you're watching bbc news at nine with me, annita mcveigh. the headlines: turkey continues a military offensive against kurdish forces in northern syria, after the us withdraws its troops from the area. america's secretary of state denies giving turkey persmission to attack. that is just false. the united states did not give turkey a green light. we will continue to be in a position to do what we need to do to keep the american people as safe as we possibly can. borisjohnson is due to meet the irish prime minister later to try to find a solution to the brexit deadlock president trump says ‘accidents happen‘ and that officials will speak to an american woman who claimed diplomatic

immunity and left the uk, after a crash that resulted in the death of teenager harry dunn. you have two wonderful parents who lost their son and the woman who was driving on the wrong side of the road. and that can happen. they have the opposite roads, it happens. i won't say ever happened to me, but it did. the mother of team gb snowboarder ellie soutter says she wants to help those with mental health problems, in herfirst interview since her daughter took her own life. she could not say how she felt, for whatever reason. i can now she could not say how she felt, for whatever reason. i can now encourage people to speak up and to share with their parents and share with their friends if they are having any problems, and i think that is what is pushing me on. englands‘s outgoing chief medical officer says eating and drinking on local public transport should be banned to help tackle childhood obesity. we'll be speaking to an expert in child eating behaviour to get their thoughts at 9:15.

and england's much—anticipated world cup rugby match against france has been cancelled because of a typhoon a typhoon heading forjapan. more in the sport at 09:35. good morning, and welcome to the bbc news at 9. good morning. the us secretary of state has said that washington didn't give turkey a ‘green light‘ to begin its military operation in north—east syria. kurdish forces, which control the area, have reported heavy airstrikes and the start of a ground offensive amid widespread panic. the turkish decision was prompted by president trump‘s announcement that us troops would withdraw from the region where thousands of captured fighters from the islamic state group

are being held by kurdish forces. president erdogan of turkey says his aim is to create a so—called ‘safe zone‘ —— cleared of kurdish fighters. the kurds were key allies of the us in defeating islamic state and they say they‘ve been betrayed by president trump. last night, boris johnson spoke to mr trump expressing concern about the risk of a humanitarian disaster in the region. our correspondent chris buckler reports. at the border with syria, turkey continues to build up its military presence. and as more troops arrive at this frontline, the sight of rockets is a signal of turkey‘s determination to seize control of this area, whatever it takes. ankara says it will not allow this stretch of land to become a corridor of terror. but the big fear for many in the international community is that this new conflict could further destabilise the middle east.

and withdrawing troops from here, the american government stands accused of abandoning its allies, the kurdish forces, who fought alongside them against the islamic state group. the us has given turkey a green light. that'sjust false. the united states didn't give turkey a green light. we will continue to be in a position to do what we need to do to keep the american people as safe as we possibly can from this threat. there are indications that the white house was taken by surprise by the scope of this invasion by turkey following a phone call to president trump on the weekend, putting him under pressure to explain why he‘s not done more to defend his kurdish allies. the kurds are fighting for their land, so you understand, they are fighting for their land and somebody wrote in a very powerful article today, they didn‘t help us in the second world war, they didn‘t help us with normandy, for example, they mention different battles but they are there to help us with their land. those kind of comments will be uncomfortable for many

european governments. even as turkey tries to clear the so—called safe zone of kurdish forces. the us military has taken custody of two british is detainees who were being held by kurdish forces in northern syria. el shafee elsheikh and alexanda kotey, were part of a notorious group, nicknamed the beatles, who tortured and killed western hostages. donald trump has confirmed the move on twitter, calling them "the worst of the worst". drjulie norman is with me now. she‘s a teaching fellow at university college london and a consultant on conflict in the middle east. good to have you with us. let‘s look at what mike pompeo was saying first,, was that an attempt at defending the us policy, are backpedalling on the policy? because many people believe the decision to move the us troops in the language from donald trump that came

afterwards was a provocation to turkey. absolutely, the comments of mike pompeo notwithstanding, the us move withdrawing the troops was a green light and completely facilitated the operation we see playing out now. it is something the administration knew would happen, so the words are just that, empty words. what are you hearing on the situation on the ground right now? it is playing out in the way that the kurds feared it would. turkey went in saying that they were going to try and clear the area of kurdish led militias and create a safe zone on the ground. in fact we are seeing a zone that will be anything but safe. it‘s destabilising the border and we are seeing air strikes and a ground offensive that displays and already are killing civilians and wounding others and an operation thatis wounding others and an operation that is willing to displace even more people in a way that is anything but safe or stable. we are showing viewers live images from the turkey and syria border and we mentioned in the introduction that

kurdish forces have been detaining large numbers of iis fighters. what is going to happen to the isis fighters now? this is a huge question and the kurdish lead militias had been instrumental in securing the areas containing former isis fighters and also form isis wives and children, so we are talking about tens of thousands of people and in the prisons alone there are over 12,000 militants and former militants. it‘s very unclear what will happen with the detainees if there is going to be any kind of plan for securing the prisons and we have heard that there was a move to remove high—profile prisoners and there is no clear sign there will be any wheel, much less capability for the kurds to maintain the security they provided in the past. so do you see so—called islamic state potentially exploiting the situation? absolutely. this is one of the fears that already the camps

and prisons were isis hotspots to try and reform, and having this instability will only facilitate that. even outside the prisons and camps, you can expect to see that isis will take advantage of the instability. how do you see this playing out? do you think turkey will stop until it develops this corridor it was talking about, or will america decide to pull troops back into the area again? it's a question right now, but we have seen a global response of alarm at what is happening. the un security council meets today after a push from the uk and france and the arab league is meeting today and when we see little political accord, democrats, republicans, iran and saudi arabia and the eu and the uk expressing concern over the move so we expect there will be an attempt to halt it but as we know from things like this in the past, that diplomacy can take a little while and a lot of damage can be done in the meantime. doctorjulie norman,

thank you for your thoughts on that story this morning. the prime minister will meet his irish counterpart leo varadkar today, in an attempt to find enough common ground to reach a brexit deal. borisjohnson will meet the taoiseach in the north west of england at lunchtime. the prospect of agreement seems remote as each side‘s plan has been rejected by the other, and the eu summit, where any deal would have to be signed off, is just a week away. so what is the view from westminster, our assistant political editor norman smith is there for us now. the two men are talking, we can at least say that but there are no new proposals on the table, are there? no, and it doesn‘t bode well, frankly because we know the existing package put forward by boris johnson, this idea of customs checks and giving the dup a veto has been rejected not just by and giving the dup a veto has been rejected notjust by dublin but by pretty much everyone and anyone in brussels as well. and there has been no new thinking from the eu side.

the hopi british government circles was that after their proposals were put on the table there would be counter proposals from the eu, and they haven‘t, because, bluntly, the view from the eu is that it is up to britain to provide answers to the brexit conundrum since it was britain that wanted to leave the eu, which means when the two men meet today it‘s very hard to see how they can bridge this divide if there is no new proposals or compromises or concessions on the table to try and help them through this. the only thing that mitigates against that is just the risk of this all ending up in no deal, which has profound economic implications for both sides, and that always had been the hope, i think, sides, and that always had been the hope, ithink, in british sides, and that always had been the hope, i think, in british government circles, that faced with the daunting prospect of no deal, at the end of the day, the european union would be prepared to compromise on some of its red lines, but thatjust

has not happened. so you are really left facing a situation where the overwhelming likelihood is that although the two men will again try to talk around possible areas where they could move forward, really, given where we are and the lack of time now before the crucial summit next thursday and friday, it seems to me overwhelmingly likely that we are not going to get any sort of deal to put to that summit. before we go to brussels to hear the view from the eu, let‘s talk aboutjeremy corbyn‘s beach later this afternoon. are we going to get any significant clue as to what his plans are in the crucial weeks ahead ? what clue as to what his plans are in the crucial weeks ahead? what we will get is clarity and confirmation that once no deal eased off the table thenjeremy once no deal eased off the table then jeremy corbyn once no deal eased off the table thenjeremy corbyn is once no deal eased off the table then jeremy corbyn is fixed once no deal eased off the table thenjeremy corbyn is fixed on having a general election. now why that matters is because there are a good many labour mps who think this isa good many labour mps who think this is a profound mistake, and far better, they argue, would be for labour to press for another

referendum that is a cleaner and simpler way to resolve brexit and because, frankly, their fear simpler way to resolve brexit and because, frankly, theirfear is simpler way to resolve brexit and because, frankly, their fear is that if there was a general election it would become in effect, a brexit general election which would drown out labour‘s anti—austerity message and where there are convoluted compromise, this idea of negotiating a deal but not backing the deal in a subsequent referendum, that would be badly exposed, and frankly that borisjohnson, looking badly exposed, and frankly that boris johnson, looking at badly exposed, and frankly that borisjohnson, looking at the polls could well win the general election and would return armed with a mandate for no further delay and no deal, precisely what labour is trying to avoid. norman, thank you very much. 0ur brussels correspondent adam fleming in is in brussels for us. norman was suggesting that the eu is in no mood to really rethink any of those red lines that it has been consistent on throughout this process. and how do you think

officials there will handle the next couple of weeks, because there‘s various permutations about what might happen. the technical talks that are happening between the uk and the eu negotiating teams, the uk tea m and the eu negotiating teams, the uk team being led by david frost, the prime minster‘s europe envoy, that has basically run its course on both sides. david frost was here last night and had a final meeting with the european commission. there were no others schedule. brexit secretary steve barclay was supposed to be here having a working lunch with michel barnier, but that has been postponed and it might be a working brea kfast postponed and it might be a working breakfast tomorrow instead. i imagine that is to take account of the fact that the prime minister is seeing leo varadkar today and it will possibly make more sense to have this meeting after that has happened rather than before it, although they say it is just for diary related reasons. yesterday we saw michel barnier in the european parliament telling meps in some detail what his objections are to the british proposals. it boils down to two big things, firstly the

proposals on customs require things like exemptions for small businesses from the eu‘s customs rules when they send stuff across the irish border. it also requires the eu to make lots of changes to its customs rules, and also make a pledge to keep an open border in the island of ireland but with no guarantees of what would be happening on the other side of that border which, to them, is just side of that border which, to them, isjust a side of that border which, to them, is just a total loss of control at one of the eu‘s external frontiers. the second thing they have concerns about is the idea of a consent mechanism for the stormont assembly, particularly the idea that the stormont assembly could veto any of these arrangements ever coming into force in the first place and then every four years you would have this big moment of uncertainty where maybe the stormont assembly could decide unilaterally to pull out of them. so if there is to be a deal soon or them. so if there is to be a deal soon or in the medium term, the uk will have to address the customs bit

and the northern ireland assembly bit. the eu says the solution to the customs bit is for northern ireland to stay in the customs union for a bit, the original backstop, but they are prepared to do some work on that consent mechanism. but it cannot be a unilateral veto for the stormont assembly, so those of the two areas where there is work required. but what the uk is clearly trying to do, rather than make tweaks to the deal and address those two parts of it, is to get the eu to make a big political decision to relax its para meters political decision to relax its parameters on what it wants out of this brexit deal. and presumably thatis this brexit deal. and presumably that is what tonight‘s meeting between leo varadkar that is what tonight‘s meeting between leo va radkar and that is what tonight‘s meeting between leo varadkar and boris johnson is an attempt to do by the brits to get the eu to think where this whole deal is going and what is acceptable. adam, thank you very much. president trump has said his officials will speak to the american woman who claimed diplomatic immunity and left the uk after she was involved in the death of a british motorcyclist. harry dunn was 19 when he was killed in a crash

in northamptonshire in august. anne sacoolas, who‘s 42, and the wife of a us official, later flew home to the states. mr dunn‘s family wants her to return for questioning by the police, a demand supported by borisjohnson, who has raised it with mr trump. what i am going to try and do and see, because i understand where the people from the uk are, and frankly many americans feel the same way. i was telling boris that we have many americans that they side on the fact that you have two wonderful parents who lost their son and the woman who was driving on the wrong side of the road. and that can happen. they have the opposite roads, it happens. i won‘t say ever happened to me, but it did. when you get used to driving on our system and then all of a sudden you are in the other system, it happens. you must be careful, very careful. so a young man was killed and the person who was driving the automobile has diplomatic immunity.

we are going to speak to her very shortly and see if we can do something. it was an accident. it was a terrible accident. however, in a photograph of the president taken yesterday before a press conference — briefing notes reveal that anne sacoolas will not be returned to the uk for trial. the notes were caught on camera by a washington post photographer as the president put them in his pocket. they said that "‘if raised‘ note, as secretary pompeo told dominic raab, the foreign secretary, that the spouse of the us government employee will not return to the united kingdom." the headlines on bbc news. turkey continues a military offensive against kurdish in northern syria after the us withdraws its troops from the area. borisjohnson is due to meet the irish prime minister later to try to find a solution to the brexit deadlock. president trump says officials

will speak to an american woman who claimed diplomatic immunity and left the uk after a crash that resulted in the death of teenager harry dunn. and in sport, england‘s final pool match against france at the rugby world cup injapan on saturday has been cancelled because of the expected arrival of typhoon hagibis, over the weekend. scotland‘s crucial match against hosts japan on sunday is still 0n as things stand. if it is cancelled scotland will almost certainly be out of the tournament. meanwhile, formula 1 has delayed a decision on whether to cancel japanese grand prix qualifying as a result of the typhoon until friday. more on all of those stories in 20 minutes. let‘s return now to our main story. turkey‘s military operation in north—east syria,

creating what president erdogan has so—called ‘safe zone‘ clear of kurdish fighters. let‘s speak now to our middle east correspondent martin patience who is at the syrian—turkish border. martin, what can you see from there? what reports you have about what is happening the area? far off in the distance is one syrian town, and late last night there was reportedly fierce clashes between turkish national forces that had moved into the town as well as kurdish dominated syrian democratic forces. by dominated syrian democratic forces. by midnight last night, turkey said it had hit more than 118 targets across northern syria with air strikes, as well as artillery. we know that turkish troops have moved into northern syria at many points across the border and the latest we have from turkish officials is that

operations are still going on, and about 60 miles away from here is one town, and we spoke to a man inside that town and he said it was being hit by turkish shelves as well as turkish jets circling overhead, hit by turkish shelves as well as turkishjets circling overhead, so this is an offensive well under way. reports of casualties so far, according to kurdish forces, seven civilians killed and about 20 others injured. now this offensive has been unleashed, so to speak, do you see anything stopping it? at the moment, no. turkish authorities say that this is an ongoing operation and it is huge in scope, right along the length of this border, about 200 miles or so and turkish authorities say they want to push about 20 miles deep, so this will take several days andi deep, so this will take several days and i think the big question is how much resistance kurdish forces will

actually put up, because put simply, they are no match for the turkish military which, let‘s not forget, is a member of nato. do the turkish authorities have a plan for what to do with all of those isis fighters and their families which are currently detained by the kurdish forces ? currently detained by the kurdish forces? if they have a plan, they haven‘t made it public. what we know is that president trump has said that the responsibility for isis fighters in this part of northern syria will ultimately reside with the turkish authorities, but they are fighting the kurds, and it is the kurds who have the isis prisoners in detention facilities. we know to hoe profile members were taken away into american custody sometime yesterday and it‘s not clear where they have been taken, but that suggests there was some coordination perhaps between the

americans and the kurds as well as the turks, but what we are talking about is thousands of eis prisoners in kurdish detention facilities as well as tens of thousands of women and children and kurdish fighters will say that they simply do not have the resources to look after that number of eis prisoners, and the big fear is that those prisoners could simply stage a break—out and that group could well stage a comeback in this part of northern syria. martin, thank you very much for that update. chancellor angela merkel has attended a memorial vigil in berlin for two people killed in an anti—semitic attack in the german city of halle. the gunman tried unsuccessfully to get into a synagogue yesterday before opening fire on the street outside. a man has been arrested. the former us vice president, joe biden, has made his most direct call so far for the impeachment

of president trump. addressing supporters in new hampshire, the democratic presidential hopeful said mr trump had already indicted himself by obstructing justice. the white house is refusing to co—operate with the impeachment inquiry. there should be a ban on eating and drinking on local public transport in a bid to tackle obesity in children, according to the outgoing chief medical officer for england. in herfinal report, professor dame sally davies says ministers need to take radical action. 0ur health correspondent dominic hughes has more. too much fatty food, too little exercise. it is proving to be a disastrous mix for children with the number of overweight and obese school pupils growing fast. now a hard—hitting report from the former chief medical officer suggests radical action, including banning food on public transport, tax breaks for healthy food and extending the sugar tax.

government needs to be bold and it can make a difference. and the public are asking for this. they believe, the public do, that government should protect their children. today‘s report lays out the challenge posed by childhood obesity. on average in a class of year 6 primary school children, six of 30 will be obese, twice the number compared to 30 years ago. in england alone, 1.2 million children are clinically obese. this feeds into diseases like type ii diabetes, once rare in children but there are now a hundred new cases each year. here is one solution. a mile every morning is part of the routine for pupils at this primary school in south london. it is an important part of the day. getting active before lessons helps with concentration levels and encourages healthy habits. a small step towards combating the growing danger of obesity. if they are not running,

they can walk. at the beginning, we had a couple who said they were tired and sat down and it‘s getting past that is the expectation to keep going. there have been some successes. the tax on sugary soft drinks has seen a dramatic reduction in the amount of sugar being consumed. but the report today calls for the government to go even further. the aim, to ensure that schoolchildren like these have the chance to make healthy choices. let‘s speak now to professor jacqueline blissett. she‘s chair of childhood eating behaviour at aston university. good to have you with us and i want to talk specifically about the work you are doing there in a moment, but what is your general reaction to these ideas put forward by professor dame sally davies, including this ban on eating on public transport, which is attracting a lot of attention, with some people saying it is unworkable, what of somebody actually needs to eat?|j

it is unworkable, what of somebody actually needs to eat? i think this report is absolutely vital. we are really struggling to tackle the problem of childhood obesity, and the report recommends a whole host of changes that we need to make urgently and recommendation is for suggesting a ban eating on public transport is just one of them. it might not be the easiest to implement and it might make small changes to peoples habits but that is the whole idea. we need to be changing our food environments is the whole idea. we need to be changing ourfood environments so it makes it easier for all of us, not just children, to make healthy choices. the work you are doing, you say there are multiple factors that can influence whether somebody will become obese and for one person a small change like reducing portion size might be enough to make the difference, but for others it will require multiple changes. tell us more about the studies you‘ve been undertaking where there are particularly high rates of childhood obesity, in the birmingham area.

indeed, in birmingham we have a particularly significant problem with childhood obesity and this is concentrated in the areas with the highest poverty, a pattern we see right across the nation. just to give you an example, in one of our poorest areas in birmingham, we have around 75% of children who are overweight or have obesity. 75%? overweight or have obesity. 7596? 7596. overweight or have obesity. 7596? 75%. it is a significant challenge for us, but the problem of obesity is multifactorial and extremely complex. it is not remedied with a quick fix. we have been carrying out work at aston university to work with computer modellers to try and get computer models of the complexity of the influences on eating behaviour, particularly in children, to try and identify some of the most effective changes we can make to the obese society in which we live, to have effective behaviour

change for individuals, but also as a society. reading through what you have been doing, i think you said that until today the focus on individual responsibility for weight control leads to stigma and blame and actually, rather than focusing on that, because you argue that children can‘t be expected to do that themselves, we have to look at systemwide changes. does that link through to what dame sally has been talking about and the idea of a ban on eating and drinking on public transport. that is absolutely right. the whole premise of the report is really about changing the opportunities that are around us now in the food environment for making healthy choices. so, again, the ban on eating on public transport is just one of those, but changes to the food industry regulations and changing to advertising food and of those high energy dense foods, those are the things we need to change at

system level to make it easier for individuals to make healthy choices. ifi individuals to make healthy choices. if i could interrupt, even then, you talk about a recent 12 month study, well—designed in your words, and intervention in birmingham, daily school physical activity and the involvement of aston villa football club, workshops to teach families how to cook healthily and the results made no difference to the bmi of the children, so if you throw all of these resources at a group of people and it still doesn‘t make a difference, what do you do then? that‘s a good illustration and it was an excellent study carried out by people at birmingham university, a very well—designed study with great interventions, focused on school and family level and with the involvement of some elements of the broader community, but indeed we did not see from that study large changes in children‘s weight outcomes. that speaks to the need to

change society as a whole, change the entire food environment, put pressure on food industry, change the food advertising that our children see and make it easier for people to make those healthy choices. it‘s absolutely unreasonable for us to expect children to make healthy choices when the majority of us as adults cannot make those healthy choices regularly either. we have to change the broad food environment to really make a difference to people‘s individual health. thank you very much. and coming up in the sport — the rugby world cup could be the rugby world cup could be in peril. england‘s match against france has been cancelled because of a typhoon heading forjapan — more in the sport at 09:35 now it‘s time for a

look at the weather. it isa it is a warm front so we will see milderaircoming ourway it is a warm front so we will see milder air coming our way and some showers behind it as well. as we go through the evening and overnight, that same band of rain will make it across the rest of scotland, putting into the northern isles. another band of rain in england and into wales and this one could be quite potent, producing quite heavy rain in nota potent, producing quite heavy rain in not a lot of time with surface water and spray around and the risk of localised flooding from this particular band even into tomorrow. tomorrow across southern england and wales it will be gusty, with winds of up to 45 mph and more than that locally. the rain sweeps south leaving drier and brighter weather behind with showers in the north and west.

hello. this is bbc news with annita mcveigh. the headlines: turkey continues a military offensive against kurdish forces in northern syria after the us withdraws its troops from the area. borisjohnson is due to meet the irish prime minister later to try to find a solution to the brexit deadlock. president trump says officials will speak to an american woman who claimed diplomatic immunity and left the uk after a crash that resulted in the death of teenager harry dunn. england‘s outgoing chief medical officer says eating and drinking on local public transport should be banned to help tackle childhood obesity. and we will hear from the mother of ellie souter speaking about her daughter‘s mental health issues, and we‘ll be speaking and we‘ll be speaking shortly to the charity mind,

as today is world mental health day. time now for the morning briefing, where we bring you up to speed on the stories people are watching, reading and sharing. among the most—read stories this morning is the spat between coleen rooney and rebekah va rdy. the sun features it on its front page with what it calls the "waggro" after ms rooney claims that someone using the instagram account of ms vardy, the wife of leicester city footballerjamie vardy, leaked stories about her to the sun. she claims she worked out it was ms vardy‘s account by blocking everyone else‘s account apart from hers and posting fake stories, which then appeared in the paper. "roodunnit?" is how the daily mirror reports the story. it says ms vardy is inconsolable and denies selling the stories. instead, she suggests it must have been somebody else who had access to her instagram account. it‘s world mental health day and this is a top trend on twitter this morning. mental health is also high on the real—time google search trends. people are sharing their sentiments

and stories in a bid to fight any possible stigma around mental illness. one of the top tweets from shubhrata prakash reads: "hi all. i am a civil servant, a mother, a wife, a daughter, a sister, a friend, an author. i have survived mental illness. and i‘m not ashamed of it. stigma stops with me." world rugby has confirmed that england‘s world cup match against france has been cancelled because of typhoon hagibis, which is trending on twitter this morning and among the most—read stories on the bbc news website. if sunday‘s scotland—japan match was to be called off, it would seem likely scotland would be knocked out of the competition as cancelled matches see both teams awarded two points as part of a 0—0 draw. scottish rugby are obviously keen for the game to go ahead. this morning they‘ve tweeted

"scottish rugby fully expects contingency plans to be put in place to enable scotland to contest for a place in the quarter—finals on the pitch, and will be flexible to accommodate this." a woman in pennsylvania has found more than 200 walnuts stashed under the bonnet of her car. the story for cbs news has been reacted to more than 2,800 times on facebook. and it‘s also performing well on facebook for abc with more than 1,900 reactions. holly persic‘s car was making a strange noise and smelt as if it was burning when the discovery was made. it is thought a squirrel has been hard at work. husband chris posted a warning that rodents and vehicles do not mix. a video of a man receiving his university degree just hours before his death from pancreatic cancer is performing well for nowthis news. the video has been viewed more than 200,000 times overnight and reacted to around 10,000 times. camden dillard was studying

for a science degree at university of north carolina at greensboro but injuly was diagnosed with cancer and was one unit short of finishing his course. camden‘s degree was eventually presented to him in the presence of his friends and he passed away that night. now let‘s have a look at what you are reading and watching on the bbc news app. this hasjust popped in at number one andi news app. this hasjust popped in at number one and i have not read it either so i will be looking at it with you. ninja student gets an a for invisible ink. she got top marks when the professor realised it was written in invisible ink. pretty appropriate for a student of ninja history! at number two is the story we have been telling you about today, the report on the outgoing chief medical officer today, the report on the outgoing chief medical 0fficerfor today, the report on the outgoing chief medical officer for england, dame sally davies, in which she suggests other ways to tackle obesity, particularly childhood obesity, particularly childhood obesity, a ban on snacking on public

transport. and going on down to the most watched, at number one, why i stopped at a speech by trump‘s boarded you. this is about the acting homeland security secretary kevin mcaleenan. he was shouted off stage at a university in washington by student protesters. the bbc‘s correspondent has been speaking to some of them. and you may remember robert kelly and his child appearing in the background as he did an interview for bbc news. something similar has happened to an nbc correspondent. she was on air in the studio and she was talking about the turkish air strikes in syria, when a small child, her son, appears turkish air strikes in syria, when a small child, herson, appears on camera behind her. she was slightly taken aback camera behind her. she was slightly ta ken aback that camera behind her. she was slightly taken aback that coped with it rather well all things considered. that is number two on the most watched and it is quite entertaining to see how she reacts.

that‘s it for today‘s morning briefing. in the last few moments we have the latest gdp figures and i willjust pull them up for you. uk gross domestic product fell by 0.1% in august according to the office for national statistics. in the three months to august however, it grew by 0.3%. growing in the three months up to august but falling in august by 0.1%. the ons's to august but falling in august by 0.1%. the 0ns‘s head of gdp is saying that growth increased in the latest three months despite a weak performance across manufacturing with tv and film production helping to boost the services sector. we will get you more analysis on those gdp figures throughout the day on bbc news. now it is time for the sport and a full round—up from the bbc sport centre with sally nugent. starting with the rugby and what might happen because of the typhoon? that is right, the news you are talking about a few moments ago.

england‘s next match at the rugby world cup has been cancelled due to an incoming typhoon which is expected to hit japan over the weekend. eddiejones‘ side had been due to face france in their final group game on saturday. meanwhile scotland‘s match againstjapan on sunday is set to go ahead as it stands but if it‘s cancelled scotland will almost certainly miss out on the knockout stage. 0ur sports correspondent andy swiss is in tokyo for us. well, this is obviously hugely disappointing news for the thousands of england supporters here in tokyo. the world cup organisers said they didn‘t take the decision to cancel the match lightly, but they said they had to ensure the safety of both the players and the supporters. now, from a rugby perspective, this doesn‘t affect england or france too much because both had already qualified for the knockout stage. they‘ll now both get two points each for a cancelled match, which means england will finish top of the group. what does matter a lot more, frankly, from a rugby perspective, is scotland‘s game

against japan on sunday. now, the organisers say that by sunday they‘re expecting the typhoon to have passed through. it‘s really a question of what it leaves behind. so they say they‘re going to review the situation on sunday morning. they can make a decision up until six hours before kick—off as to whether the match goes ahead, but scotland will be desperately hoping that it does, because two points for a cancelled match is unlikely to be enough for them. they really have to win this game. so they will be desperately hoping that they don‘t get knocked out of this rugby world cup by the weather. well, as andy was saying, the arrival of the typhoon is far more critical for scotland‘s hopes in the tournament. if their match against hosts japan is cancelled on sunday then they will almost certainly be knocked out. we can talk now to the former scotland international andy nicol who‘s in tokyo. good morning to you. good afternoon, i should say. this must be a really stressful a nd i should say. this must be a really stressful and difficult time for the scotla nd tea m

stressful and difficult time for the scotland team and scotland fans. very much though. it is just so unprecedented. i guess coming to this part of the world at this time of year, typhoons are a possibility, and it is coming at the worst possible time for everyone. i have got to say i have never really considered there would be a typhoon in this country. when you look at the footage from the previous typhoon, they are all numbered, and the last one that it was quite bad, number50, and the the last one that it was quite bad, number 50, and the damage it caused was quite bad and there was a number of deaths. this one is a much bigger. i think we have all become meteorological experts in the next few hours as we analyse what might happen. it has been a very difficult situation for world rugby to manage and they have got to do it in a way that takes account of the tournament. it could be a terrible

outcome for scotland but health and safety has got to come first, i guess. you are safety has got to come first, i guess. you are one safety has got to come first, i guess. you are one of the people who can probably put yourself in the position of people in the scotland camp. what will it be like for the people looking after the players and the players themselves at the moment, not knowing whether or not they will even get the chance to play? well, they have just got to prepare now as though the game is taking place at 7:45pm in yokohama on sunday night. they played last night here in japan on sunday night. they played last night here injapan and they got a good bonus point win against russia. and a good bonus point win against samoa. that first game is very poor but they have turned things around. they always knew they would have to beat japan to have any chance of qualifying and nothing has really changed. with all this going around, they just have to focus changed. with all this going around, theyjust have to focus on being ready. recovering from yesterday‘s game but ready mentally to play that game. the weather will come in on saturday, as we know, and we will

only know one sunday morning what the collateral damage is and whether the collateral damage is and whether the game is going ahead. it is going to be very, very difficult. nobody in the squad will ever experience something like this, waking up on game day not knowing if in fact it will be game day, because you don‘t know if the game is happening. i don‘t think anyone has a precedent of how to cope with it. they have just got to make sure that they think they are playing on sunday night and prepare accordingly. andy, stay safe in the storm. andy nichol, scotla nd stay safe in the storm. andy nichol, scotland captain, talking to us live from tokyo. england may be already through to the knockout stage but theirfans and head coach eddie jones are still hugely disappointed that their match has been cancelled.

of course we are disappointed. world rugby have made the decision and we arejust rugby have made the decision and we are just getting rugby have made the decision and we arejust getting on rugby have made the decision and we are just getting on with it now. let‘s have a look at some of this morning‘s back pages. not surprisingly the typhoon that‘s predicted to hit japan is covered by most of the morning‘s papers. the telegraph has the headline "storm brewing" and inside their writer paul hayward says that the tournament organisers owe it to scotland and japan to get the match played. the daily mirror also covers the typhoon story and looks ahead to england‘s euro qualifier against bulgaria. it reports that anti—racism group fare will have three special observers on duty to monitor any abuse, with a link up to the match delegate and fourth official. the times also carries that story and also reports that 0le gunnar solskjaer‘s job as manchester united manager is safe even if his side are heavily beaten by liverpool next week.

a reminder that the world gymnastics championships continue this afternoon. simone biles will be expected to shine again and retain her title in the women‘s all around final. on tuesday she won her 21st gold medal leading the usa to the team title. there‘s live coverage on bbc two from 14:45 and coverage on the bbc sport website and app. and don‘t forget sportsday is on the news channel this evening. you can get a full round up of all today‘s key sports of all today‘s key sports stories at 6:30. i would like to have a chat with you before you go because you interview to the mother of the snowboarder, ellie soutar. it is incredibly moving. what did you take away from that conversation? her mother, lorraine, spoke on television for the first time. she died on her 18th birthday last year and she appeared to bea birthday last year and she appeared to be a girl with everything to live

for. she was beautiful, hugely successful, really popular, but she was hiding deep unhappiness. it is something that her parents didn‘t understand the extent. i think lorraine‘s message today is a really important one and it is one word. we talk a lot about how talking is great and she said one word is really important and that to listen. she said to anyone with teenagers, with young people who perhaps don‘t feel very happy, talk to someone, make sure someone feel very happy, talk to someone, make sure someone listens to you and that you are heard. 0k, sally. thank you so much for that. we can watch that interview now with ellie‘s mother lorraine which sally has done. what was ellie like?

what was she like as a little girl? ellie was quite an independent little girl. she knew what she wanted even from an early age. you know, she had her own ambitions and her own drive. ellie died over a year ago now on her 18th birthday. what happened ? i left her a message the morning of her birthday, but there was no answer. but as a mum, i knew something wasn‘t right. i got in contact with her dad, and i said to him, "have you spoken to ellie? have you seen ellie?" and he said no. the day went on and people still had not heard anything, and in the end i gave tony a call and ijst said to him,

"have you seen ellie? have you heard from her?" he said we found her. and for a split second... i thought she was alive and he said she‘s dead. he said, "lorraine, she‘s dead." and that feeling, i cannot tell you. someone might just have taken my heart out. ellie was your only child. what is life like for you now? it‘s completely empty. i have a massive void in my life. you kind of think, "what can i do for the next thing that can fill this space?" and nothing will. i think i said to somebody the other day that it‘s like having the battery taken out of me. you know, i‘ve got nothing there and i‘m just running on empty. appearances can be so deceptive, can‘t they? yeah, definitely. do you think maybe people did look at ellie and think she‘s got this most fantastic life, huge ambition and potential? yeah.

and didn‘t see the sadness? yeah, absolutely. even as parents, i think that we have to take that as a responsibility as well. it is very easy to kind of ignore what could be obvious, because you do not want to believe it. you don‘t want to believe that your child is suffering or that they‘re going through this mental trauma, you know, and if they‘re not showing it outwardly, then how are you going to know anyway, because they keep it so deep within? one of the things you do is you keep ellie close to you every day, don‘t you? yeah, ido. you carry her ashes with you everywhere. i have them on the side, and i hold them and i talk to them, and i‘ll talk to her picture. the moment i wake up i think of her. the moment i go to sleep, i dream about her. so i don‘t seem to have any rest from this but i actually don‘t want to have any rest from it, because she is my daughter. do you feel now there is something that can come out of this, that perhaps might help you but might also help other families? there has to be.

ellie‘s death can‘t be in vain. have i wanted to give up? quite frankly, yeah, i think what is the point in living without her any more? but equally she is me. she‘s me and i‘m her and i am the voice for ellie now and i have to move forward. she couldn‘t say how she felt for whatever reason. i can now encourage people to say, to speak up and to share, and to talk to their parents, or to share with their friends and things like that if they are having any problems and i think that is what is pushing me on. rain talking to sally nugent.

heartbreaking and very brave of her. —— lorraine talking to sally nugent. let‘s talk more about world mental health day. sophie corlett is with me now. she is from the mental health charity mind. it is really a brave thing what lorraine has done and she is hoping that message gets through to people. and the key thing is for people to talk and our people getting better about talking about their mental health issues? they really are. we have seen a huge change over in recent yea rs have seen a huge change over in recent years which is phenomenally encouraging but we have a long way to go. we have 4500 suicides every yearin to go. we have 4500 suicides every year in england and each one is one too many. whatever can be done to encourage people to feel that it is 0k to talk and raise those issues if they are feeling that things are too much, and actually to encourage people to ask, to ask others and ask if they are ok. and ask again, ask twice, we always say. people say they are fine the first time. it is an automatic response, isn‘t it? it

doesn‘t necessarily mean that they are fine. and you want people to think about their mental health in the way they think about their physical health. you might have an ailment, a paper cut annoying you, or something seriously wrong with your physical health, and mental health is the same. yes, it can hit somebody who is doing well or somebody who is doing well or somebody whose life is less obviously doing well. it can hit you if you are rich or poor, young or old. we all need to be aware that mental health problems can be something that affects us and we might need to seek support for it. ellie is a case in point. 0n the surface successful, young, pretty. that you were saying that with sportspeople in particular they can have big challenges to their mental health because they have got to cope with the success and the failures and the pressure. the huge pressure on sportspeople, i think, particularly elite athletes, and

particularly elite athletes, and particularly when they are doing well. the pressure to maintain that performance. because you are in the public eye and every little change in your performance is scrutinised. so all of that is a huge pressure and we have been working with uk sport and the english football league and sport england to look at how elite athletes are supported and to work with coaches around how elite and everyday sportspeople are supported and how people can look out for each other‘s mental health. for sportspeople it can be quite a risky thing to talk about your mental health because of the huge public pressure and expectation. your message is to ask someone is doing, ask them again, listen. yes. any other ways that people can access help if they need it? if people are feeling absolutely on the edge, call 909, call the samaritans, don‘t leave it. don‘t leave it. call

999. thank you. if you have been affected by issues in this discussion there is a huge range of organisations and websites that can offer you advice and support. you can find them listed on the bbc‘s action line website. it is 9:54am. the headlines on bbc news at nine. turkey continues a military offensive against kurdish forces in northern syria after the us withdraws its troops from the area. borisjohnson is due to meet the irish prime minister later to try to find a solution to the brexit deadlock. president trump says officials will speak to an american woman who claimed diplomatic immunity and left the uk after a crash that

resulted in the death of teenager harry dunn. the latest figures for the uk economy have come out. our business correspondent theo leggett is here. tell us about the figures. the decline for august was not .1% but if you look at the three month average, which the 0ns says is a better measure of the performance of the uk economy, because it strips out one thing to a certain extent, the economy grew 0.3%. that was a little bit better than expected. july‘s performance was better than previously thought. what all this means if you take it together is that the uk is less likely to find it has entered a technical recession by the end of september. a recession is normally considered to be two successive quarters of declining growth. we had one quarter earlier in the year which was affected by things like people running off a stockpile that they had drawn ahead of the initial break that day. ——

brexit day. and unless the economy performance very badly in september, we will avoid going into a technical recession which is good politically. and what is a technical recession? it is the words are used to say whether an economy is in recession or not. just going into negative growth does not mean a recession. two successive quarters of declining growth means recession and that is what we are going to avoid. it looks like. thank you. coming up in a few moments we have victoria derbyshire andi moments we have victoria derbyshire and i will be back with newsroom live at 11 o‘clock. at first the weather with simon king. hello. we have had some sunshine throughout this morning but things are going to gradually change as we go through the day. we had a lovely photograph this morning from swansea, with shafts of light coming through the

clouds. crepuscular rays, those shafts of light. we have cloud coming our way shafts of light. we have cloud coming ourway and shafts of light. we have cloud coming our way and that will be the case for many of us because of the low pressure moving on from the west. this one friend pushing through and bringing outbreaks of rain. there are a few showers out there in western areas of the uk, with more persistent rain moving through northern ireland and into western scotland and northern england and wales and patchy rain from the midlands as well. further east there could be a few showers here but largely dry with some brightness. largely cloudy this afternoon compared to this morning. maximum temperatures today getting up maximum temperatures today getting up to 13 or17. maximum temperatures today getting up to 13 or 17. tonight, the rain across scotland will continue and it could be heavy at times. elsewhere some rain at times across england and wales which could be quite heavy. later in the night, a more significant band of rain will affect southern areas of england. temperatures in southern parts will stay up to 13 or 14 celsius. further north a bit chilly out with clearing

but it‘s macro clear spells in scotla nd but it‘s macro clear spells in scotland and the far north of england. there will be an area of rain focused on wales and the north—east of england. for the midlands, wales and into northern england we could see 50 to 70 millimetres of rain for much of the day on friday which could bring localised flooding issues and a patch of rain in the south—east. to the north of that weather front there will be clearer skies and some sunshine and frequent showers moving into the west. but the cold front divides the line between what will be relatively mild add to the south, 16 to 18 on friday, and further north 13 to 15. a little bit cooler here on friday. 0ver north 13 to 15. a little bit cooler here on friday. over the weekend that cold front across england and wales is going to wiggle around quite a bit. it means for many parts

of england and wales more rain in the forecast and quite cloudy for the forecast and quite cloudy for the weekend. there is something dry and bright and some sunny spells but also the risk of heavy and maybe even thundery showers for scotland and northern ireland. 0ver even thundery showers for scotland and northern ireland. over the next few days we will have showers and longer spells of rain. goodbye.

hello. it‘s thursday, it‘s 10 o‘clock, i‘m victoria derbyshire. two british islamic state fighters from london, part of the group ofjihadis known as the is beatles, are in us custody in a secure location as bombing of northern syria by turkey continues. alexandra kotey and el shafee elsheik were part of the notorious group responsible for the killing of 30 western hostages. the shadow foreign secretary emily thornberry is here. we‘ll ask if she fears the rise of is 2. and we‘ll talk to people living in the region, including a man who says his three children were too terrifed to sleep last night.

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