of scotland. more cloud, parts of scotland. more cloud, though, coming in on those weak weather fronts into northern ireland, into western parts of england and wales. a few spots of drizzle. the best of the sunshine further east, 23 degrees through london and the home counties, 18 in newcastle. should be quite pleasant. cool in northern scotland, still with those breezes, and those weather fronts are still close by so still some showery base of rain as we head into friday. otherwise, most places again dry, at least to start with. some sunshine around. we will probably see more cloud in northern ireland, producing some showers, and that cloud will extend its way into england and wales, so we will eventually see things clouding over a bit more. but those showers very hit and a bit more. but those showers very hitand miss, a bit more. but those showers very hit and miss, south—east still dry. with more cloud around, more of a north—westerly breeze. temperatures may be a shade lower on friday. into the bank holiday weekend stop if you have got plans, it is not a washout by any means. they will be some sunshine around. increasing cloud, though. rain mainly in the north and west on sunday. for all of us, though, those temperatures will be dropping away a little bit further. let's look at saturday, then, and you can see a lot of dry weather here, maybe i odd shower coming from this cloud but on the whole a fine day. north—westerly breeze is again stopped 21 degrees, get some sunshine in london. increasing cloud, though, for northern ireland beginning to spell its way into western scotland. that's on that weather front there. and again is fairly weak. and we've got the cold front and the area of low pressure approaching overnight and into sunday. so its into sunday that we

will see most of the rain. and it's going to be coming in across a good pa rt going to be coming in across a good part of scotland, across northern ireland, and there will be some outbreaks of rain for northern england into north wales. but head further south and you may well have a dry day. there won't be much rain around here at all. and this is where we have still got a bit of warmth, whereas those temperatures are dropping away for newcastle and belfast underneath that rain. most of that rain will push its way eastwards during the evening and overnight. on that cold front into the south—east, a few bursts of rain, probably not a great deal of that. and then it is gone probably by monday morning, the last dregs of the rain clearing away from kent over the channel, and maybe a few showers left across scotland. but a fair bit of cloud around on monday, and a few more showers beginning to arrive off the atlantic into northern ireland, the western isles of scotland. those temperatures are a bit lower on bank holiday monday. it will feel cooler, with cloudy skies, and cooler air is set to push in next week as well. you can see where the air is coming from and how it is rotating around, that cool air, fora it is rotating around, that cool air, for a while, southern parts of uk beginning to up later next week but that is some way off. we have the jetstream here and these are the

upper winds, and that will be a feature down to the southern half of the uk, and areas of low pressure are essentially going to spin around each other and make it a bit more u nsettled. each other and make it a bit more unsettled. they will be some sunshine at times but i think showers and longer spells of rain, wettest in the north and west of the uk, perhaps some usable rain in the south—east, and for all of us it will feel cooler underneath the cloud, with the chance of some rain.

hello. this is bbc news. we'll be taking a look at tomorrow mornings papers in a moment. first, the headlines: in the past half hour andrea leadsom has resigned from cabinet, in protest against the prime minister's new brexit plan. the resignation adds to the pressure theresa may faces from her party to step down. the feeling is very much there that

we've come to the end of the road with this prime minister, we need to turn the page as quickly as possible. the time has come for a change of leader, we only have a few months left until the 315t of october and we need a new leader and a new team to be able to deliver that. the prime minister is to meet with backbench representatives on the 1922 committee on friday to discuss what happens next. and tonight's other main story: british steel goes into receivership, putting 5,000 jobs at risk. the company says it needed millions of pounds of government support. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are arj singh, the deputy political editor at the huffpost uk and lucy fisher, the defence correspondent for the times.

lovely to see you both back again. many of tomorrow's front pages are already in. and politics are dominating the front pages of all the papers. the telegraph reports on the prime minister besieged in no 10 as minister andrea leadsom quits, and her cabinet revolts. the daily express asks ‘how much more can she take?‘ using a picture of the prime minister looking "beleaguered and bleary eyed" — they say — as she faces mutiny from her own party. the same picture is on the front of the mirror, with the headline ‘tears in the back seat‘ comparing it to a similar picture taken after thatcher's departure. more of the same in the i, who call it a cabinet coup — pointing out how she refused to meet ministers as the party tried to oust her. the guardian says ‘barricaded inside number 10', as may clings

on to power. and the times says she'll announce her departure on friday, that's according to her own allies, the paper says. 0k, ok, so it's all about theresa may and what is going to happen. it's funny, isn't it? brexit, theresa may, we never known what is really going to happen and this is continuing. although, though, there is an idea that friday we could see some direction. let's start off with the front of the sun. tearesa. a classic time for us. we thought her numbers were up and she has managed to cling on in, but it really does feel now like the end of the road for her as previously loyal mps are saying time to go. the array of

verbs on the front pages tonight, isolated, barricaded, squatting, she isolated, barricaded, squatting, she is really hunkering down nowjust you try and claw on, hang on for the next sort of days and see what the european elections tomorrow are going to be, and then friday will be showdown day. yeah, i don't think it's fair to say that she has just days left, i think she will be gone in the couple of weeks. the latest. she had what she admitted as a one la st she had what she admitted as a one last chance, new offer on brexit to try and win over labour mps and the dup as well and it fell flat immediately on tuesday night and the anger has spilt out in the tory party —— labour, her position appears untenable. party —— labour, her position appears untenablelj party —— labour, her position appears untenable. i think you could describe it as her grit in the way she has just hung describe it as her grit in the way she hasjust hung on. can you imagine the stress on her mental

health? in a way, though, i feel that she's never been club of all in any way that has been seen as a weakness. —— unclu bable, any way that has been seen as a weakness. —— unclubable, ithink it's a strength because it allows her to close off some of that antipathy, we've seenjeremy hunt demanding one—on—one meetings with her, perhaps, you know, seeking to pressure her to go and telling her face—to—face you've got to leave. she refused that and that is why she's been accused of really being in the bunker now and refusing to see sense that her time is up. but i think that lack of kind of alliances allows her to sort of close herself up allows her to sort of close herself up like that. let's turn to the times and made prepares to quit after cabinet use any. before we go on to that, arj, what do you make of not facing the cabinet requested

meetings? it's a very odd. i've never come across anything like this. she did have her regular weekly audience with the queen this evening, but shejust weekly audience with the queen this evening, but she just simply refuse to meet senior members of her own cabinet over the key government policy. it's strange to say the least. i wonder if it is because she doesn't want to go on the eve of an election and maybe it's giving her some private assurances, as the times as allies are now being briefed. do you think it is likely to bea briefed. do you think it is likely to be a timetable? how do you think it is going to play out, lucy?|j think it is going to have to be a pretty tight timetable. that she is going to go pretty soon because of course we've got the october 31 halloween deadline for leaving the eu, the eu like the british parliament takes a long time for

summer, they need to get a new leader and prime minister in as quickly as possible to have maximum negotiation time for another deal, if the next leader wants to try to do that. on the subject of another leader, this front—page cabinet new city, do you think it is going to reflect badly on whoever is left in the cabinet and whoever takes on the ma ntle the cabinet and whoever takes on the mantle of leadership —— cabinet mutiny. we've only seen the one resignation from leaders like andrea leadsom, others seem reluctant to be wielding the knife in this, as he who wields the knife never wields the ground, as they say. but also andrea leadsom will have won some respect from her exeter colleagues are finally taking a on this as well. c is the first one to raise her head regularly at the parapet ——

brexiteer —— she is. her head regularly at the parapet —— brexiteer -- she is. she has an excuse in that she sets out in her reasons for leaving that she didn't wa nt reasons for leaving that she didn't want to have to come before the commons and set out a timetable for legislation that she doesn't believe in that all things will pass. sol think there is a sense in which she has a specific role that is relevant to her reason for wanting to leave. 0k, to her reason for wanting to leave. ok, let's move on to our third paper, this is yours, arj, the huffington post. andrea leadsom quits as theresa may survives. interesting. she survived the day. and then you can see in the subheading with picked up that ministers have been telling the party whips who are in charge of discipline, that they will quit on monday if theresa may decides to hang around. the mail picked up on this as well. just to make clear how

desperate the situation she is in now, you know, if she survives friday, it's certainly not the end. lucy, do you think — why now? why not wait until the european elections are over and then make this move? it doesn't change anything, does it? i think it's this move? it doesn't change anything, does it? ithink it's such anything, does it? ithink it's such afab anything, does it? ithink it's such a fab rather atmosphere —— febrile, the level of emotion can't easily been contained —— be contained. we saw that to—ing and fro—ing of the 19 22 committee, they decide the rules on how to oust theresa may, they went back and forth on whether 01’ they went back and forth on whether or not to change those rules to allow her to be gotten rid of sooner "1922 allow her to be gotten rid of sooner —— 1922 committee. i think there's a sense of pragmatism, there is an election of course tomorrow, and trying to oust the prime minister on

the eve of the could possibly lead toa the eve of the could possibly lead to a worse bloodbath than many of the poles are predicting. there was something, when you look at andrea leadsom's letter of resignation, i think it was a hint or perhaps a direct allegation of a degree of under handedness in the way things we re under handedness in the way things were presented —— underhandedness. some people felt that what was said on thursday went further than what was agreed earlier about the vote on customs arrangement. they feel they we re customs arrangement. they feel they were bounced into it and theresa may went further than what was agreed in cabinet. we think that is what — the reason why some ministers have been going to see her off today. all of the attention has been put on the conservatives and theresa may. if we we re conservatives and theresa may. if we were to put ourselves in the place of labour, how does this so look to

them, do you think? speaking to labourfigures earlier them, do you think? speaking to labour figures earlier this week, they are looking forward to a holiday. once the tory leadership party begins in earnest, there is a feeling thatjeremy corbyn can kind of sit back and allow them to massacre each other as they dig up dirt on potential rivals. i think the tory psychodrama can layout on its own without too much on its own effort. there was the risk that jeremy corbyn could become leader according to some here, that it's not about politicking, it's about brexit. do you think that will continue, would you think it will fade away? the question of whether he will become leader will be a key one. whether there will be an election, any new leader that might wa nt to election, any new leader that might want to come in and seize the initiative, go to the public and

gets a majority because it is difficult to see how any new leader of the country or the conservative party could find a way forward with the current parliamentary arithmetic stop putting yourselves in the mind of eu leaders watching, how do you think they would read this? you've been talking to your colleagues in brussels or the continent. when she got this extension to october 31, donald tusk said very clearly, don't waste this time. and here we are, no further on in terms of getting a brexit deal past, we are now about to have a tory leadership contest which is going to use up more time, so which is going to use up more time, so they will be looking on and thinking, well, what are they actually doing with this time? they are saying on a brexit break,

you sort yourselves out and come back to us. very quickly, we have done the front of the telegraph, again going with andrea leadsom. there was a response, i want to go through it very quickly, from downing street, and you know, really saying that she didn't recognise the criticism for the bill. do you think the bill is even going to get to parliament, will be placed in front of parliament? a lot of people are saying it is not going to get that far. i would be very surprised, it doesn't seem there is anything like a majority to get it through. without theresa may as prime minister that bill doesn't come back in its current form. and your favourite for possible leader of the tory party, a replacement? who do you think looks strong? well, the polling so far is clear that boris johnson is the runaway leader. but,

you know, those favourites often stumble, and in the past, particularly in the conservative party, we have tended to see dark horses come through the middle. so who knows, but at the moment he is strong and the infrastructure and the campaign around him looks pretty well to me. is a dark horse, can you think of one? adar course, you have put me on the spot there. i don't wa nt to put me on the spot there. i don't want to annoy anyone. in terms of... i think the thing about boris that is really interesting, he now has a choice, does he go all out for a no deal brexit and risk in anyone but boris campaign from the more remain minded mps, or does he fudge it? does he give brexit votes to someone like dominic raab? we will go to the middle east, where assad is suspected of using chemical weapons

again. it is worrying, isn't it? very worrying, in an attack in the north—west of the country, on the border with idlib, reports suggest chlorine was used. it is possible assad may have used that particular substance because not all countries consider that a chemical weapon, so it isa consider that a chemical weapon, so it is a sort of grey zone. but so far the it is a sort of grey zone. but so farthe uk and it is a sort of grey zone. but so far the uk and the us have been clear that they may be looking to respond to this if it can be proven. what sort of response are we talking about here? well, i think the interesting thing for me is that this would be really high up the agenda in parliament normally on a day like today but because we have the brexit chaos, the tory leadership crisis going on, there has barely been any discussion of it in parliament today, and it is such a serious issue that, you know, normally a government would be coming out and making a statement, possibly there would be an urgent question in the commons, but we haven't seen that today. it is still

on the front page, but pushed way down. let's finish off with the guardian. this is again another big story, quite high up the news agenda, the front of the guardian, 5000 jobs injeopardy as british steel falls. it is not the first time they have been in this predicament, is it? no, it is certainly not. and interestingly, today, two different types of criticism of the government over british steel, there are free—market critics who say why on earth with the government give the industry £120 million loan in recent weeks when it looked like it was on the brink of collapse? and then on the other side of the political spectrum you have labour and the union saying, well, this is why we need to nationalise the steel industry. and it is interesting, there is a brexit angle to this as well, there is a brexit angle to everything, and greg clark is trying to put together a rescue plan, we understand from the front of the financial times, and he

is taking legal advice on whether that plan would break eu rules on state aid, whether they would be anti— competition, and this cuts to the heart of labour's brexit policy, can they actually nationalise this company while they are a member of the eu? state aid rules would inhibit that, you would say, so should labour actually be arguing for a hard brexit? it also points to what is going on between trump and china, because like you said, part of the reason for this is brexit, but further afield, we've got the trump — china trade wars. you wonder, if that wasn't going on, could it recover? well, as you point out, china dumping cheap steel in the international market does nothing to help the british steel

market, so that is certainly a question about some of china's trade practices. but for me, also, i think there are questions about the private equity owner who took over british steel. it is not the first time greybull have presided over a controversial investment process, they also presided over the high—profile failure of monarch airlines, so some of these quick sales also deserves scrutiny. do you think there will be long enough for a something to be put in place? obviously the clock is ticking. as you say, greg clark has commissioned legal advice, you imagine he would wa nt legal advice, you imagine he would want that done quite quickly. a consortium of private companies have been lined up by the government, so you the government would be hoping that they can step in in time. one isa that they can step in in time. one is a chinese company. a chinese group, and a uk—based private equity fund that are involved in this rescue plan. well, in nine or ten minutes it is european elections

time, so we will see what happens. but friday apparently is the big day for all of us here, and of course for all of us here, and of course for number ten downing street. don't forget you can see the front pages of the papers online on the bbc news website. it's all there for you seven days a week at bbc.co.uk/papers. and if you miss the programme any evening you can watch it later on bbc iplayer. goodbye to my guests and a very good night to you as well. good evening. here is your latest sports news. ada hegerberg says her dispute with the norweigian fa is not solely about money. the newly named bbc women's footballer of the year won't play for her country at this summer's women's world cup due to an ongoing dispute. hegerberg won the first women's ballon d'or award last year and scored a hat—trick for club side lyon to lift her fourth

champions league trophy. but a disagreement over equal pay and then the growth of the women's game in norway means she hasn't played for the national team since 2017. it's not always about money, either. it's not always about money, either. it's all about attitude and respect. when we are talking about young girls, giving them the same opportunity as boys, giving them the same opportunity to dream, everything. it's about everything. if you change attitudes in the beginning of, things will automatically changes well, i think. —— change as well, i think. arsenal want urgent talks with uefa following the europa league final. the club's managing director says the situation is unacceptable that their player henrikh mkhitaryan doesn't feel able to travel to azerbaijan. he is the captain of armenia,

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football's world governing body had explored bringing the expansion, which would have meant neighbouring countries stepping in to share hosting duties, forward. but, following a consultation with stakeholders, it said the change could not happen now, with the expansion expected four years later, when the usa, canada and mexico host the tournament. gloucester‘s danny cipriani has been named the premiership's player of the season. he has been instrumental in leading his club side to the premiership play—offs where they'll play saracens. having also scooped the rugby players association player of the year award, it remains likely he'll be overlooked by eddiejones in england's world cup squad. and the former england captain andrew strauss believes eoin morgan's side won't have a better chance to win the world cup. it all starts at the oval when england play south africa a week tomorrow. they've named their 15—man squad,

bringing in the fast bowler jofra archer ahead of others with more experience. strauss says all the ingredients are there. it's just so exciting for england to go into the world cup as favourites. the two i played in, i don't know what the opposite of favourite is, but we were that. so we go on our home soil with home advantage, and hopefully the guys can do it. and if they do, it's just going to create such an incredible fillip for the sport in this country, and create incredible sort of momentum and interest, and i don't want to put them under pressure, but we will never have a better chance. that's all the sport for now. hello there. the next couple of days aren't looking too bad. largely dry, with some warm spells of sunshine and that things are set to turn more u nsettled and that things are set to turn more unsettled and cooler as the bank holiday weekend wears on. today is

another mainly dry one, like i mentioned, with some warm sunshine especially for england and wales. but we still got low pressure to the north—east of the uk, bringing rain and breeze in north—east scotland, and breeze in north—east scotland, and this feature will also enhance the cloud across parts of northern ireland in the morning, and then into western parts of wales, south—west of england into the afternoon. we could even see just the odd spot of light rain here. but elsewhere, another lovely day, late winds, sunshine, still quite breezy and wet for the north—east of scotland. images here 11 to 15 degrees, 19 to 23 degrees across england and wales, 23 around london and the home counties. now, as we head through into friday, this area of low pressure bills and slowly moves away into the north—east of scotland. this feature may bring thicker cloud on one or two showers for northern ireland on friday morning and it will push across the irish sea into parts of england and wales for the afternoon. that could bring more cloud on the odd shower here. could be the odd heavy one as well. for the north—east of scotland, not quite as bad as it has been for the last few days, a little bit of rain and breezed but not quite as wet. 11 to 15 celsius, but again the high teens to low 20s for england and wales. we are in between

weather systems to start the bank holiday weekend, so not a bad day here but this feature is what is going to bring the wet and windy weather as we had to saturday night and into sunday. so the picture for saturday as we start off largely dry, plenty of sunshine up and down the country, although cloud will tend to build—up into the afternoon. but it will be thickening up across western scotland and northern ireland ahead of this front. could even see some rain late in the day here. temperatures mid—teens celsius, but again, 20 — 21 degrees likely across the south. then into sunday, this area of low pressure present. it brings a very different feeling data much of the country. it will be windy across exposure in the north—west of the country. outbreaks are north—west of the country. outbreaks a re pretty heavy north—west of the country. outbreaks are pretty heavy and persistent rain, showery besser ran further south, but again, the south and particularly the south—east could stay dry all day, some spells of sunshine where it will feel quite warm again, winter one degree in london. further north, the mid—teens celsius at best. so it is quite a mixed bank holiday weekend. we are starting off with the sunshine, then it turns wetter, breezy and cooler gradually on sunday, and remains cool as we head on into bank holiday monday.

welcome to newsday. i'm kasia madera in london. the headlines: calls for the british prime minister to resign as the leader of the house of commons quits — saying she no longer believes the government's approach will deliver brexit. vote counting begins soon in india's election, it's been seen as referendum on prime minister modi. we'll tell you why the state of uttar pradesh is key to victory. people will be watching this state very closely as they say in indian politics, the road to delhi passes through uttar pradesh. i'm rico hizon in singapore, also in the programme.