you're watching bbc news at nine with me, annita mcveigh. the headlines: labour is reshaping its election strategy with a new push to make gains in brexit—voting marginals being targeted by the conservatives. with exactly a forntight until voters head to the ballot box, how are the pollsters reading the campaign so far? we'll bejoined by the bbc‘s head of statistics in a few minutes. tensions escalate between china and the us after president trump signs a bill supporting hong kong's pro—democracy protesters vue cinemas looks to resume screenings of blue story, days after it banned the film

for allegedly sparking violence at some of its venues. campaigners want the price of a ‘bag for life‘ to rise to 70 pence to cut the amount of plastic we use. and in sport...draws for both liverpool and chelsea mean their bids to reach the champions league knockout stages will go down to the last group match. good morning — and welcome to the bbc news at 9. the bbc understands that labour has agreed a new electoral campaign strategy in a bid to gain ground in the two weeks that remain before polling day. a major part of the plan is said to be a renewed effort to retain labour voters who support brexit. members of the shadow cabinet who back leave are likely to be

given a higher profile than those who support remain, while there'll also be an attempt to give a greater emphasis to issues other than brexit, such as the cost of living. for more on this, and what it could mean for tactical voters, norman smith joins us live now from westminster. good morning. what does this apparent change of strategy tell us about the nature of the campaign and how labour is responding to specific intelligence from constituencies? what it tells us is that labour haven't pressed the panic button but they are nervous about what is happening in some of their traditional northern and midlands seats because of brexit and the fear that the labour message on brexit has failed to keep those traditionally labour supporters on board. in part because the labour m essa 9 es board. in part because the labour messages are fairly nuanced message, shall we say we know brexit is actually a binary issue, you are eitherfor it or against actually a binary issue, you are either for it or against it and it

hasn't really won over labour supporters, and there is also a fear that for all the talk on the labour side about presenting voters with a genuine choice between remain or a labour deal, actually the party is heavily in favour of remain, and thatis heavily in favour of remain, and that is based on what voters have heard from a number of the sort of more prominent members of the cabinet and said that they would absolutely back remain, and there's absolutely back remain, and there's a degree of nervousness that the party is seeing as being a bit metropolitan because all of the bigwigs are by and large london mps, jeremy corbyn, obviously but other figures like emily thornberry, diane abbott, john mcdonnell, keir starmer, the list goes on so there's going to be an attempt to re—shift the campaign to emphasise how labour is prepared to give voters a genuine option on leaving the eu and trying to beef up their offer, emphasising

how the labour brexit deal would protect jobs and protect how the labour brexit deal would protectjobs and protect key industries outside london like the car industry. albeit barry gardiner this morning wasn't giving much away about this new strategy. you talk about this new strategy. you talk about a new strategy and it is news to me. i'm speaking withjeremy this afternoon and i will maybe ask him about it but you tend to paint things in very stark colours. of course you're right, we want to woo notjust course you're right, we want to woo not just leave voters, but all voters. one of the other non-brexit issues they want to focus on is of course the nhs, the unredacted documents that it published and gave us a ccess documents that it published and gave us access to yesterday, talking of a trade deal after brexit with the us over the nhs and ijust wonder how much the conservatives are concerned about this. they are obviously doing about this. they are obviously doing a bit of pushing back on it. they

have to be concerned because there is one issue wherejeremy corbyn has hit home and when we see him out and about today he will still be brandishing those documents which he says prove that borisjohnson is prepared to sell off the nhs and so yesterday we will see again the tories trying to douse down that claim that insisting in no circumstance they would put the nhs on the table, a message we heard from matt hancock this morning. no, the nhs will never be for sale, not on my watch. i, like most people in the country love the nhs. it's always there for you when you need it, and it's therefore everybody and i think it's one of the great things about this country and it makes me very proud to be british. and in fa ct, very proud to be british. and in fact, this so—called reveal from the labour party in fact revealed exactly the opposite of what they we re exactly the opposite of what they were saying because it showed and

confirmed what we were saying all along, that the nhs is not for sale. the other thing we will see from the tories is an attempt to hose down a pole that suggest boris johnson tories is an attempt to hose down a pole that suggest borisjohnson is on course for a 68 seat majority. the fear in the government is that this will encourage a sense of complacency amongst would—be tory voters who may be think, well, i don't have to bother going out to vote and they insist that it is closer than that and the prime minister's close adviser dominic cummings saying it was much tighter and warned of the dangers of a hung parliament, so we will see tory figures trying to calm down the notion that they are on cruise control towards majority. norman, thank you very much. the pollsters called the brexit referendum wrong and the 2015 and 2017 elections each

led to inquiries. while some may say polling is broken, the 2017 election had one notable success — a constituency level model that correctly called the hung parliament ten days before polling. today, the times has the 2019 version, which suggests if the election was held now the conservatives would win a comfortable house of commons majority. let's look at this and a bit more detail. here to discuss is our head of statistics, robert cuffe. two weeks to go, some interesting detail in the poll with some notes of caution. tell us more. absolutely on the first thing to say as norman said is that if the election happen tomorrow this poll suggests that the conservatives could win a sizeable majority of 68 seats. it's that kind of michael foot territory, and in scotla nd of michael foot territory, and in scotland the snp might be gaining around eight seats mainly from

labour and around eight seats mainly from labourand a bit around eight seats mainly from labour and a bit from the tories and in wales it's labour and the conservatives trading seats to the conservatives, really. those numbers, there is margins of error is for these things and it could be a landslide, it could be squeaky bum time, so you can't be too precise but it certainly is suggesting that there is a swing towards the conservatives that is bigger in leave boating seats. the margin of error you talk about is where the polling suggests there is a number of constituencies where the margin of constituencies where the margin of error could be less than 5% of the vote. there are at least 30 constituencies where labour, if you believe the exact numbers say that labour are within five points so there is reason for them to chase and chase. there's also an issue with polling in general that there is uncertainty in the predictions that could be up or down. this is why the pollsters will say that this is consistent with an 11 point lead

but if the lead shrinks to seven points you might see some of the nearly there constituencies turning on the majority then go away. what is the methodology of this poll? what's difference between this and other polls? —— of the difference. we will come back to the national polls and a second. we normally ask 1000 people and we find out how they vote and you work out the national vote and you work out the national vote share and it shows the trends and we will come back to this but the difference with the model that come out today is they used the polling not to say how many votes you get nationally but what are the national trend is involved, older people, do they vote one way? or do lay believers vote differently in marginals and then they apply it to the constituency based on that data from there and then they can say that they think this is how the votes will turn out right here in this seat and that's very different because it's impossible to go from

national vote share to seat share and it makes it difficult to translate so this might let us know how the parliament might look. this constituency level data can give us a different picture from simply looking at national vote share? yes, but is showing roughly similar vote share. the pollsters will tell you that the kind of lead you are seeing in the yougov model is consistent with the ten point lead conservatives have in the poll, but if the vote share goes down, the seat share will probably go down as well so that is why they are a little bit nervous about saying, or you don't want to be too precise about saying that it's all over and polling day has happened and there's no point in campaigning because things could change between now and the election and if the polls are a little bit out or they shift a bit, that can have a significant impact on the kind of numbers we see. and as ever, always inject a note of caution with polls.

blue stories being re—shown in the cinemas. one of the uk's biggest cinema chains plans to restart screenings of "blue story" this weekend after banning it from all of its uk sites. vue stopped showing the film, about london gangs, after a number incidents at its cinemas — including a mass fight in birmingham. tolu adeoye reports. it was this brawl involving up to 100 teenagers in birmingham that led to vue banning blue story, a film about two friends caught up in postcode gang rivalry in london. it started in the actual screening itself of blue story, and it spilt out into the foyer. and then it got really ' kly. but the decision to withdraw the film from all its uk screens upset many, including blue story‘s director. it was, like, breaking my heart. because i'm getting calls every day, we're doing this well, we're doing that well, doing so well, it's getting so well received.

and then, to get pulled from every cinema... vue's spokesman said the decision was only ever about safety, and the film will soon return to its screens, with additional security arrangements. speaking to the community, speaking to the producers and directors, we are now comfortable that we can guarantee the safety of our staff and customers to put it back on our screens. both sides will hope the focus can now return to the film itself. the family of harry dunn, who was killed when he was knocked off his motorbike, has begun legal proceedings against the foreign office. harry's parents allege granting diplomatic immunity to the main suspect, in the 19—year—old's death, was "wr the foreign office has said it would "oppose and seek costs" for anyjudicial review. environmental campaigners are calling for charges on supermarket "bags for life" to be raised to 70 pence. it comes as research shows use

of the plastic bags has risen again this year to 1.5 billion — that's a total of 5a for every household in the uk per year. andy moore reports. it has been hailed as a huge success, the law requiring supermarkets to charge for every single—use plastic bag. but are we just swapping one bad habit for another? so the supermarkets want us to switch from these disposable bags, price 5p here, to these so—called bags for life, price 10p here. but the environmental groups say the price difference is just too small. they would like to see the charge for bags for life raised to at least 70p. sainsbury‘s recently doubled their charge for more durable bags from 10p to 20p, and got quite a lot of stick from some of their customers for that. a bag for life is a good thing if it's being used for life, as the name suggests. but our figures show that these are just being used for a week, if that, by a lot of customers. the low price means that there's not the incentive for people to reuse. and there's also issues with biodegradable plastics.

they don't always break down in the natural environment, so they can cause just as much harm as a conventional plastic. environmental groups say bags for life are usually bigger and contain more plastic. it is part of the reason why overall plastic use in supermarkets is actually growing. but the supermarkets say they are aware of the problem, and are doing their best to tackle it. lidl, for example, is stopping selling bags for life in its welsh stores, and will do so in the rest of the uk if the experiment works. andy moore, bbc news. labour will change its campaign strategy to target areas targeted by the conservatives. tensions have escalated between china and the us after president trump signed a bill supporting hong kong's pro—democracy

protesters. and vue cinema say it will resume screenings of blue story just days after banning it for setting a violent clashes in its cinemas. it was a frustrating night for the english teams in the champions league last night; both chelsea and liverpool drew and will have to wait until their final group match to secure qualification for the knockout stage. the pressure has intensified on manager unai emery ahead of arsenal's europa league match against eintracht frankfurt this evening after a poor run of results. the gunners need a point to qualify for the knockout stage. and joe root believes his batting form will improve ahead of england's second test against new zealand this evening. root failed twice with the bat in his sides heavy defeat in the first match i'll be back with more on those stories after half past.

throughout the campaign, bbc news will be looking closely at the places where the election could be won and lost. we will be visiting 10 parts of the uk where seats will be closely contested. today, we're in cheltenham, which is in gloucestershire. this seat has been held by the conservatives since 2015, and is bordered by two other constituencies, also belonging to the tories. the conservatives took cheltenham four years ago with a swing of 10% from the liberal democrats, who had held the seat for 23 years. hoping to regain the seat this year — but the liberal democrats will be hoping to regain the seat this year — the conservatives have a majority ofjust over 2,500 0ur correspondentjon kay has been there for us looking at the key issues concerning voters. he's found out that for cheltenham housing could be a deciding factor. cheltenham: an elegant regency spa town famed for its crescents and colonnades. but take a short drive from the centre and you'll soon find

the same housing issues as anywhere else. the cornerstone centre, here in the suburb of whaddon, many parents talk of high rents, cold homes and long waiting lists. bailiffs were going to to come to my door and... kelly tells me she and her kids were kicked out of three places by private landlords before they finally got a council flat. so how stressful is that for you as a...? yeah, really stressful, because we didn't know whether or not we was going to get a council property. do you imagine yourself ever being able to buy somewhere of your own? not at the moment, no, no. it's just too expensive. maybe if i won the lottery! rent caps, tenant's rights, overcrowding, affordability, all big election themes here. are they going to be providing enough schools for the children? laura says it's notjust

about promising new homes, but building whole communities. so i will be looking at it for who i vote for, i want it to be kind of part of their bigger plan. i mean, for me, brexit is not the biggest issue, for me. i know it's the biggest issue for the parties, but it's not for me, personally. all the parties are making big headline—grabbing promises on housing at this election, and it's an issue that really matters to voters here in cheltenham, where the conservatives won last time with a majority of 2,500. among the many policies on offer, the lib dems, who hope to win the seat, have pledged millions to insulate homes. the conservatives have promised to build 1 million new properties in the next five years. and labour plan a major expansion of council housing. what we do is when we fit the windows... josh is a builder, but needs a deposit of £22,000 to buy a home of his own.

if i'm ever going to get anywhere, with i'm what i'm paying now, and trying to save £22,500, it takes — it's impossible. is there any chance you could save that much? i mean, how long do you think it would take? years, years? ten years? so there'd be 4,000 homes... if all these new properties are going to be built across the country, where will they go and what will be the impact? i know it will be very different in the future. 0n the outskirts of cheltenham, helen's been campaigning for years to protect this cotswold land from development. we have to think of the wider picture, the balance of the existing environment today, and what we need long—term. it's not just profitability for the developer. this election could bring big changes for housing, our planning laws, how we use greenbelt and brownfield sites. how we vote could affect notjust how we live, but where. jon kay, bbc news, cheltenham.

the legislation means that hong kong must retain enough autonomy to justify favourable us trading terms. china has warned it will take firm countermeasures. currently the pro—democracy protesters are delighted. they say that this is an indication that their struggle is a righteous one and the fact that for the past five months they've been fighting beige england say they have been fighting for their freedoms is reflected in the actions of president trump and in other words this is not the best thanksgiving present they could get from this president, and as you've been saying, in stark contrast, the chinese are furious, talking about this being an abominable act, something which has come out of sinister intentions and the chinese,

we know, for the second time in the week have sent the us top diplomat into the foreign embassy to explain why the us has taken the action. where you are, the polity that yes —— polytechnic university was the scene of the most intense protest, stand off that lasted for days. what is happening there now? just to talk you through it, the police are now on the site and for the last ten or 11 days it's only been the protesters that have been here holed up protesters that have been here holed up in one way or another and at its maximum there are about a thousand protesters but now you see police officers bagging up evidence and although they say today that they are trying to look for any prospective protesters who are still here, the emphasis is on health and safety a nd here, the emphasis is on health and safety and getting people safely out of fear but at the same time, this isa of fear but at the same time, this is a crime scene and that is why some officers are collecting evidence which could be used in

prosecutions in the future and at the same time we have seen a massive stash of unused petrol bombs being taken out of here. a moment ago we saw bows and arrows being carried out, all the detritus and weapons that the police were coming up against in what was one of the most dramatic and violent episodes in this conflict which has gripped hong kong over the last five or six months. how much do we know about those who were inside and what happened to them after they left the scene? well, as i said, about a thousand people at the height of the protest here and we saw that many people were arrested as they tried to escape and they were met with a hail of rubber bullets and tear gas and some escaped. 0thers hail of rubber bullets and tear gas and some escaped. others were arrested and there is a suggestion last night that may be up to 20 people could still be inside and we might see today if people are brought out on whether that was the case, but certainly the authorities

here under a new police chief will be keen to prosecute people if they can to send a message that this sort of act going to a big public place like this can carry a ten yearjail sentence and they take it extremely seriously. have a look at this and hopefully were not in the way but these are petrol bombs that they are taking away and probably for forensic examination but they're trying to make this place is safe and you can see a and a petrol bomb and you can see a and a petrol bomb and that really is an indication of the work going on here today. nick was in hong kong, but let's go to beijing to our correspondent there who explains how the story is playing out in mainland china. we have had an immediate and pretty angry reaction from china's foreign ministry, accusing washington of having absolutely sinister intentions and threatening to take

firm countermeasures. that threat we have heard before as the bill has made its passage through the us legislative process and there is no suggestion as to what those countermeasures might be, but as you heard from nick, whilst the protesters, those campaigning for what they say is greater democratic freedoms in hong kong, they will see this as a victory, something that supports their cause and china, which has been warning all along that it sees the sino foreign meddling and influence in situation in hong kong is clearly going to ta ke in hong kong is clearly going to take a very dim view of this and coming on top of those election results this week, this will be seen as only complicating things further, which is why i think we are seeing such a firm response.

the authorities in texas have ordered 60,000 residents, in four towns, to leave their homes after a series of explosions at a petrochemical plant. officials in port netchez gave the order after a blast destroyed a chemical distillation tower. ajudge in brazil has refused bail to four volunteer firefighters accused of deliberately starting fires in the amazon rainforest. the four men have links with an award—winning environmental organisation. police say they carried out the arson attack in order to raise awareness for their cause. the group has called the police allegations ‘absurd'. protesters have again been out on the streets of the maltese capital valletta demanding the resignation of the prime ministerjoseph muscat over his handling of the murder of the investigative journalist, daphne ca ruana galizia. mr muscat has stood by his chief of staff, who has been questioned over the murder and who resigned this week.

british scientists are creating a blueprint for bands and pop stars so they can continue to perform live music without contributing to climate change. the tyndall centre for climate change research is using tour data donated by the group massive attack — after the band said they wanted to help find solutions to the climate crisis. here's our environment reporter, laura foster. music since they broke out onto the global music scene in the 1990s, massive attack have sold millions of albums and toured the world. but after spending time with the environmental campaign group extinction rebllion, they've become more aware of the damage live music can cause the planet. they could have decided to never tour again, but instead wanted to help solve the problem by teaming up

with scientists who will look at every aspect of their tour and help them reduce their carbon emissions to zero, or as close to zero as possible. whenever a celebrity, if you like, dares to say they want system change to tackle climate change people line up to tackle climate change people line up to say it's very hypocritical because they are part of a very high carbon sector and what's exciting about this project is it is saying, it isa about this project is it is saying, it is a high carbon sector and we need to try and tackle it because every sector has to be part of the transition to a no carbon economy. it's not the first time musicians have spoken out about the issue. last week coldplay announced it was why they wouldn't go on tour with their latest album, and fans of billie eilish who are fighting climate change are going to be given free concert tickets. music given fans tend to idolise their favourite bands and artists,

it's hoped that if more musicians are seen to be acting sustainably, it'll encourage more of us to do the same. laura foster, bbc news. now it's time for a look at the weather with matt. i think sympathy for the weather has almost finished, but things are about to change and it's quite breezy but let me show you the wettest spots, particularly across northern england and the isle of man and the south—east of northern ireland, that's all heading its way southwards and a cloudy zone today is pushing south and in the southernmost counties of england into south wales, isolated showers and more sunshine developing more widely across scotland and eventually the far north of northern ireland and there will be one two showers here and there and temperatures could get to 11 or 12 celsius and in the northern half of

the country when the sunshine comes out it will feel colder and the wind is touching gale force in the north—east coming all the way from the arctic and will be pushing south tonight, consigning patchy rain and drizzle to southernmost counties where temperatures should hold up but from the mid wales and north, away from the city centre, a widespread frost and some wintry showers around northern and eastern coasts, but over the coming days, more places will be drier, sunnier up more places will be drier, sunnier up with a few caveats, but also much colder. more in half an hour.

hello, this is bbc news with me, annita mcveigh. the headlines: labour is reshaping its election strategy with a new push to make gains in brexit—voting marginals being targeted by the conservatives. tensions escalate between china and the us after president trump

signs a bill supporting hong kong's pro—democracy protesters. vue cinemas looks to resume screenings of blue story, days after it banned the film for allegedly sparking violence at some of its venues. campaigners want the price of a ‘bag for life' to rise to 70p to cut the amount of plastic we use. and a special report from the black sea — where major efforts are being made to stop it from being the dumping ground for agricultural and industrial waste. time now for the morning briefing, where we bring you up to speed on the stories people are watching, reading and sharing. in a moment we will be speaking to our reporter joe tidy, who's looking at how digital and social media platforms are being used during the campaign.

but first, let's take a look at the morning papers, politics dominating the front pages today. the times predicts a 68—seat majority for the tories after a yougov poll, in which they interviewed 1,000 people. but the telegraph leads with a different story, the election is too close to call — that's according to dominic cummings, a senior adviser to the prime minister. leading the mirror — and the guardian — secret papers, which they say prove the nhs is on the table in trade talks with the us — those papers on trade talks released by labour last night. clive james on the front page of the guardian after the news of his death was revealed yesterday.

as promised, our reporter joe tidyjoins me now. what are people talking about on social media? the speed of the election campaign is incredible. things are popping up and dominating and then disappearing again. people wanting to get a certain topic going. i was interested this morning to see that the anti—semitism story that was on tuesday about the rabbi calling outjeremy corbyn is still on facebook. it is interesting, mainly in the defending jeremy corbyn way. a lot of chatter is around boris johnson corbyn way. a lot of chatter is around borisjohnson potentially ducking out of the under new interview. advertising is a huge focus of the selection as we have had focus of the selection as we have ha d a ccess focus of the selection as we have had access to how parties are using

those ads. how does this compare to the last election in terms of spending? it is a good time with two weeks out in which to say let's compare how things went last time. at the moment it is a bit fuzzy but iam hoping at the moment it is a bit fuzzy but i am hoping you can make those out. tiny figures. in the last month the liberal democrats have spent £380,000 and the interesting thing is that is the same amount they spent entirely in 2017 so the two weeks ago the lib dems have already spent that. looking at potential lib dems spending an incredible amount more than 2017. i was talking about the size of the font when i said tiny figures. another interesting thing is that the conservatives haven't yet spent a tenth of what they did in 2017. i imagine we are

going to see in the next week, the last week, the conservatives flooding facebook and instagram with the sort of spending the sort in 2017 and perhaps surpass it. we have talked about facebook and instagram and twitter and snapchat. what other areas of social media have you found ideas about the election? niche campaigning going on. it is notjust the big platforms we are seeing campaigning. tiktok, jeremy corbyn, lots of people posting about ten are in good and bad ways that the labour party have a pretty active tiktok account despite it being a video sharing app which is looped video is 15 seconds long usually end that young people 16 to 2a but there are still a chunk of potential voters on there and i want to bring you one of there and i want to bring you one of the videos that they have shared in

the videos that they have shared in the last few days. #be the last few days. # be likejeremy the last few days. # be like jeremy corbyn... and #. they are not getting much traction. they are not getting much traction. they have had 160 likes. the brexit party are having a much more successful time with 1700 followers than they have posted 69 videos since september like this one. we are fighting an election campaign at the moment where labour and conservative saying we are spend less and that but we have to think about how we will create the money to spend. we are in ashford. proper

fashion chaps. if only the fish had been caught in british waters. very different. you have the more fan boy 01’ different. you have the more fan boy orgirl different. you have the more fan boy or girl style of the labour party so people on the crowds filming the videos versus a very slick production on the brexit party and maybe that is why they are doing better, i'm not sure. although one might think the age profiles might lend itself to the idea that labour would be getting more likes and followers on tiktok so very interesting. i don't know why they are putting so much effort into it. maybe it is looking forward to the future. linkedin is another area we are seeing campaigning, bizarrely. it is not the sort of social network where you would imagine this to be

happening but the conservative party have 13,000 followers. the labour party have a page but they do not use it. jeremy corbyn has a page which is very active and not many followers but they are putting a lot of effort into it. maybe they are seeing potential donors. linkedin has 27 million users so much bigger than you twitter but not the sort of place you would expect to see campaigning happening. we are going to have to leave it there. and the prime minister is on the campaign trail again today in the south west. let's speak to our political correspondent ben wright, who's travelling with the prime minister. tell us what is happening. warnings from dominic cummings about the conservatives not being complacent in the wake of this recent polling. what are they saying? first stop the day is devon where we will be for

the rest of the day. 12 seats, most of them tory health, two labour. thierry bellaston was a tory mp elected in the last election standing as a lib dem. dominic cummings has stepped down from his role because of the general election. he is prone to writing very long blogs setting out his thinking and last night he said don't believe the opinion polls that borisjohnson is don't believe the opinion polls that boris johnson is cruising don't believe the opinion polls that borisjohnson is cruising to victory. and that is the fear. that is not what they want the message to be in the last fortnight. they want us be in the last fortnight. they want us to feel tight. they want tory voters to go to the polls and vote for borisjohnson.

voters to go to the polls and vote for boris johnson. they voters to go to the polls and vote for borisjohnson. they will not wa nt for borisjohnson. they will not want any sense to be created that they are cantering towards a majority. thank you. on the conservative election boss. we will have much more election coverage throughout the day. let's look now at some of the stories people are talking about today. one of course is the death of broadcaster and writer clive james, announced yesterday. sad news, of course, but happy memories for some, and one thing that may brighten up your morning is the singer margarita pracatan, who appeared on his show regularly in the 90s. she paid tribute to clive james today, but before we show you that — here's a clip of her in action. in an office with about ten producers and i start singing and they was laughing at the same moment, but they say, "oh, my goodness, you have to come in to have a show on television. you are unbelievable. "

i love clive james so much because he is very intelligent and made my life... he changed my life. he changed my life for good things, unbelievable. that was margarita pracitan, on the clive james show. we can show you the time that she first played for him. it's clear that we are the challengers, particularly to the conservatives... sorry, clearly that is not that clip. the most read as the election.

labour to change their election strategy. president trump signing that belted back to hong kong protesters. and plastic bags, we will be talking about that in a couple of minutes with a guest from a charity. and the most watched at number one, another story we are going to be shown year, the black sea, europe's most polluted sea, can it be saved? we will be showing you that reported in the next few minutes. that's it for today's morning briefing. here's chloe tilley with what she's got coming up in her programme at ten. senior police figures have been talking about their decision. we

have a special report from barrow in furness which voted to leave the eu and labour won by 200 votes in the last election. it is my job to convince people to trust us, to trust the party. i would not be standing under the leadership of jeremy corbyn under the labour party ifi jeremy corbyn under the labour party if i believed anything bad was going to happen to that shipyard. sport now, and, for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre, here's jane dougall. it was a frustrating night for the english sides in the champions league. both liverpool and chelsea could have qualified for the last—16 of the competition last night, but both could only manage draws. they must now wait for the final round of group games if they're to make it through. joe wilson reports. two shocks at anfield, firstly that this was onside and then that he

scored. jurgen klopp erupted so often the liverpool manager was booked before half—time. 65 minutes and tension still rising when anfield breathe relief but 1— what means liverpool need something from their final means liverpool need something from theirfinal group means liverpool need something from their final group game. a means liverpool need something from theirfinal group game. a similar story for chelsea. in valencia they are wondering how gomez missed the chance and the ball. 0pportunities we re chance and the ball. 0pportunities were ceaseless from the spanish side taking the lead to chelsea equalising 108 taking the lead to chelsea equalising108 seconds later. well timed. var looked at it and liked it. valencia didn't. what was that? me too— draw is ok for chelsea especially because valencia should

have won. remember it started with a mess and came to an end like this. let's have a look at some of this morning's back pages. most of the papers going with last nights champions league action. the mirror has a nice headline "lov is not enough". of course, dejan lovern scoring, but only to make it a draw against napoli — not enough for liverpool to qualify yet. in the sun they've gone with tammy abraham's injury in chelsea's draw against valencia. he went off in the second half, appearing to be in a lot of pain and clutching his side and hip. we will bring you updates on his injury when we get them. and the express has a picture ofjurgen klopp not looking happy after he was given a yellow for shouting at the referee. he was annoyed at the repeated stoppages. arsenal are in europa league action tonight. they only need a draw against frankfurt to qualify from their group, but this week the pressure has been heaped on their manager unai emery after a run of six

games without a win. emery said that this match is the "perfect chance to reconnect with supporters". celtic, rangers and wolves also play later. the club is supporting me. the sponsor is backing me. ifeel strong with that support and i know my responsibility to come back and to change that situation. we need a good connection with our supporters andi good connection with our supporters and i need to be strong in my consistency. let's take a look at some of the stories doing the rounds of twitter this morning and one of them is the rumour that david beckham is reportedly lining up former arsenal midfielder patrick vieira to become the first head coach at intermiami.

vieira is currently in charge of french club nice, but is now emerging as beckham's top choice for his new mls franchise. inter miami begin their first ever mls season in march, with their new £750 million fort lauderdale stadium due to open the following year. under pressure england captain joe root says he knows his batting form will improve. root has been criticised after england's defeat by new zealand in the opening match of their two—test series. he made just two and 11 and has dropped out of the top 10 test batting rankings for the first time in five years. the second test begins tonight. i feel that big score's just around the corner. and you know, in a way, you look back at the last game, i had two dreadful shots to get out. and sometimes that's a lot easier to deal with, because they're your mistakes. you know, you're not feeling like there's a technical default or really glaring

holes in your game. so, i'm quite confident. i know that i have performed over time in this team, and what i'm capable of doing. there's live commentary on the first day of the second test in hamilton on radio 5 live sports extra. play starts at 10pm, and there's full text commentary on the bbc sport website. dillian whyte will be on the undercard of anthonyjoshua's world title rematch in december. whyte hasn't fought since it emerged he failed a uk anti—doping test in the build—up to his win over 0scar rivas injuly. he hasn't faced any sanction for the adverse test and will fight mariusz wach in saudi arabia. don't forget you can get a full round up of all the day's sport on sportsday this evening. 0lly foster will have all the latest from 6.30pm here on the bbc news channel. that's all the sport for now.

there is more on the website. the headlines on bbc news: labour will reshape its election campaign strategy with a new push to make gains in brexit—voting marginal areas that are being targeted by the conservatives. tensions have escalated between china and the us after president trump signed a bill supporting hong kong's pro—democracy protesters. and vue cinemas says it will resume screenings of blue storyjust days after it banned the film for allegedly sparking violence at some of its venues. labour's changing its campaign strategy — with two weeks to go before the election. it's thought people in the party believe they underestimated the willingness of leave voters to switch to the conservatives. 0ur political correspondent jonathan blake is on route to southampton, wherejeremy corbyn

is due to speak shortly. how is due to speak shortly. much of a concern for labc this how much of a concern for labour is this coming from the grassroots, from the constituency doorsteps? we are going to see a bit of a shift in what labour is doing. jeremy corbyn was in cornwall last night speaking to supporters at a rally and he is on his way to southampton today and we are following jeremy corbyn around the country so we pulled over in the middle of the new forest with oui’ in the middle of the new forest with our version of a subtle campaign battle bus to talk to about labour strategy is shifting slightly and a bit more detail on that coming up but i cannot carry on without showing it behind us there are some white horses in this beautiful spot on the edge of the new forest on the way to southampton. they are keeping us way to southampton. they are keeping us company this morning. we are going to see something of a shift in labour's strategy. labour is going

to southampton. the main focus will be on the environment and as we are surrounded by trees that fell suitable to mention that labour has made this promise to plant 2 billion trees by 2040 which is a huge number and will require them to plant tens of thousands of trees on a daily basis but that is clearly an area wherejeremy basis but that is clearly an area where jeremy corbyn basis but that is clearly an area wherejeremy corbyn is trying to focus and in terms of the strategy we are going to see when he speaks to supporters that is early voting area by a significant margin and it is also a place where the conservatives hold two out of the three seats in that city so labour will be looking to take one or two of those, one with a particularly slim majority perhaps, butjeremy corbyn i and about covering some miles this week on the election campaign and perhaps changing that message slightly because perhaps so

far the message slightly because perhaps so farthe campaign message slightly because perhaps so far the campaign hasn't been as effective as perhaps they would have hoped and they are shifting their message slightly to focus more on labour's brexit policy and to put the focus back onto domestic issues, investment in public services and particularly the nhs.” investment in public services and particularly the nhs. i am going to ask you to bear with us and i will be breaking news. the institute for fiscal studies says neither the tories or labour are offering a credible prospectus in their spending plans. they said it is likely a conservative government would end up spending more than a ma nifesto would end up spending more than a manifesto implied meaning either taxes or borrowing would rise and labour wouldn't be able to deliver on its promise to raise investment levels by 55 billion a year as the public sector doesn't have the

capacity to ramp up that much that quickly. let us get a quick response from jonathan to that. you're hearing that. how much do you think the conservatives are going to have to react to this and how much will it dominate the agenda today? there has certainly been a huge amount of scrutiny on labour and the conservatives and the other parties‘ spending plans but with labour in mind their plans represent what they describe as a radical plan for change in the uk and it would see a huge amount of investment and spending on public services which would be far more than anything we have seen under any government in the previous few decades and it is that central claim that the labour party plans to tax the richest in society and business and corporations primarily to pay for the huge increase in spending that many people have questioned just how credible that is, and overtime whether they would have to look at

up whether they would have to look at up other taxes and changing the way they borrow and tax different parts of society to fund that huge investment but certainly both parties not to make spending plans coming under scrutiny and we may well have some questions forjeremy corbyn on that later this morning. we are out of time. let's get more on the story that environmental campaigners are calling for charges on supermarket "bags for life" to be raised to 70p. it comes as research shows use of the plastic bags has risen again this year to 1.5 billion — that's a total of 54 for every household in the uk per year. let's speak to helen bird — she's a recycling expert at the campaign group wrap. do you think a lot of us are not remembering to take the bags for life that we have at home out with us life that we have at home out with us when we go shopping? that is right. we are not. clearly this is

really sad news for the environment because you have to use those bags for life at least four times before they have the same environmental impact asa they have the same environmental impact as a single use carrier bag. if we are not changing our habits, then does the price of these bags have to go up or is there another way to make us shop differently? different people will respond to different incentives and certainly a financial incentive will focus a lot of people's mines but we really need to remember those bags and there are a number of things we can probably do to help us with that. when you go to the shops always having a stash of these bags in your car, when you are out and about shopping during the day, having one of those foldaway ones who can keep on your back. simple good tips although the

research and increasing the price in ireland, putting the price of those bags up to 70 cents, evidence shows that price increasing to make a difference. let's talk about the amount of plastic used by supermarkets which is on the app as well according to greenpeace. retailers say they are reducing plastic. what is your assessment of how they are doing? all the major supermarkets are signed up to a world leading initiative called big uk plastics packed and the primary goal is to eliminate unnecessary problematic plastics by 2025 so all of the major supermarkets under the major brands to buy on a day—to—day basis are saved up and working towards that. we need to make sure they continue to act with urgency and we are starting to see some

really positive results. loose fruit and vegetables being rolled out. we are starting to see some refills coming along where people can take their own packaging to supermarkets but i think we have really scratched the surface of that and we will be seeing a lot more effort to come. in summary supermarkets need to keep up with what they are doing to progress their work on reducing plastic waste as individuals we need to stop using bags for life as though they were disposable bags. that is absolutely right. there will be times where people have forgotten their bags and we need to buy one and the critical thing is using them over and over again and the more time you spend the better that is for the environment and when it comes to the end of their life you can take those bags and similar types of those soft stretchy plastics back to supermarkets and they recycle them back into carrier bags and bags for

life. we are out of time. let me take you to matt. it is simon! this rain is moving southward linkedin with this occluded front and you notice that the blue is flooding in from the north and turning colder as we go through today across scotland and northern parts of england. the rain moving southward but across southern areas we have some sunshine at the moment and quite increasing with rain moving in. temperatures nine or 10 celsius in the safe and turning colder across northern parts. through tonight that rain will continue to move on the south—west. elsewhere clear skies and turning colder compared to recent nights.

temperatures below freezing in parts of scotla nd temperatures below freezing in parts of scotland and the north west of england. a lovely start to friday results in sunshine throughout the day but you notice those temperatures are much lower compared to recent days.

hello. it's thursday, it's 10 o'clock, i'm chloe tilley. senior police figures have criticised the decision to prosecute this police officer on a charge of possessing indecent images of children after she recvied a picture from her sister on whatsapp. she failed to report it, but says she never saw it. she has acted in —— impeccably throughout this, she has been professional and she still remains a role model within policing. we'll speak to a child protection expert who said she could have been given a caution. labour will make a fresh attempt to appeal to leave voters by explaining the kind of brexit deal it would put to a further referendum. we've been to barrow—in—furness, which voted to leave the eu,