express, hello. this is bbc news. we'll take a look at tomorrow morning's papers in a moment. first, the headlines. prime minister borisjohnson pledges to fund a new high—speed rail route between manchester and leeds. president trump praises borisjohnson, and says talks on what he calls a "very substantial" us—uk trade deal are under way. the uk's biggest charitable funder of scientific research, the wellcome trust, says a no—deal brexit threatens the uk science industry.

the mp for sheffield hallam, jared 0 mara, says he is to resign as a member of parliament to deal with personal issues. riot police fire tear gas at protesters in hong kong after tens of thousands march through the town where gangs attacked pro—democracy activists last weekend. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are katherine forster, journalist at the sunday times, and the home affairs editor at the london evening standard, martin bentham. the refresh has dominated the week, so the refresh has dominated the week, so you've got me in the chair! —— the reshuffle. many of tomorrow's front pages are already in. the sunday telegraph leads with reports that the new chancellor, sajid javid, is planning a big spending blitz

to prepare for brexit. the observer goes with talks between former chancellor philip hammond and labour's brexit secretary, keir starmer, to try and block a no—deal brexit. the mail on sunday has a full—page splash on borisjohnson‘s rise in popularity amongst conservative voters. but the scottish mail on sunday focuses on a showdown between scottish conservative leader ruth davidson and borisjohnson over a no—deal brexit. and the sunday express has a poll saying that the public want mps to let the prime minister get on with brexit. well, let's start with the sunday telegraph, let's get down to it, that's on with the paper review, so the chancellor, the new chancellor preparing, really, laying the groundwork for a no deal campaign.

what do you make of it? yes, and i think a lot of people would say this isn't a moment too soon, in fact, probably about three years after we should have started preparing for no deal in the event that we didn't get the deal we hoped for from the eu. so now the message from boris johnson and the new cabinet, effectively the new government, is we are leaving, by hook or by crook, sist we are leaving, by hook or by crook, 31st october, whatever, deal or no deal, so let's get ready for no deal properly, so there's going to be a big public information campaign, they are spending lots of money and, of course, philip hammond, well, he's very kindly offered boris johnson his furniture that he doesn't want any more when he moved out, because borisjohnson hasn't got his furniture, because it's all that his wife has. philip hammond ever thinking of the purse strings! but philip hammond is said to have

really dragged his heels about no deal spending because he didn't want to put the money in, he didn't want to put the money in, he didn't want to freak people out, he didn't really wa nt to freak people out, he didn't really want us to leave, so we have a very new approach now, but of course time is very short. you can't help but wonder whether some of the money set aside might coincidently find its way into constituencies where mps might be wavering in their support for what the new government might want to do. this money that has been talked about is specifically about the preparations for helping businesses get ready, making sure they are aware of things. you are suggesting there that there is a lot of talk about funds for 100 different towns and so on, left behind towns and so on, and obviously big talk today about a new railway line between manchester and leeds, which is desperately needs in the north, and notjust elsewhere but elsewhere in the north. so there is that side of it, but as you are

just saying, really a lot of what this story is about is political messaging, that sajid javid is sending the message that yes, he is fully committed, understandably as a new chancellor, to the boris johnson message, and we've got to take this seriously, we can't be acting like a drag, which was the perception of the treasury under philip hammond. the other thing that isn't mentioned, i suppose, as he talked about extra spending, which there would have to be in the event of no deal. it doesn't talk about the emergency budget which kit malthouse, the new policing minister, suggested would happen in october, although it hasn't been officially announced. what that would lead to, because there is a whole issue about tax changes and so on, trying to inject energy into the economy in the event of a no deal and make us ever more competitive, so and make us ever more competitive, so that would be an interesting side to what sajid javid may be preparing as well. and yet, while making these

preparations and laying the groundwork for this no deal campaign, we hear in the observer that, behind the scenes, those who wish to stop a no deal at all costs are gathering across party lines, something we might see increasingly is the potential of a no deal scenario becomes more likely. yes, and no surprise at all, because obviously there are many, many ex cabinet ministers, not to mention many tory mps, who are desperate to avoid a no deal and will do, well, who knows how far they will go, whether they would go far enough to bring down the government, possibly let injeremy bring down the government, possibly let in jeremy corbyn? bring down the government, possibly let injeremy corbyn? nobody knows. they arejoining forces let injeremy corbyn? nobody knows. they are joining forces with people in labour, keir starmer, philip hammond have been having lots of meetings that will be continuing through the summer, working out how

they can stop us being taken out potentially with no deal, if it comes to it. it interesting that these conversations are happening so soon. there's barely been a honeymoon period.|j soon. there's barely been a honeymoon period. i suppose philip hammond made clear he was resigning because he couldn't buy the johnson message, same as david gauke, the justice secretary, rory stewart, they all said they would resign before they were sacked because they couldn't sign up to somebody who was committed to potentially leaving with no deal. admittedly, boris johnson made it clear his strategy of saying, i'll go out with no deal, it is designed to try and get a deal, they obviously don't even want to have that backstop threat, to use a terrible word. it's not a surprise they are doing it. the interesting thing as well is you've got keir starmer quoted, we must do everything we can to stop a no—deal brexit, but what he doesn't say, the focus is on the tories, but the

labour party, they stood on a manifesto supporting leaping, respecting the referendum vote, and most of the people in the labour party now voted for the referendum and an in out question to be asked. what they haven't said if they are opposed to a no deal exit, but they didn't vote for theresa may's deal, and according to the eu, that was the only deal on the table, so labour, if they stand by what they said, they still have the same problem. they want a different type of exit, if we are going to have an exit, yet they are not going to go for the one the eu says is the only one is available. her deal isn't1 million miles from what the labour party are saying they would like in a deal, but it's a tory brexit. if you've got a whopping majority, you can you've got a whopping majority, you ca n afford you've got a whopping majority, you can afford to have senior members of your party conferring with the opposition but, when you don't have a majority on your own, this sort of

thing starts to seem much more of a threat. it's not long since boris johnson recently said, oh, the chance of no deal is a million to one. i have to say, it doesn't feel like that now. it feels quite real, which, i suppose, like that now. it feels quite real, which, isuppose, we like that now. it feels quite real, which, i suppose, we have to prepare, we have to prepare, and to have any chance of getting a deal from the eu. that is part of the tactic, but the mathematics of it mean that the risk of them voting in a vote of no confidence is there, and obviously that could theoretically bring down the government and trigger a general election. the front page of the mail on sunday, this poll for the mail on sunday suggests that there has been this surge in popularity for boris among tory voters, but, you know, we've seen in the not too distant past a conservative prime minister

seen the polls into thinking, yeah, could win an election, it went horribly wrong. yes! i think, clearly, it's not surprising there's beena clearly, it's not surprising there's been a bounce, because anybody who either wants to get it over regardless of how the vote in the referendum was, or was a leave voter and wanted to be considered, is bound to be infused that somebody wants to deliver it rather endless delay. so perhaps it's unsurprising. then you've got, as you say, the prospect that he's got the bounce, he's gotjeremy prospect that he's got the bounce, he's got jeremy corbyn as the labour leader, and there is still talk about him being replaced at some point, and the tories would see him as an electoral asset so would rather fight him, and then you get the risk that you can't get the brexit plan through, the no deal plan through parliament, so you've got to have an election because you either get voted out or you lose a vote of no confidence or you have to

force it that way to achieve it. so there is this talk. it still seems a very big risk for the conservatives to do it before they've got out of the eu. does he have an appetite for risk? yes, but i don't think he would choose to calljo but theresa may knows that now! but i think it would be madness. i think he thinks it would be madness to call an election before brexit has been delivered, dominic cummings said this as well, and he is now one of the very most powerful people in the country stop but it may be forced upon them, if they lose a no confidence vote, so an election is coming, wejust don't confidence vote, so an election is coming, we just don't quite know when. brexit may be coming. coming, we just don't quite know when. brexit may be comingm coming, we just don't quite know when. brexit may be coming. it might not come until 2022! there's going

to be an election in the next year, i'd predict. i wouldn't be certain. you'd think so but... it's on record! back to the sunday telegraph, and did either of you do english at a level? yes, and at university. history. we could soon be something of a rare breed, if this article is to be believed. stu d e nts this article is to be believed. students taking english is at the lowest level since 2001. it's gone down 8.4% in the last year, which is huge. this is largely, i suppose, because science, technology and maths, when you look at the earnings after six months, how much you are going to earn, employment ratings etc, those sort of subjects, if you are going to be spending a lot on tuition fees, which they now are, you want to know that there's going to bea you want to know that there's going to be a job at the end of it, and

english, these lovely subjects that many of us enjoyed so much, are seen as may be not having the same earning potential. istill think people need to know how to speak and form an argument and spell strip so i think it's a shame. —— and spell. yes, and there is a misnomer that subjects like english and history, he says is a history graduate, but it's a good thing, of course, if people do sciences and so on, but the idea that somehow or other you are condemning yourself to a life without career opportunities... there are a lot of people in very good positions in all sorts of walks of life, including business and things that require a mathematical or business brain and so on, who have done arts degrees of one sort or another, so the have done arts degrees of one sort oranother, so the idea have done arts degrees of one sort or another, so the idea that an arts, humanities degree is somehow less valuable, i think, is wrong, and regrettable actually, and i think the utilitarian view of it

that it's all about how much you can earn, it's also about what you will enjoy doing with your life and so on. so there's nothing wrong with people pursuing science, and it's probably a good thing to —— a good thing that more people are, but not if they are shunning english and other subjects because they feel they must earn as much as possible. so manyjobs, they must earn as much as possible. so many jobs, you they must earn as much as possible. so manyjobs, you arejust required to have a degree, and it doesn't necessarily matter what it is. you can go into a captaincy with an english degree and many other things. daschle grew into accountancy. it's often forgotten in the equation, and i remember thinking, i need to do this and this, and somebody said, think about what you will enjoy, because you are doing it for the next two years. it's been a pleasure having you here. that's it for the papers this hour. katherine forster and martin bentham will be back with me at 11.30pm for another look at the papers. don't forget, you can see the front pages online on the bbc news website at bbc.co.uk/papers.

if you miss the programme, you can watch it later on bbc iplayer. next on bbc news, it's the travel show. hello and welcome to the travel show with me, christa larwood, and this week we are kicking off by heading to new york city. every year over 30 million people visit from all across the world. but back in the late 1970s the city had a notorious crime record, and wasn't quite so welcoming to overseas visitors. but 30 years ago the volunteer group the guardian angels tried to do something about it, and they're still going strong today. in the late ‘70s, the subways were, it was just an attack

on your senses. the smell of urine, defecation, there would be graffiti everywhere, broken windows. the gangs would patrol up and down the trains and they would control certain lines, and you would never see a cop. the guardian angels started, in fact, right here in the bronx. i was a night manager of mickey d's, mcdonald's, and ijust decided to organise my closing crew to ride this very same train, it used to be called the mugger‘s express, the number 4 train. this was a baptism of fire, this was the epicentre of criminal and gang activity in the late ‘70s. whereas the subways have improved immeasurably from what it was like when we first started. now there are pervs out there and they flash themselves to women. so we have a perv—busters unit, comprised of women, led by women who prioritise that, because what we want to do is empower women to fight back.

perv— busters, it's catchy, it gets people to stop and notice and it makes sense. sexual assaults on the subway are on the rise, and they're very daring. they want to be on social media, they want to be out there, it is really nuts. so usually out on patrol you go after one or two pervs a night. we have two different events going on simultaneously. we get a lot of photos and calls us sent to us, we obviously have to make sure that they are legitimate, and that is when we put out the flyer and we go out to the location of, you know, said incident and take it from there. we're gonna get off at 190th... it is not taken seriously so much because they know our great state of new york is not enforcing sexual crimes, they know they are not going to get charged seriously, they're back and forth, it's a revolving door.

the first significant moment was when i was five years old and my sister was eight. we were with our mom, coming up the subway stairs at 183rd, by the old carvell there. we were on either side of our mom and my mom was in the middle, and we were coming up the stairs, halfway up these stairs right here was where a guy passed us, he grabbed my mother's purse and pulled her back down the stairs. i can still remember, me and my sister were screaming, and we were scared because something really bad happened to my mother, and even to this day itjust gets to me. that's all i remember, screaming, and my mother, thankfully, she was not seriously injured, but something like that, if it affects me to this day, i can imagine how what they think is simple crime as far as groping or flashing,

that is with your life. on any given day we have roughly half a million people riding the subways. we want to make sure commuters are getting to and from safely, keeping anything from happening, obviously, preventing crime as well as sexual assaults that are happening on the rise, we are looking out for everything. if we're there and we see it, we stop it. now what you see a lot of, that you didn't see before, emotionally disturbed people, homeless people, oftentimes the trains are not clean, so aesthetically it's bad and it's not good for the emotionally disturbed or the homeless. but i would still accept what exists now compared to what used to be, there used to be so much graffiti in the trains you couldn't even see out the window. and actually always fights

and stabbings and shootings, and gang activity. the violence was off the hook. it's a big difference but we have to keep it that way, we can'tjust assume it's going to stay that way. and in the beginning of the group, it was extraordinarily dangerous before we were recognised by the police, we had six guardian angels shot and killed on the line of duty, three dozen injured, many of them still going through therapy for the injuries that they suffered long ago. now we have gone through three generations of guardian angels, some of whom have gone on to become police officers themselves. so the reception is positive, even though we remain independent and autonomous. for the last four years, we have been seeing a lot more uprising in sexual crimes. we usually pass these out. it is an information flyer

because we do a patrol called perv—busters, in regard to a lot of the perverts on the train, and we usually pass these up the car because not everyone wants to call the police. so we field the information, we put out flyers and we pass on the information to pd if necessary. we try to do our best. when we are in the guardian angel uniform it's a big deal, we get noticed a lot because the red stands out to begin with, and we definitely want people to see us, so if something is going on, it's for them to look at us, and feel a sense of safety. they have always told us that over the years, when they see us they feel safe. ijust want to give a shout out to this man, what he has done for new york city.

i am exuberant about the potential and the possibilities of the guardian angels in the future, notjust the here and now. i believe in self—help and i believe that one woman, one man can make a difference, and i think we have proven that over a0 yea rs. hello again, it's high summer here in europe which means that many of you are planning road trips around the continent. and unfortunately in the case of one viewer, picking up speeding tickets. but first, french railways has tested a remote—controlled drone train that could lead to driverless passenger services. the train successfully travelled four kilometres through the suburbs of paris. it has been called a fundamental step towards the train of tomorrow.

back here in the present, mario biocca from montreal in canada says: a rental car can be very helpful in ireland and scotland where the traffic is relatively light and public transport is sparse. but the costs of taking a rental car across the irish sea which divides those countries can be very high. so — rent one car in ireland, return it, then take a ferry or fly across to scotland. there's lots of choice. rent another vehicle, but drop it back and make your inter—city travel in england by rail. relatively fast, and with a bit of advance planning, extremely good value. sue wilson was travelling north—west of paris, at what she thought was the legal speed limit of 80 kilometres an hour. but she says:

to help out with this, i've sought some specialist knowledge. it's true, over the last ten years, cooperation between administrations in europe are much better than they used to be, and wherever you come from, if you have a fine in france, they will fine you in your home country. and the second reason is speed camera technology has improved. automatic cameras have average speed checks all over france and these days they are implementing a new generation of speed cameras which also detect the safety belts, the phone behind the wheels, the safety distance between vehicles and also if you drive too fast when it's raining or when you are supposed to drive ten kilometres per an hour less. nardipad instagrams from the netherlands about a trip that she and her boyfriend are planning in the south of england.

we'll probably fly to london and are thinking of going south—west. we might stop in a couple of places like stonehenge. is there anywhere else you can recommend? the great west way is a newly created route which is being described as england's route 66. it leads west from london and takes in some splendid locations including windsor, stately homes in the thames valley in the county of wiltshire and ends in bath and then bristol. diversions north to the cotswolds and south to stonehenge are easy. the route even has its own website, greatwestway. co. uk, with details, attractions and accommodation. from the western end, you can make a magnificentjourney along the north coast of devon and cornwall, visiting the ruined castle at tintagel steeped in legend. you could follow the a30 road to its natural conclusion that lands end but i think coastal towns such as st ives and fowey

are more rewarding. wherever you are heading, i'm here to help. send in your questions and i will do my very best to bring you the answers. from me, simon calder, the global guru, bye for now and see you next time. until next time, from me, christa larwood, and the rest of the travel show team, it's goodbye. sunshine and warm weather continuing for some today. dorset, 2a degrees and surprisingly in shetland, temperatures approaching 24. in between a completely different end to the weather scale, 50mm of rain over the last 2a hours. grey cloud remaining. this is why, a front almost stranded in the same spot tonight, from western scotland through the midlands towards east anglia and the south—east.

we'll see some further rain, some heavier bursts and on the eastern edge, we may have some thunder and lightning moving north. easterly winds towards the north—east part of the country where we'll see clear skies and temperatures in the teens. fresher to the south—west with clear conditions. temperatures may be in single figures for some. sunday, similar split. it will be a wetter day for some in the north and east of northern ireland. staying wet in north—east england, towards east anglia. the south—east may brighten up relative to what we saw today. sunny spells in parts of wales and to the south—west with a westerly wind. a greater chance of heavy showers and thunderstorms over the mainland. blue skies in shetland where temperatures may creep above 20 degrees. warm in the south—east compared with today. under the rain, 17—20 degrees. rain heaviest in the north—east

of northern ireland into sunday evening. the weather front easing as it moves north into next week. low pressure pushing towards the south—west. moving in late in the day with strengthening wind and rain. much of england and wales with a brighter and warmer day. some cloud building up later. some heavy and thunder showers in the north—west of scotland. even here temperatures are into the low 20s. the low pressure to the south—west bringing more substantial wet and windy weather in the south—west into tuesday, also wales. maybe some torrential thunderstorms. sunny elsewhere but raining in the north of scotland. as low pressure dominates towards the end of the week, warm in the sunshine but be prepared for thundery showers.

this is bbc news. the headlines at 11:00pm: prime minister borisjohnson pledges to fund a new high—speed rail route between manchester and leeds. it's time we put some real substance into the idea of northern powerhouse rail. that's why we are here this morning. we need to inject some pace into this so we can unlockjobs and boost growth. president trump praises borisjohnson and says talks on what he calls a very substantial us—uk trade deal are underway. the mp for sheffield hallam, jared o'mara, says he is to resign as a member of parliament to deal with personal issues. the uk's biggest charitable funder of scientific research, the wellcome trust, says a no—deal brexit threatens the uk science industry. riot police fire tear gas

at protesters in hong kong,