza strip just over an hour down the road, the band are fully aware of the political situation playing

out in the background here. how do you guys feel about participating in israel? we feel conflicted, of course. our stance is a contradictory one but, obviously, we feel that a contest like eurovision, which is founded in the spirit of peace and unity, we find it absurd to host it in a country that is marred by conflict and disunity. the ebu, which produces eurovision, says the contest is strictly nonpolitical and acts are banned from making any kind of political statement on stage. lots has been said about whether you will or will not protest on the stage. well, we've considered many options but the result that we decided has been to comply with the rules. we can't be political on stage, so we will do our performance

as planned, as it has been rehearsed. an audience of nearly 200 million people will now get to see them on saturday's grand final. steve holden, bbc news, tel aviv. sir andy murray has received his knighthood at buckingham palace — more than two years after he was awarded the honour. sir andy murray, for services to tennis and charity. the three—time grand slam champion was named in the queen's new years honours in 2016, following his second wimbledon title and second olympic gold. sir andy, or andrew, said he was "very proud" to receive it. now it's time for a look at the weather with stav danaos. hello there. after what's been a dry, sunny, pretty warm week for many, things are turning a bit cooler, more unsettled, to end the week. we've got this system moving in off the near continent to bring thicker cloud, outbreaks of rain during the course of tonight across mainly central and eastern england,

slowly moving its way westwards by the end of the night. across northwest scotland, clear skies here. so, a chillier night to come. but further south, less cold because of the cloud and the breeze. so tomorrow, a different feeling day. it's going to be quite breezy across north sea coasts. there will be more cloud for england and wales, outbreaks of rain. looks like we'll start seeing some rain pushing into eastern scotland as well. and then the best of the sunshine will be across the northwest corner of the country, where we'll see the high teens celsius. but further south, with more cloud around, it will feel cooler than it has done of late. certainly cooler along north sea coasts. through friday night, it turns wetter across scotland and northern england as this next feature begins to move in. so, a wet start for many northern areas for the weekend. but the weekend will be a mixture of sunshine and showers. best of the sunshine across the south.

hello, i'm karin giannone, this is outside source. china threatens retailiation after the trump administration bans us companies from using foreign telecoms believed to be a security risk. no names were mentioned — but the target is thought to be the chinese tech giant, huawei. we'll be live in washington. britain's theresa may sets out a timetable for her to stand down as prime minister — whichever way the next brexit vote goes. and police across the world say they've smashed a cyber—crime network that stole a hundred—million dollars from thousands of people. that's all coming up on outside source.