, advisers advisers or , advisers or the way protect special advisers or the way they work, is there anything that can be done? there have been huge moves in all administrations to professionalise the special adviser network and that is to be welcomed in terms of salary bands, rolling responsibility, but as craig says, special advisers are a different breed and they are there to operate ina breed and they are there to operate in a different way so you don't want to try and professionalise it to the extent you lose the value of what they can do. have you spoken to sonia khan, the adviser who has been sacked? i have not. thank you both for your time. man am, stay with us, headlines coming up. —— 9am.

good morning welcome to breakfast withjon kay and steph mcgovern. our headlines today. showdown in downing street — the chancellor confronts borisjohnson after his aide was sacked without his knowledge. £400 million for colleges offering vocational courses in england — to support new technical qualifications. the common virus you've probably never heard of — but can be dangerous for unborn babies. we'll have a special report. opening up the world of football for children with physical disabilities. gives us a chance to be like the rest of us, however life set us back, we

however life set us back, we can always play football. johanna konta is the last brit standing in the us open singles draw. she's on form and into the fourth round, but an unhappy dan evans is thrashed by roger federer. good morning, it's the last day of august. some of us clinging on to a little bit of warmth and sunshine, but for most, we're going to see some rain pushing eastwards, and it turns much coolerjust in time for tomorrow, ist september. full weather details on the way, here on breakfast. it's saturday 31st august. on the way, here on breakfast. our top story. on the way, here on breakfast. the chancellor, sajid javid, has confronted borisjohnson over the abrupt sacking of one of his special advisers. whitehall sources say sonia khan was questioned about government leaks by borisjohnson‘s senior adviser, dominic cummings. she was then dismissed from downing street, despite no evidence that she was behind the disclosure. our political reporterjohn owen is in our london newsroom.

we were talking there about details of what has happened and the way that things are set up in westminster at the moment, but what are your thoughts on the background to this? well, as we have within hearing on between programme, this isa hearing on between programme, this is a row that goes right to the heart of borisjohnson‘s government, sonia charge who was a special adviser to the chancellor sajid javid was led away from downing street in dramatic fashion on thursday night, after being questioned by borisjohnson‘s de fa cto questioned by borisjohnson‘s de facto chief of staff dominic cummings. it seems he suggs suspected she had been leaking confidential informing, that turned out to be not the case but she has lost his confidence and she was sacked. now, we have been hearing that there have been cross words exchanged between sajid javid and borisjohnson, it exchanged between sajid javid and boris johnson, it seems exchanged between sajid javid and borisjohnson, it seems he didn't know in advance she was going to be sacked and it's the second member of his team that he has lost in a

month, so clearly, very unhappy about the outcome. and it comes ahead of what we expect to be an extremely turbulent week in politics, opposition mps, those who are opposed to borisjohnson‘s brexit plans are marshalling their forces in parliament with a view to legislating a break neck speed to try and stop a no—deal outcome to this brexit saga. borisjohnson said he will push ahead with a no—deal if no new dole can be reached with the european union were october 31st. —— before. his decision to prorogue or suspend parliament days after mps return from their summer break next week would have leftjust return from their summer break next week would have left just a return from their summer break next week would have leftjust a tiny little slither of time for mp5 to get together, to legislate against that outcome, to make it illegalfor borisjohnson to pursue a no—deal brexit if that is what he wants to do. and there has been a lot of criticism of this decision, which

is, i know going to, is various protests happening round the country this weekend. that is right. there have been huge amounts of rage about boris johnson's have been huge amounts of rage about borisjohnson's decision to prorogue parliament. there are those who think it is in some ways an affront to democracy, and that is resonating out in the country, and a series of protests planned today that have been endorsed by the leader of the oppositionjeremy been endorsed by the leader of the opposition jeremy corbyn. meanwhile, for his part borisjohnson says that the prorogue. the suspension of parliament is a routine initiative. it happens each year, and it is par for the course. he said it is much more about his domestic political agenda rather than brexit. john, thank you very much. meanwhile — 400 million pounds of additional funding is to be given to colleges offering vocational training for 16—18 year olds in england. the treasury says the money will support the introduction of new t—level qualifications next year. a government review earlier this year found that one—billion—pounds

of capital investment was needed for further education colleges. the education secretary, gavin williamson said today's announcement is a considerable boost. and it's a significant increase in terms of the amount of funding that all six forms and further education establishments will be having, and it will be making sure that we've got the right skills for our young people, to equip britain for future generations. the charity samaritans is being criticised for entering into a year long partnership with a gambling company. staff at paddy power betfair chose samaritans as their charity of the year and are supporting it through fundraising, corporate donations and volunteering. critics say samaritans shouldn't work with the gambling industry. dan whitworth, from radio 4's money box programme, has more. if you are sat in a pub, you can

tell the guy who's an alcoholic. you can — let's be honest — you can tell the guy who's on drugs. the young man sat in the car and on his phone is gambling his life away and nobody knows because it's such a hidden thing. critics, including relatives of people with gambling problems who took their own lives, say samaritans is risking its well—earned reputation by working with paddy power betfair, adding it should stop taking the compa ny‘s money. the mp carolyn harris, who chairs the all party parliamentary group on gambling—related harm, says she is shocked by the deal. she calls it "distasteful and appalling". others on social media, as well as the charity gambling with lives, have voiced similar opinions. both samaritans and paddy power betfair have defended the partnership, though. samaritans says it will work with the company to: paddy power betfair, meanwhile, says the charity's expertise will help develop existing safeguards for vulnerable customers. there are more than 400,000 problem

gamblers in britain, according to the gambling commission, defined as people whose gambling compromises, disrupts or damages family, personal or recreational pursuits, with a further two million people at risk. things even now can just hit you. it's just something stupid, that will set it off and you'll hear something or you'll see something or you'll remember something, and before you know it, you're tearing up again, it's — it never goes away. it does get slightly better, but it doesn't go away. a 15—year—old boy is in a critical condition in hospital after he was stabbed in tottenham in north london. police think he may have been attacked by someone riding a bicycle on willan road on friday morning. three people have been arrested

on suspicion of attempted murder. police scotland have described the behaviour of protestors, who took part in a counter demonstration against an irish unity parade in glasgow, as "utterly unacceptable". riot police and officers on horseback were sent to tackle what the force described as ‘significant disorder‘. witnesses say smoke bombs were used. there are no reports of injuries or damage to property. a trial date has been set for the man accused of playing a leading role in plotting the september the eleventh terror attacks. khalid sheikh mohammad, seen here before and after he was captured, will be tried at guantanamo bay, along with four other men, from january 2021. he's already been detained for more than fifteen years. a powerful storm that is threatening florida and the bahamas has strengthened to category four, according to the us national hurricane center. hurricane dorian is expected to grow even stronger as it passes the bahamas before making landfall early next week.

a state of emergency has been declared in florida, where residents have been urged to stock enough food, water and medicine. jack dorsey, the co—founder and chief executive of twitter, has had his own account taken over by hackers. his account — @jack — was used to post a string of racist remarks. twitter says its systems are secure, and a separate mobile network was to blame. our north america technology reporter, dave lee, has more. of all the people you would expect to have a conservative twitter account it is this man, the co—founder and chief executive of twitterjack dorsey. dorsey. and yet for round 15 minutes on friday, a flurry of tweets appeared on his profile. followed by more than four million people. the tweets contained highly offensive racist and anti—semitic slurs. twitter insisted

there was no evidence its own systems there was no evidence its own syste ms ha d there was no evidence its own systems had been compromised, in fa ct, systems had been compromised, in fact, it said there had been a security oversight, at the mobile provider responsible for a phone number associated with mr dorsey's account. this allowed an unauthorised person to compose and send tweets via text message from the phone number twitter said, without naming the mobile network involved, adding that issue is now resolved. the group behind the attack calls itself the chuckling squad,it attack calls itself the chuckling squad, it has claimed a number of high profile account hacks on twitter this past year. its an embarrassing incident for many mr dorsey and raises questions about the security of a platform that hosts the world's most powerful political leader, dave lee, bbc news in san francisco. thank you forjoining us.

school and college leaders in england say funding shortages have forced them to cut staff, increase class sizes and stop teaching some subjects in order to save money. but will extra funding ease pressure on the education system? the government has announced 7—billion—pounds for schools by 2023 and an additional 400—million—pounds for further education next year. we're joined now from norwich by geoff barton, general secretary of the association of school and college leaders. thank you forjoining us geoff. there has been various announcements over the last week, about education and funding, give us your thoughts on this amount of money and put it in context for us. sure, yes, there has been announcement and there has been leaks so it mice to get to a point where we take stock of what is being said. yesterday we had a significant announcement, and what the government was talking about a headline figure of £14 billion over the next four years, if you lock at how much we are spending on education, which is round 44

billion, they are saying in four year it will be 52, that is something between seven and 8 billion. we welcome that hugely, we have one caveat about this, because the way that funding has been built, is that it is going to come in two 01’ is that it is going to come in two or throw years' time. there are heads and principles going into schools with governors next week, who will be making decisions about losing staff, perhaps teaching assista nts losing staff, perhaps teaching assistants because of the current crisis, we really do need to do everything we can to tackle the urgent issues rather than looking at something which in the current political situation may be something which in the current political situation may he promises by people who may not be round to deliver on them. so there is a concern then, that in the short—term, this is not going to make any difference? it isn't if you are an academy head because the money won't come through to you until snengts. so a few members i represent, what they are saying is we are going to have to make cuts this year, so none of this is to be

a party looper, we are delighted that education clearly is getting the status of the nhs and police, it is clear that it is a really important issue, we welcome the fact that money is doing into it. i think probably if you have a look and you will no know about this steph because you came through the fe system, the announcement round fe has a different tone and we are not talking about anything like the amount of money and we are not talking long—term which we do need to do for those young people as well. there was an independent review done of the further education sector which is a part of the system which provides vocational training that, said, it needs an investment of round one billion. today we hear it will be round the £400 million mark which i know again will be welcomed by the sector but is it enough? well, you are right, what the education select committee pointed out is that if you are a young person in secondary school, young person in secondary school, you are funded even in the worst funded school you are funded at

£4800, if you go to university you are funded over 9,000, if you a student in fe you are funded £4,000. so lesds than if you were in a school. —— less. if that raises questions ability what is the message about those people in fe? what we have seen is further education colleges have seen a 30% reduction. and when you look at the announcement today on the back‘ a previous announcement by the government, where they have said they will put £500 million into technical qualification, t levels, they are they are saying another 400 thousand, you have lots of young people, is. is thousand, you have lots of young people, is.is million who aren‘t doing t—levels because they haven‘t started and won‘t start until next september. college principles will be saying hold on it, ought to be every child on every course in every couege every child on every course in every college ought to benefit from this new money. why shouldn‘t there be a long—term commitment for schools across england. england. what difference do you think this money will make when it does come in?

because there will be, you know, clearly been under investment for a long time, that has been reported before, the association of colleges has talked about that, but will it make a difference this money in practical terms when the colleges do get it it sounds from the way it has been framed it is being largely earmarked for the new t—level qualifications and they have been put on a par with a—level, we haven‘t had a great track record in developing new qualification, the government is funnelling that way to get them right. there are lots of youngsters doing other qualifications, they are well valued, tried and trusted, unless this money is going into help colleging with those young people on those very expensive courses it will look like a missed opportunity and a government which hasn‘t listened to the sector saying we need a long—term commitment and we enjoyed it for all young people not those starting a new qualification which won‘t start until next september.

lovely to talk you you geoff. we were talking about further education there, later in the programme we will get some of the world‘s skills medallists on there and they are some of the young people who have been doing vocational training, the best in the country for their trades. the best in the world. now the best in the world some of them, so they will be on the sofa telling us, you have everything from, we have beauty therapy to aircraft maintenance and car painting, and, i know, it is a good contacts book to have that. look forward to that. this time last week the country was bathed in bank holiday weekend sunshine. not so much the case this weekend, ben. last week it was up to 33 degree. this week we would be lucky to get to 23 or20. this week we would be lucky to get to 23 or 20. we have had a lot of

rain in northern and western parts, that rain is on the move east ward and it is behind that band of rain we get into cooler air, let us look at the big picture this is the satellite picture, you can see this stripe of cloud. it has brought rain across scotland. there are flood warnings in force but has the band of cloud and rain slides eastwards it opens the door to cooler air, see these blueish colours not too far away, some autumnal feeling these blueish colours not too far away, some autumnalfeeling cool weather on the way as we head into the start of september tomorrow. this is how it looks this morning, still heavy rain in scotland but increasingly becoming confined to the north of scotland. blustery winds here as well but signs of thing drying out in the south—west over the next couple of hour, for northern ireland the rain starting to clear away, a mix of sunshine and showers left behind. this fairly narrow band of rain in northern england into the midlands, east wales, parts of the west country as we get to 11.00. this band of cloud and rain will continue its progress

eastwards a cross and rain will continue its progress eastwards across england and wales as we go through the day, fizzling all the way. it won‘t get into east anglia or the south—east until late on, behind that, we see blue skies and sunshine but showers too. some of which will be heavy and thundery, particularly for northern ireland and scotland. still that rain in the far north where temperatures will round 11, 12, 13 degrees at bests, highest temperatures to be found in the south—east corner could get close to the middle 20s. this evening and tonight all of us are in that much cooler fresher air so it will be a cooler night, a mixture of clear spells and showers in the north—west but temperatures getting down to between eight and 11 degrees, so if you are heading out early on sunday morning, you will notice the difference, a cool fresh start to day, we will see spells of sunshine round, again showers for scotland, northern ireland, one of two of these getting into northern england. trickling into east anglia, south and west less so. those are

the top temperature, 21 perhaps in london. 14 the high in aberdeen, as we go through sunday night, as this ridge of high pressure tries to build in and the winds fall light there could be a touch of ground frost across some parts of scotland. and then as we get into next week, it is mixed, rain at times but by no means all the time. the temperatures showing no sign of staging a recovery. it is cool through the. cog day, by that time we will be into september. raise some people are relived it is cooler. definitely. ben, thank ben, thank you. congenital cmv causes hearing loss in around 1,000 children every year in the uk. it feels just like a cold and is the most common virus passed on by pregnant mums to their unborn babies. now, a team of nhs staff across the east of england have started the first targeted screening programme for cmv. here‘s our science

correspondent richard westcott. now, a team of nhs staff across the east of england have started the first targeted screening programme for cmv. here‘s our science correspondent richard westcott. 8—year—old naomi parker has had to practise like this all her life. it‘s so hard! she has balance problems because she‘s deaf in one ear and partially deaf in the other, all because her mum stevie caught a virus called cmv when she was pregnant. oh, hang on! hi, naomi, how are you? yeah, hi. now, tell me, what‘s the name of this virus again? cyto—mega—lo... cytomegalo. . . ? ..virus. cytomegalovirus? yeah. it‘s not a dinosaur, it‘s definitely a virus? it‘s definitely a virus. 0k. i can‘t really hear certain letters.

i replace them with different letters, so i hear different things. sometimes people want to be like me because they like my hearing aids, and i‘m like, trust me, you don‘t. you don‘t want to be like me. cmv is a leading cause of deafness in children, it‘s really common, and mostly harmless, but it can be devastating for unborn babies. ready? can you let go? that‘s why paediatrician tamsin holland—brown has helped set up an nhs team, who unpaid and in their own time, have developed britain‘s first targeted screening programme for cmv. the problem was that we were catching the virus too late and a lot of the damage was already done at that point. we had to treat cmv within one month of life, and the research was starting to show that that was making a difference. that for some children, it was preventing that hearing loss deteriorating and for some children, it was even actually reversing that hearing loss.

ok, so were going to offer baby the swab now, have a cotton bud that i'm going to place into the baby's mouth. 0k, just on the inside of his cheek. sometimes they have a little chew. and here‘s how it works. across the east of england, any new baby born with hearing problems will have this specially—designed test for the virus. if they have it, they‘ll be offered early treatment. hello, is that chloe? hi, chloe. a new arrival addenbrooke‘s hospital in cambridge, little martha‘s been passed fit and healthy today, although she didn‘t want her hearing checked. it'sjust a little cold. cmv causes more birth defects than cat litter and soft cheese put together. pregnant mums can protect themselves with simple things like not sharing food and cutlery or kissing a toddler on the lips or a runny nose, but most don‘t know about it. chloe, thank you so much more talking to us about it. you‘re a doctor, what did you know about cmv when you are pregnant?

i mean, i‘d heard of cmv, and know it‘s a virus. there are other viruses that are talked about, and when you go for your appointments and other things your‘re made aware of. but i don‘t recall much being said about cmv. most babies born with cmv don‘t have symptoms or develop problems. but if this programme proves successful, the team hopes that could pave the way for wider cmv screening in future. she has done great today. you can see how well she is doing. so how do you feel as a mum seeing that? immensely proud of her. richard westcott, bbc news, cambridge. you can see the motion there. congratulations to chloe who had a

little baby martha there. we would like to film you in bed with baby. she looked fabulous, fair play to her. i guess she wants to get the information out time to look at the papers. lawyer, funke abim—bola is here to tell us what‘s caught her eye. we are starting with a story about princess diana. today marks 22 years since she died, i know it was 1997, but what has happened since then is, is this, you know, foundation has been set up called the diana award which recognises young people doing inspiring thing, some of the stories that have come out of real tragedy, a young man called ben, because his younger brother took his. life decided to start a mental health awareness, “— decided to start a mental health awareness, —— his own life. life... a young ladies in london doing a lot

of campaign round race and gender, i love the way diana‘s legacy continues to carry on many, many yea rs continues to carry on many, many years after her death. because it is making a difference to people talking about mental health, particularly with her sons and the fa ct particularly with her sons and the fact they do a lot of charity work round that as well. yes. they are called the boomerang generation aren‘t they, kids who leave home and keep coming back again, to live with mum and dad, and this story in the sun today has totted up the cost. yes, another story, it is all directly related to the cost of living, i don‘t think many young people would choose to go back to live with their parents, really, all things... surely they love being with their mum us and dads don‘t they? it is another survey, this time money supermarket looking at the cost and the average amount of time that young people spend, they looked at a ten month average stay, with parents helping with laundry and paying, helping out with the rent and all sorts of things but it is related to the cost of living. i don‘t think we are really pampering

our children as such. yes, there was an interesting story i was talking about in the week, as well, act the fa ct about in the week, as well, act the fact it is eating into lots of pa rents‘ fact it is eating into lots of parents‘ pension pots because they are using the money to spend on their kids and might not be leaving enough for retirement. when you have children this is part and parcel. note that steph. look at this, sorry kids! it is interesting, talking not just about the money, it is time. it says 60% of parents cook meals for their adult kid, do their washing and a third take a morning cuppa and make their beds for them. and a third take a morning cuppa and make their beds for themlj and a third take a morning cuppa and make their beds for them. i don't know if i would stretch that far myself personally, but, i suppose some parents are happy, i suppose have their children coming back. most do their adult children‘s laundry. do do you do most do their adult children‘s laundry. do you do anything for your kids? nothing. not even when they were babies. i don‘t believe thatis they were babies. i don‘t believe that is true. greta thunberg. an

incredible young lady, for someone who is only 16 to have gained as much traction as she has round such a compelling issue and we know, most of us know she sailed for two weeks to get to new york, to save you know, the carbon footprint and things like that, she has managed to get lots of young people onboard with this rally, she is speaking at the un general assembly next month. it is wonderful to see how someone can, you know, really make a difference, that picture of her there, you know, she looks so small compared to everyone else but tremendous influence and very powerful voice at the moment. tremendous influence and very powerful voice at the momentm tremendous influence and very powerful voice at the moment. it is incredible, you have tojust powerful voice at the moment. it is incredible, you have to just say her name and everyone knows what you are talking about. we were talking to a guest yesterday, benny blanco, he said in the states not many people have heard of her. make this visit will highlight her global influence.

this is wonderful, this is huge. this is wonderful, this is huge. this interesting, in the teams times if you live in hereford where they have come up with an interesting idea to tackle traffic congestion. it is not that picture, that is a different story. this is interesting, there is pros and cons, traffic congestion is a real issue and traffic light, although they are supposed to moderate traffic often cause more, hereford is piloting a small scheme but they will get rid of traffic lights, as way of trying to encourage better flow of traffic and reduce congestion, and more coast effective way than building new roads, etc. obviously, some people are very much against this, because if you don‘t have lights do people know, who has right of way, pedestrians, so i think we need to watch and see what happens with this one, but innovative. several other towns are looking at it. .into,

portishead, experimenting with removing some lights. relies on good will from everyone. you go, no, you go. you can go now! thank you very much forjoining us. it's it‘s 9:30am, stay with us, we will have the headlines in a moment. hello, this is breakfast withjon kay and steph mcgovern. coming up before 10am, ben will have all the weekend weather. jane will have the sport. but first, a summary of this

morning‘s main news: the chancellor, sajid javid, has confronted borisjohnson over the abrupt sacking of one of his special advisers. sonia khan was dismissed from her post by the prime minister‘s top aide, dominic cummings, on thursday evening. there‘s no evidence that ms khan has leaked any sensitive information. the sacking comes after a turbulant week for the government following borisjohnson‘s decision to suspend parliament next month. meanwhile, £400 million of additional funding is to be given to colleges offering vocational training for 16—18—year—olds in england. the treasury says the money will support the introduction of new t—level qualifications next year. a government review earlier this year found that £1 billion of capital investment was needed for further education colleges. earlier on breakfast, geoff barton, general secretary of the association of school and college leaders, told us the money needs to be made available sooner.

we have one caveat about that because the way the funding has been built is that it will come into work three years‘ time, there will be head teachers this week who are losing teachers because of the fund in crisis and we need to tackle urgent issues rather than looking at something that may be urgent issues rather than looking at something that may he promised by people who will not be around to deliver on those promises. the charity samaritans is being criticised for entering into a year long partnership with a gambling company. staff at paddy power betfair chose samaritans as their charity of the year and are supporting it through fundraising, corporate donations and volunteering. critics say samaritans shouldn‘t work with the gambling industry. police scotland have described the behaviour of protestors, who took part in a counter demonstration against an irish unity parade in glasgow, as "utterly unacceptable". riot police and officers on horseback were sent to tackle

what the force described as significant disorder. witnesses say smoke bombs were used. there are no reports of injuries or damage to property. a 15—year—old boy is in a critical condition in hospital after he was stabbed in tottenham in north london. police think he may have been attacked by someone riding a bicycle on willan road on friday morning. three people have been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder. a trial date has been set for the man accused of playing a leading role in plotting the september 11th terror attacks. khalid sheikh mohammad, seen here before and after he was captured, will be tried at guantanamo bay, along with four other men, from january 2021. he‘s already been detained for more than 15 years. a powerful storm that is threatening florida and the bahamas has strengthened to category four, according to the us national hurricane center. hurricane dorian is expected to grow even stronger as it passes

the bahamas before making landfall early next week. a state of emergency has been declared in florida, where residents have been urged to stock enough food, water and medicine. the co—founder and chief executive of twitter has had his own account taken over by hackers. racist remarks were sent to jack dorsey‘s four million followers, before the social media company regained control of the account. twitter said the phone number associated with mr dorsey‘s account had been compromised. taipei zoo has celebrated the 15th birthday of two giant pandas which were gifted to taiwan by the chinese mainland in 2008. the pandas yuan yuan and tuan tuan enjoyed two specially made ice cakes decorated with seasonal fruits and vegetables, as well as several ice balloons on bamboo sticks. it's it‘s like an episode of bake off, isn‘t it? i doubt now, vegetables on

a cake? the cake was also designed with special symbols to wish the female yuan yuan good luck in conceiving more offspring. that‘s just a little subtle hint there, get on with it. have some birthday cake and crack on! those are the main stories this morning. what would you want on your cake, jane? it's jane? it‘s got to be chocolate, hasn‘t it? joanna konta is celebrating, maybe not with a cake but she is the last british player at the us open singles after another comfortable win at flushing meadows. dan evans though, is out of the men‘s event after he was beaten by five—time champion roger federer. adam wild was watching.

in one of the game‘s greatest arenas, this was dan evans for the first time. intimidating enough. even more so when you‘re greeted by two of sport‘s biggest superstars. basketball legend kobe bryant only stayed around for the coin toss. roger federer seemed equally in no mood to hang about. starting on a charge that would take him to the first set, evans unable to keep pace. federer famously once described taking on evans as like "playing a mirror image" — a compliment, but no time to reflect. here he was firmly in his shadow. outplayed, outclassed, dan evans is out. far better, though, forjohanna konta. china‘s zhang shuai was in her way, but she was not in the way for long. the british number one ruthless, unrelenting and never really troubled. a comfortable victory in little over an hour. commentator: just brilliant! through to the next round. she might now be the last briton left standing in the singles, butjohanna konta, it seems, is not slowing down. adam wild, bbc news.

dan evans wasn‘t happy with the scheduling of his matches. he had played a gruelling four sets against lucas pouille in the hot sun the day before he played federer, while the 20—time grand slam champion had a rest day. evans said the tournament organisers made more allowances for the bigger names. but roger federer vehemently disagreed. it‘s tough on me, isn‘t it? but it wouldn‘t be the first time the higher ranked players have had pull, so to speak. also these guys, they want — the tournament obviously want roger — would rather roger be going through that match than me, so it‘s understandable. i'm sick and tired of it that apparently, i call the shots — the tournament and the tv stations do. we can give our opinion. that is what we do. but i'm still going to walk out, even if they schedule me at 4 in the morning.

a furious fedor. anyway, he is the route to the next round. football now, and the north london derby tomorrow is the big game of the weekend — in the last half hour arsenal have confirmed the departure of nacho monreal to spanish side real sociedad. manchester city play brighton this afternoon and can overtake liverpool for at least an hour or so. jurgen klopp‘s side are three wins from three so far, but they face a difficult trip to burnley. that‘s what we are prepared for. it‘s not planning a holiday when you go to burnley, it‘s really planning the hardest work you can imagine, and that‘s what we try to be ready for. the big game in scotland is tomorrow when rangers play celtic at ibrox. the rest of the fixtures are later today with third placed livingston taking on st mirren. last night it was the dundee derby in the scottish championship. dundee united thrashed their rivals dundee 6—2 in the first league meeting between the sides for more than three years. calum butcher was on target twice for the home side, who still have a 100% record this season.

kim little scored five goals as scotland opened their women‘s european championships qualfying campaign with an 8—0 drubbing of cyprus. little has scored three hattricks for her country before, but this was her first time getting five in one game. elsewhere northern ireland were thrashed 6—0 at home by norway. not bad for a man with a bad back — that‘s how middlesex‘s captain described eoin morgan after he hit 83 offjust 29 balls. england‘s one day captain helped middlesex chase down 227 against somerset in the t20 blast. it‘s the highest successful chase in english t20 history and they did it with 3 overs to spare. lewis hamilton feels he can be competitive at the belgian grand prix this weekend, despite being well behind the ferraris in practice. it‘s qualifying at spa today with hamilton hoping to improve on finishing fourth in practice yesterday. charles leclerc was fastest as f1 returned from its summer break.

the italian team have yet to win a race this season. less than a week after losing rugby league‘s challenge cup final at wembley, st helens got back in action with a narrow 4—0 win over castleford. the only score of the game coming in the first half from saints winger regan grace. that extends their lead at the top of the table to a massive 18 points. after the game they were awarded the league leaders shield. british boxer luke campbell insists he will cause one of the biggest upsets in boxing tonight when he faces vasily lomachenko — one of the best pound for pound boxers in the world. the ukrainian has won world titles in three different weight divisions ahead of tonight‘s lightweight title fight at the o2 and he‘s been telling us that even tyson fury wouldn‘t worry him. you know, it‘s my third weight classes. a little by little, step by step, i‘m going up. but what about my next weight classes?

i don‘t know. maybe after a couple of years, i go up into heavyweight and teach a little bit tyson fury. tyson fury would worry most people, i think. and finally, when you‘re one of the most successful sportsmen on the planet — everybody wants your autograph. at the us open, rafa nadal was signing these giant tennis balls when he spotted a little boy getting squashed. he plucked him out. the little boy was obviously upset, traumatised by the giant balls, and rafa seized him of that we think it might have been a ploy to get an autograph. he was saying if i cry someone will notice me! and it‘s so nice of him to be so lovely to him. it's

to be so lovely to him. it‘s very sweet. if you want to get his autograph and you know what to do. we will stick with sport because mike has been out and about again. frame football is a version of the sport in which players can use a metal frame to help them beat their opponents and score a winning goal. it was created to help youngsters with cerebral palsy and other physical impairments get involved in sport. mike has been to meet some of the children giving it a go. this is what football used to be like for logan — watching his brother play from the sidelines, but unable to do so himself, because he relies on a frame to get around. he kept asking his mum why he could not play. so she contacted parents of other youngsters with cerebral palsy and then, after a day working on a plan with fa coaches at st george‘s park, the game of frame football was born. good turn! logan‘s skills with the football

have improved to such an extent he can now even do the ronaldo chop. look at that! as he turns on a sixpence, and he‘s back. he‘s getting very competitive. but these sessions have turned this team into one of the best in the country after winning competitions against teams from right across the uk, sometimes the world, but also, crucially, they‘re really helped them develop their skills and mobility skills in everyday life, as we see arthur running up for the ball now. just gives him a bit of exercise, it strengthened him up. just about being with your friends as well. it gives them a sense of being independent, like say, the big thing isjust being the same as their friends. are you going to try and beat me? yeah. be gentle with him, though, won't ya? what‘s your best bit? my shooting. your shooting‘s the best bit? do you have a hard shot? 0h! he has beaten me on the far post. it gives him his chance of walking, really, so, that he did not have before, so... and playing football has definitely helped him strengthen that

and be more confident in doing that, so... what is your best bit? playing the match. scoring goals? yeah. we‘ll let you go and score some. what i want you to do is bring the balls into the middle. there are now frame football teams competing in all the home nations, and it‘s spread abroad, too. it is basically 5—a—side football, but with those added frames, which can be used to hit the ball. it is absolute carnage out there. it‘s a really, really fierce game. itjust gives us a chance to be like the rest of us. i mean, however life has set us back, we can always play football, and that is what the frame football association is let us doing. yes! they are developing their co—ordination, balance is huge in this as well, so when they're trying to turn, so they're developing strength, they're getting the body moving in ways they probably wouldn't if they weren't up and about moving, and everyone loves football. 0h, itjust put a smile on my face every other sunday. where‘s the goalkeeper? i did my best to keep the score down, but there was no way

i was getting stuck in the middle of all of those crunching tackles as the beautiful game opens up to a whole new team. mike bushell, bbc news. brian, that‘s great. and i loved jack talking about it and what it means to him. i think means to him. ithink mike means to him. i think mike was enjoying it. i wonder if he‘s enjoying strictly, though. he‘s loving that! ben has the weekend weather for us. do it. brace yourselves for this one because we are at the end of august, we should expect a change and that is what we are getting. some of us have already seen quite a lot of rain, this was this morning in dalkeith, a lot of cloud and rain

moving east today and as it clears, things will feel much cooler. the stripe of cloud has brought some wet weather to northern ireland and scotla nd weather to northern ireland and scotland in the last 24 hours, it is now moving east and behind it notice how the colours change to yellow and even below, that shows we will all get into much cooler airfrom even below, that shows we will all get into much cooler air from the north—west, so if you are heading about in the next arc, this is how the forecast is looking, heavy rain over scotla nd the forecast is looking, heavy rain over scotland and blustery winds, the winds come in from the north—west and that will bring the much cooler but the rain starting to clear for northern ireland, much cooler but the rain starting to clearfor northern ireland, sunshine and showers here, this band of cloud and showers here, this band of cloud and rain staggering out into the midlands and the west country, it will move east through the day, not getting into east anglia until the afternoon, behind that this brighton

and we see some sunshine and showers, heavy thundery ones for northern ireland and scotland, we keep that heavy rain in the far north of scotland and temperatures underneath this may be no better than 11 degrees and even in the south—east, still around 23 or 24 but as that cloud and rain clears away east, tonight we are all left with this cooler air so your overnight lows, 8 or 9 degrees, different to what we have been used to sew a cool start to tomorrow, some good spells around, maybe one or two showers getting down into east anglia, drier to the south and west, that cloud bring some more showery rain into northern ireland later but look at these top temperatures, bear in mind that last

weekend we were at 33 and on sunday night into monday, light winds, parts of scotland may see a touch of grass frost on monday morning and it will be chilly elsewhere, it will not rain all week but it stays cool, temperatures up to 20 degrees at best so a big change the way. a big change but not too bad, it could be worse? thank you, ben. relatives of people with gambling problems who have taken their own lives say samaritans is "risking its reputation" by working with the gambling company, paddy power betfair. both organisations say samaritans‘ insight and expertise will help to improve support for vulnerable customers. we‘rejoined now from our london newsroom by bbc radio 4‘s moneybox presenter, ruth alexander. we saw a piece earlier, a powerful

piece from dan whitworth talking to someone who took his own life because of gambling, so there is a lot of controversy around this. there is and what is happened is that samaritans has entered a one year deal with one of the country‘s biggest gambling companies and the idea was after staff at the company voted for samaritans to be its charity of the here and there idea is that samaritans will receive fundraising and corporate donations and volunteering, and they will work with the company to improve the way it gales with vulnerable customers but there has been a backlash online, on social media, you mentioned someone you heard from in the programme, this isjohn myers, whose sun ryan died five years ago. he was 27 and he took his own life when his gambling addiction led to

his life spiralling out of control. the gambling companies don't care about people or families, they don't ca re about people or families, they don't care about the misery is a cause, theyjust care care about the misery is a cause, they just care about care about the misery is a cause, theyjust care about making money. i'm disappointed that the samaritans could even think of working with these people. i cannot comprehend what made them think it was a good idea. both samaritans and paddy power betfair have defended their deal. samaritans says it is vital that it works with the gambling company and that it will support its work with vulnerable people. the gambling company says they take their responsibility to protect customers seriously and are keen to

work from the fantastic work samaritans do to improve their responsible gambling tools, and the charity says they will support the development of existing vulnerable customer training in the company and help it develop its customer activity and awareness and i believe this will help samaritans continue to provide support to anyone struggling to cope. you can see both sides. ruth, thank you, and i know this is something you will be covering more on radio 4 at midday. we have been talking this morning... i‘m excited about this one. some old friends of yours, we have been talking about education courses getting more funding and that we are talking about vocational courses.

from plumbing and plastering, to carpentry and cooking — this week apprentices and those doing vocational training have been put to the test at the world skills competition in russia. the best way to describe it is like an olympic spot for skills, so it‘s an olympic spot for skills, so it‘s a big stadium with loads of people competing but they will have to broccoli a wall, christ the redeemer or something, it‘s not like your dad‘s front garden, they make amazing things out of it but let‘s have a look at some of the highlights from the competition in russia. the opportunities from this are going to be global, i can‘t even get my head around it at the minute.

amazing, incredible. i feel emotional, i feel sick. it's amazing. i can‘t believe... two years of training. i can‘t believe it. we‘re joined now by hayden, conor, pheobe and rebecca, who all represented team gb at the world skills competition. hayden, just watching your emotions there because you got gold in equine maintenance can tell us how it felt when you found out you are best in the world. a bit crazy, i didn't

expect to get gold, i knew it would be closed between three or four of us so be closed between three or four of us so when i was standing on the stage and so the other two had joint silver, it didn‘t quite compute, my brain was doing 1000 miles on our and then it was just... brain was doing 1000 miles on our and then it wasjust. .. we get the wild shot, look what happens when your gold medal catches the light, last thing in the whole place, look at that, gleaming! what was your medalfor? at that, gleaming! what was your medal for? i got a at that, gleaming! what was your medalfor? i got a medalfor hairdressing, and! medalfor? i got a medalfor hairdressing, and i didn't expect to get this. what do you have to do, you were given a challenge of a style ? you were given a challenge of a style? we have seven tests that involve cutting, colouring, hair extensions and we have to do them in four different days and then they get broken up. and you have to do

that in this big stadium with eve ryo ne that in this big stadium with everyone watching, i don‘t know how you get through the tension. connor, you get through the tension. connor, you have two medals. you get through the tension. connor, you have two medalslj you get through the tension. connor, you have two medals. i won silver and my scalp was cast bring and i also won best nation. for car painting, explain what you have to do because you have to do five challenges. i a four-day competition, you compete with six tasks, for our tasks, so you are basically doing what you would do every day to a much higher standard and with time constraints, for everyone that was the big one because if you are given all the time in the world it is easy but getting it down, like if you have to walk over to get more material, 30

seconds can't stop you finishing your task so it's crazy. could i have your number? you couldn‘t afford him now. with these medals and its reputation, what difference could it make?m would be unbelievable. past competitors have done some amazing things, my past competitor was flown out to chicago for a job. you got yours for beauty therapy, we have won gold a few times, did that feel more pressured? i didn't want to break the streak. so you have been doing this along with your dayjobs and training because you have taken time out of uni. i was at university

andi time out of uni. i was at university and i was running my training and my degree in parallel and then when i was selected for team uk in march it became apparent that something had to give to well at one of them so i decided to step back from university to focus on this. and you have a job as well, connor, so how does that work? you try and do everything in your day job work? you try and do everything in your dayjob to the same standard as your dayjob to the same standard as your skills so you are getting free training but you do as much as you can, on evenings and weekends i was free, i trained at home, the college i went to is open five days a week and they open on saturdays for me to come up and train. you must have had no life! but it was worth it. one of

our top new stories is that the government is giving £400 million to further education colleges to help with vocational courses but there have been calls for more money, what do you make of that kind of money and the calls for more? it will be good, they need to start pushing this out and giving people the opportunity is to go into this. taking it more seriously? it's not very known over here and we need to get it out there. even the world skills competition, i have been to a few but there has not been much coverage of these competitions and there are talented people like you, how do we get it out there?m there are talented people like you, how do we get it out there? it is social media, may be going to colleges and telling that students about it. you guys need to walk

around with your medals all the time. i reckon that connor spray—painted his. congratulations to you all. thank you, we are super proud of you. that‘s it from us. have a lovely weekend whatever you‘re doing. we are off tomorrow. roger and rachel are here tomorrow. have a great weekend.

this is bbc news. the headlines. the chancellor, sajid javid, insists his relationship with borisjohnson is "fantastic", despite downing st abruptly firing one of his special advisers sonia khan iam not i am not going to discuss any personnel issues, it would be inappropriate. my views are well understood, the relationship is fantastic large crowds of protesters gather in hong kong in defiance of a ban on a pro—democracy rally. a trial date is set for khalid sheikh mohammad who is accused of playing a leading role in plotting the september the eleventh attack more than 30 protests are expected across britain today against boris johnson‘s decision to suspend parliament in the run—up to brexit. and coming up at 10:30, we‘ll be heading to scotland