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and southern central and southern scotland and northern england should ease, so we should see lighter winds and more sunshine. it might feel a touch warmer, with 20. a short—lived fine spell. the next area of low pressure will sweep through during wednesday night to thursday morning. wet and windy weather should clear from eastern areas through thursday into the afternoon, and improvement with sunshine appearing but quite lost three, plenty of heavy and thundery showers pushing into western areas. temperatures around the seasonal average. as we in the week, it remains unsettled. we started the week and low pressure. all tied in with the jetstream. it will be moving across the north atlantic, west to east, barring weather systems at us. signs of it as we end the week, diving further south. the next area of low pressure for friday might induce something cooler to the northern half of the country. this feature is going to bring a spell of
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wet and windy weather as we head on into sunday. but for friday, low pressure pretty much slap bang on top of us, the centre of itjust to the north—west feeding west, southwest winds, plenty of showers particularly across the north and west, longer spells of rainfall western scotland, probably the best of the sunshine, southern and eastern areas. saturday not looking too bad. some cooler across scotland and northern ireland. for england and northern ireland. for england and wales, average temperatures. maybe a few degrees below. further showers across western areas. sunday, the area of low sweeps in, wet and windy weather initially england and wales, and it's part of northern ireland, central and southern scotland. he had temperatures, the high teens, returning back to seasonal norms, fairly chilly but drier across the north of scotland. and then beyond sunday into next week, it looks like low pressure will tend to clear away in the current thinking now is
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high—pressure may build into the start of a sober instead of low pressure as we thought so that could settle things down. initially it could start off fairly cool despite there being high—pressure. then signs of something a bit more moving in as well. if high—pressure builds m, in as well. if high—pressure builds in, it will settle down. we should see more sunshine and will try to turn a little bit warmer. it will start. those temperatures a few degrees above the seasonal warm. join me tomorrow for another look at the weather for the week ahead. hello. this is bbc news. we'll be taking a look at tomorrow mornings papers in a moment. first, the headlines: ii justices of the uk supreme court rule unanimously that borisjohnson‘s decision to suspend parliament was designed to prevent it from doing itsjob in the run—up to the brexit deadline. the effect on the fundamentals of our democracy was extreme.
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outside court, there was jubilation among supporters of the businesswoman gina miller, one of those who brought the case. today's ruling confirms that we are a nation governed by the rule of law. laws that everyone, even the prime minister, is not above. across the atlantic in new york, the prime minister said that while he respected the court, he did not agree with its ruling. i have the highest respect of course for ourjudiciary and for the independence of our courts, but i must say, i strongly disagree with thisjudgement. in brighton, at the labour conference, jeremy corbyn said the prime minister wasn't fit to be in office. borisjohnson has been found to have misled the country.
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this unelected prime minister should now resign. following the collapse of thomas cook, thousands more british holidaymakers have been brought home today. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are political commentatorjo—anne nadler and stephen bush, the political editor of new statesman. many of tomorrow's front pages are already in. with one story dominating — today's events at the supreme court. the financial times says the court's unanimous decision that borisjohnson‘s suspension
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of parliament was unlawful amounts to a damning indictment of the prime minister. the guardian simply says, "he misled the queen, the people and parliament". mrjohnson has had to cut short his trip to the us after the decision, as the times reports, as he flies back to chaos. he has so far refused to resign as prime minister however, as the front page of the i points out. that refusal also makes the front page of the metro, whose headline is: ‘get rid of me if you can'. the telegraph leads on mrjohnson‘s reaction to the decision. he said he disagreed with the supreme court, accusing the justices of frustrating the will of the people. ‘boris blasts: who runs britain?‘ is how the daily mail reports on mrjohnson‘s displeasure. and the mirror says there's a special place in history for the prime minister, pointing out that he faces being britain's shortest ever leader.
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that britain's shortest ever leader. is in terms of term, height. that is in terms of term, not height. starting with the daily mail. boris blasts, who runs britain? he sounds defiant, but this must be a big political blow for him? i think it is a big political blow. i don't quite agree with the tone the mail have taken here because i'm not sure he has been blasting particularly today. i think what we have seen is an inconsistent tone coming from him and number 10. there's been an element of briefing that the government shouldn't seem to be overtly critical of the ruling of the intentions of the justices. we've seen that number 10 briefed that... or put a note round to mps saying they weren't to appear on the
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media. presumably if they had a consistent message, they might be allowed to do that. to a certain extent i think this is wishful thinking on behalf of the mail. they wa nt thinking on behalf of the mail. they want the prime minister to come out fighting because there is a very serious issue here as to whether or not it's appropriate for our constitution to be moving in this direction of having parliament and indeed the government in this case, sort of, brought to book byjudges. we've seen a movement in that direction, particularly since the blair period, where we have more judicial review at all levels of government and peculiarly since this measure was brought to further the case of the people, according to those who brought it, it seems to me in this case the government does have a case to criticise exactly whose best interests this ruling is in. what do you make of the time,
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steven ? in. what do you make of the time, steven? it's interesting, let's look at the daily mail front page, judges sensationally say mps break rule by suspending parliament, johnson forced to phone queen, mps return today but will they give us an election? dream on. ithinkjo-anne has got it right, there's an element of wishful thinking here around one senior ally wherejudges of wishful thinking here around one senior ally where judges say they are running the country, what will the country make of that? judges aren't saying that, they are adjudicating the executive and its relationship with our elected parliament. if the government had a majority it could pass tomorrow that borisjohnson could majority it could pass tomorrow that boris johnson could prorogue majority it could pass tomorrow that borisjohnson could prorogue when he likes, it doesn't so he can't. do you think he word or could prorogue ain? you think he word or could prorogue again? one of the important things about this reading that has wider implications than just exit is if a prorogation is done to frustrate the elected parliament then it illegal,
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john major couldn't have done it in the run—up to the 1997 election over cash for access, and if they got this extension they couldn't say they could extend to the end of it so it's taken that weapon out of the government's hands. it can't legislate because it hasn't got a majority. the guardian, a different tone, as you might expect. i was going to say to you, how tenable is his position, but perhaps more blu ntly, his position, but perhaps more bluntly, should he resign in your view? no, i don't think he should resign and i don't think he will resign, but that's not to say i don't recognise even as someone who's reasonably supportive of the policy... i don't think it was very well executed. i think there was a case for prorogation, but not when they did it funnily enough and not in the way they did it. fundamentally, because of all the
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sound and fury today, there's a tendency to lose the bigger issue here, which is that there was a vote, which was won by the leave side of the equation, and a lot of very clever political tactics have been employed by the remain side to essentially try to stop that... stop the culmination of that vote. but it was his decision to prorogue parliament? yes, which is why i'm trying to be nuanced in my response, there was a case for prorogation given that parliament seemed to be prepared to essentially overturn the logic of the vote of the original referendum result. ithink logic of the vote of the original referendum result. i think he was absolutely right to come in after three years of mrs may's efforts to try and find a consensus but not being able to do that to say, "ok, we're going to take a different approach, i do have to deliver and i wa nt to approach, i do have to deliver and i want to deliver by the end of
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october". three was like to come in with that approach but there was mismanagement about how the prorogation was announced and the fa ct prorogation was announced and the fact that clearly it was disingenuous the way the government was trying to say, "we need five weeks to prepare for a queen speech". everyone could see through that even though they were entitled use some, shall we say, something of a different approach to what we've seen so far. stephen, it strikes me looking at this headline, he misled the queen, the people and parliament, there might be people who read that to think how can you then possibly continue as prime minister, but it's at a reflection of the extraordinary political times in which we are living?” of the extraordinary political times in which we are living? i think it is and it isn't. in an odd way, i completely agree —— but is it. is and it isn't. in an odd way, i completely agree -- but is it. in an odd way! the idea the queen was sitting there going this suspension is about the need for a queen's speech. she knew it was about brexit
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but the fiction of our constitution is that these powers the rest with the queen, they don't, they rest with the prime minister and when the elected prime minister uses the powers they exercise on behalf of the queen, they are backed up by a parliamentary majority so this conflict doesn't arise. there's this weird knows of him being repudiated in this way and not resigning, because theresa may failed to win a majority and boris johnson because theresa may failed to win a majority and borisjohnson has failed to convince a majority of mps that he is sincere so they won't give him an election until there's an extension. we have a weird limbo but it's perfectly legitimate for a prime minister repudiated by their parliament not to resign. i would prefer it if we had more cooperation and more particularly on the conservative side, more acceptance oi'i conservative side, more acceptance on the reality of the fact they did not win the last election and they therefore have a mandate as they largest party to govern with others but not a mandate to act as if they could govern alone. did you want to say something? it is surprising in a
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sense that stephen and i are in agreement to the degree that we are on this, since we're coming from this on different sides of the political spectrum. but, you know, the curious thing about what's happened today i think is that... there's been an awful lot of... i was going to say hysteria but it's not hysteria, there's been righteous concern about the announcement today and yet it doesn't look as if it's really going to change anything. you ask whether the prime minister should resign, the fact is he's not going to resign but he's also aided in not doing that by the fact leader of the opposition position, for all his how thing and puffing, is not prepared to bring a no—confidence vote in him because he doesn't really wa nt vote in him because he doesn't really want a general election at this moment and that goes to the heart of this issue. he doesn't want a general election at the moment because he's been clear about the fa ct because he's been clear about the fact he's trying to prevent us leaving on the 31st without a deal.
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he's trying to disrupt the prime minister's bargaining chip. and we are where we are. we'll come back to possibly general election and jeremy corbyn, but stephen, the daily mirror, a different take, isn't it? a picture of different prime ministers down the years and how long they have served and they say there's a special place in history waiting for you, prime minister, because he could be the shortest serving prime minister amid calls to quit. wishful thinking on behalf of the mirror? it's a fun angle on their part. because, under our own election laws, you need 25 working days for an election, the gap between him and the second from bottom is sufficiently small that the reality is by the time we were in an election period, he would be certain at least of only being the second shortest prime minister. after george canning, he would still hold the record at 119 days. moving
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on to the times, "pm flies back to chaos". he's been in new york, of course, stephen. what is his strategy now, do you think? i'm not convinced he has a fallback strategy at this point. it was quite clear what they wanted, to go to the country and say we tried to do brexit and a bad parliament stopped it but the problem was they hadn't considered the possibility a bad parliament would go you don't get an election, go and get an extension or a brexit deal. he's drawn a number of red lines that can't be reconciled with getting a negotiated deal with the eu. reconciled with getting a negotiated dealwith the eu. so reconciled with getting a negotiated deal with the eu. so what's left? it is essentially now a question of which promise does he think he can survive breaking? ifi which promise does he think he can survive breaking? if i were in his shoes, i would survive breaking? if i were in his shoes, iwould be survive breaking? if i were in his shoes, i would be going for any kind of deal that got us out and i would make it as often as possible to get labour mps to vote for it. right, 0k. labour mps to vote for it. right, ok. jo—anne, what's your take on
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this? obviously he's the one in the firing line, on the front of all the papers, but there must be something to discuss around the advice he received about proroguing parliament in the first place, from the attorney general and his special adviser, dominic cummings. there's an element in this treatment in the times of bringing us back to the advice, and we've heard during the day more information coming out about exactly what the attorney general did advise him. not unsurprisingly, he advised him that this was going to be perfectly legal and within the constitution. i mean, people seemed to greet that news as shocking when it came out, but surely it would have been far more shocking had he gone into that prorogation truly believing it was actually illegal. to a certain extent i think that strengthens his position. i think that it's a significant headline on the times,
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though, because it is quite revealing of a sense that there isn't really a coherent strategy at the moment. that dominic cummings and boris johnson pursued... the moment. that dominic cummings and borisjohnson pursued... i think with good reason a very bold and disruptive political strategy. which is essentially the people versus parliament, isn't it? that element of the strategy, that's the broad umbrella, and in a way what's happened today underlines that. in terms of the nation watching on, i don't think the hearing will necessarily have changed anything because it just necessarily have changed anything because itjust reinforces the idea for many, many leave vote is that there is a grand conspiracy under way and equally, if you are a remain voter, all the news suggesting that the prime minister has been stating very clearly, not just the prime minister has been stating very clearly, notjust suggesting, that he's been dishonest and this is
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unlawful bolsters your position so u nfortu nately, unlawful bolsters your position so unfortunately, you know, everything that we are hearing at the moment just entrenches the degree to which this is now a very, very divided nation. stephen, i'll be interested in yourtake on nation. stephen, i'll be interested in your take on that, especially if we move onto the daily express, because a century that encapsulates whatjo—anne has just led. —— because a century that encapsulates whatjo—anne hasjust led. —— has just said. the supreme court where very clear that they were taking a decision about a judicial matter, it was nothing to do with brexit, but certainly in the eyes of certain papers, they are inextricably linked, aren't they? maybe they are inexorably linked anyway?” linked, aren't they? maybe they are inexorably linked anyway? i think this is a very irresponsible front page on behalf of the daily express. there's two different issues, and they are separate, the right of the
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executive, which only gets its position via a majority in parliament, and a separate issue of whether and how brexit happens. the consequence of this ruling, because there is no consensus in parliament about whether or not to do brexit, do it softly, not at all, have a referendum, is to delay the point of decision. but parliament being deadlocked and the government failing to win a majority in the country does not license the executive to put aside the rule of law, and i think it's quite dangerous for newspapers to kind of shill for them to do so. dangerous for newspapers to kind of shill for them to do solj dangerous for newspapers to kind of shill for them to do so. i think it's interesting as well the idea that mps a sickly have spent three yea rs that mps a sickly have spent three years trying to sort out exit. parliament is now being resumed. and you do slightly wonder, what are they going to manage in the next few weeks that they haven't managed in the last few years? —— sort out brexit. there's talk of making some addendums or strengthening in some way the terms of the ben act.
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fundamentally what was needed to do to disrupt the government's strategy had been done... and perhaps was provoked further by the prorogation, but has been done. the idea that in the... in the ruling today that the fundamental basis of our democracy was undone by the prorogation. ben act i must admit, i'm struggling to see how they can justify that. like the prime minister, i respect the ruling even though i don't agree with it. we haven't got much time stop it time, the old enemy, has caught up with us once more. on the sun, stephen, why don't you read it out? it's a bit of a play on words for those with old enough memories! they are taking the view that sun
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readers ben act are cross about this. while playful is this also a bit responsible? i think it is. brexit is a hugely consequential moment in our constitution and it happens at a time when power returns to our parliament and a 40—year year project will come to an end and we will have to become a different country. we all have a responsibility to try to explain that asjournalists in responsibility to try to explain that as journalists in as fair, open and accessible way as possible without throwing brexit jargon at the readers or doing things that only up the rhetorical anti—. this isa only up the rhetorical anti—. this is a problematic front page for the same reason as the express.” is a problematic front page for the same reason as the express. i think you've both done that tonight, so thank you very much. that's it for the papers tonight. don't forget you can see the front pages of the papers online on the bbc news website. it's all there for you — 7 days a week at bbc.co.uk/papers. and if you miss the programme any
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evening you can watch it later on bbc iplayer. thank you, jo—anne nadler and stephen bush. goodbye. good evening. here's your latest sports news. there's been a huge upset in the league cup this evening. tottenham have been knocked out by the lowest ranked team left in the tournament, colchester. it ended goalless after normal time, and the league two side progressed 11—3 on the spot kicks, after cristian eriksen and lucas moura missed theirs for spurs. elsewhere, in the south coast derby, danny ings scored twice in the first half to put southampton in control against league one's portsmouth. cedric soares added a third before nathan redmond finished things off in theirli—o win to reach the last 16. elsewhere, all the other premier league sides progressed.
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wins forarsenal, leicester, manchester city and everton, and a big win for league two's crawley town, beating stoke of the championship on penalties. jordan nobbs is back in the england squad for their friendlies against brazil and portugal after returning from a serious knee injury. the arsenal midfielder ruptured her anterior cruciate ligament in november, ruling her out of the summer's world cup. manchester city's jill scott, chelsea striker fran kirby and lyon's alex greenwood are also in phil neville's squad. their attitude is phenomenal. from the minute she obviously got diagnosed, her focus was to get back into that england shirt as quickly as possible. we said and we spoke to arsenal and we are talking to arsenal and we are talking to arsenal now about taking our time, making sure we don't rush anything, making sure we don't rush anything, making sure we havejordan for the next ten years, notjust making sure we havejordan for the next ten years, not just the making sure we havejordan for the next ten years, notjust the next six months. wembley will host the 2023 men's
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champions league final. it will take place during wembley‘s centenary year. the national stadium hosted the champions league final in 2011 and 2013 and will stage seven games at euro 2020, including the semi—final and final. it's also been confirmed that windsor park in belfast will host the 2021 super cup final. andy murray has won his first match at tour level since january, beating tennys sangren at the zhuhai championships in china. continuing his comeback from hip surgery, the former world number one took the first set before the american levelled the match. murray lost to sangren in north carolina in august, but wrapped up the victory winning the third set 6—1. he'll play australian alex de minaur in the second round. england have made 10 changes to the starting 15 for their second game of the rugby world cup against the usa on thursday. eddiejones says they need to deal with a short turnaround between there first match against tonga which they won on sunday. george ford will captain the side from fly—half, and their will be world cup debuts
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for ruaridh mcconnochie and joe cokanasiga. we've done a fair bit of homework for this turnaround. we trialled a four day day preparation against japan to make sure the players have had some experience. we've looked at selection pretty closely. looked at the players who we felt could back up the players who we felt could back up and couldn't back up, because we've got 31 players and 23 for each game, so maths tells you a number of players have to back up and then we try to work out the players best suited to back up and the players best suited to have breast. -- have rest. there was one game today, samoa ran out convincing winners against the tournament's lowest ranked side russia, despite a slow start. the pacific islanders were trailing at half time, but went on claim a bonus—point win. it ended 311—9. chloe dygert powered to victory in the women's time trial to give the usa their seventh gold medal of the championships in
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yorkshire. her winning margin over olympic champion anna van der breggen was the greatest the event has seen. british riders alice barnes and hayley simmonds were 16th and 26th. that's all the sport for now. hello there. september was on course for being a dry month across the south of the uk until more recent times. yesterday a real soaker thanks to low pressure, heavy rain and sundry downpours, we had it all, didn't we? and those downpours came down really heavily. this was the scene quite near the bbc in oxford circus, london with heavy rain and that was typical for many. boscombe down got 59 millimetres over the last day also, a month of rain, so it's already turned into a wet septemberfor some in it's already turned into a wet september for some in the south and already quite wet in areas. we are all in the same boat in a way, soggy boat that is! across early
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wednesday, the rain will continue to come down in southern england and wales, strong winds around english channel coast and the wind is lighter in northern england and scotla nd lighter in northern england and scotland but rain here as well. one way or another, a wet start to the day on wednesday. subtle improvements in the aft dunoon before the next weather system comes into northern ireland later in the day. rain at times on wednesday. strong winds initially in southern coastal counties of england, easing off during the day, trying to brighten up with some sunny spells in the afternoon but also heavy showers and the next band of rain will move into northern ireland ‘s. temperatures not too bad at this stage, highs typically 17—19 north to south. more rain on the way for thursday. another area of low pressure pushing these weather fronts across the country and even as the frames clear, taking the rain away, we will have a flow of cloudy weather coming in with fairly heavy showers and thunderstorms at times. another unsettled day, still windy
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and temperatures of falling a bit in scotla nd and temperatures of falling a bit in scotland and northern ireland. forecasts a bit cooler here, but little overall change for england and wales. friday, another day with more rain. this area of rain pushes north and east again as that clears through and following that with further showers. another blustery day, especially around the coasts and hills and getting cooler, 14— 14-16 in and hills and getting cooler, 14— 14—16 in scotland and northern ireland and temperatures a degree or do down in the south. unsettled into the weekend, rain at times and still quite windy with temperatures as you were, 15—18.
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welcome to newsday. i'm mariko oi in singapore. the headlines this hour: democrats announce a formal impeachment inquiry against president trump. nancy pelosi says he has violated the constitution. the actions of the trump presidency revealed the dishonourable fact of president trump's betrayal of his oath of office, betrayal of our national security and betrayal of the integrity of our elections. the uk's supreme court rules that borisjohnson's suspension of parliament was unlawful. he says the verdict is wrong — but will respect it.

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