e—mh ii‘ul‘ei ”ff‘u e—lllh il-‘ufie “fiffi v“ water here. eventually the rain will start to move across into scotland as well. it is here as we go on through the night that we could see further problems. around 60 to 80 millimetres over the high ground from the grampians into the highlands as well, but heavy rain from fife to aberdeenshire and that could cause some issues as well. as we go through saturday and saturday night, we could see some localised flooding issues in places due to the heavy rain and the persistent rain. 0n heavy rain and the persistent rain. on sunday, and improving scenario. the rain moves across the shetlands, strong winds at time. a drier and brighter slice of weather but often pretty cloudy and still a few showers around. this time yesterday we we re showers around. this time yesterday we were talking about the rain coming back into the southwest and that could have some timing issues. it will arrive late in the day which means more sunday will have the dry weather. at the moment the jetstream pattern has a big bridge over the western side of the united states. there little troughs are fired

across the atlantic. each of these how the area of low pressure. the storm track, where these low pressures a re storm track, where these low pressures are going, continues to be south of its normal position, right the way across the heart of england and wales and that is where we have seen the wettest weather. more of the same as well into the first half of next week as well. monday, more rain around as we go through the day across england and wales. pretty heavy. sunshine in short supply. the north—west of scotland could be one place that sees something a little bit drier. notice it is relatively mild, temperatures reaching around ten to 13 degrees. for tuesday, this is probably going to be a relatively quiet day although there could be some rain across the far north of scotland. most of tuesday looks dry, cloudy with a view showers. another area of rain extending from the south—west as we go on through the later part of tuesday afternoon. that could cause some problems with rain becoming more on tuesday night.

wednesday, that same area of crosses the country and a day where we could be further localised flooding issues, but has that low works into europe, it looks like we may well start to see something of a change across northern areas as we start to drag in potentially some cold air from the north and north—east. next week, heavy rain continues for a time so we could see further localised flooding. quite windy on tuesday and wednesday, mild at first but it does seem cold in the north later on. that is your latest weather. bye for now.

hello. this is bbc news with lukwesa burak. we'll be taking a look at tomorrow morning's papers in a moment — first the headlines. leaders of the four main parties at westminster have been questioned by voters in a question time election special, as they made their pitches with less than three weeks to go before polling day. a man who strangled a british backpacker in new zealand and hid her body inside a suitcase

is found guilty of murder. a group of orphaned british children caught up in the war in syria are returning to the uk. a 51—year—old man has been found guilty of the murder of his heavily pregnant ex—wife with a crossbow. glasgow's nhs board is being put into special measures, after the deaths of two young patients, who were treated on a hospital ward affected by water contamination. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me is the director of polling company, deltapoll, joe twyman and journalist

at broadcaster, caroline frost. thank you for coming back. laughter. the front pages, very quickly, let us the front pages, very quickly, let us look through those. the times leads onjeremy corbyn's confirmation tonight's bbc leaders' debate — the he will stay neutral in a second brexit referendum. he says he is going to stay neutral ina he says he is going to stay neutral in a second brexit referendum. the telegraph has the same story — that as prime minister mr corbyn would negotiate a new exit deal with brussels, but then refuse to campaign to leave. meanwhile, the guardian says borisjohnson was attacked by members of the audience who claim he can't be trusted. the daily express says a £1.6 billion government boost for research could bring a cure for dementia closer.

and tomorrow's i newspaper renames the duke of york the "duke of nothing", as he stands down from his business charity. let's start off, it is that election debate. the leaders' debate that took place tonight on the bbc. we will start off with the times. it is this idea thatjeremy corbyn announced he was going to be neutral. and really this is the only technically new story of the debate. jo swinson was criticised for her track record, no real new development there. boris johnson track record, no real new development there. borisjohnson was accused of lying, really no news there. jeremy corbyn, in the previous debate, had had an issue around his position on brexit stop repeatedly asked about it, repeatedly asked about it, repeatedly refused to be drawn on it. clearly he has gone back to his advisers and collectively they have decided they need to come to a position in that position of —— that position in that position of —— that position is one of neutrality. but

how did that go down with the audience? i think it went down as well with the audience as it will do with the british public. it shows, his critics will argue, a lack of leadership, and sitting on the fence doesn't really work in politics at the best of times. and it certainly doesn't work when it comes to brexit. just look at theresa may and her position, attempting to play both sides, attempting to placate all different arguments within the brexit spectrum and actually failing to do any of it. i'm not suggesting that theresa may and jeremy corbyn are the same in many ways, but a jeremy corbyn's position on brexit, the continued neutrality, is not going to play well in the upcoming election. he kicked of the night, caroline, didn't he? yes. perhaps he had a slightly unfair position going on because the audience and he was adjusting. interesting as they neutrality doesn't play well. jo swinson came in all flags waving for revoke and she was really pence down

as basically undermining democracy by the audience for exactly the opposite ofjeremy corbyn. jeremy corbyn was playing the whole give it back to the people, is what we deserve, and i will be neutral, making a virtue of his neutrality. identikit place particular well at this stage. that was i think the gameplan. but she did the opposite. and equally unsuccessfully. there was a huge sigh and a lady who said she was a devout remain, nevertheless she thought it was utterly disgraceful the fact that jo swinson and the lib dems are pursuing revoke without thinking about it. and of course jo swinson had to fall back on have done our best to campaign for a people's vote and we would not be slide down the track, we would have left by now if it wasn't for us. clearly they have both been backed into corners of their own making both been backed into corners of theirown making and both been backed into corners of their own making and it has become and exposed at this point. still with the story. we turn to the telegraph. sticking withjo swinson's performances evening. she went into this very much an unknown quantity. there had been concerns or

commentary about her inability to connect. do you think she did that tonight? the lib dems poll rating has been dropping since, really, going back to the european elections where they did very, very well, but they were different for a number of reasons. since then the lib dems have deadly for them back, since the start of the campaign they have seen their ratings drop back. they would imaginejo swinson would want to use deny‘s debate, because she is not involved in the one on the sixth of december, for instance, she will be wanting to use theirs as the perfect opportunity to expose yourself to new people, to make it clear that she represents difference, and to put her position forward. and she failed to do that in a convincing way. and, really, she had the most to gain and, arguably, has therefore lost the most. caroline, do you think she was slightly shocked that one of the members of the audience did say to her, because of all the negotiations and the pack that had

been taking place, you have lost a vote. do you think that shock? she looked a little bit nonplussed a couple of times. but because she attacked borisjohnson couple of times. but because she attacked boris johnson very easily, she thought she had a safe one, a safe goal to score about the packed deals he has been making the brexit party and those agreements, and immediately the audience, who are more informed than perhaps the leaders would like to think or perhaps realised until tonight, they immediately said what about all the agreements you have been making, you have been talking about a remain loads for months. but think she was a bit thrown by that. equally thrilled by the fact that boris johnson seem to be able to say anything you think that the tories have done that you support, i have beena part have done that you support, i have been a part of that, anything you don't agree with, of course wasn't in government, have only been leading the party for 100 days or more. jo swinson seem to get very much bogged down with the liberal democrats' voting record, the coalition times, a student immediately said why should i trust you about anything, because of tuition fees. she seemed to get caught on different corners of the

picture. 0k. we're going to turn anotherjeremy corbyn story. rather, debate story, butjeremy corbyn leading the headline. we will qualify that. that is the front of the guardian. romy corbin neutral on brexit. —— jeremy corbyn. was the guardian. romy corbin neutral on brexit. ——jeremy corbyn. was nicola sturgeon attacked in any way? what did you make of her performance? are thought she was very impressive. she knows her message. she has made it clear that she won't be in any way aligning herself with a tory government and she seems to think she hasjeremy government and she seems to think she has jeremy corbyn where she wants him, in the fact that if she we re wants him, in the fact that if she were to agree to a coalition government, and she said it would be a much more informal arrangement, living herself wide open adoptions later down the track, but immediately the talk turned to another independence referendum for scotland and she made it clear in all but name was that that is the deal. jeremy corbyn wants her support going forward that is the

price. she has been doing this much longer than the other leaders. i in, longer than the other leaders. i in, longer than the other leaders. i in, longer thanjeremy longer than the other leaders. i in, longer than jeremy corbyn, longer than boris johnson in jo longer than jeremy corbyn, longer than borisjohnson injo swinson. —— i mean. she doesn't need to get involved in the nitty—gritty of national issues when she can focus on what it is she's really interested in and, crucially, what she has been really consistent on. and we have seen, repeatedly, whether it's jeremy and we have seen, repeatedly, whether it'sjeremy corbyn in the last election or at other times, voters really do value consistency. and that gives credibility. and so she is in a strong position. and she isa she is in a strong position. and she is a good operator, regardless of what you think about her and her views on independence, for instance, she is popular with certain sections in scotland and is able to then translate that to people who perhaps aren't so familiar with the south of the border. what did you make of the number of scottish independence questions that were coming from that sheffield audience was yellow i

mean, she had a quarter of the time. it would have been a waste of that valuable time to pin her down to conversations and policies that are ultimately going to be taking place at westminster which she will have no part of. as i said, think the audience is an informal one. i think... a lot of social media was saying scotland only represents 5% but it is a key place. and down the track if we had up with a coalition government and questions will be asked about where she stands. with 30 or a0 seems to play with any potential king making situation. i was not surprised by the quality of the audience. as a graduate of the university of sheffield i was appreciative of such a fine city's audio. i was hoping to hear more from the students, particularly directed atjeremy corbyn. —— fine city's audience. it seemed very middle—class. city's audience. it seemed very middle-class. i think it was pretty mixed. the first question boris

johnson was asked by a self confessed wasp. it took fiona bruce two state we have to move on. boris johnson did not seem to be asking —— making any headway. she was not giving up. people went in with an agenda. a young man, his first question to boris johnson, agenda. a young man, his first question to borisjohnson, was agenda. a young man, his first question to boris johnson, was a question to boris johnson, was a question about the reporting to the alleged russian interference. they could have gone on all night. we did not get answers on that. it took fiona bruce to say identical get more... did i see jeremy corbyn? i'm meant to say borisjohnson. more... did i see jeremy corbyn? i'm meant to say boris johnson. he asked if we could talk later about this. it is the classic politician's trygg, i will see you later in the bar—— trygg, i will see you later in the bar —— he did the classic politician's trick. it did expose the flanks. what is interesting is the flanks. what is interesting is the day itself doesn't matter as much is the momentum or lack of momentum that you then gain over the subsequent days. it will be interesting now to see how the

headlines adapt on saturday and sunday, what the discussions are about on the sunday political programmes, and where that then goes into next week, because the debates are all about the momentum that you gain from it. and the headlines may be very positive or maybe very negative in one direction or the other but it is how it resonates with the public that is important. up with the public that is important. up until now we haven't seen these events have much of an impact, but you never know. there was have the potential. obviously on sunday we get to hear more about the conservative manifesto. but after the experience of all four of these leaders this evening, do you think the way in which they engage in public spaces or in front of the cameras is going to change somewhat? because they had a bit of a whipping tonight, don't you think? itlj because they had a bit of a whipping tonight, don't you think? it i am not sure it will matter. i think it

should, but i don't think it does. lot of people on social media, and i was one of them, it was disgraceful, dodging questions, coming back to whatever he wanted to say, thinking that a phrase would somehow carry the day. the novelty of apm, who has a latin vocabulary in his armour, those days are past. we want policy and authenticity. we have authenticity but it is seen as a not very practical means of getting the country either up and running or certainly the leadership elected. they are equal but opposite superpowers. they each need a bit of the other one. it is not about absolute performance, not about whether you did well or badly. it is about how you did against the other people up there. yes, they could all have done badly, but if one person does less badly than the rest of them, that person is the winner.m terms of soundbites on the catchphrases, i only counted yet brexit done once this evening. he

was very much contained by the questions, and as well, after the collective sighing, because it became almost ridiculous and pantomime like on monday or tuesday night, i don't think even boris johnson thought there was much mileage and winning that one out again. i think we will still hear it again. i think we will still hear it afairfew times, again. i think we will still hear it a fair few times, though. again. i think we will still hear it a fairfew times, though. i can't wait. let's move on, we will move back to the telegraph. the duke of york still making the front page, but this time associated with a comment or reaction from the duchess of sussex. well, this story is running and running, showing no sign of abating. we are nearly a week in and normally a scandal, they like to say let's just and normally a scandal, they like to say let'sjust get beyond and normally a scandal, they like to say let's just get beyond the third day and we are out of the woods. but he has given up his various public duties are now given up his buckingham palace office and it does seem they are running out of milage of course. it doesn't hurt to have

an actively feminist strident, very almost political young duchess who has a truck you —— track record of supporting women, and his views about women in general didn't really shine in that interview. we don't know if this story is true that the duchess of sussex is a glass does not aghast at he had to say about the sex act being a positive act to amend. we could probably guess, but clearly, there is a story to be had, but she is aghast. we don't know what the duchess of sussex was thinking. we also really don't know what prince andrew was thinking after a ll what prince andrew was thinking after all this time. it really is a difficult situation. meghan markle actually was consistently campaigned for women's rights and women's equality, women's issues, so it is no surprise to me that the first voice we hear, shall we say dissenting, at least in that direction, from within the royal

family comes from her. and obviously, everybody is asking what happens next, and at the end, the final paragraph, does mention the investigation and the attorney general, william barr, saying things are moving along. there is a push. this week in america, another victim of jeffrey 0'steen this week in america, another victim ofjeffrey 0'steen has come forward, alleged victim, with more complaints. this investigation is clearly going nowhere, more and more people are coming forward —— jeffrey epstein. there are podcasts about this case. at least four or five that i have come across in saying there is strength in numbers and these women are not the young terms that were around in the early 2000. they are now in their 20s and 30s and there is a whole new wave of sentiment that they need to be supported and listened to. if he wants to be on the right side of history, prince andrew will do everything he can to help. what is interesting is there a discussions about the fact he has diplomatic

immunity, which is an issue that hasn't —— has arisen in the united states only recently. i wonder if perhaps there might be some discussions to be had about exactly what happens around that in both directions. that could keep it going on forever. that could get very messy. should we turn to the eye? the subject matter, the headline is interesting. 0ut having a ride with mum. i couldn't tell from behind wearing a hat on a horse. it could be an impersonator. a decoy. he has been out riding with her at windsor. i guess it is not exactly business as usual, but it is certainly... it has been a very difficult week for the queen. she has basically sapped her apparently favourite son. he has been told to clear out his office from the palace. perhaps this is all they have left. an early retirement at 59 is not bad, is it? no, not too

bad. givenjust how at 59 is not bad, is it? no, not too bad. given just how hard at 59 is not bad, is it? no, not too bad. givenjust how hard he has been working up until now, i imagine he will welcome a break from whatever it is that he does. can one of you successfully just tell us a little bit jealous about the front of the —— succinctly. bit jealous about the front of the -- succinctly. £1.6 billion to be spent on dementia in the search of a qr, is of course all dementia research does, and the argument is it is close whether it is close or not remains to be seen, but 1.6 billion is not to be sniffed at. not remains to be seen, but 1.6 billion is not to be sniffed atm it does get spent and not another pre—election pledge. it does get spent and not another pre-election pledge. it will be interesting. how do you qr dementia? 0ften interesting. how do you qr dementia? often is the dementia. —— often it is the prevention. thank you very much. thank you for watching. that's it for the papers tonight. don't forget you can see the front pages of the papers online on the bbc news website. it's all there for you —

seven days a week at bbc.co.uk/papers, and if you miss the programme any evening you can watch it later on bbc iplayer. thank you, joe and caroline. and from myself, good night. good evening. i'm katie shanahan. here's your latest sports news. great britain are into the semifinals of the davis cup. kyle edmund and dan evans both won their singles against germany today to spark the celebrations in madrid. craig templeton has all the details. no andy murray again as great britain kept the same team that beat kazakhstan. that means it was kyle edmund against philip cole schreiber. edmund is one of his best displays of the season on thursday and he picked up where he left off. his serve was looking and returnable

his forehand was too powerful. it wasn't long before the first set was his. the german started the second strongly, taking the first break point, but edmund broke back immediately with something special. he broke again at 5—5 to put himself in this position, three match points. he only needed one. 1—0, great britain. job done. dan evans needed to do something we haven't done all week. windfalls of a tough ask against the big serving and big serving man. but evans can make the difficult look simple. it was a tight contest and that often means one thing. tie—break. it was nip and tuck but evans kept fighting and forcing mistakes, and managed to ta ke forcing mistakes, and managed to take it. the openings that hasn't been a problem for evans this week. it has been the next one where things have started to go awry, and it was proving to be the same story again. the producing moments of magic to win the set. it was looking

like the momentum was with him, and everything he tried was coming off. but evans is fighting spirit returned and he somehow made this or another tie—break. a tie—break that he dominated from start to finish, and when the german was off target, he had done it. finally, a victory for evans. a semifinal for great written. this is how much it means. craig templeton, bbc news. meanwhile, serbia are out, novak djokovic was playing in that one after they were beaten by russia in their quarterfinal. it did have its frustrating moments for the world number two. he'd won his singles rubber to take it to the doubles, but djokovic and viktor troicki were beaten by karen khachanov and andrey rublev on a final—set tie break. russia will play canada in the semis. the draw has revealed that scotland will face israel in their euro 2020 play—off semifinal at hampden park. that will be played on march 26.

and if steve clarke's side win, they will be face either norway or serbia for a place in the finals. scotland have won three of the four times against israel and are 36 places above them in the fifa rankings. northern ireland will host the republic of ireland in belfast. that's if both sides win their respective semifinals at bosnia and slovakia. fulham came back from a goal down against qpr to move them up into fourth in the championship table. qpr opened the scoring to stun the hosts. but then, fulham's stand—in striker, abu bakar kamara, scored twice with this winner, securing the victory at craven cottage. kamara was brought in to replace the suspended top goal scorer aleksandar mitrovic. england's tommy fleetwood and jon rahm are three strokes off the leader mike lorenzo—vera at the world tour championship in dubai. tommy fleetwood shot a second—round 68, including seven birdies, to move to well in contention.

rory mcilroy slipped to sixth place after a disappointing round. there's a busy weekend coming up for european club rugby. 0ne game to tell you about tonight — in the champions cup, ulster beat clermont in pool 3. this try from john cooney helping them on their on their way to a 18 points to 13 victory. that's all from me. there is of course more stories on the bbc sport website. that's bbc.co.uk/sport. bye from now. there are a number of warnings out from the met office for the rain. the rain had has been falling steadily already across southern and western areas is heading north into the midlands and northern england. there are very few places that will escape that rain as we go through the weekend. given it has been so wet this autumn we are anticipating some flooding issues and the potential travel disruption that goes with it. quite wet for northern

ireland. this is where we have seen the heaviest rain so far through the night that is heading north, so heavyin night that is heading north, so heavy in birth arriving across many parts of england and wales by the morning, and moving north as well. the best chance of some brighter, rather chilly weather will be the north—west scotland first thing in the northern isles will have a fairly decent day. it may well dry up fairly decent day. it may well dry upa bit fairly decent day. it may well dry up a bit later across southern and eastern areas but with the low pressure centre towards the south—west, there is the risk of some heavy showers coming in and some heavy showers coming in and some drizzly rain, low cloud, hill fog. it looks like quite a grey and windy day. that will make you feel cold as well as the fact is we have the rain that could amount to as much as 30 or a0 millimetres, which is another half a month's weather rain in some parts, except with ink in the north and west at least during most of the daylight of saturday. the rain arrives in the warning start to enforce across eastern scotland and north—western

scotland, so some rather wet weather to come. but there is a sign of a respite at least for someday. a brief ridge of high pressure building before the next low pressure comes in. sunday looks like the dryer day of the weekend but there will be dog, quite low level fog, dense fog first thing sunday morning which will then lift into low cloud. 0n the whole, although dryer, it still looks quite grey on sunday, and even though the winds will not feel particularly day, it is wet. the rain staying with us and more rain starts to move its way into the south and west later on as well. but two more unsettled and potentially tricky conditions without rain coming in. as our temperatures nine to 11 degrees celsius, about average. sunday night into monday the next banner rain comes in and turns more showery. the second comes in on tuesday looks more substantial. either way, second comes in on tuesday looks more substantial. eitherway, more rain is not good news given we do have flood warnings in force. the weekend is looking like a tale of two halves. warnings are on the website. goodbye.

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