good morning. welcome to breakfast with charlie stayt and mega munchetty. our headlines today: prince harry takes on the tabloids. the duke takes legal action against the owners of the sun and the mirror over alleged phone hacking. violent protests continue in hong kong as demonstrators respond angrily to the new face mask ban. this was my mum and dad that we are talking about. so i was literally... in her first tv interview, the daughter of a woman cleared of murdering her husband calls for a change in the law around assisted dying. england will reach the quarterfinals of the rugby world cup with a win this morning, but their match with argentina

is their toughest test yet. we'll find out if mike bushell can cha—cha—charm his fiercest critics — his three daughters — as he prepares to take to the dance floor as magic mike for strictly‘s movie week. good morning to you. quite a mixture of weather this weekend. today it looks like western areas will see the most of cloud and rain and further east it will be brighter but tomorrow, reversal of fortune with the east seeing heavy rain. all of the east seeing heavy rain. all of the details for you a little later on. good morning. it's saturday, the 5th of october. our top story: the duke of sussex has launched a war on the press, filing a legal action against the owners of the sun, the now defunct news of the world, and the daily mirror, in relation to alleged phone hacking. it's not yet clear when prince harry's allegations date from, but in a phone—hacking trial in 2011, he was named, along with prince william, as a victim. his move follows the announcement that his wife meghan is taking separate legal action

against the mail on sunday. ben ando has more. the end of another high—profile tour, fulfilling their royal duties, meeting and greeting, but it ever frosty relations between the prince and the press. now, harry is suing the publishers of two tabloid newspapers, the sun and the mirror, over allegations his mobile phone was hacked, it is thought, in the early 2000. the phone—hacking scandal led to the closure of the mighty news of the world is paper in 2011 and during a trial this year, prince harry, william and kate middleton, now the duchess of cambridge, were named as victims, but why is the prince suing now? world rarely reach for a royal —— lawyer and the reason as it is a high risk strategy, they can be cross—examined, they can also have disclosure go to places that they do not really want. so it is a very high risk strategy, there are things outside their control but it is also a high risk strategy for the editors

who are going to have to give evidence too. there are strong suggestions that in taking this action, harry is ignoring the advice of palace officials. but ever since he refused to take part in the traditional newborn baby photocall when his son archie was born in may, it has been clear that the duke of sussexis it has been clear that the duke of sussex is ready to challenge expectations of how much or how little privacy members of the royal family can expect. 0n little privacy members of the royal family can expect. on tuesday in south africa, the duke accused britain's tabloids of a ruthless campaign against his wife meghan and she started legal proceedings against the mail on sunday, claiming it unlawfully published a private letter. it seems the sussex is believe only the courts can give them the privacy they feel they are entitled to. ben ando, bbc news. thousands have taken part in unplanned protests in hong kong after the territory's government announced a face mask ban. it comes after an escalation of violence during protests

on tuesday, when an officer shot a demonstrator. 0ur china correspondent robin brant is there for us now. give us a sense of your location and what is going to be happening the rest of the day. this is a big shopping area called causeway bay, on the island of hong kong. it looks like business as usual but actually, this is a city which is partially in shutdown because the mtr, the metro network, was suspended yesterday, the first time that has happened since these protests began, there was no buses or light rail last night and all of the metro stations we re night and all of the metro stations were closed and it remains the case this morning which makes it of course harderfor this morning which makes it of course harder for protesters to get around and to plan what they are going to do. we have looked at social media this morning and it is supposed to be a protest massing here in 55 minutes, two o'clock local time, but these things do tend to emerge but there is a sense of some social media they will stay away and wait until the mtr system opens again so perhaps the move by

the authorities have been successful, we will have to wait and see. in terms of the broader context, look, really, a case of heightened tension last night, the police admitted the 14—year—old teenager was shot in the leg when off duty officer was dragged from his car by some protesters and used his car by some protesters and used his gun in self there were petrol—bombs thrown as well which shows you how tense it really is between the two sides and i think the move by the government yesterday to bring in this ban on facemasks was a sign of their escalation but also very inflammatory and was met with immediate defiance by hundreds of protesters on the street yesterday. thank you. senior democrats in the us are demanding the white house hands over documents for their investigation into president trump. mr trump is accused of pressuring ukraine to investigate his political rivaljoe biden, which he denies. here's our washington correspondent chris buckler. democrats inside congress have been asking the white house for these documents, now they are issuing a

subpoena they are demanding them. this is all intended to put pressure on the president. among the things they want to see is a full rather than a rough transcript of exactly what donald trump said to ukrainian counterpart vladimir lenski injuly. —— volodymyr zelensky. in that call, he asked the president to launch an investigation into his political rival and potential presidential candidate joe biden. democrats rival and potential presidential candidatejoe biden. democrats also wa nt to candidatejoe biden. democrats also want to find any documents that suggest people in the white house we re suggest people in the white house were discussing the possibility of suspending security assistance to ukraine. they have been suggestions that the president may have been looking at that as something he could use as a bargaining chip with ukraine. they have also been a letter from the three chairmen of congressional committees looking into impeachment. in them, they say they have been stonewalled by the white house and they accuse the

president of choosing the path of defiance, obstruction and cover—up. both are strong words and it has been a strong response from the white house in which they say this is nothing but a kangaroo court that will waste time and taxpayer money. they also say their enquiries will ultimately only show that the president did nothing wrong. more than 1,600 uk high street shops have closed as a result of restructuring deals since the beginning of last year, according to new figures. the local data company has looked at the impact of so—called company voluntary arrangements and found that nearly two thirds of closed stores are still sitting empty. our business correspondent emma simpson has more. they have been trading for more than 100 years at this store. beautiful cuts. a family business that prides itself on and service. the 0gden brothers have been keeping a close eye on their high street too. and these last two years, it has lost a bit of its sparkle. this is the prime shopping area then? it's lovely. it is a lovely street and it

has always been a premium shopping street in harrogate. but you have got gaps now? yes, it is sad to see because five years ago it would have been unthinkable to have these empty units. it is a real shame. even this, a attractive and popular spa town, isn't immune from our changing shopping habits. i think it is the cost of trading interrogate a quite high, the rent is high, the rates are high, and i think all that needs to happen is if all —— footfall drops off a fraction it becomes less viable. it is the big chains who have been pulling out, a familiar story on high streets up and down the country. and we have been crunching the numbers. since the start of 2018, 23 chains have done restructuring deals to cut costs. they are known as company voluntary arrangements, a form of insolvency proceedings. so far, 1676 outlets have shut, mainly in retail. and

nearly two—thirds of them are still sitting empty. here is one of them. this used to be the early learning centre. they shut the doors and handed back the keys, leaving the landlord with a substantial repairing liability. up to possibly £100,000. now this letting agent is trying to fill the gap. it is the toughest market i have ever known for retail properties, certainly. landlords have to reduce the rents. the government have to reduce the rates liability. it is substantial. and i think the town councils have to help by reducing car parking, having won our free parking or something like that. you wouldn't let it to a chain again? i don't think he would, no. here is another chain that left, but it is just got a new lease of life. this local business what a deal and moved in.

it has been lovely, the landlord, and takena it has been lovely, the landlord, and taken a chance on us. we are an independent, family run business and we wa nt independent, family run business and we want to bring something back, we wa nt to we want to bring something back, we want to be in the town centre and looking around, this is what people want. while other town centres are battling for survival, the challenge here is keeping harrogate special. a recipe that might now need a tweak. emma simpson, bbc news. a british—australian woman and her australian boyfriend have been released from a prison in iran after being held for three months. jolie king and mark firkin were arrested for reportedly flying a drone without a permit. australia's foreign minister says tehran has dropped all charges against the couple. if you dread to think how many pairs of shoes you have knocking around the house, at least you can be sure you probably don't have enough to start your own exhibition. take a look at this! these trainers are among 2,000 pairs owned by gary aspden, who put around half of them on display in blackburn. fans queued overnight to see the collection, and to buy a pair of limited edition trainers emblazoned with the name

of the town. profits will go to a homelessness charity. there you go. lots of shoes. is that your thing? there you go. lots of shoes. is that yourthing? i there you go. lots of shoes. is that your thing? i have one pair. there you go. lots of shoes. is that yourthing? i have one pair. it there you go. lots of shoes. is that your thing? i have one pair. it is all i need! who has the weather for us today? stav? and with the sport coming up later we have the rugby world cup action with england in action and while we are on air this morning, kick off japan is while we are on air this morning, kick offjapan is 9am sojohn will keep you across all of the news as well. are you pleased you are working at 9am? it is perfect. it works so well. there are fresh calls for a change in the law on assisted dying from the family of an 80—year—old woman who has been cleared of killing her terminally ill husband. mavis eccleston and her husband dennis were both found unconscious at their home in staffordshire after taking an overdose. mavis recovered, but was later charged with murder. john maguire has been to speaking to their daughterjoy.

married for 60 years, their attention was to die as they have lived, together. —— their intention. dennis was suffering from terminal bowel cancer. he just wanted to end his life. without any pain, and go without any treatment. so his wife mavis eccleston gave him an overdose of prescription medicine before taking one herself. both were found unconscious at their bungalow in staffordshire. but after hospital treatment, mavis survived. she was then charged with her husband's murder. that word, murder, but doesn't live in our lives. you know, we are normal people and when you hear that someone has been murdered, you think of something horrific and this was my mum and dad we were talking about. so i was literally... it's ok. i was holding on to her and

just didn't want her to — i didn't wa nt just didn't want her to — i didn't want them to take her and you could see that they — they didn't want to ta ke see that they — they didn't want to take her but they had to, because it was theirjob. and so obviously, she went away, bless her, and she is only four foot eight in a 90, dressing gown and slippers because we we re dressing gown and slippers because we were told she would just be away for three hours. it ended up being nearly 30. after a trial lasting nearly 30. after a trial lasting nearly three weeks the jury found mavis not guilty. herfamily nearly three weeks the jury found mavis not guilty. her family are joining calls for a change in legislation to allow assisted dying. the law exists to protect the sanctity of life, and how can a law like this be introduced and how can a lord to buy things? they have in both countries and it works perfectly well and we are talking about people, not the vulnerable people, people who are of sound mind to have that choice. to be able to turn around and say "this is it now. this is how i would like to go." so

for instance my dad, "i would like to go at home with my family around me." and of course you will have a medical team there, you will have signed all of the documents and everything else, they are going to have been safeguarded, we're not talking about just anybody have been safeguarded, we're not talking aboutjust anybody being able to do it and get away with it, this is not what we're talking about at all, we're talking about the law. in which the government says would have to be approved by parliament, which, four years ago, voted against the change. but mavis's family says they will keep campaigning. after they will keep campaigning. after the loss of their father and very nearly losing their mother. john maguire, bbc news, staffordshire. heartbreaking story. it is coming up toa heartbreaking story. it is coming up to a quarter past six. good morning. here's stav with a look at the weekend weather. lots of people will get sunshine and rain and in fact everyone will get a bit of everything? you are right. it isa bit of everything? you are right. it is a big mixture this weekend, we have got rain or thick cloud today

pushing into western areas, and then the east should be largely dry and tomorrow is the reverse with heavy rain across the east with the best of the sunshine in the west and it really is another weekend is shaping up. this is the weather front which is going to bring the rain later on today across western areas and this is the system which will bring actually monday's wet weather as well so we have a whole conveyor belt of wet weather approaching our shores, very typical autumn weather. starting chilli across northern and eastern areas, below freezing across northern scotland whereas across the south—west, mild. 15 degrees a few hours ago. the big contrast continues through today but we will see the best of the brightness and dry weather holding on across the east of the country, probably the best of the sunshine in the northern isles and the north—east of scotland and one or two showers here and it will turn windy as the day wears on but western scotland in the western isles the weather front bringing thicker cloud outbreaks of rain and some turning heavier in the day and some turning heavier in the day and some two for northern ireland, heading into north—west england and

fringes of western wales but ahead a bit there could be some light rain and drizzle. the wind but generally light and the top temperature is around 15— 17 degrees in the south, fairly mild, around the low teens further north and you will notice the arrows on there, it will turn windy this evening and tonight and tonight and the rain really does pick up as it slowly moves eastwards, you can see the dark blue and the writer echoes there. but even be a rumble of thunder as it pushes east but it will grind to a halt there, further west it will turn a bit drier by the end of the night and maybe a few showers but nowhere will be cold tonight because of the wind, rain and cloud. double figures for all! this feature holds on across the eastern, the west of the country, through the day on sunday and a little area of low pressure develops across the south—east, turning windy later in the day. the met office have some yellow warnings in force with his reign as it is pretty heavy and stationary across the north and east of the country. tending to pull away slowly from the north is the day wears on and lingering across parts of lincolnshire, yorkshire, darling

towards east anglia so they could be some issues of low cloud floating around, the ground is saturated with all the rain we have had but the best of the weather will be further west, northern ireland, parts of wales and the south—western sunshine around but it will turn quite windy later on in the day. bridges maybe not quite as high as today, 15—16, 12-14 not quite as high as today, 15—16, 12—14 further north. that is the weekend and into next week, typical autumn weather. we will see those areas of low pressure moving and of the atlantic and it could be windy at times, a west on a south—westerly wind, and we will see some rain but there will be some sunshine in between as well. it's time now for this week's film review. hello and welcome to the film review on bbc news. taking us through this week's releases, we've got mark kermode. who else? mark, you've got some big movies this week to talk about. and they couldn't be more different.

we havejudy, in which renee zellweger plastudy garland. we havejoker with an arresting central performance byjoaquin phoenix. and good posture, a little indie pic directed by dolly wells. so, from bridgetjones to judy garland. this has been in the works a long time, adapted from the stage play called end of the rainbow. it's the end ofjudy garland's life, it's when she was playing at the talk of the town, she is low on money so she has to do the gig despite the fact that she s not entir‘ly certain she can do it. she didn't want to leave her kids in america but she had to earn money. and the film catches up with her very much like with stan and ollie, that weird hinterland when suddenly hollywood stars find themselves working and not ideal situations in the uk. when she has to go on stage, because she has had pills and booze problems in the past, she doesn't think her voice is up to it, she's not sure that she can do it but jessie buckley, who is playing her assistant is absolutely insistent that it is time to go on. thank you, ladies. clear the way, clear the way. thank you. here we go, boys.

what's the matter? i can't. what? what you mean you can't? there is an audience out there waiting to hear you sing. my mouth is dry and it could fall apart. listen to me. i can't. you'll be fine. now, on you go. applause and cheering. the show must go on. it was a very tragic life story, wasn't it? it was, the film does a lot of flashing back to her childhood, on set at the wizard of oz, being bullied and starved by louis b

mayer. there is one thing which she is told, here is a birthday cake, don't eat it. because she is not allowed to eat anything. we see a heartbreaking moment with mickey rooney where she says, are we dating? and he says, no, we're just good pals. the film is fairly on the nose about that sort of thing. it says this came from that and this led to that. it is stagey in its construction and at the heart of it is this performance by renee zellweger which i neverforgot that i was watching renee zellweger performing a legend. it wasn't like watching joaquin phoenix in walk the line, orjerry lee lewis played by dennis quaid. but the more i thought about it, perhaps that performance fits the film, because there is line the film where she says, i'm onlyjudy for like an hour and the rest of the time i'm somebody else. so, a lot of the film is about her performing the role ofjudy, and in a weird way, watching renee zellweger giving a performance asjudy kind of fits. the other thing is the film does have a lot of darkness in it and

one of the things it lacks is thatjoy, that sparkle, thatjoie de vivre that you got from judy garland's performance. there are two characters who are fans who absolutely love her and one reason they have been written in is because they stress how important she was to the lgbt community but also i found that through them, watching her on stage, you saw in his face the joy that you should have been feeling from the performance. it is an interesting film, it is very strong performance, a strange performance but very strong. you mention joaquin phoenix, we are going to talk aboutjoker, shrouded in controversy. it opened at a festival and gets an eight—minute standing ovation, wins top prize and the next thing is there is a backlash saying it's irresponsible, a cruel and nasty film.

irresponsible, some say, because it is thought it could inspire violence. well... ok, the story is about a character made byjoaquin phoenix, arthur fleck, who wants to be a stand—up comedian but doesn't understand what anybody else finds funny, is living an embittered life with his mother, he gets beaten up and abused, and he turns. very much in the style of something like death wish, or more recently something like falling down. because he is dressed as a clown, that inspires an uprising. it is a film which is dealing with volatile issues. it's also made by the director of the hangover movies which never dealt with subtlety of kindness very much. my question is this, it's an origins film aboutjoker, what do people expect it to be? at the centre of it, you have a mesmerising performance byjoaquin phoenix. the film, its prime frame of reference is martin scorsese's king of comedy, one of the darkest comedies ever made.

de niro plays a guy who kidnaps his way onto television. here, robert de niro plays a character who is a smarmy tv talk—show host, so it reference points the ‘70s, martin scorsese, nothing about it is subtle. yes, it is a nasty, dark, difficult film. is it very violent? no, certainly no more so than any mainstream cinema. in the end, it is a character study, it is a very dyspeptic view of the world. that is what it is meant to be. i went in thinking i hate that hangover movies, and i came out thinking, wow, who thought the guy that made the hangover movies could make that movie. good posture. a completely different independent picture written and directed by dolly wells. grace van patten is a young woman who finds herself needing somewhere to live, she ends up living in a house in which lives a reclusive author played by emily mortimer. she has to do chores and make dinner but they hardly see each other and yet they develop strange relationship by reading and writing each other‘s journal.

it is an epistolary tale about two people living in the same house. here is a clip. what? lilian, might be something there. getting don stoned first night in our home, desperate for affirmation, scared of women, feral, chewing gum on the steps, footprints on the wall. toothpaste all over the mirror.

so, you get a sense from that. it has a very indie feel to it. what i liked about it was many of the characters in it are quite difficult and annoying. she is called and is referred to as an oaf. the writer played by emily mortimer is frosty and difficult, which is playing completely against type for emily mortimer. it raises the question, can you like a film with unlikeable characters? the answer in this case is yes. this is an indie film in which somebody produces a ukulele. i have a rule which is don't produce a ukulele unless you do something interesting. and actually it did. i did laugh a lot, it was very funny. also, it has that thing about it has got a nice offbeat strange off—kilter feel to it. a relationship between people who are not likeable and in many ways you could take against them and find them irritating but it doesn't mean you find the film irritating.

mark kermode ukulele rule. good to know that rule. the best out that the moment? the farewell. it is life enhancing and charming and about the anticipation of death but also it is funny and it is very, very honest about families and this range of relationships between families. somebody is a terminal diagnosis and they are the only one who doesn't know because their family thinks they shouldn't know. great performance. i went to see it knowing nothing about it other than the title and i was completely knocked out. i have been to see your best dvd which i absolutely adore. rocketman. it is so worth seeing twice or even three times to get the most out of it. it is really layered, brilliantly directed by dexter fletcher, who took over the direction of bohemian rhapsody, and i think in many ways he saved that film. also, bernie taupin played by jamie bell, who currently is also in cinemas playing a tattooed neo—nazi skinhead. the range is extraordinary. it's a proper musical. like tommy.

i think it owes a great debt to that film. it is one of my favourite films of the year. you were told that whether you believe renee zellweger wasjudy garland but although he is quite different in some ways from eltonjohn, you do believe it is him. i absolutely do. it is that weird thing about whether when you are watching somebody performing a performer, whether you think you are watching a performer or seeing the real person. i think sissy spacek in the coal miner's daughter is something where completely lose it. when he was cast i thought it was interesting but five minutes into the film, you think it is fine, everything, the stance on a mixture of the bare—chested bravado but also that kind of rabbit in the headlights found ability. it really made eltonjohn one of the most interesting performers

of the glam rock era. and eltonjohn loved it. who wouldn't! he's got very good taste. thank you very much. that is it for this week. thank you for watching. goodbye from both of us.

hello, this is breakfast with naga munchetty and charlie stayt. good morning. here's a summary of today's main stories from bbc news. the duke of sussex has launched a legal battle against the tabloid press, taking action against the owners of the sun, the now defunct news of the world, and the daily mirror, in relation to alleged phone hacking. it's not yet clear when prince harry's allegations date from, but in a phone hacking trial in 2011, he was named, along with prince william, as a victim. his move follows the announcement that his wife meghan is taking

separate legal action against the mail on sunday. thousands have taken part in unplanned protests in hong kong, after the territory's government announced a face mask ban. demonstrators blocked roads, torched chinese flags and vandalised metro stations, as police fired rounds of tear gas. it comes after an escalation of violence on tuesday, when an officer shot a demonstrator. senior democrats in the us are demanding the white house hands over documents for their investigation into president trump. they say they have "ample evidence" that mr trump put pressure on ukraine to investigate his political rival, joe biden, which he denies. a british—australian woman and her australian boyfriend have been released from a prison in iran after being held for three months. jolie king and mark firkin were arrested for reportedly flying a drone without a permit. australia's foreign minister says tehran has dropped all charges

against the couple. more than 1,600 uk high street shops have closed as a result of restructuring deals since the beginning of last year, according to new figures. the local data company has looked at the impact of so—called company voluntary arrangements and found that nearly two thirds of closed stores are still sitting empty. nottingham, birmingham and harrogate are among the worst affected areas. a disgraced politician in colombia has escaped jail by shimmying down a rope during a doctor's appointment. cctv footage shows aida merlano, who is serving 15 years for electoral fraud and other crimes, pulling the rope from her bag and tying it to a desk at the doctor's office in bogota. her daughter has been arrested, but merlano remains at large after being whisked away on a motorcycle. i think it is a sign of the significant of going to come to england by the intensity of the

training session may have had that precedes it. the rugby world cup and england... must win. simple as. how do we know the training sessions have been more intense?” do we know the training sessions have been more intense? i read about it! did you? did you do yourjob? he knows his stuff! who would have thought! can i rephrase? john, please tell me how intense the training was. before a big game it will be a light session and yesterday it was a full—blown meaty affair. which is unusual, is it? you wouldn't want to risk injury before a big game and certainly this is the toughest for england so far in the by toughest for england so far in the rug by world toughest for england so far in the rugby world so... please tell us more. i am here throughout the morning. it's quite simple for england — win and they're through. they're top of their pool after bonus point wins against tonga and the usa. they've never lost to argentina at a world cup. head coach eddie jones willing his team on ahead of their match in tokyo.

rugby is a physical game, it is a tough, physical game, we have seen it already at the world cup. so the passion and pride come out and the toughness with your play. but then there is the emotional control because when you have a lot of passion and pride, it tends to multiply your strengths and multiply your weaknesses. so we obviously wa nt to your weaknesses. so we obviously want to play to our strengths and attack their weaknesses. now to some fast times at the world athletics championships, where great britain's 4 by 100 relay team reached today's finals. the men chalked up the best time this year to qualify. they are the reigning world champions and were anchored to victory by nethaneel mitchell—blake bringing it home for great britain in a time of 37.56 seconds — a season's best. brazil came second and usa in third. dina asher—smith's hopes of a third medal remain alive as the women came second in their heat behind jamaica. the new 200m world champion was rested, but will return to the team for the tonight's final. a bit of history in the men's1500m

as three british men reached the final through to the final for the first time in the championship competition's history. after neil gourley qualified comfortably in his heat, josh kerr made it through in fourth, while jake wightman had a nervous wait to find out if he'd made it, but his seventh place finish was enough. and in the men's 20km race walk last night. tom bosworth finished in seventh place. he was disqualified from the event at the last world championships, so delighted to finish strongly. but will be able to sympathise with fellow brit callum wilkinson, who was unfortunately disqualified this time round. he was left in floods of tears. japan's toshikazu yamanishi took gold. quite a story in rugby league. salford red devils finished one off the bottom in super league last season. this time around, they could be champions. they reached their first grand final last night with a 28—4 win over the 5—time champions wigan.

joe lynskey reports. this is the miracle of the red devils. the tears ofjoy for one of this year's great underdogs. they were nearly relegated last year and now, they are one match away from the super league title. even arriving at wigan, they were rank outsiders, but these are the play—offs, where it means more. wigan had won all four meetings this year but now, salford had worked out how to get through. this opener made them start to believe. in the second half, joey was under the post but facing a wall. he made a dent — just enough to make the ball brush the line. salford, try. joy- wigan were being pushed off home turf by the neighbours. for them it's a season that's fallen apart. salford have one of the lowest budgets in the league. here, they were supercharged.

the grand final at old trafford — you can almost see it from salford's ground. some might have thought they would never get there. next weekend, it will feel like home. back to rugby union. exeter recorded a bonus point win at worcester in the premiership rugby cup. tom howe ran in a hat—trick of tries for the hosts, but it wasn't enough as exeter came from behind to win by 311—19 at sixways. it sees them replace worcester at the top of pool 3. leinster claimed their second consecutive pro1li bonus point win against a threadbare 0spreys side. ronan kelleher was the star of the show for the irish, the hooker scoring a hat—trick of tries as they thrashed the welsh side by 53—5. elsewhere, scarlets beat glasgow. 0nto football, and birmingham beat struggling middlesbrough 2—1. teenager 0din bailey with the winner with his first goal for the club in the 90th minute. they left really late.

the win sees birmingham jump to 12th in the table, while boro stay in 20th, just four points off the drop zone. all eyes on tottenham today after a pretty disastrous week. they play brighton after being being beaten 7—2 at home to bayern munich in the champions league on tuesday — a defeat that led to more questions over the attitude of the players and the future of manager mauricio pochettino. the argentinian insists his side can turn things around though. i cannot justify the wrestle, i cannotjustify the wrestle, the wrestle make... torpedo bigger, bigger things, and of course you cannot stop the comments and everything but i think in three days, hope complete change, you know, the perception, the most important that it is clear that we are together and we're to find a way to win again. we will bring you that result later. in the scottish premiership, rangers and celtic aren't in action until tomorrow. today, bottom side stjohnstone

travel to ross county. third—placed motherwell host st mirren as they attempt to close the gap between themselves and rangers in second. england's women take on brazil in a friendly in middlesbrough this afternoon, hoping to end a run of four games without a win. england are higher in the world rankings than the south americans and beat them earlier this year at the shebelieves cup. however, ellen white and fran kirby are missing through injury. nikita parris is the only one recognised striker in phil neville's squad. hopefully these people have come and bought tickets and we have a sell—out stadium which is fantastic and can really get behind us and really push us on and for us as players, we are determined to put on a good performance to show them what we are a good performance to show them what we a re really a good performance to show them what we are really about and it will be a tough game but i think when play we in these high pressure environments it really does bring the best out of us. they have been on a tricky run ever since the world cup finished so they will be desperate to try to get a win but it looks like it'll be a full house at the riverside later, a

sell—out, so plenty of support there. and we will cross life to later on? for all of the buildup to the big one, nine o'clock. because they have been training hard? very hard. it was very intense! "a complete transformation of everything" — that's what the green party is promising it will deliver if it comes into power after the next general election. speaking at its annual conference, which is taking place in newport, south wales, this weekend, co—leaderjonathan bartley said he was "ashamed of what our country has become". he joins us now from our cardiff newsroom. thank you so much forjoining us. what are you ashamed about? what do we have to be ashamed about? what has been happening over brexit, the way that people have been shut out from the whole process right from the time or even before the referendum, i'm shaped the way the home office has behaved towards asylu m home office has behaved towards asylum seekers and refugees and the divide and will posit —— politics

against disabled people over the yea rs against disabled people over the years and those who claim benefits. we can be so much better than this isa we can be so much better than this is a country and we are putting forth proposals for a more hopeful future that will make it so. what actual power has the green party got though to make a change or make a difference? huge change over the last few years that we have seen and we have this thing in the party will we have this thing in the party will we say we greens leave, but of what lead, others follow, we have seen a shift towards recognition of the climate emergency and this is the number one priority for all of us because it threatens our very existence and if you do not have a political party that was shouting loudly and taking votes away from the other parties, as we did in local elections, european elections, doing current polling, we wouldn't see the massive shift we are seeing towards the focus on the environment. the labour party has passed its own, what is considered by some, radical green new deal. it is one of the major parties. there you go, it is taking up some of your space. you know what, if we could do ourselves out of a job, it would be amazing, ourjob would be done but

u nfortu nately amazing, ourjob would be done but unfortunately labour are committed to things like roadbuilding, fossil fuel subsidies, airport building, each as to which would destroy over 100 ancient woodlands up and down the country and we want to see the money going to a bottom—up rail revolution, free bus travel instead of the subsidies that are going towards roadbuilding, and we are putting forward different choices, we cannot go along the nuclear power route because we need to have renewable energy now and nuclear ta kes too renewable energy now and nuclear takes too long to get online, so we are making different choices, taking are making different choices, taking a different approach in terms of our green new deal. you have in the past praise the likes of the group extinction rebellion, greta thunberg as well, world leaders, are they listening to you? are you having access to anyone who can make a difference? i think that the climate movement has been incredible over the last few years, we have seen the school strikes, we have seen extinction rebellion, the awareness of the climate crisis has shut up the agenda and this is impacting on what leaders but they must do more

and clearly they are not doing enough and we are on target as a country with our own leaders to hit our two degrees limit, let alone 1.5 degrees, this is by the government's own admission and they are pursuing a franking industry in the country for crying out loud, new fossilfuel industry is the last thing we need to be doing so we need to show leadership in the country and that way we can affect other world leaders too. you support actions by extinction rebellion, such as spraying fake blood outside the treasury, as they did earlier this week? the green party have been committed to nonviolent direct action but done in the right way, i'm not so familiar with it because it is been happening during the green party conference but i took pa rt green party conference but i took part in some of the extinction rebellion activities a few months ago and! rebellion activities a few months ago and i will do this week as well. we believe that the situation is so urgent that we have to propel this agenda to something like the top, the government are not doing enough, we have pursued the court, pursuing the political route, and now direct

action is for many people the kind of last resort because the situation is urgent and we have to take action and complete everything that needs to happen in the next ten years, we cannot wait ten years to do it. you have one mp, that is what you have had since 2010. what seats are you targeting because you have not made any gain since then. so you need to focus, don't you? iwouldn't any gain since then. so you need to focus, don't you? i wouldn't be a great political leader if i gave away our secrets until we are targeting but i what i will say is look at the european elections will become first and second in a whole bunch of constituencies around the country. we doubled the number of meps. very different though, european elections are different in terms of tone and you would accept this, they are not a direct representation of what would happen if and when we have a general election. but so you are almost considered to be the protest vote but that doesn't really translate at a general election. no, but the european elections were a seismic change to any european elections we have seen before and the direction of travel is very clear. under the

first part of the post elections a few years before food weeks before we doubled the number of counsellors in the uk in one election and you can see that more and more people are wanting more and more choice and are wanting more and more choice and are not happy with the two big parties or being happy to force in this vote straitjacket of the 2—party system and they want more choice and we are seeing westminster voting, the polling, the green party also going up so more and more people are saying they will vote for what they believe in and will not be forced down the road where i have to hold my nose and vote for the least worst option. jonathan bartley, thank you very much forjoining us on breakfast this morning. a real mixture this weekend, rain pushing into western areas, bringing better weather to the western half of the uk today. tomorrow but rain band will be across the east where they could be some heavy rain at times, met office warnings in force for that. further west it should be

brighter. this is the system i am talking about and its weather front, which will bring rain today and tomorrow. this feature is going to bring some wet and fairly breezy weather on monday, some very typical autumnal weather. a chilly note across the north and east of the country. one or two pockets of frost for the scottish clans. the best of the sunshine here for the day in the northern isles and the north—east of scotland. further east at sunshine turning hazy after a dry start. the west it will be turning to rain. also, the wind is picking up across much of northern scotland as this front approaches, the answer by squeezing together. that could drive a few showers into the north—east of scotla nd a few showers into the north—east of scotland under the northern isles, but like i said, the best of the sunshine there today. much wetter for northern ireland, the western fringes of north—west england, down into western wales and the south—west. a little bit of light rain and drizzle ahead of that band of rain. generally, mostly dry across the midlands and into the south—east, with top temperatures around 15—17, in the mid further

north. notice the rain pepped up as it starts to push east this evening and overnight. notice the brighter colours. don't be surprised if you hear a rumble of thunder or two in places as that rain band becomes confined to northern and eastern areas, something a bit drier following behind. with this temperatures, nowhere will be particularly cold, with the wind, rain and cloud, temperatures generally into the teens for most. that rain becomes stalled across the eastern side of the country as it jumps into this area of high pressure. we will see a little area of low pressure developing across the south—east later in the day and that will actually increase the winds as well. we met office yellow warnings are in force in parts of eastern scotland, eastern england is down to the south—east. we could even see localised flooding in some places. the rain will be persistent for most of the day. one or two places seeing a washout. further west, not too bad, more sunshine around northern ireland, into wales and the south—west of england. as that area of low pressure develops we could see some cloud and showers feeding back into the midlands and

the winds will pick up across southern areas. so as a result, maybe not quite as warm tomorrow is today. 15 or 16 in the south, 12—14 further north. into next week it stays very autumnal. areas of low pressure moving of the north atla ntic to pressure moving of the north atlantic to bring wet and windy weather with sunshine in between. let's get the latest technology news, with this week's edition of click. some call it fake news, some call it disinformation, online manipulation or even information warfare. the tech giants call it coordinated inauthentic activity.

false news articles on facebook, bots putting questionable opinions on twitter. what we now know is that nation states have and are weaponising these techniques to their own ends. russia to interfere with elections, china to spread disinformation. but there is one place which hasn't been associated with deliberate disinformation recently and that is wikipedia. it is the largest collection of human knowledge ever created, arguably the first digital wonder of the world, the font of all internet knowledge. it has nearly 6 million pages with a staggering 18 billion page views every month. and it was created in the best spirit of the internet, transparent, non—profit—making and open for everyone to read and edit. we may have been naive to believe everything we read on facebook

but surely wikipedia's army of volunteer editors and fact checkers can keep this information under control? —— disinformation. well, now click investigates evidence of possible interference by the chinese state to manipulate wikipedia for its own propaganda aims. here's carl miller. edit wars stemming from genuine differences of opinion have been part and parcel of wikipedia since the very beginning. so has vandalism, which is why wikipedia has combated it with bots and volunteers with special powers patrolling the platform day or night. but what is to stop people — or even worse, government regimes — from manipulating it for their own ends? it's something that's bothered me instinctively for over a year now. what first got me on this track were these two documents. both initially written in chinese but we had them translated into english. one is written by a chinese official. the other was written by a couple of academics.

they present a playbook for how wikipedia operates, strategies to influence the platform and argue there are strong reasons for doing so. strategies such as creating teams to edit on the platform and cultivating opinion leaders and using different rhetoric to change and rebalance china's image. both papers stress what a vital source of information wikipedia is for the people around the world who read it, but complain that it contains misleading and prejudiced content against china's national and governmental image. but this isn'tjust a problem to be confronted by volunteers — in the words of one of the papers, the chinese state should act proactively too. one of the places mentioned is taiwan, situated to the south—east of mainland china. the island is regarded by china as a renegade province but many in taiwan dispute this understanding. so if a war on wikipedia is going to be fought anywhere it's going to be there. armed with this information, i went to meet some taiwanese wikipedians at a hackathon in the

capital city taipei. this is a very crazy year. yeah, a lot of taiwanese. wikipedians have been attacked and left. later on they pointed me to some examples of the kind of manipulation they say is happening on wikipedia on chinese—related issues. 0ne concerns the very nature of taiwan itself — is it an independent nation, or in fact a province of china? the repeating editing power articles on the english and chinese wikipedia and they wipe out the taiwan and just keep the china really repeating itself. taiwan is part of china, a province of china. it's not like outright vandalism it's just like pruning the language. shifting the language to kind of go from one thing to another. how long has it been going on for? years. years? and examples kept flowing,

such as the senkaku islands — a disputed territory, actually, but which for a while was china's inherent territory — at least in mandarin on the wiki data pages. although there are elected office holders with powers to take down or lock articles, some of taiwan's wikipedians fear that these elections for these positions have been targeted too, amid a general rising atmosphere of intimidation. so taiwanese wikipedians or people that voice anti—chinese opinions on wikipedia. they get attacked and trolled and abused and doxxed on wikipedia? regularly attacked. what does wikimedia global think of all of this? they don't care! is it because they are american, and theyjust don't know? the hostile words are lost in translations. heather ford has researched political edits on wikipedia.

whenever you have a group of motivated and well resourced people who are taking a particular political line on wikipedia articles they can very easily overwhelm the volunteer efforts of wikipedia. our own investigation has managed to find nearly 1600 times where across 20 topics or so wikipedia was changed to broadly bring its content closer to the chinese government's line. i tracked down an expert on chinese social media and cybersecurity to give me a broader sense of how this all fitted in. telling the china story has become a really important concept and idea in the last couple of years in chinese politics. they think that the rest of the world has wrong views of them, misunderstands them, and in order to do good politics for them they need to project a good image. looking at the articles on the recent protests in hong kong, the english and chinese versions are completely different

from one another. this time the edit war between a couple of editors saw 52 changes in the space of a single day, arguing over the goals of the protesters and small language tweaks constantly, such as whether they were protesters or in fact rioters. academic shirley yu thinks that trying to tell your story is really the natural behavior for any up and coming superpower. china feels like a hong kong issue is my issue. i own the issue therefore i own the voices on the issue and i should own the verdicts on the issues. everything that china is primarily interested in and concerned about is to defend its political positions. it's all about china. the anglo—saxon world primarily over the foreign debt, for decades, has really framed the china story

and the interpretation of china based on a western viewpoint and political and economic framework and i think today china does owe the world a china story told by itself in from a china's perspective. i think it's not only chinese privilege it really is a responsibility. we really don't know how widespread all this is across the vast expanse of wikipedia's multilingual entries. and it is impossible for us to verify whether the chinese government really is ultimately responsible for any of it. absolutely conceivable that people from the diaspora, you know, patriotic chinese are editing these wikipedia entries, but to say that is also to ignore that larger no structural coordinated strategy of the government has to manipulate these platforms. heather ford isn't surprised at all to see that states might be getting involved. i'm surprised it's taken this long actually. i mean when you consider the fact that wikipedia is not only the fifth most popular website in the world.

when you ask siri or you ask google questions, they're now using the knowledge engine from wikipedia. so it is a prioritized source of knowledge and facts about the world. and if you can influence that, then you are, you have — you are influencing how people are understanding and perceiving what the truth is. that is fascinating stuff. and carl's with me now in our underground bunker somewhere. carl, how sure can we be that these manipulations are being done under instruction from the chinese state? and also how sure can we be that it is really widespread? we know there were 1500 tendentious edits in our own investigation across roughly 20 different wikipedia entries and we know that all of them pointed in certain ways towards chinese geopolitical interests, as far as we can tell.

we don't know who was behind these edits. we don't know why in fact they were done and most importantly we can not make a direct link between any of those edits and the chinese government themselves. 0k. so you've put this to the wikimedia foundation which is the kind of overarching body that oversees wikipedia. what's their reaction? broadly they're saying that whatever you're actually doing on the site, if you're systematically doing it for political gain that really is against the very reason why wikipedia was really created. but the problem is that we've heard the same from facebook and other web 2.0 companies where they're basically saying, well, it violates our terms and conditions. but people still do it. the ace in the hole for wikipedia would be that they're now passing these links that we've sent them and all the evidence that we have to their tens of thousands of community editors and volunteers wikimedia foundation is not actually responsible for the content that would be the volunteers themselves. which of course is a huge benefit for them.

they can mobilise all these people around the world who will constantly patrol and protect the site. and in fact do return many of the edits that we saw at least back to their original state actually quite quickly. you know, you've got with wikipedia this vision of a kind of open internet, open knowledge, open source. but in stark contrast to have less of a newer, perhaps, but rising idea, and that is the kind of increasing power of states online, you know, the idea that geopolitical battles will now be fought online two, and that places like wikipedia may become too important or too powerful for states to really ignore in their struggles over the truth and in defining what people believe. carl, how absolutely fascinating. thank you so much for the research. and i am afraid that is all it for the short version of click. the full—length version is waiting for you right now on iplayer. you can find us throughout the week on facebook,

youtube, instagram and twitter. we are also on wikipedia, if you want to look us up. thanks for watching and we will see you soon.

good morning. welcome to breakfast with charlie stayt and naga munchetty. 0ur headlines today: prince harry takes on the tabloids. the duke begins legal action against the owners of the sun and the mirror over alleged phone hacking. violent protests continue in hong kong as demonstrators respond angrily to the new face mask ban. this is my mum and dad that we are talking about. so i was literally... in her first tv interview, the daughter of a woman cleared of murdering her husband calls for a change in the law around assisted dying. england will reach the quarterfinals of the rugby world cup with a win this morning. but their match with argentina is their toughest test yet. the return of the crazy cowboy. we'll catch up with mike as prepares to take to the dance floor as magic mike for strictly‘s movie week. good morning to you. quite a mixture of

weather this weekend.