good morning, welcome to breakfast with rachel burden and rogerjohnson. our headlines today: former conservative minister sam gyimah defects to the liberal democrats, after being expelled from his party for rebelling against the prime minister over brexit. david cameron accuses boris johnson of campaigning to leave the eu in order to further his own political career. ex—international rugby player gareth thomas reveals he is hiv positive —

saying he wants to help reduce the stigma around the condition. i want to empower so many other people who are in exactly the same position as me. and probably ten times worse. to be able to feel free as well. tyson fury survives a brutal cut to remain undefeated... the british heavyweight beating otto wallin on points in las vegas. good morning, a look ahead to what today has in store but also further on into the week ahead where we will have some quite chilly tunnel mornings but there should be some decent sunny afternoons and won around as well. more coming up. it's sunday 15th september. our top story. the former conservative minister sam gyimah has defected to the liberal democrats. he's one of six mps who have joined the party in recent weeks.

mr gyimah was among 21 conservatives who had the party whip removed after rebelling against the prime minister, to try to prevent a no—deal brexit. our political correspondent jonathan blake reports from the lib dem conference in bournemouth. i would like you to meet the newest liberal democrat mp, sam gyimah. the former government minister who says the conservatives left him feeling like an outcast. i walked out of a ministerialjob, risk losing the whip, i have one of the safest conservative seats in the country. but i know something that trips off the tongue of everyone who goes into politics, i want to make a difference, i want to serve my country. sam gyimah accused borisjohnson to having a scorched—earth approach to brexit. he was one of the few tories

to support a second referendum, so not a huge surprise that he has jumped ship to the party that want one too. the lib dem leader wants to harden the party's "stop brexit" stance. if there is a general election, she promised to revoke article 50 and reverse the decision to leave the eu even without a public vote. the liberal democrats a re crystal clear. we want to stop brexit, so if we find ourselves in a general election, that will be our unequivocal message. therefore, if a liberal democrat majority government is elected, we should revoke article 50. 18 mps and counting, record membership. the weather is not the only reason the lib dems have to be cheerful at the conference this weekend. the party is at odds with the referendum result to leave the eu, but it is hoping to turn out to its advantage in a looming election campaign. and it feels very much here like the lib dems are up

for the fight. david cameron has launched another stinging attack on borisjohnson accusing him of only backing brexit to further his career, in the latest extracts from his memoirs. the former prime minister also criticises his once close friend michael gove, who he brands as "disloyal". let's get more on this now from our political correspondent peter saull. it is interesting stuff, there's two angles we mentioned but i guess people would say we have heard that before. lots of people have speculated in the past about boris johnson's motivations for backing brexit although david cameron opt no better than most given their shared history. this talks about the period in the run—up to the referendum when david cameron was trying to win over some of his senior conservative collea g u es some of his senior conservative colleagues to come out and back

remain. he speculates boris johnson's main reason for doing so was to further his own career. he sought michael gove back brexit and he thought, i want to be the darling of the conservative party, not michael gove. you could say this worked out quite nicely for boris johnson whatever his motivations but david cameron is equally if not more scathing of other conservatives, including priti patel, michael gove and penny mordaunt. borisjohnson has given an interview to the mail making it crystal clear what he thinks about brexit‘s now, that it must happen on october 31. he says the uk is a bit like the incredible hulk and the manner it gets with the eu, the stronger it gets. hopefully he will not be ripping off his shirt when he meets the european commission tomorrow.

ex wales rugby captain gareth thomas has revealed he is living with hiv. he says he wants to break the stigma surrounding the condition and has talked about the shame and fear of keeping it secret. daniel davies reports. i've got hiv, and it's ok like, that is what i want to learn more than anything. it is a secret he has tried to keep to himself and those closest to him. but now gareth thomas is telling the world and embarking a new challenge. he has trained for an ultra endurance ironman triathlon to show he isn't limited by his condition. a bbc documentary shows him preparing for the event and preparing to reveal that for some time he has lived with hiv. a huge hero in our family. he talks of the shame he says he felt, and of the worry of what people would think of him if they knew. one of my fears

is that that will kind of go and all of a sudden who i was prior to people knowing i have hiv might be forgotten and that will potentially deter people from wanting to be associated or be around me. thomas, a5, says he wants to help overcome the stigma surrounding hiv. he has compared the experience of making this announcement coming out as gay, which he did ten years ago. i want to empower so many other people who are in exactly the same position as me, and probably ten times worse, to be able to feel free as well. that was daniel davies reporting. and if you want to watch the full documentary,

gareth thomas: hiv and me will be shown on bbc one wales on wednesday at 9pm. you can also watch it on iplayer. and we'll be chatting about this in a few minutes' time. the us secretary of state, mike pompeo, has blamed iran for the drone strikes that set fire to two major oil facilities in saudi arabia. houthi rebels in yemen said they carried out the attacks, but mr pompeo said there was no evidence they came from there. the saudi energy minister said half of the country's oil production had been temporarily stopped. pro—democracy protesters are rallying outside the british consulate in hong kong as part of ongoing demonstrations against the government. campaigners say beijing isn't maintaining the freedoms in hong kong which were promised when it returned to chinese rule from britain over two decades ago. there have been more than three months of protests in the territory. a charity rescue ship has arrived at the italian island of lampedusa, after the country agreed to let it

drop off 82 migrants picked up at sea. it's the first time the italian government has allowed a migrant rescue vessel to dock for several months. most of those on—board will be taken to other european countries with 2a of the migrants expected to remain in italy. a new storm has brought heavy rain to the bahamas almost two weeks after hurricane dorian claimed at least 50 lives and devastated the islands. tropical storm humberto is slowly moving north and is expected to become a hurricane either tonight or tomorrow morning. emergency services say 1,300 people remain missing across the bahamas. police are continuing to investigate the theft of a solid gold toilet with an estimated value of more than a million pounds which was stolen from blenheim palace yesterday. police say the burglary caused significant damage and flooding to the

stately home. the whereabouts of the working toilet which visitors had been invited to use is unknown. a 66—year—old man has been arrested and remains in police custody. imagine being a visitor and being invited to use a solid gold toilet. i think it would be quite cold. i expect so, maybe it has a heated seat. back to our top story now. the former universities minister sam gyimah has become the latest mp to defect to the liberal democrats. in recent weeks six mps have joined the party including former labour mps luciana berger and chuka umunna. sam gyimah joins us now from their party conference in bournemouth. good morning, it wasjust good morning, it was just four months ago you were campaigning to be leader of the conservative party and now you have completely flipped. a lot of people will see this as a

cynical move to save your own political career. not at all. i stood for the conservative leadership knowing there was a vanishingly small chance for me to win. i wanted to make the case for a brexit reality in the party but i also wanted to make the case that the conservative party needed to rediscover those liberal values that once made it in election winning machine. what became obvious during that campaign is there are not enough conservatives like me to hold back that tight. the hard brexiteers have won the conservative party, it isa have won the conservative party, it is a hard brexit party and they want to fight for the values for which i came into politics, that i note that millions of the people in the country want to see, which are values of tolerance, being sensible and pragmatic and acting in the interest of the country, then the liberal democrats is where i can do that from an idea that having resigned as a minister it myself.

i had one of the safest conservative seatin had one of the safest conservative seat in the country, the easiest thing to do would be to keep quiet, stay in the conservative party and rub along. perhaps not given your track record on brexit and that may not have one you conservative support back in your own constituency. but that was my decision, my position on brexit was i actually chose that position. i chose that position knowing it would make me unpopular but i know it is the right thing for the country. the reason why i defy the whip and voted to stop a no—deal brexit knowing that would mean i would be thrown out is because it is the right thing for the country so i have made these choices, they are positive choices. that play a quickfire game of how lib dems are you. these are commitments from their 2017 ma nifesto commitments from their 2017 manifesto so clearly this may change if there is another general

election. use the proportional representation? i think we should look at proportional representation. what is happening in our politics 110w what is happening in our politics now is the two old parties are not working because brexit has driven a course and cultures through its support. you have conservatives who are moderate sitting a long hard brexiteers who want to leave the eu at any price and on the labour party you have a hard left labour party plagued by anti—semitism and moderates who cannot fit in. we should be looking at our system of representation. you have got alistair campbell, tony blair's right—hand man kicked out of the labour party and ken clarke, former chancellor of the conservative party is politically homeless. we need to look at our electoral system. understood, yes or no to some of these. the legalisation of cannabis. my these. the legalisation of cannabis. my position on this as

it should be based on the best available medical evidence. as long as it is based on the best available medical evidence and isa the best available medical evidence and is a parliamentary majority to do it, it should be looked at. no, some of these are key lib dems policies. means testing the winter fuel allowance? i don't know the detail of every lib dems policy but what i do know is that in the conservative party lively debate doesn't happen at all, it has become a narrow sect. i am happy to be in a party where we can debate these issues and come to a new position on them. i don't know the detail of the liberal democrat policy on this but we should debate them and i would rather be in a party where that can happen rather than everything being a test of faith. you sound uncertain on that one. what about

scrapping the so—called bedroom tax and the reason i ask this is because you voted in favour of that under the conservatives. lib dems policy as it would be scrapped, where do you stand now? it is policy, you are talking about the liberal democrat policy in 2017, it is history. the key thing should be what the new ma nifesto key thing should be what the new manifesto should be. let me say something. the biggest problem we have in our country today, before you even get to where you stand on policy, is our liberal democracy is under threat. you have the labour party who does not believe in property rights and on the other side the conservative party in government is deciding whether or not it should respect the law. the fundamental principles on which our democracy is based are being contested. we need to have those discussions before we get to the detail of where people stand on which policy. i am delighted tojoin

the party to work with them on these issues. i am glad you brought up respecting democracy because you have been consistent in your support for a second vote on brexit. jo swinson is now talking about the lib dems revoking article 50 altogether if they were to come to party catchment power. if that becomes party policy, is that something you can support? taking the vote away from the people when in fact, like it or not, 17.4 billion people that are accenting for —— 17.4 billion people —— 17 .4 million people voted for brexit. if the liberal democrats got into government, it will be because the british public have overwhelmingly voted for them on a very clear brexit position. if they then turn went on, that position which is based on

the overwhelming decision of the public, that is not anti—democratic as toll. the party still believes we should have a peoples vote and the reason why a peoples vote and the reason why a peoples fault makes sense as we now know what is negotiable. asking the british public whether they want to go ahead based on an actual deal is something that to me makes common sense. you can be anti—democratic by giving people a say. they can vote the same way again. they are not disenfranchised if they have another vote but if you deliver a no—deal brexit which boris johnson vote but if you deliver a no—deal brexit which borisjohnson will do if he has to leave on the 31st of october, you'll be doing something that the overwhelming majority of people are against. no one voted to have a situation where we will have doubt as to whether people will get

medicines in hospital. that was never on the ballot paper in 2016. there are plenty people who get in touch with this programme who say they would entirely support a no—deal brexit who did vote. thank you for getting in touch. that is sam gyimah who hasjustjoined you for getting in touch. that is sam gyimah who has justjoined the liberal democrats from the conservatives. it isa it is a sunny start, blue skies whether that is. there is going to be a lot of sunshine ahead of us. at the moment, not quite so even, lots of sunshine across southern england and parts of wales, further north we have more cloud and that is because of a weather front that is straddling the uk at the moment. it is a cold

weather front and to the north, some chilly air trying to work its way in. some pressure for a defiant noise making things windy for northern scotland. some heavier rain possible for a time but especially for the south sinking into northern england and across northern ireland through this afternoon, courtesy of our weather front. more cloud branding into england and wales. brighter skies across scotland and the wind easing. this is how the weather front cut things up, that line where we see the rain to the south, still very warm, 25, maybe 26, to the north, 14 or 15 degrees. in the evenings and wetter weather pushing to north wales through the midlands into east anglia and it tends to fizzle out in southern england by the end of the night. mild to the south with cold air trickling its way south and some lighter winds in scotland, a couple

of spots down to just three or 4 degrees. the front continues to trail away by monday, to the north much later winds and we start to pull in some colder air around the north. we lose the warm amber and move into the blues, indicating a little bit of a artic feel to the air. there will be centring around but that crisper often feel evident. some showers to the night on monday and some patchy cloud. a cooler feel across the board, 13 or 14, temperatures similar to today but down for a south. monday and tuesday the high establishes itself, we will get rid of that cloud, it could be a chilly start across the board on tuesday. temperatures down in single figures, it lot of sunshine on offer, and a little bit of cloud

dipping into the uk. quite cool along the north sea coast, especially with the wind. top temperatures on tuesday similar to monday. more centring to come as the week progresses and i think, if anything, perhaps the night is becoming a little bit milder —— more sunshine to come. thank you, long may we hold on to the last vestiges of summer. lots of pupils will be busy adjusting to a new school year and preparing for the challenges ahead. perhaps some will be considering getting additional support in the form of a tutor but would you hire someone as young as 14? according to one newspaper some parents hoping to get their children through 11 plus exams are doing just that — let's discuss this with tim morris, the president of the tutors' association. there are whole kinds of issues, the whole principle of teaching your child to get through a

grammar school exam, we are talking about a limited number of schools and pa rents limited number of schools and pa re nts ca n limited number of schools and pa rents ca n access limited number of schools and parents can access that because of funds. but that to one side, the principle of 14—year—olds teaching kids, how do you feel about that? from the tutors associations point of view, we don't condone it. we don't see it as appropriate or suitable. tutoring as a profession requires certain skills which 14—year—olds definitely don't have. they may have the ability to do some peer to peer tutoring on the subject but tutoring is about connecting with a student on a certain level which digs into their personality, their learning style and all of that type of thing. isn't this part of the problem? type of thing. isn't this part of the problem ? there type of thing. isn't this part of the problem? there is not really any regulation in the tutoring industry and therefore, anyone can call

themselves a tutor? correct, the tudors association was formed six yea rs tudors association was formed six years ago to address that problem. two issues, one it is unregulated and when the profession was consulted, they said, yes please, can we have a professional association to represent us. would you credit people now? all of our members have to follow a code of ethics, a code of practice if they area ethics, a code of practice if they are a corporate member representing independent... you insist on it? do you inspect it to check? yes, we have a full government process to check that and complaints procedures which is headed up byjustice of the peace. we also insisted that every single one of our members is dbf checked. we are starting and have started the process of self—regulation. started the process of self-regulation. i want to take this away from 11 plus exams because

tutors can be employed for all sorts of reasons. i know people on a low income scale have decided to get tutors and to help their kids just generally when schools are struggling to provide them with what they need, which seems like a failure of schools in the first place. ijust wonder if failure of schools in the first place. i just wonder if there failure of schools in the first place. ijust wonder if there is an opportunity whereby a reluctant learner might be more willing to learner might be more willing to learn from someone just like older than them who knows a bit about school, understands them a bit better. a14—year—old might speak to a ten—year—old in their language more productively. we expect from an associations point of view, every single tutor is dbs checked from a safety point of view. it is a one personal experience so it is important that student safety is put at the heart of everything that is

done. a person under the age of 16 cannot get a dbs check. you may think, it is only a 14—year—old. we know with social media and that type of thing, child safety is still at risk if people are not checked. we don't want to decry teachings in school but is that why most parents come to tutors because they feel their child is not being helped enough? there are lots and lots and lots of reasons why tutoring exists. and is thriving. some of it is to do with the parents and students aspirations moving up continuously, some of it is to do with school funding and insufficient facility or a support within schools. some of it is to deal with challenges that

young people have faced at other times in their lives and they have found gaps in their education as they move into a different area of school. at primary school for example, they may have had a traumatic experience, not been able to grasp the concept of fractions, go into secondary school and all the other concepts they need to master, which are based on fractures, —— fractions, they have lost that so we need to pull that back again. thank you very much. the department for education said they would not comment on the alleged employment practices of private firms more generally and they want every child to have a good education, and the attainment gap has closed. you're watching breakfast from bbc news, it's time now for a look at the newspapers. let's look at the front pages. "cameron's fury at the liars of leave" is the headline on the front of the sunday times,

which publishes an extract from the former prime minister's memoirs. mr cameron labels michael gove a "foam—flecked fa ragist" and accuses borisjohnson of backing the leave campaign only to "help his career". the sunday telegraph features a story about the prime minister's plans to unveil a "tough new approach to criminal justice", which means killers of young children will never be released from prison. the paper reports that boris johnson's administration is also considering increasing minimum tariffs for other types of killings. the observer describes former tory minister sam gyimah‘s defection to the liberal democrats as a "fresh blow" to the prime minister. in an interview with the newspaper, mr gyimah says centrist mps have been "cast out" of the conservative party and labour. the sunday express says on its front page "britain has lost faith in mps" after a survey suggests almost eight in 10 people believe parliament is in desperate need of reform. historian and author tessa dunlop is here to tell us what's caught her eye. we talked about the golden blog

earlier, here it is. we may laugh but there is a degree of urgency about finding this toilet. it has come from new york where it is massively successful, it is a satire on champ's presidency. —— champ's presidency. it was plumbed in. it was, it is owned by the margaret family, i have been there several times, it is absolutely massive and it was a sort of sitting duck really because the half—brother of the duke who was head of the art foundation said, no, idon't who was head of the art foundation said, no, i don't plan to be guarding it. he is a little

bit out of touch. if it is solid gold someone of touch. if it is solid gold someone is potentially going to steal it. the guggenheim has incredible security but this palace was exposed. the story of this golden toilet saving the building, over a hundred years ago, he opened your house to a public you are married an american heiress and the planning was paid for by american plumbing. someone e-mailed in and told us to use the correct term and call it a lavatory. well done rachel, bog. a sunday roast for me as one of myjoys of the week you look at me like you are not a meat eater. i am,

my father was a farmer. climate change is happening so fast and the story is in the observer, it is referring to the founder of animal rebellion, a movement about to ta ke animal rebellion, a movement about to take off related to extinction rebellion and they are targeting meat eating habits. there are various different ethical reasons for not eating meat, they are saying we need to move to a plant —based system because we are not acting fast enough. a bit of me thinks all, a block on smithfield market, that's going to go really badly but the other bit of me, hearing when the news yesterday that the surface area of the uk is deforested in every year and one of the cases is here, the amazon rainforest cut down, fires being triggered to clear it for beef. if you don't eat beef the first will continue to grow,

it is quite brutal but the stakes are brutal. look at the flat in spain. this ticket for victoria beckham's skin is eating for avocados a day. they are heavily water dependent. she is not making an environmental point,. she is extraordinary because if years ago she said she had five packets of crisps a day so she doesn't do things by halves. thank you. headlines on the way.

hello, this is breakfast with rogerjohnson and rachel burden. here's a summary of this morning's main news. the former conservative minister sam gyimah has joined the liberal democrats. he's one of six mps who have defected to the party in recent weeks. mr gyimah was among the 21 tories who had the conservative whip removed after rebelling against borisjohnson in a bid to prevent a no—deal brexit earlier this month. david cameron has accused the prime minister of only backing brexit to further his career, in the latest released extracts from his memoirs. the former prime minister also criticises michael gove, who he describes as ‘disloyal‘. mr cameron says that during the referendum campaign, both mrjohnson

and mr gove behaved appallingly. welsh rugby legend gareth thomas has revealed he is living with hiv. he says he wants to break the stigma surrounding the condition and has talked about the shame and fear of keeping it a secret. mr thomas has been speaking for the first time about his diagnosis for a bbc documentary called gareth thomas: hiv and me. the us secretary of state, mike pompeo, has blamed iran for the drone strikes that set fire to two major oil facilities in saudi arabia. houthi rebels in yemen said they carried out the attacks, but mr pompeo said there was no evidence they came from there. the saudi energy minister said half of the country's oil production had been temporarily stopped. a charity rescue ship has arrived at the italian island of lampedusa, after the country agreed to let it drop off 82 migrants picked up at sea. it's the first time the italian government has allowed a migrant rescue vessel

to dock for several months. most of those on—board will be taken to other european countries with 24 of the migrants expected to remain in italy. pro—democracy protesters are rallying outside the british consulate in hong kong as part of ongoing demonstrations against the government. campaigners say beijing isn't maintaining the freedoms in hong kong which were promised when it returned to chinese rule from britain over two decades ago. there have been more than three months of protests in the territory. a new storm has brought heavy rain to the bahamas almost two weeks after hurricane dorian claimed at least 50 lives and devastated the islands. tropical storm humberto is slowly moving north and is expected to become a hurricane either tonight or tomorrow morning. emergency services say 1,300 people remain missing across the bahamas. those are the main stories this morning. it has been a busy weekend of sport overnight we had boxing and tyson fury who was battered and cut but

ultimately victorious. this time yesterday was speaking about how he was looking after his next fight, he said he wanted to get smashed in las vegas was not here spending it not on the strip but a hospital bed, we understand he is currently having microsurgery on the cut. we have tried to be sensitive and the picture, a very deep gash, quite an ugly one and for that reason we have tried not to give you the worst of the pictures but he was eventually successful and cut but not conquered. he beat swedish heavyweight otto wallin on a unanimous points decision... after coming to the ring in a sombrero and poncho to celebrate mexico's independence day. the early exchanges led to fury suffering a deep cut over his eye in the third round... which threatened to end his unbeaten record. several times the referee had to ask the british

fighter to cover it up... asking the doctor to check it... but fury eventually prevailed... with a potential rematch with deontay wilder next... they were two of the worst cuts i have ever seen and a fight from the quy have ever seen and a fight from the guy has gone nine runs with these winds. nine rounds with these gaping gashes. tyson fury never panicked once, he dabbed relentlessly and repeatedly at the eye but did not panic and that is just as well because the swede, we have loads of cliches in boxing, the entire business is based on cliches, he came to fight and he went down swinging so tyson had to dig deep and go back to the corner and try and go back to the corner and try and become during the

minute as the cat was momentarily healed. there was no panic but it was really tough throughout. five points is the biggest advantage any side has had after the first five games of a premier league season. that's what liverpool now have over reigning champions manchester city... and given how tight the title race was last season could city's defeat at norwich prove pivotal? nick parrott rounds up the action at the top of the table. last year the premier league was 16 games old before manchester city lost, and that was to chelsea. so why have they faltered so soon against promoted norwich, who were expected to struggle? in the boxes they were better. we were not so productive in front. norwich were clinical. they only had three efforts on target, but all of them went in. norwich city have believed! the second from todd cantwell came from a fast and flowing

counterattack that city would have been proud of. when norwich lost concentration at the back, sergio aguero took advantage, that was nothing compared to the misunderstanding between stones and otamendi. they have only been paired at the back six times in the last 20 months. they will have to work out a better rapport. liverpool went behind early at home to newcastle, but unlike the champions they roared back to win, maintaining their 100% record and remaining at the top. beneath them, other teams who started the season well are now faltering. leicester city dropped out of the top four after marcus rashford ended their unbeaten run. so did crystal palace, who conceded four. the musical chairs could continue today with arsenal and

everton hopeful. scottish premiership leaders celtic had a slender win at hamilton academical to maintain their 100% start to the league season. james forrest scored the only goal of the game in the first five minutes. wins too for rangers in second, motherwell, kilmarnock and ross county. joe denly‘s last 48 hours have been pretty memorable. he's welcomed a new baby daughter and then made 94 to put england in a strong position heading into day four of the final ashes test. the home side have a lead of 382 over australia asjoe wilson reports from the oval. attention swarms around the ashes, it can get lost between the hope and the hype. but sometimes it all falls into place. what a week forjoe denly. he batted safe in the knowledge that his new born daughter had been safely delivered, and what is more important than that? suddenly, this was the newjoe

denly, his aggressive approach shockingly australian. shocked the australians. standby for another surprise — ben stokes dropped, and by steve smith. nobody sees the cricket ball better than smith, normally. england were on top and even the weather was helping. ashes test match in mid—september? yes, do you spot a cloud on the london horizon? ben stokes to 50 with this shot. some in the crowd celebrated like children, others in the crowd were actual children. i don't think that isjoe denly‘s. he was 94, but out. his best score, but still the disappointment. england would love to have seen him get 100. it is the match that matters. england's lead stretched into the 300s. steve smith is still playing,

and he doesn't make many mistakes. saturday evening catching? he will have one last go at batting. it's been frustrating at times the series to get started and not be able to capitalise. it felt pretty good today. a very good bowling attack we're coming against each game, you would expect at test level, but i think this australian attack is certainly up there, and they make you work hard for every single run. it's all set up for an exciting final day at the solheim cup — with europe and the usa tied on 8 points all at gleneagles. europe were still one point ahead going into the afternoon fourballs but georgia hall and celine boutier were the only pair to win in the afternoon, the usa coping better with the pressure as three matches went to the final hole. play begins at 11 o'clock — europe haven't lost the final day singles in

any of the past four tournaments. this time next week we'll be just about to see the first home nations action of the rugby world cup. england, scotland and ireland all play next sunday morning... and we're getting reports from japan that england could be without both flanker mark wilson and joe cokanasiga for their opening match against tonga which follows shortly after. both are a big part of eddiejones' plans for the tournament... but haven't been able to take part in training due to injuries. meanwhile wales have concerns over locks adam beard and cory hill and scotland are likely to be without flankerjamie richie for the ireland game. alice tai's incredible run of gold medals at the world para swimming championships in londonwas brought to an end in london was brought to an end by her fellow—briton brock whiston. tai had won six races in a row but she was beaten into fourth place in the 200—metre individual medley, with whiston setting a new world record at her first major event. barring accident or misfortune primoz roglic will win cycling's

final grand tour of the year... the vuelta a espana. the slovenian finished fifth in yesterday's penultimate stage, which was enough to secure the leader's red jersey ahead of spain's alejandro valverde. as tradition dictates, roglic won't be challenged on today's final stage which ends in madrid. and mathieu van der pol won the tour of britain, winning his third stage of the race on the final day in manchester. 11 year old sky brown has won a bronze medal at the park world skateboarding championships in brazil. it's her best finish of the year... and comes at an event that counts towards qualification for tokyo 2020. brown is aiming to become britain's youngest summer olympian at next year's games. she is very talented. we have been

talking about and here for the last half hour as the invasion of the arachnids. there has been some debate about how much freedom we give the spiders. they were top about being released on the desk but thatis about being released on the desk but that is not going to happen. it is the time of year when this top coming into the house. the thing you should know about spiders as the ones you see are male and they are small than the females who are hiding in the background. the one and harry potter was skinny. here's susan with a look at this morning's weather. it is slung set give me the terrors and there are plenty of those at the moment as well. despite the fact i'm not particularly terrified of spiders for everyone out and about today not looking too

bad, more cloud than yesterday but throughout the week ahead perfect conditions, you need to get out and sort out your garden on the cup potatoes, the high pressure is building, autumn sunshine and chilly starts as mild. it has been a storm in across northern scotland, no pressure to the north of the uk and this weather front straddling the uk today before high—pressure bills from the south. this front brings rain through the day into northern ireland, southern scotla nd day into northern ireland, southern scotland and the central belt and in the afternoon heavier bursts pushing into northern england, perhaps reaching north wales and the north midlands. the wind will start to ease significantly across northern scotla nd ease significantly across northern scotland through the afternoon and you'll see sunshine here. best of the sunshine to the south—east when we could get up to 25 or 26 degrees but the weather front is

cold, recalled at the outline to the north of it and across scotland and northern ireland highs of 13 or 14 and the colder air trickles south overnight behind the weather front bringing rain into wales, the midlands and east anglia, mostly fizzling time against a southern england. mild to the south, quite chilly and some spots across rural scotla nd chilly and some spots across rural scotland and northern ireland. behind building in on monday, detail owned of the weather front, killing off the weather front and the stubby cloud to the south and milder area hanging and before me trouble and some optically around the north of the high for tuesday and wednesday. the crisp autumn feel settling, not plunged into went up by a long chalk but it broke feel different for all of us through the early part of the week. cloud to the south on monday, different looking to those through the weekend for the south—east of

england and also feeling different, just 20 degrees in london, 13 or 14 further north, show us. and what fine weather on monday and the high stats to get established through the remainder of the week, the orientating for tuesday and pulling us more orientating for tuesday and pulling us more directly into the north—westerly breeze. lots of sunshine, a chilly start, more cloud to the north through the day and even with the sunshine once we move into the arctic temperatures will do no better than about 20. 13 or 14 further north where we have a little more cloud. have fun with your eight legged friends. you are lucky you're not in the same room as them. if you're scared of spiders you may want to hide behind the sofa now. spider season is here which means more of them are coming into our homes to escape the cold. so how long does it lasts and what should

we expect? who better to tell us than arachnologist sara goodacre from the university of nottingham. and she's brought some friends with her. a couple of things you might see around your home. the big hairy one, it isa around your home. the big hairy one, it is a house by the. it is a common house by the, ifound it is a house by the. it is a common house by the, i found this on the front porch. they're not really trying to come in, the actually bigger because the ad reaching the end of their life—cycle and ongoing to lay eggs. this one has a few babies as males i will be careful to put her back where i found to. she will have led and exact with a cocoon which is antibacterial and streets some of the amazing things about them which is the eating pests for free, not about them which is the eating pests forfree, not doing about them which is the eating pests for free, not doing any about them which is the eating pests forfree, not doing any harm. anyone who says the dangerous, they do feel as we frightened of them

and that we act irrationally and disproportionally when we see them. i had of these in front of the kids, we ta ke i had of these in front of the kids, we take them into schools and in this country and in this country i stress spiders are not dangerous. you can pick up any spiders you find in your house assuming they are not pets. you can pick up a pet ta ra ntula pets. you can pick up a pet tarantula as well. no one has a poisonous one and the living room. full sweat of the ones that give concern and it is a bit like saying i think you can be bitten by a false, people are not and it is a bit like possibly having a minor not even wasp sting, possibly not by the records are so few and far between that they are not the problem.|j picked that they are not the problem.” picked one up to throw it outside and got nipped and you described it brilliantly. it is like

being attacked by a very small blunt paperclip. look at the size of it, it is tiny. the fear is what really gets people and if i could just say we use them as inspirations to control pests, how to make artificial silk that we stick antibiotics to, use in medicine and other engineering processes. they area other engineering processes. they are a wonderful part of the natural world and at this time of year these four off the trees, spiders are reproducing and will re into your home. i used to be terrified that i can odoura home. i used to be terrified that i can odour a glass and a piece of paper by taking them outside, and the out of their natural habitat. pa rt the out of their natural habitat. part of the natural flinching, they are food for birds or if you are not co mforta ble are food for birds or if you are not comfortable with this by then your environment then regularly sweeping and moving student have old boxes because when you move a box and live something and a spider runs out that

is because it has been a nice stable safe place for it. if you move things around then you will have fewer spiders was keep decluttering. you need to spray chemicals, just keep it sweat. and for the time to should be. someone said you can name them to make them less scary. the big wolf spider we had under a sofa i used to call christopher and if you name something and look at more closely and teach your children you choose whether that's in butterfly ora choose whether that's in butterfly or a moth of flying, you get to choose. how spiders and funnel weave rs , choose. how spiders and funnel weavers, quite often the mild spiders which are tiptoeing around but this one was a female with her eggs carefully looked after with the baby spiders but they will spiders

and another family of hunter spiders and another family of hunter spiders and they are great because they come out at night and return on the light and a remedy spiders get started because was in the dark and it gets frightened. what is this one? s is a seller spider because it only have six ice rather than it —— six eyes. they like the moisture but the other spiders even though they were quite small they have very long legs. wrap them up in silk and holds it at leg length. i wish we could talk to you for half. just fascinating. so many questions. don't be messing around. thank you for coming in. and if you don't like them you can at least respect

them. starting school is a milestone for any child but when four year old lilac walked through the gates by herself her parents couldn't have been more delighted. that's because when she was a baby she was diagnosed with cerebral palsy and they were told she might never walk. but after an operation and months of physiotherapy she's achieved that goal as liz beacon reports. what is it today? my first day of school. every parent knows that a child's first day at school is a big deal. for lilac though it wasn't just about starting a school. she dreamt of walking in on her first day all by herself. no sticks, no wheelchair, no hand to hold. she's done it. she did it. she came in, no help at all and a big smile on her face. she's been brilliant. absolutely brilliant,

she's been so happy. she'sjust come on into the classroom and just got on with it. she's absolutely loved it, she's always smiling. lilac was born with cerebral palsy. her parents were told she might never walk. but they fought and fundraised and 18 months ago she had surgery called spinal dorsas rhizotomy, an operation which has called spinal dorsal rhizotomy, an operation which has changed her life. this whole campaign's been around her taking these couple of steps. if she can just do three, in our heads she's done it and so ijust position myself slightly in front of her and encouraged her to walk to me and then she went. she dropped my hand and there was so much significance about the fact that she dropped my hand and off she went. and she just walked to school all by herself. is that for daddy? oh, my, my he'll love it. lilac is a little girl with a bright future ahead of her. she spent her summerfilming a drama

playing david tennant‘s daughter. she's signed with a modeling agency and she's had the best ever start to school, something her mum will treasure forever. i've watched it a hundred times. i can hear my own voice going "she's doing it." yeah, it's up there as one of my highlights in life at the moment, yeah. liz beacon, bbc news. what a gorgeous story. best of luck to her. a heron's hidden hunt and a seal in its seaweed garden — are just two of the stunning scenes captured by photographers for this year's british wildlife photography awards. now in its tenth year, the competition is raising awareness of our coastlines, the species that inhabit them and the threats facing them. we're now joined by two of the winners —

daniel trim and jacob guy. they won in different categories and i think what reviewers know want to see immediately as some of the shots you took as part of this competition. daniel, described the one that got you overall winner this year. it is a photo of a heron in london fishing under a bridge in a canal so it has a bit of plastic and litter in the bottom which highlights that contrast between nature and how it can still thrive despite what we are doing with plastic and the world. i think that is one of the reasons and stood out tojudges. is one of the reasons and stood out to judges. it is is one of the reasons and stood out tojudges. it is a beautiful picture. the herald looks very thoughtful, most in his own world but you cannot have had an idea that's what you were going to end up

with. it is always an element of luck so i was waiting for the heads to come up, looking down and fishing quite a lot and i think there is a band of light through the eye and that was pure luck. there are people who enter this competition who are professional photographers, how much of your spare time do you do much to this? probably more than my wife would like, a lot. most weekends when i can, mornings before work when i can, mornings before work when the days that relate enough. as much as i can. a beautiful way of observing the world and i know jacob youan at the start of a photography career, you study photography but it has taken you beneath the surface of ocs. my course has under what are photography, we dive with camera rigs and strobes, i

love it. describe your photo. diving in the winter and basically with the camera rig and strobes swimming along and saw this and basically stopped, waited to see the kelp move to get the position right and just took the shot when it was all lined up. the starfish surrounded by seaweed. is it sea life you are particularly interested in? i love it because it is in british waters and you do not really see that much. it is amazing what you see underwater and especially what is going on in the world at the moment you have the things that are changing the environment so you may not be able to see that much longer as well, especially with plastic pollution.” love rock pooling and finding things

by the coast but that is on a whole different level. you won the 12—18 category, what kind of a platform does this give you? things like social media following goes up and you get further opportunities through that, you can give talks, it isa through that, you can give talks, it is a confidence booster so you are just starting out learning and studying photography and it gives you the confidence boost to make you realise you can do good things and succeed. it has been lovely to see this and some of the other winners. thank you for coming in. best of luck with the career and arguing with your way. that's all from us this morning dan and louise will be back tomorrow from six.

this is bbc news, i'm shaun ley. the headlines at nine. david cameron accuses borisjohnson of only backing leave, in order to further his own political career. but the brexit secretary insists that's not the case. remain would have been the easier career choice so borisjohnson led the campaign, he did so because he believes in brexit and is committed to delivering it. former conservative minister sam gyimah defects to the liberal democrats, after being expelled from his party, for rebelling over brexit. the liberal democrat leader jo swinson will be taking

questions from party members at their conference, at 2:10 this afternoon, we'll have live coverage, on the bbc news channel. the former international rugby star, gareth thomas, reveals he is hiv positive — saying he wants to help reduce the stigma around the condition. the us blames iran for twin drone attacks, on saudi oilfacilities, saudi arabia says its oil production has been halved, following the attacks. protestors are gathering outside the british consulate in hong kong, in another pro—democracy rally in the territory. tyson fury survives a brutal cut to remain undefeated, the british heavyweight beats otto wallin on points in las vegas. and our sunday morning edition of the papers is at 9.35 — this morning's reviewers are sian griffiths, education editor at the sunday times, and the political commentator, james millar.