here's chris fawkes. it looks like the weather fronts haven't taken a single day off either, it has been so wet, with more rain to come today as well. on the satellite picture it is this stripe of cloud you can see working its way in bringing the rain. it will tend to pivot away from northern ireland as we go through the rest of the afternoon, with the weather becoming drier but there will be a lot of cloud around. that will be a lot of cloud around. that hello, you‘re watching will spread in a southern wales afternoon live. i‘m simon mccoy. today at 2... where we already have damp weather, jeremy corbyn launches labour‘s election manifesto, probably reaching dorset, hampshire, calling it the most ambitious plan perhaps the isle of wight. becoming drier in northern ireland but in decades to transform britain. wherever you are today it will feel chilly with a cold wind that vote for this manifesto of hope. continues to blow. overnight rain pushes across england and wales, it's accompanied with heavy showers. you might even hear the odd crack of vote for this manifesto of hope. it‘s time for real change. thank you. alex salmond appears in court accused of sexual offences while he was first minister of

overnight temperatures between three and six celsius, and with any lengthy spells we could have a touch scotland. of frost but most will be frost free. on friday, rain pushing north prince andrew in windsor this but the main focus of the rain will morning — amid growing calls for him come later in the day and to talk to american investigators. coming up on afternoon particularly across wales and live, all the sport. katie shanahan. south—west england with the rain turning heavy here. the wind will be hello, good afternoon. it‘s a stronger but feeling less chilly, and then through friday night the rain continues to pour down, particularly across cornwall. we could see some issues building in as we head into the first part of saturday morning. it is a weekend of two halves. saturday we have rain at times, it will be turning milder. on sunday there will still be some showers around, more general rain later in the day arrives across the south—west. the forecast on saturday sees rain gradually pushing northwards, probably only really northern scotland will miss out on the wet weather and stay mainly dry. with the ground is actuated, the rain could cause issues, but it will

feel milder with temperatures reaching 10 celsius. —— with the ground is saturated. on saturday night the rain works into scotland, becoming heavy for a time across eastern scotland and that will clear through as we head into the first pa rt through as we head into the first part of sunday morning but the rain still coming down across orkney and shetland. a dry slice of weather for a time although there will be showers and often it will be cloudy, but then on sunday afternoon more rain returning across wales and south—west england which is set to become heavy late in the day and into sunday night as well. temperatures up to ii celsius but with more rain on the way and the ground saturated there are concerns we could see ground flooding issues building up over the next few days. chris, thank you. a reminder of our top story... jeremy corbyn launches labour's election manifesto, calling it the most ambitious plan in decades to transform britain. vote for this manifesto of hope. it

is time for real change. thank you. that's all from the bbc news at one so it's goodbye from me and on bbc one we nowjoin the bbc‘s news teams where you are. good afternoon. half centuries from joe denly, rory burns and ben stokes have helped england to a comfortable 241—4 on day one of their first test against new zealand. the runs were slow to come by at first and debutant dominic sibley was dismissed forjust 22. rory burns then hit a half century, beforejoe denley helped build england's lead with a solid 7a. captain joe root went cheaply, but ben stokes will return

to the crease in mount maunganui 67 not out. i thought the guys earlier in the day did a good job against a ball that swung for the considerable amount of the day. i thought the croissant had a lot to do with that. then stop showing that there are i’u ns then stop showing that there are runs out there to be had, but there wasn't that much lateral movement off the wicket. it took a good bowling display to keep england at that run great for the majority of the day, but i thought that england we re the day, but i thought that england were disciplined in the way they went about it.

he set things up nicely for great britain taking the second set 6—3. dan britain taking the second set 6—3. da n eva ns britain taking the second set 6—3. dan evans is currently in action now against his opponent. he won the first set 7—5. anthonyjoshua believes a lack of experience rather than complacency was the reason behind his defeat to andy ruinr earlier this year. the loss meantjoshua lost three of his four world heavyweight belts on the night to the american. the pair will fight again in saudi arabia in december, withjoshua insisting he's learnt from what happened last time around. i've never been complacent. i don't lose, and i'm upset about that, but it is what it is. it wasn't complacency, but when i say i lost it was more to the point of... it happened to me, so i have to take it. it wasn't complacency, but the

issues i faced last training camp is just down to lack of experience. even though i was at a high level, we we re even though i was at a high level, we were still quite an experience because of how fast we had come through the heavyweight division. jose mourinho will speak to the media for the first time since taking over as tottenham's new head coach this afternoon. mourinho spoke to the club's in—house tv channel yesterday saying he will make fans smile again and take tottenham back up the premier league table. rory mcilroy is one shot off the lead. meanwhile, england's tommy fleetwood made a great starter has record with eagle two at the first. to mark bogus on his back, he finished on five under, however. but mike lorenzo fade at leeds. he topped the leaderboard for most of

the day. help with parts like this one. the frenchman has finished his first round on nine under par. that is all the sport for now, but don't forget you can find all the scratch might be stories on the bbc website, including that interview with anthonyjoshua. prince andrew is stepping down from his royal duties. but, as the controversy grows, what does it mean for the duke's business engagements? earlier, my colleague annita mcveigh was joined by will king, founder of king of shavesm and co—founder of the prince's pro—business platform pitch@palace. she asked him about the scheme. it was set up back in 2014 to promote entrepreneurs using pitch@palace, buckingham palace, to an audience of investors, business people, lots of people who could help businesses scale. on the last thing was about connections and

advice on connections and guidance, and then of course investment if that was available. the audience acumen was amazing quality level chairman, ceos, business people, venture capital companies. we have had over 1000 people pitch their businesses. it has generated over £1 billion of economic activity. 97% of those businesses are still trading, andi those businesses are still trading, and i think it would be a real shame if it didn't continue. and these investors coming in presumably impressed by the royal setting, by the involvement of a member of the royal family. has the involvement of a member of the royalfamily. has prince the involvement of a member of the royal family. has prince andrew been involved from the start? yes, back in 2013, there was a breakfast meeting chaired by a lot of business people, they were invited to look at what we could do to use the royal assets, deep palaces or individuals, to further promote british entrepreneurs‘ muck when you watch

the interview with the prince, did you immediately see that there would be problems? i‘m here to talk about pitch@palace. i guess when it is associated with the prince andrew and the allegations against him, of course there is going to be issues and found that, and a number of corporate sponsors have stepped in. but with regard to the initiative and its value and wealth, as i said earlier on, bbc four radio today, maybe there is a chance to rotate and other members of the royal family, and kate, even prince charles, where we can put different agendas and opportunities to the audience, and they can deliver and further continued the programme. you‘re making the point, it is pitch@palace, not picked at prince. another member of the royal family could, you hope, become involved.

yeah, the clue is in the name. it doesn‘t have the name in it. it was very much about the environment and ecosystem that has been brought up. and a huge amount of effort has been put ina and a huge amount of effort has been put in a knot bad just by the small tea m put in a knot bad just by the small team who run the initiative, but lots of anti producers and businesspeople who have given their time support an effort to help to help grow british businesses and opportunities, and give people the opportunity to leverage these assets ina opportunity to leverage these assets in a positive way. you're here to talk about pitch@palace, but prince andrew, and i want to get your thoughts on this, if you would, but if he had used the tone on his later statement in that interview, which thinks perhaps have been easier to handle? perhaps. but you're not prepared to speculate further on that? and this later statement, he has talked about his concern for

epstein‘s victims and so on, but she didn‘t express in that interview, and clearly that has unsettled a lot of people who work with him in various organisation. yeah, i saw the statement that came outjust before six o‘clock last night. i understand he is making himself available for any investigation. he has expressed unconditional empathy and support for the individual. perhaps he was to see that first time around. has anyone at the palace said that someone else would become involved at pitch@palace, or is it too early? not to my knowledge. perhaps too early. but you are knowledge. perhaps too early. but you a re clearly knowledge. perhaps too early. but you are clearly very hopeful that something that has been so successful and a short period of time can continue. i think it would be an extraordinary shame of such a successful initiative, which is done so successful initiative, which is done so much good and help so many people was cast aside as collateral damage with regard to what has happened. how much contact have you had with prince andrew through the

organisation? do you feel sorry for the position he is on? what are your thoughts? it must be a complex chain of thoughts going through your mind at the moment. i have met them at the occasion is a pitch@palace of themselves, and also boot camp set up themselves, and also boot camp set up where we would elevate the people pitching to make sure they give their very best presentation. it is a very difficult time. i‘m sure for everybody concerned, but my primary concern is that pitch@palace is a fantastic platform and that it continues. that was welcoming, the founder of the king of shaves and a co—founder of the pitch@palace. there has been a 20% increase in the number of detentions by police under the mental health act in england and wales over the past 2 years, government figures show. the police federation has described it as a "crisis". campaigners say there needs to be alternative options. earlier, we spoke to megan alikhanizadeh, who herself has been detained during crisis situations.

i have been sectioned by the police, in a few different situations, whether it‘s on the motorway ora bridge or a train station, and i have also been brought back to hospital by the police, not sectioned, but brought back because i was already on a section i was ever sectioned, i didn‘t really know what it meant. i‘d thought it was just for... i know this sounds really bad, but i thought it was just for, you know, people who were really dangerous and criminally insane. i didn‘t realise it could happen to someone like me. one incident springs to mind when i was being chased down the slip road to a motorway, and having three policemen, big policemen, run, and i was running for my life, my shoes came off, and having these policemen run and tackle me to the ground,

and have to pin me down and restrain me, handcuff me. for my own safety, i understand that now, but at the time it was just extremely traumatic, and you are just doing everything within your power to get away, to make it stop. you don‘t understand that they are trying to help you, and i do understand now that it is for my own safety, but i do also feel really guilty and question, am i that dangerous that i need the police to intervene to help? if that makes sense. we‘ve also spoke to the police federation‘sjohn apter, who says call—outs involving to cases like meghan‘s are becoming increasingly common. i have been a police officer for almost 27 years, and when operational, the number of people that we are dealing with who are in mental health crisis has certainly increased over the years since i have been a police officer, and megan‘s story, sadly, is very typical. there are people who are in such a state of despair, in some cases,

want to end their own lives, and in other cases, want to hurt other people. clearly not in megan‘s case, but in some cases, they do, and the police have to act, and it is devastating for us, because these are not people who are doing bad things, they need help, and they need support, but we also have to prevent them, where possible, from harming themselves or, potentially, harming other people, and the mental health crisis that this country is in the grip of, you know, the police are at the forefront, my colleagues are at the forefront of trying to protect and support as many people as they can, often in isolation. that was john apter from the police federation, we‘ve also spoken to vicki nash, head of policy and campaigns for the mental health charity mind, who released those figures today showing a 20% increase in the number of detentions by police under the mental health act in england and wales over the past 2 years. she told us just what sectioning means to people when they‘re at crisis point. when you are sectioned under

the mental health act, often you are very vulnerable, you are very unwell. you could be worried about harming yourself, you could be having a psychotic episode. it is really one of the most vulnerable circumstances that you will ever come across, and then, to be picked up by the police, it makes people feel like they have been criminalised, and they have done nothing wrong. they are just unwell, and they need help. for some people, sectioning might be the best option for them, for them to feel safe and supported in that environment. there is lots of other options available to receive help, to help people when they are in a crisis. things like crisis houses or sanctuaries, it doesn‘t have to be a hospital, and really what we are looking for is those services to come in a much earlier stage so that you are not having to go into a crisis in order to be able to get the help you need. the headlines on bbc news: jeremy corbyn launches labour‘s election manifesto, calling it the most ambitious plan in decades to transform britain. prince andrew is seen for the first time since he announced he would step back from royal duties over his links to the sex offenderjeffrey epstein.

alex salmond appears in court accused of sexual offences, most of them while he was first minister of scotland. google says it‘s putting stricter controls over political advertising on its platforms. political campaigns will no longer be allowed to target advertising at people based on their supposed political leanings. gareth barlow reports. politics and the internet go hand in hand, but does it take firms coming under scrutiny, they are taking a proactive approach.

the new rules will prevent advertisers using political preferences and voter records to target their messages. they will, however, still be able to filter by age, gender and location, however, still be able to filter by age, genderand location, and however, still be able to filter by age, gender and location, and that might offer a way to avoid the controls. the new restrictions to allow political advertisers to target ads at the level or postal code, and advertisers can be very skilled at using these postal codes asa skilled at using these postal codes as a proxy for other demographics, such as race, income or education. political adverts are a relatively small part of google‘s total advertising revenues, which are worth $116 billion in 2018. google‘s policy puts it between twitter, which is banning political advertising, and facebook, which says it won‘t fact check political ads. angry protesters in malta have demanded the resignation of the prime minister, joseph muscat, after police arrested

a prominent businessman in connection with the murder of a journalist, daphne ca ruana galizia. demonstrators — who accuse the prime minister of protecting those responsible for the murder — gathered outside parliament in valletta, shouting "mafia" and "get out". samatha ryder reports. protesters gathered outside the maltese parliament, swarming around thejustice minister‘s car, chanting, assassin, mafia, corrupt. somebody needs to control their political responsibility. there is so much going on. how are we letting this happen? angry at the investigation into daphne caruana galizia‘s murder, they accused politicians of protecting those responsible. they are all in it together. they must show their political responsibility and resign instantly! we cannot go on like this! on wednesday, armed police arrested a prominent businessman, yorgen fenech, aboard his yacht.

the prime minister, joseph muscat, has promised to leave no stone unturned in the investigation. miss caruana galizia‘s son welcomed the arrest. so, the arrest of yorgen fenech is obviously a welcome development in the investigation into my mother‘s assassination. it‘s overdue, and it‘s very important. the 2017 car bombing that killed at the prominent investigative journalist and anti—corru ption blogger rocked the small mediterranean state. three men have been have been charged with detonating the bomb. a suspected middleman has also been arrested. but the prime minister said he could be pardoned if information is provided to prosecute the mastermind. two years on from daphne caruana galizia‘s murder, the desire to uncover the truth of her death and the cases she exposed continues.

the pharmaceutical giantjohnson and johnson has lost a class—action lawsuit in australia on behalf of 1350 women for misleading patients and surgeons about the risks of its pelvic mesh implants. australia‘s federal count found that a johnson and johnson subsidiary, ethicon, had sold the devices — used to treat urinary incontinence and pelvic organ prolapse — without warning women of the gravity of the risks, and was negligent in rushing the products to market before proper testing. a hearing on damages is due to be held in february. in october, the company agreed to pay $117 million to resolve claims in 41 us states. ijust think it‘s despicable. i think it‘s absolutely despicable, and i think that there should be all sorts of things put in place so that things like this can‘t happen again. and notjust in my time, but, you know, in the future,

who wants to make sure... we all want to make sure that any implants that we have in our bodies, whether it‘s mesh or anything else, that someone corporate can‘tjust dream up some idea and go, let‘s have a crack at this and let‘s make money from it and see what happens. efforts to form a coalition government in israel have collapsed again, two months after the most recent general election. prime minister benjamin netanyahu‘s main challenger, benny gantz, announced he‘d been unable to form an administration by a deadline that passed earlier. some of the last protesters remaining at hong kong‘s polytechnic university have tried to escape through sewers. dozens are still barricaded inside the campus, surrounded by police. the five—day standoff has also rippled overseas, with the un‘s human rights office urging a peaceful resolution, while the us congress passed new legislation supporting protesters‘ demands. you may have seen our report yesterday on the rescue of a seriously injured koala

from one of those bushfires in australia. now toni doherty, who came to his aid in the fire in new south wales, has been reunited with him. she‘s been visiting him at a koala hospital, the only one of its kind in the world and named him lewis after her grandson, as keith doyle reports. this is the koala who was plucked from the flames, now recovering in a koala hospital in port macquarie in new south wales, 240 miles north of sydney. these distressing pictures show the marsupial rescued from certain death and doused with water to help treat its burns. these shocking pictures have been viewed widely and shared on social media. the woman who rescued the koala, now named lewis, was reunited with him at the hospital. i knew if we didn‘t get him down from the tree, then he would have

been up there in amongst the flames, so just immediately thought, just get to him, put the fire out, and as soon as i caught him i realised we had some water in the car. and, yeah, just natural instinct. he's got really badly burned hands and feet. he's got burns under his arms, his nose is burned, and a bit of his private parts are burned as well. and he's singed all over. but look at him, he's eating really well. it‘s thought around 350 koalas have died in the fires, which have spread from the east coast of the state of victoria. six people have died and 500 homes have been destroyed by numerous fires across three states. smoke has shrouded sydney for another day, and while firefighters have brought blazes under control in some areas, the hazardous conditions are exected

to continue for some time. a former royal marine has returned home from climbing the world‘s 14 highest mountains in record time. nirmal or "nims" purja gave up his job to take on the challenge and has beaten the previous record of eight years by a pretty big margin. he did it in six months and six days. the us—born giant panda bei bei has arrived in southwestern china after a 16—hour flight, with plenty of bamboo for him to munch on as he settled into his new home. the four—year—old cub, whose name means "precious, treasure" in mandarin, has been ambling around his new cage at a research centre in sichuan province. bei bei travelled aboard a specially outfitted boeing 777f cargo plane called the "panda express" accompanied by his keeper from the national zoo in washington

and more than 70 pounds of bamboo and other treats. now it‘s time for a look at the weather. generally quite a lot of cloud today, and it still felt quite chilly too. this was a cost of aberdeenshire a little earlier on. brighter skies there. outbreaks of rain down towards the south—west. over the next few days, temperatures will be on the up, so it will gradually turn out there. still a few showers around us low pressure moves on from the south—west. a big area of high pressure across rush hour, so the weather front not moving through in a hurry over the next few days, but it has already brought rain over northern ireland and don‘t towards the south—west of england earlier on today. that rain should clear away from northern ireland through the rest of this afternoon, but it will continue with

showery outbreaks of rain for south wales, south—west england. later on, that rain pushes northwards across england and wales, followed by further heavy showers. further north, mostly dry and for most places it is a frost free night ahead. we could see a touch of frost across parts of scotland and northern england. friday morning, it sta rts northern england. friday morning, it starts off with showery rain. heavy showers for the site too. the best of any showers for the site too. the best ofany dry showers for the site too. the best of any dry and bright by the problem for the north—western parts of scotla nd for the north—western parts of scotland through the day on friday, but that went towards a south—west of england and south coast becomes quite persistent and heavy in the afternoon. brightness further east across england, and what —— temperatures will reach double figures. later in the day, some going into northern ireland and southern scotland, so most places we will see a bit of rain at some point in the day. the north of scotland

stares largely dry, and most buses backin stares largely dry, and most buses back in double figures. nine to 11 degrees on saturday. the next pressure is waiting in the winter. later on sunday, that will bring more pressure. foi’ later on sunday, that will bring more pressure. for quite a good part asunder, we should see a better dry weather. then a lingering across the north and scotland. a better suntan coming through, and then it during sunday afternoon, the rain again coming through. not great news. temperatures around about nine to 12 00:28:32,132 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 degrees. goodbye.